Use HTC Magic as modem

[greew]

Hi,

I've just bought the new HTC Magic here in Denmark, but when I plug it into my Ubuntu, I don't get the option to use it as a 3G modem.

Phone info:

Model number: HTC Magic
Firmware version: 1.5
Kernel version 2.6.27-dd63d1eb u70000@Android-X01
Build number: 2.16.401.5 146733 CL#33743 release-keys

Computer: Ubuntu 9.04

When I plug the USB cable into the phone, the following shows up in dmesg:

[295900.736046] usb 2-1: new high speed USB device using ehci_hcd and address 9
[295900.888577] usb 2-1: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice
[295900.909075] scsi9 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices
[295900.909164] usb-storage: device found at 9
[295900.909165] usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning
[295905.910220] usb-storage: device scan complete
[295905.912237] scsi 9:0:0:0: Direct-Access     HTC      Android Phone    0100 PQ: 0 ANSI: 2
[295905.918219] sd 9:0:0:0: [sdb] Attached SCSI removable disk
[295905.918286] sd 9:0:0:0: Attached scsi generic sg2 type 0

Does anyone have any experience with using an Android-powered HTC phone as modem for Ubuntu?

If you need any more info, please let me know

Best regards,
Jesper

[Holmen]

Same here (but in Sweden ). I also would like to get my lovely mobile to work as a modem in Ubuntu.

[mattiask]

I too want it to work!

[mgade]

Have u tried connecting via Bluetooth?
It works great with HTC Diamond and Ubuntu.

[EvilDoctorK]

No luck on bluetooth for me anyway (With the UK Vodafone version)

Unlike previous Nokia phones the HTC magic doesn't appear to have a "Dial Up Networking" channel available when you scan the bluetooth services avaiable (only seems to have Headset / Mic etc.)

So I don't know what to do to get it to work ... with previous Nokia phones you had to set the rfcomm to the correct bluetooth channel and then it worked fairly easily - but this doens't seem to be possible with the Magic as I can't find the channel at all.

[easymike]

There is a program in the android software repository called "tether Blu" which allows you to basically use your mobile phone as a wifi device over a bluetooth connection, unfortunately it doesn't let you use your cell network internet. Perhaps a program like this can be written, and probably will soon, considering the open source nature of android

[mattiask]

Almost got it to work using a app called android-wifi-tether. But this app needs a rooted system so you will have to root. Rooting will woid your warranty.

I am working on a guide on how to root a HTC Magic in ubuntu. However depending on where you brought your device some files is different. Doing this wrong can seriously destroy the phone.

For those of you who are a bit familiar with swedish the beta-version of the guide can be found here. Please try it out and give feedback
http://www.swedroid.se/forum/showthread.php?t=158

When it have been tested I will translate it and publish it. For lots of information about rooting and such I strongly recomend http://forum.xda-developers.com/

[Shwan.c]

Hi
Tha last Magic android kernel has no Iptabels /firewall, it will result in wifi teathering not working even if you have a rooted phone.
I have tested Azilink , NO NEED for root access !
http://code.google.com/p/azilink/

I have posted a swedish guide , it is easy and what you need to do can be found there and you can use google to translate it .
I will just post the terminal command here .

Make sure usb debogging is on in the phone

download Android sdk or just adb from the link above
, then unzip it in some directory like below and

sudo cp ~/android-sdk-linux_x86-1.5_r2/tools/adb /usr/bin/adb
sudo chmod a+x /usr/bin/adb

This step is not needed , do it just if adb cant see the device ;

sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/50-android.rules

paste this in , change username to you username in ubuntu

SUBSYSTEM=="usb",SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4",ATTR{idProduct}=="0c02",SYMLINK+="android_adb",MODE="0666",OWNER="USERNAME"
SUBSYSTEM=="usb",SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4",ATTR{idProduct}=="0c01",SYMLINK+="android_fastboot",MODE="0666",OWNER="USERNAME"

sudo chmod a+x /etc/udev/rules.d/50-android.rules
sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart

connect the phone and don't mount, you should get this if you run

adb devices
HT95xxxxxxxx	device

now

sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn openvpn
sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
sudo /etc/init.d/NetworkManager restart

use the phone to install this http://lfx.org/azilink/azilink.apk
or just

mkdir azilink
cd azilink
wget http://lfx.org/azilink/azilink.apk
adb install azilink.apk
wget http://azilink.googlecode.com/files/azilink.ovpn

make this file in the same directory

sudo nano resolv.conf

and paste this in it if you use Networkmanager

domain lan
search lan
nameserver 192.168.56.1

then start the app on the phone , make sure it is connected to the pc , and if you have fire wall open the portet used bellow

adb forward tcp:41927 tcp:41927
sudo cp resolv.conf /etc/
sudo openvpn --config azilink.ovpn

now yo can have fun , to stop the connection use ctrl+c , yo ushould run this three last lines every time you need to connect to the phone as modem

http://www.swedroid.se/forum/showthread.php?t=196


I have done another change to automate this let me post it later today .

[andersg]

Thanks a lot azirlink works perfect for me. Only I have one problem, it doesn't seem like I can use "knock" to open up ssh connection when I use my magic as my network connection. Do you have any idea about this ??

[hotweiss]

Thanks for the instructions they worked. I noticed that the new Hero ROM has USB tethering enabled in the menu. Have you figured out how to use the Hero's built-in tethering? I am hoping that tethering could be a plug-n-play event...