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This is an update to an older post of mine that dealt with this same issue under Tiger. Since I wrote that post I have upgraded to Leopard and found out that things are once again different. So her are the instructions for Leopard.

Let’s start with something that has nothing to do with the OS your are running on your Mac. The Motorola Ming (or A1200) supports EDGE! It seems all phones shipped so far have this feature disabled, but there’s a detailed post that explains how to enable EDGE on Motorolahelper. Using EDGE appears to drain the battery even faster than using GPRS, but it does give you a nice speed boost (still nowhere near 3G speed, but at least now you are on par with an iPhone…).

But let’s get to the real story - making this work with Leopard!

Leopard changed the format of the Modem Scripts and brings many new configuration options. That’s all nice and well, except that the initialization sequence it uses for Motorola GPRS phones is simply wrong! So the first thing you need to do is to update the modem properties in
/Library/Modem Scripts/Generic GPRS.ccl/Contents/Info.plist. Double click it in Finder and the Property List Editor will open. Click on the little triangle in front of Root, then on the little triangle in front of CCL Personalities and then on the one in front of Motorola GPRS and finally CCL Parameters.

Now double click on the value that is there and replace it with &FE0V1&C1S0=0 and hit return. Click Save in the File menu and close the application.

Next you go through the steps to pair with the phone and setup the connection details.

1. Enable Bluetooth on your Ming (you can do this with the Bluetooth application that you can find in the Home folder or via the the status screen that you get when clicking on the status bar that includes the battery indicator and time). Make sure you set it to be discoverable.
2. On the Mac, open System Preferences -> Bluetooth.
3. Click on the ‘+’ sign in the lower left corner which opens the Bluetooth Setup Assistant. Click Continue, select Mobile Phone and again click Continue

You should now see your phone listed - if not, make sure it is still discoverable (that lasts only for 3 minutes) and make sure Bluetooth is turned on on your Mac.

4. With your Ming highlighted click on Continue again. The Mac is “gathering information on your device”. If this is the first time you pair the computer with the phone via Bluetooth you’ll be asked to enter a numeric passphrase on the phone. Once that is done once again click Continue.
5. On the next screen make sure that “Access the Internet with your phone’s data connection” is enabled and click Continue again.
6. Now you are at the “Bluetooth Mobile Phone Set Up” screen. Select Phone Vendor Motorola, Phone Model GPRS (GSM/3G) (that’s the one we just fixed). Username tmobile, Password tmobile, APN internet2.voicestream.com and CID 2. Make sure that “Show Modem status in the menu bar” is selected.

The screen should look like this:

Clicking Continue again gets you to the final screen that sums up your settings.

Now you can click on the little phone symbol in your menu bar, select Bluetooth and connect to the internet!

Thanks for visiting!
I hope this was helpful - if not, please leave a comment and let me know why! Were you searching for something else? Did I miss an important aspect?