i bought a buffalo router and radio card for my laptop. I set up the router and created a network on the pc (using broadband 4 meg)  i installed the radio card in the laptop and it saw the network and allowed me to connext.

Now heres the fun

The 2000 when wifi is activated sees the same netowrk as i see it says connected... but no matter what i do it wont connect to the network. lots of various prompts appear like cannot connect etc.

Im pulling my hair out here....does my PC need its own radio adapter too..but if that was the case the laptop wouldnt function....

can someone please help me solve this nightmare before i buzz the lot including the 2000 into the nearest ocean
CHEERS N BEERS

i just think that you could set youre email sync to run every hour. if you do it ten times a day then that works out to be 15k per day of traffic. which equates to about 450k per month. if you have data bundles then its piss cheap. why pay 27 quid for this service. if you still have to pay for the download of the mail anyway... dont really see much point in it.

Only got phone a week ago, still getting to grips with it! What's the difference between the two backups? Is the permanent save one just Outlook data?

Smart, I used to carry a printout of my numbers as well. Probably should start to do that again.

One thing that is useful is that you can import contacts into Hotmail from Outlook via a CSV file. Handy for creating an online repository of your contacts for those bad times.

Thanks!!!!

It worked!!!

It is the first hotspot I have managed to access. The distance isn't great, but I think that is what I should expect from using a laptop as a wifi transmitter.

Thanks again!

Benzo

The laptop is an Apple Mac. Unfortunately I only know about PCs. Do you know where I can go in the Apple Mac to get that setting option?

Thanks.

Benzo

Bummer. I run my own server, so it's free and it's an unlimited mailbox. OK, so the drive is 160 gig, but that's not going to fill up!

I've got several thousand messages in some folders; that could be really nasty. I guess I could fix it by writing an auto-archive script on the server, to move them into weekly folders, but that just sucks.

Setting up mail will be one of the first things I do, so I'll post back results. Where are you reading about the problem? I've not heard of it at all.

I'm still on the original retro SPV, not seen any problems in two years. I've got it set up to get the last 7 days of headers only, which might be something you are looking to try out. I never delete mails, diskspace is less valuable than my time.

You can't delete mails on the phone at all (they come back next sync), but I've gotten used to that.

To put the £6 in perspective, I poll my imap server every two hours 24/7 and it never goes over my £7 GPRS package. So, I wouldn't save anything, just reduce the length of time it takes for a mail to reach me.

Thanks mate that worked a treat. However I can receive emails OK but when it comes to sending them, they bounce straight back saying "the following recipients are invalid".

Does anyone else have this problem with T Mobile in the UK?

Thanks,

Kieron

I have just bought a T-Mobile MDAIII and am having problems sending and receiving email. Basically I have a Wanadoo email account and have entered the pop3 and smtp settings as well as my username and password. The only thing I haven't entered is the domain as Wanadoo have told me I need to leave this blank.

Anyway I can browse the web using the GPRS connection fine, but when I try to send and receive emails I just get a message saying "connecting" then it does nothing. I've waited for 15 minutes and still nothing, there is definitely a problem.

I have spoke to T-Mobile and they have said that as long as the GPRS is working (which it is) then they can't offer me any further support. I have also spoke to Wanadoo and they have told me that all the settings are correct and they have no idea why it isn't working!

Can anyone please help?

Cheers!

Kieron

I use courier-imap, which is OSS and therefore completely free, but you'll need a linux box to use it. If you are on Windows, check out IMail, I believe it's free for either a limited number of users (five) or non-commercial use.

Yes, my phone contacts my PC. I use dyndns.org to keep my dynanic IP address in DNS, so I put the host name on the phone. Should the IP change, DNS is updated for me. I also use a non-standard port, to keep the IP scanners at bay.

Sending is via whatever is available. It's set as smtp.orange.net on my phone. As I said before, an entry in the HOST file tricks the phone into using my NTL server when it's docked. You don't have to send from the same place as receiving for mail to work.

The mail gets into the imap server by polling your regular POP mailbox. This way, the messages get held if your server is down. When it is running, it will take messages from my ISP mail account. You could poll as many mailboxes as you want this way, and pull them all into one account.

I've also got this set so that messages from different sources go into different folders. Mailing lists etc don't go to the phone; it was a pain in the ass getting notifications all the time!!

A much much better way is to get a hold of an IMAP mail server, instead of POP. I run one on my home network, accessible to the outside world over my broadband connection.

Basically, my work PC, my laptop, my home PC and my SPV all access the same mail box. Delete/move the message on one, it's deleted/moved on all etc. The messages are stored on the server and the phone keeps the last X days locally. I've got mine set on 7 days; so the phone only has the last week of mails in the inbox. My desktops can see every mail. Every mail I've received in fours years that is; it's more cost effective to archive into folders and buy the extra drive space, rather than wasting your time deleteing.

For outbound connections, use your phone ISP details, e.g. smtp.orange.net. Then, in your PCs HOST file, create an entry for the same address but put in the IP address of your real ISP details e.g. for smtp.ntlworld.com put in 212.250.162.8. Then your phone can send mails over the air, or over active sync.

It helps being a networking guru...

The only downside is that you have 2 accounts on the phone for the same mailbox.

M2000 - Am I missing something?  POP3 is set to check email every 30 minutes or whatever.  This all works fine until you get a text message.  Having moved to the text message account GPRS will not poll the server until you go back to POP3 by tapping accounts/pop3.  Surely it should poll for email regardless of your default account.

Anyone had this and over come it?  I've been suffring with it for a week now.

It always seems to hit when I'm typing an email (which is mostly what I use the keyboard for), I'll be typing away happily when the keyboard just stops responding.  The screen keyboard, caharacter recogniser and transcriber all continue to work, and the case-mounted buttons all still work, but the keyboard just dies!  I'm mystified!  It seems to happen at random points in a mail and requires a reset to fix.  I've tried swapping apps to see if it's the email app that has frozen, but the keyboard will not respond in any other app, and, as I say, I can carry on emailing using screen input.

Been on to Orange support, but as I'm a personal customer rather than a business one, I don't think they're geared up for dealing with M2000s.  At first they tried to stonewall me saying 'well if the reset fixes it carry on till we hear back from the manufacturer' but the (very helpful) support guy I got said he wasn't having that and managed to get me an exchange. (Having orange care helped in this respect, I think).

... Then we found out that there are no M2000s to exchange!  So it looks like I'm test driving a P910i for the foreseeable future.  :shock:

Just wondering if anyone had come across this?

I am using Writeshield screen protectors bought from Expansys which work a treat, except for the slight lifting in places around the edges which looks a little unsightly.

Jus curious as to whether or not the M2000 is likely to get an upgraded rom to sort the same problems, i mean i knows its orange its not very likely but ya never know

is it possible to update the M2000's with an I-Mate rom? if so i might see if i can get a hold of the new one.

p.s. I still can't check multiple email accounts at once wither manually or scheduled!!!!!!

Managed to get it sorted out, it seems the phone was trying to use the same IP as my laptop, and there was a conflict.  Have adjusted it now and all is well,  Cant believe how well it works for a PDA.

Hi guys....need some desparate help. Got the SPVM2000 on Orange but for the life of me i cant get it to access the internet on wireless thru my netgear adsl/wireless router.  The phone picks up the signal and its good but it will not connect for some reason.. have tried Orange but they are about as much use as a wet cigarette..

Helllllllpppppp please

nick

Has anyone noticed that the M2000 screen is slightly distorted, especially around the edges?

I have fitted a Writeshield screen protector which keeps lifting in places around the edge of the screen, even after repeatedly flattening it down.  It's only a minor point but cosmetically "bubbles" around the edge of the creen don't look very pretty!

The iPAQs have perfectly flat screens and do not seem to sutter from this problem.

Further to my last post, I wonder whether there were some installation problems with the early M2000s.

In addition to my Talk Now card being empty, Avantgo was not installed properly, and had to be re-installed using the latest software from the Avantgo web site.  Also my MMS wasn't working properly, and Orange Data Support had to help me tweak my settings....

Anyone else having problems with inbox.  Mine seems to take an extremely long time to check for mail, and has problems sending.

Sometimes it will check ok, then if I set it to auto-check every 15 mins, it does it once or twice, the when I check it to see why it hasn't collected anything later on, I find inbox is stuck on 'Disconnecting'.

I ask, because I was wnodering if anyone having problems had tried this fix:

http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/forums/vie...ht=inbox+wm2003

I am thinking of trying it later, but wanted to know if anyone else had first.  If it doesn't work, I assume I can just delete the key from the registry again and all will be back to normal...is that true?

Cheers
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