iPad Tether any phone to iPad via Bluetooth with no monthly plan (ipad wifi ftw!)

[NoStopN]

Jailbreak your iPhone, purchase MyWi and you are good to go, I think.

That's the way I do it.

 

[z3braman]

tether works well enough for the equipment I have.

I tether my samsung 757 cellphone using bluetooth to my mac book air or anything else I am using at the time. It is sufficient for email and reading the news or general surfing. The speed varies from less than edge to just above edge on mobilespeedtest.com.

I use aTT. I don't think this is working too well. I watch others on the train with ipads and iphones and other mobile devices and they seem to have better service. Not that I look over shoulders . . .

I think I am getting the new ipad with 3g and I will be downgrading my unlimited phone plan to just phone. I will look into jailbreaking the ipad but I don't think I will need to for tethering since I won't have to. I will do it just for flexibility though.

 

[Sparky9292]

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What I want to do, is use the internet on my iPad, through my phone.

Jailbreak your iPhone, purchase MyWi and you are good to go, I think.

Cheaper and uses less battery:

iPhone: install tetherMe

iPad: install iTether

Unlike mywi, itether uses low power Bluetooth which saves battery.

 

[Ainkor]

I have a palm Pixi+ that sits in my glove box that I use as a hotspot when needed. I was surprised that my new iPad2 can tether over bluetooth to it with no jailbreak.

Here is what I did:

Turn on bluetooth on my Pixi

Turn on the hotspot feature of the Pixi

Paired my iPad to the Pixi and turned off cell and wifi

Browsed the internet!

I wonder how it effects the battery as I haven't had too much time to test it out but it's pretty nifty to do. I paid $55 for the Pixi off contract from buy.com and threw it on a spare line I had. Since the Pixi comes with free hotspot, it works out much better than tethering to my old Droid phone, at least its more legal.

 

[MisterEd45]

Tether BB9530 w/o PDANET?

I am able to tether iPad 1 (4.3.1 JB) to BB 9530 (STORM) using iBluever 1.5.7 but want to bypass PDANET. Have tried turning on Dial-up Networking on BB but same iBluever script (Default non-GPRS) fails with timeout.

Has anyone been able to tether 9530 w/o PDANET?

Thx in advance for any help...

@ aohus: your post indicates you could do this w/o PDANET - can you pls provide ibluever settings & 9530 settings details? Thx.

 

[dgutkin]

without pdnanet

I tried this and doesn't work. What am i doing wrong. Works with PDAnet and turning off dialup. But not with dialup on and no PDAnet