LG Optimus 7 can also be used to tether

Great news to everyone looking forward to use their Windows Phone 7 to tether- it isn’t only available on Samsung phones. The idea to get tethering on the phone is the same- get the phone into test mode to enable tethering, but the method is different for each phone- so you can’t use the same steps to tether a Samsung phone on an LG or HTC phone. Well, some folks in France managed to tether their LG Optimus 7 and were kind enough to share the steps on the internet. If you’re interested in tethering your LG Optimus 7 phone, hit the break for the instructions. With the LG method figured out, it’ll only be a matter of time before methods for the other WP7 phones will be discovered. How many of you use your phone for tethering?

1. Unlock your LG Optimus 7 to access the program MFG (i.e. this is the passcode)

2. Download and install drivers for LG modem on your PC

3. Turn off the data connection (Settings / Network Mobile)

4. Start MFG and go to the menu “USB Switching” (Menu Engineer / Port Setting)

5. Select the “QC COMPOSITE” and validate (The phone restarts)

6. Connect it to the PC which is then automatically install the necessary drivers

7. Go into the modem settings “LGE CDMA USB Modem” then add an additional parameter in the string + CGDCONT = 1, “IP”, “orange”

8. Manually create a new connection using that modem as phone number * 99 # and  it should work