my gprs icon is permently on on my device G with the 2 arrows task manager says nothing running, will this use up my GPRS data?
Providing no app is accessing your GPRS then no. It's a bit like having your home PC connected to broadband ADSL but nothing actually downloading. The connection has been made but it's sat there idle.
Just ensure no application is running in the background.
You can, of course, click the "G" icon itself and then close the connection down.
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but if the operator is billing out idle time (T-Mobile HUN rounds up every 5/15 mins the traffic to 10kB) it's not equal then, if there is an active conn or not.
Connection via a dial-up WAP connection take the form of an actual call and are thus are billed by time. But GPRS data calls, I thought, were billed by data transferred. I often leave my GPRS connection open all day and Orange UK certainly only bill per MB.
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Whats the diff between csd and gprs. Right now I created a new connection by doing start; settings; connections; connections; modify (internet settings). Under "My connection" I have it set for "cellular line (GPRS)". Under baud rate it is 19200 (why so slow?). Clicking next I have "wap.voicestream.com". This works but is really slow. Is this the correct way to use GPRS or is this CSD? If not, what is CSD? Is it better. Sorry for so many questions but I really dont know much about this. I have t-mobile in the US (southern california).
CSD (Circuit-Switched Data)
CSD is similar to your PC dialing up to a ISP / corperate modem pool for a data connection. For XDA or a cell phone in general, it consumes your air time. (If you make the CSD call during nights & weekends with T-Mobile, air time is free.) You get a 7Kbps avg narrow pipe - pulling an Internet page is very slow, but you can turn off the graphics on XDA to speed it up. GPRS is designed for data, giving you 40Kbps avg pipe, comparable to your PC dial-up speed but you have to pay T-Mobile $20/mo for unlimited data service. See thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=4723
for setup. Hope this helps.
I am using my K-Jam to navigate to a WAP site (http://wap.tfl.gov.uk/planner/) but as soon as I do my phone ignores my WiFi connection and tries to use GPRS instead. Is there any way to stop this behavior?
Same problem here ! tryed the same.
have noticed you can not display pic's when on WAP sites.
Also . would like to know how to disconect the GPRS connection when it is connected. only way i know how is to connect to a different conection and then cancell it before it connects.
any help would be appriciated ! GPRS is costing about 2.35 per 1 meg .
thanks
to discon gprs hold down the red end call button for a few secs.
i am gettting annoyed with similer wifi/gprs problem
seems that if i have wifi on in the (like in the house) and i have it set to download from my exchange server then thats all well and good but when the phone goes into standby and the wifi auto turns off, the exchange activesync still happens but automatically changes and connects via gprs. the whole point was that as i was in my house i wouldnt need to use/waste money on gprs calls since i can use wireless.
I hope the I-mate developer read these forums and update the problems on a new rom update.
GPRS is costing me £2.35 per meg . But as far as i know I ( We ) only get charged for the info downloaded, if it is connected to a page that has loaded completely and is not downloading anything, there should be no extra charge even if connect to same page for hours.
Pls help. It drive me nut.
I'm at home connect to (WI-FI) when i connect to internet the GPRS connection was active also. If i disconnect the GPRS the WI-FI still active but when i switch the web site page the GPRS re-connect back again.
How this happen??? only want use connection one of a time. If wifi available then GPRS inactive and otherway around if wifi inactive then GPRS active.
I have no proof of this, so it's just an assumption. I believe that the GPRS connection may be live but not actually in use. Both icons show up when I use WIFI too. I wouldn't pay too much attention to it. If you don't have a data package and want to avoid ever connection to GPRS or even temporarily block it, you can go under connections, connections, advanced, and set both to my work network. If you want to use it again, then set the second one to medianet or whatever your GPRS profile is named.
Hi,
is there a program that could restrict the amount of traffic through GRPS per day? Don't tell me about SPB GPRS Monitor, it just says it could do it but it couldn't break live connection for some reason and just complain afterward about limit being broken.
Hi All,
New to my fantastic HD Touch so apologise if this is an obvious question..
If I have wifi enabled and data connection enabled, if i go onto the internet or, say, Youtube for aguments sake, will it use the Wifi connection as a priority over the data connection?
I ask because i want to keep my bills down without having to manually keep turning the data connection off (it connects every 5 mins to check for email)
Thanks
Loving this forum by the way!!
Depends on how the connection is set up. You can check your config by going to settings->connections->connections->advanced->select networks
There is then a drop down under the heading "Programs that automatically connect to the internet should connect using:". When I bought mine this was set to "Contract Internet" which basically means my vodafone data connection. I managed to run up a bill of over £50 before I spotted this (this was before I moved to a decent data package).
I changed this setting to "My Work Network" and it then used the wifi in preference to the cell connection. However, I think (although haven't scientifically tested) that if a program gets a cell connection before the wifi is activated then it may not automatically switch over if wifi is subsequently enabled.
BTW I tested all this using a $10 app called GPRS Traffic Monitor (which can monitor HSDPA as well as GPRS) to see if the traffic figures rose while browsing the net with wifi on and off. After changing my settings the data usage figures only went up if wifi was off.