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Friday, April 23, 2010

Activate GPRS on China Mobile's Cell Phone in Win7

This is a complete step by step guide to use your China Mobile as a GPRS modem for connecting to the internet.

1. Plug-in your mobile into USB and select the "COM Port" if any option on your mobile device pops up.

2. Right click the "Computer" on desktop and go to "properties". Click the "Device Manager" on the top left side of the properties window.

3. Find out your modem device. It should be appear with a yellow exclamation sign.

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4. Download this driver. [MTK CPU USB Driver] 17 KB

5. Double click the sign in the device manager to bring up the properties window of the modem device. Click "Update driver" located in the lower left side of the dialog. Now Select the "Browse my computer for driver software" and show the location of the driver. Click Next to install the driver. Select "continue or install anyway" if any dialog pops up saying that the driver is not signed digitally.


6. Now the driver for your modem should be installed. It should say something like "62xx USB Modem Driver (COM yy)".


7. Now open up the start menu and in the search box type "modem". Now select the "Phone & Modem" located under the "Control Panel" section. You can also go to the control panel and in the search box (upper right corner) type "modem" and then choose the "Phone & Modem".

8. After opening the "Phone and Modem" palette, select the "Modems" tab. Click "Add" to add new modem. Now a "Add hardware wizard" will pop up. Check "Don't detect my modem" and click next.


9. Now download this modem driver. [MT6225_Modem_Driver] 31KB

9. On the next section click the "Have disk" button and browse for the modem driver. You will see the modem driver, but the driver is not digitally signed. Click next to continue installation with the modem driver.


10. Now in the next section select the "COM yy" as the communication port for your modem. Click next to add the modem. You can find your modem's "COM yy" from the device manager.


11. Your Modem is now installed. You can create dial-up connection using it. Now let us test the modem.
Again open the "Phone & Modem" control panel palette. Go to "Modems" tab and double click the installed modem. Modem's property dialog will pop up. Now go to "Diagnostics" tab and click "Query Modem". After a short while it will show the result of the query. This is a proof which indicates that your modem is working.



Now create a dial-up connection using this modem and enjoy edge or gprs service.
This walk-through is for win7 but you can use it for win xp also.
If any of the link becomes invalid, please notify me. or you can google out the driver yourself.

For any question and suggestion, please leave a comment.

3 comments:

  1. I think it will be effective to many ppl...
    nice work SVN...

    keep it up :-)

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  2. Thanks !, Now i'm from Karbonn K10 on Docomo. Its all because of you. Appreciate your effort for writing, screenshots and posting this instruction.

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