Use phone as wireless adapter?(NOT WIRELESS TETHERING)

[yus4eel]

I want to know if there is a way to use an android device as a wireless adapter? Not wireless tethering of your data connection but the ability to use the wifi connection on your pc.

Sent from my DROID3 using Tapatalk

 

[Leway]

I actually just tried the above program and it works. It has serious limitations if your not getting the paid version. Blocks a bunch of webs sites and all secure ones. It does work though. I really wish Verizon would not have found it necessary to remove wifi sharing over USB for some dam reason. The S7 I have, had it factory and they removed it. Not sure why? Seeing how it does not have a fuking thing to do with the mobile network. I can actual tether my computer by USB using mobile network and can't from my wifi. Can already bypass they're tethering fee.

I will continue reading and searching till I find a way to undo or work around big reds unnecessary removal of this feature. Even if it involves crawling a 1000 miles on my hands and knees, on broken glass to find some big wig and beating the reversal out of him with the very S7 I'm typing this on.

Pc net works just as well without root. And hides usage.

 

[hoyle.a]

My Solution without needing Root or Custom ROM

I want to know if there is a way to use an android device as a wireless adapter? Not wireless tethering of your data connection but the ability to use the wifi connection on your pc.

Sent from my DROID3 using Tapatalk

If you are having the same issue as me then you have a USB Tethering option in "Settings > Wireless & Networks > More" but when you enable it first "Checking your account details" with your cell provider (Mine is Metro PCS using an Alcatel Fierce XL) to make sure they will let you, then it turns off your WIFI, making you use their cellular data for use with USB tethering. This whole concept is ridiculous and just seems like a way for the cell company to force stuff on you as a customer. My buddies android phone (cricket i believe) lets you tether wireless or usb no problems with or without a cell connection, you can use it as a glorified wifi adapter which is actually what he does now after he got a newer phone without a cracked screen.
My Solution
The easiest solution without rooting your phone and risking bricking it while installing a custom rom is to download one of the many tethering apps on your phone (I recommend PDAnet by June Fabrics, they have been building this app for years and years, and its the only one i know works without a headache) I got my phone set up as a wifi adapter within 5 minutes and am using it currently leveraging my home wifi and no cell data from my phone. Just goto the Play Store on your phone and look for "PDAnet" by June Fabrics, then on your PC install the drivers / software found on June Fabrics (junefabrics.com + /android/downloadold.php) . Their app couldnt be any easier to use and configure. It will walk you through everything you need to do. I would imagine other phones with different versions of android might work like my buddies without any extra software or headache, but apparently some cell providers are forcing this account verification deal and disabling wifi while using usb debugging.

 

[Rhgoheen]

Pretty sure on PC it is a WIRED connection not wifi wifi pard is having phone connected to in home wifi. Internet wizard is wired Ethernet connection

 

[Luelu]

its so funny that ppl cant understand that he wants to make the wifi driver of the android device as a REAL wifi adapter, that u can connect the network on your windows on the WIFI settings, not tethering from the phone already connected. Fr he makes it clear...

 

[albin0alligat0r]

I can't believe how dumb these guys. After all that years I want to clarify this topic.

You just want to use your phone's wifi card, like a USB device. And this is absolutely not possible in easy way.

Look, you must find a driver from depths of web (almost impossible) - which can seperate your Wifi Card from your device and connect it to your pc via phone motherboard's interface. Or you must create your own bootable application for your mobile phone - Which Your device can boot as only Wifi Card Adapter, PLUS to that it must be able to connect with USB to your pc. (It would seem like phone's download mode).
So able to do these two, you must be quite skillful software engineer or advanced coder. For a normal person this is impossible, my friend.