So I brought my unlocked Dopod 838 pro over from asia and am trying to use it with my T-Mobile sim here in California. However, I get this error notification:
Your current operator (31026) is not supported. You should obtain an update from your device vendor. Would you like to select another network?
It would then connect to Cingular as roaming which works fine for calls and messages. However, I cannot connect to my T-mobile internet plan while on the Cingular network.
I've been playing around with it for days and tried unsuccessfully to have it manually connect to T-Mobile. Do you think I need a ROM update or some kind of software update? If anyone has seen this issue and can provide some information it would be of great help. Thanks.
I got this exact same message on my Softbank X01 - however i ignored it, and my phone registered with T-Mobile without any problem. It seems to be connected to the new Network Wizard tool, under Settings - which only lists asia-pac countries for service.
However, if you go up to the Phone Service bar at the top, and enter the Settings section, the Network Tab seems to let you manually scan and select networks. It takes several minutes for the scan to complete, but when it does it gave me a choice of networks.
as always, ymmv,
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I downloaded the T-Mobile (NL) application for PPC2002 ("T-Mobile GPRS Connect") which should take care of the GPRS connections, but it does not work. It keeps complaining about not able to open the modem connection (I'm using the Cellular Line modem): "Can not find the name of the serial port".
Anybody any ideas?
It is a nice utility which displays the speed, send/received bytes and connection time, but useless sofar...
Marco
hey marco,
i bought a t-mobile pocket pc in the US and unlocked it. With my vodafone sim i now can do everythinh with the device. So I know how to make a GPRS connection to Vodafone, but don't know the settings for t-mobile.
A few days ago I also tried to install t-mobile app. but it sucks. I suggest you try to find out the correct settings with t-mobile nl to make a descent GPRS setting and not use the t-mobile application
groeten, Corjan
Hi all,
I've been a long time user of the Pocket PC Phone. I picked up an Unlocked (or so I thought) IMate II about 6 months ago and inserted my Tmobile chip in it and everything worked great.
Recently I went over to Cingular, signed up and walked away with my simm chips. Here's the problem I'm having:
1) No matter where I go, the phone has a Triangle (indicating Roaming) and it says T-Mobile in the Dialer. If I go to options, click on Preferred Networks, it has a ton of networks, the first three are Cingular and they are checked. If I click OK on this dialog, I receive the error message "Unable to save your changes to the network. Try changing settings later, or disconnect data connection and try again. Retry | Cancel.
2) My second problem is no matter what I put in for GPRS Connection it will not connect. I have tried isp.cingular (APN) and ISPDA.MYCINGULARGPRS.COM (username), cingular1 (password) and I have tried others to. One starts with WIXDC001* and that doesn't work.
I am hopeful that someone can help me here. I am unsure if these issues are related.
Thank you in advance,
Well depending on the area you are in most of Cingular's GSM towers are on 850 mhz. The xda II doesn't cover that frequency. There are a handful of states that still have 900 mhz coverage for them but not many. That's what makes you roam to T-Mobile, since they are the only provider on that frequency in your area.
looknow12 said:
Hi all,
I've been a long time user of the Pocket PC Phone. I picked up an Unlocked (or so I thought) IMate II about 6 months ago and inserted my Tmobile chip in it and everything worked great.
Recently I went over to Cingular, signed up and walked away with my simm chips. Here's the problem I'm having:
1) No matter where I go, the phone has a Triangle (indicating Roaming) and it says T-Mobile in the Dialer. If I go to options, click on Preferred Networks, it has a ton of networks, the first three are Cingular and they are checked. If I click OK on this dialog, I receive the error message "Unable to save your changes to the network. Try changing settings later, or disconnect data connection and try again. Retry | Cancel.
2) My second problem is no matter what I put in for GPRS Connection it will not connect. I have tried isp.cingular (APN) and ISPDA.MYCINGULARGPRS.COM (username), cingular1 (password) and I have tried others to. One starts with WIXDC001* and that doesn't work.
I am hopeful that someone can help me here. I am unsure if these issues are related.
Thank you in advance,
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Thanks for the reply. I believe that's the answer.
Have had my wizard for a couple of weeks now, when I bought it, it had the O2 software running on it, its branded externally as an O2. I upgraded the ROM last night but i have noticed that the phone (as before) still thinks it is using the T-mobile network e.g. when i tap on the signal strength indicator or a message comes through, it indicates the t-mobile network. I can receive and make calls as well as text messages and voicemail on the virgin network no problem. After doing the rom update last night i indicated that i was on the Virgin network when prompted when the device was initialising.
So how do i get rid of the fact that my wizard thinks its using the t-mobile network when its actually using the Virgin network. The phone is branded externally as O2? How on earth did this t-mobile identity survive the ROM update. Note i applied the I-mate ROM.
During the ROM update i left the sd card containing the previous ROM image (O2), a backup in case things went wrong, in the device. I noticed that a little after i ran the imate rom update from my host pc a message appeared on my imate mentioning something about the fact that there was an SD card containing a rom image and if i wanted to use this. It was very late and by the time it registed with me what i was looking at the message timed out and the rom update continued. Could this explain the reocurrence of the t-mobile wording. When i reset the device the imate splash is what i see.
Currently:
ROM version 2.16.9.1 WWE
ROM date 2/6/06 (6/2/06 here in the UK)
Radio version 02.07.10
Protocol version 413.1.03
ExtROM version 2.16.9.101
Thanks for any help
Fergus
Virgin is a virtual mobile operator and uses T-mobile's network. Its common for T-Mobile to show up as the carrier on many mobile phones.
Roaming indication after upgrade
Hi have the same problem.
I have a T-mobile (US) phone; I upgraded the ROM (Qtek test ROM) and since then, the phone shows that I am roaming into Cingular network.
In my area (San Francisco) - Cingular is the actual network operator; T-mobile uses Cingular's infrastructure as part of a deal made long time ago.
So, the ROM is correct but I wish there was a way to disable the ugly triangle (showing that I'm roaming) or alternatively - let the phone know that I'm parked in a "home-network".
Ah thank you for clearing that up. By the way is it true that virgin has been bought by NTL, someone mentioned this today. Not sure who is worse NTL or Virgin UK.
Do you know where i can get the settings for MMS and GPRS, have not checked if they have been set up properly.
Many Thanks
Fergus
fergus said:
Ah thank you for clearing that up. By the way is it true that virgin has been bought by NTL, someone mentioned this today. Not sure who is worse NTL or Virgin UK.
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it's true...
The operator logo in the dialer does not automatically change when you switch networks / sim cards.
It depends on the image file 'carrierlogo.gif' in the Windows folder.
I have an unlocked T-Mobile MDA Vario with an Orange sim card - this showed as T-Mobile until I updated the carrierlogo.gif file!
If you want to view the network you are currently connected to, go to Start | Settings | Phone | Network.
Re: Roaming indication after upgrade
gilbnx said:
Hi have the same problem.
I have a T-mobile (US) phone; I upgraded the ROM (Qtek test ROM) and since then, the phone shows that I am roaming into Cingular network.
In my area (San Francisco) - Cingular is the actual network operator; T-mobile uses Cingular's infrastructure as part of a deal made long time ago.
So, the ROM is correct but I wish there was a way to disable the ugly triangle (showing that I'm roaming) or alternatively - let the phone know that I'm parked in a "home-network".
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Have you tried another QTek ROM? Otherwise, it's a possible SIM-related issue. The SIM hasn't received an OTA (Over the Air) update telling it that it is connected to T-Mobile's local switch. Furthermore, you shouldn't be on the shared network anymore since the old GSM 1900 shared network was sold to T-Mobile in CA and NV as part of the Cingular/AT&T merger. I would think that T-Mobile has updated that GSM 1900-only network to broadcast only their MNC (Network Code) so any T-Mobile SIMs registered on the network know that it is a native network.
Hi, I have a Cingular 8525, Hermes, but there are no options for me to manually select my network. It is unlocked and it is also bootloader 1.04 ( dunno if that matters), and I can select bands (after using the registry tweak).
What I need is to be able to manually choose what network to be on.
I've done a search and I couldn't find anything on this...
Thanks
None of my tricks work that did previously as far as unlocking this feature. On a T-Mobile SIM network select works perfectly. However, any of my Cingular sims block it.
Cingular blocked that in the US with all their recent SIMs, no way to get around it.
i dont think all of it is the sim, because i was able to enable network selection on my 8125 with my 3g branded sim and it worked fine! i think it still has something to do with the registry! I used the same reg hack on my 8525 and it would bring up the network selections, but it wouldnt let me register on the 2nd cingular selection!
Same here. My 8125 had network selection and it worked beautifully. Also, on my MPx220 I had manual network selection and it worked without a hitch. It definitely is something to do with the ROM on these phones.
Just got back from the BVI. Cingular is available on USVI (can see tower). If I used my old sim from my mpx220 in my 8525 (orange/white) w/cingular international activated, I could not choose between the providers. It would always lock on CCTwireless @ $1.50/min. It was the page that has 'find network' as the only option. If I changed to the new simI got with the 8525 (blue/white/3g) w/o cingular international, I would get the network selection page that had the additional option of 'manual' network selection plus many other options/settings. I then could select 'cingular' and use it w/o charge. It would not let me register on CCTwireless even though it was an option in the dropdown menu, maybe because I didn't have cing int activated on that sim. So the manual network selection page is available on the 8525. It appears not be a 'new sim' issue. There must be a registry hack to enable/force the manual selection page as a default. Any thoughs to do this?
Yes please someone post the reg hack for this. I reside between two towers and likewise two providers - one Cingular and one roaming - and the partner does not have a partner agreement with Cingular.
Unfortunately, the "unpartnered roaming signal" is much much stronger than Cingular's, and therefore takes precedence over Cingular every time my phone repolls the networks every few minutes.
I cannot access data at all on the partner's network. I even called the provider and got their GPRS settings. So I need to be able to manually select Cingular as my network so that I can get on their data network.
I called Cingular and told them this and said that if they would let me do this, they will save a lot of money because they have to pay a buttload anytime I make or receive calls on other towers where they don't have an agreement, which is true - they confirmed this, and they always say that manually selecting networks is not possible. I think they are lying.
I have the HTC TyTN (with the WM6 homebrewed ROM) and the Cingular 2125 (with WM5 MSFP iMate ROM) - both with no dice on changing this.
Someone please post the reg hack!!!
snoop_hardin said:
Yes please someone post the reg hack for this. I reside between two towers and likewise two providers - one Cingular and one roaming - and the partner does not have a partner agreement with Cingular.
Unfortunately, the "unpartnered roaming signal" is much much stronger than Cingular's, and therefore takes precedence over Cingular every time my phone repolls the networks every few minutes.
I cannot access data at all on the partner's network. I even called the provider and got their GPRS settings. So I need to be able to manually select Cingular as my network so that I can get on their data network.
I called Cingular and told them this and said that if they would let me do this, they will save a lot of money because they have to pay a buttload anytime I make or receive calls on other towers where they don't have an agreement, which is true - they confirmed this, and they always say that manually selecting networks is not possible. I think they are lying.
I have the HTC TyTN (with the WM6 homebrewed ROM) and the Cingular 2125 (with WM5 MSFP iMate ROM) - both with no dice on changing this.
Someone please post the reg hack!!!
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See this thread post 7 onwards
http://forum.xda-developers.com/sho...light=cingular+enable+network+tab#post1061699
Mike
Hi all,
I just managed to flash HTCAsia WWE ROM onto my Dual Touch which was T-Mobile branded in Dutch, thanks to the NIKI project and some other good people. I use this opportunity toexpress my gratitude. But, since then, even I managed to pick up connection settings for my current provide (Orange), every time I try to send MMS or connect to the Internet using GPRS, I get the same message: "Answering modem has diconnected. There is a problem connecting to the GPRS service in your registered home network." I have called Orange customer service, and according to their instructions my connection and MMS settings are correct. Is it possible thatsomething is wrong with new ROM, or my GPRS service is not available for some reason.
Thanks.