USB Internet on A200 Phones, Using your PC connection on your phone Options

[Mizzle]

If you’ve been wondering how you can use your PC’s Internet connection on your Sony Ericsson A200 mobile phone, then wait no more because I have the answer for you!

But first of all, let’s make sure that your phone is really running the A200 platform - right now there are K630, K660, K850, V640, W890, W910 & Z750 running this platform, but more will come in the future. The easiest way to know if it’s A200 or the old A100 is by looking at the softkeys - if there are two softkey options in the phone, it’s A100, if there are three, it’s A200. Quite simple, right?

Anyway, lets get on with it. Please note that you must have PC Suite 3.0 installed on your computer and you have to have had the phone connected to the PC first, so all drivers have been installed and are working. Also please have in mind that I’m running a Danish version of Windows XP, so my translations might not be totally accurate with the English ones - and it may not be the exact same way to do this on Vista!

Now, first of all go to Menu -> Settings -> Connectivity -> USB -> USB network -> USB network type and choose Via computer on your phone. Also make sure that your phone shows the USB mode-menu when plugging it to the USB cable.

Next go back to Connectivity and then Internet settings where you choose to Allow local connections.

Connect your phone to your PC via the USB cable. Once you’ve done this you should have a new LAN Internet connection on your PC. If you have any doubts about which one it is, you should be able to see the text “Sony Ericsson Device 117 USB Ethernet Emulation NDIS-5” in the right one (at least this is what is shown on my PC with my K850).

1. Next press the Configure a home or small office-network in Network connections on your PC.
   
   
   
   
2. A guide will now pop up. Press Next, Next, mark the “Ignore network hardware that is not connected”, Next, choose the first option (This computer has a direct connection to the Internet […]) and press Next.
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
   
3. Now choose your primary Internet connection and press Next.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Next up mark only the LAN connection created by your phone (in my case it’s called LAN-forbindelse 3) - press Next.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Again press Next, and now you must type in a name for the network - I’ve called mine for K850.
   
   
   
   
   
6. Now the guide will ask you if you want to enable file sharing - there’s no need for that, so just disable it.
7. After you’ve done so, it’ll configure the connections - this may take a few minutes (once it completes, just close the guide).
   
   
   
   
   

Lastly go back on your phone and go to Menu -> Settings -> Connectivity -> Network sharing -> and change the Workgroup name to the one you said on the computer (in this case K850).

That’s it! Now you can browse the Internet on your A200 mobile phone via your PC’s Internet connection

This post has been edited by Mizzle: 2008-02-06 00:07

[93bh]

That good!
Does it charge me with the internet from the service provider?

In the screen shots, you need to change it to English. LOL

[Mizzle]

It will make use of the PC's internet connection, and thereby also the cost of this internet connection.

Unfortunately I can't change the language of Windows, so I've added small texts in the pictures, as you might have seen.

[vkulunu]

how about uiq3?

[Mizzle]

Unfortunately, this won't work on UIQ 3. I'll have to find a way that'll work on UIQ 3

[qwerty12]

Sounds cool

Does the K610 or W580 work with this? If I remember correctly, they have a usb network connection too.

[Mizzle]

Unfortunately not. K610 and W580 (well, A100's in general) can only work as modems, while new A200 phones can work both ways.

[qwerty12]

Ok, thanks for that .

(This is my last post to any sceptics who want to point out my sig to me but it's nice to end my last post with a thanks).

[vkulunu]

If you able to do with uiq3 let us know it

Unfortunately, this won't work on UIQ 3. I'll have to find a way that'll work on UIQ 3

[sayantandas]

hi can u help us with the vista interface.
i cannot get it to work with it, as i cannot find any option like xp

[dabi_bilbao]

Once this done, which program should I use to surf the net? I've got opera mini and it still connects to the internet instead of to the computer.

Could you help me please?

Thanks a lot.

[Mizzle]

I used the default web browser and that worked out quite fine.

[Ly]

Nice one Miz.
I might give that a go later.
I have never installed the SE software.
I just used MPE.

[fbloise]

mine stays "acquiring network address" and doesn't do anything.
What im doing wrong?

[Naidu]

Yo! what a good tutorial you've done!
thank you very much here bro!
looks interesting.

Since it uses USB, any idea on connection using bluetooth?

This post has been edited by Naidu: 2008-04-29 03:53

[RainDays]

how to do it on vista......

[Benjaxez]

ive set it up, but i have a question on whether i need to change my internet settings or will it just work as everything u said in the guide?

[andrefotbf]

Hi everybody,
firstly excuse me for my noobness
I did everuthing, buh when I link my k660 with PC it stills uses my cellphone's connection and blows me over 1€ per time
anyway, could you help me plz? and, once I've done all rightly, will I connect to internet with my phone qith the "standard" internet button? Thanks..

[force28]

non-English XP owns. i'm running trad-chinese-XP!!
nice, imma try it with my frd's K850

[m82a1]

i was thinking if this could work, lol looks like it can