Mobile Data Connectivity using the Psion Series 5, 5mx, 7 (and Revo) A Beginner’s Guide to setting up the Psion for use with a mobile phone (Document v1.00 – August 2001) The registered owners of any Trademarks, product names and/or other commercially-identifiable words contained within this document are acknowledged. Whilst this document is © K. Snelling 2001, it contains extracts from material produced by: M. McConnell, R. Brunsting, J.
Contents Introduction 3 Getting started 4 Configuring your modem 5 Setting up your Internet connection(s) 9 The Programs: Email 14 Faxing 17 SMS (Text Messaging) 19 Useful Add-ons: The Dialer 20 Appendices: Mobile phones that work with Psion computers 22 Modem set-up initialization codes for various mobile phones 24 24 25 26 28 Ericsson 888, 320 phones and DI27/DI28 modems Siemens S25, C35, M35, S35 Nokia 6210, 7110, 8210, 8810, 8850 Motorola L7089, P7389, T250 If your Psion “resets” it
Introduction In recent months, I have noticed a fairly large increase in the number of people looking for help with setting up a Psion handheld computer to access Internet and Email with their mobile phone. With the “slow-but-sure” progress the mobile networks seem to be making with regard to “mobile connectivity”, considerably more people are looking at using their handheld computer while on the road. My reasons for compiling this guide are two-fold.
Getting Started First, some important things to remember. If you wish to set up your Psion to use a mobile phone and access the Internet and/or email, using a mobile phone is both slow and can be expensive.
Configuring your modem Before you consider trying to set up the Email program, you should first set up a modem and, of course, your Internet access details. Both of these are dealt with under Control Panel options. At any time during the series of set-up steps in this and following sections, if you make an error, either go back to the previous screen or tap the Cancel button and start over. From the System screen, tap Control Panel > Modems.
• Connect via is used to determine how your Psion will link to your mobile phone. In this example, the Nokia 6210 has an infrared “eye” or a serial cable (Nokia part number - “DLR-3P”). I have chosen the infrared connection. • Fax class determines the internal technicalities when sending faxes. It does NOT relate to the fax “Group”; fax machines these days are classed as “Group 3”, with a newer “Group 4” standard for digital-only lines.
When you have set up the options here, tap the “Initialisation” tab, and you will be presented with this screen: The settings on this screen can make your connection work very efficiently or, if you get the settings wrong, you may not be able to connect successfully at all! Refer to the appendices at the end of this document for a selection of popular phones and their set up details. The details in this appendix have been compiled from personal experiences of users of those phones. • Init.
If you connect your phone with a cable, then the Psion can control the data-flow by setting or measuring voltages on certain pins on the cable plug to determine whether the modem is “ready” or the data-flow needs to be stopped/paused. This is called “hardware flow control”. The third flow control option – None – tells the Psion not to use any form of data-flow control at all.
Internet connection details Having set up your mobile modem to be able to make connections “on the road”, we will now move on to configuring your Psion for Internet access. This section does, of course, assume that you already have an account with an Internet Service Provider (ISP) – BT Internet, Virgin, Lineone, etc. Please note that, at present, if you have an account with AOL, MSN, CIX or “Compuserve 2000*”, your Psion cannot access these systems due to the proprietary interfaces these services use.
Setting up Internet From the Psion System screen, tap Control Panel > Internet, and you will be presented with a screen something like this: If you already happen to have an Internet Service account set up, you may see a screen similar to the next one below. If so, just tap the “New” button and continue from the next section. On this screen, make sure that “Based upon” shows “Standard settings” and tap OK.
Once you have finished with this screen, tap the “Account” tab to move on to this screen: • Manual login determines whether the details you enter below, are sent automatically when you connect. If you select this option, you will be presented with an extra screen during the connection where you will have to enter your username/password manually. Unless you have any reason to do otherwise, leave this box unticked.
If your ISP does provide you with specific addresses, untick the boxes and you will then be given a box alongside “IP address” with “0.0.0.0” in it. Just overtype these numbers with whatever your ISP gives you. Two similar boxes will also appear alongside the “DNS address” entries, which you should similarly fill in with details from your ISP. Some ISP’s who provide specific addresses may only give you a “Primary DNS address” entry.
Tap the “Advanced” button to move on to the last part of the setting up. The next screen will look something like this: Unless told otherwise by your ISP, all that should be set on this screen is the box marked Allow plain text authentication. Use call back (if ticked) activates a system whereby you initially dial and connect to the remote computer, login and then hang up. For extra security, the remote computer then calls you back to establish the connection.
The Programs Please refer to the “Important Note” on page 3 of this guide. The Email Program By tapping the “Email” icon on your Psion, you launch a program that will give you access to Email, fax sending & receiving and SMS (text) messaging*. We will start with setting up the Email program. * SMS messaging is not available on the Series 5 Classic.
Tap the Outgoing button to move on to the next screen: • Email (SMTP) server is the computer to which you send your outbound email(s). If you already have an email account using your desktop computer, you should be able to find these details under the “Accounts”, or similar, heading in your email program. Though of little significance in most cases, SMTP stands for Simple Mail Transfer Protocol, and is a standard by which mail is exchanged. • Auto send on opening is a useful option.
• Mailbox password is the access password you chose. As with the mailbox login above, it may not be the same password used to dial in to the ISP. Confirm password should be selfexplanatory! Note that as you type the password characters, they are replaced on screen by asterisks so that no-one else watching, can see what your password is. Before tapping the OK button, tap on Advanced to see this screen: Under normal circumstances, the value entered in the SMTP Port box should be as shown – 25.
Now, tap on the OK button on the smaller screen display, then tap the OK button on the larger screen. Your email program is now configured for use. To set up Fax and SMS, see the following sections. Setting up for Faxes Please be sure to read the information on “Fax and Data” in the “Getting Started” section at the beginning of this guide.
Next, tap the “Modem” tab to move to the next screen: • Max. fax speed is the setting to determine how fast your modem can send the fax under ideal conditions. Most fax machines can use a maximum of 9600bps, though there are some newer machines available that can receive at 14400bps. Select 9600 in this box, and you should have few problems. • Min. fax speed is the slowest speed you want to use when sending a fax.
Setting up SMS (not applicable to Series 5 “Classic”) Using a mobile phone to send SMS (text) messages seems to be the main reason why people have mobiles. A phenomenal number of text messages are sent every month and it is much easier to use a decent-size keyboard to type in your message, than trying to use the phone keypad. Before starting the SMS set-up procedure, I would strongly suggest you contact your mobile network and ask them what the “SMS Centre” number is.
• Edit service centre address. In order to send SMS messages from your phone, the message needs to be “processed” by the SMS Centre for your network. So, although you are sending a message to a particular mobile number, it goes through the SMSC and on to your intended recipient. Your Psion needs to be told what SMSC number to use.
When you run The Dialer, it presents you with a screen like this: Connection shows you which Internet Account is in use. Simply change this as appropriate if you have more than one account set up. Phone number displays the number you have set up as the access number for the Internet Account in use. Use number as entered simply determines how the number is presented to your mobile phone for dialling. Modem shows the currently selected modem to use.
Appendix A Mobile phones known to work with your Psion The following is a list of GSM mobile phones which can be connected to a Psion computer via a cable or infrared connection.
• Pocketline Mercurius, Spectrum • Sagem 959 R Diamond, CS755, MC850, MC959, MW939, RD750D, RD750ET, RD750EX, RD750S, RD750T • Siemens C35, M35, S25, S35I, S40, SL45 • Sony CMD-J5, CMD-Z5 The phones indicated here should not be taken as a definitive list as new phones seem to be appearing at very regular intervals. There may well be phones on the market, not listed here, that may successfully be connected to your Psion.
Appendix B Modem Set-up and Initialization Codes for various mobile phones General Note: Fluorescent lights can interfere with infrared communication between the Psion and a mobile phone. Some users have found that their Psion and phone work OK at home but won't work in the office; this may be the reason. Disclaimer: The settings provided here should be taken as a guide only.
SIEMENS S25 (but see alternative settings below) SIEMENS C35 M35 S35 Name: Speed: Connect: Fax Class: Siemens 115200 with Infrared; 19200 with Serial cable Infrared (S25/S35) Serial (C35/M35) Auto Init (reset): Data: Fax: AT&F AT\Q1 (blank) Flow Control: Software (Xon/Xoff) Terminal (DSR/DTR): [ ] not checked Carrier (DCD): [ ] not checked Type: Mobile Note: It is important when connecting by Serial Cable to use a Port speed of 19200. This also applies when using the phone with a PC.
NOKIA "Generic Settings", including 7110, 8210, 8810, 8850, 6210 (see also settings below for 7110e at 14.4kbps on Orange and for 6210e at up to 28.8kbps on Orange) Name: Speed: Connect: Fax Class: Nokia 57600 Infrared Auto Init (reset): Data: Fax: AT&F&K4 (blank) (blank) Flow Control: Software (Xon/Xoff) Terminal (DSR/DTR): [ ] not checked Carrier (DCD): [ ] not checked Type: Mobile NOKIA 7110e running at 14.
NOKIA 6210e running at 28.8kbps on Orange Network (these settings will "force" a 28.8 connection and, if this speed cannot be achieved, will drop the line) Name: Speed: Connect: Fax Class: Nokia 6210e 115200 Infrared Auto Init (reset): Data: Fax: AT&F&K4 ATS35=7+CBST=48,0,1 AT&S&K4 Flow Control: Software (Xon/Xoff) Terminal (DSR/DTR): [ ] not checked Carrier (DCD): [ ] not checked Type: Mobile NOKIA 6210 - HSCSD Settings General HSCSD settings using a V110 ISDN connection.
Motorola L7089, P7389, T250 Name: Speed: Connect: Fax Class: Motorola 115200 Infrared Auto Loudspeaker: Volume: Pause time for ",": Init (reset): Data: Fax: Until call answered Quiet 4 secs AT&F&K5 (blank) (blank) Flow Control: Software (Xon/Xoff) Terminal (DSR/DTR): [ ] not checked Carrier (DCD): [ ] not checked Type: Mobile Note 1: On the L7089 phone, make sure that keypad tones are set to "On" and the "Normal" setting. The settings in the "Options" tab also seem to be important.
