Comments on: Wireless Tether: A Love Story

By: Peter Flynn

Peter Flynn — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:21:30 +0000

This is exactly what I am looking for, but I haven't yet found any reliable information about how to root my Hero. All the pages talk about US providers and US solutions and US requirements which don't apply (I'm in Ireland). Rooting it seems to imply replacing the image, a little like reflashing, but I cannot find any information on where to find or how to choose an image, or how to verify (=trust) one. If anyone has pointers to this, I'd be grateful; until then, this remains a dream.

By: Brandon

Brandon — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:45:04 +0000

If I tether my droid would it give me enough of a WiFI hotspot to play online games with my wireless PS3??

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:55:58 +0000

Actually you can pretty much accomplish the same thing (setting up your phone as a wireless hot spot) by connecting your laptop to your phone via PDA net and then putting your laptop's wireless in ad hoc mode and sharing your laptop's connection to PDA net. Yes its a bit of a pain and nowhere near as convenient as just setting up the phone directly as a wireless hotspot, but it will get you where you need to go in a pinch.

By: Jim H

Jim H — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:59:33 +0000

I have read and read various root methods and EVERY one comes back to the problem of things like... my video camera won't work anymore, or.. careful with the SPL (Whatever that is) or you'll brick the phone... I am a 25 year computer support person and afraid of nothing, and this one... to many steps, to dangerous... I will wait for walkinghostspot.com or a one step root that works.

By: Kiran

Kiran — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:16:36 +0000

Hmmm, interesting. My Macbook can see the SSID, my iPhone can but not the G1 nor the Zune I contacted the developer, hope they can do something!

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 18:14:36 +0000

I wish I could. I've noticed this myself. My ZuneHD can't see the SSID either.

By: Kiran

Kiran — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 17:59:46 +0000

Interestingly enough, the SSID created by one Android device cannot be seen by another Android device.

I used HTC Hero to create an SSID using WiFI Tether. Both my G1 and Nexus One fail to see the SSID created but my iPhone can.

Can you please help me?

By: getwowmobilenow

getwowmobilenow — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:17:25 +0000

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By: @herrensam

@herrensam — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 20:52:00 +0000

Agreed. Matt hit the most salient reasons for rooting an Android phone...not to mention it's fun.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 13:01:51 +0000

Well, I saw "a dozen," but they can be boiled down to a few good reasons, as most of them are due to speed. There are several speed enhancements that are made with the Cyanogen rom that are, IMO, the only things that make my G1 usable. Otherwise it's just a slow mess.

Related to speed, but slightly different, is the ability to move your apps to the SD card. This frees up internal memory that the OS can use, and makes it possible to store WAY more apps on your phone. Before I rooted, I was definitely running out of space on my phone for apps. I'd hit the limit all the time, especially given that apps like Steel and Quickpedia take up additional memory for caching. Now I can install as many apps as I want.

By: Shaun

Shaun — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 03:50:33 +0000

This program seems quite awesome, my phone is the htc hero
kernal version:
2.6.27-533ce29d
htc-kernel@and18-2 )

I read the tutorial I cant tell which version this is can it be rooted?

"which is incredibly easy and offers a dozen advantages over stock builds"

What are some of the other advantages?

Thanks,
Shaun

By: Josh

Josh — Sun, 25 Oct 2009 01:31:48 +0000

The BIG advantage to android wifi tether is that it works with everything, OSX to Windows. I've even used it to connect my iPod touch, and my girlfriend's iPhone when AT&T crapped out.

By: roygbiv

roygbiv — Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:55:05 +0000

The catch is you need a rooted phone