Sorry that it took me so long to give you some updates on my blog. I’ve been kinda busy the last weeks. It’s a good new year’s resolution to do at least one blog post every week … we’ll see :)
As you know, I’m one of the 18 Samsung mob!lers around in germany and we are lucky to get some phones like the Samsung Galaxy and now the Samsung SPICA for free, to test the devices and of course promote them here and there a little bit. I’ll get to the SPICA on another blog post so for now, let’s get to Proxoid:
First two words: just awesome
I’m currently not in Frankfurt and depending on my location, vodafone or O2 have the better signal (O2 is my mobilers contract which I unfortunately have to return by the end of January). I’m a few kilometers outside of Coburg right now and my vodafone USB Stick and UMTS flat makes me want to get UPS to deliver me a CD with the data I need.
I decided to only download one file: the USB-Drivers for my Samsung SPICA to get it connected to my computer via the USB debugging bridge. It took me 12 minutes to download a 3.6MB ZIP-file.
After that I installed the USB-driver for the SPICA which worked just fine and I also downloaded Proxoid from the Android market. Open up the app, click on menu and download the proxoid-adb.zip file, copy it to your computer and extract it to some lovely place.
Now follow the easy instructions here to set up your android phone as a proxy for your computer and let’s go … UTMS internet connection with O2.
Don’t forget to set you proxy for all connections if you also want to use your E-Mail- and e.g. Twitter-Client.
As I have a ThinkPad, I just use the ThinkVantage Access Connections Software to set the proxy settings and also execute the start-tunnel batch file when I want to use Proxoid.
Oh, I almost forgot: With Proxoid, you don’t need any root access on your android phone … as I said: just awesome!
