Repairing UMTS/GPRS/GSM/EDGE and SIM Card Devices for Laptops & Notebooks

How to access, replace, upgrade, mod or repair UMTS/GPRS/GSM/EDGE and SIM card devices used in laptops and notebooks. If you have written a free guide yourself (or if you know of a report not linked here), please submit a new entry.

IBM ThinkPad X100e

A take apart guide showing the access to RAM, HDD and SIM card slot.

UMTS/GPRS USB Sticks

ZTE K3565Z (Vodafone) USB UMTS/GRPS Stick	Dismantling the UMTS stick is easy and does not pose any difficulties.
Realtek RTL8187B Wireless 802.11g 54Mbps Network Adapter USB	How to attach a SMA connector to a WLAN USB stick to connect an external antenna to gain a better signal strength.

Selfmade UMTS Routers

Low Cost UMTS Router

This guide explains how to create a low cost wireless UMTS router from a Xybernaut MAIII mini PC, a Mobile Connect UMTS PCMCIA Card and fli4l Linux (in German).