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[Q] noob Captivate user with a Macbook Pro

Hello All! I have just ordered my new phone from Amazon and should receive it tomorrow. I hope to figure out how to use it as a modem for my Macbook while deployed for some military training. I have been reading as much as I possibly can about this phone and modifying it and feel like I'm trying to get a drink of water from an open fire hydrant....SO MUCH INFO !! I really appreciate the fact that you guys seem to be helpful and am looking forward to "moding" my new phone. I guess my first question is this: Is it possible to use this phone as an access to the internet for my Macbook laptop? I love this computer but didn't want the iphone 'cause it ain't apple's business (or AT&T's) with what I do with it and I don't like "Big Brother" telling me I can't put certain stuff on it. So, is there an app for using the Captivate as a modem for a Mac? Thanks and I'll deploy soon so hope to get this done by then.

Yes you can use by tethering or as a hot spot (wifi). To do this you need to flash a rom that will unlock the phone to be used. But make sure have a unlimited data. Flash Phoenix

[Q] How can I share my Computer's internet connection with my Phone?

I am in an area with no signal for my phone, yet I still need to use my phone to access the internet. It is not possible to set a wifi network up here, I am living in a dorm and just trust me they don't let us.
So what I need now is a way to achieve "internet pass through" as it is called I believe. I looked through all the previous posts on this subject and no one seems to know how to do it, other than simply reccomending the Thunderbolt rom.
Well, I'm a CM7 user through and through, so that is not happening. Is there any possible way to make this happen?

dude no one can figure thi8s out?

good question, wish i could help, sorry

thenimboo said:
dude no one can figure thi8s out?
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if i understand correctly you want to share wifi from your computer to your phone?
what OS to you use?
how do you get internet on your computer through wire or wifi?

Don't often have access to a PC, what should I do?

So I'm rooted, bootloader unlocked, and running the latest Synergy nightly (r46). I, and most of my friends, all have Mac computers (gasp! I know...), but for the next day or so I'm at my parents' house, where I'll have access to a PC. I've already backed up my NV/IMEI data, that was the first thing I wanted to do. My question is, is there anything else, PC-specific that I should do while I'm here? Is it worth updating the baseband or anything like that? I know anything Odin related will need to be done on a PC. I don't have any GPS issues that plague some people on custom ROMs. Anyway, just wondering if there is anything I should take advantage of while I'm around a PC. TIA!
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Cmotion said:
So I'm rooted, bootloader unlocked, and running the latest Synergy nightly (r46). I, and most of my friends, all have Mac computers (gasp! I know...), but for the next day or so I'm at my parents' house, where I'll have access to a PC. I've already backed up my NV/IMEI data, that was the first thing I wanted to do. My question is, is there anything else, PC-specific that I should do while I'm here? Is it worth updating the baseband or anything like that? I know anything Odin related will need to be done on a PC. I don't have any GPS issues that plague some people on custom ROMs. Anyway, just wondering if there is anything I should take advantage of while I'm around a PC. TIA!
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To answer your question, if you already have your status info backed up as you say, then radio upgrade is the only thing I can think of.
You need to ge tyourself a dual boot computer not to worry about this issue. Dump the Mac, supporting Apple is supporting terrorism.
Take one of your old computers (doesn't everyone have one?) with windows XP or any other windows. If you don't have one, spend $200 to get a nice refurbished laptop from Dell Ebay store
http://stores.ebay.com/Dell-Financial/_i.html?_fsub=3&_sc=1&_sop=1
Once you have it, Install Ubuntu side by side the windows OS. Use crappy Windows for ODIN only work, and Ubuntu for everything else. Become a superstar

loveubuntu said:
Use crappy Windows for ODIN only work, and Ubuntu for everything else. Become a superstar
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+1
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[Q] old not so smart phone used as wireless landline?

Sorry to bug with this, I swear I saw a link a few weeks back but after I rooted ive been havin to much fun playin with it to get back until now. I looked for a while but cant find any link here or on youtube, Anyhow I got an old LG VX110000 (verizon) that I wanted to make into a wireless landline?! Any help will be greatly appreciated. :silly:

Hi,
The only thing I can find is this:
Gizmodo article
Hope this is helpful to you!
XDROIDIFY

xdroidify said:
Hi,
The only thing I can find is this:
Gizmodo article
Hope this is helpful to you!
XDROIDIFY
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Maybe I imagined it, I cant find anything but other things like this, or perhaps it was something like this that I simply didnt look into.
Seems to me though that an older cell phone should be able to do this for free!
Thanks for the reply and I will keep looking and playin with it.

There has to be some service for it to connect to - so I wouldn't say it's "free".
You could make it VOIP only - using your wifi network - and that would be free to an extent.
Using it as a receiver for a landline - I don't know, I'd have to Google it.
My dad and stepmom now just use their cell phones as their only home phones and have ditched landline service altogether - they've done so for about a year and I personally don't see any reason I'd ever get a landline unless it was basically free and came as a package with and internet service or something (but everything I've seen, it's still cheaper to just get the internet service - but maybe).

Pennycake said:
There has to be some service for it to connect to - so I wouldn't say it's "free".
You could make it VOIP only - using your wifi network - and that would be free to an extent.
Using it as a receiver for a landline - I don't know, I'd have to Google it.
My dad and stepmom now just use their cell phones as their only home phones and have ditched landline service altogether - they've done so for about a year and I personally don't see any reason I'd ever get a landline unless it was basically free and came as a package with and internet service or something (but everything I've seen, it's still cheaper to just get the internet service - but maybe).
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Landline is for my fax, kinda stuck with it at the moment.

Ruined mobile hotspot (Urgent help needed)

So I am running a HTC phone and have made some mistakes. I have been trying to change my NAT type on x bone in order to play Rainbow six online with open NAT.
I tried tether to laptop then to box using a cross over cable and forwarding ports over Internet connection sharing. I also tried installing multiple port forwarder applications onto my phone and tethering directly to the XB. One app was meant for a rooted phone (port forward ultimate), which mine isn't and it would let me stop the process before uninstalling.
Unfortunately for me it didn't work and now the tethering speed is INSANELY slow. It tells me there is an MTU error (1340) and the games which used to work fine are now completely unplayable. I wish I had never done all of it just to play one game as the others worked fine.
I am really upset, because the bit of internet I get to play video game is barely keeping my alive at the moment and now its gone.
If you have any advice you would be helping a very ill man get a little bit of joy.
Thanks

Does anyone know anywhere in the UK where I can speak to a professional about my issue. I never get responses on this forum. Any other forums where professionals dwell and give advice/help?

Nobody has the knowledge to help at all?

Can't bring myself to believe that no one has any knowledge of what to do in this situation.

I will pay for someone to help me if that's what it takes to get someone to respond here.

So...If your Phone isn't rooted, you can try (if you have one) to recover all the information. If the Phone has a Guarantee, go to the shop where you buyed it. Since it isn't rooted the Guarantee is still on it. If all of that isn't an Option, the easiest way is to root the Phone (totally worth it anyway) and try an equal App. Not the same just onenwith the same function. Write back if none of these helps, and give some more Information about your mobile (S/N number Android Version...)

akkudererste said:
So...If your Phone isn't rooted, you can try (if you have one) to recover all the information. If the Phone has a Guarantee, go to the shop where you buyed it. Since it isn't rooted the Guarantee is still on it. If all of that isn't an Option, the easiest way is to root the Phone (totally worth it anyway) and try an equal App. Not the same just onenwith the same function. Write back if none of these helps, and give some more Information about your mobile (S/N number Android Version...)
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Its nothing to do with being rooted or not, my ISP is throttling my tethering somehow and I don't know how or why they are doing it. It worked fine for months, but I tried opening my NAT. It think they are doing something with my IP, subnet mask or MTU, but I don't know how to get around it. Other than rooting and applying tether dun 0, which I would prefer not to do, I am at a loss

Correction, I do know why they are doing it, it's because I tried opening my NAT, which is not allowed. The latency in games has quadrupled. 4g was perfect before, now its barely playable. I want to know why this is happening. Can mobile providers throttle tethering? It still works just very badly.

So, you live in the UK. So you think it's a problem with the provider. Wich provider is it?

It's either my mobile provider or the only other thing I can think of is that I dropped my phone a few weeks back.
Could dropping your phone cause the wifihotspot to work incorrectly? Surely if it was broken it would just work or not work.
I get very decent speeds on my phone but when so tether my speeds are awful, which never used to happen.
I am trying to rule out various possiblities and although I am alright at tech, I don't know much about mobiles and though there were a few knowledgeable people on this forum.
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I am going to see a professional. I didn't realise it was all amateurs here, my mistake.