V1240 and Vodafone live!

[Guest adambateman]

I've got a voda V1240 and can't get it to show all of the page when connecting to vodafone live, it seems I only get about the first 4 lines of content. I have contacted vodafone CS about this but they seem to be about as much help as asking somebody in my local supermarket about getting it to work!, they haven't got a clue!

Any suggestions would be appreciated, or just to know if anybody has actually got this phone or the imate sp5/qtek 8310 to work with vodafone live, I can get other wap pages but not all, again content seems to be missing or I get the pda web page instead of a wap page.

Thanks in advance

[Guest bullerd]

I spoke to some clown in Voda Data support who said it wasn't possible but they just turned a v1240 on and that didn't do it so concluded the phones dont - useless. They definately are wap compatible - I think the proxy server needs to be set properly??

What settings to you have in settings/connection/proxy - I have 'Vodafone WAP Proxy'

Also what settings do you have in IE / options / connections?

All I get if I put in live.vodafone.com on my v1240 is the words live.vodafone.com - exactly the same as putting it into IE6 on the PC

[Guest bullerd]

adam...... can you post your wap and proxy settings so I can see if they work better in my phone. THanks

[Guest adambateman]

adam...... can you post your wap and proxy settings so I can see if they work better in my phone. THanks

Sorry for the delay in replying, yes vodafone have told me the V1240 doesn't support vodafone live! but I have managed to get a few pages although full content isn't displayed. I have also been using a GPRS data monitor and when connected to the pages that I can view on V live it states that I connected by the contract internet connection and not contact wap! very strange, any way these are my connection details:

Start/Connections/GPRS/Contract Internet Connects to: The Internet, Access Point: internet, User Name: web, Password: web, Primary DNS: 0.0.0.0, Secondary DNS: 0.0.0.0, IP Address: blank

Start/Connections/GPRS/Contract Wap: Connects to: The Internet, Access Point: wap.vodafone.co.uk, User name: wap, Password: wap, Primary and Secondary DNS: 0.0.0.0, IP Address: blank

Start/Connections/Proxy/Vodafone Wap Proxy: Connects from: The internet, Connects to: WAP Network, Proxy (name:port): 212.183.137.12, Type: HTTP, user name: wap, Password: wap

Start/Internet Explorer/Menu/Options/Connections: Automatically detect settings: ticked, Select Network: The internet

This is what my phone is set up using, I say I can connect to some pages on vodafone live but I don't get the full page I get about 4 or 5 lines of text on the homepage (http://live.vodafone.co.uk/) although I've just tried to connect now and I'm getting nothing, paging just hanging on opening...

Sorry its not much help but if I find out anything else I'll let you know

[Guest bullerd]

adam...... can you post your wap and proxy settings so I can see if they work better in my phone. THanks

Thanks for that - most appreciated

Almost the same as mine - expect my proxy server had 'wap' as 'type' - changed it to HTTP but all it get is 'Bad Gateway - the proxy server recieved and invalid response from an upstream server'

I went into a vodafone shop yesterday but they only had settings for another qtek - tried to copy what I could but still no joy

Oh well, looks like BBC news will have to do.

Does seem strange that there is no way on controlling what it uses to connect - there are 5 GPRS accounts set up on my phone but I cant tell it which oen to use???????????????

[Guest Wombleuk]

I'm amazed that the 1240 beats all the vodafone live compatible sets (except 3g) and yet it doesn't support their flagship service.

When I got passed to technical, because CS didn't have a clue, they didn't even know they were being sold!

The thing is, using vodafone live is free; just browsing the internet isn't.

I imagined that there must be a separate connection to VL so that they could see that I shouldn't be charged, but apparently that's not the case.

Apparently, they can tell what pages I've surfed and any that aren't VL get charged for.

But again, go to the address I got given for VL and it just displays text, so there must be something more than just web browsing involved.

They're a bunch of idiots.

Edited May 11, 2006 by Wombleuk

[Guest xda_gangsta]

if both of yours don't work then perhaps Vodafone is right and that the device is actually not supported. But yeah, see if you can get the proper settings from Vodafone and hoopefully it will work for u cuz it seems the device is indeed WAP compatible

[Guest sub69]

if both of yours don't work then perhaps Vodafone is right and that the device is actually not supported. But yeah, see if you can get the proper settings from Vodafone and hoopefully it will work for u cuz it seems the device is indeed WAP compatible

Mine was working pretty well on Vodafone Live!, by changing the "Default" Reg Key at HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings/5.0/User Agent to:

Nokia6630 (compatible; Mozilla/4.0)

That way, the Vodafone servers thought that I was browsing from a (supported) Nokia 6630 and all was hunk-dory. The screen on a Nokia isn't as wide as on my Tornado, so there was a bit of a gap down the right-hand side, but that was ok.

Unfortunately, Vodafone have recently updated their Live! content for the 6630 and now it uses code that my Tornado struggles with. Badly. To the point where it's pretty much unusable again. The search is on to find another "fake" phone to enter in the registry so that our smartphones can access Vodafone Live again........

[Guest adambateman]

Mine was working pretty well on Vodafone Live!, by changing the "Default" Reg Key at HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Internet Settings/5.0/User Agent to:

Nokia6630 (compatible; Mozilla/4.0)

That way, the Vodafone servers thought that I was browsing from a (supported) Nokia 6630 and all was hunk-dory. The screen on a Nokia isn't as wide as on my Tornado, so there was a bit of a gap down the right-hand side, but that was ok.

Unfortunately, Vodafone have recently updated their Live! content for the 6630 and now it uses code that my Tornado struggles with. Badly. To the point where it's pretty much unusable again. The search is on to find another "fake" phone to enter in the registry so that our smartphones can access Vodafone Live again........

Can you tell what parts you actually changed as my reg entry looks like this:

Vodafone/1.0/v1240/1.5.483.4/Mozilla/4.0

Thanks