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Dialing Out Using a Visor?
A Not-so Anonymous Coward asks: "This is day three of trying to find a .PRC file or something that would enable me to dial out from my visor using a cable connection to my Nokia 6160m phone. The Nokia 6160's don't have IR capabilites so getting the SERIALIRPN1.PRC and the SERIRCOMMLIB.PRC files won't help. these files would be needed if I were trying to use IR, but as you can see, don't need them. The Visor only has a Palm OS of 3.1 and can only update it with a patch of which would make like easier if there was such a thing. So, what can I do while on the road when I want to download a map or check email? I can connect through a conventional phone line, since I have the Circom globalaccess modem for the Visor, but it won't dial through the mobile connection cable since it keeps looking for the conventional phone line! Am I just out of luck here? Does anyone feel especially creative, to try and figure this one out?"
I found a guy on the Visorcentral.com message board that sells a cable to connect a Motorola Startac to the Visor through the ports on the bottom of each. It then uses the phone as the modem as if you had a regular modem on the Visor. I haven't gotten one yet but tons of others have and it seems to work fine. They may make something like that for your phone. I'd search the visorcentral.com boards, there's usually a ton of other people with the same needs as you have.
I'd like to know if there are any Springboard modules that will allow you to connect to your cell phone. Since the SixPak was cancelled I don't know of any others available and I'd like to use a keyboard and modem at the same time, which isn't possible with the little cable.
Okay, well, good thing you said the 6160*M*, otherwise I would have whap'ed you silly... note to others... the standard xx60's typically arn't data capable... that is... the 5160 and the 6160 are NOT data capable, given, there may be some way to hack them as convential phone to conventional modem, BUT no cable exists to do this that I am aware of. Anyways, luckily the 6160m and the 6160i are data capable... and so is the 7160... which I just recently got. Now, I don't have a laptop or a PDA so I havent tried this yet myself, however, I have investigated the possibility thoroughly -- thats why I bought the 7160, I wanted to be ready for future use. ;) No, actually seriously... if you appreciated this... wait... hmm.... aww, gee, I just really want to be able to hook up my phone to a PDA or old laptop to do exactly what you are talking about.. 8(
I checked the Nokia site for the 6160m and I did not see anything regarding PC connectivity other than something simply stating these models were capable of this. With the 7160, however, it came with a PC Connectivity guide in addition to the details that are in the standard user guide for the phone. I suggest you start by checking this out, it may be similar -- however, the guide says it is in reference to Palm OS 3.3 -- I dont know how different things are between 3.1 and 3.3. You can see the manual at http://www.nokiausa.com/fonesync/7160PCguide.pdf
Basically it comes down to configuring the Visor/Palm for the Nokia as a standard modem, and making sure you are using that configuration for your connection. Of course it also means using the DLR-3 or DLR-3P cable (Nokia 51xx/61xx/71xx to 9 pin serial) to an appropriately wired/configured cable/adapter. From what you said, it sounds like you (or your Visor) is still trying to use the configuration for the Circom modem to establish the connection, which isn't what you want to do since you're using the Nokia as the modem. If doing what I said above doesn't fix it, maybe try to remove the Circom modem so that it's not confused, if you don't already have to for the cable connection.
If none of this works I suggest trying at least one of the following: 1. Contact the Store where you got your phone/service or the service provider directly 2. Contact Handspring or surf around their website to see if you can pick up any tips 3. Contact Nokia -- you can find their tech support info somewhere on the website... and they are very good as is the website... or, at very least they try... I called them before I even got my phone. 4. Surf around the Palm website, maybe you can pick up some tips, ideas, or maybe even software 5. Try newsgroups, to start with I might suggest alt.cellular.nokia
Or, you could always try sending me a visor or palm, and I'll try to figure out your problem in more depth....
And to the guy who suggested SoftGSM... sounds like an interesting idea... except the Nokia xx60's are TDMA phones, not GSM. I believe most/all (Nokia) GSM phones are data-capable... or at least the network is inherently, although like you say... apparently there is a need for this software in some cases if you dont have the hardware... BTW, the Nokia GSM phones are the xx90's.. and there might be others, but in the 51xx, 61xx, 71xx families these are the ones I know of.