Internet on Sony Ericsson Mobile using Broadband

Sony Ericsson Users can now access all mobile internet services free of cost using your Broadband connection.

My model Sony Ericsson w700i must use TCP/IP for its data connection. I thought, why not make a TCP/IP connection to my local area LAN and surf the Internet through my broadband? The first thing i can do is to ask google. I have come across the Sony Ericsson SDK which offers me such features. I have finally found out how to make it.

Required Stuff:

1. Sony Ericsson Compatible Model (That support GPRS, USB/Bluetooth Connectivity, MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.0+)

MIDP 1.0 and CLDC 1.04:

P800 series, T610 series, T630 series, Z600 series

MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.0 HI:

P900/P910 series

MIDP 2.0 and CLDC 1.1:

S700/S710 series, V800, F500i, J300 series, K300 series, K310 series, K500 series, K510 series, K600 series, K610 series (Java Platform 7) , K700 series, K790 series (Java Platform 7) , K750 series, K800 series (Java Platform 7) , P900, P910, P990

M600, W300 series, W550 series, W600 series, W700 series, W710 series (Java Platform 7) , W800 series, W810 series, W850 series (Java Platform 7), W900 series, W950 series, Z520 series,. Z530 series, Z550 series, Z710 series (Java Platform 7), Z800 series, Z525, Z500a, Z1010

2. Necessary Software

1. The J2SE Software Development Kit (SDK)

2. Sony Ericsson SDK

3. Opera Mini

Installation Procedure

1. First install JAVA JDK and then SONY ERICSSON SDK. Downloading these two things would be a little problem for dial-up users but there is no other choice.
2. Connect your mobile to PC via bluetooth or USB.
3. When the Sonyericsson SDK installed successfully, you should find a Connection Proxy icon on your system tray, otherwise Click Start > Programs > Sony Ericsson > J2ME SDK > ConnectionProxy to start the connection proxy which while active will show its status on the system tray.
4. Click on Settings icon (Gear). Select correct COM port for your connection. Choosing correct COM port would not be a big task. Open your device manager and you will find the com ports for your mobile USB/Bluetooth connection. Choose the lowest COM port apart from the COM ports that are attached to your system. Choose the BaudRate as 115200.
5. Now click Connect. You should see your mobile pic on the connection proxy saying that it is connected.
6. Open Sony Ericsson Device Explorer.
   Click Start > Program > Sony Ericsson > J2ME SDK > Device Explorer. You should see that the software is negotiating a connection with your mobile, and when successful, it will display a list of applications installed. In my case it displayed all the games installed in my W700 games folder.Important Note : If anyone faces error at this particular step saying “Malformed Response…… …. ” then it is due to some error in parsing the characters in the installed games. Delete games one by one in your games folder and Refresh the Device Explorer. It should work at some time..
7. On your Sony Ericsson mobile, create a new data account.
   For that, Go to Connectivity > Data comm. > Data accounts > New account.
   Account type: GPRS data
   Name: Anything you want. Leave APN, Username and Password empty.
8. Go to Connectivity > Internet setting > Internet profiles > New profile
   Name: anything you want
   Connect using: select the account you just added in the above step
9. Still in Internet profiles window, highlight the profile you going to use and press More and select Settings.
   In this window:
   Connect using: the new data account you just added
   Internet Mode: Http (already there)
   Use Proxy: No
   Username and Password: empty
10. Press Save to save this profile.Note: For broadband users under Corporate LAN, The settings are different. Use this profile settings.here.. Note the following…
    My IP address in LAN : 172.16.5.111
    DNS Address : 172.24.2.71
    Proxy server Address : 172.30.3.3create a data account named “broadband”
    ip address : 172.16.5.111
    dns address : 172.24.2.71

    create an internet profile named ” broadband”
    internet mode : http
    use proxy : yes
    proxy address: 172.30.3.3
    port : 8080

    streaming settings :
    connect using : broadband
    use proxy : yes
    proxy address: 172.16.5.111
    port number : 6082

11. Opera Mini InstallationDefault browser that comes with sony ericsson mobile just not mean to be used with this type of connection. You need to download other browser to be installed. Download the compatible version of opera for your model from its official site. You must download both jar and jad files. This is a quick download since the file is quite small. Now you can install Opera Mini browser by just rightclicking the JAD File you just downloaded and select “Install on Device”.
    When installation is successful, highlight the Opera Mini in the Device Explorer and click on “Play button”, or right click and select Start to launch the Opera Mini on your mobile.Note : Launching Opera Mini by using the phone itself will not work.
12. Now, If you are using Opera 3.0, it tests for network connection before opening the browser. If the connection test fails, check your settings once again. Restart your phone and try again. If everything is correct, i would suggest you to download opera mini 2.0. and proceed with the same steps above. Search google or download it from here ( Copy it to your phone and install from the phone since i cannot upload a jad file in my hosting site.)
13. Enter any URL in your mobile and you are done if you are able to see that site on your mobile..Note: Please do not expect that you will be succeeded in the first trial. There is every possiblity that you may miss small things. I have spent one complete day for the connection and then succeded.

Some Points to note:

1. Make sure “Serial Networking” is checked in device explorer.
2. Connection proxy is connected
3. Device explorer shows all the applications(games) installed on your mobile. If not, try restarting your device explorer.
4. If every setting is correct and still you are not able to connect to internet, restart your mobile
5. Use Opera mini 2.0 Advanced instead of latest version if you are not able to connect using it.

Why the hell am i doing this:

This post may seem a bit odd to you because who want to use internet in a cell phone if they have a broadband connection? Well.. here are a few applications for this.

1. You can access wap sites through your mobile.
2. In corporate offices with content based firewalls, this method provides anonymity to the users. (I cannot access orkut.com through PC, but i can do using my mobile )
3. Browse by staying away from your computer (Bluetooth )
4. You can also learn several features of SE SDK. I had never known before that an emulator in PC exists for my mobile.

Sample Credit Card Numbers

Some sites demand credit card numbers for registration although payment is not required. In order to complete such registrations, i have posted some sample credit card numbers which i obtained from http://doc.async.com.br/formcheck_re/ccnums.html. Credit card numbers are not random. They can be checked by a mathematical formula for validity. Each kind of credit card uses a slightly different rule.

Following are the sample numbers for various providers.

Credit Card	Sample Number
Visa	4111 1111 1111 1111
MasterCard	5500 0000 0000 0004
American Express	3400 0000 0000 009
Diner’s Club	3000 0000 0000 04
Carte Blanche	3000 0000 0000 04
Discover	6011 0000 0000 0004
en Route	2014 0000 0000 009
JCB	3088 0000 0000 0009

How to type text in your regional language?

This is an eyecatching tweak for guys who would like to have some Hindi text in their signatures or who would like to scrap wishes in hindi. If you wanna type a message in Telugu/Hindi or some other desired language.. Here is the way!! No third party software is needed. This is all stuff to do with Microsoft word. Lemme demonstrate how to get text in Hindi.

Open Microsoft word and select Symbol in insert menu. Select font as Mangal and subset as Devanagiri. Here u find all the characters that are required to type any alphabet.

Suppose if you want to type “अपुन अच्छा लडका है” Insert the following symbols in the order. Neglect + and signs. I just placed it for seperation.

अ + प + ु +न अ + च + ् + छ + ा + ल + ड + क + ा ह + ै

While typing the characters, you will observe that the related characters merge themselves. After typing the required message, just copy and paste the characters wherever you want. Soon after u paste the message.. u may notice blank squares appearing instead of message (in Googletalk window for example).. Dont worry.. The tweak works after you save it/send it.

If u wanna have ur profile name of Orkut in Hindi… U can do the similar thing… Just type the text in microsoft word. Edit your profile and paste the text there… You can also send the messages in Google Talk or Yahoo IMs.

Similarly.. use Gautami font for Telugu and Tunga font for Kannada. You should download Unicode fonts for other languages to enable this feature…

There are editors available which will do the same work for you. But, for small messages, this is useful. You can also use character map in Windows System tools for the same.

Create a CON folder in Windows

Many ppl dont know that they cannot create “CON” folder in windows. Some ppl dont know why they cant create it? Very few know that they can still create it someway.. but donno why are they supposed to do exactly like that.. Now, After reading this, you will become one of the rest!!

Try out creating a folder named CON…

Not only CON, we cannot create any of these CON, PRN, AUX, CLOCK$, NUL, COM1, COM2, COM3, COM4, COM5, COM6, COM7, COM8, COM9, LPT1, LPT2, LPT3, LPT4, LPT5, LPT6, LPT7, LPT8, LPT9 and more

The reason is that con, prn, lpt1..lpt9, etc are underlying devices from the time dos was written. so if u r allowed to create such folders, there will be an ambiguity in where to write data when the data is supposed to go to the specified devices. In other words, if i want to print something, internally what windows does is — it will write the data to the folder prn (virtually u can call it a folder, i mean prn, con, etc are virtual folders in device level). So if we are able to create con folder, windows will get confused where to write the data, to virtual con folder or real one.

So Now, Try this…

Open the Command prompt by Start -> Run and typing cmd

C:\> md \\.\c:\con

Now, Open My Computer and browse through the path where you created CON folder… Surprising.. ?? Yeah.. you have created it successfully

Now, try to delete the folder from My computer

OOPS!!! You cant delete it…

Now, try this in command prompt console

C:\> rd \\.\c:\con

Yeah!! You did it…

It is just because of the UNC Path (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers…ng_Convention). The Universal Naming Convention, or UNC, specifies a common syntax to describe the location of a network resource, such as a shared file, directory, or printer.Since, these conventions did n’t exist under pure DOS, they are not backward compatible. The UNC syntax for Windows systems is as follows..

\\RemoteHost\sharedfolder\resource

where RemoteHost is the computer name / IP address of the computer that you wish to connect through remotely for accessing shared folder. The rest is the path.

(Here \\remotehost\drive:\con doesn’t make sense anyway, because without having a process on the remote host, there is no current ‘console’). It would be a security hazard as well, having the serial and parallel ports accessible for everyone who is allowed to read or write in any single directory.

The “.” in the command \\.\c:\con suggest the local server. Now, you are pointing to your own computer. since, you have all privilages on every folder of ur computer, you can easily create it.

How to watch a video by setting it as wallpaper?

Most of u may know this trick already, but.. for ppl who donno this.. its really a gud tip..

What if we want to chat with some one simultaneously watching movie? Opening a movie in window is quite irksome.. So, how about making the video as wallpaper?? Just try out…

For this, you need VLC player. It is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats. (MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, DivX, mp3, ogg, h264, xvid etc…) .If you are having a hard time playing videos, VLC media player will more than likely will solve your issue.Download it from here

Now, Play any movie in VLC player, Right click on the screen and select Wallpaper. Minimize the screen.. Thats it… you can do anything in parellel watching the movie…

You can also find this option in BS Player.