How to tether android phone wirelessly to a mac without applications or rooting!

this is the easiest way to tether your phone to your mac and it requires no downloads or rooting. it does it through bluetooth. Its so easy i figured it out all by myself. There are pretty much no vids or tutorials on how to do this so i thought i would make one for you guys.

WRITTEN TUTORIAL:
1. enable bluetooth on PHONE and COMPUTER
2. make bluetooth discoverable on PHONE and COMPUTER
(EVERYTHING FROM HERE ON IS DONE ON THE COMPUTER)
3. go to bluetooth preferences
4. press the "+" to add your phone
5. once it finds it click it then click continue
6. when the passcode comes up on the computer and phone, click pair on the phone first, then continue of the computer
7. a screen titled "bluetooth mobile phone setup" will pop up
8. leave everything the way it is even if its blank and hit continue then quit.
9. go to Network in your system preferences and check internet sharing
10. Press the "+" sign
11. make the interface bluetooth PAN and the name bluetooth PAN and click continue
12. select your phone from the drop down menu and press the conect box right below it

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[01Commenter10]

This video ONLY works if your phone supports the bluetooth PAN (personal area network) profile.. If your phone does not have this profile, this video will not work for you….

The idiot said in his title HOW TO TETHER ANDROID… well not all android phones have bluetooth PAN…!!!!!

[maxp8ntballer]

@01Commenter10 ok bud. calm down with you 4 comment rant. dont be calling me an idiot and a nimrod. how was i suposed to know all androids dont have PAN? i found it out myself and it worked for me so therefore i put it on youtube to share with other people who might find it useful.

[ThinkPureTruth]

Why is it mt understanding that the cell provider will see a tether but not a rooting. Tethering is another 30 mth charge even if you only use it 1ce per month. Some have told me that rooting keeps the process invisible to the provider. Thanks for your future comment. Take care.

[maxp8ntballer]

@ThinkPureTruth i have not seen a $30 charge on my bill for using this bluetooth workaround and i use it all the time on the go. i think its because when you use the internet from your phone on your computer via bluetooth, the phone thinks it borrowing it instead of it becoming a second user. also there is no process related to tethering when i do it.

[tmvmerlino]

I have android version 2.2.1 and I think Verizon discontinued service b/c I can't get it to work

[maxp8ntballer]

@tmvmerlino nope i also have that version and it still works

[e6r3i5c8k]

you're a genius i tried it with mine and WORKEDD!!!! thanks!! :)

[01Commenter10]

@maxp8ntballer Should have changed your title to HOW TO TETHER with X phone…. over bluetooth..

[01Commenter10]

@tmvmerlino thats cause your phone does NOT have the bluetooth PAN profile within its bluetooth software… This idiot is not very specific when he did this video…

His phone DOES have bluetooth PAN which is why it works for him :-)

[01Commenter10]

@ZacharyDavidR your droid does not have Bluetooth PAN profile, which is WHY it does not work for you… This nim-rod should have been more specific on bluetooth tethering cause not all phones can do it.. Does not matter if its a MAC or PC, if your phone does not support Bluetooth PAN, it wont work...

[01Commenter10]

This does NOT work with EVO cause EVO does not have the PAN profile within its Bluetooth software..!!!

[redmori]

Nice bro.

[ZacharyDavidR]

im on a droid, and I followed at your directions throughout the video, when I get to the setting up a Bluetooth Pan, nothing pops up, all I have is bluetooth Dun. But I noticed after I paired it, on your video @1:33 one of the bullets says you can access the internet. There is no bullet that says that when I set this up on my mac. any idea? any help would be greatly appreciated.