I just wan't wifi tether. Thats all!!

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At the risk of being attacked for being a total noob, I must say this.
<rant>
I have an ipad.
I have an iphone 3gs. Apple won't let me tether the iphone 3gs to my ipad, because they are evil and greedy (for no other reason).
And because they are evil and greedy, I've chosen to buy another phone (htc desire) that I was told would wifi tether because it was running the latest version of android bla bla bla. You get the picture.

I should have done my home work. Turns out, I have to root the phone? Which could brick it, and cause a nightmare of issues. Also, the wifi tether doesn't actually work properly. You have to manually assign an ip address and can only use WEP. Bah!

HTC doesn't even support syncing the phone to a MAC. You can tell they are really interested in gaining market share (not).

Am I the only person who just wants this phone to tether to an iPad and do the other normal phone things with no hassle? I'm all for advancing technology by way of bricking your expensive phones etc. But sometimes things should 'just work' *laughs at self for saying something so apple'esque*
</rant>

Just plug it up with the USB... the Desire has built in tethering capabilities.

Nope.

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Originally Posted by Whiterin

Just plug it up with the USB... the Desire has built in tethering capabilities.

With a macbook, no it doesn't.

With an iPad. Definitely not.

wtf

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p.s. This isn't a Theme and App topic, so to the mod who moved it. wtf?

This is about android development for the HTC Desire.

Blame Steve Jobs for that. He does not allow it.

This is not Android issue.

Originally Posted by Sirako5

With a macbook, no it doesn't.

With an iPad. Definitely not.

Originally Posted by gogol

Blame Steve Jobs for that. He does not allow it.

This is not Android issue.

I know it's not an Android issue, but android exists to offer alternatives to Steve Jobs and apples monarchy. So I was hoping somebody would figure out a way successfully create a wifi tether application that works without rooting and potentially bricking the htc desire. Maybe the android people at google could make this an out of the box feature, to cut into apple's market share.

Well, if tethering is disabled on apple devices, then it's probably not going to work (for very long at least) even with a root or a new feature.

When your phone creates a wifi network, how would the apple device know what it is? If you ensure your wifi network is a standard protocol, the mac, iPad whatever can't tell. It just connects, provided the phone does the wifi part properly.

iPhone developers created myWi, works with no issues at all. Costs $10 bucks.

I'd pay $20 bucks for a working version on the HTC Desire.

wifi tether work after rooting.. install "wifi tether", you can find it in android market..

then read this guide:

1) started wifi tether on desire
2) connect iPad (or any other device) to desire wifi network
3) set ip static on iPad (or any other device):
IP address 192.168.2.100
subnet mask 255.255.255.255
gateway 192.168.2.254
dns 192.168.2.254
4) ping with terminal emulator command :
ping 192.168.2.100
5) killed ping
6) goto safari (or any other internet browser) and surf on web .....


100% working

Yeah,

I get that you can get it working, and I appreciate your tips.

However the point remains, that as a consumer, and purchaser of a phone that is meant to compete with the iphone. I should not have to root my htc desire, and screw around with ip addresses and subnet masks, just to get this phone to do something my iphone can do.

Get it?