Use your WM5 Smartphone as a Bluetooth Modem Under Mac OS X

Feb 24 Use your WM5 Smartphone as a Bluetooth Modem Under Mac OS X
Found in:Tips, Smartphone,

If you are using a Mac laptop with OS X and a Windows Mobile 5.0 powered smartphone now you can use your phone as bluetooth modem. A guy called Justin Blanton have managed to tether a Mac OS X laptop with a Windows Mobile 5.0 powered smartphone, using the phone as a modem. The best part is you can connect via Bluetooth.

He said that instructions below were tested using an i-mate SP5 smartphone and Mac OS X.4.4. The method was not on a Windows Mobile 2003 smartphone (i.e., i-mate SP3i), and it's unknown if it will work.


So if you want to connect you Smartphone to your Mac follow this :

1. Make sure that when you’re setting up your mobile phone’s Bluetooth capabilities within Mac OS X you check “Access the Internet with your phone’s data connection.” If your phone is already paired and you initially forgot to select this option you can find it at System Preferences | Bluetooth | Devices [choose your device] | Configure.

2. Download Ross Barkman’s IPAQ PDAs modem script.

3. Unpack the archive and place the IPAQ GSM script into /Library/Modem Scripts/

4. Go to System Preferences | Network | Show: [Bluetooth]

5. Click on PPP Options and make sure that “Use TCP header compression” is unchecked. Click OK.

6. Click on Bluetooth Modem and choose the IPAQ GSM script from the drop-down list.
7. Disable both “Enable error correction and compression in modem” and “Wait for dial tone before dialing.”

8. Click on PPP. T-Mobile users aren’t required to put in a specific username or password, but apparently it breaks if you don’t put something in both fields. If you’re a Cingular subscriber you’ll want to use the following information:
Account Name: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
Password: CINGULAR1

9. Enter *99# as the phone number.

10. Click Dial Now and then click Connect.
Source justinblanton.com

If you like this post, You can Share it or about!

Subscribe :