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PURDooM · 06-27-2006, 07:09 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by aducrejr

I have a phone already how can I tell if its widen

How about telling us what phone it is? Or googling it?

Cheekz185 · 06-27-2006, 07:21 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by PURDooM

About 4 times slower. An i450 may be worth the extra $30 to you.

No, you don't need widen to use the net.

What is widen used for?

aducrejr · 06-27-2006, 08:14 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by PURDooM

How about telling us what phone it is? Or googling it?

sorry i450 I thought that was the phone we were discussing

I will google it

thanatos106 · 06-27-2006, 08:47 PM

Ok I been reading this thread for a while and just to be clear (tell me if I'm wrong):

I get this I450 from bestbuy http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1118842295256 get the charger/data transfer from ebay and then I follow the steps in post #10 and then I will have net on the CarPC right?

So couple questions:

Besides the price for the phone I have to call and activate the phone and add money? what is the minimium?

How do I know if the phone is web anable? (cus in boots web site they say that you have to call and activate the web browser future?

Thanks in advance for any input.

Thanatos.

Cheekz185 · 06-27-2006, 09:36 PM

What are the advantages to enabling widen on the i450? And also if i have the phone connected and powered in my car can i see where my car is traveling from my home computer?

PURDooM · 06-27-2006, 11:15 PM

Ckeeks: widen = 4x faster speeds. Yes, you can track the phone (with configured mologogo software) as long as nothing inturupts the java applet while it is running (a phonecall to the phone will suspend the applet on an i415, don't know about an i450)

Quote: Originally Posted by thanatos106

Ok I been reading this thread for a while and just to be clear (tell me if I'm wrong):

I get this I450 from bestbuy http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage....=1118842295256 get the charger/data transfer from ebay and then I follow the steps in post #10 and then I will have net on the CarPC right?

So couple questions:

Besides the price for the phone I have to call and activate the phone and add money? what is the minimium?

How do I know if the phone is web anable? (cus in boots web site they say that you have to call and activate the web browser future?

Thanks in advance for any input.

Thanatos.

Yes, you do all those steps and you can be off checking your weather and I'm ing your friends in your car.

Minimum credited balance to the phone is $15 for every 3 months to keep the phone going when paying from your credit card (if you associate a credit card). The phone will debit $18 over the course of 3 months for internet service, however.

You enable the web browser feature while setting up the phone via the internet. One of the questions it asks is if you want to use internet on the phone, and it says it will cost 20 cents a day wether you use it or not. You pick yes, and bam you have internet on your phone.

Cheekz185 · 06-27-2006, 11:21 PM

ok so what is a codeplug? I looked on the wog.com site couldnt fine much? Where can i obtain a codepluggin so i can get widen?

Cheekz185 · 06-29-2006, 11:11 PM

How do you find your phones Codeplug?

bns2000 · 06-30-2006, 04:08 AM

So is the boost mobile i450 phone still the best to get?

wizardPC · 07-02-2006, 11:53 PM

Do they make cables that charge via USB? Anyone got a link to the "proper" cable that we need?

Also, PURDooM: In your disassembly of the phone, did you see a way to attach an external antenna for the GPS?

PURDooM · 07-03-2006, 07:51 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by wizardPC

Do they make cables that charge via USB? Anyone got a link to the "proper" cable that we need?

Also, PURDooM: In your disassembly of the phone, did you see a way to attach an external antenna for the GPS?

Q1: I seen it a few times in nextel accessory stores, but let me find one on ebay real quick...

http://cgi.ebay.com/OEM-Nextel-i930-...QQcmdZViewItem

It has a notch on the side for you to plug your car charger cable or AC charger cable into.

Q2: I couldn't really indentify where the GPS was, much less where to put an antenna. Putting an external antena for the actuall cellphone wouldn't be hard, however, it is just a spring with the end of it pressed up against the cellphone board.

I had ok GPS reception on my phone from even underneath a seat in my car, so I aren't worried.

05MaXSL · 07-03-2006, 03:50 PM

I am going to get a boost mobile cell phone and try this out.

mbkowns · 07-03-2006, 04:00 PM

Let us know how it goes...

Simy · 07-04-2006, 06:48 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by shotgunefx

Thanks for the explaination, I think I'll hit the mall this weekend.

Did you ever get it to work with linux?

I personally use Debian, And was hoping to be able to use it.
apt-get install mobile_internet-0.1 widen-1.2

devious · 07-04-2006, 02:48 PM

following this thread with great interest, I acquired boost i450 from best buy a couple of weeks ago, $80 as promised included $10 usage charge which I'm still, ever so slowly, eating thru. Hardest part about getting that running was opening up the stupid plastic slash-your-fingers packaging - after that, smooth sailing, phone works, simple simple simple.

Few days later purchased usb power/data cable from icywu - they del'd the cable quickly, but it was wrong cable (data only, no power), and the USB plug end of cable has already split open, and the CD they shipped was blank - other than that, they were perfect. My advice, find nextel store as someone else advised, and get cable there - it seems the first tech advice on these things is scrap the crap cable and buy quality.

Once cable plugged in, did the webjal / mologogo thing, took a few tries but it did finally get going (switched from media center PC to XP pro, seemed to help) and once webjal saw i450, all was good. Then took i450 (without any pc) in the car for a ride, with mologogo app running, got home, and VIOLA, I'm on a map. pretty amazing.

Question for anyone still reading - if i450 can reroute NMEA or whatever the GPS is providing up to mologogo site and have it assimilated there, can it do the same thing onto locally attached PC instead? How?

Also, can i450 run the mologogo app and be a data modem for tethered pc at same time?

Greatly appreciate all the tips, esp Purdoom's tutorials. Not sure how I would've ever figured out the phone number is "S=2#777", for instance.