3G Internet Access from Your G1 Android Phone To Your Laptop Without Root

Posted by Joe on March 18, 2009 | 65 comments | Filed under : Applications

Finally a relatively simple way to get 3G Internet access on the go from your Android phone to your laptop without root access.

June Fabrics who partners with Palm has this week put out a PDAnet 3G tethering application for Android that does NOT require root access.

It is currently FREE and in Beta (currently release 1.12) but once the full version is finalized it will become a paid application.

You can access this application HERE as I have uploaded it and my initial impression is that it works fairly well.

Please let me know your thoughts on using it as this is something I personally have been waiting for as the previous manual and then application means to tether your G1 to your laptop all required root access.

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5 Michael Cox March 19, 2009 at 8:29 am: I can verify that this works flawlessly. I used it on my IBM desktop at work and my Dell laptop at home, worked exactly as described.
6 Dirk March 19, 2009 at 11:14 am: Seems to be Windows only, nor?
7 cheesehead March 19, 2009 at 11:47 am: Great App!! I’m loving my G1 again after getting really PI$$ED off with no paid apps.
All good and working fine on my HP Tablet Laptop…….

Just need a Mac version now for my iMac? Any news on one coming out??

CheeseHead
8 Android Overview - Tether Your G1 and Share That 3G Speed! March 19, 2009 at 12:11 pm: [...] Source: GoogleAndBlog [...]
9 Planet Android » Blog Archive » PdaNet for hack-free Android tethering March 19, 2009 at 12:14 pm: [...] the small print to see what limitations on tethering there are in your cellphone contract. [via GAB; thanks Matthew!] All, [...]
10 Saar March 19, 2009 at 12:48 pm: Tried and worked. Also tried using VPN on laptop to connect to my company’s portal, and it works.

Checked connection speeds through http://www.speedtest.net/ and got very disappointing results (200 kpbs down, 30 kbps up). This was through a solid 3G connection.
11 BDot March 19, 2009 at 1:00 pm: All,

Here’s another free one that I can attest to working very well. Though, this one does require root:

http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/
12 DouG1: On Location » 3G Internet Access To Your Laptop from Your G1 Android Phone Without Root | GAB March 19, 2009 at 2:42 pm: [...] 3G Internet Access To Your Laptop from Your G1 Android Phone Without Root | GAB [...]
13 Michael March 19, 2009 at 4:32 pm: Michael, my connection gets intrertupted after about a minute. It tells me to reconnect my phone to the computer even though it is still connected. I disconnect and reconnect the usb and it works again for another minute or two and shuts off again. Any thoughts?
14 Bouyark March 19, 2009 at 5:26 pm: I get the same disconnection after a minute or two as well. This happen on both my tablet and laptop windows vista OS. The speed is also slow and I am in a solid 3G area in NYC.
15 AndroidTapp.com March 19, 2009 at 5:39 pm: Once again… Awesome find Michael!
16 Muffs March 19, 2009 at 6:08 pm: I have been using tetherbot for about 2 months now and love it. I do though have to use fire fox along with foxyproxy added to it. I perfer this way since my laptop can charge will I’m raping its internet from it….muhahahha… but no honestley I need this since my damn roomates suck at paying bills. So now I have internet and those bastards don’t…..suckas. tetherbot is sweeet
17 Flyers1 March 19, 2009 at 8:03 pm: Tried this and it’s very slow and unstable although it’s still in beta and I’m sure once the retail becomes available it will be much better. Also, had Tetherbot since the day it came out and it was fairly ok for the time being until Wifi-Tether got released.
Take the time, follow directions, and learn how to root your phone. Wifi-Tether is by far the very best Tethering app. out on the G1 and it’s true tethering not tethering through any proxy server or anything.
18 PdaNet for hack-free Android tethering - Google Phone Online March 20, 2009 at 12:27 am: [...] [via GAB; thanks Matthew!] Share and Enjoy: [...]
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20 Tether Your G1 and Share That 3G Speed! | mowbee.com March 20, 2009 at 5:00 am: [...] Source: GoogleAndBlog [...]
21 vlad March 20, 2009 at 11:00 am: I have tried to download it but I never got the prompt to install the drivers.
(Unknown sources is checked, USB debugging is checked)
thanks
22 G1 Help Desk » PdaNet for hack-free Android tethering March 20, 2009 at 7:04 pm: [...] [via GAB; thanks Matthew!] [...]
23 Big D March 21, 2009 at 10:37 pm: Can attest that it works being I am using it this very moment to type this post on my laptop. It’s a little slow but works
24 micah March 24, 2009 at 10:27 am: works! RC33 non rooted!Still testing~
25 Petras March 24, 2009 at 12:52 pm: Program works (slow bot working), I did receive an error saying my phone and computer have connectivity issues the first time (for now I am testing WIFI connectivity).

Thank you
26 erasable March 24, 2009 at 9:29 pm: Seems to work ok. Used it to get my friends old ass computer on the internet. I saved the exe file to my phone using steel in desktop mode, then transfered the exe to my friends pc. Kinda slow but works none the less.
27 Ben March 27, 2009 at 2:16 am: I get the same disconnection after a minute or two as well.
USB error, fail to connect to device. Hope that this will be solved soon as it is a great app.
28 Rise of Android Themes & Skins A Surprise to Google Engineers | GAB March 27, 2009 at 12:30 pm: [...] posts not even being posted, but I think I have seen the light lately with some great apps like PDANet which allows Internet tethering from your Android phone to your laptop without root access even [...]
29 Jouva March 27, 2009 at 1:15 pm: I think the major point of this article is that there’s working code of a program that doesn’t require root.
30 scott March 30, 2009 at 5:37 pm: works great, but alot of the images do not load. Any thoughts as to why?
31 Chris April 1, 2009 at 1:39 am: I’m using it on EDGE with my EEE PC 701SD (3G hasn’t been rolled out to Hawaii yet). In fact, I’m sending this post over EDGE. Slow, but definitely usable. (Memories of dial-up are coming back to me…)

FYI, I haven’t had any disconnection issues.
32 AaronBronander April 2, 2009 at 9:21 am: It works great even on my EDGE connection. Not as fast as dsl of course…but when u have no internet at all its good enough.
33 Jon April 2, 2009 at 11:27 am: I’m using it on EDGE because in Puerto Rico no have 3G yet. But this application work fine and smoothy! Great App!

FYI I had a disconnection issues.
34 Jon April 2, 2009 at 11:28 am: http://www.andgeeks.com/3g-internet-access-g1-android-phone-to-laptop-without-root/3863/#comment-3072
35 paco April 2, 2009 at 3:16 pm: just dont mount your g1 than its okey
36 ryan April 3, 2009 at 5:14 pm: unable to get the promt to finish installing… I get through the first two steps then sit there waiting like an idiot…for nothing… HELP PLEASE!!!! ANY IDEAS
37 john April 12, 2009 at 1:40 pm: works great… !!!!! thanx a million.
38 jae April 20, 2009 at 9:10 am: i cant download it on my phone and how am i suppose yo downaload to my computer if i have no internet access and this is what im here for
39 Michael Martin April 21, 2009 at 12:29 pm: New version of PDANet for Android – 1.13 – that has better download performance & fixes the connection dropping problem.

http://www.junefabrics.com/bin/PdaNetA113.exe
40 Rafik April 28, 2009 at 11:01 am: i’m having trouble installing it on my laptop. it seems that its designed for 64-bit vista and i have the 32-bit. is there a version of this for a 32-bit vista ?
41 greatnotsomuch May 20, 2009 at 4:20 pm: Great? Meh, not the best.. tons of images don’t load (in ANY normal browser, tested a few)… I could tell right away… the google logo NEVER comes up, that just goes to show you…

Not good for browsing anything dealing with pictures, because you will see 0 pics, it turns all of them into text (well, 95% of pictures)

All the traffic on the phone goes through some sort of T-Mobile proxy that doesn’t send pictures over a certain size I am finding out… the connections always use this 10.x.x.x IP before ANY website… check it out, but we need a programmer to figure out how to setup a proxy so we can load pictures, this is lame. Either that, or a android broswer for our computers so it loads pictures like the g1 does. Get me? PLEASE SOMEONE MAKE IT! I will paypal you donations if you make it!
42 Michael May 21, 2009 at 11:42 am: Tried it last night after searching for ways to get internet access from my phone without using root. It has worked as advertised but it is definiely slower than I expected. I am able to see the google logo but it does take between 20 to 40 seconds for it to pop up. It is serviceable but a dissappointment since I was expecting 3g speeds. Hopefully this will change in the near future.
43 ashly May 22, 2009 at 5:00 pm: i installed the program but it keeps say the connection failed and pda is turned on. What does that mean?
44 jessica June 16, 2009 at 2:07 pm: Tried to download but it says, “cannot download! The content is not supported on the phone”
45 Sascaroth July 12, 2009 at 12:49 am: This is Awesome!!! 5 minutes and i was connected to the 3G network on my phone, from my laptop. This is a must have if you have a laptop and a G1 Phone.
46 Jeremy C July 14, 2009 at 3:16 pm: I too would like to know if there is a 32bit version for this program.
47 e1inc.g1 July 14, 2009 at 3:54 pm: Thanks for this post, been looking for this a while now. But I have one question? (redundant as it may be) can this work in reverse? Allow me to explain, I have really bad reception here at this new apartment complex in northern california, is there a way that i can use my internet to get reception to my G1? so that i dont have to walk out to the parking lot or stretch out from balcony to get a signal? Just wondering?!?!?

really dig this site, very informative… especially for us semi noobs… eh?
48 Michael Martin July 14, 2009 at 4:16 pm: The current 1.15 32 bit version

http://www.junefabrics.com/bin/PdaNetA115.exe

The current 1.15 64 bit version

http://www.junefabrics.com/bin/PdaNetA115x64.exe
49 Michael Martin July 14, 2009 at 4:19 pm: Nope won’t work that way, but you can get an in house cell signal amplifier – I need that for inside my house as well

Does seem like the G1 was able to get the T-Mobile signal better than my Ion phone now.
50 Jeremy C July 15, 2009 at 12:29 pm: Thank you so much, works very well. I feel like going to T-mobile and shoving this in their face for trying to charge me $60 dollars a month for a wireless card. This works just as well and makes me very very happy. If i ever have to pay for this it will be worth every single penny. just hope it’s a one time payment:)

Thumbs up and a pat on the back for all who helped develop such a successful idea, you make the the world a better place one G1 Android phone at time.

Thanks again.
51 Emil July 17, 2009 at 12:26 am: Is this possible to do on the Android G2 as well?
52 Michael Martin July 17, 2009 at 6:33 am: Yes any Android phone
53 tg1 July 20, 2009 at 2:44 pm: It worked on my first g1 but when I got a new one it updated on its own. The update shutdown this app and the new update stops the debugging mode. the g1 sucks now!
54 tavo July 21, 2009 at 11:22 pm: Hey I tried junefrabrics. And everything but nothin will doad to my g1 it says phone don’t support it and I haven’t rooted my phone please if there a way to doit with out rooting let me now explain please if not still help with links and steps please I apreciated a lot tank so much
55 Jundy July 29, 2009 at 9:16 am: How long is the trial offer for PDANet 1.15 before it start locking the https web sites?

Thanks for this great program.
56 xamboozi August 1, 2009 at 7:34 am: tmobile isnt going to let you do this for free, as they charge for this service. it allows you to talk over your wifi connection, but it costs money and its an add on to your plan.
57 Dr McDoug November 25, 2009 at 4:37 am: of course it's windows only! great app, works with my HP Pavilion laptop tethered to my G1. The bluetooth is a neat idea, but since you are going to drain the battery that way, it's better to go 'tethered' so the battery is charged while using.
58 ant November 30, 2009 at 9:03 pm: I was wondering does using this take pda network to connect to the internet to from your lap top take away from your air time min??????!!!
59 Jim H January 22, 2010 at 4:54 am: needs to support ubuntu on the desktop side… after all, we have a linux phone why not a linux desktop
60 VikTor19 February 4, 2010 at 12:39 am: this app is great im actually using it.. to post this comment THANKS june fabrics…
61 Tom March 17, 2010 at 7:31 am: Must say I have tryed many but this one was easy to use and very user friendly. Great app. Like others I am using this to type this comment
62 bolucs July 9, 2010 at 4:15 pm: amazing, you rock, this program rocks, life rocks
63 d November 3, 2010 at 10:27 pm: Wow you bring a lot of interesting information. Due to this I am a regular reader of your blog.

Thx
64 Lynn January 2, 2011 at 5:28 pm: Joe, You are best! I tried many times using other ways posted in web site, but those were not work. I even went to a cell phone dealer to pay for the connection between my G1 phone and my laptop, but they failed. I appreciate your shearing.
65 Jason November 7, 2011 at 6:36 am: Excellent! Works fine on Windows 7 with LG GT540

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