[colug-432] Tethering a Droid

[Judd Montgomery]

I sold a Motorola Droid I had on Friday.  I used the Wi-Fi to surf, read 
email, download apps, use maps, etc.  Everything on it worked except I 
couldn't make calls without service and Google Voice won't make Wi-Fi 
calls when there is no service.  This is a software imposed limitation.

If the phone is at the initial boot screen where it asks if you want to 
make an emergency call you'd have to have a service provider get you 
past that screen or root the phone.

Judd

On 07/12/2010 07:51 PM, Joshua Kramer wrote:
> Hello Colug'ers...
>
> Has anyone tried to take a Droid-equipped phone (such as the original
> Motorola Android) and, instead of using the internal cellular radio,
> just tether the phone to another cellular via bluetooth?  Obviously you
> couldn't make calls this way but I wonder if the other stuff, such as
> the app store (or even just Google Maps), would work.
>
> Cheers,
> -JK
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