Android Phones - help with usb_modeswitch

[aaron d]

I have a hard time understanding you. Sometimes because I have no clue what
you are talking about (in the sense that the discussion is possibly over my
head), and other times, because Im certain you are as confused as I am

2G != 2 Gigahertz, it means 2nd Generation.

Im fairly certain you arent mounting your "sim card", when you connect the
phone via USb, but rather, the internal storage and/or sd storage available
to the phone.

Looking closer at what you want to accomplish, I _think_ you are talking
about USB tethering. On this I could be wrong, but this cannot be
accomplished by changing the way the PC sees the phone, it should be the
other way around. It sees the phone as addressable storage because that's
what the phone reports itself as via the usb controller.

I have a Nexus S, and, although I have never used it, it has an option for
USB tethering, that must be enabled. I can also accomplish the same task
over wi-fi (phone acts as a portable hotspot).

Try looking for these options on your phone, the usb tethering option
specifically should be what you want (I cant say 100%, since I cant test
this myself at this time).


-aaron


On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 4:25 PM, Russell reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:

> Right, 2G = 2 gigahertz. My phone does mode switching automatically
> under MS. I am able to use the modem on that platform. For $40.00 a
> month I get free Canada wide calls, texts and a few other features as
> well as so called unlimited band-with. In this case they mean they
> don't throttle the connection til you hit 5 gig of transfers.
>
> I used the term GSM  to refer to any modem that supports one or more
> of the protocols in the GSM evolutionary family, including the 2.5G
> technologies GPRS and EDGE, as well as the 3G technologies WCDMA,
> UMTS, HSDPA and HSUPA. (Most of that sentence comes from a reference
> website ;-)
>
> I thought I'd try to access the modem on my phone using Debian, just for
> fun.
>
> I confess to finding udev a little frustrating, but I don't
> necessarily find it a problem. My SYSFS problems and resolving parent
> child relationships are, in my mind translational problems. You'd
> think I'd be able to just get the OS to ignore the reported file
> system. Once the device is booted, the modem is always on right? I
> just have to figure out how to prod the mode to switch from storage to
> stream or block to character or whatever.
>
> Nautilus is ok as a file manager, it just tries to mount everything
> that gets connected to it and I can't figure out the proper sequence
> to send to correct that problem.
>
> I use linux because I always feel like I learn something, not just how
> to do something.
>
> On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 3:11 PM, James Knott <james.knott-bJEeYj9oJeDQT0dZR+AlfA at public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> > Russell reiter wrote:
> >>
> >> I guess stuff gets related to being "legacy" pretty quickly these
> >> days, but still my phone can drop into GSM 2G.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > 2G doesn't necessarily mean modem emulation.  It's simply less bandwidth
> > that can still be used for IP.  That modem service required the carrier
> to
> > convert the data to standard modem tones, before placing it on the POTS
> > network.  My previous phone a Motorola V180 could be used as a modem,
> > provided I paid for the service.  I don't think that service is currently
> > available.
> >
> >
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