How to Tether Your Droid in Ubuntu. Android smart phones, including the Motorola Droid, can act as mobile Internet hot spots if they're running a tethering app. This allows business travelers to ...

Once connected, navigate to the Hotspot & Tethering menu in the Android System popup. Toggle the USB Tethering option to On. Now, your computer should acknowledge the new connection source.

Beginning with Android 2.2, the Android operating system includes a tethering option, so that you do not need a special app to tether your device to a computer.

Learn how to set up USB tethering on Windows 11/10, share your phone's mobile data to access the internet on other devices and troubleshoot issues.

Hotspot not working at the coffee shop? No free Wi-Fi at the airport? Let your Android phone come to the rescue: $25 app Tether lets your laptop tap your phone's wireless data goodness.

How to use Android's Instant Tethering feature You can forget using sketchy Wi-Fi networks with your Chromebook thanks to this handy Android feature.

Android 2.2 to integrate USB tethering, mobile hot spots With less than a week to go before Android 2.2 is unveiled, the list of new features continues to grow.

I'd been thinking about getting a secondary Android device for that. Now, I believe wi-fi tethering would kill my battery- and I'm using a BB OS6 device which doesn't support it either.

It's not that the phone can or can't do the tether/hotspot. Back since Android 4.1 did they provide in the OS a provision where they could bake in a flag allowing the carrier to deny tether ...