Wireless Internet

In case anyone cares, I'm letting the world know that the Motorola V400 works perfectly well under Linux as a USB Modem. It's a CRC standard USB modem and there wasn't any special setup. The only thing you have to make sure of is thet your service provider supports data connections. I'm not talking about GPRS or any other Pay Per Use service, I'm talking about standard data calls. Cingular calls this "Wireless Internet" as opposed to their Pay Per Use service which is called "Wireless Internet Express". From what I'm told, Verizon supports data calls out of the box at no additional charge. From my own experience, Cingular charges $3.99 per month for "Wireless Internet" and they don't advertise that they have it, you have to ask the guys in the office specifically for it because they won't know what you're talking about. As for AT&T, sorry guys, AT&T is a bunch of whores and they munged up the entire data setup so nothing really works. Wait the six months for Cingular to finish taking them over and pick up "Wireless Internet" Good luck.

Free Email

The V400 supports sending and receiving email out of the box. The main problem is that most providers have it set up to screw you out of as much money as possible. First off, they set the connection type to GPRS so that they can charge you per kilobyte. Next, they have the mail server set to something that they run such that they can charge you again per message. If you're reading this page, you're probably willing to mess w/ your phone settings so give this a whirl:

To get to the email setup from the main screen, press: Menu, Messages, Menu, Email Msg Setup
You should get a setup screen. Change your options as follows...

Setting My Value Default What it Means

ISP Settings CSD GPRS CSD Burns Minutes, GPRS is Pay Per KB

Email Provider Custom Custom Not really sure about this one

Protocol POP3 POP3 POP3/IMAP4 Choose the one your email provider uses

User ID rcw [something dumb like your phone number] The username that you use to check your email

Password [not so much, no] [whatever they set your password to] The password you use to check your email

Sending Host blessed.wolfteck.com mail.provider.com Your outgoing mail server. Make sure it allows relay for your phone's netblock, or you can do it like me and only send mail to yourself.

Sending port 25 25 SMTP Port. Don't change this

Receiving Host blessed.wolfteck.com mail.provider.com Your incoming mail server.

Receiving port 110 110 110 for POP3, 143 for IMAP4

Return address [rcw at wolfteck dot com] xxxxxxxxxx@provider.com What shows up in the From: header

Name Grey [something dumb] What shows up as the name in the From: header

Cleanup none none Whether or not to delete mail on server and all that jazz

Save on server Yes Yes Keep messages on server for later retrieval or not

Notification on on Alert on new mail or not

Check new msgs No No Poll for new messages

Hide Fields [blank] [blank] Dunno

Auto Signature [blank] [blank] Message Signature

Security [blank] [blank] Dunno

Size restriction 10240 10240 How big of messages do we try to send?

Setting	My Value	Default	What it Means
ISP Settings	CSD	GPRS	CSD Burns Minutes, GPRS is Pay Per KB
Email Provider	Custom	Custom	Not really sure about this one
Protocol	POP3	POP3	POP3/IMAP4 Choose the one your email provider uses
User ID	rcw	[something dumb like your phone number]	The username that you use to check your email
Password	[not so much, no]	[whatever they set your password to]	The password you use to check your email
Sending Host	blessed.wolfteck.com	mail.provider.com	Your outgoing mail server. Make sure it allows relay for your phone's netblock, or you can do it like me and only send mail to yourself.
Sending port	25	25	SMTP Port. Don't change this
Receiving Host	blessed.wolfteck.com	mail.provider.com	Your incoming mail server.
Receiving port	110	110	110 for POP3, 143 for IMAP4
Return address	[rcw at wolfteck dot com]	xxxxxxxxxx@provider.com	What shows up in the From: header
Name	Grey	[something dumb]	What shows up as the name in the From: header
Cleanup	none	none	Whether or not to delete mail on server and all that jazz
Save on server	Yes	Yes	Keep messages on server for later retrieval or not
Notification	on	on	Alert on new mail or not
Check new msgs	No	No	Poll for new messages
Hide Fields	[blank]	[blank]	Dunno
Auto Signature	[blank]	[blank]	Message Signature
Security	[blank]	[blank]	Dunno
Size restriction	10240	10240	How big of messages do we try to send?

Phonebook

The best way I have found thus far to play with the phone book is using gnokii. Gnokii is a utility that was originally written to interface with nokia phones, but it works alright with any AT compatible phone such as this one. The setup is really simple but in case you don't feel like reading the doco, you can grab my .gnokiirc. So far as I can tell, the only thing that works is the phonebook munging. Trying to play with logos or ringtones crashes the program and the battery/signal monitors don't seem to be very accurate. That's about what I know about that.

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Last updated: Sunday, 20-Sep-2009 16:55:45 CDT

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