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Internet Sharing With Xbox Live ???

Joined this site a while ago, and needless to say, I've been literally blown away by it. The members of this site are just incredibly talented; I've been able to make my 8525 look and function just fantastic, and just about any fix/patch I've been able to locate through this site.
Currently using Custel WM6 rom and it's so stable and faster than the WM5 I had (though it was so hard to choose with so MANY excellent cooked roms to choose from)...
So, since it seems there's no limit to what can be done with these great devices, I was wondering if it is at all possible to use an 8525 to connect an Xbox 360 to Xbox Live?? I am able to connect using Internet Connection Sharing via USB to my laptop running Vista Ult. and get great surfing speed, so is there any way to somehow configure it to get the 360 to connect to Live through it? Could the 8525 be connected directly to the 360 (prob not likely) or can it be set up using the laptop to share the connection??
Any help/answers on this would be greatly appreciated!!!

I may be wrong, but I don't think that this is possible.
As far as I know, the xbox has no bluetooth pan support, and I don't think it is possible to have an USB modem directly setuped.
The remaining possibilities are: through the RJ45 or through the wifi. Sadly the hermes has no RJ45 connector, and it is unable to become an acces-point nor an add-hock host.

I just wanted to say that the idea of using a Hermes to connect an xbox 360 to xbox live would be just about the coolest thing ever done with a cell phone.
Is it possible to connect a 360 to XBL via a PC/laptop?

Dammit!!
Well, was worth a try, especially before tangling myself in wires trynna wing it... Guess I will be calling those Optimum guys for my XB Live fix...

Precisely what I was thinking. Was sitting here surfing using the phone as a modem, getting great speed, then thought, 'hey it would be cool as f%#$# to connect to Live with this...' I mean, I know the 8525 could probably handle it... The question is, what CANT this phone do?!

HOLLIDAY1183 said:
Joined this site a while ago, and needless to say, I've been literally blown away by it. The members of this site are just incredibly talented; I've been able to make my 8525 look and function just fantastic, and just about any fix/patch I've been able to locate through this site.
Currently using Custel WM6 rom and it's so stable and faster than the WM5 I had (though it was so hard to choose with so MANY excellent cooked roms to choose from)...
So, since it seems there's no limit to what can be done with these great devices, I was wondering if it is at all possible to use an 8525 to connect an Xbox 360 to Xbox Live?? I am able to connect using Internet Connection Sharing via USB to my laptop running Vista Ult. and get great surfing speed, so is there any way to somehow configure it to get the 360 to connect to Live through it? Could the 8525 be connected directly to the 360 (prob not likely) or can it be set up using the laptop to share the connection??
Any help/answers on this would be greatly appreciated!!!
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Just tried it. Plugged it in and enabled Internet Connection Sharing, and the phone starts charging, but says "Check USB Connection" I'm not much of a hacker, so I can't attempt any driver\software hacks to get it working. You'd probably have to write a driver for the XBox to recognize the phone, and possibly vice versa. Definitly possible. Probably never going to happen though.

I'm doing it now. I connected the 8525 by USB to my computer. Then I open up the Internet Sharing program that uses the phone as a USB modem (I'm using Black Majic ROM btw). Then I select connect on the program on my 8525. Once it connects, I go to my Network Connections on my PC. I have the RJ-45 connected from the XBOX 360 to the ethernet port on my PC. I click once on the connection that says Local Area Connection # (mine is 13, everyones would be different) Windows Mobile Based Internet Sharing Device, then I hold Ctrl on my PC keyboard and click on the other connection (the one for my ethernet port). Once both are highlighted, you can right click on either one and select Bridge (I believe thats the one, anything that says Bridge on it) and let Windows bridge the connections and you should be set. Sorry if my explaining isn't very good.

Via a PC it should indeed be not an issue (as explained above).
To do it directly, it should work with an ethernet-bluetooth bridge. I'm
using 2 ethernet-wifi bridges to connect a TV and a PC to a wifi router,
but I'm pretty sure ethernet-bluetooth bridges also exist.
Jörg

Wow, according to drodri I was pretty close to having it right before... I will try that setup in a sec... also, is there a way to incorporate my wireless-G linksys router into this, or no? Is that in Vista?

I appreciate your input... I've done exactly the same as your setup, and when I go into Network Connections, it has the 8525 listed as Remote NDIS based Internet Sharing Device (Internet Connect #5) & the ethernet connection as Local Area Connection (Unidentified Network)... In the Network and Sharing Center, do I make the ethernet connection Private, or leave it Public? Or does it matter at all... because it still for some reason won't connect to Live, it still fails the IP test... there must be a setting or configuration I'm missing here, I just know it

You could also possibly use an ethernet to wifi device (wireless access point) to go from ethernet to wifi on the 360, then use a wireless network to the TyTN (ad-hoc mode rather than ap mode) and use that to run the connection..
but..
a) its an expensive way to do it
b) it needs extra hardware
c) it may not work (can the tytn do ICS over wifi rather than usb? DUN mode may work on the newer roms that will have it - but does DUN work over wifi)
d) the access point would need to initiate the connection to the phone while also doing dhcp for the xbox.. it should work.. and id try it for you.. except that it seems like a horribly complex way to do it.

Hmm... maybe I'll give it a shot.
Where there's a will, there's a way

I think the ideal goal here would be straight from 360 to Hermes. USB or wifi, with a small adaptor if needed. It would be beautiful if someone could write drivers so you could just plug 'er in with USB and use the built in Internet Sharing on the Hermes.
Obviously those are high hopes, and in a perfect world everything would automatically work like that. *drools over universal compatibility*

dtx said:
I think the ideal goal here would be straight from 360 to Hermes. USB or wifi, with a small adaptor if needed. It would be beautiful if someone could write drivers so you could just plug 'er in with USB and use the built in Internet Sharing on the Hermes.
Obviously those are high hopes, and in a perfect world everything would automatically work like that. *drools over universal compatibility*
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For USB The problem is the driver would have to be on the 360.. it's 100% impossible.
Even if you can run unsigned code on your 360, you'd also have to be some kind of coding,hardware modding, hacking junkie to even try to write a 360 driver; on top of which to do it for a crazy reason like interfacing to one mobile phone... that would be die hard madness!
Microsoft on the other hand could probably whip it up in 5 minutes as the xbox already supports everything that's needed except an RNDIS driver to enumerate the phone as a network card. Problem being the target audience is small; possibly even just you guys
Wifi is more likely to happen as you dont really need to modify the 360, if someone wrote a driver to make the phone look like a wireless AP (if thats possible with its wifi chipset) and assuming ICS on WM6 supports wifi connection to the PC/360 (im not sure it does) then it should work fine. (Has anyone checked if the 360 wifi adapter can support a connection to non-ap ad-hoc wifi? if it can then this might work already if you very lucky - i dont have the wifi link for my 360 or id try it)

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.......if someone wrote a driver to make the phone look like a wireless AP (if thats possible with its wifi chipset) and assuming ICS on WM6 supports wifi connection to the PC/360 (im not sure it does) then it should work fine. (Has anyone checked if the 360 wifi adapter can support a connection to non-ap ad-hoc wifi?....
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Does anybody know if there is already software to make the Hermes a WiFi-Router or make ICS make select WiFi?

I'm going to try this tonight with my regular xbox

There are already instructions on this forum for using your device as a wifi access point. It seems pretty straight-forward. So you should be able to connect any wifi client, including a wifi capable Xbox 360.
8525 / Hermes wifi AP

Hey, I actually did something similar since I didn't want to buy a $100 wireless adapter. I have a PC (but can be done with a laptop) with a wi-fi connection near my 360 all I had to do was use a patch cable to connect the PC to the 360. I am running vista, but Patch cables are hardware that tells the network card they are attached to a like device. It automatically shared my connection and we were able to go on-line. There were other ways I found that suggest changing router settings and such, but this was the easiest way. All you need now to use your phone to get your 360 on-lin is a computer

[REQUEST]Internet via USB

Hi all!
My request is to share my PC internet connection to use it in my android with the USB connection.
I only found software to do the reverse(tethering),and im pretty sure talented developers in here can do this without much effort.
Hope im right.
Thanks in advance!

I think most people just use a wireless router and connect through wifi.
Is your reasoning to not use data through your carrier? If so I would use wifi if I were you...

The reason why im requesting this is because i dont have WiFi connections avaiable ,both at home and work...
At home i could spend some money and buy a wireless router(i shouldnt have to do that...specially in a mobile OS design to use internet alot) at work i cant do that.

Excuse me if I'm wrong, but there is already a usb tether app...I think it was posted recently in the g1 applications area.

Well it's possible via Linux [Seen on Connect-UTB!],what you need is your USB-plug and a linux machine connected to your LAN and a running DHCP-server on your lan.
Just connect your HTC to your linux machine and boot up android. This will create a usb network connection between your PC and your mobile.
Then create a bridge between the usb-network (most likely usb0) and your network adapter connected to your lan (for me it is eth2) using brctl:
ifconfig eth2 down
ifconfig usb0 down
ifconfig eth2 0.0.0.0 promisc up
ifconfig usb0 0.0.0.0 promisc up
brctl addbr br0
brctl addif br0 eth2
brctl addif br0 usb0
You might assign a network address to the bridge to use networking on your computer as well:
dhclient br0 (might be dhcpcd as well)
After that, fire up a console on your android device. You can use tty0 or the virtual terminal of the dev-tools. Execute
dhcpcd usb0
Dhcpcd will complain about a file that could not be opened or something like this. The reason for this is a missing directory. Just create the directory where the file should be placed in and execute dhcpcd again:
mkdir [directory]
dhcpcd usb0
This should assign a IP address to your android device and set up the gateway information. From now on, networking should work on your device.
If it does not work, something of your configuration might be wrong. Most likely it would mean, that your bridge is not working as expected. There might be a network manager running or your network card does not support bridging.
You can also access your device via telnet on default telnet port. Finding the right ip address of the device might be tricky somehow as the device has a fixed ip on 192.168.0.206 that is the only address shown by busyboxe's ifconfig. One option is looking into your dhcp-servers dhcp-leases. I used wireshark on my linux system instead to sniff the dhcp ack.
There is one thing about security:
The current android image runs an open telnet server, so make sure, that you only connect your mobile to a trusted network. Otherwise any bad guy could steal or deleta all information from your internal phone storage.
Just one thing about proxy servers:
I tried to get it running with a proxy server, but I could not manage it. I added the proxy to the settings.db as described in a android emulator proxy how-to, but it did not work. I would be grateful about any hint.

Thanks for your reply man,very usefull and well explained...too bad i dont use Linux but thanks anyway.
PDAnet tethering software from what i read is to connect your pc to the internet using your PDA...i want to connect my PDA using my pc connection with USB

Hi all!
My request is to share my PC internet connection to use it in my android with the USB connection.
I only found software to do the reverse(tethering),and im pretty sure talented developers in here can do this without much effort.
Hope im right.
Thanks in advance!
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I'm looking for the same thing. Coming from WM, I CANNOT understand why this isn't available on Android.

aa

lostsoul said:
I'm looking for the same thing. Coming from WM, I CANNOT understand why this isn't available on Android.
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Because it's the dumbest idea ever. Spend the $20 and get a router. If you can't afford the router, then you obviously don't need a smart phone.

evilkorn at least be respectfull to others.
some of us heave problematic isp configurations and/or can not use wifi in office. only reason to use reverse tethering over usb is such situations.
i still heave to try solution for linux given by k-zik. i heave old pIII laptop with ubuntu on it so i can experiment. as for windows unfortunately there is no solution.

evilkorn said:
Because it's the dumbest idea ever. Spend the $20 and get a router. If you can't afford the router, then you obviously don't need a smart phone.
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Maybe to you, not so for others....
I´m looking for the same thing....spending many days and nights a month in different hotels in the US, Canada, China, India etc., not all of which have WIFI in the room.....I´d still like to browse and use the market connecting via the wired internet connection of my laptop.....
Don´t always judge others by your own standards.....

evilkorn said:
Because it's the dumbest idea ever. Spend the $20 and get a router. If you can't afford the router, then you obviously don't need a smart phone.
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...Or maybe there are some people in the XDA community that are deployed, like my self, and the only access they have to the internet is on a USB internet stick, unless you can find a better way to get games and what not to play on my phone while I'm in the sand box...
-Alex

ZED_pt said:
Thanks for your reply man,very usefull and well explained...too bad i dont use Linux but thanks anyway.
PDAnet tethering software from what i read is to connect your pc to the internet using your PDA...i want to connect my PDA using my pc connection with USB
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There may be a way for Windows too:
blog.mycila.com/2010/06/reverse-usb-tethering-with-android-22.html
I hope some developer will pick up the glove and automate the process because there seems to be an interest in such an application.
I for one, will be very grateful.
Avner.

I just "flew" over the threads content...uhm...so I hope I´m not posting unappealing things...
But: I´m with MDJs Desire HD Rom (4.3) now and Internet via USB works fine here! Give it a try...I was blown away when I saw this function after plugging in the USB cable...

Is there a ROM with this feature fore the Legend too?
Avner.

See this open source project
http://code.google.com/p/azilink/
or you can use CM roms they have USB tether

Thanks,
but we are not talking about a USB tether. We are talking about "reverse USB tether"; connecting a phone without an internet connection with a USB cable to a PC with one.

ZED_pt said:
Hi all!
My request is to share my PC internet connection to use it in my android with the USB connection.
I only found software to do the reverse(tethering),and im pretty sure talented developers in here can do this without much effort.
Hope im right.
Thanks in advance!
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Get an HDDesire Rom, has this feature already, they call it Internet Passtrough

Has it ever occurred to you to just Google "reverse usb tethering"?
http://blog.mycila.com/2010/06/reverse-usb-tethering-with-android-22.html
Heres another WIN7: http://www.nexusoneforum.net/forum/...verse-tether-getting-internet-your-phone.html
Need more help? Just google it.

Tethering - USB AND WIFI

Hi,
I know the phone is capable of doing both, and there are software/apps to do each function seperatly. But is there an app that does both for android phones?
I know Froyo has this capability built in... and will mostly likely be removed by samsung/tmobile. But here's hoping!
Thanks.

GameOver69 said:
Hi,
I know the phone is capable of doing both, and there are software/apps to do each function seperatly. But is there an app that does both for android phones?
I know Froyo has this capability built in... and will mostly likely be removed by samsung/tmobile. But here's hoping!
Thanks.
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well you can do WiFi using either Wireless Tether or Barnacal. You can get Barnacal on the market. As for USB, thats prob not going to happen till we get some custom roms. For that you would need to alter the Kernal and firmware to acheive this.

MonkySlap said:
well you can do WiFi using either Wireless Tether or Barnacal. You can get Barnacal on the market. As for USB, thats prob not going to happen till we get some custom roms. For that you would need to alter the Kernal and firmware to acheive this.
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I can't get barnicle or android wifi tether to work for more than a few minutes on my vibrant... Anyone else with more success?

You can USB tether your SGS to your computer out of the box. No rooting, no nothing.
For Windows:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=737744
For Mac OSX:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=736769

Ugh. Barnacle Legacy works perfectly as does the newest version of Wifi tether.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App

Yes but there aren't any apps that do both?
Sent from my Samsung Vibrant using XDA App

Dang, both Barnacle and Wifi tether are giving me fits today. I know both of these are in active development, with new releases every other day it seems.
I am using the latest Barnacle available in the market, Version 24 as reported by the "Manage Applications" under settings. I don't see an "About" screen in the application, so I don't know what the *real* version is.
As for Wireless Tether, I am using version 23 as reported my the "manage applications" under settings, or 2.0.5-pre6 as reported by the About screen.

pyun said:
You can USB tether your SGS to your computer out of the box. No rooting, no nothing.
For Windows:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=737744
For Mac OSX:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=736769
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This method of tethering on Windows 7 works flawlessly. I've had issues using the Kies method and this fires up right away. It seems to be a little slower than the old wired tether app for my G1, but that could also be because I was tethering on the train in crappy weather. Barnacle works awesome on Windows if you follow these directions:
Baranacle Wifi Settings:
1. Change SSID - [User Preference]
2. Change Channel - 6
3. Custom Wifi Ad-hoc - NONE
4. Skip wpa_supplicant - CHECK
5. Restart Phone As Desired
Settings For Windows:
Open cmd.exe as administrator
C:\Windows\system32>netsh interface ipv4 set subinterface "Wireless Network Connection" mtu=1250 store=persistent
This is assuming your wireless network adapter is called "Wireless Network Connection"

Yeah, I have done all that and I am getting lots of errors:
NAT Restart: Network is down
And then a bunch of these:
Getting netmask of eth0 failed: cannot assign requested address
Followed by a couple instances of
NAT Restarting Now
NAT waiting for local interface
And yes, I have positively confirmed that I set the MTU on my computer.
And the Wireless Tether program now just run and then hangs. No FC, no nothing. When you press the big green icon to start the tether, you get the little animated spinner which freezes after a couple of seconds.
I'm trying to install Kies now.

I don't recommend installing Kies if you just want to USB tether. It's over 280 mb and the program itself kept crashing on me.
Just install the official drivers from Samsung's website then create a DUN connection based on the instructions in http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=737744.
Also, the official drivers on Samsung's download section are not up to date. The latest drivers are in the Kies install. I've zipped them up for x86 Windows users and put them online. You can download the zip and extract the files to your \Windows\System32\Drivers folder.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9387307/x86 Vibrant drivers from Kies.zip

for USB tether, I use PdaNet, it is super simple, no configuration needed on the phone or the computer... it works super fast and I've had no issues, just download the PdsNet desktop client and install on your PC and the PdaNet from the android market and done... you will be up and running in 5 minutes or less

That was perfect.
Posting over the DUN connection now. Thanks!

Tethering rooted Epic 4g with Linux?

Im using Linux Mint, an Ubuntu based distro. Sometimes I also use other Debian based distros that use a different wifi manager. I also have the xoom, but only 1gb of monthly data, and I would like to save that for when I am out in the boonies, when my phone dies, or when I cant get a signal with Sprint.
Anyone have any luck finding a solution for tethering the Epic to their Xoom/Android tablet or to their Linux Laptop or Desktop?

Bit of a necro-thread-bump, for which I apologize, but has there been any new progress on this notion of a tethering solution with Linux for the Epic 4G? I've tried: Wired Tether, Easy Tether, PDANet, none of which work for me. I'm hoping there's a simple command line way to enable and disable tethering, a la Linux.

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Bit of a necro-thread-bump, for which I apologize, but has there been any new progress on this notion of a tethering solution with Linux for the Epic 4G? I've tried: Wired Tether, Easy Tether, PDANet, none of which work for me. I'm hoping there's a simple command line way to enable and disable tethering, a la Linux.
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Just to make sure I understand, you want to use your Epic using an existing wifi network. I'm using linux mint main edition 11 (gnome) on my computer and Gingerbreat EE03 ROM on my Epic. Even if the specific instructions don't work on your builds, the general idea should work.
Connect your Epic to existing wi-fi network:
1. Go to Settings > Wireless and Network > Wi-Fi Settings
2. Place a check mark next to "Wi-Fi"
3. In the bottom section there are a list of Wi-Fi networks. Choose the wi-fi network you want.
4. Enter password if necessary.
You're done. In the future, you'll connect automatically to this network. All you'll have to do is go to the notification bar and turn on wi-fi to connect. You will need to turn off 4g but your phone may do that automatically.

Corpsed said:
Bit of a necro-thread-bump, for which I apologize, but has there been any new progress on this notion of a tethering solution with Linux for the Epic 4G?
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USB tethering should work with the Epic-compatible build of Wired Tether. If you're running a ROM with Wired Tether included, it's likely that build.
Linux uses the rndis_wlan driver for tethering. Depending on your distribution, it should work more-or-less out of the box. However, if network interfaces don't come up automatically, you might have to bring "usb0" up manually. Also, the RNDIS driver is a bit finicky, and you might have to disconnect the USB cable, run "modprobe -r rndis_wlan" to ensure the driver reloads on reconnect.

Bridging WiFi and USB tethering on Android

Hey guys
I saw something similar to this, but it never got resolved, so I was wanting to reopen it up.
I want to connect to a WiFi network on my android phone/tablet and usb tether to my pc. I want my pc to see the other computers on the wifi network though. I understand that you have to bridge the usb and wifi on the phone/tablet but i have absolutely no clue what the commands would be. Assistance would be greatly appreciated

Same problem
i too have a same kind of problem....waiting for some senior to react..:cyclops::cyclops:

Solution found!
This might help:
You can achieve this natively on some versions of Android (for me it works on KitKat 4.4.4). All you have to do is connect the phone to wi-fi as usual and then connect the USB cable and do a USB tether. Your computer should detect a new hardware - a "USB ethernet" or similar, you may need to install drivers for that, ymmv. Then it behaves just like any other network card. This works for all common operating system, including Windows (where the drivers part may apply).
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Assuming your computer doesn't have a Wi-Fi card already and you're not rooted, I would probably just buy a USB Wi-Fi card. You can almost certainly buy one for less than the cost of PDANet.
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From Android Enthusiasts network. Can't post a link for being a newbie -_-