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Radiation is good
I've been attempting the instructions on the wiki to get Q2N working on the Motorola droid. The instructions are incomplete and the author doubts it could work. I've been poking at it pretty hard but with no success. I might be in a Q2N dead zone as described by some. Did anybody get it to work on the Droid or similar phone?
Phone Collector
whats q2n?
and link>?
My screen is bigger than yours
I tried it. I spent a lot of time deciphering what the instructions were and then I followed all the instructions and it didn't work.
Here is where I got stuck "and change the 'Mobile IP Behavior' to 'Simply IP only'" means no connection. Not just qnc, but 3g, too.
Phone Collector
link to instructions?
My screen is bigger than yours
If you want to try it, here is the link: http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.p...ones_and_HowToOriginally Posted by fstuff
But if you have to ask for a link, I wonder how successful you will be . . .
Phone Collector
thats standard qnc. got my q9c on it easy.
whats q2n?
My screen is bigger than yours
same thing different name.
Give me back my RAZR!
I too have been trying to get my Droid to use QNC/Q2N without success. Although there are instructions in the wiki (wiki. howardforums .com /index.php/QNC_and_Dial-up_Compatible_Phones_and_HowTo#a855_.28Verizon_Mot orola_Droid.29) I've not been able to find anyone who has got them to work. While the settings may be applied I suspect the problem lays with the fact that no Android device supports the QNC/Q2N method of connection (maybe some clever programmer could write the supporting driver??). The only smart phones that seem to support QNC/Q2N are the Windows Mobile phones.
If anyone has got an Android phone successfully using QNC/Q2N data I'd love to hear how they got it working.
Phone fan
I have been wondering about this myself. I have it working beautifully on my Winmo phone. If it were working correctly on the Droid I would upgrade.
I've climbed a cellphone tower
14.4kbps Internet (slow even by dial-up standards) seems like a such a weak reason to keep using Windows Mobile, even though it's free.
Last edited by Slinkwyde; 07-23-2012 at 12:54 AM.
My screen is bigger than yours
Seems that way, but's not. There's not much that an Android phone can do that a WinMo 5 phone can't do. Maybe play Angry Birds, but there are things that an 7 year old phone can do that Android can't -- like play a huge variety of video formats.
Most of what I do with data is email. That's not going to come any slower on a 14.4 connection.
I've climbed a cellphone tower
There are Android apps that support a wide variety of video formats, such as MX player or VLC for Android (beta).
My screen is bigger than yours
Oh, I'm not going to get into this. If you never tried WM5, along with all the hacking that was done to the registry and the addition of Java Servelets, (and the bootlegging of software like TomTom Navigator) then you wouldn't know what I am talking about.
Free data will beat pay data every time, even if it is slower.
My screen is bigger than yours
As someone who previously had a Q9c for quite a while but switched to a Droid recently, I will agree that WM is very versatile even now. But it (and even moreso the Q9c) is very limited on certain aspects depending on what you do with it. And given it is very outdated, it exacerbates it.
Mind you, I loved my Q9c. And for the price I got it, was quite capable and surprised at the apps I could find to do different tasks. And having the registry and other functions copied from the desktop version of Windows was a nice sight as something I'm used to already.
But Android has the benefit of still being a current smartphone OS with a HUGE app market in comparison to Windows Mobile (even taking 3rd party locations into account and not Microsoft's own sanctioned 'app market') and doesn't strictly limit apps to certain phone models so older ones such as the Droid still get access to the newest apps. And the community is much more vast with better user support in most cases.
Personally I was willing to fork over the ~$55/mo to have the 2GB data on a full BYOD provider WITH Verizon and a great phone. Even when I first jumped onboard and only had the one plan originally with just 100MB data, the versatility of an Android device was preferable amongst everything else. On the other hand if just a good email device is all you really need with maybe some occasional media use, sure a WM device would be good and I'd say from experience the email functionality was great in WM especially if using the exchange functionality (personally with Google's 'Sync' service).
To each his own IMHO.
Back to the original topic though, I imagine QNC is a completely lost cause on most Android devices today and as time goes on, any device period. Others have already mentioned QNC has disappeared in some markets. As Verizon goes about updating systems, one of the first things to probably go is the dated QNC system. I've already wandered around trying to get it functioning on my Droid but was completely unsuccessful. Worst case scenario if it is TERRIBLY necessary I would aim for a WM device with Wifi and put it on the standard plan. Hotspot it with QNC.
I've climbed a cellphone tower
To put an actual number on that word "huge," as of this writing Google Play has exactly 488,990 apps. 424,410 of those (~87%) are not games. That's not counting other app stores or side-loading.
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