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What Verizon/Android phones have you tethered with a non-rooted Xoom Wifi?

I'm officially over my WinMo TP2. I am going to get a new Android phone through Verizon. Was looking at the Droid X, but open to suggestions.
1) What phones have you all been able to successfully tether to the Xoom Wifi WITHOUT it being rooted? Also, I do NOT plan on paying Verizon for their mobile broadband option. If that means I have to root the phone, I'm fine with that. Please let me know if that's the case.
2) What Android/Verizon phones do you recommend in general?
Thanks in advance for any feedback!

I am currently tethered to my Droid Incredible. Running Cyanogenmod 7. I know you were looking for solutions without root, but you also stated that you didn't want to pay Verizon for tethering. Not sure that you can do that without rooting. The native, built in tether with CM7 works great. Based on my personal experience, if I were in the market for a new VZW phone I would probably look at the Incredible 2.
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The Xoom doesn't have support for ad-hoc tethering without being rooted. If you can find a phone that will tether wifi in infrastructure mode, the Xoom should work without issue.
I've got both my DroidX and Xoom rooted and I tether my Xoom to it without issue after installing the tethering mod for ad-hoc support.

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I know you asked for vzw feedback but fwiw I've been tethering flawlessly with my evo.
Evo is running cm7.0.2.1
WiFi Xoom is 100% out-of-the-box stock

iphone 4 via bluetooth

My wife has a G2. I can turn the hotspot on and connect via wifi no problem.
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I have been wirelessly tethering my WiFi Xoom to my Droid Incredible since day one, without any issues.

AHinMaine said:
My wife has a G2. I can turn the hotspot on and connect via wifi no problem.
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I can do the same thing with my HTC Inspire from AT&T, granted my phone is rooted but it hooks up without a problem to my unrooted Xoom on the Hot spot!!!

Verizon is going to charge you every cent you're gonna tether to your xoom. So no tethering or hotspots unless you root it
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[Q] Tethering with my transformer

I just got my transformer and was planning to tether with my droid eris, only I have come to realize that wifi tether is ad-hoc, and unsupported by the tablet, and bluetooth tether is not possible on my little old phone. what rooted handsets are you using to tether your transformer?

I am using a Captivate as a wifi hotspot (Mobile AP) and it works flawlessly. I use custom roms and have been allowing my wife to leach with her iPad (yuck I know) while we are on the road and such for a while. You don't have to use custom roms but it seems to me to be the best way to get the feature without ATT plan checking getting in the way.

I'm on Verizon, and I'm hoping for a phone that's easily rooted and flashed. I love me a good Rom.
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Me too!
I'm in the same boat that you are. I have a rooted Droid Eris (XTRSense 5.01). It tethers easily to laptops via wifi or usb. It even tethers easily to iPads. Of course, it won't tether via wifi to my TF, or to any other Honeycomb tablet.
I have screwed around for several days trying to establish bluetooth tether. I can get the Eris and TF to pair, but not to connect. I haven't given up on this yet.
I am also trying to establish USB tether through the dock. The Eris and the TF connect okay, and the TF thinks that the Eris' SD card is a hard drive and lets me explore it. But so far, no tether. I'm still trying.

I use my htc evo and it works great. 4g speedm is nice.
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use the wireless tether v3_0-pre14.apk on this website code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list it tethers my Samsung epic 4g fine with my unrooted transformer

I've been using wifi tether 2.0.7 I think. Works great on the phone for everything else..... Has anyone tried with the moto droid. I definitely applaud badger for trying the bluetooth route. I tried it with both kaos froyo and tazzfroyo and tazz ginger with no luck. I read somewhere that the droid bluetooth stack wasn't as well developed as the hero since it had such poor sales.

theydonkno said:
use the wireless tether v3_0-pre14.apk on this website code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list it tethers my Samsung epic 4g fine with my unrooted transformer
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Using on my vzw fascinate and works great.
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Tether is fine from my LG O2x. Using CM7 nightly
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i use my mytouch 4g tmobile

I can get WiFi tether no problem with my desire HD but when I try the usb cable tether it gives me options for Windows or mac only
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blue tooth tethered off treo pro
Was on my way back from a road trip and figured I'd give it a shot....
Too my suprise, I was able to connect with my wife's old Treo pro 6.5

heres a link to enable ad-hoc
there is a ad-hoc patch in the forums somewhere just do a search in android devlopment for ad-hoc the file is wpa_supplicant then put it in system/bin/
i think you need root
found the thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093778&highlight=ad-hoc

b3ltazar said:
there is a ad-hoc patch in the forums somewhere just do a search in android devlopment for ad-hoc the file is wpa_supplicant then put it in system/bin/
i think you need root
found the thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1093778&highlight=ad-hoc
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Great find. I don't remember seeing this in the roll up info thread.... which may be because I wasn't paying enough attention.
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[Q] any solution to tether with ICS?

Hi all,
I have been trying for a while now to get the wifi tethering app and the native hotspot app to work in ICS on my NS4g (i have flashed all the ICS roms and even back tracked to older 2.3 roms) but nothing seems to work. The other devices can see the network and connect, but there is never any type of data exchanged. (the wifi icons never show an active online connection) I can use my GF's Evo with the unlocked Sprint hotspot to connect every device I own (tablets, laptops, etc...) but my Nexus will not work at all. I can get the ad hoc tethering to work with the old wireless tether apk, but only my laptop recognizes the connection.
Is there any rom, app, or fix to get my Nexus S 4g to tether in infrastructure mode? I love this phone, and the lack of tethering is persuading me to jump back on board with my OG Evo.
Any help, insight, or recommendation would be appreciated. I've been searching online for weeks looking for a solution and have come up empty.
Thanks
Jason

Have you tried open garden ? On the market
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Yes I have tried it. That app only supports ad hoc connections

Wow I do not have this issue
Try the one in the phones settings with a simple name ssid like "cranberry" and have it be open.
That's what I do. Also wifi has to be off.
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I do that and it connects, but I get no internet. The bars never change colors showing there is an active internet connection...
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Use native ics tethering and do not encript with a password(leave wifi open).
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Tether 4g everyday without any issues to windows, Ubuntu and ipad. Using wifi tether app. On oics 43 with Eugene's latest kernel.
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Free App for WiFi Tethering NO ROOT NECESSARY

FoxFi https://market.android.com/details?id=com.foxfi
Allows wifi tethering from most Samsung phones and Motorola phones, LG Optimus/Vortex/Ally, ZTE N762, HuaWei Comet. WiFi mode does NOT work on any HTC phones or the first Motorola Droid/Triumph, use Bluetooth mode instead.
You can connect from any tablets or computers. Access Point is infrastructure mode with WPA2 security.
And it's FREE!
Came across this after having problems with Barnacle and Wireless Tether after upgrading to ICS.

I just downloaded and installed this on my LG Ally and it works great. The speed using the browser to surf the web is very good. I had started to use Verizon's hotspot and found out that it cost $20 a month I was sure glad that I found this app. Free is always better.
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Note: this does not work with 4G, at least with the Motorola Photon

Barnacle didn't work with my tf at all but this works great with my HTC hd2 running miui.
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Glad this was posted. I have been using Foxfi for some time now and every update gets better and better. On my first bill I never recieved any overcharge so it is good. The only thing it does not do is allow you to kick off individual users who are connected. But you can easily change the password or shut it down to kick them off. I never used barnacle or the others but so far this has been my favorite.
I use it on my epic touch 4G. My TF101 has a bff for life.

P3113 & smartphone tethering?

I have a moto Droid 1 that I would like to connect to my 3113, has anyone had success with wirelessly tethering this or another smartphone? (More specifically non hot-spot phones)

Wi-fi is a standard, so as long as your phone can create a non-ad-hoc (the standard mode of most tethering apps), your tab can connect.
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MultipleMonomials said:
Wi-fi is a standard, so as long as your phone can create a non-ad-hoc (the standard mode of most tethering apps), your tab can connect.
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Hey thanks, I was at work and unable to test for myself.

I tether mine using a droix and rezound. the rezound works better as it is a 4g. both phones are rooted to make it easier to tether.