SE w900i connection problems

[kittychunk]

Hi all,

Just got myself a new w900i on a Vodacom contract. I'm trying to set up the phone as a bluetooth modem to connect to the internet from my laptop, and not having much luck.

I've tried a few things so far...

1. Connect by manually creating a dial-up connection using standard WinXP SP2 bluetooth modem driver, dialling *99# with no username or pwd. This is the method I used with my old SE T610, worked fine with that phone.

2. Connect by browsing to phone and modem in Bluetooth Places. This seems to set up a connection as above automatically, but uses a different phone number (*99***2#).

3. Connect by using the SE connectivity suite. This does the same as in 2, auto-creates a dial-up connection with the same *99***2# phone number.

All of them crash with an Error 692 modem hardware failure.

Since I can surf the net just fine on the phone itself, and I can access other features of the phone via bluetooth without a problem, I assume I've borked something in the modem configuration of either the phone or the laptop. Any suggestions?

I notice on the phone's Internet Profiles, there are three options: "Vlive!MMS", "Vodacom", and "Vlive!". I am using "Vodacom".

 

[ajax]

To check if the modem works, goto settings, control panel, phone and modem options, then select properties on your bluetooth modem. Then under diagnostics query the modem and see if you get "success" and a bunch of other stuff. If so, your modem works.

 

[kittychunk]

Hmm, bizarre.

About half the time, it queries fine and I get a list of info back. The other half, I get a "failed to connect" error! Perhaps this is more a bluetooth problem...

 

[kittychunk]

Update: The automatic installs seemed to add a load of initialisation commands to the bluetooth modem along the way. Clearing them, and dialling using the number *99***2#, now works fine over bluetooth or infrared.

Thanks for the help ajax. Pointed me in the right direction, at least

 

[phoenix11]

Protected media

Try to connect using the USB cable. If this works your Bluetooth modem is on the incorrect com port. You can connect the phone to you car stero as well. Makes the investment in a 2gb card worth it

PS. Anyone know how to Syn licensed music (purchased online) using Disk to phone or media player ?


The phone is sweet

 

[Santa]

Its simple

I think. Go to device manager in Windows, and under modems find your bluetooth modem. Then under the initialization string in advanced you need to have : at+cgdcont=1,"IP","internet" if you are using mtn then you have to enter myMTN instead of internet. Then dial *99# like usual