Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Sony Ericsson P1i and internet via PC.

So I've recently bought brand new Sony Ericsson P1i. Fascinating mobile phone. I got the version w/o GPS but what the hell. I don't need it... now.

The phone is fine, allright. I don't wanna write how many functions it has.
First thing i wanted to do was internet in my phone. So I've took USB cable and plug it in.
I've synchronized my phone with... No wait! I did't synchronized it with Outlook 2007. It didn't worked! I did synchro it with Outlook 2003 in work but that's not that i want to do.
Outlook is ewwwwww so i used http://mobical.net. It work with most phones, works like a charm but... You need internet to access it. This could sound stupid but is there a point in storing contacts on Your hard drive? Yea I know. Service can go down, someone can hack it, you can loose ALL of your contacts and notes but telling the truth your hard drive can break too.

So the point is P1i needs internet access to store data on mobical. As i don't have my personal USB bluetooth (why? the one in my laptop broke) I used USB cable.
So SE PC Suite come with application called mRouter. What is it? Hard to tell... It's SUPPOSED to do NAT and give my phone internet access but... it just don't work. Ok. No, i didn't missconfigured it. I've tryied EVERYTHING and it just won't work. Blue light is on, state is connected but creating every type of connection on my P1i and configuring tons of serial ports in mRouter just don't work. If ANYONE knows a way how to connect this piece of crap with my lovely phone please let me know! And yes, i've read allmost everything on google.

I took my mom's USB bluetooth device, pluged in and installed BlueSoleil v1.5 or smth. Provied on a mini disc. I've connected my phone to it, paired and it works like a charm. OK now i want internet via bluetooth.
In BlueSoleil i choose My Services -> Properites -> Personal Area networking (PAN) and what i see? That i cannot click on "Access LAN Network"!! Why? I dunno... It's just gray... So I've tried to do MS ICS (Internet connection sharing) between my network and bluetooth network.
I've noticed that my P1i doesn't send any DHCP requests! OMG WHY!? I still don't know... but. I've configured a static IP, gateway, netmask DNS server and... it didn't worked. WTH!? When I tried to connect to internet on mobile PC asked if i agree i agreed ofcourse and... nothing. For no reason no packets where IN on PC bluetooth interface. I've fighted with it for another hour and ... lost.
Next thing to do was to download newer version of BlueSoleil and i got v.3.2.2.8. I installed it and.. OMG, I could click on "Access LAN Network"! YAY! So I did, restarted BS, my PC PAN adapter got IP address from my ethernet NIC. I set correct IP on P1i and IT WORKS! WOOOOOOHOOOOO! After couple minutes of internet surfing my PC got BSOD. I was like WTF!? I didn't saw BSOD for like 2 years (win xp pro). So I restarted my PC. After 2 more BSODs and couple of cigaretes I've uninstalled BlueSoleil (you cannot do this from emergency mode because the stupid windows installer won't start!). So my PC was back to normal and still no internet on P1i. I watched a movie, installed BlueSoleil 5.0.5 and there was no option "Access LAN Network" so I've unisntalled it and went to sleep.
At work I was goign to try again. And the chooise was BlueSoleil 3.2.2.8 witch crashes my home laptop. So at my desktop in work it works fine. Internet works fine, and everything works fine. I need to find the BSOD reason. Hmmm... Interesting.
I've just download UIQ3 SDK. I'd rather write in MIDP2.0 beacause i want to learn more JAVA but i don't offers so many, many cool things like UIQ3. We'll see. I'll for sure write something in JME.
BTW, Java iphonelock runs soooo slooooooow for me. gDesk isn't really that at all!
TWUIK is a thing that require a closer look but they don't want to give it to meh! Absurd! ;)
What i need is application like mouse gestures. Hmm... Maybe I'll write one? ;)

7 comments:

2xmanman said...

Hi Canto, I have the same situation of you on Bluesoliel v3.2.2.8, it crash on my PC when connect to ACCESS LAN NETWORK too, and 5.0.5.178 doesn't have that option. Have you configure out why 3.2.2.8 not work yet? Thanks

Oskar Wycislak said...

Hi there.
Telling the truth i don't really know why it was crashing on my laptop. It's some hardware issue for sure, but i cannot make good diagnostic because it's laptop... Recently i bought new desktop PC and everything works fine. Maybe it's because my build in bluetooth stoped working and there's some conflict. I've disabled it in BIOS so it shouldn't be a problem but... You never know.

2xmanman said...

So, you're now using the v3.2.2.8 and sharing the internet connection thru bluetooth dongle? Thanks for you reply.

Oskar Wycislak said...

Yes. That's right.

Unknown said...

Hi I want to buy a P1i, I have read wath do you said, but I want to know if I can connect my pc or laptop to the internet using the
3g connection of the phone.
thanks.
Felix
fellopez@gmail.com

Oskar Wycislak said...

Yes. Read this:
http://www.sonyericsson.com/cws/support/phones/detailed/useyourphoneasamodem/p1i

Unknown said...

Thanks very useful... I'll buy it, i like a lot sonny ericsson