Tethering with android?

[fatum]

bone2006, the OP of this thread, has a MyTouch, which I also have.

My mistake, with a quote from me in the reply and your phrasing I thought that reply was meant for me.

[aysiu]

My mistake, with a quote from me in the reply and your phrasing I thought that reply was meant for me.

I treat each support thread as an attempt to help the first post-er (aka OP).

I didn't know you were asking for help with your Eris. If you are, I would suggest you post a new thread of your own so people can help you with it.

If you are, however, trying to help the OP with a MyTouch, keep in mind that it is easier to root a MyTouch than to use those complex instructions to get a tether.

[fatum]

I treat each support thread as an attempt to help the first post-er (aka OP).

I didn't know you were asking for help with your Eris. If you are, I would suggest you post a new thread of your own so people can help you with it.

If you are, however, trying to help the OP with a MyTouch, keep in mind that it is easier to root a MyTouch than to use those complex instructions to get a tether.

You have a round about way of going about it then.

The OP has already stated that he has gotten it to work and posted the instructions he used to do so. He also stated that he all ready looked into rooting his phone and stated he was unsure of changing firmware.

I in no way asked a question when stating that I had an Eris and led the OP to the relevant information to get what he asked for, except for the preferred use of bluetooth. I only stated the phone I had to show I too am running Android.

Also the ease of doing something is in the opinion of the user.

[bone2006]

only change that some might need to do is when starting the adb server instead of

./adb start-server

they may need to do that with sudo so

sudo ./adb start-server

You will know when you need to do this change if you get an error stating you do not have privileges. The privileges are for seeing the phone itself not starting the server. Easy way to see if you need this change is just to run

./adb devices

with the phone plugged in to the computer. If output includes a string of letters and numbers then you are good. If output includes a string of question marks then you need to use sudo.

Also you may need to change the first line in the on.sh file to stat where you have the Android SDK if it was all ready installed on your system prior to trying this. That is if you did not move it to the location specified.

I'm not sure if you noticed, but I have sudo su - command, so you don't need sudo where you mentioned. You will be logged in as sudo/root and when your done, you just need to type exit.

[bone2006]

Um, do whatever works for you, of course, but just so you know, those instructions look way more complicated than the ones I followed to root my phone.

Your lucky, because my mytouch is the newer one with the 35mm phone jack and the developers of the firmware themselves posted on March 10th that they would not recommend rooting this phone as of yet, because of issues.

[bone2006]

bone2006, the OP of this thread, has a MyTouch, which I also have.

I don't think we have the same phone, do you have the older one? Even the website you posted advises to be careful doing the mytouch with the 35mm phone jack. If you go on their forum, they are advising to wait and not root this phone.

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...to_CyanogenMod

[aysiu]

I don't think we have the same phone, do you have the older one? Even the website you posted advises to be careful doing the mytouch with the 35mm phone jack. If you go on their forum, they are advising to wait and not root this phone.

http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.ph...to_CyanogenMod

Oh, my bad. Sorry!

Yeah, I do have the older one. I didn't know there was a difference.

[fatum]

I did not notice that at the beginning. My brain must have just skipped right over it, possibly because I use su. I prefer to use sudo when needed.

[rhythmiccycle]

tether android phone (mytouch) with laptop, using proxoid. I got it to work!!

no need to root (and void your warranty)

check out this thread for the step by step

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1441466