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Posted

If like me you use a number of computers and thought that just plugging the phone into the laptop with your USB cable would do the trick...think again.

You must install Active Sync first. (Bummer)

So do the active sync installation. (It will detect hardware HTC Device)

Then Disconnect the Device

Then Activate the Modem and reconnect the device

It will then ask for more drivers so give it the modem driver.

It should install ok

Then Set the Dial number in your connection to be *99#

Then Add the following line

+cgdcont=1,"IP","orangeinternet","",0,0

to the advanced dialing option of your modem (cheers pagemakers)

In Windows go to Control Panel/Modems

Select Modem/Properties/Advanced

Add the string to the "extra init commands" box.

And there you go a GPRS modem

QUESTION

Is this part of the £6 access pack? or a different tarrif?

Posted

Excellent...this is what I needed to know...the bad news is i am in reading and the cd is in Essex. can the activesync software be downloaded from anywhere??..whoops forget that found it...

Guest lycrawearer
Posted

Warren ... to clarify your excellent post ..

In the dial up number section is it just *99# or is it *99#ISP's dial up number - e.g. *99#0845xxxxxxx ?

Have tried it with *99#0845xxxxxxx and I'm getting error 727 - loopback error ?!?!

lycrawearer

Posted

just *99#

thats all that will kick in the gprs mode on the phone

the connection string will then authenticate with orange

Guest lycrawearer
Posted

Cheers

That's probably where I am going wrong & getting this loopback error !!

I'll try it later tonight after the upgrade & sim-lock removal :-)

Many Thanks

lycrawearer

Guest Monolithix [MVP]
Posted

Seems to be working, if this post goes up then it can be confirmed...

I also find it slightly ironic that the HTC driver isn't digitally signed :)

Guest crimminsky
Posted

help needed please,

I've followed the steps and installed the new driver for the usb but when I got to control panel/modems and select HTC modem it will not let me see the properties. it comes up with the error that the propities cannot be viewed as the files are corrupted, remove and try again.

have tried many times now with the driver downloaded from different locations.....in system/modems I can choose htc modem and check the driver details...it comes back with c/windows/system/serial.vxd!!!!! this was installed in 1998!!!!

can anyone help...please

Guest mike-oh
Posted
help needed please,  

I've followed the steps and installed the new driver for the usb but when I got to control panel/modems and select HTC modem it will not let me see the properties. it comes up with the error that the propities cannot be viewed as the files are corrupted, remove and try again.

      have tried many times now with the driver downloaded from different locations.....in system/modems I can choose htc modem and check the driver details...it comes back with c/windows/system/serial.vxd!!!!! this was installed in 1998!!!!

      can anyone help...please

I get exactly the same problem, about being corrupted!!! Help, i'm using 98 s/e

Guest Monolithix [MVP]
Posted

Probably a NT-only driver then i'm afraid.....

Posted

What is the fastest speed on a dial up from this phone?

I've seen some spec say it is Hcsd and others say its only Csd.

Guest chocobogo
Posted

I cant seem to get the modem working!!!!

I really need to get this working!!!

I have active sync installed, have had so since i got my SPV, but It never recognises my phone as a modem.

I have the modem.inf file off these forums but havent had the chance to use it!!

What do u mean by enabling the modem?? I have the connection under "Modem Link" set to USB.

But still there is no luck with recognising it!!

I am running WIn XP Pro SP1

Aprreciate any help!!!

Posted
You must install Active Sync first. (Bummer)

I have got the USB modem working on a windows 2000 laptop that has never has activesync running on it...

chocobogo

Once you select USB then select "menu" on the same screen using the right hand button below the screen and select "activate". The settings on screen will then be grayed out, this means the modem is active, then just plug it in.

Guest pete1312
Posted

Seems to me that those of us with "state of the arc" OS such as Win 98, 98SE & ME have been overlooked :evil:

(Anyone with 2000/NT/XP etc should be able to find a solution on this site somewhere).

Guest wodaman
Posted

Got the thing working, i.e. the modem can connect to the orange-network. However, it fails to register to the network.

It keeps waiting till a tcp timeout appears.

Any idea what's wrong.

Posted

Warren, how are you so damned ugly.

I saw that pic in FHM a few years back. (I hope, otherwise I'll be eating my digital words)

Guest lycrawearer
Posted

Anyone got any idea how get WinXp to report the correct connected spped, when using the USB modem and parameters as above ?

My system is showing 115k (but that the port speed I guess)

lycrawearer

Posted

There is no way. This is because that is the maximum speed of the connection which it has established (the port speed). The actual speed is far lower than this. To determine it, do a bandwidth speed test, e.g. Bandwidth Place and select the one for ISDN / mobile.

As an example, if you are connected to broadband through a LAN, your lan speed is probably 100Mbps (what windows shows), your broadband speed is probably more like 512 or 1024 (fluctuates).

Posted

What can i say guys! Im a minger.

Im president of the society for the facialy challenged.

lol

Guest chocobogo
Posted

do i need to uninstall the htc usb sync from device manager as even when i activate the modem and reconnect it windows xp doesn't pick it up!

Guest chocobogo
Posted

ok finally got it working using the GPRS connection!!

Does anyone know if this comes off the £6 month GPRS usage quota??

Need to know!!

Guest chocobogo
Posted

also how do i dial an ISP like Ukonline

I keep getting the loopback error!

Posted

The GPRS charges will come under the SPV promotional package because it is basically all GPRS data to the 'orangeinternet' access point. The data that is being sent and requested by the laptop is essentially the same as when the SPV is out of the cradle making standard network use.

As for circuit switched data calls (CSD), the phone will only cope with CSD, not HSCSD, although I am not sure if it is 9.6kbps or 14.4kbps. I will have to give a go later on...

Foz

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