OS X bluetooth tethering on the Qtek 9100, HTC Wizard, MDA Vario etc in WM5

18 Responses to “OS X bluetooth tethering on the Qtek 9100, HTC Wizard, MDA Vario etc in WM5”

1. Tim Aldridge on March 16th, 2006 10:44 am

   Thanks! for the link- I’ve been banging my head against the wall trying to get my Qtek 9100 connected to T-Mobile GPRS/EDGE via Bluetooth on my MacBook and now I’m up and running. So nice! Thanks again, I enjoy your site. -Tim

2. Tim Aldridge on March 16th, 2006 10:49 am

   Oh, yes: for T-Mobile
   Use *99# as the telephone number. And ”*” for both the account name and password.

3. Marston on March 16th, 2006 10:51 pm

   Hey Tim,

   Excellent, I’m glad it help you out a bit! Nothing like the freedom of online mobile computer via a nicely tethered connection! Though I hear the USB cable (for PC’s) connection is much faster and less flaky, but I don’t think you can create the USB connection over a mac? I’ll have to look into it. I’m glad you enjoy the site!

   P.S How are you finding the speeds? I’ve seen and heard people talk about 18k/s-25k/s over BT & EDGE GPRS.

4. Kyle on April 28th, 2006 11:39 am

   Hey Tim,

   Thank You very much for putting this up here. I was actually about to take back my T-mobile MDA, becuase I couldn’t use it as a BT Modem but thanks to this site it now works. And as for speed I seem to be getting about 10k/s with spikes around 16k/s which is a vast improvement from the 3-5 k/s I got with my Nokia 6600. anyway thank you again.

5. Marston on April 28th, 2006 1:59 pm

   Kyle,

   Glad you’ve got it working. I too get around 10k/s. Though I’m using an EDGE GPRS network here in The Netherlands. My friend who works for Cingular uses his Qtek 9100 via bluetooth on his XP laptop and gets 20-25k/s interestingly enough. I wonder what different bluetooth setup he has with his windows PC that would get him 2x the speed as my powerbook? I hear its even much faster via USB cable though.

6. mickey on May 26th, 2006 1:52 pm

   I just tore some hair out over this. Bandwidth on the device itsel was about 150kbps down. Via bluetooth modem on my mac, I was getting about 50-60k down. Then I looked at the ipaq modem script. I saw:
   !
   ! Set serial port speed 57600, all interface signals off
   !
   serreset 57600, 0, 8, 1

   Duh! Changed this to
   serreset 460800, 0, 8, 1
   (stolen from another script). Now I get similar speeds on device and on laptop.

   mickey

7. Marston on May 26th, 2006 2:22 pm

   Mickey,

   Wow, I guess were both missing some hair. Good looking though! I’ll definitely do this myself, thanks.

8. Tim Aldridge on June 16th, 2006 4:50 pm

   Kyle, Mickey, Marston- Haven’t been back here in awhile, glad to see that the comments are
   helping us achieve success with our connections. Mickey, that is great, I would try it on my MacBook Pro
   but it just got stolen I’ll check it out when I get a new one. Those Merom MBP’s are going to be awesome.
   Kyle, your speeds are definitely on the low side. Make sure that your Settings under Connections are correct. I was
   getting slower speeds the old T-Mobile WAP access point. In GPRS, I use internet2.voicestream.com ( in CA, USA ) as
   my access point and speeds are much higher ( comparible with a 56k modem ). Also, go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewforum.php?f=35 and there is a ton of stuff there on making you little MDA ( HTC Wizard ) go
   faster. OMAPclock utility, updated ROMs, and the cache tweaks make a huge difference.

9. 220kbps down and 64kbps up through my MDA. on June 21st, 2006 2:33 am

   [...] First, I downloaded the iPAQ script from Ross Barkman Next, I modified the IPAQ GSM script according to this suggestion : [...]

10. roostaar on October 4th, 2006 12:31 pm

    Hmm. I have the MDA Vario II (on T-Mobile with Web n Walk) and a G4 iBook running 10.4.8.
    I have followed instructions to the letter but can’t get this to work.

    I get a ‘connection’ to my MDA from ‘Internet Connect’ on the Mac, but it dosent dial-up to 3G or GPRS network on the phone.

    If I am already connected to network, it disconnects it. If I am not connected to the network, the mac just sets up a local connection to the phone.

    If I then run ‘Wireless Modem’ and ‘start Bluetooth’ connection, the 3 boxes (‘Connection’, ‘Send’ and ‘Recieve’) are all flashing.

    I have tried many dfferent alternatives in every setting but cant get it to work. It just wont trigger the MDA to dial-up to the network.

    Anyone else got this problem? FYI, my Nokia 6320 worked perfectly as a BT modem.

    Stumped

    Roostaar

11. roostaar on October 4th, 2006 4:22 pm

    DOH! I cant believe it. It was connected all along. I disabled my Airport connection and Google fired up. What was throwing me was that the MDA dosent give any visible sign that it has connected to the 3G network. I therefore thought that no connection was being made.

    http://www.pcpitstop.com reports a 1.2MB connection. Amazing!

    I didnt think that BT was that quick? I did just buy a new BT 2.0 dongle to go with the new MDA Vario II. Maybe thats it?

    Sweet. So am I being charged by the MB or by the second here? It’s a shame that my GPRS monitor cant monitor the data? Or can it?

    R

12. roostaar on October 4th, 2006 4:49 pm

    Can anyone upload the edited script to enable 220kbps download?

    I tried Script Editor but it wont open the iPaq script. I am using the Windows 460k script at the moment and get downloads of about 35kb/s at present on the t-mob 3G network.

    R

13. Marston on October 6th, 2006 1:36 am

    Hey Roostaar,

    Glad you got it up and running. 1.2MB? Nice. So you have a Vario II? 1.2MB probably means you’re connected to a UMTS or HSDPA network, I’m CERTAINLY not getting that via bluetooth over my EDGE GPRS network. I’m looking to upgrade to the Vario II (or equivalent) quite soon anyways myself.

    I don’t know of any 220kbps scripts but I’ll keep an eye out.

14. J on December 1st, 2006 8:00 am

    Using Windows Mobile GSM 460 Script in OS X 10.4.8 tethering on MDA Bluetooth Windows Mobile 5 was working beautifully. Downloaded software upgrade from 4.1 to 4.1 from Tmobile and it was zooming even better. Upgrated to a faster Intel Core 2 Duo (Same OS X 10.4.8) and I have not been able to make it work. The only difference I notice is before I was able to set Incoming Serial to COM 6 and Outgoing Serial to COM 7 in the MDA. Now, It won’t admit serial 6. If I set Incoming Serial to 7 it wont let me set outgoing serial, and if I set outgoing serial to 7 it won’t let me set incoming serial. Receive Connecting – Authorizing – Failed to Authenticate Message. Any clue?

15. Marston on December 3rd, 2006 7:42 am

    Hey J,

    Hrm, that doesn’t sound good at all :-

    I’ve had plenty of experiences of the tethering just screwing up like that with hours of troubleshooting with no luck. If I hear of a solution for this, I will definitely let you know. You might want to try a hard-reset on the phone too. Good luck.

16. Frank2cv on January 10th, 2007 4:35 pm

    Hi, I’m a complete newbie on this area but I’m trying to make a internet connection between a macbook pro running mac os x 10.4.8
    and a qtek 9000 with web and walk from t-mobile (Dutch contract)
    I allready tried the *99# , * and * as password and stuff, but it didn’t work.

    You talk about a qtek 9100, is it different in settings??

    on the mac you’re also able to choose a configuration, default is “other”, click on it you can choose “edit configurations” click again and you’ll get a new field in wich there are modem options, the default here is
    “Apple Internal 56K Modem (v.90)” but there are like a hundred other options some called motorola or ericson or nokia, others are called vodafone or at&t , but nothing like qtek or mda vario or t-mobile.
    should I be here in the first place???
    Does anyone have the answer? HELP

    By the way did you see the introduction of the iphone by Steve Jobs on the applesite?
    I definitely getting one of these end of summer

    bye, Frank

17. Matt Seymour on February 5th, 2007 12:47 am

    Brilliant. Just set this up my T-mobile MDA Vario (HTC Wizard) and it worked first time. I’ve never been able to get this to work in windoze either.

18. Otis on May 22nd, 2007 3:37 pm

    I just did what mickey suggested used the texteditor and changed the script to serreset 460800, 0, 8, 1 and I get 214 kb/s down and 64 kb/s up.

    ! Set serial port speed 57600, all interface signals off
    !

    serreset 57600, 0, 8, 1

    Duh! Changed this to
    serreset 460800, 0, 8, 1

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