Manual Configurations/Settings for Aircel 3G
Mar 26, 2011 General, Technology
I have a super-cool android phone Spice MI-300, one main motivating factor for buying it a six months ago was because I wanted to make best use of 3G which was soon to be unveiled at that time, but unfortunately took till Feb 2011 to have in Aircel. That doesn’t stop there, I have been trying to activate 3G on my phone for the last 3 weeks — all in vain. Reason being, since I am using a Spice phone, Aircel doesn’t support activation of 3G, the customer support guys are saying the phone is not listed, so they cannot activate 3G. I am 100% sure that my phone supports 3G and it has WCDMA and it is 3.5G , but tough luck with the Customer support guys, they just don’t agree.
After 10-15 calls, I realized that there are no setting/ configurations for 3G, its just that the service provider has to activate 3G for your SIM. So I took my brother’s 3G Phone which is Nokia N81 – well supported by Aircel, sent “START 3G” to 121. The service got activated within minutes, switched the SIM back to my phone, Switched to WCDMA mode — There you go .. 3G on spice. 
So If you have a 3G phone which is not supported by Aircel. Here is what you need to do
- Grab a phone which is supported by Aircel 3G
- Put your SIM , Send START 3G to 121. Wait till you get the service activated.
- Replace the SIM back and go 3G
We will have to face these issues as long as Aircel continues to have these kinds of annoying “Supported Mobiles” lists. This is the height of stupidity by Aircel, how do they think they can maintain a list of all 3G phone models in the world?
#Recruitment #FAIL
Found this in one job listing
(PS. No offense meant for students/people related to that college, but imho CEG deserves a much better place that Lord Venketeswara)
Awesome feature in my new fone
After breaking my ‘recently new’ N-Series phone last morning, I resorted to buy a simple fone, and got myself a Samsung E2120 today. This phone a cool little feature called Fake Call, basically all it does is that it generates a fake call for you at the touch of a button, so if you find someone annoying you, like a little meeting with your boss, or some boring neighbor, and you want to get out of that situation, you can just press a key and keep your phone in the pocket. In the next 5 secs you will get a fake call generated for an “unknown” number. You can disconnect the call (???) or attend the call and start talking, but you wont get any response from the other side and make use of the opportunity to get out of that situation.
This was really cool, I have added a shortcut to this feature, so I might use it next time..
Look at this video for a demo
AND THERE IT COMES TO AN END… 2009
In a couple of hours from now, 2009 will be over. Again a new year will begin, but this year would have given me some of the most unforgettable moments of my life. If I had to summarize 2009 in a few words, I would say, it was a dream run for me. It helped me look at reality; it looks like it has possibly shown me a path of where I should be heading. I became fully qualified in this year, ZCE, did try my luck at java as well, and then I was able to get enrolled for my MS. It was all very good. Much of it should be credited to the support of my friends (most of them are ex-colleagues now), so 2009 will be remembered happily for all that.
I tried learning guitar, it was quite happy to see myself playing it well, but due to unexpected (But somehow all my friends guessed it beforehand) distractions, I couldn’t continue with it for too long. My travelling hit an unexpected all time low this year with just 3 or 4 noticeable trips for the whole year; this was a huge drop when compared to earlier years. So If I wasn’t travelling a lot, I wasn’t obviously using my camera lot. I also had some fun at stock market and made some marginal profits out of my money; it did help me learn a lot on financial matters.
I did do a lot of stupid things in 2009, but just like every year, I would not regret for them (he he:) ), it’s a part of the package, which has some pluses and minuses; you don’t really have a choice but to bear with it. Nobody is perfect. I don’t want to be nobody…
So what are my plans for 2010?
- Study … Study… Study… If some of my engineering classmates looked at this… they will roll on the floor and laugh… but I have to do it, not too many choices here
- I should plan some trips and execute them!, travelling is one thing I missed a lot in 2009
- I technically don’t need any more gadgets/electronic devices… So I shouldn’t buy anything else this year, but save money (I was thinking about a Mac Book, an Android Phone, a Nikon D5000 SLR… and one more 23” Wide screen so that I get a dual screen setup at home, at the time of writing this…)
- Find someplace where they conduct Guitar classes during weekends near my residence (have already invested some money on the musical instrument, should try to get at least some ROI)
- I should blog more often, and start contributing lot more tech articles to Clickoffline.com, traffic influx has increased in the recent months.
- Anh! Well… Stock Market… yes
Why did I write this post? — Because of this inspirational article by my friend
Wish you a happy 2010 for all of you !
Stop Press update for geeks: I have just integrated the Picasa Web Albums into WordPress using GData API which is provided as a part of the Zend Framework (Sounds cool right). Checkout the Photography Link on the header, it uses ZF’s GData API to render the images by fetching them from Picasa Web Albums Site. I will blog about this in Clickoffline.com and will try to do some server-side optimizations to improve the blog’s performance.
