I’m using my laptop right now, surfing the web through my work cell phone.
Since both the Treo 650 and the 12″ PowerBook use Bluetooth, I can connect them quickly, easily, and wirelessly.
This is good and all, but I now want to be able to get online at broader-band speeds on my laptop using my phone.
Unfotunately, Verizon decided to remove the Bluetooth DUN (Dial-Up Networking) feature on the Treo. Well, they didn’t remove it as much as they really just hid it.
Help for setting up your bluetooth on either your laptop: Mac OSX | Windows.
So here’s the Verizon specific method (copied/modified from shadowmite.com) :
Pull the battery cover on the phone and do a soft reset. (This avoids trouble later)
Open up the web browser on your phone and download the patched btmanager file, save it to Applications, and also accept it into Applications, overwriting the old one.
Now once again, do a soft reset on the phone. At this point it should be working, so let’s check! Go to the home screen and run the “Bluetooth” application. Once you turn Bluetooth on you should see a new option called “Dial-up Networking“.
There it is! You now have the Dial up networking option enabled! From here what you need to do will vary to be able to use it. Every different computer bluetooth adaptor has different ways of doing things, but most also include a manual about how to use them. I’ll continue with some general instructions that will hopefully get you moving in the right direction:
First off you need to start whatever your bluetooth program is, and get it to look for bluetooth devices. Once it finds the Treo you want to search for the services it offers. You should find the Dial Up Networking service! (If you only find the Object Exchange service, pull the battery cover and do a soft reset, this sometimes happens). Once you have found the service, most bluetooth adaptor software will allow you to “create a dialup”.
For Verizon:
Username: “your phone number@vzw3g.com”
Password: vzw
Phone Number: #777
And while it isn’t necessarily the fastest ( ~10 KB/s down, ~8 KB/s up), I’ll be able to use my laptop online while on a highway, or in other wi-fi free zones.
Not too shabby. Could, and in the future, will be better.
And for the record, this is basically a mirror of shadowmite.com’s howto, for archiving / google purposes.
shadowmite.com apparently has some beta wi-fi drivers fr the Treo 650 as well.
Will have to play with that next.