How to troubleshoot Garmin GPS Navigator on No-Name China GPS

Splash Screen booting up

Ever wondered buying cheaper GPS devices from your recent trip to China and later found out it can't get a decent satellite lock here in the Philippines? Here's what I did to workaround the problem.

I am refering to this no-name China GPS you can buy online from your favorite China goods seller. This particular device used for this guide is a 5 incher running a custom firmware and win ce 5. It comes preloaded with Garmin Mobile XT version 5.010W.

When I fired up Garmin it loads a script Garmin.mscr which preloads Port Splitter 1.20 before it loads the Garmin software. It takes forever when detecting satellites to lock into within Garmin. I have tried every ports listed and no luck.

How to configure a router to your Globe Wimax BM622 CPE Modem

Here is an example of a typical router ports

It's been awhile since my last blogpost, been busy. This is for my friends asking How to configure a router to use with Globe Wimax.

How to Configure a router to use with your Globe Wimax BM622 CPE Modem by Huwaei Technologies?

There are two types of router, namely the wired and wireless. What I have here is an example of a wireless router.

Wired and Wireless router are the same in terms of usability except for the fact you don't need wires for wireless, and convenient to use with wireless devices and gadgets.

Firstly, connect the router to your PC lan ports, Plug the cables to the number 1 port, not on the distinguished WAN port. Fire up a browser and type in to URL address bar, where you type website addresses to browse pages, type in http://192.168.1.1, this is always a default.

How to unlock Echolife Bm622 Wimax Modem's Admin Settings

The shaman wants to share a procedure to unlock your Echolife BM622 CPE Wimax modem's Admin Settings. This is for Globe Wimax Modems so you can see additional settings, be advised not to play with your configuration if you don't know what you are doing. It may make things worst, for those of you that doesn't receive your subscribed speed, i.e people who subscribed for the 1 mbps plan and receiving half or around 500kbps, your are bandwidth capped from Globe's datanet server. The modem has nothing to do with it. You will need to call customer service to update your account.

To unlock your Modem, open up a web-browser (IE, Firefox, Chrome, Oracle, Safari, Iceweasel, etc) and go to url "http://192.168.1.1" and login with this credentials, username: user and password: user.

How to Unlock Smartbro USB HSDPA Modem

WM66A Longcheer HSDPA USB Modem

This will be a guide for you guys that wanted to unlock your usb hsdpa modem dongle, but doesn't know how. First things first, the shaman doesn't know what kind of modem smartbro is using.  This one is WM66A.(looked it up on google.)

Step 1. Google is your friend. Always, if you don't know something and wanted to know and doesn't know who to ask. Google it up, you might end up to find that there are others like you looking for the same answers. You will be surprised to dig up something somewhere, and might also have a scenario that your question have been answered to the nth time since last year. You will be lucky then, and follow the instructions you will find. I googled it up and found some message boards discussing about unlocking your usb dongle.