Fax and Scan with MobilePhone as Faxmodem

[Roland Schweiger]

An first glance, Windows7 has a new "Fax and Scan" utility which is a kind
of fax console.

Personally i hate the antique system of Faxing but occasionally it is still
needed however.

I now tried the following to send faxes.

Have a mobile phone SONYERICSSON K850i which i connected to the PC via
BlueTooth.
Now Win7 shows a device in device manager
"standard modem over bluetooth".
I can send AT commands to the "pseudo modem" and will receive ok answers,
sofar for the test if the modem works.

Now in Fax and Scan i set the "standard modem over bluetooth" as standard
fax modem.

However, faxes will not send, nothing at all happens.

Did anyone try a similar thing?

greetings

Roland Schweiger

 

[Dave Rudisill]

An first glance, Windows7 has a new "Fax and Scan" utility which is a kind
of fax console.

Personally i hate the antique system of Faxing but occasionally it is still
needed however.

I now tried the following to send faxes.

Have a mobile phone SONYERICSSON K850i which i connected to the PC via
BlueTooth.
Now Win7 shows a device in device manager
"standard modem over bluetooth".
I can send AT commands to the "pseudo modem" and will receive ok answers,
sofar for the test if the modem works.

Now in Fax and Scan i set the "standard modem over bluetooth" as standard
fax modem.

However, faxes will not send, nothing at all happens.

Did anyone try a similar thing?

greetings

Roland Schweiger

A digital cell phone can't be used as a fax modem. Years ago, I
used WinFax with a cell phone, but that requires an analog cell
phone.

I use an Internet fax service (greenfax.com) for sending faxes. I
costs $.07/page, but you need to put down a $25 deposit. My
deposit will last me the rest of my life. I use a free eFax
account for receiving faxes, but they appear to no longer be
offering those.

 

[Roland Schweiger]

"Dave Rudisill"

A digital cell phone can't be used as a fax modem. Years ago, I
used WinFax with a cell phone, but that requires an analog cell
phone.

Absolutely right - i looked up the AT commands that query the fax
capabilities of the "virtual modem",
opened a terminal window and sent these AT commands to the modem and it says
"command not supported" so i really had something wrong in mind,
and this definately is no Windows7 problem so sorry for the posting.

However i really thought that these pseudo modems could be used for fax,
but they are just data transfer modems and realy of no use nowadays.

A also have an (austrian) fax service that transfers incoming faxes on a
phone numer to eMails
(fax-2-mail-service) and as i said i hate fax but only 2 days ago i was in a
situation where i needed one
and tried my experiments with the GSM phone.

You are perfectly right that some kind of fax server will do the job instead
and a deposit of some $
will last for the rest of my life...

greetings

Roland Schweiger