PAM (Phone as Modem) using Samsung Instinct

12Mar/0922

PAM (Phone as Modem) using Samsung Instinct

Wow... 2 posts in 1 day. This is almost unheard of for me! This past weekend I picked up a Samsung Instinct. It's a really cool phone with all kinds of cool little gadgets, but if you just go plugging it in, it won't work as a modem. I've figured out a little way around that.

First, you'll notice that when you plug your phone in using the USB cable, it turns off the phone completely and accesses the SD card in the phone. A simple way around this is to just remove the card. Easy, right? Now you're going to need to change a setting in the phone. You're going to type ##DEBUGMENU# on your keypad (##332846368# for those of you that can't spell). You'll need your MSL next. You can normally get this by asking the person at your local Sprint store very nicely. It'll be a 6 digit number that you'll type in and it'll bring you to a menu. Go to "Toggle NAI" and Toggle modem off. Yes, I said turn it off. Trust me, this is the only way it's going to work. Once you've got all of that done, create a new Dial-up Networking Connection using your Samsung modem. Leave the Username and Password blank and use #777 as your dialup number. That's it! Pretty simple, eh?

I'm still working out some bugs with this. The connection doesn't stay up very long, but it will auto-redial, so it doesn't go down for long. I'm getting about 1.5 Megabit down and 256k up, so it's not blindingly fast, but it works. Hell, as I write this, I'm sitting in at the bar drinking a beer. And yes, I'm using my new Samsung Instinct as a modem to do it.

BEWARE! According to Sprint, even though you have an unlimited data plan, you still have to pay for a PAM plan. I'm not doing this currently as I'm only testing out the functionality. I suggest that if you want to use your Instinct as a modem, you buy a plan with Sprint.

Tagged as: cellular, Instinct, mobile, PAM, phone, Phone as Modem, Samsung, Samsung Instinct, Sprint Leave a comment

http://knightmayor.com Janardhanaya

haha ? the one who is posting the comments
http://knightmayor.com/ Gadhadhraya

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http://knightmayor.com Gadhadhraya

Super-Duper site! I am loving it!! Will come back again – taking you feeds also, Thanks.
Bob Trigg

Do you mean if I buy the phone with modem, I can get it. Almost everyone I talk to says it’s not available
Bob
Bob Trigg

Do you mean if I buy the phone with modem, I can get it. Almost everyone I talk to says it’s not available
Bob
matt

it didnt work
goseese

Great TUT. I needed to configure my instinct as a modem to connect to another remote PC, not sprint as an ISP.

First I tried to use it as a modem without Toggling the NAI, and that didn’t work. Returned error No Carrier

Then I dialed #2, and they readily gave me the MSL. I Toggled the NAI off, and it worked.

I configured the Instinct as a Blue Tooth Modem on my Mac, then opened ZTERM and set up the Instinct as my serial port.

A few simple ATZ, ATD commands and it was off and working.

Thanks for the push in the right direction.
http://goseese.com-dataserveronly goseese

Great TUT. I needed to configure my instinct as a modem to connect to another remote PC, not sprint as an ISP.

First I tried to use it as a modem without Toggling the NAI, and that didn’t work. Returned error No Carrier

Then I dialed #2, and they readily gave me the MSL. I Toggled the NAI off, and it worked.

I configured the Instinct as a Blue Tooth Modem on my Mac, then opened ZTERM and set up the Instinct as my serial port.

A few simple ATZ, ATD commands and it was off and working.

Thanks for the push in the right direction.
Fabian

I changed my instinct to the new one and when I entered the MSL the option for the “toggle NAI” is no longer available. Does somebody know what to do in the new phone
Fabian

I changed my instinct to the new one and when I entered the MSL the option for the “toggle NAI” is no longer available. Does somebody know what to do in the new phone
curious

This does work. I have the old samsung instinct and i did it on my desktop and my laptop, both Dells. I just have a question…

you know how we go to the debug menu and switch to toggle modem off, do we have to switch it back once we are not using it as a modem and using it as a regular phone?? If so, why???

I was just curious, it seems tedious to keep going into the debugmenu and switching it back & forth, when i want to pam and then when I just want my regular cell phone.

Any ideas, thoughts, would help.

Thanks
curious

This does work. I have the old samsung instinct and i did it on my desktop and my laptop, both Dells. I just have a question…

you know how we go to the debug menu and switch to toggle modem off, do we have to switch it back once we are not using it as a modem and using it as a regular phone?? If so, why???

I was just curious, it seems tedious to keep going into the debugmenu and switching it back & forth, when i want to pam and then when I just want my regular cell phone.

Any ideas, thoughts, would help.

Thanks
http://www.gregoryledet.com Greg Ledet

To be honest, I never went back into the debug menu to toggle off. I just left it that way.
http://www.gregledet.net Greg

To be honest, I never went back into the debug menu to toggle off. I just left it that way.
matt

it didnt work
WCW

i wounder will this work the ps3?
kris

it didnt work for me, connection failed…do you actually type the “#” 777, i have tried both ways and no luck…help
http://www.gregoryledet.com Greg Ledet

Dude, this was written a year ago. I'm sure that Samsung and Sprint have updated the firmware on the phone since then. Normally, after a firmware update, things don't work the same way they used to.
kris

it didnt work for me, connection failed…do you actually type the “#” 777, i have tried both ways and no luck…help
http://www.gregoryledet.com Greg Ledet

Dude, this was written a year ago. I'm sure that Samsung and Sprint have updated the firmware on the phone since then. Normally, after a firmware update, things don't work the same way they used to.
http://samsung-corby.net/ Alan Batty

I just found this post. I could have done with this a year ago! I changed my phone since then because of the problems. You could have saved me a fortune!
http://samsung-corby.net/ Alan Batty

I just found this post. I could have done with this a year ago! I changed my phone since then because of the problems. You could have saved me a fortune!

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