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Reply With QuoteI dont know if it just my phone or what but i just picked up my boost i450 and the GPS is HORRIBLE, i barely get any signal on the phone, and when i do, it isnt giving me the right location of where i am!
I've been googling my ***** off trying to find a linux - iden solution, I think ive found it. However I dont have the phone yet so, Could sombody who has linux please tell me if this works? There was a brief mention of this before, but nobody posted the end result. I'm hesitant to get a phone for an operating system that im not likley to use!
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Motorola iDEN / Nextel data service
Unfortunately, CDPD service sucks around where I live, so it has been necessary to set up an alternative. I have a Nextel phone, and for an extra $10/mo and the price of a serial cable, I can make data calls. Unfortunately, Nextel isn't an ISP, so you need to either set up a modem to dial into or have a dialup ISP account. Also, the calls are at 9600 bps, which is actually less bandwidth than CDPD. My experience, however, has been that the reliability has been higher and the latency is actually much lower. Lastly, and most significantly, the calls are billed exactly like voice calls -- by the minute (fortunately, my plan has a lot of minutes).
There are a couple of tricks to setting this up.
1. Rather than counting on autobauding, you should set your phone to expect a particular speed. I use 57600, which is the top speed a Palm can do.
2. The dial string should be set like this:
set dial "ABORT BUSY ABORT NO\\sCARRIER ABORT NO\\sDIALTONE TIMEOUT 5 \
\"\" ATZ OK-ATZ-OK ATE1Q0 OK \\dATDT\\T TIMEOUT 60 CONNECT"
3. Specify the phone number as the area code and phone number (no 1 in front)
That's about it. I used to use ucom and uvscom to talk to an IOGear UG-232A serial port connected to the phone's serial cable, but recently I upgraded to the USB cable made for the phone, which works perfectly with the umodem driver.
Update! There's a new service offered by Nextel called PacketStream. It is a direct Internet connection (though their unmeasured service goes through a NAT gateway), so no ISP is required, and it is either unmeasured or (depending on the plan you pick) measured by the kilobyte, not the minute. I've been getting something like 20 kbps over it, so it's sort of like 1st generation Ricochet. You can also receive phone calls while using it (though it does stop data I/O). You simply dial the phone number "S=2" and you're connected.
Thank you in advance!
-Simy
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I dont know if it just my phone or what but i just picked up my boost i450 and the GPS is HORRIBLE, i barely get any signal on the phone, and when i do, it isnt giving me the right location of where i am!
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You probably have assisted gps turned on. Turn that off.Originally Posted by Cheekz185
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Unlimited Internet and gps tracking for $6 a month with boost mobile!
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OPUS ITX PC Case
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I got mine yesterday and i haven't been able to connect to the net (no cable yet so i'm trying from the phone itself)
Every time I try to access a site it give me "error 500 call you service provider" and in details it say "1019 compile error" So i call CS and they told me that is something going on with the new activations and the web bla bla bla ... so I'm going to give this POS a try tomorrow and if it does work i go to the Fricking store and buy a PCMCIA card for Verizon or Sprint and i get done with this (i have a MII so it will be perfect) the only thing is that i did want to try surfing the net with some thing cheap like this but if is no other way SO BE IT!!!!!!!!!
Thanatos.
Thanatos, the coverage for florida is pretty good with boost. I went to Target today and picked up a boost pamphlet (is that spelt right?) And everything checks out. Looks like 20 cents a day for unlimited internet. Thanatos, let me know if you get yours working and i may buy one too.
Um, I guess this is where you put something witty.WITTY
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Go to a Nextel/Sprint store, and have their CS look at it..
Mine worked tight out of the box, not WiDen, but the internet did...
Peace,
Rafster
Well, you could go to sprint if you wanted to spend an extra $40 a month...
Your situation sounds unique, perhaps the firmware in your phone is messed up. I would get it exchanged and keep the sim card if I was you.
If you can access the AIM service, everything should work from there.
Current projects: iGmod reloaded (Latest release) (put on hiatus indefinatly)
Unlimited Internet and gps tracking for $6 a month with boost mobile!
Carputer 2: www.lmaocar.com
Ok so finally I got this thing working (half way):
If I go to "4.enter site" I can enter almost any site (at least the ones that are support it with a cell)
Also I can login Msn messenger without problems.
But if I click "google serch" I still having the same error, So querstions:
Do you guys can search the net if you click "google search"?
PS:the custummer service gave me some steps when trying to fix the prob and one of them is WIDEN so that this means in widen anable (no one have answer the question of how finding out if phone is widen or not)
Thanatos.
Current projects: iGmod reloaded (Latest release) (put on hiatus indefinatly)
Unlimited Internet and gps tracking for $6 a month with boost mobile!
Carputer 2: www.lmaocar.com
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