QNC on the Q

QNC on the "Q"

This is a first draft on how to get QNC free (but slow) internet access with the Motorola Q on Verizon systems including prepaid services like Page Plus Cellular (my service) and probably Airvoice and others. I just got it working myself on my new black Q and a thread about it can be found here. More general info here.

Basically, you have to get the phone's Internet IP mode set to "Simple Only" and force data rate to 14.4kbps/14.4kbps. This may involve enabling a Dial-up entry under Connections, which is normally hidden. Other settings might be required. My black Q may have been a tough case and you could have an easier time with the Silver Q and older firmware. If you have no internet access at all you should just try launching IE and see if a login box miraculously opens. No, huh?

I went through a long series of steps but it wasn't until the last one that QNC worked. I don't no which ones were or were not necessary. So I would suggest you try the last one first. Force data rate to 14.4kbps/14.4kbps by dialing ##073887* Send. It should go into programming mode, enter 000000 for passcode, change data rate to 14.4k/14.4k, hit OK, BACK, EXIT. If you're lucky, this may cause a Dial-up login window to pop up when you try to access the Internet allowing you to enter a login for QNC. Use #777 for Phone number, qnc for User Name and qnc for Password. Leave Domain blank.

The next easiest thing to try is to "unhide" the Dial-up option in Settings/Connections. You can do this by editing the connectcdma.cpl.xml file

in the Windows folder (you'll need to uncheck "hide system files" and "hide hidden files" under Menu/Options) . Unfortunately, this file is write-protected (at least on the black Q with the latest firmware) so you have to be tricky:

On your phone, use File Manager to copy connectcdma.cpl.xml to My Documents.
Connect your phone to your PC (I'm assuming ActivSync is installed).
Copy connectcdma.cpl.xml from My Documents to your desktop (drag to Desktop)
Edit the file with Notepad (right click, open with) by removing  marks (just back over them) and then save.
Go back on your phone and delete connectcdma.cpl.xml from My Documents using File Manager.
Go back to your PC, drag the file from desktop back to My Documents
Go to your phone again and copy the file from My Documents back to Windows (thus overwriting it).

Do the last step slowly and give it time to complete or it will fail and may wipe out your Start Menu (if so, do a hard reset to restore, or back it up first). If successful:

Go to Settings, Connections, Proxy, if you see anything there, delete them or make them all connect to anything except "The Internet".
Go to Settings, Connections, Dial-up, if you see anything there, delete them or make them all connect to anything except "The Internet".
Add a new Dial-up QNC, dial #777, user qnc, password qnc.

Still not working? Let's hack the phone and set Internet IP to Simple Only. You'll need RSD General CDMA 4.5 or QPST 2.7 build 215. You can find them via a BitTorrent client like UTorrent.

I couldn't get RSD to work but maybe you can. It will probably tell you that your phone is unsupported but do it anyway. I'm told it's notoriously slow so wait for it to do its stuff. I assumed it had just crashed, taking the phone with it, and gave up on it. So I went to QPST 2.7 which works well but requires VirtualSerialPort to connect. See that here. Make sure the checked boxes are the same under the Settings tab. You can find your un-used com ports by looking at your modem settings in Device Manager on your PC. Anything above 10 is probably unused.

Once you get QPST working, read from the phone and save a copy of your settings. Then go straight to the "I. IP" tab and change to Simple Only. Then write to the phone. If you putz around looking at other things you may accidentally change something. Also, some of the Q's settings make QPST think some of the values are wrong and you'll get stuck in a dialogue box and have to start over.

If that doesn't work, launch QPST again, go to Data tab, change data mode to MDR Only; Service option to pre-707.

Once you get QNC working you'll find it's quite useful for lots of things. You can't receive calls while online but a VM icon and tone arrive quickly. Alter your Voicemail message accordingly. You can hang up the connection by attempting to dial any number. A registry hack will allow you to set a timeout for the connection. Get a registry editor like Resco. If you delete the SuspendResume key under hklm\comm\connmgr\planner\settings, QNC will disconnect automatically after 60 secs. You can change the timer with the cachetimer key. The Q is a great hackable phone!

Check out Everything Q and Q Users.

Anyway, like I said, this is a first draft and is ass-backwards from what I did and may be wrong. Use at your own risk. As we get more "victims" the best procedure will get sorted out. You may want to start by editing connectcdma.cpl.xml since it doesn't change any settings on your phone.

Thanks to Fixup and slohasley.

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Update!

We have a 2nd victim! He just got QNC working on his new black Q by using this method. Oddly, he did everything but change the data rate. Go figger. His only glitch came when he tried using an older version of QPST 2.7 which was not build 215 and it had no "I. IP" tab.