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WAP and Yahoo!

On a PC, you can go to http://wap.oa.yahoo.com, and login to your yahoo account to read your emails, etc.
If I do the same from my XDA2, it says "Unable to connect: Ensure that your modems are present and inserted correctly, and no network card present".
If I try this with any other web site (e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk) it connects and works fine.
Does anyone else get this, and does anyone know a way around it?
Thanks!

On my XDA, http://wap.oa.yahoo.com works fine.
But WAP stinks on a capable device like the XDA or XDAII. Why not use http://www.yahoo.com instead, or set up your Inbox to download your Yahoo headers and/or messages?

can i realy do that?? setup INBOX for yahoooo???
please show me how! i couldnt even set the outlook express on PC to do that!
thanks a million.

pdhenry said:
Why not use http://www.yahoo.com instead, or set up your Inbox to download your Yahoo headers and/or messages?
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You can only do this if you pay extra for POP3 access to Yahoo emails - which I don't want to do as this isn't my primary email account.
Also, going through http://www.yahoo.com means you get all the ads, graphics, etc. Even over a GPRS line, this makes it quite painfull.

d-o-h! said:
On a PC, you can go to http://wap.oa.yahoo.com, and login to your yahoo account to read your emails, etc.
If I do the same from my XDA2, it says "Unable to connect: Ensure that your modems are present and inserted correctly, and no network card present".
If I try this with any other web site (e.g. http://www.bbc.co.uk) it connects and works fine.
Does anyone else get this, and does anyone know a way around it?
Thanks!
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I just got a new XDA II and I could access Yahoo without problems. After an involutary hard reset all the O2 stuff got installed (seems it was not installed the first time I used the device), and now I'm having the same problem as you're describing. Has O2 added something "clever" so that if it sees "wap" in the path, it thinks it should use a wap connection? In any case I can't find these settings and delete it. I want it to work as it did before the hard reset! Help!

Try wsp://wap.oa.yahoo.com insted of http://wap.oa.yahoo.com
HTTP = PC
WSP = WAP
8)
cheers

WSP doesn't work either. Probably because that signals even more to the computer that you're trying to establish a WAP connection, which I don't want to do and which isn't set up either. The funny thing is that it worked before the hard reset, and I never had any problems on my old XDA I.

I managed to remove all the O2 stuff from the extended ROM, and after a hard reset, I can now access http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail again! Once you access http://mobile.yahoo.com/mail, the path changes to http://wap.oa... and from this point on it complained. Until I removed the O2 stuff. So now I'm happy it works, but I'd still like to know what settings O2 infiltrated to stop it from working. Does anyone have a clue?

astryger said:
So now I'm happy it works, but I'd still like to know what settings O2 infiltrated to stop it from working. Does anyone have a clue?
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I think it have something to do with Connection settings and or Registery settings for Browser ID string (User ID String)
example:
Of youre browser ID is "Mozilla/4.0(compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320)" Than you w'll get a diffrent page if you have something else.
After I changed my Browser ID (to see more free stuff from orange GRPS/Orange World) I cant get the colored page of Yahoo Too.
Can you post here youre Browser ID please?
To see youre browser ID string, Visit http://www.showip.com on youre PPC, and let me know please.
Cheers

I just bought an XDA2i and am having the same problem with the mobile Yahoo site. Since nobody has managed to unlock the extended ROM in XDA2i yet , I cannot remove the O2 stuff that is causing the problem (forcing a different connection for web adresses starting with "wap"). On my XDA2 i could unlock the extended ROM and remove the O2 bits, and this solved the problem. With XDA2i I'm stuck...

Web Browsing issue with IE

Since moving from a Jam to a JAMin, I have a problem with using GPRS and IE to access Google. Each time I try to search with Google, I get a message "The page cannot be displayed or doanloaded because the connection was lost. Check the connection and try again". In fact, there is no connection problem. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there some setup in WM5 which does not like Google (or vice versa)? Thanks for any help.

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Since moving from a Jam to a JAMin, I have a problem with using GPRS and IE to access Google. Each time I try to search with Google, I get a message "The page cannot be displayed or doanloaded because the connection was lost. Check the connection and try again". In fact, there is no connection problem. Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there some setup in WM5 which does not like Google (or vice versa)? Thanks for any help.
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I get google.com on my S200 just fine using IE

I have no problem with Google and IE either.

Thanks Hellomoto 25 and Acer. I get the Google homepage but it is the search results which get the message I referred to. No other ideas? Thanks.

BEBO crashes Internet explorer

I was wondering if any of you in the community could do me a favour and try something.....
Recetly, my xda 2I has bee having trouble accessing http://www.bebo.com
I use a wireless broadband connection, which works fine, and the site in question hasn't posed any problem,s before... up until about 2 weeks ago.
The problem is i open IE, and search for www.bebo.com and it finds he page, but as soon as it starts loading, IE appears to close.... it opens again without trouble, just back to my homepage.
THe curious thing is this doesn't happen with any other webpages... just wth bebo. and i KNOW the site is working as I can access it on my pc.
Can anyone try accessing the site on their pdas andmaybe tell me if it's just an issue bebo has developed with widows mobile or something...
help appreciated,
.............IB a n e

How Can I Manage Sprint Account Online?

I need some help on how to manage my sprint pcs account online using my mogul.
Every time I try to login using pocket IE I just get to a page that reads "PLEASE WAIT" and then nothing happens.
Does anyone here faced my same problem I"ll appreciate help on this matter,I ALSO TRY TO DO IT USING OPERA MINI ON JAVA BUT I`M STILL UNABLE TO LOGIN AND INSTEAD I RECEIVE THIS MESSAGE "Error 400: EJPEC0903E: The computation of the VP Login redirect URL failed." IS THERE ANY OTHER WAY AROUND? THIS IS VERY USEFUL FOR ME AND FOR OTHERS SINCE WE CAN PAY BILLS CHECK ON MINUTES ETC. THANKS

good question. id like to know the answer to that too. Is there a pda or mobile site for going on sprint vision? I know there is a wa to get the picturre albums. pictures.sprintpcs.com/pda

use the opera browser and under settings it has a section that says brodcast device as: and you can choose from mobile device or desktop, choose desktop. this is not free (24 USD) but has a free trial.
to download current version from opera go here:
http://www.opera.com/download/mobil...=/img/products/mobile/platform/865.gif&extra=
or you can download the beta version from (no settigns for desktop on new version):
http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=19533
(you may aslo want to download the cab files that pute PIE back as the default browser because when you install the beta it immediately makes opera the default browser, can be found here: http://forum.ppcgeeks.com/showpost.php?p=217486&postcount=135 )
hope this helps

IE is the only app that can connect to internet.

I'm hoping someone can help me. I have an AT&T tilt. I've had it for a year with no problems. Yesterday I tried opening Opera 9.5 and it just hung at connecting to media net. I tried a soft reset, I've tried removing the batteries and reinstalling opera. The problem still persists. I tried leaving it alone to connect to media net, and found google had loaded about an hour later. Unfortunately the browser was still non-responsive. After taking a look at other programs, I discovered, Internet Explorer is the only app that works. Even messaging doesn't, it hangs while trying to connect to download mail. I tried leaving it alone like I did for Opera an found it "logging on" about an hour later, but it was hung. I've also tried turning on WiFi, but Opera still cannot connect.
From what I can see, it looks like there's an issue connecting up to the network, however, I can't explain why IE can do it, but everything else can't. Does anyone have any idea or suggestions for troubleshooting this one?
Thanks in advance.

hi,
try this opera fix.
http://www.ppcsg.com/index.php?showtopic=101958&st=430&p=749204&#entry749204
as for messager live .. good luck with that .. as far as I can see, the only solution is to do a hard reset and AVOID using the auto configurator in the email setup.
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" bad news for Windows live/ hotmail users is that they do not get the chance to select the network connection a windows live/hotmail account uses. On the very first part of the e-mail setup, as soon as you type in "[email protected], or [email protected]" , the account wizard completely takes over declaring that "settings found for hotmail.com". And even after you type in all your details you do not get to option to select the network connection to be used. (This is consequence of the fact that Microsoft Windows Mobile thinks it knows best how to configure microsoft based e-mail accounts for windows mobile.) The network connection that is automatically selected is called "The Internet". As you cannot select another network connection, you must edit "The Internet" connection so that it has the right settings for your particular mobile service provider. To do this"
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=304159
But the strange thing is that I cannot find The Internet connection settings. So i cannot edit The Internet networking settings. Apparently, the end user is deem too stupid to know how to edit it correctly, so it's set automatically and hidden from view. Still investigating.