Access Internet on android phone by connecting it to laptop?

Question

My latop is connected to a wired modem for internet. I want to access internet on my android phone.

Can i do it by connecting my Android to laptop via usb cable and then enabling tethering.

Edit:

Operating System: Ubuntu 12.04

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Use this without root https://github.com/Genymobile/gnirehtet — Biswapriyo, Nov 01 '17 at 15:22

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Aug 01 '13 at 12:53

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You will need do a reverse tether. As far as I know, the phone must be rooted for this to be done.

Here are instructions at XDA Developers - HOWTO: Ubuntu USB reverse tethering

answered Aug 01 '13 at 12:53

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If you are reading this in 2016, this no longer works for android v5 and above – Gabriel Fair Sep 09 '16 at 19:16

koniu · Answer 2 · 2015-07-28T19:07:48.187

Here's the closest to a "one-click" solution that I got to.

Prerequisites

Rooted Android device
Root access on the PC
ADB installed on the PC (apt-get install android-tools-adb on Debian-based distros)
USB Debugging enabled on Android

Procedure

Connect Android device to the PC via USB
Enable USB tethering on the Android device (Settings)

Run the following script:

#!/bin/bash

WAN="wlan1"       # interface providing internet connection on the PC
LAN="usb0"        # usb interface on the PC
AND="rndis0"      # usb interface on Android

LAN_IP="10.0.0.1"
AND_IP="10.0.0.10"
NETMASK="255.255.255.0"

DNS1="8.8.8.8"
DNS2="8.8.4.4"

sudo su -c "echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward"
sudo iptables -F -t nat
sudo iptables -F FORWARD
sudo iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o $WAN -j MASQUERADE
sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i $WAN -o $LAN -m state --state RELATED,ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT
sudo iptables -A FORWARD -i $LAN -o $WAN -j ACCEPT

sudo ifconfig $LAN $LAN_IP netmask $NETMASK up

adb shell su -c busybox ifconfig $AND $AND_IP netmask $NETMASK up
adb shell su -c busybox route add default gw $LAN_IP
adb shell su -c ndc resolver setifdns $AND "" $DNS1 $DNS2
adb shell su -c ndc resolver setdefaultif $AND

adb shell ping -c4 $DNS1
adb shell ping -c4 google.com

Done!

Notes

You probably need to adjust the interface names LAN, WAN and AND.
I found that some apps would either not recognize the network connection or only work partially. I was able to fool them using Fake Wifi Connection module for the Xposed Framework

Access Internet on android phone by connecting it to laptop?

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