Droidx + iPad = Internet?????

[TonyM]

Root the phone and you can tether it for free.

You root the phone, enable the wifi hotspot, then connect over that.

Not exactly.

On the X you have three options.

1. Pay for the Hotspot fee ($20/mo)
2. Root and use another Tethering app ($FREE) (what I do)
3. Root, then flash the NVRAM with a hack that allows the Verizon Hotspot to work w/o paying for it (This one is pretty much piracy and criminal, so I don't advise it).

Option #1 will work fine. This creates an Infrastructure network and all devices should be able to connect.

Problem with option #2 is that the hotspot you create is an Ad-Hoc network and some devices (Android, and I believe iOS) can't just connect to the Ad-Hoc network without extra work on that side.

In order to get my Galaxy Tab and Tegra2 Tablets to tether to my X I had to recompile wpasupplicant for them so they would connect/recognize Ad-Hoc networks.

Option #3 is technically theft as you're breaking their application and the TOS. I wouldn't recommend this method at all.

[wilit]

Pretty sure you don't have to root it to bypass the tethering charge. Download PDANet. I've been tethering free on my Touch Pro (windows os) with no ROM update. My buddy has been using PDANet with good success on his original Droid with no issues.

[jonzer77]

Pdanet wont work with the ipad as far as I know. There might be a way to do it if you have the camera kit. When I rooted my droid x I was able to tether with my ipad with wireless tether and it worked fine. I sold my ipad recently but I never had a problem with connecting to my droid x.

[slowjonn]

Wow that was a lot of talk I didn't understand!

I'm ok paying the $20/mo to make the phone a hotspot.

I am still confused if I need the iPad with the wifi or the the one with the wifi and 3g????

And just to confirm, any ipad will work right? I dont need the Verizon specific one if I get the $20 hotspot service right?

Thanks

[tgriffin]

Anyone know how to get a blackberry bold 9700 to tether?

[YourHuckleberry]

Is "rooting" the same as "jailbreaking"? My buddy said he "jailbroke" his phone and now uses it as a hotspot for free

[mds2004]

Wow that was a lot of talk I didn't understand!

I'm ok paying the $20/mo to make the phone a hotspot.

I am still confused if I need the iPad with the wifi or the the one with the wifi and 3g????

And just to confirm, any ipad will work right? I dont need the Verizon specific one if I get the $20 hotspot service right?

Thanks

Just the Wifi version. The 3g one lets you pay the data plan directly to the ipad wherever you are.

Is "rooting" the same as "jailbreaking"? My buddy said he "jailbroke" his phone and now uses it as a hotspot for free

Jailbreaking is the iPhone's version. I have my phone jailbroken, which allows me to tether to my laptop, ipad, or whatever uses internet. If you still have the original unlimited data plan that is the best.

[JDay]

Not exactly.

On the X you have three options.

1. Pay for the Hotspot fee ($20/mo)
2. Root and use another Tethering app ($FREE) (what I do)
3. Root, then flash the NVRAM with a hack that allows the Verizon Hotspot to work w/o paying for it (This one is pretty much piracy and criminal, so I don't advise it).

Option 4. Root the phone then flash a custom firmware that has a working wireless hotspot app.

How exactly is flashing your NVRAM piracy? Anyone can compile Android from source.

[JDay]

I'm ok paying the $20/mo to make the phone a hotspot.

You shouldn't be though since you're being extorted out of another $20/month to use a data service that you already pay for.

[JDay]

Is "rooting" the same as "jailbreaking"? My buddy said he "jailbroke" his phone and now uses it as a hotspot for free

It's not the same thing, jailbreaking allows you to install apps that aren't in the app store on an iphone/ipad/ipod, Android devices allow you to do this by default. When you root your phone you are giving yourself administrative rights to the underlying OS, this allows you to do anything you want with the device.

[TonyM]

Option 4. Root the phone then flash a custom firmware that has a working wireless hotspot app.

How exactly is flashing your NVRAM piracy? Anyone can compile Android from source.

Nope.

The hotspot apps are all ad-hoc networks, other than the carrier supplied apps. My point is that many devices don't connect to ad-hoc networks.

Flashing the NVRAM with the bits to allow free unlimited use of the Verizon hotspot app is theft, like it or not.

Good luck compiling the kernel and bootloader on the X and actually applying it w/o the keys that are held by M.

Do you have an X and have you ever run any of the "custom" ROMs on an X? I've tried about all of them.

[valkylrie]

I rooted my droid 1, and use this app from google for wifi tethering on my wifi only Ipad...

http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/

Since Android is open source and this is hosted by Google and I already pay verizon for an unlimited data plan, I just don't see how this is not OKAY.