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PDANet is the software we demonstrated in the video above to tether your phone to your computer with a cable. If you get the free version you will not be able to use the Internet connection to browse to secure sites.
Foxfi android 5.0 full version#
Although there is a free version, we recommend the full version currently priced at $16. It works on most Samsung/Motorola/LG phones and new HTC phones with Android 4.0. If you don’t know what ‘rooting’ means – don’t worry about it! You don’t have to do it.
Foxfi android 5.0 install#
What is FoxFi?įoxFi is free software, that turns your Android smartphone into a Wi-Fi Hotspot without turning on any extra features from your cellular provider (Verizon, AT&T etc.) You just install it from the Google Play store, you don’t have to root your phone or do anything special. Although there is iPhone versions of the PDANet software, Apple doesn’t allow it, so you have to ‘ Jailbreak’ your phone – cutting the umbilical cord to Apple – before you can install it. If you had an original Verizon unlimited plan, I hope you renewed it recently because you will no longer be grandfathered into the unlimited plan. This is using the data on your phone’s data plan, so be aware of your data usage to avoid exceeding your contract limits.
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Geeks on Tour members can watch the video on exactly how this works. Connect to it, and you’re online, using the the Internet connection provided by your phone. It’s really amazing.Īfter you’ve downloaded the necessary software, you just turn on your phone, touch the App called PDANet or FoxFi, touch ‘Activate WiFi Hotspot mode’, and voila! You can look at the available WiFi hotspots on your computer or tablet and you’ll see your phone listed. However, if you use the PDANet/FoxFi software, you just pay once for the software and the hotspot gets its data from your phone’s data plan. If you go thru Verizon and turn on that feature, it will cost you an extra fee. New Smartphones with New PDANet = WiFi Hotspot on your Phoneīoth Jim and I now have Droid RAZR smartphones and they have the ability to be a WiFi hotspot. It shows how we use some software called PDANet to tether our phone to our computer, giving the computer an Internet connection. You may remember this video we did a couple of years ago when we first got our Droid smartphones.