How to Use Micromax Mobile as Webcam

If you don’t have webcam attached to your computer and your want to use webcam to use in IM chatting and video chatting and other purposes, and you have mobile with webcam support then there is no problem. You can use your mobile, which works as a webcam when it connected to your computer. All your need is mobile (has a function of webcam), its driver support CD, and its data cable.

Here I am writing down the steps and procedure to connect Micromax mobile to computer and use it as a webcam.

Connect Micromax Q5 to Computer and use it successfully as a webcam

Micromax is India Company which launches many affordable mobile sets; in some of their products they also introduced webcam functions. One of the best one is Micromax Q5, and I’m going to explain on same mobile here. Micromax Q5 comes with 2 mega pixel camera. We can also use this mobile as webcam and it very easy to use. With the purchase pack of this mobile, we also gets free driver CD, and datacable. Using this Data cable we have to connect our mobile to PC. Some users found complication in connecting Micromax to computer, for that, I already explained procedure and steps for “How to Connect Micromax to Computer”. Please follow the link if you found difficulties in connecting Micromax Mobile.

It is very simple, anyone can do this. Connect data cable (one end of USB cable ) to computer and second end point (mini USB ) to Micromax Q5 mobile. Once you connect your Micromax mobile to computer through data cable, in mobile screen it displays, “USB Config” in that 3 options will up comes:

1. Mass Storage

2. Webcam (Select this to use your mobile as Webcam )

3. COM port

In these options, first one is mass storage; it is used for storage purpose like songs, images, videos, it is related with phone memory and memory card. COM port is used to connect mobile to computer and manage mobile in PC-suite and also it is use to connect Internet. Option ‘Webcam’ is used to connect mobile to computer as web cam.

You have to choose option 2: Webcam. Once you select you will see only webcam icon displaying on the screen of mobile. For first time, Operating System automatically install its driver, you can see this in notification area.

To check about its working follow this:

Go to start > Control Panel > make it switch to classic view > go to scanners and cameras > open USB Video Device > Scanner and Camera Wizard will open here, just go for next > now you will see in preview window that your Mobile camera is working now as a Webcam.

It works similar to normal Webcam; now you can use this in IM chatting, video conference calls etc. try it on Yahoo Messenger, Skype, Facebook, Gtalk etc.

That’s it, now you can successfully use your Micromax Mobile as Webcam.