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We can USB tether and use android internet connection on PC but How to achieve following: 1. How to use pc internet connection on android device using USB cable on Windows machine?

I can use my android service provides internet connection to turn on WiFi hotspot but I stuck with following question: 2. Can my device access internet using WiFi and at same time can we convert it into WiFi hotspot? If yes How to do that? If not why it's not possible?

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An android enthusiast called Mathieu Carbou seems to have achieved the reverse-USB tethering issue you'd like to explore, but on his Nexus One, 2.2. Here is a link for the same: Reverse-USB-Tethering. I won't guarantee any success, though you could try it and let us know the results. :)

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Ofcourse, however, you'll need a rooted device, and superuser access as well. – SamSPICA Nov 11 '11 at 12:10
Is it possible without rooted device(Samsung Nexus S) and on Windows machine? – Balaji Nov 30 '11 at 8:01
No methods that I know of for un-rooted devices. – SamSPICA Nov 30 '11 at 8:59
Is there any update for Android 4.0+ devices? – fifth Oct 11 '12 at 6:17
@fifth if you're asking whether Google has enabled the same for unrooted devices, then the answer is no. If your question tends to say that it doesn't work for ICS devices, then this comment might help you: Reverse Tethering on ICS - Comment #7 – SamSPICA Oct 11 '12 at 9:27
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Well, I am currently using HTC Sensation. HTC Sense provides reverse - usb - tethering which is called USB pass through. But I know that this service requires HTC Sync application and its drivers on computer. Maybe you can take a look at flashing HTC Sense Roms to non - htc devices or getting htc sense applications to non - htc devices. There are bunch of documents in xda developers. http://www.xda-developers.com/

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What are you suggesting, man... The success probability of HTC ROMs on non-HTC hardware is less than 1%... – Sachin Shekhar Mar 11 '12 at 6:28

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