setting up?

i am wanting to know the same thing

it installed on the PC fine it wants me to also start on the android but it didnt put anythign on there

on your computer go to the program files section under c drive and find the tether folder. get the .apk file and copy it to your droid card and use astro to install. that is what I had to do.

Tried the .apk copy; didn't work. Has anybody at all been successful at getting this to work?

nope not yet

I'm having the same problem... How do i get this to work on my Droid?

I followed ptfd13's instructions, using Astro to install the tether apk file and it worked great! I am posting this from my tethered Hero! :)

still nothing on droid

same situation, I have it running on my pc and my moto droid but just sits there saying "waiting for connection over usb" on my droid, and "Start Tether on Android" on my pc. Frustrating...

I transferred the file and installed with astro, but am not connecting. Using droid. For those of you who are connected, are you using the USB Debug mode, or did you turn it off to connect?

To get Win 7 to recognize Droid after connecting USB cable:

USB Debugging must be OFF
SD card must be "Mounted"

I have Tether on the laptop and the Droid but it will not connect.

So as of right now no Motorola Droid users cannot use this BETA? I got the e-mail but it says nothing about setting up the Tether on your phone.. lol.

I have a Droid as well on Windows 7 and no combination of USB debugging or mounted or whatever will work... it just does like everyone elses and both sides say waiting on USB connection.

Using Win XP and MotoDroid .
Connected Droid to laptop through USB connection . USB debugging enabled on Droid . SD card mounted to laptop . Ran Tether setup on laptop . When setup was finished on laptop it had installed Tether on both laptop and Droid . After setup was finished , I dismounted SDCard but left USB debugging enabled .I could immediately connect through the Droid to Internet . I am posting through the Droid now . Speeds are not the same as through my landline but it is quite useable for my needs . I test speeds using http://www.speedtest.net/ and the suggested test server . http://www.speedtest.net/result/743765570.png

Hi Guys,

Can you open a console window and go to c:\program files (x86)\Tether and run the following command and tell me the output.

adb devices

Also make sure your phone has USB Debugging checked. This is a requirement.

I tried raw's procedure on Win 7 and it does not work. Setup does not even try to install Tether on the Droid.
One of the problems seems to be that Win 7 will not recognize the Droid if USB Debugging is turned on.

I tried raw's suggestion and I am not working.... yet. With CMD I get the following:

C:\Program Files\Tether>adb devices
List of devices attached
040364FE0F00400C device

Running Windows XP
Motorola Droid: rooted, but no custom ROM

Tether starts on laptop and droid
USB connects ok
Getting NO packets
I was getting a java error on droid yesterday after initial install and connection for 5 seconds, but nothing further.

Cant use on my droid either, " waiting for connection"...

I got the same results as jordo using Win 7.

Same problem here. I agree the problem stems from the fact that I cannot have USB Debugging checked and also have the SD card mounted. If you check USB Debugging after the card has been mounted it will immediately disconnect the mounted SD Card. This is on Windows 7 with Motorola Droid. (Verizon Wireless)

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]
Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

C:\Users\Buzzdar>c:/program files (86)/tether
'c:/program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Buzzdar>c:/program files (86)/tether adb devices
'c:/program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Buzzdar>c:/program files (86)/tether adb devices
'c:/program' is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.

C:\Users\Buzzdar>

Definitely seems to be a re-occurring theme with the Motorola Droid & Windows 7.

I've forwarded this info onto our engineer.

Droid users, can you try installing the USB drivers from here:
http://www.motorola.com/consumers/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=bda09ec8009a0210...

Then plug in your Droid, then in the Start Menu go to install Tether on your Android. Then run Tether on both your PC & your Android.

If those don't work, try getting the USB driver from the Android SDK.

http://developer.android.com/sdk/win-usb.html

Those are the drivers I am currently using and everything seems to be working fine. I am on Windows 7 64-bit.

Had to copy apk file to SD card on the laptop, would not copy via USB cable.

Installed apl file using Astro, installed fine.

Connected to laptop, and I am sending this via my Hero and laptop.

Download Speed: 1823 kbps
Upload Speed: 230 kbps

I installed the Moto driver and tried it and the Tether app on the laptop says Start Tether on Android. On my Droid it says Could not Authenticate.

I still can't connect. I copied apk file to droid and installed with astro. Still says on both ends waiting for connection. I also installed motorola driver. I am running windows 7. Can anyone help? I have tried just about everything.

Finally got it to work. It's a driver issue. Do what droiduser33 said to do. uninstall any and all previously installed drivers, and just use the drivers from the Android SDK.

Download Speed: 1450 kbps
Upload Speed: 440 kbps

I also had trouble getting tether installed on moto Droid but finally got it was on the net loading pages fast but when I disconnected and exit tether windows saved me from a error with a bluescreen
Running win 7 64 bit moto Droid Verizon
I'm going to reinstall and try again

So after I install android sdk what do I do next?

once you have that running find the optional stuff and click on the usb driver and have that install, then unplug your droid, uninstall all the previous drivers you've tried using, even the one that the tether instructions tell you to download... then reboot computer, plug in droid and it should work. windows will install drivers for the droid for 4 different things. hopefully this will help..

I had the driver issue but finally got that worked out with the Android SDK drivers. I am still getting the socket error. I am connecting now though.

I am running a Motorola Droid and Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.

Download: 680 kbps
Upload: 240 kbps

(This is pretty normal for the area I live in.)

Is there anything you guys would like us to try now since the driver?

FYI
This is my setup:
Windows XP
Verizon Droid w/DroidMod 1.0

No luck here. Motorla Droid and Win 7. I trying installing the SDK listed above. I think it was successful, but that all is a little over my head. Can someone answer me this: that SDK, is it basically a driver for android, or is there something you need to do with it on your phone, i.e. install it into one of the droid's folders?

I have tried every combination of USB debugging, mounted, unmounted, etc. and I keep getting the same message as most of the above:

"Start tether on Android" and "Waiting for USB connection."

i think they released this all to early since when it first came out i was getting some help and now they no where to be found

Here is my two cents worth:

Motorola Droid, rooted, DroidMod 1.0

I have tried this on 4 different machines, all running various versions of Windows 7, both x86 and x64. In two of the cases, machines had been used previously to mount the SD Card and had worked without exception. In both cases USB debug mode was turned on.

I took a newly built Windows 7 x86 machine and loaded the Tether program. It correctly installed the ADP driver. From that point forward, it never made any other attempt to load the other drivers normally loaded for the Motorola A855. When I uninstalled the Tether drivers, rebooted, and then just plugged in the Droid, the 4 drivers loaded and I was immediately able to mount as USB. I tried installing with the the Droid attached and without it attached. Installed fine on PC, but had to email tether.apk to phone as it was impossible to get the USB to mount. When running Tether on both sides, no connection was ever made.

New machine, new build Windows 7 x64. Attached the Droid, and loaded all 4 default drivers automatically. Able to mount USB to SD Card. While attached, installed Tether on PC. Installed, but then made some attempt to access the Droid, with froze. Had to pull the battery. Uninstalled on PC, and rebooted. Uninstalled Tether from Droid. No longer able to mount USB when Droid attached to PC. USB tray icon see device, but no drive will mount.

Let me add that I tried all these configurations with USB debug enabled and disabled. No difference.

I am stumped. Any other configurations that I might try? BTW, installing the Motorola drivers referenced above had no effect whatsoever.

We're looking into these issues, guys. Once we have a fix we'll email everyone.