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Sprint Vision and my LG5350

By the grace of God I’ve finally managed to set up both my laptop and my cell phone so that the laptop can get online using my cell phone. This is how I did it…

Tucked to the side of the Wantingseed site under “outside reading” there was an article about Sprint. It turns out that they changed their Terms of Service and are now allowing customers who are on the Vision plan to use select phones as modems at no extra charge. Now, I thought it was cool that I could get online using the browser in my phone, but it got old pretty quickly. Using my phone as a modem with speeds up to 115kbs is something that will take at least a year to get old, I’m sure. This is really cool!
I really like this, and it could not have come at a better time, because this weekend is Joy’s birthday weekend, and the plan is to go down to a condo in Naples and spend the weekend celebrating. … … Without Internet!
…until now.
THE HOW-TO:
This is for when I forget how I set this up and erase all my files or something.
Step 1: Go to RadioShack and buy a FutureDial cable (Product #17-789 for the LG5350) don’t bother with the software unless you really want it, because it is not needed.
Step 2: Go to the Sprint Store and update your phone firmware to LX535021.
Step 3: Go to FutureDial.com and read + follow the instructions under Automatic USB Driver Installation. You should go all the way and even plug in the phone and turn it on.
Step 4: Go to the Sprint Dialer Download page and select your OS and then choose to download the PSC Connection Manager (SM) Software.
Step 5: Install the dialer after downloaded.
Step 5b: OK, the Sprint dialer is installed, but does not recognize a device.
Step 6: Go to Device Manager (right-click on My Computer and select Properties–>Hardware–>Device Manager) make sure that your computer has accepted a new com port, something like COM4 or COM9, and maybe a new USB connection, the USB HIGH SPEED SERIAL, but if you don’t see the new USB connection check all the other ones and look under the Power tab and see if that new COM port is receiving power.
Step 7: Close the Device Manager window, and go to the Phone and Modems option in the Control Panel. Click on Modems. There should be at least one connection (if the computer has one internal modem).
Step 8:Click on Add and in the new window remove the check mark from “Don’t detect my modem; I will select it from a list”.
Step 9: Click on next, you should now see 3 choices, select Sprint on the left window and Sprint PCS in the right window. Click on next, and click on finish in the followng window.
Step 10: Go to Control Panel–>Network Connections and select create a new connection. A “New Connection Wizard” will pop up. Select ‘Connect to the Internet’ then ‘Set up my connection manually’ then ‘Connect using a Dial-up modem’ Then uncheck the default modem and check the new “Modem - PCS Software Modem (COM#)” Type in Sprint as the ISP name. Hit Next. Type in #777 as the Phone number to call. Hit Next. On the next screen leave all the fields blank and uncheck the last two boxes. Hit Next.
Now you are done!
Oh, wait… I forgot to tell you how to set up the phone. Here’s how you do that.
Look at the phone. Select Menu–>8 Settings–>9 Setup–>4 Data-In.
At this screen you need to change all three items.
1 Connection –> Off
2 Method –> RS-232C(COM Port)
3 Speed –> 115200 bps
OK, now you are really ready to go. Just open up that dial-up connection called “Sprint” make sure that everything is blank except Dial: #777 and click Dial.
Now you should be doing well.
If all that didn’t work out for you seek help elsewhere. I’m no expert at this stuff.
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