Thread: Unbelievable : Android (Froyo) on the Samsung Galaxy Tab doesn't "tether" ?...
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2011-04-17 , 08:19
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Originally Posted by Ayle View Post
windows mobile also had that function. Since android is pretty open when it comes to expansion possibilities when it comes to what you can connect to it, I suppose that eventually someone will come up with something to do that.
Here... let me help you...

For the Xoom tablet owners amongst you--Bluetooth tether is already baked into Honeycomb:
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/03/01...riginal-droid/
http://www.droid-life.com/2011/02/28...-to-a-droid-x/

For the Samsung Galaxy Tab... well, I don't like this solution but it supposedly works. I wouldn't do it, personally. You've been forewarned:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/sam...ab-solved.html
...or, for the easier method:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=754961
...aaaaand video of it working:
http://www.droidforums.net/forum/sam...ml#post1001480
(The one thing I would do differently than this video shows--is that I would have renamed or copied the OLD WPA supplicant before pasting the new one in... I wouldn't trust just overwriting anything without keeping the original, just in case.) Here's a better write-up with the video--just in case I didn't give you enough already:
http://www.droid-life.com/2010/11/17...ng-galaxy-tab/
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