Samsung D900 set up for data

[ginggs]

Hi, I'm trying to connect a Samsung D900 to a laptop for use as an EDGE modem. I've loaded up the phone's software and the laptop sees the phone as a USB modem. I have been through the *123# procedure to send the GPRS and MMS settings to the phone.

The problem is the phone itself cannot connect to the internet, if I try and access a web page using the built-in browser the phone reports an error message, "network connection unavailable". Are there any tricks to setting up this phone?

 

[ginggs]

Hi, I'm trying to connect a Samsung D900 to a laptop for use as an EDGE modem. I've loaded up the phone's software and the laptop sees the phone as a USB modem. I have been through the *123# procedure to send the GPRS and MMS settings to the phone.

The problem is the phone itself cannot connect to the internet, if I try and access a web page using the built-in browser the phone reports an error message, "network connection unavailable". Are there any tricks to setting up this phone?

Bump! Isn't there nobody that uses a Samsung D900 for WAP or GPRS?

 

[Syndyre]

Are you sure its not set to use different settings that might be saved on there, maybe old Vodacom/Cell C ones?

 

[ginggs]

Are you sure its not set to use different settings that might be saved on there, maybe old Vodacom/Cell C ones?

I don't think so, the MTN profiles stored on the phone seemed to occupy the first slot. When I the settings were sent through, settings with the same name already existed, so I opted to overwrite them.

 

[Syndyre]

Ok so if you dial *99# from the PC it still doesn't connect? Weird, only thing I can think of is that the sim's not data enabled or the phone's got some sort of fault.

 

[YelloFever]

I don't think so, the MTN profiles stored on the phone seemed to occupy the first slot. When I the settings were sent through, settings with the same name already existed, so I opted to overwrite them.

No idea on this one sorry bro

MTNDD

 

[ginggs]

Ok so if you dial *99# from the PC it still doesn't connect?

That's right, after being unable to connect with *99# from the PC I decided to remove the PC from the equation and just check whether the phone itself could use GPRS.

Weird, only thing I can think of is that the sim's not data enabled or the phone's got some sort of fault.

I thought that too, which is why I did the *123# thing, as far as I know requesting GPRS settings automatically provisions your phone for data, is that correct? It's a friend's phone so I can't check it now, but I think she said she can't send or receive MMS either.

 

[Syndyre]

I've had a problem with a prepaid sim before where the data provision only happened a long time after I requested settings. It didn't work initially, tried it a few days later and it still hadn't provisioned, left it for a couple of weeks and then it magically worked.

 

[internaut]

AFAIK, it's *123*13# to enable data on your sim. It's not instant though, so try every few hours.

 

[ginggs]

Finally got this sorted, my friend, the owner of said D900 went into an MTN store this afternoon and they "sent through a request to have data provisioned".
Tonight it still wasn't working, so I called 1555 and the operator provisioned the number for data again, sent through the GPRS and MMS settings again and suddenly it started working.

 

[sakkie6]

i got a D900 for my fiance this week. installed all the software and drivers and everything seems to work fine. the only problem is that when unplug the phone from my laptop, windows crashes.

what am i doing wrong? could not find anything about disconnecting the phone in the manual. this only happens when i pone connect as a modem, not as a storage device.

 

[RompelStompel]

i got a D900 for my fiance this week. installed all the software and drivers and everything seems to work fine. the only problem is that when unplug the phone from my laptop, windows crashes.

what am i doing wrong? could not find anything about disconnecting the phone in the manual. this only happens when i pone connect as a modem, not as a storage device.

What version of Samsung PC Studio are you using ?

 

[sakkie6]

What version of Samsung PC Studio are you using ?

The one that came with the phone, version 3

 

[RompelStompel]

Also using the one shipped with phone - no problems for me.

Perhaps a Windows problem ?

PS - I'm using VM Edge - don't know if your issue could be a network problem.

 

[repitah]

Use the phone's software to connect to the internet. IE: use the wizzard based setup (select country, network, etc). It can also save a link on the desktop for future use.

Also, the D900 uses *99**1*1# or something like that to dial. Best use the connect program from samsung, which automatically does the AT command strings for your SP.

 

[stvfry]

i got a D900 for my fiance this week. installed all the software and drivers and everything seems to work fine. the only problem is that when unplug the phone from my laptop, windows crashes.

what am i doing wrong? could not find anything about disconnecting the phone in the manual. this only happens when i pone connect as a modem, not as a storage device.

Close the Samsung software first and then use the 'Safely Remove Hardware' function in Windows before disconnecting the phone from your laptop. You will find the icon in the toolbar to the bottom right of your screen.

 

[sakkie6]

Close the Samsung software first and then use the 'Safely Remove Hardware' function in Windows before disconnecting the phone from your laptop. You will find the icon in the toolbar to the bottom right of your screen.

Also thought of this, but I don't get the option to disconnect as it does not show there.

When I changed the USB setting to storage card, I could disconnect using "safely remove software". So I tried connecting the phone as a storage device and then to change it to a modem. This worked and I connected to the internet, but the moment I changed it back to storage device to disconnect the phone again, windows crashed again (without even disconnecting the phone).

This is why I think it is most probably a windows error.