I stumbled upon a nice piece of software called Azilink. It allows you to use your Android phone to connect to the Internet. You first need to create an connection to the phone with the help of the Android debugger. On the phone Azilink provides an openvpn server. Next you have to start the openvpn client software in order to connect to it. Furthermore the IP address of an DNS server is needed. Detailed instructions can be found on the google code project page: http://code.google.com/p/azilink/
Archive for September, 2009
Android tethering without root access
Tuesday, September 29th, 2009Android SDK under Ubuntu 9.04
Tuesday, September 1st, 2009In order to connect to your usb connected Android phone from you Android SDK under Ubuntu 9.04, you have to do the following:
1. Login as root and create the file:
/etc/udev/rules.d/51-android.rules
The name is important. If you replace the 51 with a 50 all will fail!
2. Copy the following into the file:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", SYSFS{idVendor}=="0bb4", MODE="0666"
3. restart udev
sudo /etc/init.d/udev reload
4.Plugin you debugging enabled Android phone
5. inside your SDK folder run:
tools/adb devices
if everything worked fine you phone should be listed.
6. enjoy!