O2 GPRS - pay monthly

[Guest yogi_bear_uk]

Ive searched and searched through the forums but cant find working settings for C500 anyone point me in the right direction for O2 gprs settings uk with contract sim. Many thanks ?

[Guest shadamehr]

Ive searched and searched through the forums but cant find working settings for C500 anyone point me in the right direction for O2 http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=4861>GPRS settings uk with contract sim. Many thanks ?

Kind of...

It now certainly seems like O2 have changed something, as this USED to work when I used my old E200, but now its limited a bit.

What I have found though, is that I CAN configure my Contract O2 account on the C500, so that I have EVERYTHING except access to the O2 Portal itself, and mixed results in terms of receiving MMS sometimes.

To do this what you need do (and I'd open up another browser window here if I were you), is go to Page 16 of the GPRS Settings Repository thread.

Then, look for Martin's post so far down, where he suggests deleting all other connection settings, and just starting of with the normal O2 Internet Connection.

In Martin's post he says to leave the username and passwrod field blank, but what I found is that this is not the case - you need to use his settings, but enter the username "O2web" as I just typed it, with a capital O, and the password of "password"

Once you have done that, and set up this first connection, in the data connections menu, set everything to "automatic"

Then, in Internet Explorer on the phone, go into the Options > Connections, and DO TICK "Automatically detect settings"

This is a bit different to what Martin suggests, but that's because Martin's post also goes into setting up the Proxyies, which just won;t work now for me.

Once you have done that, open up Pocket I.E. and try typing a proper web address such as www.google.com

If that opens up fine, which it did for me with just the one connection set up, then this means you have WEB page access.

Then try another address for a WAP site (may I biasedly suggest www.tagtag.com/pussygirl which is our lass's WAPsite).

If this opens up for you too, then it means you have WAP page access also!

The only thing you WON'T be able to reach, is the O2 Active web page itself, but for me, I found this no real great loss, given that you can now visit any WEB page, so why worry about a WAP portal..? Anything linked to on the O2 portal can usually be set up directly itself as a link anyhow if you know the address of the real page.

Ok, this should now be working. If not - are you SURE your O2 account is activated for the mobile.o2.co.uk APN if it doesn't work - not all are - if all you ever used in the past was the O2 Active portal on your old handset, this did not need the o2mobile APN, so it might not be enabled on your account - ring them to make sure.)

Right. Puase for breath here - well done if it's working so far - by setting it to Automatic for the settings, and connection,it means that if you connect to the PC via cable, and you have set up Activesync in its options to allow passthru, then you can browse the web on the phone via passthru without needing to change any settings!

Ok - next up, you need to jump back a bit now, to Page 2 of the GPRS settings thread, and Martin's post about 6 down...

And in it, forget about the Proxy connection or the other O2 GPRS connection... All you need do now is set up the CSD (old fashioned WAP dial up) connection, if you so desire, and also the MMS connection setting.

Finally, you need to go into the MMS application itself, then into account settings, and set up a NEW MMS server setting for O2.

In Martin's post on page 2, it goes a bit skewy in that I think he confuses some of the settings with the Orange ones, but if so, replace orange, with O2.

If you do that, you should have a working C500, that lets you send and receive voice calls, sms, send mms, USUALLY receive mms, browse WEB pages, and browse WAP pages, but NOT access the O2 portal itself.

Good luck.

[Guest yogi_bear_uk]

You are a LEGEND many thanks all now working.

^_^ :D :P

[Guest shadamehr]

You are a LEGEND many thanks all now working.

^_^  :D  :P

Not a problem - and in fairness, it was Martin who did the hard work.

Also, two things - from speaking to Martin, he has now corrected his post on page 16 so that it has username and password included (pleased I could help Martin), and he has warned me that SOME WAPsites will identify the phone as an internet device, not a wap device - and those WAP sites will therefore not allow access.

Hence what the proxy bit was for, to get WAP sites to see it as a WAP device.

But for me, on O2 Contract, I can't get the proxy to work at all.

So I am happy to live with a limited amount of WAPsites that won't let me in.