Hi,
Can someone please tell me what are broadcast channels.
I have an o2 xda mini and have the option under my phone menu.
Are there any free broadcast channels?
Is a broadcast channel related to service provider?
How does it work?
Broadcast channels can be used by serviceproviders to send a message to all or a group of cellphones.
I forgot the exact settings but on my old XDA-I I turned on a specific broadcast channelnumber for Vodafone in the Netherlands and I got a SMS message each time I changed cell-phone antenna. So driving for 100km on the highway gave me some 40 messages.
Public Services could use this to send a emergency-alert for disasters, etc.
etc.
try to google a bit on the subject and i'm sure you'll get a lot of hits
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Hi All, well hope some one can help, as have no hair left to pull out. Our company has various free phone ras dial in numbers. I am tring to get my xda to dial into these numbers to allow me to be able to access our servers using terminal services, when problem arise. (all legal here, Its my job)
Is this possible using the xda as the os for the procedure ?
If I use the xda in a cradle connected to a laptop then I can dial in no problem and use terminal services fine on the xda, but there seem little point when I have a connected laptop......!!!!! :roll:
What I would like to be able to do is dispose of the laptop and do it all on the xda, has anyone managed or is doing this.
Any ideas would be great, as have ran out of them.
Cheers
Waftycranker
Hey W.C. - Does your company have a public IP address that the Terminal Server is running on? I use the Terminal Services Client through GPRS all the time and it works great. I guess if you have to pay per kb with GPRS then I guess I see why you would want to dial in. I never tried the dial in method. Good luck - Jim
@JimDavis
I can't see what your problem is. (you did't mention)
I use that with my dial-in to my company
* Just setup a Cellular Line Connection (not gprs)
* Enter the Phone Number
* Enter your User/Password maybe Domain
and you are in
Maybe you need to modifiy the Linetype setting analog/digital (i.e. v.110 or v.34)
Does your provider support Data Calls on your Phone-Nr.?
Fidl
Hi Guys, thanks for the help, but still that darn computer system will not let me in. Dials up ok but just keep getting the error message " There was no answer at the number dialed. Varify phone number and try again etc etc etc"
Yet if I use my laptop at the same time, same number all is fine so I now the number and line and username and password and domain are ok.
May need some super glue soon to piece my xda back together again, know any good makes.
Any more ideas ? anybody
Wafty
Dial-in data call with XDA
Many GSM cullalar carriers who offer GPRS data packages block regular data calls over their network in an effort to push the GPRS stuff.
My carrier in Canada does this which gives me the exact same error you get.
Call your carrier.
Cheers... Peter
Will O2 be getting a call in the morning..... I THINK SO !!!!
Cheers, will let you all know how it goes. :twisted:
Wafty
Try checking the Proxy Settings tab under your profile. The "This network connects to the Internet" box should be unchecked. This may be why it only works with your computer. :roll:
Update
Contacted O2 and after 5 diffrent numbers and 30 minutes on hold, they are enabeling something their end. This will take 24 hrs, working days only.
Note: Noticed how payment and billing systems work 24/7 365 yet anything that will maybe help you works 9~5 Mon - Fri.... or is it just me.
Will update Monday :roll:
God knows why I thought that an service provider would be able to help, they are good at removing money from my account, but little all else.
Acording to them I have everything enables on my account, yet I stiil am unable to dial up using my company ras connection numbers. Still the same error message as before.
Could really do with checking settings etc with anybody who is able to dial up to their corparate network.
My mail is [email protected]
Cheers for any help.
There was no answer at the number dialed. Varify phone number and try again etc etc etc"
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Every time I've seen this it has been because the provider didn't have CSD (Circuit Switched Data) calls enabled. Can you try some other type of dialup modem, such as an ISP, just to be sure it's not your company? I'll bet they didn't really enable CSD.
It may be more than that. I am able to dial up to my company via CSD however my employee collegues using the same RAS service/company etc are unsuccessful.
Recheck the Proxy Settings tab under your profile.
The "This network connects to the Internet" box should be unchecked. This may be why it only works with your computer.
The other solution is to see if your company provides a VPN RAS. Ifso, you can dial up using GPRS. :roll:
I had this problem
Was trying to dail in and sync outlook
never got it working, but i cured the no answer thing by editing the the dailing location info. turned out that it was dailing completely the wrong number. simple stuff but worth checking!
Posted detailed set-up info in thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=4723
T-Mobile US is nice to allow this and charge air time as if it were a voice call - you get nights and weekends for free data. 7Kpbs is not too bad surfing the net with graphics turned off.
what do YOU think about this...?
whenever I am travelling, gprs cost in Europe is a big issue, so for my applications (manymanymany mails) gprs does not work economically.
so i had the following idea:
from abroad I send a mail via sms to my (home-)office computer.
this triggers my homoffice modem calling me under my numer in my hotel. (number could be included in the sms)
my XDA II is connected to a bluetooth modem which is in auto-answer mode... picks up... beeeeeeeeep connects an IP transparent protocol and...
bingo...
as my [email protected] acts like a gateway through broadband, my XDA II sees the world with web connection (pop3, smtp, nntp - younameit)
benefit:
my PC modem can call almost every hotel phone for a couple of cents per minute - worldwide.
compare this with a couple of bucks per MB GPRS in Europe!
who knows the software componets needed?
Regards
v
sounds great, tell me where to download it once youve written it! :lol:
I am willing to pay for the solutionas well, anybody else?
v
the idea is ok but it prolly wont work in reality since GPRS out of your coutry is only expensive with prepaid.
and prepaid has the disadvantage when im out of my country i gotta pay it from the border so for example :
dude 1 lives in the netherlands and calls dude 2.
dude 2 is on vacation in somewhere in europe.
dude 1 only pays upto the border the rest of way costs dude 2 his prepaid cash.
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the idea is ok but it prolly wont work in reality since GPRS out of your coutry is only expensive with prepaid.
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Nope, GPRS roaming is expensive no matter what. You would not believe the rates these thieves charge.
The idea of calling to the hotel is great, and the bluetooth modem is a nice touch. I would add a foldable keyboard to almost get the full benefits of a well-connected notebook PC.
As far as the software components: receiving the SMS on your home computer takes a GSM phone connected to the computer, some means of receiving SMS on a regular line (offered in some countries, e.g. Germany), or some service that receives the SMS for you and turns it into an E-mail. Your own provider probably offers this already.
Then when you receive the message, you'd need to dial out. Under Linux/FreeBSD/*nix you would then have procmail (if the SMS comes in as a mail) kick off a PPP dial-out script that takes the phone number as an argument.
There's probably an easy windows scripting way of doing this. The Outlook 'Rules wizard' has an option called 'run a script' which looks like a good starting point if you can turn the SMS into an E-mail. Any Windows scripting gods to take it from here?
I think v doesn't mean to call his mobile, but a normal number in a hotel where an analog modem is hooked up to the XDA through bluetooth.
You could use the call back function of a RAS server achieve this.
You call from the hotel to your home server, enter the number where the RAS server has to call back to and you're up and running.
But the speed would be pretty low, even with a V90 modem.
Since I don't have a BT modem, I can' test it...
hi all,
i got a very annoying "feature" in the O2 Cosmo(T-Mobile Dash). The incoming call will be blocked(heard busy tone) if the GPRS is in transmission. I was complained by many friends.
To my understanding, there's a setting in some phones to enable both GSM/GPRS concurrent connections. Is there such setting in Windows Mobile?
My ROM is 1.13.207.2, RADIO is 4.1.13.28_02.63.90
i tried to refersh its ROM, but don't know how to CID unlock. the "RUU_Excalibur_SPL-1.11_UpgradeOnly.exe" on the server has no luck for me, still "Invalid model ID".
can anythone show light on me?
thank you
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I think microsoft released a patch for that: i'll try find it on google for you. can you explain what configuration you used?
I think the 'patch' you need is called 3G.
I have the exact same problem and I opened a thread on it as well.
Read here.
The conclusion we reached was that this is a network, not phone dependent problem.
yeah never happent to me ever
thanks for all the replies.
My previous phone is O2 XDA Mini S(Wizard). I used that one to receive push mail provided by GoodLink, which requires GPRS always on. I didn't have such issue with that, at least no complain from my friends.
That's why i am wondering something wrong with the RADIO configuration. I didn't make any specific change to my new O2 XDA Cosmo(Excalibur).
best regards
And back to my memory.
I used to have the classical Ericsson T39. There was a setting to enable GSM incoming call during GPRS transmission(cannot remember the exact name). By enable that, i can still receive incoming call, and the GPRS connection will auto resume after the call.
Is there similar setting for Windows Mobile?
There is not as far as I've ever known. I've used smartphones that determined which was blocked and which was not based on which application was in use at the time. That is, if you were actively using IE or some other network app, phone calls would go straight to voice mail. If a non-network app was front and center at the time, the network would be disconnected and the phone would ring. That (and the SE settings mentioned above which I saw on my SE phones too) showed that it was a phone setting made by the carrier. I'd hope there's a little more intelligence behind it than just "voice trumps network" but if there is, I couldn't tell you what determines which gets through and when.
I've found that it's based on the amount of data being transmitted at the time of the (attempted) call. For example, high-bandwith usage such as media streaming will lead to the incoming phone call being blocked/diverted most of the time, whereas sporadic usage (eg. PING, or loading a very simple web page) has allowed a call to come in, temporarily disabling GPRS. GPRS can never be used during a phone call.
i Have a HTC HD2 from mobilephonedirect on t-mobile combie 30 plus web and walk. i can access my voice mail by either dialing 222 or by dialing 1 and all these work fine, but i cannot activate call forwarding to voicemail! when i go into setting>all settings>personal>phone>GSM/UMTS services i select call forwarding and tap get settings. i then want to enable all the options under 'forward calls only if:' (no answer, unavalible, busy) but when i try to enable any of the options i get the following error:
'cannot save your changes to the network. Try changing settings later or disconnect data connection and try again'
i have tried with all data connections disabled (including bluetooth and wifi) but this makes no difference. i have also tried 'later'. when i call voicemail it says my access code has been sent to my phone, but i havent recieved it. as far as i know mobilephonesdirect supply generic HTC handsets (my handset has no branding anywhere) i have ROM version 1.48.405.2 (71294) WWE
just spoken to t-mobile, and the guy said it seems to be a reccuring issue with some suppliers who use generic handsets. he explained that while the internet and mms settings can be obtained automatically, sms service numbers and voie mail settings are usually set by the operator. after about 20 mins of trying various options, it picked up the settings and sorted its self out. makes me wonder if the sms problems some people are experiencing are also down to the same issue of generic handsets not being set up properly
I have a European Moto G5 Plus, we don't have Verizon available here, I'm on Telekom's service. The app Motorola modem stats constantly attempts to connect to an IP that's located in Québec, Canada and apparently owned by Verizon.
Does anybody have more information on this? Maybe somebody (more experienced) could intercept the package it's attempting to send? What is it trying to send and how can I make it stop (preferably without rooting)? Maybe somebody could msg Motorola on the social networks about this? (I don't use Twitter/FB :/ )
any help would be greatly appreciated!
How are you seeing this, can you give us more information? Is it over mobile data or WiFi, and can you wireshark it?
And remember, Verizon is not only a mobile service provider here in North America, they are also a large land-line, ISP, and TV company... Because Verizon "owns" the IP address does not mean it is connecting to a Verizon server/device, it could be a customer or other service provider using Verizon as their upstream carrier, but we need significantly more information.
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How are you seeing this, can you give us more information? Is it over mobile data or WiFi, and can you wireshark it?
And remember, Verizon is not only a mobile service provider here in North America, they are also a large land-line, ISP, and TV company... Because Verizon "owns" the IP address does not mean it is connecting to a Verizon server/device, it could be a customer or other service provider using Verizon as their upstream carrier, but we need significantly more information.
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Will gladly provide any details I can!
So what I did is download one of these no root firewalls, which logs which app attempted to access what IP.
It is listed as "Apps (UID 1000)" which consists of the standard android settings app and "Motorola Modem Service" aka com.motorola.bach.modemstats. It attempts (blocked - de facto offline behaviour) to send something to the IP 192.168.178.1 every other 20s.
I googled the IP which told me it was a Verizon IP in Québec.
Just tell me what else you need to know/what I should do
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Will gladly provide any details I can!
So what I did is download one of these no root firewalls, which logs which app attempted to access what IP.
It is listed as "Apps (UID 1000)" which consists of the standard android settings app and "Motorola Modem Service" aka com.motorola.bach.modemstats. It attempts (blocked - de facto offline behaviour) to send something to the IP 192.168.178.1 every other 20s.
I googled the IP which told me it was a Verizon IP in Québec.
Just tell me what else you need to know/what I should do
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192.168.0.0/16 is all private IP space and not routable, if that is the IP it's sending to then it's sending data to something in your local network.
https://www.arin.net/knowledge/address_filters.html
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192.168.0.0/16 is all private IP space and not routable, if that is the IP it's sending to then it's sending data to something in your local network.
https://www.arin.net/knowledge/address_filters.html
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That explains why I couldn't catch any packets ? Weird that the firewall lists it then. Thanks a lot acejavelin!