Currently i have my phone tethered to my laptop via bluetooth.
I was wondering if it is possible to use the phone/its GPS as a type of external GPS device on my laptop.
edit: forgot to mention im using ubuntu linux
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Hi all,
I recently switched to Linux on my laptop and went looking for a way to use Internet Sharing with Linux. I installed Ubuntu, which works pretty good. I also installed VirtualBox w/WinXP as a guest OS and installed ActiveSync and was able to get the phone connection working fine.
At any rate, I found a pretty good tutorial on Ubuntu Forums for using Internet Sharing via Bluetooth. I haven't tried using the USB cable as yet but for now Bluetooth works great for me. I can use the cable within the virtual OS.
Here it is:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=4145133#post4145133
Hope it comes in handy for some of you.
It is still not clear to me if it is possible to use wifi tether with ubuntu. I saw a video where they show how to tether over bleutooth with windows (PAN), so if that is possible, should it also not work in linux? I can connect over bluetooth PAN with my discarded winmo device.
Maybe related, I have paired my device to ubuntu, but it seems unable to connect. Does someone else with ubuntu managed to actually connect his hero? I am using modaco 2.2.
Before i unlocked and flashed my Nexus one, it was enough to connect my Nexus one via USB to my Laptop to use laptop internet connection.
The first time i did it, Windows installed a bridge network.
Now that i am using a customer ROM (CYA 5.5.0.3), it does not work anymore.
Any idea if it is removed from the custom ROM, or if i need any kind of menu to make it to work?
Thanks in advance
Cedric
any taker?
i cannot be the only one that is interested in this basic function?
TX
Have you tried the Wireless tether application? It does the exact same thing as USB tether, but wirelessly:
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
nDrg said:
Have you tried the Wireless tether application? It does the exact same thing as USB tether, but wirelessly:
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
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Reading fail
He wants to share the PC's connection with the phone, USB tether and Wifi tether are for sharing the phones connection with the PC.
i have same requirement. because 3g signal in my N1 is very unstable. wifi as is. so i have only connect to internet via notebook. This is the biggest problem of my N1.
did anyone ever figure out if this is possible?
In my old iPaq days I used an application called GPSGate that would allow me to use the GPS of my iPaq 6515 as an external GPS via USB or Bluetooth and connect to my laptop.
The NMEA data would then stream to the laptop and voila, GPS data on the lappie.
I have searched and hunted and cannot seem to find an equivalent app for the Android envionment, anyone seen one...?
I also searched for this one month's ago but also couldn't find anything. hope someone here knows.
Update
SO far I have found two apps that MAYwith work be able to work.
BlueNMEA which is supposed to pass the NMEA GPS data via Bluetooth from N1 to the computer.
So far I get it running, seems to be pulling data, can set up a BT connection but I simply can't get the PC to "see" the COM 3 port and data.
Not sure if the issue is with the app or with the BT stack implementation on Android
GPS Tether
This one sets up a GPSD process running on the N1 and is supposedly useable via USB and ADB and port forwarding.
I have tried it a slightly different way which is tantalizingly close to working. I have set up the N1 with WiFi terhering on and associate the PC with it. Once up and running I can run a terminal session via IP and can connect to the port but it still has problems with passing data.
All these have been tried with a Win7 box so I am going to see if a Ubuntu box may have different results.......
Hi
I'm in a hotel room. No wireless...
have my n1 and hdspa and a laptop with ubuntu.
How do I use my nexus as a modem for the laptop?
The laptop has wlan, Bluetooth and I have a usb cable.
Thx
DarsVaeda said:
Hi
I'm in a hotel room. No wireless...
have my n1 and hdspa and a laptop with ubuntu.
How do I use my nexus as a modem for the laptop?
The laptop has wlan, Bluetooth and I have a usb cable.
Thx
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Is your phone rooted?
As I do not know what it means I guess no.
Search the forum with the word "tethering".
You can check out PdaNet on the market it doesn't require root
free version dosn't allow https connections, but should work for basic browsing
Pdanet does not work. Can pair but then nothing.
This sucks
Even my f*cking winmo phone could do it...
But thx anyway!
Root, install CM, and get USB and WiFi tethering. Or just wait for 2.2, which will have it too.
Cyanogen 5.0.7.1 e tethering usb
hi...
i have the Nexus One rooted with cyanogenMod 5.0.7.1.
I active tethering usb in setting but, when I connect means usb my Nexus One at PC windows xp, internet not function.
Help...
Thanks
pilot-calc said:
hi...
i have the Nexus One rooted with cyanogenMod 5.0.7.1.
I active tethering usb in setting but, when I connect means usb my Nexus One at PC windows xp, internet not function.
Help...
Thanks
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Nexus one does require a driver for USB tethering to work (or so i've seen on froyo) (windows update, at least for win7, automatically detects it)