no 'WAP over GPRS' on O2 PAYG

[Guest realistik]

I have been trying for a long time to get WAP over GPRS to work with no luck. Having gone through the settings time after time and checking on this site and others, still I get the annoying 'Unable to place call' message.

In my fury, I rang up O2 and asked them for the settings for O2 PAYG for 'WAP over GPRS', thinking getting it from the horses mouth would be best.

The guy I spoke to said he would send me the settings over email as he said we do not support SPV phone, 'fair enough' I thought.

So after putting phone down, it immediately rings and I am now speaking to a supervisor who had been monitoring my call.

He proceeded to tell me that the information supplied by the previous advisor was wrong as the SPV has problems using the GPRS (WAP over GPRS) service and it would not work, although WAP is fine.

Now is this guy right? because I cannot get it to work, and yes, I do have the little 'G' square on. Can someone tell me if they have successfully got wap over gprs to work using a Genie simcard (PAYG). And if so please give the details here including the assignments in data connections.

Thanks,

Gaz

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Have a look here in the Aticles section, on the first page there are the O2 settings.

[Guest martin]

There seems to be a lot of O2 GPRS/WAP issues recently so I decided to set this up again on my phone - to prove it still works.

OK this is how I have it setup AND WORKING for O2 PAYG.

Proxy: Description= O2 WAP proxy

The Internet, WAP Network, 193.113.200.195, WAP

GPRS connection : Description=O2 WAP

The Internet, payandgo.o2.co.uk, payandgo, password

Dialup connection: Description=O2 CSD

The Internet, 44, 7712, 927927, o2wap, password

Data connections: Internet connection=O2 CSD and WAP connection=O2 WAP.

In IE explorer tick 'auto setting'.

The HTTP sites use the CSD connection and the WSP sites use the GPRS connection. wsp://wap.o2.co.uk.

I think I had both Internet and WAP connections set to CSD last time (out of preference).

[Guest martin]

This is a couple of replies I did for exactly the same topic posted in uk.telecom.mobile. Thought it might be useful info for other O2 PAYG users to get the best out of the SPV. http://smartphone.modaco.com/viewtopic.php?t=61813

Pages created using the WML (Wireless Markup Language) are generally associated with WAP (Wireless Application Protocol).  

What we seem to have with the SPV is the following data connections  

'Internet connection=' for http:// sites (both HTML and WML pages)  

'WAP connection=' for WSP:// (Wireless Session Protocol) sites which are also WML pages.  

After a couple of hours of 'web service problem', I am now able to connect to the O2 homepage wsp://wap.02.co.uk using GPRS. When I was failing to connect to the homepage I could still connect to wsp://wap.ugc.fgr (french site used to test GPRS wap connection) so it wasn't the GPRS network at fault.

For the SPV, there is something than can be tried to force WML pages to be loaded over the O2 GPRS WAP connection. On the WAP address change the http:// to wsp://.  

Some WML pages will work with wsp:// and some won't, I imagine the list of sites will grow over time. If it fails with wsp:// then you can still load the WML page with http:// which will use the CSD connection.  

We could do with a directory of all WAP sites that work using WSP:// and I'll start it off with wsp://www.wirelessgames.com.

[Guest awarner [MVP]]

Martin as you are the GPRS and WAP expert

If you woulkd like to start a directory post we could place it in the articles section

Nice Idea

Ashley