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Help Samsung Moment Tethering

Got it. Thanks guys. Just had to turn the phone off then on and then it worked. Smooth as silk and super easy!
 
Or Mac OS X solution (outside of running windows in VM)?

There are versions of PDAnet for os x, but not that support tethering with this phone.

Once the phone is rooted, I suppose this will cease to be an issue as I can turn the phone into a mobile wifi route, but I am doubtful that this will happen before 3 months from now and looking for a more timely solution.
 
I was able to get azilink working with the moment. As pointed out I put the phone in usb debugging mode, installed the samsung drivers, and followed the directions on the azilink web site (azilink - Project Hosting on Google Code). It works great. I used to use PdaNet on my old palm centro, and it is a great product. But for those trying to save a few bucks azilink works just as good and wasn't too painful to get working. Just letting everyone know it does work.

By the way I was using the windows XP operating system. Also I believe (although I haven't tried yet), the same setup would work on linux. All of the components should run on linux (adb and openvpn), so it should work the same in linux as in windows. I haven't tried it yet, but I may just have to do that in the near future. My guess is it wouldn't be too difficult.
 
Dear Silverexpress and all...

I followed the above instruction except not running PDAnet:

1. download and install the New Studio PC
2. enable USB Debugging mode
3. Connect the Samsung Moment to the USB port

I get the message: "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it."

Wonder can it be a faulty phone? or can be something else.

Please shed some light...

Thanks in advance.
 
MrFuzzykins said:
Dear Silverexpress and all...

I followed the above instruction except not running PDAnet:

1. download and install the New Studio PC
2. enable USB Debugging mode
3. Connect the Samsung Moment to the USB port

I get the message: "One of the USB devices attached to this computer has malfunctioned, and windows does not recognize it."

Wonder can it be a faulty phone? or can be something else.

Please shed some light...

Thanks in advance.
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One more step that nobody is really mentioning and what tripped me up:

You will notice a USB icon in the status bar....pull it down like you would a text icon. I forgot what it says but something like "allow access to computer to transfer files" or something like that. Select it. You will then get another prompt something like "mount USB" and select that as well..... I honestly don't know what they say or in what order but that is what enabled my puter to "see" my phone.
 
flyjbaker said:
One more step that nobody is really mentioning and what tripped me up:

You will notice a USB icon in the status bar....pull it down like you would a text icon. I forgot what it says but something like "allow access to computer to transfer files" or something like that. Select it. You will then get another prompt something like "mount USB" and select that as well..... I honestly don't know what they say or in what order but that is what enabled my puter to "see" my phone.
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I am running XP and cannot pull it down like you said above... My phone locked up after each time I connect to the USB too, so maybe something wrong with the phone? I'll try it on another computer, if it behaves the same I may take the phone back to Sprint and get new one.

Thanks
 
Hello,

Tough to say what is causing your issue. I'd suggest three thing before you go thru the hassle of exchanging it:

1. Pdanet could be conflicting with another 3rd party program you've installed.
Solution-remove all 3rd party program, and try install again.
2. There could be a usb driver conflict or a corrupt usb driver on the pc. Solution
Load usbdview.exe and delete active usb drivers especially anything with android or.
samsung or palm or apple name attached to it....etc do them one by one. Meaning delete
one - connect Moment. Didn't work? Unplug moment, delete another, connect Moment....
repeat... Don't worry about losing the drivers.
3. Use a task killer program on the Moment before you connect usb and do the install.
 
el_tacano said:
I was able to get azilink working with the moment. As pointed out I put the phone in usb debugging mode, installed the samsung drivers, and followed the directions on the azilink web site (azilink - Project Hosting on Google Code). It works great..
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Can u elaborate?

I've got azi on the android. Shoud it be in "mount storage card" mode or not.

How did u do the port forward? There's a batch file in the download...I get device not found?

Does OpenVPN GUI have to be running in the tray?

I'm just about to give my money to JuneFabrics...for the third time. Palm, Winmob, and now Android!!
 
Silverexpress said:
I was informed by the developers of PDaNet that Samsungs PC studio or the drivers contained within are not needed with this verison of PDaNet (probably means that they include them in the build of the executeable).
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well. its still doesn't work. i get "fail to open device" when i try to connect. anyone getting this?

update: lol got it too work. it seems it didn't want to install the included drivers. after like 10 tries it finally installed them.
 
kahale said:
well. its still doesn't work. i get "fail to open device" when i try to connect. anyone getting this?

update: lol got it too work. it seems it didn't want to install the included drivers. after like 10 tries it finally installed them.
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Funny, I didnt have to manually install any drivers.
 
akenis said:
Can u elaborate?

I've got azi on the android. Shoud it be in "mount storage card" mode or not.

How did u do the port forward? There's a batch file in the download...I get device not found?

Does OpenVPN GUI have to be running in the tray?

I'm just about to give my money to JuneFabrics...for the third time. Palm, Winmob, and now Android!!
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Yes. I put it on another computer today (running vista) and all went well. Let me try to break it down a bit (although from memory).

1. Install the android sdk. I just followed the installation instructions here: Installing the Android SDK | Android Developers
2. Configure your phone by going into Settings->Applications:
a. Check the "Unknown sources" box.
b. Now go into Development and check the "USB debugging" box.
3. Use the LincKraker link given above and download and install the Samsung USB drivers.
4. Now plug in your phone into the PC. It should automatically install several drivers. Make sure they are all installed successfully.
5. Open up a command prompt and type "adb devices". If your device shows up in the list of attached devices you are good to go.
6. Now follow the directions (they are pretty good) to install azilink from the azilink web page here: azilink - Project Hosting on Google Code

The only problem I had in Vista was that I couldn't open the OpenVPN configuration file by right clicking on it and having it open with OpenVPN (as I did in XP). I am not very experienced with Vista and don't know why it wouldn't let me do that. So I simply had to open up a command prompt and run openvpn from the command line, ie: /path/to/OpenVPN/openvpn.exe <configuration file>. Then it ran fine.

I am trying to do get it working in linux (Ubuntu 9.04) also, but am having a hard time getting the moment to show up in the "adb devices" list. Has anyone had any luck with this? I have tried adding a udev rule (people claimed that worked with the G1), but still no luck.
 
Silverexpress said:
Hello,

Tough to say what is causing your issue. I'd suggest three thing before you go thru the hassle of exchanging it:

1. Pdanet could be conflicting with another 3rd party program you've installed.
Solution-remove all 3rd party program, and try install again.
2. There could be a usb driver conflict or a corrupt usb driver on the pc. Solution
Load usbdview.exe and delete active usb drivers especially anything with android or.
samsung or palm or apple name attached to it....etc do them one by one. Meaning delete
one - connect Moment. Didn't work? Unplug moment, delete another, connect Moment....
repeat... Don't worry about losing the drivers.
3. Use a task killer program on the Moment before you connect usb and do the install.
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I tried on another PC (laptop):

1. Install New PC Studio
2. Change to "USB in debug mode"
3. Plug the Samsung Moment to the USB, now I cane see and connect to the Moment. :)

So it musts be something wrong with my other computer. WIll check what you suggested with USB devices.

Will let you know.

BTW, Samsung Studio cannot access the media files or the device explorer. It is a topic of another board though, so I will research that.

Thanks again,
- Hung
 
Thanks...will try azilink again with your advice. In the meantime, I couldn't get pdanet to work either. Sent them this support issue:

Seems to connect to the phone ok, but no internet on the laptop. Weird behavior after a while, I try to plug my wireless card back in my laptop, and then I notice send/receive bytes on the phone app. So I take my wireless card out, and I seem to have good internet for a while.

I had previously tried running the azilink on vnc. Ran the port redirect batch file, but it says "no device". Trying to open connection, "no response."

Completely removed Samsung Studio and drivers, tried rebooting. Multiple reinstalls of pdanet. Wouldn't load cause I guess the usb driver was removed as well. Installed just the drivers. Reinstalled pdanet. Same type of behavior. Tried letting pdanet overwrite drivers and not. Same behavior.

Working on trial for now. Ready to by...in addition to my Palm and Winmob versions...if I can get it working.

Thanks
 
phillymonster said:
I keep trying to install the Studio and when it goes to install drivers, error messages appear. Are you sure this works with Windows 7?
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Yes, I got it to work in Win 7 (64bit no less). Works fine but I will replace with a program that turns the phone into a hotspot once its rooted. (So I can get out on my IPod Touch and don't have to install software on computers that I want to connect through.)
 
What i notice with this tethering, you can only use it on a certian inter browsers. I have the G1 by T-Mobile and there was a way to tether the G1 but it only worked on proxy with the Firefox. But the other program that i would run like Y Messenger etc, would not work with the G1 tether.


It is the same wat with it comes to using the Samsung Moment, or the computer would see it literally as a modem and any application i use on my machine that requires internet connection would recognize the Samsumg Moment a modem and feed out the internet
 
Hi folks,

I've been trying to get my Moment tethered with Windows 7 x64 Pro. The drivers posted earlier in that "Samsung Moment USB Drivers Windows.zip" file seem to work. Windows lets me choose them as the drivers to use for the SAMSUNG_Android device. After that installs, the ADB interface and modem devices pop up, and that same driver package takes care of them too. In device manager, I have a "SAMSUNG Android Composite ADB Interface", "SAMSUNG Android USB Modem", and "Android UMS Composite USB Device" listed by connection under the "SAMSUNG Android USB Composite Device".

So I think that all looks good, but when I try to run "adb devices" using the version of adb included in the azilink zip package, it doesn't see anything.

I've tried rebooting my computer after the drivers were installed. I've tried rebooting my phone while it's plugged in to the computer. I've tried rebooting it disconnected and then plugging it in once it's booted. USB debugging is definitely turned on.

Any ideas? Am I missing a step somewhere? Should I try something else?

Hopefully we can get this sorted out together. Thanks!
 
Figured it out. I downloaded the newest Android SDK. That version of adb worked just fine, but the version that ships with azilink doesn't show my Moment at all.
 
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