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OK, this is something I came across when poking through some smali files. Turns out we have a hidden menu for wifi tethering.

What you need is a launcher that supports activities.
Most roms have launchers that do.
First long press on the home screen, like if you were adding a widget, and select activities or shortcuts(may be different wording)
Scroll down to the settings menu, if you click on it it should bring up a bunch of activities that the settings menu has.
Now scroll down til you see tether settings. Select that so it makes a link or an icon on your screen.

The next part I don't know what will work best for you, I have PDAnet installed on my computer, so I already had proper drivers, so if you run into a driver issue, get pdanet.
Anyways when you launch that activity/icon you created it will bring up tethering settings. USB works, wifi doesn't work. This is what the settings menu looks like
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Hook up a USB to the computer and select USB tethering
Worked first time for me
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Now I don't know if boost can monitor this.
All this info is for informational purposes. Do not get mad if you get in trouble for violation of tos. I just found it, thought I'd share. If you are running windows vista, I can't help you, I couldn't get pdanet to work on that. Anyways, thought I'd share ;)
 
Tried it on windows 7?.. I have 7 ultimate. I may check it out tomorrow.

I use easy tether pro, and Wi-Fi tether for root for hotspot. Hotspot tends to heat up the warp a bit so I try to use USB tether when possible. I'm curious what the root Wi-Fi tether apps bypass to enable Wi-Fi tether.
 
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Awsome find. I really missed having this functionality from my Drod 1. I've never been able to get wifi tether to work with debian
 
sweet!

I didn't see the heading saying tether so I thought it wasn't there, thanks for the screenshot!

Great find by the way, now we just need a modded settings with this option showing to make it more user friendly or maybe just get the shortcut added to our navigation toggles...
 
MrBobo said:
sweet!

I didn't see the heading saying tether so I thought it wasn't there, thanks for the screenshot!

Great find by the way, now we just need a modded settings with this option showing to make it more user friendly or maybe just get the shortcut added to our navigation toggles...
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It's already in the settings files, Sprint is blocking it from showing up from somewhere else in the system. I've been working on this the last few hours and I don't see anything in any of places found from google searching. I went as far as decompiling most of the framework folder and running a grep search on everything. Lot's of "tether" mentions but nothing I can see so far to block it. The closest thing I can find are a few entries in the arrays.xml in framework-res. I even tried adding the "usb tether" checkbox item to the wireless menu, while I got it to show up and could be checked it wasn't functional. Maybe I didn't call it right, I check it again later. Adding the tether menu to the top level of settings just caused force closes. idk man, I work 11-7. It's time for bed. I'll play with it again tonight if you guys don't come up with something before then.
 
I am able to pull up the menu and it says I am connected but I didn't get internet access to my laptop, I will have to try it later at home, I think our work laptops are locked down and my 3g isn't great in the building.
 
I am running Noob V, tethered to a Win7 64bit system. Works fine for me, little bugging as downthemachine stated. I purchased the full version of PDAnet, so i will stick with that. Great find though!!!
 
PattF said:
It's already in the settings files, Sprint is blocking it from showing up from somewhere else in the system. I've been working on this the last few hours and I don't see anything in any of places found from google searching. I went as far as decompiling most of the framework folder and running a grep search on everything. Lot's of "tether" mentions but nothing I can see so far to block it. The closest thing I can find are a few entries in the arrays.xml in framework-res. I even tried adding the "usb tether" checkbox item to the wireless menu, while I got it to show up and could be checked it wasn't functional. Maybe I didn't call it right, I check it again later. Adding the tether menu to the top level of settings just caused force closes. idk man, I work 11-7. It's time for bed. I'll play with it again tonight if you guys don't come up with something before then.
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You can't add it to the top level unless you specify an android:key... or you will get fcs... I figured that out when I was theming the settings menu... still don't understand what attributes that android:key specifies or requires In the smali to work properly but I'm working on the same exact thing... don't think they blocked it from showing up... they just simply removed it from the layouts... and also another thing is that when I was trying to add wifi and Bluetooth check boxes to the main settings menu they also did not behave properly.... and there is a 100% no way they are blocking wifi and bluetooth.... there is probably some code or something that needs to be changed or added to be able to implement or change the location. Of the checkboxes

Sent from my N860 using Tapatalk 2 Beta-5
 
ggiddix said:
I'm on noob 4 and don't have tether settings
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You need to read the instructions. Its not in the settings menu, its an activity of the settings menu . Think about it like busybox, there isn't an icon for it, but its still there in the background
 
Updated the op so this could be more of a discussion rather than a practical application. And before anyone says its not there, yes you are right, its not in the settings menu, its an activity of the settings menu that for now you would have to access through a launcher that supports making shorcuts to an activity. Just a fyi
 
downthemachine said:
Updated the op so this could be more of a discussion rather than a practical application. And before anyone says its not there, yes you are right, its not in the settings menu, its an activity of the settings menu that for now you would have to access through a launcher that supports making shorcuts to an activity. Just a fyi
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Yeah... lol... its not being blocked or anything... they just removed it from visibility... we just need to figure out how to reimplement it

Sent from my N860 using Tapatalk 2 Beta-5
 
you don't need to install any third party drivers for usb tether to work, I confirmed about 3 weeks ago that win 7 will install the drivers as an android tunneling device and then you can tether from then on. If anyone is still using vista it should do the same thing, as for win XP i would suggest PDAnet.
 
shinru2004 said:
you don't need to install any third party drivers for usb tether to work, I confirmed about 3 weeks ago that win 7 will install the drivers as an android tunneling device and then you can tether from then on. If anyone is still using vista it should do the same thing, as for win XP i would suggest PDAnet.
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I've got xp pro on my old PC and didn't need anything but the drivers the phone installed

downthemachine said:
Did you read any of the above posts?
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Yes i did. I found it. my eyes were bugging me when I looked the first time guess that's why I missed it
 
whitefiretiger said:
I've got xp pro on my old PC and didn't need anything but the drivers the phone installed



Yes i did. I found it. my eyes were bugging me when I looked the first time guess that's why I missed it
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Sorry, I had some issues explaining the difference of an activity and what you can normally access
 
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