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Twice now girls have mms messaged my xda2 late a night and i've woken up the next day only to find that my gprs stayed connected
gprs stay connected if someone sends me an MMS, is this normal??? i want to stop it doing it incase i get a big bill someday peeps. help :?:
not sure about your cellphone company but here i dont pay for minut
but pr MB and being connected dont use MB's
otherwise you could install
www.GB-SOFT.cz/xdaII
it let you mess along with the grps settings like turning off if device not used after X minuts
Mine dose the same. even when i am roaming, but it dose not show on the bill tho....
Re: why does gprs stay connected if someone sends me an MMS?
riiidaa said:
Twice now girls have mms messaged my xda2 late a night and i've woken up the next day only to find that my gprs stayed connected
gprs stay connected if someone sends me an MMS, is this normal??? i want to stop it doing it incase i get a big bill someday peeps. help :?:
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Receiving MMS is done with a GPRS connections, it is usually another APN than the one you use for regular internet access. Because not you but the provider opens the connections, you are not billed for them.
Kids used this "feature" for free surfing... In Germany this hole was closed.
Interesting. Do you have a valid IP and can you make IP connections to Internet IPs when being online with that MMS-APN?
Bye,
PHPat
Hi,
Very confused about this. When I go into connections it lists work connections and when I click on manage work connections there is one I added: VirginNet which uses CSD. No other exists.
Whenever I access a web page it keeps trying to connect to O2 Internet using GPRS.
Any ideas how I get it to stop? Do I have to hit the registry?
Cheers
R u sure there's only 'my work network' & no entry like 'my isp'.
if not create one for the csd type you want & check the advanced tab as well. 'my isp' is for internet. 'my work' for lan.
regards, M
Here goes..
If you open connections, go to the second tab, and click the "select networks" button. This is where you tell the operating system what network connection to ue for which application. You'll be specifically interested in the internet portion, which is the first section.
I had no My ISP section but it obviously still had the details somewhere. I've had to hard reset and start again.
Thanks for the replies though.
I guess, even with a CSD rather than GPRS, if something on my pocketPC tries to connect it will still cost me.
I seem to remember in Pocket PC 2000 that it couldn't do this on its own, it always needed permission.
borgs said:
I had no My ISP section but it obviously still had the details somewhere. I've had to hard reset and start again.
Thanks for the replies though.
I guess, even with a CSD rather than GPRS, if something on my pocketPC tries to connect it will still cost me.
I seem to remember in Pocket PC 2000 that it couldn't do this on its own, it always needed permission.
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Well, you are going to pay for the phone minutes if you use dial up, or you pay for GPRS useage. Actually, I didn't even realize the Magician had a dial up modem...
In any case, you can establish a connection by going to Connections and adding a connection. Select "Cellular Line" (which is the default, and go from there). I haven't done it with the Magician, but I have used dial up with WM2003.
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Man,as far as I learnt from my master courses, the GSM is a method for calling.For data transferring,it's GPRS........So if you wanna IE transfer data for ya,GPRS is needed.
That's not entirely true, you can configure a csd connection like with a regular modem.Which dials a number & have the data over the phone call.
Works OK PIE won't see the diff.
Cheers, M
I'm using CSD rather than GPRS because I can use my voice allowance of 200 minutes per month for data access. I've just checked my bill and, going via VirginNet dialup, it is using my allowance rather than being charged. It's slow but I can access the internet on the small number of occasions that I need to.
The question is; if something requires internet access on my pocket PC will it just go ahead and dial up now? Those 200 minutes won't last long if it fails to disconnect.
I would prefer it if the device would actually ask before it went ahead to get internet access.
Yes it will dial up & show shortly a message with the cancel/hide buttons. I'm on flatfee gprs from TMO & don't bother, so I can use journal bar, timesync, true imap mail (vgs mail), have automatic virus scan updates etc. etc. I guess your 200min. will be gone soon. In the Netherlands the internet dial-up numbers are seperate and expensive, so keep an eye on it.
Cheers, M
It all depends on the application you use.
IE won't connect on its own without you telling it to go to a web page. Messaging won't connect without you telling it to connect occasionally either.
Well-developed programs like Worldmate and PocketWeather won't either. You have to specifically allow them to connect, but it's program-dependent. If you install some rogue program that doesn't ask you, then yes, you will have problems.
Just remember that if you dial up using CSD, you will be connecting at around cellular speed 14.4Kbps (unless you connect to a HS connection, which I'm not sure the JARJAR even supports).
Hi,
Thanks for all the info.
In the end I've created 2 CSD profiles, one with user id info etc. and one without. When I don't intend to use the internet I set it to the one without. If anything attempts to get internet access it gets stuck at the network log on dialog and doesn't actually dial out - unless I accidentally hit the ok button on the handset. Best I can do I think.
When I want internet access I switch to the proper profile and it dials out normally.
Don't see why Microsoft couldn't provide a "Don't dial out" profile but there you go.
Cheers
I had a question pertaining to GSM/GPRS. Will the Magician/Jam, etc be able to upgrade to EDGE service once it is available in the U.S. at a decent rate? Will companies force us to upgrade our devices? How long will GPRS be available to consumers?
OK, I don't knkow what else to try here, hence the post!
I'm trying to get my XDA exec (Universal?) to connect to my work VPN. I've entered all the details exactly the same as they are on my laptop (which works) and yet when I try to connect, I get an error message saying "VPN Server problems. Verify your username and password, and try again. If the problem persists, turn the device off and try again." This message appears instantly, as though it is not even trying, and my GPRS connection terminates, without an error message, without a warning. What I think is happening is that as soon as I ask to activate the VPN, it disconnects the GPRS, and then the VPN won't work because of that. Which seems rather stupid.
I've tried rebooting, I've tried changing every setting in the VPN connection, I've tested the GPRS connection by visiting websites, I don't know what I can possibly be missing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
This has absolutely killed my faith in this device. It stops synchronising my mail at least once a day, without warning, it has crashed in the past, destroying mails I was writing at the time, and I find it generally unreliable, unfriendly and considerably less useful than a BlackBerry. Sorry, but I had to say that, I'm tearing my hair out here...
im not sure if you can do VPN over GPRS you may require a wifi connection for that.
Hello faethor, fancy meeting you here!
I know on the XDA IIs it worked over GPRS, so it would surprise me if it didn't on the Exec, but perhaps you're right...
I don't care any more, fed up with the damn thing for today...
This is possible, but there are various possible problems.
It could be something as basic as you need to add your company web-site in the 'exceptions' list (Start, Setting. Connection (tab), Connections (icon) advanced, exceptions). e.g *.companyname.co.uk.
It is worth checking with your IT people if certain IP address ranges are also blocked (e.g. for extra security).
Network tech support are quite rubbish on this, and it took me, my former MD and our IT company several hours to get it sorted last time we tried this!!
The queston is do you need VPN for document view / transfer or is it just for email / contacts on the move (you mentioned Blackberry)?
If your company has MS exchange 2003 the exec sync's straight in using yout outlook web access settings (a tick box also needs to be enabled in the server) or you could use something like www.seven.com which I have had both personally and corporate which works brilliantly.
If it is full VPN you need, I can provide documentation or contact numbers which may help.
It may be that your VPN connection needs to be the GPRS settings (and using the APN vpn.o2.co.uk (you said you were using an XDA which is an o2 branded HTC device) and your conx to your server via proxy is your home server details?
Hi everyone!
I'm the proud owner of a HTC Kaiser for about 2 weeks know which works just fine, at least if there wouldn't be this extremely annoying eMail problem :-(
I configured my eMail account and when I'm downloading my eMails with WLAN everything works fine, which proves that username/password/... must be correct.
Today I was "on the road" and tried to fetch my mails via grps/hsdpa/whatever was available and it just won't work. I suddently get a "Synchronisierungsfehler" (I'm running a german ROM, in english it should be something like "synchronisation error") and a bubble tells me to check my proxy etc settings, but it seems that the phone doesn't even try to connect :-(
I deleted and recreated my eMail account a couple of times, trying all the different network connections but it just won't work.
If I run IE, it automatically connects over 3G and I'm able to browse the web. While connected and surfing through the www I'm still unable to download my mails with the same error message, although I'm definitely connected to the internet. As soons as I disconnet 3G and enable WLAN, I'm able to send and receive eMails (while surfing still works of course).
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong? Slowly but surely I'm going insane ;-)
Thanks,
Simpson
What's your mobile carrier? Maybe the provider is blocking the necessary port(s) which are used by POP3/SMTP/IMAP.
So in first instance you could try a different APN if there is one...
Thanks for the reply!
I'm on 3 (Austria) and the strange thing to me is that it aborts so quickly. When downloading my Mails via WLAN it says Connection, Logging in, ... but over GPRS, which should take longer i guess, within the very first second (REALLY withing the very first second), there is "Connection", "Synchronisationerror", so I'm wondering if the connection could be dropped that fast by my provider or if the phone isn't even trying :-(
Thanks again,
Simpson
I guess it could be the port thing I mentioned above.
When you're connected via wifi (i.e. at home) there is usually no specific port blocked. So you're able to receive emails without any issues. If you're connected via GPRS/EDGE/3G/... the provider is able to block an incoming traffic on specific ports. The whole procedure works like that (simplyfied): your mobile establishes a connection via GPRS (which seems to work since you can browse the internet via GPRS). Afterwards it tries to connect on port 110 (which is for POP3) to your inbox. I think there's the point where your provider comes into play. If this port is blocked there's no way for your mobile to reach the mail account.
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Do you have the option to try fetching your mails with a different SIM card from a different provider? If so you should try that.
And yes... the connection can be dropped that fast.
Basti756 said:
I guess it could be the port thing I mentioned above.
When you're connected via wifi (i.e. at home) there is usually no specific port blocked. So you're able to receive emails without any issues. If you're connected via GPRS/EDGE/3G/... the provider is able to block an incoming traffic on specific ports. The whole procedure works like that (simplyfied): your mobile establishes a connection via GPRS (which seems to work since you can browse the internet via GPRS). Afterwards it tries to connect on port 110 (which is for POP3) to your inbox. I think there's the point where your provider comes into play. If this port is blocked there's no way for your mobile to reach the mail account.
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Do you have the option to try fetching your mails with a different SIM card from a different provider? If so you should try that.
And yes... the connection can be dropped that fast.
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I called 3 yesterday and they swore that the ports are NOT blocked. It must be possible to fetch mails from any provider.
Another funny thing is that if I configure my email account and try to automatically fetch the settings, the Kaiser connects via the same modem as if I would start IE and is able to fetch the settings!!! After finishing the configuration and trying to send/receive my mails, I get the same message again: Synchronisationsfehler bzw Überprüfen Sie Ihre DFÜ und Proxy Einstellungen.
Thanks to this great forum I unlocked my Kaiser with this cute All-in-one solution unlocker (donation will follow ;-) and tomorrow I'll try it with a different SIM card
Thanks again!
Greets,
Simpson
Well... if 3 doesn't block any ports... this whole thing doesn't get much easier
I suggest to take a look at your email provider settings (pop3 server, smtp server, login credentials). Maybe you have to use different settings when connecting via GPRS/3G.
I had a similar issue a couple of days ago with a Kaiser ( ), T-Mobile and T-Online. To keep things short... the login credentials have to be different when fetching mails via GPRS from T-Online.
So you should take a look at these settings. Especially at the server settings, since your device gives a connection error.
Well, I started messing aroung with this stuff on thusday. Today is sunday and.... It finally works!!!!!
Do you know what I did?
Well, after 4 days of fooling around I thought maybe I should try to reboot my Kaiser (Ein Reboot tut immer gut!) and after rebooting, without changing any account settings: Start -> Messaging -> Send/Receive -> AUTOMATICALLY dialing Planet3Modem -> You've got 2 new messages!
I'm so happy that it finally works, I don't even care why I didn't try a reboot earlier ;-)
Yippeee!!!!!! ))))
Thanks again for the help!
Greets,
Simpson
I'd never guessed that it would be that simple
Anyways... herzlichen Glückwunsch
Forgive me if this has been asked a million times before, but I can't find a solution relavent to my s740. I don't have a data package on my contract cos I rarely browse when not at home or work, but my phone keeps connecting with GPRS by itself, not sure if it's only when it updates my email or if it is any time I use the Internet i foung an app called noGPRS but it's for older devices it seems.