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Using Ericsson T60d Cell Phones as Modems?

Posted by Cliff on from the mobile-digital-data-connections dept.

Garfipus asks: "I have an Ericsson T60d cell phone that I use for cellular modem access. It works fine on a WinME laptop, but I'd like to use it on my PowerBook (and with a miracle, on my Newton 2100). I looked at the .inf file from the Sony Ericsson support website, and added the modem strings to a modem script under Mac OS 9, but it doesn't work. If I dial, the system doesn't see the modem and times out. A terminal emulator works, and allows me to issue commands. I can dial voice calls with ATDT, but that's about it. Any input on correct configuration settings for any non-Windows OS? I'd get a T68i (using that one is easy), but Cingular doesn't appear to support it."

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  1. Newest Firmware by bic2k · · Score: 3, Informative

    I had that same problem until I got the newest firmware. Try that.

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    1. Re:Newest Firmware by Komarosu · · Score: 2, Informative

      A local phone reseller, not every carphone warehouse will stock flashing hardware, but if you look through sony's support site they will give u a list of "Sony Certified Dealers".

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  2. ask a newton mailing list... by Miska · · Score: 3, Informative

    such as newtontalk (http://www.newtontalk.net/)
    they often consider issues such as yours.

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  3. PPP oddities by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 4, Informative

    I've noticed that cell phones that act as modems have two methods that they use to do it:

    a) Dialing to a normal ISP, they act just like a normal modem. You have to wait until it connects to the other end before it issues a CONNECT statement.

    b) Dialing to Sprint or Verizon's Quick Net Connect (#777 on Verizon), it issues a CONNECT command immediately, but doesn't actually initiate a call until your PPP stack starts talking to the phone.

    Something about this behavior confuses some OSes, including RedHat's standard PPP connecton scripts.

    Here's a trick to try: Set your PPP dialer to give you a terminal window at connect. (MacOS can do this, right? Windows can (built-in to PPP system) and Linux can (Minicom calling pppd as a download handler). Have it dial #777 and bring up the terminal window. You should see CONNECT and then... Nothing. Wait 2-3 seconds, then do whatever you have to do to start PPP (Windows has a button to do this, in Minicom you use whatever download handler slot has pppd assigned to it).

    If you're not using a QNC system (i.e. you're simply dialing into a normal ISP), well, then your OS is simply broken. As another poster said, these simply implement an AT command set. Some modems have INF strings to optimize their performance, but the generic init strings (or even no init string at all, the way I do it, just ATDT) always work.

    Last but not least - Although this is OS-independent so would be breaking your setup under Windows too - Some phones require you to explicity put it into "data/fax" mode - This may only apply to integrated PDA/phones to decide what gets access to what though.

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