Bluetooth + Cellphone + Laptop = Wireless Internet for under $6/month

Posted on October 3rd, 2006 in Internet Service Providers, How To, Wireless Internet by bjones

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Phone Settings Overview:
Menu > Connectivity > Packet Data > Packet Data Settings > Active access point > Ativate new Access point
Access Point: wap.voicestream.com
Menu > Connectivity > Bluetooth > Turn Bluetooth: On

Computer Setup:
Pairing the phone and the Computer:
This should be pretty simple, but if you’ve got a Nokia 6103, it’s going to take a little bit more work.

Important: If you are not a technical expert, do not, I repeat, Do NOT be intimidated by the following section. Just follow the steps carefully, and you will be fine.

1. Open the “Applications” folder.

2. Find the “iSync” program and Control-click (or right-click on a two-button mouse) the “iSync” icon and select “Show Package Contents.” (it’s actually just a folder kind of folder)

3. Double-click and open the “Contents” folder then the “Plugins” folder, then the “ApplePhoneConduit.syncdevice” folder, then the “Contents” folder, then the “Plugins” folder, then the “PhoneModelsSync.phoneplugin” folder, then the “Contents” folder, and finally the “Resources” folder.

We are going to do 2 things in the “Resources folder”: 1) Add a new iSync phone icon for the Nokia 6103, and 2) edit the “MetaClasses.plist” file to add support for the Nokia 6103.

4. Control-click (or right-click) the following link “Download” NOK6103.tiff, then drag the NOK6103.tiff image from your download folder to the “Resources” folder.

5. Now find the “MetaClasses.plist” file in the “Resources” folder and Control-click (or right-click) it. Then choose Duplicate from the menu. This should create a “MetaClasses.plist copy”. This is your backup, just in case you need to start over.

6. Control-click (or right-click) the “MetaClasses.plist” file in the “Resources” folder, select “Open With” and choose the “TextEdit” (located in the “Applications” folder), or any other text editor you want to use.

7. Type Command-F (or file menu: Edit > Find > Find…). Search for “<key>com.nokia.7610</key>” (without quotes) as the “Find:” string and hit Return. The editor should select part of a line containing the string “com.nokia.7610″ surrounded by “key” tags.
Just above that line, you will see a closing tag “</dict>” , so it will look like this:

… XML Code…
</array>
</dict>
<key>com.nokia.7610</key>

<dict>
… More XML code …

Before doing anything, look at the structure of the XML code segment below. This is what we are going to add to the “MetaClasses.plist” file. If you look closly at the “MetaClasses.plist” file, you’ll see that it’s basically made up of of several of the XML code segments below. And each segment is for a different Nokia phone model.

8. Now… Copy the code below, and past it after the “</dict>” tag and just before the <key>com.nokia.7610</key>

Like this:

</dict>
Paste Code Here
<key>com.nokia.7610</key>

——- COPY CODE BELOW THIS LINE and ADD TO “MetaClasses.plist” ———-

<key>com.nokia.6103</key>
	<dict>
		<key>Identification</key>
		<dict>
			<key>com.apple.cgmi+cgmm</key>
			<string>Nokia+Nokia 6103</string>
		</dict>
		<key>InheritsFrom</key>
		<array>
			<string>family.com.nokia.series40.bus.bt</string>
		</array>
		<key>Services</key>
		<array>
			<dict>
				<key>ServiceName</key>
				<string>com.apple.model</string>
				<key>ServiceProperties</key>
				<dict>
					<key>ModelIcon</key>
					<string>NOK6103.tiff</string>
					<key>ModelName</key>
					<string>6103</string>
				</dict>
			</dict>
			<dict>
				<key>ServiceName</key>
				<string>com.apple.synchro</string>
				<key>ServiceProperties</key>
				<dict>
					<key>MaxEventSummaryLength</key>
					<integer>256</integer>
					<key>MaxTaskSummaryLength</key>
					<integer>256</integer>
				</dict>
			</dict>
		</array>
	</dict>

——- COPY CODE ABOVE THIS LINE ———-

9. That’s it. Save the file and close it.

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