Tethering the Samsung Vibrant without rooting

posted Jul 30th 2010 8:00am by Mike Szczys
filed under: cellphones hacks

If you’ve got a Samsung Vibrant and want to take advantage of that unlimted 3G account you can tether without rooting the phone. This method uses a USB cable to provide internet access to Windows XP and Windows 7 computers. Samsung’s own Kies software handles the tethering, as long as you have the magic number to get connected on T-Mobile USA networks; ‘epc.tmobile.com’ for the APN name and ‘*99#’ as the phone number. [Zedomax] made the video after the break which takes you through the tethering ritual.

[Photo credit: Tnkgrl]

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tagged: kies, samsung, t-mobile, Tether, usb, vibrant

12 Responses to Tethering the Samsung Vibrant without rooting

sixx says:

July 30, 2010 at 9:31 am

doesnt it work over wifi like it does with the galaxy?

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Eric says:

July 30, 2010 at 2:51 pm

No it doesn’t. Not without root.

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NatureTM says:

July 30, 2010 at 3:05 pm

Sure looks a lot like an iPhone.

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Someone says:

July 30, 2010 at 9:06 pm

Can you just use June Fabrics’ PDA Net?

(weird name btw)

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wdfowty says:

July 31, 2010 at 12:12 am

@sixx That is a galaxy S, just the tmobs-branded version. AT&T has the captivate and Sprint has the epig 4g.

@naturetm it does from that angle, but looks completely different head-on

@someone PDAnet is a POS. It’s all about FroYo, usb and wifi tethering 4 all!

My question is, what’s so bad about rooting? It doesn’t break the warranty, you get so many cool features…I can’t even think of a downside…

It’s still all about the Nexus XD

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James says:

August 3, 2010 at 11:39 am

Any word of how to get this working with the AT&T version (captivate)? I don’t have one yet but I’m thinking about it.

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keang24 says:

August 10, 2010 at 11:40 pm

It used to work until I rooted, now i got “Ras Creat Phone Failed”

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proresearch says:

August 12, 2010 at 12:19 pm

if you get ras creat phone failed, then restart program as administrator, or go to services and restart “telephony” service.

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rockjock says:

November 5, 2010 at 9:46 am

Tethering doesn’t work anymore… says “device not supported” ever since tmob update.

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adam says:

November 16, 2010 at 9:24 pm

I have confirmed what “rockjock” stated. Doesn’t work anymore since the ota update. T-Mobile killed it. Just switched from AT&T and it doesn’t look like they are any less stingy when it comes to broadband sharing.

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vibrams says:

April 14, 2011 at 12:03 am

if you get ras creat phone failed, then restart program as administrator, or go to services and restart “telephony” service.