Tether an Android Phone Using Proxoid | Linux Today

Tether an Android Phone Using Proxoid

Written By
DP
Dmitri Popov
Jul 28, 2009

[ Thanks to Dmitri
Popov
for this link. ]

“Rooting an Android phone is not for the faint of
heart, though, and there is the ever-present risk of bricking your
device. Meet Proxoid, a proxy server application that lets you use
your phone as a modem without hacking its system. Making Proxoid
work does require a few steps, but the entire process is simple
enough even for uninitiated users. Here is how to make Proxoid work
with an Ubuntu-based system.”


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Dmitri Popov

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