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Samsung WP7 phones hacked for USB tethering


If you’re the owner of the recently announced Samsung WP7 smart phones, the Samsung Focus or Omnia 7, and you wish to use the phone as a USB 3G modem for your computer, you now have a handful of instructions on how you can get it done.

A number of sites have come up with the steps on how you can get the USB tethering to work on the Samsung Windows Phone 7 smartphones. It involves quite a number of steps – You’ll need to dial up ##634# to get into a diagnostics menu, switch over to a “Modem, Tethered Call” mode and then it’ll restart your phone after a few seconds. Then you’re good to go with a WP7 phone that’s ready to be hooked up to your computer’s USB port for 3G Internet access. Find out more on mobilitydigest

via engadget hdblog

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