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Page Two of Configure GPRS and WAP Settings for an i-mate / O2 XDA II / MDA II (Updated)
Your XDAII will now switch between WAP sites and Internet sites on the fly. The connection change takes only a few seconds. Windows Mobile Phone Edition does not have an intuitive way to disconnect your GPRS connection. To manually disconnect you can depress the “end call” button on the device for a couple of seconds and that will end your GPRS session.

Additionally you can start a GPRS connection by accessing an application that uses the internet like internet explorer or by tapping the radio icon on the today screen and selecting your GPRS connection type.

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Cingular Account Settings

Brian Pepin of UrbanPotato.net has sent me the following setttings for Cingular customers:

Order Wireless Internet Express from Cingular. Online you can order the 1MB/month option, but no more. That's a good starting point, but you're going to chew through a meg very quickly so call them and ask for more. Try to deal: their unlimited plan is over twice as expensive as T-Mobile. I opted for the online because it was about 11:00 PM when I started this project. After about half an hour GPRS was working on my account.

Creating a Cingular Data Connection

Your next order of business is to create a data connection.

1 Tap Start->Settings->Connections and under My ISP tap Add a new modem connection.
2 Name it and choose a modem type of Cellular Line (GPRS)
3 Set the access point name to isp.cingular
4 Set the user name to WIXDC001@W5.MYCINGULAR.COM (case sensitive)
5 Set the password to ZXY203DC9K0402 (case sensitive)
6 Tap Finish to create the connection.

Next, ensure that your GPRS settings are correct.

1 Under Connections ensure that the CSD Line Type is set to 9600 bps(v.32).
2 Ensure that the connection element set to non-transparent.
3 Under GPRS Setting ensure that authentication is set to PAP and the class is 8.

Creating a Cingular WAP Connection

1 Tap Start->Settings->Connections and under My Work Network tap Add a new modem connection.
2 Name it and choose a modem type of Cellular Line (GPRS)
3 Set the access point name to wap.cingular
4 Set the user name to WAP@CINGULAR.COM (case sensitive)
5 Set the password to CINGULAR1 (case sensitive)
6 Tap Finish to create the connection.
7 Next, tap Set up my proxy server
8 Check both "This network connects to the internet" and "This network uses a proxy server". Don't provide a proxy server. Click Advanced.
9 Under WAP and Secure WAP set the following IP address: 66.209.11.61

Finally, in Internet Explorer navigate to http://device.home This takes you to the WAP portal of Cingular's My Wireless Window. You can get a free account there and setup the portal to your liking. It's low budget, but also low bandwidth.



That's it for now, I will make changes as needed to this tutorial. If you use another wireless carrier and would like to share your connection settings we will be happy to post them to help our non AT&T Wireless readers.

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--Bill Landon
Senior Editor
PDAToday.com
MaximumPDA.com

Update 12.06.03 6:00PM Timothy Lee points out the port numbers were wrong for Secure WAP. Document updated. Thanx Tim.
Update 02.09.04 Updated to include settings for Cingular.

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