At present; almost all smart-devices support sharing the DATA internet from the phone to PC. When it comes to Android you’re be able to share your Google™ Android™ device’s mobile data connection with a single computer via a USB cable or via Bluetooth: and “this is called tethering“. In order to start the service, you just need to select the tethering option available within your phone settings.
Well, I actually wanted to say that; tethering will works perfectly on Linux, Ubuntu & Windows vista/seven operating systems with no modifications needed. But in Windows XP, it contains the drivers you need on USB tethering, but you must install a configuration file before connecting your phone to your Windows XP computer, to instruct Windows XP how to configure itself to use those drivers.
Steps to configure tethering in Windows XP
- First of all, right click on this link & save it as a file (if your browser show you as .html while downloading, just remove .html & save it as a file).
- Make sure you saved the file on to a convenient place, like desktop (you can save the file wherever you want.. just I advised you to save to a place which is convenient to identify).
- Once done saving the file.. connect your android device using the DATA cable given to you with the phone & plug it to your Computer.
- Afterwards, go to Settings on your mobile; then select Wireless & Networks > and select Tethering & portable hotspot.
- Under Tethering & portable hotspot select (check with a tick) USB tethering.
- When done selecting, you’ll see a dialog box appearing on your windows XP computer mentioning “new hardware wizard” or something similar.. There select “No, not at this time” and click Next.
- Thereafter, select “Install from a list or specific location“ and click Next once again.
- After, click Browse to browse to the file directory where you saved the configuration file you downloaded in Step 1 and click Next. Windows XP uses the configuration file to configure itself to support USB tethering with the Android phone.
- When Windows XP finishes installing the software for Android USB Ethernet/RNDIS, click Finish.
May 2, 2012 at 10:32 pm
When I connect the cable, I’m not getting anything that mentions new hardware found nor install from a specific location. Please advise
October 5, 2012 at 2:08 pm
Lucy, go to Control Panel > ‘Classic View’ > Add New Hardware > then follow the prompts.
Great post worked for me. I will be sharing your post on my blog – tanzimhasan.com
Thanks
Tanzim
June 1, 2012 at 10:07 pm
Me neither
June 8, 2012 at 10:54 pm
Me neither. It’d be nice if this blogger could provide instructions for all scenarios.
June 12, 2012 at 1:19 pm
Me too,I followed your advise but I didn’t get the tethering process.The PC asked which kind and model of hardware installed you want.Pls explain to me clearly.
January 3, 2013 at 4:27 am
Disconnect phone cable from computer, disable USB debugging on phone, then go through installation again. You don’t have to pick the tethering .inf file, just the folder it is in. After that, restart everything and reconnect phone cable again. Look for icon in system tray to show it is connecting, then try to load a web page. This worked for me.
June 15, 2012 at 11:21 am
please give me android pc suilt
June 18, 2012 at 4:49 pm
Same problem…When I connect the cable, I’m not getting anything that mentions new hardware found nor install from a specific location.
Pls help
June 19, 2012 at 10:53 am
Hello! There,
Can you all specify your problems one by one here at http://help.geeklk.com in order to solve your queries. And our apology for the delay in replying.
Thank you,
GeekLK Team
June 25, 2012 at 7:49 pm
trying to lern how to trther
July 2, 2012 at 2:44 am
it didn’t work. i did wateva u sad but…… plz give me pc suite or tell me from where i can get it plz……
July 3, 2012 at 6:16 pm
Hello! Everyone,
Seems tethering is not giving a proper solution.. Please refer below for more & try using the software which is mentioned.
URL: http://help.geeklk.com/questions/4fe7d4f409a4d/tethering-to-xp
Cheerz
July 8, 2012 at 10:32 pm
All above did connect phone as USB storage.
pl. do nothing when connect phone with PC just ignore msg. in phone.
In Phone press
Home – Setting – Wirless & Network – Tethering – USB tethering [SELECT ]
This will show message in PC for installing USB software.
I m getting screen for new hardware found…
i choose select from specific location to install.
i choose downloaded file tetherxp.inf to Driver installation.
But driver not supporting and its not working with
my Micromax A75 Android 2.3
July 18, 2012 at 8:19 pm
Thanks. It worked
November 19, 2012 at 8:16 pm
How did you, dear? Can you provide me a solution for Xperia Tipo in XP?
July 21, 2012 at 12:02 am
If Windows XP doesn’t propose you to install the driver just go in device manager and do it manually.
July 23, 2012 at 11:41 am
wowwwww its working thanks
August 15, 2012 at 6:37 am
I had the same issues but only after my phone upgraded to the new android ics update. None of the driver stuff would work for me but I have found that if you enable usb debugging and connect your phone (it will go through an install for “found new hardware”) once complete you can disconnect, uncheck usb debugging and reconnect and it will autoinstall the needed rndis driver which is on the phone in debugging mode
Has worked for everyone else I’ve helped, hope this works for you too!
August 15, 2012 at 8:45 am
Hi..
I too tried connecting it folowing the above steps. But my xp new hardware setup doesnt ask for exact location of the saved config file and hence tries searching in the path provided.
And it fails to find this (tetherxp) file then.
Please let me know what am i doing wrong here.
August 15, 2012 at 10:23 am
Also i am actually trying to connect the laptop to internet through the phone wifi. As in my phone is connected to the wifi and the laptop is connected to the phone via usb cable. Can i access internet through the laptop? Is that possible?
October 23, 2012 at 12:52 pm
I’m also looking for the same solution asked by Ag, any ideas how? And I’m facing the same issue, the “found new hardware” function doesn’t recognise the .inf i saved on my desktop. And when I select disk and select the .inf file it rejected it saying that it does not contain information of the specified hardware.
Please help.
August 27, 2012 at 6:18 pm
When I connect the cable, I’m not getting anything that mentions new hardware found nor install from a specific location. Please advise
September 22, 2012 at 8:00 pm
I tryied this bt der is problem to confugration
a error is intrupting it..
Error code 10 occurd
September 29, 2012 at 8:38 pm
This driver does not work with Windows XP 64 bit
October 13, 2012 at 6:43 pm
when I did tethering process as per your instructions then at last a pop up window came and a error occurred over there.
the error name is (code10) what to do now?
October 17, 2012 at 2:40 pm
Will this work for Windows 7?
Thanks
Shay
October 20, 2012 at 8:35 am
Hi Somebo,
Yes! Tethering will work on Win 7. you don’t need any specific config as such. should work when it acquires the relevant drives to the OS.
cheerz.
October 19, 2012 at 3:43 am
windows xp sp
htc merge android…
followed instructions up there even went to add hardware. i get through the process and select the folder where the download is and must not work with my phone. it asks to connect to the internet to find the right one
frustrating looking for the right stuff to connect pc to phone for temporary iinternet.
November 26, 2012 at 7:48 am
I have problem whem check thetering. It show connect for a econd and suddenly disconnect. What the problem. Pls help
December 4, 2012 at 12:39 pm
how to connect xperia tipo with XP OS ??please help
January 30, 2013 at 11:42 am
All above did connect phone as USB storage.
pl. do nothing when connect phone with PC just ignore msg. in phone.
In Phone press
Home – Setting – Wirless & Network – Tethering – USB tethering [SELECT ]
This will show message in PC for installing USB software.
I m getting screen for new hardware found…
i choose select from specific location to install.
i choose downloaded file tetherxp.inf to Driver installation.
But driver not supporting and its not working with
my mobile sony ericsson xperia neo v android 4.0.4
February 6, 2013 at 10:17 am
i do all the steps but when it starts installing it a warning pops up that says this does not have mircosofts signature we strong recommed you dont install it
February 16, 2013 at 1:12 pm
i did everything as instructed. the file install is in the notepad file.. i browse and want to select the file that i put in a folder, but the installation in unsuccessful saying that it is not the right configuration. what should i do now
April 8, 2013 at 1:36 pm
If nothing works, try the following link. Be careful while modifying the .inf file.
http://karceh.blogspot.in/2012/05/how-to-usb-tether-android-phones-with.html
May 14, 2013 at 12:28 pm
- In first I downloaded the file named from android site http://www.android.com/drivers/tetherxp.inf
- Connect my android device using the DATA cable given to you with the phone & plug it to your Computer, go to Settings on your mobile; then select Wireless & Networks > and select Tethering & portable hotspot. Under Tethering & portable hotspot select (check with a tick) USB tethering.
- When done selecting, a dialog box appearing “new hardware wizard” I select “No, not at this time” and click Next , select “Install from a list or specific location“ and click Next once again, click Browse to browse to the file directory where you saved the configuration file I downloaded in Step 1 and click Next. Windows XP uses the configuration file to configure itself to support USB tethering with the Android phone.as written in android site
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- But after all that .When Windows XP finishes trying to install the software for Android USB Ethernet/RNDIS,the error massage showing and this is print screen from it
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the wizard can’t find the necessary software