Motorola V3i Is Driving Me Demented

[garro]

I got my motorola v3i today and I am have spent the day trying to get it to work as a modem for my mac with no luck. I rang the head office in Thailand and they say that it can't be used with a mac despite yesterday assuring me that it could. The only reason I bought it was so as to be able to connect to the internet. Any ideas?

[garro]

I can't even get it to connect to itunes on the mac.

[autonomous_unit]

When you say it won't work as a modem, what do you mean? You connected it via USB cable and the Mac didn't notice it at all? Does the phone indicate that it is charging when you connect it to the Mac?

Check in the Settings menu for a sub-menu for USB settings. Some Motorolas have this and you can change it between two modes such as "Storage" or "Data Fax". Try changing it and reconnecting the cable to the Mac...

The Motorola phones use the standard modem communications device class for USB so they work under Linux with a standard USB modem driver (no special Motorola drivers required). I never installed any Motorola software at all. I would have expected similar on the Mac.

[garro]

Well I managed to find a way to allow me to use this phone with my mac. It was just a matter of copying another script, that I found on the internet, to the modem script folder. It's actually not that slow. I was able to watch a youtube video despite the fact that it doesn't have EDGE. It is a relief to get it working even if it did mean waking up at 3am to mess around with it!

[nidge]

Well done garro, i'm glad you got it working.

[garro]

Thanks Nidge, I was almost ready to throw it in the bin!