if you are connected to the edge network and have no incoming or outgoing traffic, do you still get billed per kb/min for being connected? I logged off MSN and closed my data session but for some reason it reconnected without me knowing. I fixed the problem afterwards but my phone was connected for awhile without me knowing.
Thanks!
if you are billed per kb, you shouldn't be billed
if you are billed per min, you should be billed
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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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If i connect to agile messenger via WIfi, and i send/recieve IM's....will they count as text messages (as far as my bill is concerned)
If you're connected through WIFI, your service provider (Cingular) will never even know you're connected, as it's a totally separate type of service/connection... so simply put, no.
As far as I know, Agile Messenger does not use text messages for communication. It uses your internet connection on your data plan to send/receive IMs. All Cingular sees is internet data traffic, not text messages. I use Agile all the time with my MediaNet Unlimited plan. Works like a charm.
can someone tell me how to disable GPRS/edge on my 8125 please?!
Hey guys, I have the ATT 8525 with no data plan. I would like to know if there is a way to block my phone from accessing the ATT data network. If I want to use the internet and so forth I will do it over wifi, I just want to make sure my phone won't access the ATT data network by accident.
Thanks!
Just call Customer Service and tell them you want to request WIX Blocked.
I believe MoDaCo's NoData will do the trick..
Shuts down the data connection but wifi is still available. Made for people going overseas and such without an international data plan.
I'll post it here when I find it...
edit: attached!!
Thanks buddy.. I was also looking for something similiar.
I have a question for you!!
My problem was almost the same. I have my MMS settings and when I activate that in the Connections tab as the connection to connect to the internet inorder to receive or send MMS, then if I try to access my inbox it checks through the data connection eventhough my WiFi is active...
So will the cab file that was posted here blocks the MMS?
Thanks
Jish
yes it stops your phone from acessing any grps or edge networks. i personally just removed the grps account settngs
Unless your provider has some redirect to email feature or whatever, MMS can't be transferred via internet. They need a direct connection to the provider's servers.
I use a cingular 8125 and tmobile- voice plan only no texting or web
I have wifi(internet connection) at home
once i am in a wifi, and browsing the web. do i get charged for data usage from my service provider(tmobile)?
or once im using windows messenger or third party messenger on a wifi connection do i get charged for text messages?
thanks
no a pda connected to wifi works just the same as a pc connected to wifi
it dont mean one pay for internet other then the internet one pay for of ones wifi
but sms use gsm unless one send them from a free sms website
thank you. so It wont charge for texting, or data usage once i am on a wifi network. the only reason i had this concern was my friend said ya man. and his dumb ass never used a pda. LOL
sms is a service which goes from 1 phone to another
if you normal sms from your phone it will charge you
the internet cant connect you to phones unless they are on the internet
so to sms over the internet one needs to connect to a service which let your sms out of the internet so to speak
wifi is for your pda 100% thing as it is for your pc
your phone operator will not even know you are online when you are connected to wifi
any pda with wifi can connect to the internet that way it dont even have
to be a phone
I found that even when I am connected to a WiFi connection, when I used either the browser or Windows Messaging, I got a data charge on my AT&T bill. In order to make absolutely sure that this does not happen again, I disable the cellular service under the Comm Manager when I want to use WiFi. I had thought that the WiFi would take precidence over the cellular service, but I could not find any way to configure this, so I just turn off the cellular service. It's a pain, but at least I don't get the data charges.
My advice is to alter the gprs ap name (ofnew.fr -> ofnew.ten.fr) so it can't use it.
if you are connected to the edge network and have no incoming or outgoing traffic, do you still get billed per kb/min for being connected? I logged off MSN and closed my data session but for some reason it reconnected without me knowing. I fixed the problem afterwards but my phone was connected for awhile without me knowing.
Thanks!