Hi,
I've just moved my XDA 2 away from an o2 contract to Pay As You Go with Tesco.
I can't get my GPRS to work and after contacting Tesco several time, they are now saying that you cannot use GPRS on an XDA 2 on a provider OTHER THAN o2, because of some pre-set settings that can't be changed. I can view pda.o2.co.uk when connected to GPRS, but that's it.
Is this true? Is there a workaround? Does anyone have GPRS working on Tesco or any non o2 provider (if they were originally on o2)?
Thanks in advance for any suggestions.
Andi
i can't speak directly for Tesco's pay as you go service, but I have had no problem accessing GPRS on my XDAII, which was bought under a 1 year contract in UK, after moving to Malaysia (on a local M'sian carrier).
what i do have trouble is, however, is setting the gprs up for mms services. Apparently on my cousin's xdaIIs bought here, mms services require connection to a separate gprs account, which can be specified on his mms settings but not on mine. and we can't seem to find anything different in the changeable settings! o well. i have no one to mms anyway...
somynex if you want help setting up your mms I can gladly assist. Its accually really easy. You have to set up your proxy on my work network. Just im me if you want some help.
Mike
No-one have any ideas? I think I'll likely move to o2 pay as you go.
Thanks
Related
When I got my Xda2, I accidently deleted some settings which mucked up my ability to send/receive MMS messages via O2 UK.
Can someone guide me through the process of getting it working from scratch?
Anyone?
Ok I'll bite!
Take a look at the GPRS/WAP/MMS Settings Repository over at Modaco
http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=4861
HTH
This may help??
I use a combination of this web site for the settings:
http://www.filesaveas.com/index.html
and the document below to the steps.
Have fun!
Ian
I'm assuming you're on O2....with your active UI running, click on "my xda" (today screen) then connections. You should then see a screen asking what country you're in...select UK (yes, in know it's obvious!) then postpaid then GPRS......it'll do everything itself....easy!
While you are at it, try choosing prepaid with gprs, mine will not allow that combination.
the reason the prepaid combination doesn't work is because in the uk prepay doesn't support all the data features needed to get email/internet etc
Can someone tell me what the setting are for the GPRS connection for the standard O2 GPRS connection? I've managed to delete mine, and I really don't fancy doing a hard reset. I guess I need to know the APN + username/password/domain stuff. Can anyone help?
look or search in the network forum tons of posts include gprs settings to some or all mayor cellphone companys
Go to the O2 Active interface, select My XDA / Connections. Then select your country, Prepaid or Postpaid (contract) GSM or GPRS and click Finish.
It will setup GPRS for you !
Thanks!
Thanks for the info chaps. I've now got it working again.
excuse me guys, where can i find the O2 active interface and set up my GPRS settings?
On the XDA1 ? i have no idea, look for an O2 logo and click it.
o2 GPRS is dear as hell anyway, 2.33 per MB.. i miss my internet
Each time I go from New York to China (Guangzhou and Shanghai/Nanjing) I struggle with phone and internet access. My NY T-Mobile account works in China for GSM & GPRS, but the voice (GSM) is VERY expensive. GPRS is not too bad since I mostly send and receive email but I can only send email to addresses on my ISP account.
(such as [email protected] OR [email protected]) I cannot send to outside email accounts.
Is this a setting I need to change? I have tried 2 outgoing mail servers, the Myemail.T-Mobile.com and my ISP's outgoing server.
The best option for me is to have a local prepaid sim card for Guangzhou
that offers international calls, local calls and GPRS access. Unfortunately it is a struggle to explain this to China Mobile or China Unicom staff.
Can someone steer me in the right direction. Who is the best and least expensive carrier? How do I explain that I want GPRS, Not WAP.
What are the correct settings such as:
APN
Outgoing mail server
Any other important setting I will need for GSM & GPRS usage?
I can usually solve these problems after a full day of running around
between mobile shops and offices. However I would like to put together
a comprehensive list that I can keep and post on this forum to help others.
China use gsm900/1800/1900
im in china gprs if u need i can tell u setting.
If u wanna use gprs in china / u can choose china mobile(only one)
China Unicom have cdma 1x not gprs
Bible
Thanks for your reply. What part of China are you in?
Can I buy a prepaid sim card that lets me call and be called locally in China, call back to the USA and use GPRS? Where do I buy this sim card and are there any special deals? Can you list any settings I'll need for GPRS.
If you could list this info here, it would be a great help to me and the XDA community.
Thanks
Joe
please can u attache here the cab file for china moblie GPRS settings for xdaII?
Hi,
Could someone tell me if I could simply put a T-Mobile sim with web and walk tarrif into the trinity or any other non T-Mobile 3g phone and still get free internet access and msn messenger. Or do I specifically have to use their phones with their own version of browsers and messenger.
Need to know this before deciding which network and phone to go for.
Thanks
I have the same question
I have a SPV-M3100, but I don't know how to get connection settings for
T-Mobile Web n Walk service.
I have searched the forum, but no clear result.
Thank you first if anyone can have an idea.
here in the Netherlands you could do that. You should be able to get a sim-only with w&w and put that sim in any unlocked phone. This is not a logical choice here in the Netherlands since we get great deals when combined with a T-mobile branded phone. T-mobile the Netherlands is promoting some nokia phones as well...(N73)
Shouldn't be a problem - I've used my WnW SIM in several WM 3G and non 3G phones. Just set the apn / usrname / password to
GPRS APN address: general.t-mobile.uk
Username : user
Password: wap
and left everything else at default.
just wrote bloody long post and pc crashed in internet cafe-
so gonna write a short one now.
i am running darkforce wm6-very stable does what i want it to do in the uk
howvever in stockholm at present and cannot browse internet or send/recieve email for what will amount to the same the problem.
the handset is obvioulsy unlocked and with t-mobile,but when abroad last year with different wm5 roms -no problems everything worked fine,have spoken to t-mobile who are about as much use as a choclate tea pot
1) when trying to connect to internet-it does nothing-if i force the connection and get it use the csd t-mobile -i get 'failed to dial' message
2) when trying to retrive pop3 email(no exchange server involved) get new message about extra charge as roaming and then it try to connect for a spilt second before displaying error syncronising
i can roam all networks pick everything up?
please help people
hello,
I've no probleme with data connection when roaming my provider is SFR (france) and roaming provider is proximus (belgium).
Have you trying with another roaming provider ?
as many as i can try telia,vodafone se ,iq etc etc
no joy-beginning toi think it is to do with t-mobile
also without stating the obvious, as and when i can find a free wifi-everything works
are you having prob only with your data connection?? back in uk (?) were you using 3g or gprs and lastly in setting/phone/ is the band set to wcdma (3g) or gprs
in uk had set data to auto all have tried every over type- but still does not explain why it worked seamless before -it either is something within the wm6 rom(i doubt) or t-mobile(proable)
but as i m traveling as soon as i get back i would like to get to the bottom of it.
It may not be your Universal - it may be your provider
Did you inform T-Mobile that you were going overseas? They need to activate international roaming on your account...
I've seen this problem before (working in a phone shop and all...), a customer from country xxxxx can't make\receive calls - because international roaming is not active on their account
Roaming worked on WM5, now not on WM6
Hi
I had similar problems. While Roaming previously (From SA (MTN), roaming in Mauritius (on Cellplus and Emtel) under WM5, I had no problems with SMS (text) or data calls.
Recently upgraded to WM6 (Laurentius' V7 VideoCall) and when landing in Mauritius last week, I could not send SMS(text) or connect data. It picked up the network. I did not test normal voice calls, since I usually dont make any while roaming. I simply used my sim card in a different handset for the week, but it was very frustrating, since Ive come to rely heavily on data access while travelling overseas (for email, skype, etc)
Regards
--Cor
Could also be Radio Ver
Hi all, Could you all edit your posts and enter your Radio SStack Ver ?
And if you can remember what Ver you were on when it used to work on WM5.
As stated in the post, the 1.18 Stack had updates for roaming, I haven't had a chance to test it myself, could anyone provide feedback on roaming with 1.18.
Cheers,
Beast
dark force(excellent) and radio 1.15 will try upgrade as leave country in a few weeks
I roam between China, Hong Kong and Taiwan a lot. It appears data works better with some local service providers only. So what I do is when travelling to a new place, know which local providers data network 'roams' better with my China Mobile, by manually selecting, and trying, one by one, on the phone control panel, network selection part. Once I found one that worked, then I manually fix to that one.
Now everytime I travel to a different region, I just do, phone control panel->network->manual-> choose the known good one.
I hope this works in your situation and network providers.
Peter