Wondering if anyone has seen this or knows if it exists
now adays, a apple ibook 12 inch is my primary laptop
and ofcourse, the xda 1 cannot connect to a laptop via blue tooth or wifi as a wireless modem
the ibook, lacks any PCMCIA slots for expansion cards, making a gsm pcmcia card out of the question for wireless access over t-mobile
anyone know if theres a gsm usb (or firewire for that matter) adapter that can accept a sim card and act as the usual pcmcia air cards ?
apples also lack serial, parrallel (more or less anything legacy they dont have), so those are out of the question also
its getting to the point where im paying $80 a month for cell phone service ($29.95 for 300 minutes, $20 for tmobile to tmobile , $20 for unlimited data access) , not including another $20 to tmobile for a hotspot account
if i can get a gsm usb adapter, id have my friend (works for tmobile) move my gsm account to a new card, and use that with the laptop, letting me absolve myself from a hotspot acct
any ideas ?
-Mario
it all comes down to supply and demand
if the demand have been great enough to give market to a such device
somebody have payed the RD cost to develop such a device
i would google the hell out of logic search pattarns to see if it give a result
though i doubt that there is such a device myself
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I know this has already been covered a zillion times, but I'm having trouble finding a solid answer to this:
Is is at all possible to use the SanDisk SD Wi-Fi card with the T-Mobile PPC Phone? I am currently using ROM 4.01.00.
I actually purchased the card and then realized that it doesn't seem to work with the device, so does anybody know of another component I can buy that will provide Wi-fi to the phone?
Thanks very much...
Greg.'
Sorry...
As I understand it the XDA PPCPE does not support SD/IO. This means that you will not be able to use the Sandisk Wi-Fi. I did hear a rumor that is was only a driver away from sd/io but not sure about that rumor.
Seems like you answered your question right there. It won't work in the device because the device does not support SDIO. With that being said, I have never heard of a way to "rig" a Wi-Fi connection to the XDA....but I could be wrong.
Understood, but I'm also wondering since the Sandisk card won't work because it's SDIO, is there anything that's not SDIO that will work?
No, understand that SDIO stands for SD card slot, INPUT AND OUTPUT. Since any wifi card you use is by default SDIO, you are stuck. I heard once that somone was working on a wifi device that connects to the activesync port but I think it is vaporware.
Wi FI for XDA - Progress Report.
This is another challenge I have decided to tackle in my spare time,I would call it more difficultware than vaporware at this stage! :roll:
First of all there is no way to make a SD card function like an SDIO. The IPAQ were built with SDIO, meaning they do have the I/O part that can be activated programatically by the patch.
Not to despair. I wanted a WI FI solution for my XDA because I work around many hotspots.
A few other XDA developers also had the same inclination and prutchi managed to connect to a LAN using a wireless device using RS232 cable, you can read about it in:
http://xda-developers.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2938&highlight=wifi
:idea: :idea: I decided to go with the Active Synch port and the USB cable ( the one you can buy from AT&T or TMobile for $20-25) for hotsync process instead of carrying the cradle or have one custom built
I am using a Linksys Wireless Network Adapter( Model WUSB11 ver 2.6) this is a USB powered device( challenge 1- how to get the PDA to power up the device!) and using the SDIO WIFI software as a template for the interface.
So far:
In PPC 2002. I have not been able to connect at all.
In WM2003 I connect, can ping IPs on WIFI, but do not have IE access.
and the netwrok card only works when the power cord is plugged into the USB synch cable from AT&T! Never when the unit is unplugged.
1-Working on a way to make it work with IE,meaning we can actually browse with it.
2- Looking for a USB based WAP card that has a battery or small power source( so it does not need to feed off the device)
Open to suggestions, ideas and collaboration on this!
Thank you
I wonder if sync/charge cables floating on eBay for $5 or so would address challenge #1. The power does not necessarily flow the other way, of course.
I used some of those as well and no luck!
The problem is not the calble and USB connection. I need now to find a powered USB access point) once I get a device with power I can do some testing on the API to it and get us Wi Fi for XDA1.
Hi,
Could you genius's help me advising if I can use my USB Modem Simcard into HD2 to use internet on the go, so that I dont have to carry heavy laptop. If yes, what setting do i need.
BTW its Virgin USB Modem
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Oh.. that's really bad to see that no one replied, anyways found the fix... you can use your USB Modem sim card, through this mobile, and make your mobile as wireless router...
works awesome...
NEed help.. reply to this post for further steps...
no one may have replied because people may not have seen it due to the amount of posts, it could have disapeared of the first page quickly.
anyone, glad you found a solution. If i seen it earlier, i would have been able to say that , yes as long as your hd2 is on virgiin network, or its unlocked it would work. 3g modems take normal phone simcards. infact there is no difference between the sim cards except for the plan that is associated with them. you actually hgave a mobile number, the sim card can even be used to make calls and send texts in a phone but ofcoarse you would get charged for it.
I used to have a 3g modem of tmobile, and i would actually swap sim cards when i used my allowance up, as i had unlimited data plan on both phone and modem. now that i have hd2 i canceled my 3g broadband plan and use just my hd2 (as my phone plane has unlimited date subject to fair use policy, which is 3gb)
I have a Sprint TP2 and a Gobi Wireless 2000 card in my ThinkPad x201 Tablet. Is it possible to program the card with the same info as my phone so that I can use the card rather than tethering to the phone for data, and avoid activating another line of service for the card? I know that it is pretty easy to have two phones share one number, just wondering if the same is possible with respect to the data card.
Thank you.
Does anyone know how to do that?
Yes, people know how.
Sent from the XDA App on my FroYoed Sprint Hero...so forgive possible typos
OK now I'm the same distance as before
the function no longer exists in WM7
I have just read that the function must be enabled
has anyone tried?
THX
it seems there is a way to unlock tethering on the samsung phones after dialing some access numbers..
No one has found out the access num for the HTC handsets till now..
hope it would also come out soon
code of Samsung and LG, I also found
I do not understand why Microsoft is such a "reactionary" makes
if you used the old functions in ZUNE
- Outlook sync (contacts etc)
- Tethering
in addition, the Live ID, etc
then it would have been perfect.
pity
There's an issue with carriers I believe. It would strain networks and possibly cause them to charge for the service (the Samsung workaround charges to MODEM usage, not data)
Spot on
Lumic said:
There's an issue with carriers I believe. It would strain networks and possibly cause them to charge for the service (the Samsung workaround charges to MODEM usage, not data)
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I think Lumic is correct. The carriers maybe the ones that don't want this function. Not sure about the straining networks or charging part.. eg: Telstra is all "NextG" so what difference would it make if you hit the network to download email or web browse using your phone or thru your phone. You would still be hitting the same network for data and you have already paid for the data allowance.
I have used it previously on all my Win Phones as it saved me carrying another device.
I'm guessing the carriers want to force you to buy a 3G dongle/plan for data from them. Now that is something we could all understand
Still early days yet and all this may change.
Until then, fingers crossed someone finds the access to the maintenance menues on the Mozart and we can enable it ourselves.
I really cant imagine T$ making people pay for teathering. they want you to be able to bundle everything onto your device. It is a big feature for them to say why have 2 devices. You still pay a premium for their data.
Free Tethering on Telstra?
I have no doubt Mozart can tether. But as Microsoft WP7 is trying to get OS share on smartphones, Microsoft will try and do whatever it can to attract carriers. My old HTC TP2 -running WM6.5 - tethered with no more setup than attaching a usb cable to laptop (vista). This technology is nearly 3 years old. It was in my HTC phone back then. (Even my old Sony Ericcson P900 had it on Symbian)
T$ do want you to buy 2 devices, and charge you for both. When I first got my HTC TP2 , they wanted 2cents/kb as modem. Then you had different sim for modem and phone (and 2 different rates of pay for the same service effectively).
I hope market demand makes T$ want to offer features - especiall ones that are already on the phone. But instead - they lock these features, and put usless apps and self promoting links of no real use. They know that most users would remove this rubbish so the lock them in the menus.
To promote the Mozart, you now can get 1GBdata for $10. (previously 20MB for $10). Wouldn't it be great to tether Mozart and actually USE the 1GB! Nodoubt there are some that like the small screen, lots of video streaming and music downloads to the Mozart. But I'd rather do that on my laptop.
Please Telstra, turn on the modem!
Does any one know of a dual sim adapter that works on the X10??
I'm stuck on the Orange network for another 9 months and have really had enough of their poor data service.
I'm getting 36kbps download / 23kbps upload on 2G at the expensive of missing voice calls while using data and getting a terrible 69kbps download and 143kbps upload on 3G (which rarely works anyway).
I have tried to lower my tariff as low as possible to justify me signing up to Giff Gaff and using that full time instead but the lowest tariff Orange will take me to cost £25.
Would be great if I could use my Orange for voice calls (no problem there) and use a second sim card for data.
As always, any help and advice is appreciated
Hey,
I did a quick google search for "Xperiax10 dual sim adapter" and found a website called simore.eu. they sell an adapter thats compatiable with the X10.
I have no experience with these so I can't offer anymore info or advice unfortunately.
Co.