Posts Tagged ‘mobile’

New Phone, t-mobile G1

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

tmobile_g1Got my new phone a few weeks ago. LOVE IT! The android OS is by far the best mobile phone operating system I’ve used and even beats the iPhone. After using the phone for the last 2 weeks I’ve had no problems yet and found everything just works. There is a free app for almost everything in the android market and for the other things the paid apps have been high quality.

So far the phone has worked well with my Telstra sim card although I haven’t been able to get 3G working yet (might be my sim card doesn’t support 3G). The MMS settings took a while to get working, it seems you must restart the phone after changing the MMS settings before they will activate. The MMS settings i used are listed here on whirlpool.

The multitasking on the phone is perfect. Without multitasking its hard to call something a smart phone in my opinion. Its one of the features that makes this phone so much better than the iPhone.

The other feature that makes the G1 better than the iPhone or other Android phones available is the qwerty keypad. A real solid keyboard that i can touch is something that i must have.

Anyway that’s about it for the phone. Also if anyone here in Australia is looking to buy the G1 really cheap (AU$425) ask me and ill give you the contact details for the guy who i bought the phone off because he has more available.

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Telstra Pre-Paid Wireless Broadband – Ubuntu

Thursday, November 20th, 2008
Gnome-PPP Connection Details

Gnome-PPP Connection Details

I bought one of these today with the MF 626 USB modem and after a few hours of trying different things got it working sufficiently on Ubuntu 8.10

Here is how to get it working:

  1. When you first plug the modem into a Windows computer it will install the drivers and the user interface. The Telstra Connection Manager will automatically launch.
  2. Close the Telstra Connection Manager. Using the device manager find the com port of the modem. Open Hyperterminal and connect to the modem with these settings:
    Hyperterminal Configuration Settings
    115200 – Bits per second
    8 – Data bits
    None – Parity
    1 – Stop bits
    None – Flow Control
  3. Send these commands to the modem by copying them and then in Hyperterminal right click and paste. 
    AT+ZOPRT=5
AT+ZCDRUN=8
  4. On Ubuntu install gnome-ppp for connecting to the modem. 
    sudo apt-get install gnome-ppp
  5. Open the gnome-ppp config file 
    gedit ~/.wvdial.conf

    and paste the following code into it.

    [Dialer Defaults]
Modem = /dev/ttyUSB3
ISDN = off
Modem Type = USB Modem
Baud = 7200000
Init = ATZ
Init2 =
Init3 =
Init4 =
Init5 =
Init6 =
Init7 =
Init8 =
Init9 =
Phone = *99#
Phone1 =
Phone2 =
Phone3 =
Phone4 =
Dial Prefix =
Dial Attempts = 1
Dial Command = ATM1L3DT
Ask Password = off
Password = off
Username = na
Auto Reconnect = off
Abort on Busy = off
Carrier Check = off
Check Def Route = off
Abort on No Dialtone = off
Stupid Mode = on
Idle Seconds = 0
Auto DNS = on
;Minimize = off
;Dock = on
;Do NOT edit this file by hand!

    You may need to change the number at the end of the second line depending on your setup. If you cant connect to the modem restart and run

    ls /dev |grep ttyUSB

    It will be the last device that gets listed.

  6. Save and close gedit
  7. Open /etc/init.d/rc.local in gedit 
    sudo gedit /etc/init.d/rc.local

    and add these lines

    modprobe -r usbserial
modprobe usbserial vendor=0x19d2 product=0x0031

    Save and close

  8. Restart with modem unplugged and plug modem in after starting.
  9. Open Gnome-PPP and click connect. You should now be online.

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