Hot answers tagged usb-tethering
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Yes.
On ICS the setting can be found at
Settings -> Wireless & Networks -> More.. -> Tethering & portable hotspot -> USB tethering
I think it should be at the same place on Jelly Bean. Note that you need a device with a cellular data chip for this feature. Devices without (e.g. the Nexus 7) won't show this option.
USB tethering ...
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No. There's no relation between those two things.
If you connect your phone via the USB it gets charged. It doesn't matter if you don't use the USB connection at all or transfer files or tether your data connection or do any other stuff while it's connected.
The charging circuit doesn't even know that it's connected via USB and that there's data flowing. ...
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Android, starting from 4.0, does officially support a form of p2p wifi networking called Wifi Direct. A Wifi Direct-capable device can create an access point which any other Wifi-capable device can access. I don't know about Nexus 7 specifically, but Galaxy Nexus does support Wifi Direct so I'd presume that so is Nexus 7.
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There are some more possibilities -- but all of them I know of require a rooted device.
Using the Reverse Tether App
First, there's an App named Reverse Tether available for free on the Play Store (it's a limited trial, which restricts the time you can be connected -- but at least you can test this way whether your device is fully supported; the full ...
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You should first check which IP address (and network) your hotspot is using. From the command-line (e.g. using a terminal app like Android Terminal Emulator or adb shell) you can figure this out with the command
ifconfig wlan0
If you rather want to avoid the command line, or your device uses womething other than wlan0 for the interface and you want to ...
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yeah it would certainly shorten your battery's life. Every battery has a maximum number of charge-discharge cycles. So when the phone is tethered via USB, battery is charging.
The more FREQUENTLY you charge your battery, the more you shorten its life. This applies not only to tethering/data transfer, but also to the habit of many of charging phones for a ...
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I've found a good tool for reverse tethering on xda-developers forum. It's called Android Reverse Tethering. It works with Windows and requires a rooted phone.
It works fine on my HTC Desire HD running MIUI v4.
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Let me see if I understand you:
[Router] <--Wifi--> [Phone] <--USB tether --> [PC]
If this is your setup, then what is happening is the Phone is acting like a router. It has multiple ways to connect to the internet (3G and Wifi) and it does not simply bridge the connection for the PC. Instead it does the same thing that your router does, which ...
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adbWireless is a great debugging tool if you can't use the USB port. It requires a rooted device. Connect with adb as shown on screen and use adb as usuallty.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=siir.es.adbWireless&hl=en
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I successfully got native USB tethering working on the Nexus 7 with Jelly Bean.
Modify the device/asus/grouper/overlay/frameworks/base/core/res/res/values/config.xml to be the following:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
/*
** Copyright 2009, The Android Open Source Project
**
** Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the ...
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