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USB tethering a Samsung Vibrant with MAC OS X and T-Mobile

Sunday, January 30th, 2011

I would suggest you get an unlimited data plan with T-mobile.

*** Note: You have to have USB debugging enabled to get MacOS X to prompt setting up the vibrant as a USB modem. Not having this enabled didn’t work.***

1. Connect your Vibrant to your Mac with the USB cable.

2. MacOS should prompt you saying that there is a device connected and not set up. If it does not, click on the Apple Menu, select system preferences. Select the Network pane.

3. The device should have been named as SAMSUNG_Android. Select it.

4. Start with the advanced options. Click the button that says ‘Advanced.’

5. Under the Modem tab, use these options:

Model: Samsung

Model: GPRS (GSM/3G)

APN: epc.tmobile.com

CID: 1

6. Leave the DNS, WINS, and Proxies tabs alone

7. Under the PPP tab, ‘TCP Compression’ has to be checked.

8. Click ‘OK’ and return to the Network Pane.

9. I used these settings for the SAMSUNG_Android configuration.

Telephone Number: *99#

Account Name: username

Password: password