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Root tethering my tab...

jojo23

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Jul 8, 2011
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So I've been reading about how to tether my tab and it seems like the only way to do it is to root my tab? I did come across a thread about doing so without rooting by messing around with my vnp but that's only for att phones? I have an HTC incredible 2 so if anyone know there's a way to do it please point me to the right direction thanks.
 
If your HTC incredible 2 is rooted, then you can use Wifi Tether on it. Not sure if the Acer A500 will see the wifi or not. My HTC Evo works great with wifi tether and the Acer A500. My wife's hero does not. I am told because of only being Ad-Hoc on her's. You can use a program from the market called pdanet tablet installed on the acer and your incredible that does not need root access. It uses bluetooth between the two devices. At the time (yesterday), I could only use web surfing (not market or games/apps needing internet access). I have to mess with it a little more to see if I can get everything working.
 
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I tether to my Samsung Galaxy with the tab...no rooting on either device. Just have to enable tethering on the phone...I access my phone's 3G connection that way on the tab and it works flawlessly.

I do the same thing with my Samsung Captivate. I have a setting called Mobile AP and I enable it and it turns my phone into a Wifi Mobile Hot Spot using 3G. My A500 Tab then sees this as a Wifi Connection and I am off to the races! Works great at my cottage where I don't have internet service but have good 3G signal.
 
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If your HTC incredible 2 is rooted, then you can use Wifi Tether on it. Not sure if the Acer A500 will see the wifi or not. My HTC Evo works great with wifi tether and the Acer A500. My wife's hero does not. I am told because of only being Ad-Hoc on her's. You can use a program from the market called pdanet tablet installed on the acer and your incredible that does not need root access. It uses bluetooth between the two devices. At the time (yesterday), I could only use web surfing (not market or games/apps needing internet access). I have to mess with it a little more to see if I can get everything working.
This is the problem I'm having. My Acer can not see the wifi on my LG Revolution. Every other device I use can see it, just not my tab. The one I WANTED to see it.

I tried the pdanet tablet, and it would connect to the phone, but couldn't get internet access. Why does this crap have to be so difficult? It should just be able to connect and let you surf the web. *sigh* **EDIT** I restarted my phone and then it worked beautifully. Looks like I didn't need to root my phone after all.
 
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