I used the email thing from verizon and it didnšt do much for me so I had it
disconnected. I donšt have national access for my plan. Išll just have to
get online with wifi. There are loads of free places and coffee houses, at
least most of them, have free wifi. My phone pairs with the computer fine
but it wonšt authenticate. I think they have shut me down. Išm gonna try my
wifešs phone and see what happens. I donšt know whether another phone # will
make a difference.
Thanks a bunch for your info. Keep in touch.
--dp
From: Ralph Strauch < rstrauch%40somatic.com">rstrauch
somatic.com>
Reply-To: < maccellphone%40yahoogroups.com">maccellphoneyahoogroups.com>;
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 17:03:31 -0800
To: < maccellphone%40yahoogroups.com">maccellphoneyahoogroups.com>;
Subject: Re: [maccellphone] Was Re: lgvx9800 Now connect LG VX9900 as modem
Dean,
By the "email-for-the-phone thing"; do you mean getting Verizon to
deliver email directly to your phone? If so, I don't know anything
about that and can't help you with it. If the phone gets email from a
regular POP account, though, you might want to leave that mail on the
server when you check it with the phone and then get it again later
from your PB.
If your Mac is connecting through the phone you should just be able
to use the internet backdoor the same way you did before if you're in
a National Access area that does not support EVDO. The latest word,
though, is that Verizon is installing new EVDO towers that will
automatically detect data connections attempts from EVDO phones and
shut them down if you aren't paying for a data connection, even if
you have EVDO disabled in the phone. Subscribe to
< InternetByCellPhone%40yahoogroups.com">InternetByCellPhoneyahoogroups.com
<mailto:InternetByCellPhone%40yahoogroups.com> > and read the tutorials in
the
file section. There's been a lot of discussion of this on that list.
So apparently the free backdoor is going away for EVDO phones. You
can still use the phone in non-EVDO areas (I connected with mine this
way last week) and can use non-EVDO phones anywhere. So if you still
have your old phone you might want to reactivate that. (It's easy to
do on your account page on the Verizon website -- takes less than a
minute.)
The other alternative is to pay for a broadband connection. It's
$60/month if you have voice account, and I'm told, though haven't
confirmed it personally, that you can turn it off and on pretty
easily for a few days at a time.
I hope this helps.
Ralph
At 10:52 AM -0700 2/9/07, Dean Perry wrote:
>Hi, Ralph. Well...I bought the $60 email-for-the-phone thing. I still don't
>know how to down load email from the phone (LG 8300) to the G4 powerbook. I
>may have to camp on your doorstep. My phone and the mac pair and I don't
>know where to go from there. Really pisses me off...I used to get all my
>email backdoor on my old phone and system 9 on the computer. My son put in
>the new system and it went all to hell. I now do it all wifi. I'd like to be
>able to use the phone as a modem. Got any ideas? Oh...many thanks for all
>your assistance.
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Ralph Strauch, Ph.D., Certified Feldenkrais Practitioner
Author of "Low-Stress Computing, Using awareness to avoid RSI"
and "The Reality Illusion: How you make the world you experience,"
http://www.somatic.com/
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