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
Related
Hi,
Im new to the site and the phone, just got an upgrade on it.
Im on the old Genie contracts so O2 wont allow me to use GPRS, does anyone know if theres a way round this? Also they told me I cant use wap on this phone, is this true?
Thank you
back in the day many cellphone operators offered wap over gsm
but i think that the operator have to support it just like with wap over grps
do people really use wap with their xda's btw ?
i never use it it's ugly and a horrible std. and when ones device can do normal html then why bother with wap ?
Obviously Id rather use GPRS but the phone just doesnt give me access to it (O2 have told me they have de-activated from there side, only way to get it is to change my contract which i dont want to do), so I have no alternative but to use WAP unless there is a way round the problem.
today wap use grps if they deactivated grps then i doubt you can find any way around that
however as i said then wap can also be made to use pure gsm and not use grps
but if the network operator dont support wap over gsm then there is no way around that
so you can look for wap settings for o2 without grps that is if they support that and try those settings
I was on the old Genie contract and you can't use GPRS or MMS (Which uses GPRS) without changing your contract.
You still however have the GSM connection using the telephone number : 915000 and the user and password being o2wap, this is a "Cellular Line" and will only be 9600bps but that is free on the old genie contract and will work for web and wap and email and msn.. its basically a slow net connection that routes through their servers (which seem to sometims compress images horrifically).
I've changed my contract as i wanted MMS and GPRS. If on the o2 Active screen you choose myxda and then connections you can choose GSM, but this sets up two connections one which is a wap number and one that is very slightly different that is a web number, neither of which are 915000 (probably due to when you're roaming) and the web number maybe chargable if they're picky.
If you setup what the XDA calls an ISP connectiong with the wap 915000 it works fine. However the ISP connection seems to be for Web connections and if you try to goto wsp:// in IE it says there's no connection present as i think its set to dial the work connection for wap usage. I've only had my phone for about a month and haven't really had a chance to get any furthur with this.
Good luck.
Hope that all helped.
Tristan
I have an O2 payg sim, I can connect to wap over gprs but I dont like wap, I use the gsm line to get full internet access for my 300 minutes free. It is very easy to setup and although it runs at only 9600 I am able to retrieve/send pop3 email and access all web sites. I delete all the autoconfig settings from connections before entering the gsm details.
I also have the old genie setup, and can both access wap and www etc using the original 915000 dial up free wap no. I am presuming you have the free message and free wap tarrif! If so I can give you the details if you pm me.
However you cant send or recieve mms messages still, you need to do this via the o2 site, when it bloomin works
Mitch
Thank you everyone for your help, this seems like a great community here
mitchellgunn, thats the same one I got, unlimited free wap and txting, Ive sent you a PM
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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?
Can anyone help me with the settings to allow me to connect to the internet withmy xda11 and my payandgo o2 sim card.I also hae a contract BT sim as well.
Does it allow me to have full acces to all the web sites?
I have looked around but keep going round in circles.
Any help would be great.
Thanks
Skinnymat
have you contacted payandgo about enabling the sim for gprs and the settings required.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/viewtopic.php?t=13861&highlight=
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.
TV
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.