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06-20-2006, 08:23 AM
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Raw Wave
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Boston, MA
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Quote: Originally Posted by PURDooM
Mkbrowns: Once you do the initial configuration, you can add a credit card to it and add money to the phone via the internet. So you don't have to mess with it.
shotgun: It shows up as a Motorola iDen USB modem, I don't know if nix drivers have been written for it. In your case, you probably would want to buy the serial modem cable, so the phone would act as a straightforward serial modem.
http://www.google.com/search?hs=ake&...ux&btnG=Search
Thanks, Have to do some more digging. I could never get my sprint BT phone working with DUN.
For the money sounds great. Hope I can use it.
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06-20-2006, 01:12 PM
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The Lavender Tie Just
Made It Obvious
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Bonita, CA (Hop, Skip, and a Jump from Tijuana, Mexico)
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Quote: Originally Posted by PURDooM
Rafster: Codeplugging seems cappable of alot of things (looks like a firmware update), is it concievable that via codeplugging software you could edit the firmware to reboot after it recieves a phonecall? (phonecall from wrong number interupts java applet, which means no more gps tracking. A reboot would activate the software again)
Probably... I'm not sure though.....
Peace,
Rafster
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06-20-2006, 02:26 PM
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The Lavender Tie Just
Made It Obvious
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Bonita, CA (Hop, Skip, and a Jump from Tijuana, Mexico)
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http://www.theidenforce.com
That's the site to get all your iden custumization needs!
Peace,
Rafster
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06-20-2006, 04:08 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: L.A.
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I'm thinking about doing this. It's really $6/mo? I have free I-NET through my Sprint phone right now, but I have to plug in a USB cable and incomming calls go to voice-mail. I'd rather have a dedicated line for car I-NET if it is only $6/mo.
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06-20-2006, 04:14 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Seattleish, WA
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Quote: Originally Posted by RPM_VR4
I'm thinking about doing this. It's really $6/mo? I have free I-NET through my Sprint phone right now, but I have to plug in a USB cable and incomming calls go to voice-mail. I'd rather have a dedicated line for car I-NET if it is only $6/mo.
and I'm only half a beat behind you! 
My system is just going in and I'm thinking that this is a heckofan easy way to get 'Net access in the truck.
Now if only I can find a single DIN mounting solution for a Xenarc 7"! (yeah, I know about the one box that no one seems to be able to get... ARGH!)
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06-20-2006, 05:52 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: SOCAL
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Raf,
Hows reception of the phone so far? Where do you place it? Maybe if its poor or sub-par we can find away to add an external antenna to it. I am searchin ebay and will be getting one soon.
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06-20-2006, 05:59 PM
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Raw Wave
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Boston, MA
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Quote: Originally Posted by PURDooM
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shotgun: It shows up as a Motorola iDen USB modem, I don't know if nix drivers have been written for it. In your case, you probably would want to buy the serial modem cable, so the phone would act as a straightforward serial modem.
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One more question for you. The GPS, does that show up as a seperate device?
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06-20-2006, 06:16 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: SOCAL
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I think thats more of a phone sided feature where you can get long / lat I could be wrong.
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06-20-2006, 06:19 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Anoka County, MN
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(Phoneposted )
It doesn't show up at all, unless you use a serial cable and enable it, or are accessing it from a java applet on the phone. However, you can run a java applet while using DUN, so I think I could write software to send the NEMA string over the DUN connection as a TCPIP stream. Its on my todo list.
I cant figure out how you could use gps and DUN over serial at the same time, so I can only assume you can't and its one or the other. I don't have a serial cable, and I welcome someone to prove me wrong.
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06-21-2006, 12:20 AM
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FLAC
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Anoka County, MN
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Quote: Originally Posted by RPM_VR4
I'm thinking about doing this. It's really $6/mo? I have free I-NET through my Sprint phone right now, but I have to plug in a USB cable and incomming calls go to voice-mail. I'd rather have a dedicated line for car I-NET if it is only $6/mo.
Really, $6/mo. Ive spent $7 so far and ive been using this for just over a month, and ive downloaded at least 50 MB of data off of it. (traffic updates, emails, software, ect). Of course I switch over to sprint whenever I need heavy bandwidth, but unless I am getting podcasts iDen works just fine.
Sorry Shotgun, was fixing my buddies xbox today and didn't get a chance to try DUN under linux, I'll get back to you in a few days.
Last edited by PURDooM; 06-21-2006 at 12:23 AM..
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06-21-2006, 01:22 AM
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The Lavender Tie Just
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Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Bonita, CA (Hop, Skip, and a Jump from Tijuana, Mexico)
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Quote: Originally Posted by mbkowns
Raf,
Hows reception of the phone so far? Where do you place it? Maybe if its poor or sub-par we can find away to add an external antenna to it. I am searchin ebay and will be getting one soon.
I would say on a scale of 1-10, the phone gets about a 7.5... I have perfect reception @ home, but around town there are a couple of dead spots. Though I usually have atleast 2-3 bars out of 5.
Peace,
Rafster
P.S. You could always get something like this to help you out... http://www.cell-phone-accessories.co...l-booster.html
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06-21-2006, 09:04 AM
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Raw Wave
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Boston, MA
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Quote: Originally Posted by PURDooM
Really, $6/mo. Ive spent $7 so far and ive been using this for just over a month, and ive downloaded at least 50 MB of data off of it. (traffic updates, emails, software, ect). Of course I switch over to sprint whenever I need heavy bandwidth, but unless I am getting podcasts iDen works just fine.
Sorry Shotgun, was fixing my buddies xbox today and didn't get a chance to try DUN under linux, I'll get back to you in a few days.
No worries. Appreciate you checking it out. Do you think this is fast enough for using with Google Earth at fairly low resoution? That's 90% of what I want it for.
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06-21-2006, 01:36 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: L.A.
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It should be fast enough. Google Earth works fairly well on a 2400-bps modem  . You don't need much speed especially once you've built up your cache a bit.
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06-21-2006, 01:58 PM
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Raw Wave
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Boston, MA
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Quote: Originally Posted by RPM_VR4
It should be fast enough. Google Earth works fairly well on a 2400-bps modem . You don't need much speed especially once you've built up your cache a bit.
Cool. That's primarily what I want it for (GPS). Truth be told, I'm almost always within a few miles of my house. For other stuff, I can pull near my back and just get on my AP.
Have you actually tried that on a 2400bps? I think the last time I was traveling at those speeds was my circa 1990. 
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06-21-2006, 03:12 PM
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Banned
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: L.A.
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No, not a real 2400bps, but in remote areas with poor signal my Sprint phone probably dips to around that. The Sprint phone can go as fast as 2x a 56k modem at times too. That stuff doesn't really affect GE that much though unless you change the zoom level or are traveling above a couple 100 MPH . Same goes for weather downloads, GPS log uploads, and most other things you doo often with a CarPC. Speed is not really nessasary for typical CarPC use (unless you are trying to stream media or just really can't stand having to wait a few seconds for your Google Local search results).
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