turning your droid into a hotspot

[five.five-six]

anyone have a good, preferably free, app that I can use with my Galaxy to get my laptop on the interweb? TIA

[kmca]

You can look at Easy Tether Lite.

[gfourth]

Only way I know (which I use often)...

-You need to root your phone. Google "rooting (your phone model here)" to see how to root it.

-Once rooted, you can use the app called "Android Wireless Tether". Note, your google-fu needs to be strong on this one, it can be hard to find.

-Download Android Wireless Tether to your PC, then transfer it to your phone. You can put it anywhere on the SD card.

-Install an app from the market called "App Installer." Run it, and find the .apk file (mine says wireless_tether_2_0_5-RC2.apk) and tap on it to install

-Enjoy using your phone as a hot spot, under your provider's radar.

This is all summed up. It took me awhile to get my phone rooted using various methods, also took me a while to find the tether app. I actually have the app saved on my phone, I could email you the file.

ETA: My post is assuming you'd like this service to be free.

[five.five-six]

rooting my phone is proving to be a royal PITA, I upgraded my fryo and ther is a new encryption befor the firmware will accept a root and i am told there is a possibility of corrupting my ESN, so i need to back that up first

[sfwdiy]

I got really sick of unstable, unreliable BS tethering hacks so I bit the bullet and bought PDANet.

No root required, it's really not that expensive when you consider what you get out of it, and it works really well.

--B

[five.five-six]

^ how much?

[pbchief2]

$16-$22

[AndrewMendez]

pbchief,
That thing on your sig line is really freaking me out. I even changed computers, and it was correct both times.

[five.five-six]

pbchief,
That thing on your sig line is really freaking me out. I even changed computers, and it was correct both times.

LMAO, he's tracking you and your zombie tendencies

[Riflelover]

Try easy tether. It doesn't require you to root your phone. It comes with a free trial app and the full version is a one time $10 cost. I have family memebers who use and recommend it

[glock_this]

I use Wireless Tether.. VZW removed it from the market, but you can side load it direct from the dev.

PDA-net as well as they had/have a free version no? I think it limits https access though as went I went Wireless Tether I never went back. Barnacle is one as well. I have used both.

Yes, I am rooted of course

Biggest issue now is that companies like VZW are able to block the tether and redirect you to a page that warns you not to and asks you to buy into their additional cost option to use tether.

[CSACANNONEER]

tag 'cause I need to do this soon.

[pbchief2]

pbchief,
That thing on your sig line is really freaking me out. I even changed computers, and it was correct both times.

I'm studying your Realtor ways.