Android and Huawei GSM modem - toronto dialup settings

[Russell reiter]

Your welcome. I've got a couple of notes on the phone as well.

The tether connection port at the phone is split by the case so it's
kind of a weakness. At one time I was getting unusual behaviour when
trying to charge the phone. I'd turn off the phone and plug it in to
charge, but if I accidently wiggled the cable the phone would boot up
again. That was frustrating. I used the traditional IBM blue wire or
in this case being Canadian, the Red Green fix.

I have no complaints about the internal hardware or the platform. I
have a huge canvas running and now I keep wireless and gps always on
as well. This is to kill the battery steadily over the four hours the
battery seems to last. It quick charges in two,

The factory sim has a 15mb partition with msdos modeswiching and
dialing exe files. I have a 16 gig sim for data but I think the full
capacity is 32 gig.

The headphones that come with it are useful as an FM antenna, but
that's about all. I may root the phone and see if I can cram arecord
onto it. If I used the phone as a wifi hotspot, I could listen to the
FM radio on my pc headphones.

Regards
Russell


On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Dave Germiquet <davegermiquet-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Thanks Russel for sharing,
> I think my sister is buying one of these and will need my help on it later
> on :)
>
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 9:13 AM, Russell reiter <rreiter91-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> I did a fresh install of Debian squeeze and found that installing from
>> the first cd only gave me the behaviour I expected from Linux. When I
>> subsequently plugged in the phone, it was recognized immediatly as
>> product id 1031 and not 1035. It would have been 1035, if it had been
>> present during install process and been previously polled by udev's
>> rules generator and subject to all the custom rules provided.
>>
>> This machine had a ethernet card but it wasn't connected to a lan or
>> the internet. I set up networking during the install but since I
>> couldn't connnect to a mirror, the network manager wasn't available. I
>> could have used more cd's, but heck its more fun this way.
>>
>> I downloaded tclsh, usb_modeswitch, ppp and wvdial and related
>> dependencies with my phone and used dpkg to install. The firmware info
>> and udev rules from my previous post created ttyUSB0 through 4.
>>
>> Here's /etc/wvdial.conf with local settings for Wind in this area.
>>
>> [Dialer Defaults]
>> Init1 = AT+CGDCONT=1,"IP","internet.windmobile.ca"
>> Modem Type =  USB Modem
>> Phone =*99#
>> ISDN = 0
>> Password = *
>> New PPPD = yes
>> Username = *
>> Baud = 9600
>> Modem = /dev/ttyUSB0
>> Baud = 460800
>> Stupid Mode = 1
>>
>> Stupid mode starts pppd right away without a prompt from the carrier.
>> If you are using a Huawei stick you'd probably change
>> internet.windmobile.ca --> broadband.windmobile.ca and most likely
>> provide your username and password.
>>
>> I use dropbox on my pc. I was using it at a clients request, but when
>> I saw it was available for Android, I just had to do this.
>>
>> Russell
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