Sunday, November 20, 2011

Tether Dell streak to Droid razr, brilliant!

This is from www.razrforums.com. Just substitue your dell streak in place of the xoom mentioned below(working with upgraded dell streak running honeycomb)

This is a HOWTO guide that details how to bluetooth tether your Android phone's internet to your Motorola XOOM without using any applications or rooting your phone. If done properly you should have your Android phone and XOOM connected via bluetooth and the XOOM should be using your Android phone's internet.

Please post if it works for you, and also say what phone you are using.

Devices confirmed to work: Droid 2 (Regular, R2D2, and Global) Droid X Droid Pro

This has been confirmed working on a few different devices now, it allows you to share your phone's internet with your XOOM without rooting your phone or needing any extra applications Make sure wifi is off on both devices

1: on XOOM, go to settings>wireless & networks>tethering and portable hotspot and make sure that "Bluetooth Tethering" is UNCHECKED, this is NOT what we want

2: on XOOM, go to settings>wireless & networks> enable airplane mode

3: on XOOM, go to settings>wireless & networks> enable bluetooth

4: on your android phone, go to settings>wireless & networks (or equivalent)> enable bluetooth

5: Make sure that both devices are discoverable, so that they can see one another, should be in settings>wireless & networks>bluetooth settings

6: on XOOM, go to settings>wireless & networks>bluetooth settings>select your phone in order to pair it with your XOOM

7: a box should pop up on both devices, select Pair on both devices

8: on XOOM, once the pairing is complete (still inside bluetooth settings), select the phone, it should say paired but not connected underneath it

9: The two devices should connect, once connected there should be a wrench next to the connected device, clicking on this will show an option to tether, click this option if it is not automatically enabled

10: TA-DA, if it worked then in the bottom right hand corner of your XOOM should have two bluetooth icons, one should indicated that your bluetooth is turned on and the other should say bluetooth tethered, you are now using your phones internet data plan on your XOOM, aka not counting towards your xoom's data plan

Posted by Dr.

2 comments:

  1. GODWELLDecember 28, 2011 at 1:49 PM

    I don't get it....it worked the first three times and now it only shows one Bluetooth icon and the airplane symbol where the other blue symbol was. What gives????

    ReplyDelete
  2. GoochMay 4, 2012 at 9:00 PM

    No go! I followed the instructions down to step #9. At that point I got the wrench symbol. Upon clicking it I was presented with the option to either rename the device our unpair it. The tether option was never presented. What gives? At that point I can transfer data from the Xoom to the razr but not the other way around. No internet is available.

    ReplyDelete

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)