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GPRS Dropping

I have vodafone (NL) as carrier, and everytime i connect to the gprs network it seems to drop the connection when it idles (when i'm not surfing) Is there a way to go around this time-out, since GPRS will only cost you, if you are ussing bandwidth. What i'm trying to do, is to have it online all the time for my instand messenger. would be really nice to have that. :lol:

Blame MS
Inbox, Pocket Internet Explorer, MSN Messenger and all Microsoft apps bundled on the device will deactivate the GPRS connection after 10 minutes of inactivity. So much for "GPRS Always On".
That's the problem with American programers in general. They didn't live with GPRS day in, day out when writing Pocket PC 2002. They have it now, but that's too late.

is it not possible to run a small application that pings any IP address, in order to keep the connection up. could someone tell me if it's possible? i figured a ping does not take a lot of bandwidth, so i dont mind the 2kb a day for just pinging, i just wanna be "always connected"

Was there any resolution to this problem? I too need to leave MSN Messenger running on my journeys.
Also, I would like to use Yahoo Messenger - is this possible?
Regards
John

Take a look at the link here:
http://eggheadcafe.com/articles/20020209.asp
It describes a ping utility for you. However, the Icmp socket type is not available (at least through C# Compact .NET framework on my PDA) so I ended up modifying it to use:
Socket socket = new Socket(AddressFamily.InterNetwork, SocketType.Stream, ProtocolType.Tcp);
instead.
I did lots of modifications as I was using this for a very specific purpose but it was a good starting point.
Setting up a ping to a server will keep the connection alive if it is already up. I would suggest "playing" with the timing to keep bandwidth down and keep the connection up.
I know this post is old so this probably is not useful but others may run into it.
Hope this helps,
Graham.

BBConnect for All Data?

I did a search, and I know I've seen something before but for the life of me, I"m not too sure where.
Whenever I use my data for other than my BB, it disconnects and reconnects via regular data.
Is it possible to push everything through the BBConnect tunnel so it doesn't disconnect if I am browsing the web, updating weather, etc?
Sorry if that is a little convoluted...

aol/aim with a "proxy" connection?

I used to have a Sidekick. It connected to Danger Inc's servers before connecting to AIM. If your phone got disconnected it would wait a set ammount of time to see if you reconnected and then it would send you any "missed" messages when you connected.
Is there anything like that for WM devices?
IE: Can I use my home computer/network as some sort of "always-on-proxy"?
If I get a phone call or loose connection for a few seconds (no signal, roaming, weird tower switching, etc) it will disconnect me from AIM. Between the time that I'm actually disconnected and while AIM servers still thinks I'm connected (before switching it to send via SMS) it will loose any messages that are sent to me.
Is there anything out there that would fix this and give me more of a "sidekick" like feel to IMing?

If it matters, I should add:
My current WM device is a Titan (Sprint Mogul). dcd's 1.6.8 clean ROM, 1.47 Radio ROM. I'm also using IM+ (but have tried others) for AIM messaging.

Force E-mail to use WiFi

I gave my wife my old 8125 to use when her phone went out, now she's hooked on it & wants to be able to check e-mail. she dosen't have or want a data plan on it, and is home most of the time, but can't get to the computer b/c of other responsibilities.
I have set it up to access wifi, and it will use it for PIE, But when I set up the e-mail account it wants to dial out to check. I have tried setting the account to work, and internet but it just won't work, If I let it use medianet it's fine.
Any ideas?

I have not found a way to keep WIFI active at all times and doing so would kill the battery in just a few hours anyway. (seems to be more problematic on secure wifi networks)
This is the solution I use because I don't have an unlimited data plan and I don't want anything using the mobile phone network and thus being charged for data usage.
I stop GPRS on the phone using a freeware program called "NODATA". It toggles off the data connection to the phone company. The phone itself and text messaging still work without GPRS. I can then connect to a hotspot and everything else uses wifi instead. SMTP mail, internet browsing, google, search, etc. all flow through the wifi and I don't get billed for it.
See - hXXp://www.modaco.com/content/pocket-pc-software/246171/new-free-utility-nodata/
Works great for me. Simply toggle GPRS back on only when you need it...
I've heard of others setting up "fake" GPRS connections settings and switching to those. Since the "fake" connection fails, it rolls over to WIFI. But this is much simpler.

db90483 said:
I have not found a way to keep WIFI active at all times and doing so would kill the battery in just a few hours anyway. (seems to be more problematic on secure wifi networks)
This is the solution I use because I don't have an unlimited data plan and I don't want anything using the mobile phone network and thus being charged for data usage.
I stop GPRS on the phone using a freeware program called "NODATA". It toggles off the data connection to the phone company. The phone itself and text messaging still work without GPRS. I can then connect to a hotspot and everything else uses wifi instead. SMTP mail, internet browsing, google, search, etc. all flow through the wifi and I don't get billed for it.
See - hXXp://www.modaco.com/content/pocket-pc-software/246171/new-free-utility-nodata/
Works great for me. Simply toggle GPRS back on only when you need it...
I've heard of others setting up "fake" GPRS connections settings and switching to those. Since the "fake" connection fails, it rolls over to WIFI. But this is much simpler.
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try wifimonster

Is it possible to get email with no data plan and no WIFI connection

Does anyone know how to configure the G1 to get email? I do not have a data plan associated with my G1 and can get email when connected to WIFI. However, my wife has a Motorola w490 with no data plan and can get emails just fine. Can my G1 be set up to get emails while not connected to the internet? Thanks, John

No the g1 needs some kind of data connection. You can save emails to the phone but need to connect to wifi to download them.

The G1 works all data through a data plan. You won't be able to access any email without either a cell network (EDGE/3G) or provided network (WiFi).
The reason why your wife's phone works and gets email is because it's using cell networks, much like your G1 does on EDGE or 3G. However, since non-smartphones don't use a whole lot of data, there's no need for a cell company to even charge for it. More than likely, each email is charged at the same rate SMS is charged at.
T-Mobile doesn't do anything like that for the G1.