Apple and DX crazy Combo.
Yes, but after trying lots of things, modifying settings and looking all over the web I have finally been able to get my DX and my PPC Powerbook G4 to work together and I can now surf the web, check email, etc! (And do it in a repeatable fashion - I've rebooted either the DX, my G4 and both several times to make sure and the connection has always returned within a few seconds - yeah!)
I just hope there are no more technical surprises.
Note: This post will probably be a long one, but I want to capture all the info I've gone through so that it might help someone in a similar bind - and if I need to I can look up what I did to restore my connection as well...here goes-
I tried making the changes per the above suggestions (thanks posters), but I was still having problems with a stable connection. Under System Preferences/Network I was creating all kinds of settings but I only connected twice, once via the "Bluetooth Pan" interface and once via a "DXModem" interface I created. The irritating thing is that I couldn't reconnect to the internet once I closed it and immediately reopened it. I would end up deleting the bluetooth profile for my DX and re-pairing and then spend 30 minutes goofing around with settings in bluetooth and network, and as stated above only got a connection twice with different connection interfaces under the System Preferences/Network screen. Mostly I would get a popup that said things like "cannot find harware/hardware not connected", "there's been an error with Modem - check settings", "could not open up an RFCONN port" (or something like that), etc.
Urgh!
After doing some lengthy looking around in cyberspace I came across the following post at Droidforums.net:
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If you have your phone currently paired with your Mac, delete the device from your macs bluetooth options. Open bluetooth preferences, select device, and hit the minus button.
Run PDAnet on your phone and select "enable bluetooth DUN". Select yes to "bluetooth permission request".
Click on the bluetooth emblem in the top bar of your mac. Select setup bluetooth device.
Click continue. Select "Mobile phone" and hit continue.
When it finds your device select it and hit continue.
When it's done gathering info hit continue.
A number will come up that you have to type into your phone, do this now and hit "OK".
Go back to your Mac and make sure that "Access the internet..." and "Use device as a network port" are both checked. Click continue.
On the next screen, your settings should be as follows:
Phone Vendor: Generic
Phone Model: Dialup Device
Username: (blank)
Password: (blank)
Phone Number: 123
Now click continue.
Click on your bluetooth icon in the top bar of your mac and put your cursor on the device, go to the drop down and select "connect to network". Voila! Internet access!
Easy Peasy!
This whole process needs to be done relatively quickly to work properly. Not insanely fast, just don't step out for a nooner in the middle of it.
If at first you don't succeed, try, try again.
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I followed the above exactly and guess what - it still didn't work (initially). The final step per the above instructions clicking the "connect to network" in the bluetooth pulldown menu just gave me the same error popups. Rather than doing this last step, this is how I got it to work:
Under System Preferences/Network I created a new Bluetooth interface (my G4 automatically gave it a Service Name of "Bluetooth 2"). Here are the settings:
Configuration: Default
Telephone Number: 123
Account Name: <blank>
Password: <blank>
If you click on the "Advanced" button these are the "Modem" tab settings I have:
Vendor: Generic
Model: Dialup Device
check "Enable error correction and compression in modem"
Dial Mode: Wait for dial tone before dialing
Dialing: Tone
Sound: On
Once all these settings are done, I connect like this:
1. Turn off/deactivate PDAnet on my Powerbook G4.
2. Turn ON PDAnet on the Droid X and hit the "Enable Bluetooth DUN" button.
3. The Bluetooth permission request box will come up - hit "Yes"
4. On the G4 MODEM dropdown menu, I select "Connect Bluetooth 2" and it connects within a few seconds. One thing to note: The bluetooth icon on my DX stays white - it doesn't turn blue but the connection works fine.
I'm seeing about a half Meg down/quarter Meg upload speeds per Speedtest.net, enough to do what I need to do and I'm happy with that (for now)...
That's it!
BTW, My Mac is a few years old, a 17" Powerbook G4 running a 1.5Ghz PPC processor. PDAnet doesn't support the non-intel Mac architecture so it won't make either a tethered or Bluetooth connection using the PDAnet program on the Mac end (but it seems to work fine on the DX side as per above - weird
)
And Thanks go out to ManifestDestiny, who posted the above instructions on Droidforums.net
I hope this helps anyone out there who has been having similar problems. Also apologies for such a long post. I've only had my DX for 3 days so I am still very new to Android.
One last note - I'm posting this using my DX bluetooth connection...
