The HUAWEI Mobile Partner connection client, shown below as the OiSTER connection client, is logging excessively to your hard disk. You can read more about this in the blog posting concerning Telenor’s use of HUAWEI Mobile Partner.

I am very glad to be able to forward to you a fix for the excessive logging to your hard disk.

Before turning the logging off the Mobile Broadband Logging Monitor would show up to 142 log changes pr. minute, which would mean more than 68.000 changes on a workday (8 hours).

To stop the excessive logging you have to locate the installation directory of HUAWEI Mobile Partner (in this case is was “C:\Program Files\Mobile Partner”, but it may reside in other locations as well). Make a backup copy of the RunInfo.ini file and open thereafter the RunInfo.ini file with Notepad.

You will see a section of information like this:

[TraceSet]
TraceLevel=4
TracePath=Log\trace_0.txt
ATRecord=Y
ATRecordPath=Log\ATRecord.txt

Change these to the values below:

TraceLevel=1
ATRecord=N

Save the file and re-start the application. The Mobile Broadband Logging Monitor now gives a totally different output showing only two changes to the log files. I can tell you that these changes were done at startup of the application and no changes were made hereafter. The projected 8-hour value is therefore not valid in this case. Very nice! :-)

There’s only one thing left to wish for and that is a way to disable the excessive use of the Windows Registry. Do you have information on this? Please share in comments below.

Blog posting based on this information.

If you are a follower of this blog and you are using mobile broadband, then you have probably wondered if you are suffering from the 3Connect or HUWAWEI Mobile Partner excessive logging and hard disk activity.

Well, no need to wonder any more. I have spent some time now making a new simple, easy to use monitoring tool for mobile broadband users, targeting the most popular mobile broadband connection clients core products, namely Birdstep EasyConnect and HUAWEI Mobile Parter. This will, among others, include mobile broadband clients from 3, Telenor, OiSTER, Telmore, Turkcell, t-mobile, Orange, m1, Movistar, Etisalat, O2, just to name a few.

The Mobile Broadband Logging Monitor tool will tell you if you are suffering from the excessive logging and hard disk activity, and it will show which files that are being written to and the amount of writes pr. minute, hour and workday (projected).

Furthermore, if there is a known solution to the logging problem for your particular software it will show you direct link to that solution.

In short, a simple tool for giving you insight on the problems and how to solve it! Here’s a nice picture:

Now, that was a nice picture, wasn’t it? :-)

Download the monitor software (from Microsoft CodePlex). The application is now Open Source (read more about what this means).

How to use
Follow the instructions on the screen. Let the tool monitor for more than 1 minute, as it calculates the changes pr. minute. So, you’ll see the numbers rising for the first minute, and then the numbers should stay relatively stable.

The technical stuff
Mobile Broadband Logging Monitor runs on Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7. You will download an installer, which in turn will install the software properly when run. The software has a very light “footprint” on your computer, is totally non-intrusive, and, of course, totally respects your privacy. It simply tells you if there is a problem, and, if possible, what you can do about it!

Release notes
1.2: Added support for MWConn (standard location) and user defined locations. (28th Dec. 2009)
1.1: Added support for newer editions of Birdstep Technology EasyConnect.
1.0: First edition. Hello mobile broadband users!