Guest csxxx Posted September 18, 2006 Report Posted September 18, 2006 I've had my imate sp5 for a few weeks now, but was unable to send multimedia messages. I'm on the tmobile uk network. I today managed to get the multimedia messages working by dowloading the settings from club imate and copying them to the phone. The problem I have now though is that when I try to surf the net on the phone using wifi, the gprs starts up itself, with the small 'G' in the top right corner of the screen. I'm worried that i'm now surfing via gprs and getting charged rather than for free via wifi and my adsl broadband wireless network. I have tried deleting the settings for gprs for everything other than 'T-mobile mms' but it is still happening. So... 1. does this mean that it is using gprs (for which i will get charged) 2. how can i stop this permanantly without losing the ability to send picture messages. (i read about holding the red key briefly but all this does is either lock the keypad, or turn off the gprs and return me to the homescreen, only for it to turn back on as soon as i get back into internet explorer.) I'd be very grateful if anyone could kindly help me fix this.
Guest Looby Posted September 18, 2006 Report Posted September 18, 2006 Hi, if you have a proper Wi-fi signal the SP5 will always use it by default over the GPRS. If your phone is dialling a GPRS signal then you haven't got a connected Wi-fi signal. As regards to switching off the GPRS signal just click the red button once, if you have a strong GPRS signal it will disconnect straight away however if the signal is weak it hangs for a while before it disconnects. It's not a fault with the phone it's just the way it is. Hope this helps a bit. :rolleyes:
Guest Chaos Posted September 21, 2006 Report Posted September 21, 2006 I have the same problem, even when the wi-fi signal is high it tries to connect to GPRS instead. I just change it to airplane mode when I switch wi-fi on, but would rather not have to in case I miss any calls!
Guest jimbouk Posted September 21, 2006 Report Posted September 21, 2006 Do you have any web enabled apps running that would be starting up the gprs? Also have you told the device that your wifi connects to "the internet"
Guest csxxx Posted September 22, 2006 Report Posted September 22, 2006 Jimbo.. yes.. Anyhow... not sure what has happened but it seems to have fixed itself.. perhaps it was a reboot after I deleted all the wap settings. Thanks for the help.
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