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First off I apologize for digging the topic of Softbank up, believe me I know its be discussed to death, but I have a slightly different angle: Prepaid Data.
I've gotten MMS working fine (props to xda-devs and BeeGee on that one). Internet though, it seems, uses slightly different proxy settings (or there is an entirely unknown APN). I've spent the last few days becoming immersed in the entire discussion.
Because this is PREPAID, the flat rate information obviously does not apply as there is no flat rate for prepaid AFAIK. If I use the flat rate info (or CABs) I can't establish a data connection (and get an error).
BUT After trying tons of combos I can _almost_ access the Internet via my phone. Connecting the phone to a PC and troubleshooting it reveals I can get full DNS resolution when using:
APN: mailwebservice.softbank.ne.jp
Username: softbank
Password: <starts with a 'qce' and so forth>
I can't actually connect to anything directly though.
I can open up a port to 8080 to vfkkwapproxy.vodafone.ne.jp and it appears to be a HTTP/WAP proxy. However if I specify that as my HTTP proxy on the phone or PC I get this error:
お客様の端末からはご利用になれません。
(WJ46140E)
The error actually varies depending on the browser. The above is FF for the PC. Opera and IE for the phone will give slightly different numbers.
If I try to do a data connection using the following APNs:
[email protected]
[email protected]
[email protected]
I can't establish a data connection, but using the mailwebservice.softbank.ne.jp info above I can (which is also what I use for functioning MMS).
Perhapse its the wrong APN I'm using and the blocking is just a symptom of that APN/proxy only allowing MMS? Or I wonder if there is some other proxy information I need to use for the prepaid USIM and it will suddenly work.
Its such a tease that DNS will resolve any domain name (www.cnn.com, etc) but blocks actual connections
Anyone have any ideas?
I was thinking that perhaps someone here had the non-flat rate proxy information that was different from the [email protected] stuff I had been trying, too.
Any help would be appreciated, I feel like I'm so close to totally winning the war against Softbank ...
+1... if someone could get the right settings that'll be great. going to Japan again in a couple of weeks and would really like working 3g internet...
Siiigh
I've done a ton of testing with the APNs. (Again this is for a prepaid USIM) Here is what doesn't work. I'm hiding all but the first letters of the passwords because you can find them easily somewhere else.
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APN Username Pass Status
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softbank error
softbank [email protected] softbank error
softbank [email protected] softbank error
softbank [email protected] c29m********* error
open.softbank.ne.jp opensoftbank ebMN************ error
open.softbank.ne.jp softbank qcef************ error
open.softbank.ne.jp opensoftbank qcef************ error
open.softbank.ne.jp open001softbank itTA************ error
open.softbank.ne.jp open ozRt************ error
webopen.softbank.ne.jp softbank qcef************ error
vodafone [email protected] vodafone error
open.softbank.ne.jp softbank ozRt************ error
vodafone [email protected] vodafone error
vodafone [email protected] vodafone error
[email protected] vodafone error
[email protected] vodafone error
[email protected] softbank error
[email protected] softbank error
[email protected] error
error
vodafone error
*99# [email protected] softbank error
*99# [email protected] softbank error
*99# softbank softbank error
*99# softbank qcef************ error
*99# error
[email protected] vodafone error
[email protected] softbank error
mailwebservice.softbank.ne.jp softbank qcef************ connects, MMS only
mailwebservice.softbank.ne.jp error
mailwebservice.softbank.ne.jp [email protected] softbank error
mailwebservice.softbank.ne.jp softbank softbank error
mailwebservice.softbank.ne.jp opensoftbank qcef************ error
mailwebservice.softbank.ne.jp [email protected] qcef************ error
mailwebservice.vodafone.ne.jp vodafone qcef************ error
mailwebservice.vodafone.ne.jp softbank qcef************ error
I did what I consider to be about as comprehensive attack on the proxies I've seen on the internet for softbank as well as trying some combos just for the hell of it while connected to the mailwebservice.softbank.ne.jp APN.
Code:
Proxies using the mailwebservice.softbank.ne.jp APN (Which allows MMS)
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sbwapproxy.softbank.ne.jp:8080 error WJ46140E
webopen.softbank.ne.jp:8080 timeout
vfkkmmsproxy.vodafone.ne.jp:8080 error
vfkkwapproxy.softbank.ne.jp:8080 unresolveable
vfkkwapproxy.vodafone.ne.jp:8080 error WJ46140E - forbidden
sbkkwapproxy.softbank.ne.jp:8080 unresolveable
sbwapproxy.softbank.ne.jp:8080 error WJ46140E
mmsopen.softbank.ne.jp:8080 error WJ46086E
smilemms.softbank.ne.jp:8080 error
sbmmsproxy.softbank.ne.jp:8080 error WJ46086E
mailwebservice.softbank.ne.jp:8080 unresolveable
mailwebservice.vodafone.ne.jp:8080 unresolveable
The errors I get are actually HTML content that comes from the proxy. There are two codes with associated text with them, my friend has translated them for me.
WJ46086E: エラーが発生しました。リクエストが不正です。means; an error has happen. Your request is injustice.
WJ46140E: お客様の端末からはご利用になれません。means; with your phone(type of phone) you can use it.
The last one makes me think if I play with the User-agent I might get it working. Trying that next, but if that is the case I find it unlikely that anything except for Opera or other spoofing-enabled browser will work (so no Facebook app, weather widgets, YouTube, etc etc).
I'm less than hopeful as well because the Softbank store assured me the phones they do sell /w prepaid USIMs don't have web browsers or any way to access the Internet - but you can connect via USB and do it with a laptop. Meaning there should be no restrictions.
Interesting - Change your settings with non-softbank Y!Keitai button
Went through and tried a bunch of different User-agents with no luck:
SoftBank/1.0/934SH/SHJ001/SN359416021923029 Browser/NetFront/3.5 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
SoftBank/1.0/920SH/SHJ001 Browser/NetFront/3.4 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
SoftBank/1.0/930SC/SCJ001/SN355159020117946 Browser/NetFront/3.4
SoftBank/1.0/830N/NJ002/SN356756020446453 Browser/NetFront/3.4 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
SoftBank/1.0/730SC/SCJ001/SN356756020446453 Browser/NetFront/3.4 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
SoftBank/1.0/730SC/SCJ001 Browser/NetFront/3.4 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
SoftBank/1.0/X05HT/HTJ001 Browser/NetFront/3.4 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows CE; *HTC/X04HT*) Opera 9.50
Then I figured, well the 707SC is a model sold /w prepaid and tried:
SoftBank/1.0/707SC/SCJ001 Browser/NetFront/3.4 Profile/MIDP-2.0 Configuration/CLDC-1.1
(using the vfkkwapproxy.vodafone.ne.jp:8080 proxy)
And I stumbled on a way to access the Keitai/Settings page normally only accessible by hitting the "Y!" button on real softbank phones.
Any URL will pull up the settings page, prompting for PIN and letting you adjust your email address and other settings. This means there is no need to bring in a non-Softbank phone with USIM to a Softbank store to change your email address (via having them put the USIM into one of their demo phones, you changing your settings and returning your USIM).
.... Which is pretty cool, but a) I already had them change my address and b) unfortunately this hardly helps me get Internet access.
But I found it interesting.
The site ultimately redirects to this as a base URL: http://nocharge/GATEWAY/
I tried a few variations but didn't stumble on anything except error messages.
At this point I'm ready to give up, but am posting these combos so if someone does stumble across something they can check to see if I've tried it.
I may try attacking the "nocharge" site a bit, but I find it unlikely to yield anything useful in getting me real access.
Sigh.
User Name
This thread awakened long-forgotten memories of an article seen years ago.
http://thomer.com/howtos/nstx.html
Maybe useful.
Interesting
Hmm, definitely a good idea. No ICMP is let through it seems, but DNS definitely does work.
The main issue to leveraging this is that I need a Windows Mobile client for it to work. I'm not interested in using my phone as a modem /w a laptop (which I bet I could get working with Linux). I want Internet on the phone itself to work.
Softbank doesn't appear to allow DNS queries to other servers aside from theirs otherwise I could do some dirty port 53 proxying on one of my own servers.
I'm going to keep digging along these lines and see what I can find.
Even if you get this to work, won't you be paying the ridiculously expensive tethered data rates that apply for prepaid cards, i.e. 16 yen/6 seconds, which would drain a 3000 yen prepaid card down to zero in less than 20 minutes?
Nope
Not with what I'm trying to do, no. I'd be using the MMS APN (because that is the only one which I've been able to connect to) which is flat 300/yen per month.
Also, the data rate is not _that_ expensive. I worked it out to be around 700/Yen per MB. Yes its not cheap, but seriously moving that much data is not my plan. Just some mobile sites and what not. "Just to have it in case". I don't plan on uploading pictures and video to Facebook, etc.
Also right now I'm faced with _losing_ most of my 3,000 yen calling credit because its going to expire after 2 months. All I do is MMS, which is a flat rate of 300 yen per month. But credit expires after 2 months, so ...
I think basically its a non-starter though. ICMP traffic is blocked and while I can get _SOME_ DNS traffic through it does not appear to be enough to use wmiod and iodine (the only TCP via DNS tool I've found with a WindowsMobile client). Here is what I've tried: http://www.it.teithe.gr/~kontam/#
I can see the DNS requests come through to my server but the client reports a general error on handshake. Looking at the source code to the WM client it looks like basically its not getting anything back (though I can see my server is sending it). It would appear that Softbank is stripping off the data to the R-types this tool uses.
Its a shame though, I'd happily pay a higher rate for data. Its just nobody seems to know the APN info for prepaid cards. I know its possible as its listed as a feature on the Softbank website and catalogs -- but they say of course "only on Softbank phones". Which means again, some hidden username, password and APN.
Why would I happily pay such a high rate? I had a rental phone here last year for 2.5 months and it cost me about $400. I don't want to sign a contract as I'm here for 3.5 months this year (and only have a temp stay visa). So if I can stay under like 15,000 JPY per month, I'm still technically 'ahead' ... and using my Touch Pro is way better than the cr*ppy rental phone.
B-mobile sells a prepaid sim-card for data access (8400 yen, 500 minutes). You'd have to sim-swap whenever you wanted to use it, but it may be an easier option. They also have a prepaid, no-contract, 3G USB data modem, whose sim card may also work for you.
http://www.bmobile.ne.jp/android/index.html
http://www.bmobile.ne.jp/english/3g.html
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Its just nobody seems to know the APN info for prepaid cards. I know its possible as its listed as a feature on the Softbank website and catalogs -- but they say of course "only on Softbank phones". Which means again, some hidden username, password and APN.
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Could you point out where you saw this being listed as possible? I never saw this listed anywhere, but never looked very hard, either. I have the latest Softbank handset catalog in front of me now (Autumn 2009) and if I'm reading p. 35 correctly, it says you can't use web on the prepaid plan. It says that "data transfer" is possible, but I guess this refers to the USB modem (tethering) capability.
According to this page, [email protected] should work for prepaid data access:
http://www.japanmobile.jp/product/229
halogen-9000 said:
According to this page, [email protected] should work for prepaid data access:
http://www.japanmobile.jp/product/229
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Definitely does not work, was one of the first things I tried (and just tried again as well).
I updated my list of non-working APN/Username/Password combos on the first page of this thread.
I am tempted to call SoftBank one last time and tell them I have one of those handsets and internet isn't working. They swear there is nothing to 'enable' for Internet to work but I wonder if that isn't the truth and there is some switch they need to throw (and hadn't because I don't have an SB phone).
halogen-9000 said:
Could you point out where you saw this being listed as possible? I never saw this listed anywhere, but never looked very hard, either. I have the latest Softbank handset catalog in front of me now (Autumn 2009) and if I'm reading p. 35 correctly, it says you can't use web on the prepaid plan. It says that "data transfer" is possible, but I guess this refers to the USB modem (tethering) capability.
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I believe its saying tethering only because the pre-paid phones are not advanced enough to browse the web on there own. It has to be going through the same process though, unless I'm missing something.
trolld said:
I believe its saying tethering only because the pre-paid phones are not advanced enough to browse the web on there own. It has to be going through the same process though, unless I'm missing something.
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I don't think this is correct. My prepaid can browse HTML files fine if I copy them to the phone. I suspect that I can't actually connect to the net from the phone because SB locked it down in the phone somehow (I can't get to the network settings menu to check anything).
Now, two interesting things.
1. I think if I subscribe to unlimited mail service, I will be able to connect to a limited series of web pages from the phone itself, to set up mail settings. But I'm pretty sure I won't have full internet access, because the manual says so. As I said, maybe SB locked down the phone with some crippled network settings. Since it's locked I can't play around with the settings myself.
2. If I tether to my PC using the provided software and USB cable, it uses the [email protected] access point (that's what the PC software shows). I suspect I will have full internet access, because the manual implies so (but at a horrendously expensive time-based, not volume-based, rate).
Now the funny thing is, if tethering uses [email protected] and can get full Internet access (mind you, I didn't test this), then why can't you do that from your phone?
Maybe the PC-based tethering software is doing some hanky-panky to get the connection going.
I think a prepaid deal like the b-mobile I mentioned earlier might be easier. However reading more closely, the b-mobile android sim card says you're only supposed to use it in a GDD phone, not other phones. Caveat emptor.
Would be interested to know if you get this going, but I still think it's gonna drain your prepaid balance faster than you can say "Oto-san".
P.S. Supposedly in January 2010 the carriers will be required by law to provide network connection settings to allow third party phones on their network.
halogen-9000 said:
P.S. Supposedly in January 2010 the carriers will be required by law to provide network connection settings to allow third party phones on their network.
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Wow!!! this is gr8 news ....is it applicable to Japan?
where did u learn of it...interesting...
Do a google search for "in 2010, Japanese law is forcing the carriers". I'm looking for more information on this, myself, but I've heard it from a lot of places.
halogen-9000 said:
Do a google search for "in 2010, Japanese law is forcing the carriers". I'm looking for more information on this, myself, but I've heard it from a lot of places.
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Yeah not much info about it on the internet. But lets keep our fingers crossed and hope such laws are changed. Will make life lot easier for people like us...
Heh
Yeah I heard about the 2010 thing, unfortunately it won't help me this time around (only in Tokyo until Dec 15th, then back to Thailand). I'm sure I'll be back in Nihon again next year though most likely, so hopefully then
Hal: Interesting but I don't see how it could do anything that couldn't be done on the phone. Are you in Tokyo?
I'm back in the USA right now on a 1 week visit, but will be returning next week.
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Hal: Interesting but I don't see how it could do anything that couldn't be done on the phone.
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True, but if it's sending a magic word that is not to be found anywhere outside of the PC tethering software, it could require sniffing the wire/analyzing the program, both of which seem rather tedious.
Have a look here for the files:
http://jp.samsungmobile.com/pc/en/lineup/707_2download.html
Are you in Tokyo?
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We regret to inform you that the information you requested is released only on a "need to know" basis.
Still, if there are any questions you think I might be able to answer, give me a holler here... I'm nothing but an interested prepaid user, however.
No luck
Well, I charged up my prepaid phone and did some tests. Results are not encouraging.
1. I had to apply for long mail service first.
2. Then, from the SB phone I was able, for the first time, to access an online mail settings page from the phone's built-in browser: i.e. limited web access. However the phone denied arbitrary URL access with an error page saying I could only access the pages for my mail settings.
3. The Samsung PC tethering software recognizes the phone, tries to use the [email protected] access point, but fails to connect to the Internet at all. It tries to dial, then an error appears both on the phone and the PC that the connection was severed.
All in all, this basically confirms exactly what you discovered.
This page pretty clearly says it is impossible to access the Internet from prepaid plans: http://forum.gaijinpot.com/showthread.php?p=590486#post590486
This is in line with the general SB statement of "no web on prepaids".
The *only* concrete evidence I have that tethered access is supposed to work is the "Softbank prepaid service guide 3G" from 1 year ago which explicitly says on p. 78, in English, "Data communication - connect handset to PC via USB cable to use it as a modem. Handset + cable -> Establish an Internet connection for PC use / Data communication rate: \16(with tax)/6 seconds".
If I wanted to complain I could try to take that manual as evidence, with my phone and USB cable, and demand that they show me how it works. However I expect that would be pointless and they would just say, "sorry, the manual is wrong, it doesn't work" - which is basically the result we've found so far.
I would love to be proven wrong on this, but I'm not sure I see much hope.
EDIT: Reading p. 35 of the prepaid service manual in Japanese, it seems that 2 items were lost in translation to English on p. 78. The original Japanese says (a) "64K/UDI" data transmission is possible and (b) Usable from APPLICABLE HANDSETS. Therefore, this "data" seems to be NOT 3G data, but "64K/UDI" data, whatever that is. And your handset has to support it, which mine apparently doesn't. Maybe this can shed some more light on the situation.
I'm experiencing the following error when attempting to login via the social networks part of the data connection function:
There was a connection error while attempting to login.
Does anyone have the same problem and has a fix been found?
xxthemartianxx said:
I'm experiencing the following error when attempting to login via the social networks part of the data connection function:
There was a connection error while attempting to login.
Does anyone have the same problem and has a fix been found?
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i second that, seems to happen to me too even after a hard reset, i cannot login to youtube anymore. Facebook works ok but doesn.t download photos anymore. Does anyone knows what is causing this ?
I think this is an issue with the youtube web service that Sense logs into, as it didn't work for me for most of a day, and then it suddenly did and has worked ever since.
Sod's law! I just tried it again and it's not working now.
Nothing's changed on my phone, so it must be youtube's problem. Just leave it a few hours and try again. Unless, of course, you're saying it's like this all the time!
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I think this is an issue with the youtube web service that Sense logs into, as it didn't work for me for most of a day, and then it suddenly did and has worked ever since.
Sod's law! I just tried it again and it's not working now.
Nothing's changed on my phone, so it must be youtube's problem. Just leave it a few hours and try again. Unless, of course, you're saying it's like this all the time!
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Used to work, didn.t and didn.t work after hard reset either so i hope it.s youtube.s fault, but .. how about facebook not loading photos when you check the albums ? Can you please see if it works, or does any one experience the same thing ?
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how about facebook not loading photos when you check the albums ? Can you please see if it works, or does any one experience the same thing ?
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It just worked for me mate.
I've raised this with HTC - I'll report back if they have an answer/solution.
xxthemartianxx said:
I've raised this with HTC - I'll report back if they have an answer/solution.
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keep us noticed
The same problem here
Hi
I have exactly the same on htc hd2
But used to work few days ago.
I could successfully login and even upload the video.
But does not work from yerstarday.
hkwak said:
Hi
I have exactly the same on htc hd2
But used to work few days ago.
I could successfully login and even upload the video.
But does not work from yerstarday.
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Mine also used to work a few days ago - most likely something YouTube has done.
T-Mobile Netherlands cannot help
I have the "There was a connection error while attempting to logon." aswell and called the Dutch T-mobile. I'm using a UK version of the HD2 and want to use the Youtube Widget aswell. The first helpdesk employee said it could be something with "bering" not sure what it is. The connection was dropped the seconde helpdesk employee switchde me to second line helpdesk, this guy told me no restrictions are in place AFHK. He also said that with iPhones they can do more, but since the HD2 isn't delivered by T-mobile he couldn't help.
I checked with a disabled Sim card and enabled WiFi connection and still got the "There was a connection error while attempting to logon." message. WHen trying http://m.youtube.com my login credentials just work on both connections (WiFi and 3G/H).
Are these widget controlled by the provider or youtube or a registry entry or ???
Best Regards, Onedb
Well as far as i see, the youtube connection error started to happen suddently to devices that didn.t suffer any change. I.m guessing that is somehow youtube.s fault and maybe it will be fixed in time. Same thing happend with rss hub when searching online for channels there was an error there too, now all works fine without doing any changes.
It looks like a lot of people have this problem, me included, and I hope that they will fix that soon, because it is very annoying.
i could log in to youtube normally on my original German rom, than i flashed wwe rom and since than i get the connection error every time
Hi ho, I have this annoying problem also
I buyed one today, and got the same problem, here in germany as well. So this should be a problem with youtube. Maybe they've changed the logingateway er sth. else.
Just keep trying until it works.
Same here maybe it has something to do with this YouTube to begin reinforcing restricted API access on Dec. 2 althought it says Dec 2nd it's strange how all of a sudden we cant log in
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Same here maybe it has something to do with this YouTube to begin reinforcing restricted API access on Dec. 2 althought it says Dec 2nd it's strange how all of a sudden we cant log in
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That article talks about video scraping, which obviously has nothing to do with this issue. I can't believe that a company like HTC just threw something together and hoped it worked. It must be relying on public API calls that are, for whatever youtubey type reason, failing.
I've never been able to login to the Sense youtube integration service. Facebook and Twitter works fine.
If anyone has a fix for this, I would really appreciate knowing about it
As far as I can tell, this is a YouTube problem - not a problem with our phones/software. I only say this because sometimes it works, and sometimes it doesn't. It doesn't matter what connection type I have (2G, 3G, HSPA, WiFi), it simply will not work, and then all of a sudden, maybe a couple of days later, it will.
I think the YouTube servers that the app connects to are just a bit shoddy, to be honest. Maybe they weren't expecting the traffic that's been generated by adding this functionality into a very popular mobile UI (don't forget that it's not just the HD2 that has this relatively new functionality now).
I don't know this for a fact. I just VERY strongly believe it.
I use a T-Mobile prepaid SIM for my HD2 as a backup phone with JDMS v1.4 Android 2.2.1. Since Oct. 21 T-Mobile US has made Web/Internet Day Pass available for $1.49 per day ("unlimited" GB). Last few days I have been trying to subscribe to it, but kept getting "web page not available" while it should have taken me to a page for me to buy the day pass. I found some discussions on some other forums but found conflicting answers. I am quite sure I set the APN correctly for T-Mobile US. Any suggestions, help? Thanks.
Do any other webpages work?
Reno_79 said:
Do any other webpages work?
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Yes, only by using WiFi.
hello
jcc266 said:
Yes, only by using WiFi.
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you have to have wifi to access the web page to buy "day pass"
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you have to have wifi to access the web page to buy "day pass"
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Can you give me the page link/url to it? Thanks.
It happens to me as well at times. What I do is just load up WM and open the browser to activate the webpass, then boot android afterward and it works. I have no idea why it doesn't load up on the android browser at times.
I'd like to try this as well. When I checked about signing up for the Day Pass, T-mobiles says you have to sign up through T-zones. On my old phone you can access T-zones through the menus but I don't see how to do it through the Android browser. The way I figure it I'd have to put the sim back in an old phone and order the service then put the sim back in the HD2 to access it.
So I don't know what really happened, but I now have 3g data. Not sure if something broke along the way, we'll see. Here's what I did
Reboot back to windows mobile
Turned off wifi (you have to do this or the website gives you an error)
Turned on data and 3g
Opened Opera and entered this website http://m.web2go.com/myaccount/summary.do
Went through the menus and ordered the daypass
There were 2 confirmation screens, after the last one I got an error, but I now have full data anyway. My account hasn't been deducted, we'll see what happens. Speed is excellent, 3168/1226. Better than my adsl
update: account properly deducted so everything is go. No notice or anything but at least it works.
Crap
Tmobile webpass has not worked for 3-4 days now. Nobody knows what's going on.
I dont believe it has to do with Android. Booting into WM and trying to get the webpass gets the same error as in Android.
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Tmobile webpass has not worked for 3-4 days now. Nobody knows what's going on.
I dont believe it has to do with Android. Booting into WM and trying to get the webpass gets the same error as in Android.
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try another browser : ucbrowser or opera.
Tried multiple browsers. All have the same errors.
Tried Dolphin, Opera and Android browser
Hey all,
Ok, so here's the setup:
Bought a (supposedly) unlocked Samsung Focus from Expansys (AT&T Branded).
Don't have a SIM for Rogers yet, so just using it on my home wireless network. I can surf the web, access the marketplace, my XBOX Live account is linked up (my avatar is displayed), etc. All good.
UNTIL...I actually want to purchase or download an app/game from the marketplace! After I click Install, I get this message:
"This item is not available from the Marketplace catalog."
This happens for *every* application, paid or free. The only way I can get apps on to my phone is to get them through the Zune software and synch, and even then I have to go through the marketplace to the app where it tells me that its already installed (even though it shows up NOWHERE on my phone), and asks if I want to install it again...which it then lets me do and voila, app is visible.
This is *really* frustrating and I can't figure out what the issue could be. Any thoughts or has anyone else experienced this?!
Thanks,
DL
I just got my Focus today and I've got the EXACT same problem. I don't have it unlocked yet, so the only thing that is the same between our two cases is that we don't have a valid sim card.
Can anyone confirm this issue?
Issue Fixed...well more Issue Disappeared
My issue went away...literally...I don't really know what I did, or that I did anything. I blogged about it here (I'm still too new to post full url's here, so its broken up): geekswithblogs .net /dlussier /archive /2010/11/23/142839.aspx, but here's the update part:
So last night I plugged my phone into my pc to charge, which brought up the Zune software. I wanted a few more apps, so I downloaded them from there. Phone synched, and I went to try my apps. I thought “What the hell”, and tried to access an app on the marketplace. This time I didn’t get the “This item is not available from the Marketplace catalogue”, I got some message about an error and a hex value.
I tried to access an app again to see if I’d still get the error message and…*POOF*…I have full access to the marketplace over wi-fi!
I have *no* idea what caused the switch, it was nothing that I did intentionally! I did notice that the prices are now higher (BeJeweled was 4.99, now 5.49), and I’m assuming its because I’m hitting the Canadian marketplace and not the US one.
Weird, yes, but its working so…yay?
lol the EXACT same thing happened to me...it just....went away? lol I'm not complaining
O2’s data network is down for Pay Monthly customers, O2 has announced. If you’re struggling to get online via your smartphone, then be aware that there’s a fault.
O2 is aiming to fix the problem by 11:45am. O2’s data status reads: “If you’re a Pay Monthly customer (using wap.o2.co.uk) there’s a chance your phone won’t always connect to the internet. You can still call or text as normal. Picture messaging is also affected so your message might take longer to send and you might need to send it again if you had a failure.”
We’ll update you here when we find out the problem has been fixed.
Thought id post this, incase your switching ROM's like i have ben, and wondered why you cant get data back!
Thanks i was wondering why it was working
Thanks for that.
Heres me looking here thinking it was another bug on 2.2 lol.
Well anyway they failed.
12:25 and still no 3g or the likes.
superleeds27 said:
O2’s data network is down for Pay Monthly customers, O2 has announced. If you’re struggling to get online via your smartphone, then be aware that there’s a fault.
O2 is aiming to fix the problem by 11:45am. O2’s data status reads: “If you’re a Pay Monthly customer (using wap.o2.co.uk) there’s a chance your phone won’t always connect to the internet. You can still call or text as normal. Picture messaging is also affected so your message might take longer to send and you might need to send it again if you had a failure.”
We’ll update you here when we find out the problem has been fixed.
Thought id post this, incase your switching ROM's like i have ben, and wondered why you cant get data back!
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you gave me a reason to stay home and use the wireless instead of going out and get lost in this world
cheers mate
O2 now states that the network is back up and running according to their twitter.