root.

 

Start with rooting. Then you can do wireless tether so your Xbox can get online off of your phones internet

 

Trust me... It is VERY hard to brick these phones. I have gone through many roms, been stuck in many endless boots.... and yet here i am still using my eris. And this is my first smartphone and 2 months ago i had no idea that cell phones could be modified

 

do they have a step by step on XDA about this. Haven't seen anything around here.

 

Seriously Jreed?

now you have me questioning if i understood the OP. Because I know you have been around the block in these forums and with roms......
What is it you're looking for? How to wifi tether?

 

just to the xbox. I guess I was asking is it just like tethering to the computer. I was being lazy and a bit sleep deprived I guess

 

lol...
I dont have an Xbox... but I'm assuming it would be just like tethering to a computer,
I figured someone running Aloysious has to have Wifi tether already on theit phone...

 

not really sure what you want? do you just want to wirlessly share files with your xbox or use it as a connection to the internet.

i thought that there was a root rom that could run a wireless hotspot but not sure how to connect the xbox. for file sharing the xbox to pc connection requires a code generated by the xbox that you input into the pc. not sure you can do this with a smartphone or that teh xbox will recognize the phone. have you searched the xbox forums?

Needed to add that with the pc in order to share files it must have windows media center on it. either windows 7 home or above or windows xp media center edition. files are shared through media center. so you would most likely need windows media center on the phone too. like a winmo phone.

this forum link talks about wirelessly tethering an xbox 360 to a droid using root.

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/dr...s/26738-root-wifi-tether-xbox-droid-does.html

 

ok.
Now my only question is if you already have wireless, why do you want to use your phone?
I'm sure that your home internet is faster than what you will get out of your eris.
With that being said, you definately need to root your eris if you want to do this. Look into this if you want to do this:

http://androidforums.com/all-things-root-eris/53963-guide-stock-1-5-latest-root-2-1-a.html

After that, it's as simple as installing an app called Wireless Tether or aNetshare, and you are set.
You're eris will turn into a hot spot and your Xbox or other computers can get online.

 

i know winmo phones can connect to xbox live but not sure you can with an android. while you would have to tether to get the internet connection using xbox live services is another thing all together.

 

there are actually some apps in the market that let you connect to your xbox live account. so i guess it is possible to do.

 

i'm not sure if you could tether the phone into the xbox with a micro usb to usb cord like you would with a laptop. i use easy tether for my laptop and it requires a program to be running on the pc so that, and pdanet too, wouldn't work for the xbox. i think there is a usb port in the back of the xbox 360 near the lan port i just don't know how you would configure the phone to act as a router. you probably would need root to do that.

the phone would act as both the modem and router and I think this is the only way it will work.

 

OK. I had it all wrong. I thought your Xbox was ready to connect to the internet... and all you needed was the internet. Which is what wifi tethering would give you.
If you're saying this adapter costs 99 bucks... I'm assuming it's somethign specific for the xbox... so you probably dont have a choice and have to buy that. But i'm not even sure.
Sorry for the bad info

 

LOL I don't sound so dumb after all do I cableguy? LOL

 

LMAO...
Never thought you were dumb... that's why I didn't understand why would would ask a noob question...
But I was the one misunderstanding the whole thing...

I'm officially unsubcribing from this thread... done enough damage

 

What if someone could make an app that would allow the phone to trick the xbox into thinking that an android phone was that spendy 99 dollar wifi adapter? I think we're looking for a USB tether for Xbox, which would function as a COMPATIBLE wifi dongle.

 

Its more than likely next to impossible. There aren't even 3rd party wireless adapters that connect via USB to the Xbox. Microsoft apparently won't let anyone else make an adapter. But since the USB wifi dongle is proprietary, I don't think anyone but the engineers at Microsoft know how it interfaces with the Xbox so it would be impossible to write a driver for a phone to emulate it.

So your phone isn't the problem, its Microsoft trying to keep everything hush-hush.

However if you have a laptop, you can always tether your Xbox to it and share its Wifi connection.

 

Isn't it possible to get the Xbox wifi dongle to work on a linux machine? I remember reading about that somewhere. Just can't remember where at the moment...And I'm not sure if it helps any, but the Xbox 360 has been able to run linux before. I'm not an expert with drivers or anything, but if you have access to the Xbox through linux, wouldn't you be able to look at the driver that the Xbox uses with the wifi dongle and maybe work from there as a start? I mean, wifi is a feature that should have been included with the 360 IMO, and it sucks that Microsoft charges an extra hundred dollars just to have it. Especially when you compare that price to one you can get for your pc, which will be compatible with any pc you plug it into.

 

I tried finding what you were talking about on Google but turned up nothing. I either got people saying outright that it doesn't work on a PC due to lack of drivers, or wireless ethernet bridges which would work with the Xbox.