Disconnect EDGE/GPRS - Networking

I have a Tmobile DASh in US...which come with pre-installed Yahoo; I use yahoo a lot. I connect to my home Wi-fi and and then access yahoo. But surprisingly Tmobile charges for it saying each message I send and receive is send as a text message.
I think as edge is enabled yahoo is sending it default thru edge/gprs and hence the charge.
Is there any way to turn off egde or have the yahoo to connect thru only Wi-fi, as I can do for skype.
I tried to delete all the setting in edge but no help.
Please help me.
Lucky

Try the WM 6.0 Upgrade
lucky_me said:
I have a Tmobile DASh in US...which come with pre-installed Yahoo; I use yahoo a lot. I connect to my home Wi-fi and and then access yahoo. But surprisingly Tmobile charges for it saying each message I send and receive is send as a text message.
I think as edge is enabled yahoo is sending it default thru edge/gprs and hence the charge.
Is there any way to turn off egde or have the yahoo to connect thru only Wi-fi, as I can do for skype.
I tried to delete all the setting in edge but no help.
Please help me.
Lucky
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Lucky,
Try the WM 6.0 upgrate at http://www.tmobile.com/wmupgrade

All of the pre installed messaging apps send and receive "instant messages" as SMS.

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active GPRS, calls don't come in!

I've doubled checked with different SIMs/providers,
and both 1.03 and 1.60 versions....
Going into explorer, activating GPRS, downloading a large page,
and calling my phone from another cellular, I get "no answer"
and the XDAii never rings!
Has anyone experienced this?
Any solution?
Clearly, Voice should override Data according to GPRS standard,
and it did work for me on Treo 270 and Treo 600. But not here?!
tmobile does this to me with an XDAI
tmobile does this to me with an XDAI running 2003 from yorch, the basic rom, not the tmobile version.
A little useless to have gprs on all the time if you can't get calls, no?
gprs on vs gprs active
well in my case:
GPRS is on, but no data in the last few seconds: calls get in
GPRS is on and data "active": no calls get in
So, it is a problem of being "active" and not just "on" for me.
Like I've said, two different providers (900 & 1800) and both SIMs
worked correctly in a TREO 270/600.
GPRS & Calls
In my case, running an Orange M1000 with a version 1.52 ROM, the call gets through even if I have an active mail sync running using a VPN client and GPRS.
The VPN connection however is killed, but GPRS is re-enabled once the call terminates. The VPN client apparently does not re-connect automatically as it should, but this is not an M1000/XDA II problem.
This is how it is supposed to work, I believe.
Regards
Michael
GPRS & Calls
In my case, running an Orange M1000 with a version 1.52 ROM, the call gets through even if I have an active mail sync running using a VPN client and GPRS.
The VPN connection however is killed, but GPRS is re-enabled once the call terminates. The VPN client apparently does not re-connect automatically as it should, but this is not an M1000/XDA II problem.
This is how it is supposed to work, I believe.
Regards
Michael
Yes, same problem here. If IE is loading a page, the calls go to voice mail. The phone does not even ring.
How can we get around this?
So it is confirmed! help!
Come on people, now I'm pretty sure this is not related to
my locale (hebrew support) and is a global problem with the XDA II.
I can't believe someone else haven't checked it yet?
It is annoying to look something up on the net only to miss a call...
Some other people, please confirm this?
load a big www page in PIE and dial your own number.
Re: So it is confirmed! help!
Ummm....
Try doing this with a P900, Nokia 6600 etc...
I think you'll find this is a 'feature' of GPRS - when GPRS is actively transferring data, the phone bit doesn't work and calls go straight to vmail.
The dual bit - voice calls + downloads - is called 3G
Strange,
when i sync my email with active sync over GPRS the incoming call goes thrue but if i download a page with IE the call gets directly to the voice mail
any ideas??
regards,
Yann
My understanding is that there is nothing you can do. If GPRS is dl'ing, most calls will go to vm.
Should not matter which phone you have.
i'm pretty sure i have seen this confirmed in the documentation for my XDAII that whilst actively browsing using GPRS you cannot receive an incoming call as its downloading data, whether it just be page data or a file download. To recieve an incoming call GPRS can be connected but not active.
chix said:
Yes, same problem here. If IE is loading a page, the calls go to voice mail. The phone does not even ring.
How can we get around this?
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it happened to me when i click on save password everything i enable gprs.
to deal with it u need to either uncheck the save password or delete your previous setting and add a new one. now this time DO NOT check on save password when connecting to gprs.
hope it helps.

Help - GPRS Autodisconnect?

Hi All,
Hopefully someone may help with my query.
I have the HTC Wizard running on O2 UK latest ROM, the cell is unlocked and running another providers card.
The email is configured to check for new POP3 messages every 60mins when I am away from the PC.
The problem is that when it connects the GPRS and checks for messages the GPRS stays connected.
Other cell phones I have used will connect and autodisconnect after checking.
Maybe the GPRS is connected but not sending/receiving data during the idle period?
Can anybody shed some light on this?
Cheers all.
True- This also happens after you send/receive an MMS!
Any way to auto disconnect would be good.
GPRS
After more research I find it doesn't matter if the GPRS is active, as long as it is not sending or receiving data no charges will apply.
Still worrying though and will need to check bill!
thats is a big problem, the baterry life go away....
there no 3ยบ program to do this? no one knows?
disconnect script
Maybe something like this ,modify the script to check and disconnect the GPRS say 5mins after checking your email.
chalky.
Solution
after the send/receive of mail or mms, if you hold the end call button the GPRS will disconnect.

email polling advice

On basic t-mobile vario II - 'out of the box' wm5 rom etc etc
I have set up one of my pop3 accounts.
Everything works find, can receive mail, send mail etc etc.
However, when I set this to polling for email every 15 mins, it will only work, if email is open or running in the background and gprs is already connected.
Is this normal?
I was hoping that the way it worked was that it would get to minute 15, open messaging, open a connection to gprs, send & receive, and alert me if there are unread messages.
What I've found is that gprs has to be on or it doesn't work.
Also, that if messaging is not already open, nothing happens, when I turn power on the device and go and look, messaging is not open, if I open it, it says 'disconnecting', but never does.
If I send & receive after this, the new message will open, but then semi-crashes the device in that I can see the message OK, and scrolling works, but nothing else. Soft reset cures this.
Now, is this 'normal' behaviour, or do I need to hard reset to regain this function.
All advice welcome
marisa4755 said:
On basic t-mobile vario II - 'out of the box' wm5 rom etc etc
I was hoping that the way it worked was that it would get to minute 15, open messaging, open a connection to gprs, send & receive, and alert me if there are unread messages.
What I've found is that gprs has to be on or it doesn't work.
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There's nothing wrong in keeping a GPRS/3G connection open... you only get charged by data transfer, not connection time... if your worried about this, why not add on Web 'n' Walk to your package!
It's not that I'm worried about the data, I do have web & walk, it's more battery life. I've already swapped to gsm instead of 3g for most of the time, but it still uses up more battery than not having it on at all.
So, with bandswitch, I thought I had a really cunning plan, set up polling, and then use banswitch to turn off the connection when finished. But it's not working out like that, as none of it works without gprs connected to start with, and messaging open in the background!
I'm just trying to find out if this is normal behaviour, or there is something funny going on on my device.

Help, internet not working

OK, i have used the connection setup to set the phone for use in the US on the ATT network. It makes calls, sends and receives emails via 3G, however, when we enter internet explorer, we cannot open pages. We just get a white screen. Any suggestions? I have struggled with this for several days.
Thanks, I appreciate the help.
Did you try Opera mobile?

[Q] No MMS over Wifi?

I think I'm losing my mind. I could have swore MMS over WIFI was possible before I rooted via the GEOHOT method, but it seems since I did the deed, I am unable to send MMS through the default Messages or Google Hangouts without disconnecting from Wifi hopping on 4G then going back. I double and triple checked I still have mobile data on while connected to my home wifi, so I'm not sure where the issue lies.
Apologies if this is a known issue but a quick thread search yielded no results of similar issue so I figured I'd ask, is this something that can be corrected or is it just due to the setup of the phone and VZW network?
Thanks all!
nephilimreborn said:
I think I'm losing my mind. I could have swore MMS over WIFI was possible before I rooted via the GEOHOT method, but it seems since I did the deed, I am unable to send MMS through the default Messages or Google Hangouts without disconnecting from Wifi hopping on 4G then going back. I double and triple checked I still have mobile data on while connected to my home wifi, so I'm not sure where the issue lies.
Apologies if this is a known issue but a quick thread search yielded no results of similar issue so I figured I'd ask, is this something that can be corrected or is it just due to the setup of the phone and VZW network?
Thanks all!
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MMS (multimedia messages with pictures, etc..) uses data to transmit the message. It's normal for an MMS message to use cellular data service even when connected to wifi, since your home or work wifi doesn't have communication with Verizon's cell network.
SMS (simple texts with no attachments, just text) does not use data and would not need to hop over to 4G.
mms over wifi
i just tried, and sent a mms to my email thru wifi but i'm not using the stock messaging app, i have my default set to handcent and it works a bit differently. Additionally my wifi allows me to use 4g while still connected to wifi. I'm running both alliancerom and slymhyde.. i can do it on both through handcent i hopped back and forth with safestrap.
MrHyde03 said:
MMS (multimedia messages with pictures, etc..) uses data to transmit the message. It's normal for an MMS message to use cellular data service even when connected to wifi, since your home or work wifi doesn't have communication with Verizon's cell network.
SMS (simple texts with no attachments, just text) does not use data and would not need to hop over to 4G.
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brando5055 said:
i just tried, and sent a mms to my email thru wifi but i'm not using the stock messaging app, i have my default set to handcent and it works a bit differently. Additionally my wifi allows me to use 4g while still connected to wifi. I'm running both alliancerom and slymhyde.. i can do it on both through handcent i hopped back and forth with safestrap.
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I'm familiar with the data connection handoff when send SMS vs MMS, but thanks for clarifying I just assumed the device would switch from Wifi to 4G or cellular data to send the MMS vs just not sending it at all unless the WiFi was disconnected. I might just have to try 3rd party apps I suppose and see where that takes me. I just liked how Hangouts integrated with my other Google services.
Thanks for the info!

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