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Posted by: tedya

Has anyone been able to access T-zones homepage from their SDA? I have the full internet package so I think it should work.

TIA.

Posted by: smeg36

Indeed it should. Do you have the new US verions of the SDA with wifi? Does it have the data settings already in it? I assume you are having problems with it since you are asking if anyone is able to access it.

OT-Where in SLC do you live? I used to live in West Jordan, and have family that lives in West Valley City and Provo.

Posted by: veblen

I haven't been able to do it yet, but I certainly could when I had my SMT5600. Very weird.

Posted by: zzyzx

I have, and I don't have the internet package, I did it using either Wi-Fi or GPRS, I guess. There is a network type option needs to be set to "Internet" for it to work though.

Posted by: Yin8888

I just purchased my SDA a couple days ago and have not been able to access T-zone. I have been a t-mobile customer for several years and have had T-zone service for awhile, and it always worked with my previous two phones. I talked to a few T-Mobile reps and they all gave me different answers but all were not able to help me. Finallly the Tech Support lady on the phone tells me my SDA does not support T-zone. I don't really trust her answer - I think she just doesn't know so gave me a cop-out answer.

Can anyone give me any specific as to how I can get on T-zone without needing to pay an extra $29.95 a month on Internet service on my phone? Yes, I am in the US, and does have subscription to the T-zone service. Please help me!!!

Posted by: kampf

I had the same situation. I got a different voice plan that saved me money and am paying for the $30/mo Total Internet plan. I was told repeatedly by many techs that T-Zones does not work on the SDA.

I have read, on this forum and on modaco, that it's possible to manually set it up, but I'm fine with TI, mostly because of the open ports it offers.

Posted by: mrdwong

I have T-mobile prepaid and I can get the basic t-zone homepage (just to check my minutes) but no web-browsing of any sort due to the limitations of prepaid. I had to delete the GPRS settings to force the phone to use the T-zones settings.

Posted by: smeg36

Yeah, CS doesn't know jack. You can access T-Zones, but you'll have to reconfigure the settings like mrdwong did. I can't say for certain anymore, but some have even reported success at getting online to the full web with the cheaper T-Zones plans, not the $29.99 plan. If you never use hotspots, you can use the $19.99 Blackberry connect plan as well, you just have to change your APN to wap.voicesteam.com in your data settings.

Posted by: kampf

I'm gonna give this a shot, because $30/mos is just far too much for what I need/want/use.

Posted by: smeg36

Which are you trying, the $5.99 or $19.99? To get the $19.99, you have to change your phone on the T-Mobile website to a Blackberry, then change your data plan to the BB plan. I read it'll still work with the SDA/MDA, you just have to change the APN on the device from internet2.voicestream.com to wap.voicestream.com.

Posted by: kampf

I'm going to give the $5.99 TMobileWeb a shot. I did have to change the phone type to get the option, so I simply put it back to my old phone (Nokia 6600), and selected it. I got a text message this morning saying that the changes should have gone through. I'll spend some more time today seeing if I can get it to work, and how well it does.

Posted by: abatis

Our T-Zones CAB should set you up. See this post and try the T-Zones CAB.
http://www.mobilegadgetnews.com/index.php?showtopic=11177

Posted by: kampf

I followed the instructions on this post:

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=236569&view=findpost&p=718250

and it works fine in IE for web browsing, which is all I really want.

The link that abatis posted probably does the same thing, but without all of the tedious number/character input.

Here's to saving $24/mo!

Posted by: kampf

As a quick update to that last post, I had success with the settings I'd put in manually, but found that MMS messages weren't working. After some tinkering, I removed the TMobile GPRS option from the GPRS list and the proxy that I'd added, and used the .cab files from abatis' link.

Success.

Posted by: smeg36

Way to go abatis, your cab is great. Kampf, are you able to access secure websites? I'm considering switching back to T-Mobile when my VZW contract is up, and would love it if I could use the $5.99 T-Zones to do everything. I'm specifically wondering if an Exchange server would work on it. I don't suppose you have one to try? Does the $5.99 work with EDGE, or only GPRS? I've seen conflicting reports on this one.

Posted by: kampf

I'm able to get to the secure Yahoo! Mail site, but I have no Exchange server accounts.

EDGE and GPRS are seemingly independent of the service plan. Posts on other forums seem to support this. I've benchmarked it to a local ISP and found some respectable speeds at around 128kbps. It's difficult or impossible for me to tell which I'm connected to with the SDA.

Posted by: smeg36

Cool, thanks. Man, you can't beat $5.99 unlimited internet access. Well, you can't anymore at least. I remember the most wonderful year of my life when T-Mobile still had the open free WAP ports that got me free unlimited internet. What a year it was.

Posted by: Someone99

I am new to this forum and not much of a geek, but here's what I have.

I have T-Morile SDA (My profile states 2125 becuase there was no choice for SDA)

I used to have a Blackberry 7100t. I got an SDA last week. I left my plan to the $19.99 Blackberry unlimited. I got data without problems and without having to change anything. I am also using an Exchange server.

1) I cannot get to T-Zones. The TZ key defaults to the main T-Mobile website
2) No Google, no Gmail and no Real Player. Ok for Yahoo, MSN and other websites.
3) Some websites get error message that it needs Java and it does not work
4) Cannot open attachments in email

Any help, ideas, tips will be appreciated!

Do you think I should try the $5.99 plan and switch to WAP and see if I can get my exchange server to work? I could give it a try.

I need some encoragement here!

Posted by: kampf

The $5.99 T-Zones plan goes through a proxy, so chances are you'd have even less success, as proxied connections usually block a lot more ports. If you want access to all of this stuff, with support for it, you'll have to get the Total Internet plan for $30/mo.

I can't comment on Java compatibility, if I needs Java I use a PC.
What kind of attachments are you opening in email?

Posted by: abatis

Mobile IE has many limitations including Java.

Posted by: Someone99

I went out on a limb and dropped my data service and added T-mobile web for $5.99 on my SDA. I followed Kampf's link and reconfigured my phone. Works like charm and I get EDGE and GPRS which is fast. Even Google works!

Excellent!

Monday I will try the test on getting connected our exchange server!


I followed the instructions on this post:

http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=...ndpost&p=718250

Posted by: PsychologyDoc

Abatis,

Okay, I took a new T-mobile SDA, added T-zones to the plan and installed your two CAB files as directed. I followed everything to the letter and it didn't work. So, I removed the files as you stated, but it also removed my Tzones profile and another that was in there, as well. I'm left with T-mobile GPRS in the <settings, connections, GPRS> section. Now the phone won't access the integrated AIM, either.

Is there anyway to get that stuff I seemed to remove back and start all over again from scratch? I just don't get it, people seem to be having success and mine just isn't working and I'm running out of time; if I can't make it work soon, I'm going to have to send it back because I'm not about to pay 30 extra bucks a month just to be able to surf a couple sites, when I can get another tmobile phone that has tzones on it with AIM, too.

I tried a couple other sites as well for getting the info. to get the Tzones to work: http://www.gruups.com
and http://www.modaco.com/index.php?showtopic=236569&st=0&p=718250&#entry718250

I'm desperate! Can someone help restore the phone to the way it was and break this down so an idiot can make the Tzones work on my SDA? Email me directly if you want.

Thanks!

Posted by: abatis

Why don't you try the T-zone Configurator from T-Mobile.com

http://support.t-mobile.com/knowbase/root/public/tm22882.htm?


If you have a T-Mo SDA (USA) not Euro version your phone should work great with T-Zones. I don't know how much stuff you have added to your phone but you could also save your contacts to you PC or SIM and hard reset the phone. That will set you back to T-Mo factory settings. It sounds like the phone is buggered up a bit from trying all these different settings.

The factory T-Zones settings should allow you to surf the net. They work fine for me on various Smartphones.

Posted by: PsychologyDoc

Abatis,

I had to hard reset the phone back to factory settings. I am using a SDA USA version as I live in the states. When I spoke to a pretty knowledgeable rep today, he walked me through the hard reset, simple, and informed me that about 3 months ago, they changed some things and most work-arounds probably won't work anymore, but he definitely wasn't against me giving it a try, but advised that it probably wouldn't work. I'm not sure if anyone out there doing the work arounds are aware of this yet?

Anyway, basically, he said that without the $30.00 full access package, the SDA won't be able to use Tzones if the work around isn't successful. If that's the case, I have to send this little beauty back because 30 bucks to surf the web in small doses is just a little insane for my usage.

I'll try the work around and report back shortly.

Posted by: abatis

That is disappointing that the phone would not come setup for T-Zones. Let us do a little more research for you.

Posted by: kampf

It's my understanding that the reason for restricting SDA service to the $30 plan is that it's the only one that will allow ALL of the services and features of the phone to work. If you use TZones, it's proxied, and that causes problems with IM and email, as many have noted. Instead of selling a phone with a service that won't work, they insist on the Total Internet plan instead. Some people have been clever enough to figure out how to use TZones, but with the understanding that not everything is going to work.

Personally, $6/mo for web browsing is just fine for me.

Posted by: Someone99

Kampf hit it right on. T-Mobile is not going to promote a service that will not make everything work.
I have the SDA and with $6 I was able to use EDGE for WEB browing, Email, POP3 for Gmail and Hotmail and could get to just about all sites.

HOWEVER, I could not get any streaming video or audio from on-line TV or Radio stations. (I could live with this but read on...)

The bad news is that TZONES $5.99 proxy DOES NOT work with Exchnage server. I tried every possible combination. No lack. The proxy would get in the way. I could only synchronize with Wi-Fi or cable connection to PC. So it is no good for me. I need this phone for work....

So I just dropped the $5.99 package and switched to the Blackberry Unlimited add-on for $19.99. I used to have this package before with the SDA and it worked fine with the exchnage server and I could also get streaming Radio/TV stations. I could not get google and gmail, but maybe it was becuase of my settings.

Anyhow my question to you experts is the follwoing: How do I re-configure the SDA to be the way it was before and remove the WAP proxy WITHOUT hard reset. I really have stuff on the phone and do not want to loose!

Posted by: abatis

Try this configurator http://tmobileus.wdsglobal.com/phonefirst

It has a choice to configure the T-Mobile SDA. Let us know if it works.

Posted by: Someone99

It did not work.

The only way to sync Exchnage on the SDA is to pay $29.99 for data. Trust me. I tried all T-Mobile packages. If you don't need to sync to MS-Exchnage, then you just pay $5.99 for T-zones and almost everything works (no streaming TV or radio stations becuase the proxy blocks it)