TMoB UK Vario II user, please help

[Guest holgmaster]

Hi guys,

I am in a little dilemma. After my Vario was freezing on me every few minutes and sucked my battery empty within a few hours, I decided to try the test HTC AKU 3.3 rom from xda dev. team and upgraded last night. I backed all stuff up prior to the rom upgrade. The Vario is now super stable and does not freeze anymore.

However in all the act, I forgot to save the dial up/network settings for the 3g network and now I cannot connect to the internet anymore.

Could someone please post me their settings from their Vario II and or post a cab file that will setup the Vario II again for TMob uk? i have tried the cab files from the xda dev. tmob Uk but that installs only their application bar, wall paper etc but no connection settings.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

[Guest gs_london]

I managed to screw mine up and t mobile emailed out to me setup info. leave me a good email address in pm and ill forward it for you.

[Guest gs_london]

I managed to screw mine up and t mobile emailed out to me setup info. leave me a good email address in pm and ill forward it for you.

found everything you need.

I was setting up mms as it stopped working but I have worked out that mms uses net connection to deliver the messages and here is the info for that.

Follow these instructions to set up a GPRS data connection for picture messaging.

Messaging / Picture message settings

Set up a GPRS data connection for picture messaging

1

Find "Advanced"

Press Start.

Press Settings.

Press the Connections tab.

Press Connections.

Press the Advanced tab.

2

Create new connection settings for picture messaging

Press Select Networks.

Press New... below Programs that automatically connect to the Internet should connect using.

3

Enter connection name

Press the Enter a name for these settings input field and key in Picture Message

Press ok.

4

Edit settings

Press the Programs that automatically connect to the Internet should connect using drop down list.

Press the connection settings you have just set up (Picture Message).

Press Edit... below Programs that automatically connect to the Internet should connect using.

5

Create new data connection

Press New....

Key in Picture Message

6

Select connection type

Press the Select a modem drop down list.

Press Cellular Line (GPRS , 3G).

Press Next.

Information

The APN name general.t-mobile.uk must be in lower case letters.

7

Enter APN name

Press the Access point name input field and key in general.t-mobile.uk

Press Next.

8

Enter username

Press the User name input field and key in user

Information

It is not necessary to key in a domain name.

It is not necessary to edit the settings in Advanced... either.

9

Enter password

Press the Password input field and key in one2one

10

Activate data connection

Press Finish.

Press the data connection you have just created (Picture Message) to mark it.

Press ok to activate the data connection.

Prerequisite

You now need to select settings for picture messaging. Click here to see how.

I skipped the first bit that asked you to create a new account and just modiefied existing settings that were named something like T-Mobile General

good luck

[Guest holgmaster]

Thanks so much for your help. worked like a charm. now i am happy and the new rom seems to improve battery as well as i still have 3 bars and have used it a lot today. great stuff.

thanks again. i owe you a beer :), plenty of pubs here in London, haha

[Guest Christopher Woods]

Interesting... So you'd say that it's definitely worth upgrading to the 3.3 rom, now that you've had a bit of time to get used to it compared to your old rom?

Hmm. I remember when I upgraded my ROM for my 2i from the xda-devs forum, it was like night and day the difference it made (particularly for signal strength in borderline areas)... Wondering if I can be arsed to go through all the hassle of reinstalling everything again ;)

[Guest AdWright]

Interesting... So you'd say that it's definitely worth upgrading to the 3.3 rom, now that you've had a bit of time to get used to it compared to your old rom?

Hmm. I remember when I upgraded my ROM for my 2i from the xda-devs forum, it was like night and day the difference it made (particularly for signal strength in borderline areas)... Wondering if I can be arsed to go through all the hassle of reinstalling everything again ;)

I upgraded my Vario II to AKU3.3 the other day. It seems a lot more responsive now, hasn't crashed once since upgrading and also the battery seems to last for longer, even though I am still continuously connected to HSDPA for push e-mail.

[Guest ihateregistration]

I upgraded my Vario II to AKU3.3 the other day. It seems a lot more responsive now, hasn't crashed once since upgrading and also the battery seems to last for longer, even though I am still continuously connected to HSDPA for push e-mail.

Anyone care to post exactly which rom (cingular or HTC? which is better?), how you upgraded (just run the upgrader, or manually via mtty? Now that there's a new rom-uploading method I guess we're not tied to the old radio bootloader any more...) and which t-mobile or other customisations you ran after the upgrade. Do old features still work like the smart-dialer and scroll-wheel shortcuts?

Any tips? I've read the all the xda-dev FAQs and boards etc but there's so much and nothing specifically on tmobile uk.

I've had enough of mine crashing so I'm considering going ahead with the upgrade tonight.

Thanks in advance :-)

[Guest AdWright]

It wasn't too tricky. I just followed the instructions in a stickied thread of the hermes xda-dev forum. I used the HTC 3.3 rom, changed my bootloader from 1.4 to 1.1 (apparently not strictly necessary), uploaded the new Rom, and then plugged in all of the T-mobile data settings to get my connection back. Worked with no problems. Haven't put any of the nasty T-mobile crap back on there.

What's smart dialer and what are the scroll-wheel shortcuts you are talking about?

[Guest ihateregistration]

It wasn't too tricky. I just followed the instructions in a stickied thread of the hermes xda-dev forum. I used the HTC 3.3 rom, changed my bootloader from 1.4 to 1.1 (apparently not strictly necessary), uploaded the new Rom, and then plugged in all of the T-mobile data settings to get my connection back. Worked with no problems. Haven't put any of the nasty T-mobile crap back on there.

What's smart dialer and what are the scroll-wheel shortcuts you are talking about?

Smartdialer is the thing which lets you type a few digets to have it search through your phone book based on contact name... a bit like t9 for addressbook lookup, so the t9 "dictionary" is the names of your contacts.

The scrollwheel shortcuts are down for your speed dials and up for the call history.

Not sure about other t-mob customizations but it would be nice to see a definitive list of what they did and whether they're needed...

[Guest AdWright]

Smartdialer is the thing which lets you type a few digets to have it search through your phone book based on contact name... a bit like t9 for addressbook lookup, so the t9 "dictionary" is the names of your contacts.

The scrollwheel shortcuts are down for your speed dials and up for the call history.

Not sure about other t-mob customizations but it would be nice to see a definitive list of what they did and whether they're needed...

Well, my Vario II always had the smartdialer and still does after the upgrade.

Same goes for the scrollwheel