UX50 Q's and Woes

[TechnoCat]

My UX50 is working well at everything I can figure out how to get it to do... but unfortunately between Sony and Siemens (my phone's an S56), that's limited.

Sony has not updated their Mobile Connection Wizard for the UX50 and does not ship S56 support yet. PalmOne doesn't support the Clie in general and PalmSource doesn't seem to support support. Siemens limited the S56 relative to the S55, using different codes for some things and preventing others (as in Calendar listing and Address book acces, though Phone book access works.)

So I've got NetFront working on Bluetooth to my PC, but of course that's not very useful. My remote options are:

1. Dial-Up (not GPRS). But doing this requires a dial-up connection; I don't have one. Is there a convenient way I could use my home system as a dial-up provider? I run Win2K, but have no idea how to HOST RAS via dial-up on it.

2. GPRS - not yet supported as far as I can tell, but it may be an issue of determining the correct commands. Unfortunately, all the documentation via Cingular or the net in general is for the S-E T68i or various Nokia phones. Anybody got GPRS via Bluetooth from a Clie working?

Lastly, am I understanding correctly that #1 comes out of minutes and #2 comes out of data on my cellular account?

Thanks

[sgreathouse]

I have the same setup (UX-50/S56) except I'm on AT&T.
I found instructions on AT&Ts site for a Tungsten-T to S56 connection that worked for me.
Might not work exactly as posted for Cingular, but it's a start.

Everything works fine, except that when I disconnect, I cant re-connect again without turning the phone off and on. My guess is that the GPRS connection stays up after you disconnect from the Clie, and doesn't reset when the Clie tries to re-connect. Since they disabled the ability to turn GPRS off, have to power cycle the phone to reset GPRS.
When I use my Powerbook to connect to the net with the phone, it resets just fine, so it's not just a problem with the phone. I'm looking for a change to the init script to hopefull fix this.

Here's the 411:

AT&T Wireless
http://support.attws.wdsglobal.com/configurator/gt.asp?_api=GetSolutionDetails&_d=2&RequirementId=600000000001&ProductId=700000002276&ProductId=100000006454&Solution=700000002276&Solution=100000003576&Solution=100000006454&Solution=100000002859&ProductId=100000002859&LevelOfDetail=%2BSupportProducts


GPRS Set Up Information



GPRS Instructions for connecting your Palm Tungsten T and the Siemens S56 using the Built in Bluetooth.
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Setting up the handset

1. On the handset, press Menu from the main menu.

2. Scroll to Setup and press Select.

3. Scroll to Connectivity and press Select.

4. Scroll to Bluetooth and press Change to activate.

5. Press Options and scroll to Visib.t.others and press Select to select Auto mode.



Pairing the devices

1. On the PDA, tap on the Home icon.

2. Tap on Prefs.

3. Tap on Communication section, then tap on Bluetooth.

4. Tap to select On in the Bluetooth drop down menu.

5. Tap to select Device name, then type in a name for the device, then tap Ok.

6. Tap to select Discoverable, and select Yes.

7. Tap on Trusted Devices.

8. Tap on Add Device.

9. Tap to highlight the handset, then tap OK.

10. On the Palm device enter the passkey, for example 1234 then tap OK.

11. On the handset enter the same BT PIN (passkey) and press OK.

12. The handset will prompt to Add to known device list , press on Yes .

13. Tap Done twice.



Setting up the connection

1. On the PDA, tap on Connection.

2. Tap on New.

3. Type in AT&T GPRS for the connection Name: then tap Done.

4. Tap on Connect to: and select Modem.

5. Tap on Via: and select Bluetooth.

6. Tap on Tap to Find to begin the search.

7. Tap on OK when the search is complete.

8. Tap on Dialing: and select TouchTone.

9. Tap on OK, then tap Done.

10. Tap on Network.

11. In the Service section type in AT&T GPRS.

12. In the User Name: type in a character. (Example: a).

13. In the Password: type in a character. (Example: a).

14. In the Connection: section tap to select AT&T GPRS.

15. Tap on Tap to enter phone.

16. Enter *99# for the Phone: and tap OK.

17. Tap on Details… then tap on Script…

18. Tap to select Send and type atdt*99#.

19. Tap to select Send CR.

20. Tap to select End.

21. Tap on OK twice.



Making the connection

1. Tap on Connect.

You will now be connected to the AT&T Wireless GPRS service.

[TechnoCat]

Maybe it's Cingular that's screwed up. That still caused the same timeout on mine.

Thanks for the shot.

[anthonymoody]

Try this in the script. After you Send the CR, select Wait For and type CONNECT (all in caps), then end.

Also, you can try atdt*99***1# (and you can also try 2 or 3 instead of the 1 here). Not sure what all that does or why, but it's what works on my set up (UX50, Siemens, S55, TMobile).

TM

[anthonymoody]

Also, try my instructions for a UX50, TMobile Siemens S55 BT phone and GPRS set up:

http://www.cliesource.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=26234

TM

[sgreathouse]

I fixed the problem I had where I could connect once, but be unable to re-connect without power-cycling the phone.

I had my GPRS coinnection document set as:
Connect to: Modem
Via: Bluetooth

It needed to be:
Connect to: Local Network
Via: Bluetooth

UX-50 to S56 via BT on ATTWS now works 100%