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PURDooM · 07-04-2006, 05:02 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by devious

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.

Cool!

Q1 - Conceptually it works, I just havent learned to code (edit) java applets for the phone yet. (I know java)

Q2 - Yes, it can.

devious · 07-04-2006, 06:54 PM

Just tried mologogo and modem at same time, agreed that it works - though with weak cell signal, not sure it's worth it. Gotta go figure out this WiDen thing next.

PURDooM · 07-04-2006, 06:59 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by devious

Gotta go figure out this WiDen thing next.

I really need a tutorial on that. If you could write step by step directions for what is nessesary I will link it from the 1st post.

amorfeusz · 07-05-2006, 03:56 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by devious

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. .

They did the same thing to me - I filed a claim with PayPal and they eventually refunded part of the cost. No replies from seller.

Quote: Originally Posted by devious

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.

I just use S=2 and it seems to work fine

Quote: Originally Posted by devious

Gotta go figure out this WiDen thing next.

Please post your speed results - I find it hard to believe my i450 from BestBuy was the only one that had WiDen enabled out of the box.

devious · 07-05-2006, 07:26 PM

cable:

went to find brick & mortar nextel today - not as easy as you might think:

called nextel store from work - no, don't have cable, call mall store
called mall store, male voice, yes have cable. with power attach? yes
go to mall, stop at first nextel kiosk - get martian look, from only clerk, who is female (hmmm) - advised to go to radioshack for cable
walk by second nextel kiosk, with male clerk, but figure the two kiosks, being across from each other, are connected and speak with common voice - noob mistake
go to radioshack (opposite end of large mall), told they will have cables end of July
go back to beginning of mall, calling the nextel number I'd tried earlier - again, male voice, again, yes, we have one data cable with power - I say "which nextel are you" and he says "the one closer to Brookstone". So, pays to ask.
arrive at second kiosk, with male clerk - wait wait wait - notice this kiosk seems to be humping the boost mobile stuff - bunch of phones, including i450 at same price as best buy ($79), plus looks like maybe a $20 add'l credit (like Rafster got earlier in thread) but not sure on that point - worth a look (or call) if anyone shopping
clerk frees up, we discuss cable, look at cable, satisfied it's the right thing, purchase it - $30.
ask about power, he explains how it works, ask what their car charger costs, $35 (pass)
ask about widen, he says "purchase premium plan" - grrrrrr, pass
Go back to radioshack, purchase $10 igo attach for i450 - we double check that it plugs into cable, before paying - is good
finally get back to car and am eternally grateful when cable and igo all plug together as they should and appear to be working fine, so I don't have to go back in mall for a long time.

performance:

got a range of readings using broadbandreports.com , from 11kbit to 57kbit, with a big bunch clustered in the 15-23 range, and then another, much smaller bunch scattered around mid 30's to mid 50's - wasn't able to correlate to signal strength while driving, so not sure what to make of these numbers - most numbers while moving on highway, highest reading was stationary (plan to go back to that spot and dig a little deeper). Travel route is mostly along I-91 in and north of Hartford (mall run was over to Buckland in Manchester, CT).

tried winamp streaming, found one spanish station ("modem" not "broadband") to actually lock in and hold for quite a while - it's a start.

did a little research on nextel / widen / iden - think I saw that they have to maintain existing network til end of '07, as part of the sprint acquisition deal - but don't take that to the bank - having trouble finding any definitive description of where iden stops and widen starts, either on a map or in text or in person

Simy · 07-05-2006, 08:52 PM

Can anybody with linux clue me in on if it works?

PURDooM · 07-05-2006, 09:55 PM

Devious - my local dollar store sells nextel car chargers for... imagine this... a dollar.

devious · 07-06-2006, 09:35 PM

anyone have success with nextel dashboard software connecting to boost?

mine getting stuck at authentication, errors out with a PPP message

wizardPC · 07-07-2006, 12:57 AM

omfg have you guys seen the features in mologogo's new beta?

http://www.mologogo.com/files/chatbe...erdoc_6.19.pdf

Traffic alerts, chat (that doesnt take away from your prepaid because it's over the intarweb), location-based searches, and a "stealth mode" that makes it look like the phone is off.

Cheekz185 · 07-07-2006, 03:30 AM

Everytime i try and connect login on WEBJAL it keeps saying username was not found in the database....and everything is blank!

PURDooM · 07-07-2006, 04:21 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by devious

anyone have success with nextel dashboard software connecting to boost?

mine getting stuck at authentication, errors out with a PPP message

My guess is whatever you are doing is missing the step where we "disable lcp extensions".

denniston · 07-07-2006, 11:27 AM

Just to clarify, you can use basically any of the Motorolla phones that have GRPS, and pc link as a gps reciever for your mobile computer?

2. does anyone know if it is possible to unlock a phone that is an old Nextel phone to use for Boost?

Thanks

mebejoe11 · 07-07-2006, 02:03 PM

Title says it all.

I've found modem scripts but is that all thats necessary?

Cheekz185 · 07-07-2006, 11:36 PM

anybody check out this iDEN GPS Software utility? I found it on this site.... I wonder how useful this is....

http://www.raptornexteli.com/downloads.html

PURDooM · 07-08-2006, 07:23 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by Cheekz185

anybody check out this iDEN GPS Software utility? I found it on this site.... I wonder how useful this is....

http://www.raptornexteli.com/downloads.html

I checked it out, but it doesn't look like it is going to help you get a usb gps connection.

It had a link to iden faq's:
http://idenphones.custhelp.com/cgi-b...p_new_search=1

I sifted through it and it constantly says gps unsupported on usb.