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jbhtexas

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My wife is going to be getting an HTC Evo Shift. I have a Windows mobile phone, and use the nifty app WMWiFiRouter to share the phone's 3G connection. WMWiFiRouter can share the phone's 3G connection via WiFi, USB, or Bluetooth. Also, it doesn't require any kind of software on the clients, so the 3G connection can easily be shared with just about any device.

When searching the web regarding tethering options for Android, it seems that one has to root the phone in order to share 3G/4G via WiFi or USB, and according to some posts, setting up sharing is not always easy. PdaNet is available, but that only works with Windows clients, and only supports USB and Bluetooth (noWiFi). WMWiFiRouter doesn't have an Android version.

I'm just curious if anybody does tethering with Android, how you do it, and what apps you use.

Thanks!
 
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The only way Im aware of is to pay verizon the use fee or root it.
 
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jbhtexas said:
My wife is going to be getting an HTC Evo Shift. I have a Windows mobile phone, and use the nifty app WMWiFiRouter to share the phone's 3G connection. WMWiFiRouter can share the phone's 3G connection via WiFi, USB, or Bluetooth. Also, it doesn't require any kind of software on the clients, so the 3G connection can easily be shared with just about any device.

When searching the web regarding tethering options for Android, it seems that one has to root the phone in order to share 3G/4G via WiFi or USB, and according to some posts, setting up sharing is not always easy. PdaNet is available, but that only works with Windows clients, and only supports USB and Bluetooth (noWiFi). WMWiFiRouter doesn't have an Android version.

I'm just curious if anybody does tethering with Android, how you do it, and what apps you use.

Thanks!
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[How To] Tether Your Evo 4G |
 
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Oops, reading comprehension is hard. Evo shift is on sprint isnt it.
 
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I have the Samsung Mesmerize and I am with US Cellular. I pay an extra $25 / month to have tethering available and it's worth all that and more since I travel with a laptop at certain times of the year to places that might not have wireless. No app installation was needed above what came with the phone. I go to the apps, tap on 'wireless modem', tap on the check box and it gives me a password to type into my laptop when it appears on the available networks. Works pretty fast.

I drove from Des Moines to Mason City last weekend and had it turned on the whole way up so my daughter could play on her ipod touch. Worked great for that as well. It does use up battery life faster but when I'm using it for that, I either plug it in to the wall or the car charger and it's fine.

My experience anyway.
 
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Excellent site cjb1978. To the OP, if you are looking for recommendations for what to root your phone to, I would suggest Fresh. I've rooted my EVO with several different roms and Fresh seems to be the easiest to navigate and improves battery life, which is essential for the EVO. Good luck
 
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Not sure if this works for all phones/carriers but it did for my Incredible on Verizon.

NOTE: This could get you in trouble with your carrier but I doubt they monitor it.

Go to phone and dial ##778
Press call
Pick Edit Mode
Password is 000000(6 zeros)
Go to M.IP Default Profile
Look for NAI and DUN NAI
Change the DUN NAI to match NAI
Press menu and commit modifications.
 
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chewbocka said:
Possibly. I'm not sure how it works with the Mesmerize but with the Desire I've been told there's no way they can tell, so long as you're not going nuts with usage.
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From what I've read, there's nothing wrong with rooting your phone and using the wireless tethering app. So it doesn't matter if they know. Now if you use the other method I posted, that's a different story.
 
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From what I've read, there's nothing wrong with rooting your phone and using the wireless tethering app. So it doesn't matter if they know. Now if you use the other method I posted, that's a different story.
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If they know you're tethering, they're going to make you pay the fee to tether
 
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l2alphmacchio said:
Excellent site cjb1978. To the OP, if you are looking for recommendations for what to root your phone to, I would suggest Fresh. I've rooted my EVO with several different roms and Fresh seems to be the easiest to navigate and improves battery life, which is essential for the EVO. Good luck
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If i root it am I going to be missing out on anything (android market, facebook contacts in the phone book, etc)?

I'm guessing the HTC Sense stuff wouldn't work anymore, but I'm pretty sure there's similar widgets out there.
 
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If i root it am I going to be missing out on anything (android market, facebook contacts in the phone book, etc)?

I'm guessing the HTC Sense stuff wouldn't work anymore, but I'm pretty sure there's similar widgets out there.
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You can root your phone and then just leave it as-is. You'll still be running the stock firmware, except you can run apps that require root permissions.

You might even be able to use z4root to do a temporary root, which only lasts until you reboot your phone.
 
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MrGreg said:
You can root your phone and then just leave it as-is. You'll still be running the stock firmware, except you can run apps that require root permissions.

You might even be able to use z4root to do a temporary root, which only lasts until you reboot your phone.
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I'm not too worried about the tethering, I just wanted to get rid of all of the crap sprint loads up on the phone.

The other goal is hopefully putting one of these ROMS on here will fix my battery issues.. for the last month my phone will die within 6 or 7 hours if i leave 3g on; if i shut that off, the battery percentage barely moves down throughout the day (but doing that defeats the purpose of having the phone).. i think one of the sync tasks is screwed up, but i don't know which one

After looking at that cyanogenmod site it sounds like it's probably best to hold off for a couple weeks, since they're just starting to get the android 2.3 versions out
 
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