I always thought that pda&go sims wouldnt let you use the xda on the net.. but i managed to get normal websites loading OK before. Now its not working, it connects ok but no webpages load any ideas?
The only website you can get on pay and go GPRS is www.o2.co.uk and collect your o2 pop3 email using the apn payandgo.o2.co.uk
if you use dial up (915000) you can get full internet but obviously slower and costs more (depending on your tariff)
Sorry if this has been asked before.
I have an XDA1 and an old online genie payandgo SIM card. Since for some reason im no longer getting free WAP minutes I decided to set up the payandgo GPRS service, which I've managed to do using payandgo.o2.co.uk as the APN.
The internet works fine, but when I try to use anything else like MSN Messenger or iMov it just won't connect.
Is there any way of getting this working?
thanks in advance for your help.
MC
have you applied the msn update from microsoft???
This is a problem with O2 and PAYG web access; O2 don't even have a consistent answer- customer services give different information to different callers.
Till recently, you could only use PAYG GPRS to access the WAP APN, and many users actually have free WAP GPRS on their SIMS. Since the recent change in the Tariffs, you can now have "Mobile Web" enabled for PAYG SIMS but it is charged at £2.35 per Mb; WAP is the same price, but the 1st 1 MB is free if you top up at least £10 per month. You need to call customer services to enable the Mobile Web APN, if it is available.
MSN is only available via the Mobile Web APN (I think!) but is still fairly flakey. Even the WAP Proxy setting (see previous posts) won't work for most people with MSN or POP3 Email.
If MSN refuses to work, you could try Agile Messenger, or ChatToGo, both of which support all the major IM clients, but again, are unlikely to work over WAP GPRS.
I have had occasions where no connection is possible for hours or days, then it will connect and no problems for months, I was told that contract customers are given preference over payg when the system is busy. I have no evidence to support this though, also I cant see why the system should be so busy that people get booted or temporarily barred through data congestion problems.
I agree with you totally- but I don't think its just PAYG/PP, it also seems to be between WAP and Web GPRS.
When Mobile Web was launched in 2002, it was a premium service, and O2 stated that the MW APN had priority on the GPRS network. But some cells did not support GPRS at all, and some were not set up for Mobile Web.
Since that time O2 have played around with the GPRS WAP and Web services so much that they are in a total muddle. For a long time all WAP access was free, but MW continued to be chargeable. Then they decided to charge for WAP in June 2004, but on a content basis (ie a News Clip would cost xx pence, a ringtone xx pence etc.)
O2 then discovered that some folk use a Proxy to access Web sites via the WAP APN (a service O2 themselves introduced for devices like the Nokia 660 which had a web browser of sorts) so that charging policy had to be modified.
Now add the incompetence of some of the O2 sub-contractors, who said you could have MMS but not Mobile Web on a contract as their billing systems did not support more than 2 APN's; now we have Blackberry with yet another APN and same story- CPW say they can't support BB (which is a modified WAP system, so again no full Web, MSN or POP3) and MW APN's together, though O2 Online can apparently!
All adds to confusion and dissatisfaction with O2
I have an o2 online talkalot Payg sim.
I get 300 free wap dialup minutes a month.
I used to use them for Internet access, web browsing, sync email and chat on msn.
A few weeks ago i noticed that the web had stopped working, I couldnt get to any site, hang on, pda.o2.co.uk works though.... Nothing else.
MSN and email still worked..
Now nothing. I cant get email, cant chat on msn, only the bloody pda.o2.co.uk website, and half the links from that dont work.
Have o2 changed everything without telling me?
Just got Blackberry Connect from O2 for my XDA Exec (in spite of the shops and helpdesk telling me I couldn't!)
Email works (now) fine, can send/receive, took me a little while to get going.
BUT the O2 blurb talks (somewhere) about web browsing via the Blackberry.
I can't seem to get this going; if I set up new connection with the blackberry.net APN details it looks like it might work (ie load internet explorere, it connects but then fails to locate the web page I'm looking for).
Do I need any thing setting up at the O2 end or am I trying to do something that cannot be done?
I'm getting fed up of trying to get throught o someone at O2 that knows what they're on about AND if I cannot browse the web and get my email for the all-in £15/month bolt-on price, I don't want it!!
Any help/guidance appreciated.
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went to use my O2 xda exec (with pay and go vodafone 3g aim inserted) to go on msn messenger but it wouldn't connect the previous day the same internet settings worked (pp.vodafone.co.uk for access point name and wap for both password and user). I tried using a few other connections i found by searching google but still no luck and i've tried using internet explorer to surf internet and again to connection.
Is anyone else experiencing the same problem?
Could this be vodafone are not allowing pay and go internet services for universals in the uk like o2 well that was what i was told by staff at my local o2 shop reasoning for my switch to vodafone as this worked.
thanks.
Hello,
Dunno if this has been mentioned before but:
I have an o2 xdaII with an o2 payandgo sim- apparently o2 block web access to payandgo customers so the pda will not access the web or any data service except MMS's. My normal phone has web access from a contract o2 sim. Is it possible to connect via bluetooth from the pda to the other phone and use this for web access on the pda. I could just swap the sims but I wanted to avoid this.
Ta.
Read this link, i 'm on O2 payandgo and get full internet access.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=269023&highlight=T-Mobile+GPRS
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Thanks for that,
I can get onto pda.o2.co.uk and nothing else but at least the web is working to some degree.
My main reason for getting it working was to enable live traffic in Tomtom- It can now do that so thanks a lot