Windows Mobile 5/Cingular
Here is a list of things it’s useful to know when configuring a Windows Mobile 5 device, such as the QTek 8500, for use on the Cingular network.
- To get your IMEI, dial *#06#
- ActiveSync 4.2 available from MS here
- 2002 reference doc on homescreens
- Homescreen files need to be named foo.home.xml, not just foo.xml
- Opera Mobile settings
- Opera Mobile 8.6 assumes, badly, that \Storage is your storage card.
- In \Application Data\Opera edit:
- smartphone_keyboard.ini to add PgUp and PgDn (I deleted the 1 = Go to mapping, made 1 = Page up and 7 = Page down – use those exact spellings and capitalizations)
- opera.ini to change the cache and help file locations (change all instances of “\Storage\” to “\Storage Card\”)
- Create \Storage Card\Application Data\Opera, and move the contents of \Storage\Application Data\Opera into it, then delete \Storage\Application Data\Opera
- Internet Explorer: In the registry, HKeyCurrentUser\Software\Microsoft\Windows\ CurrentVersion\Explorer\Shell Folders has values pointing to the location of the cache, history, and cookies; point these to the card
- Mail: Again, in the registry, change HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\MAPI by adding values called AttachPath and PropertyPath, pointed at the card. Documented here.
- Other useful software:
- Resco Explorer 2005 ($20: powerful, flexible file manager/registry editor for Windows Mobile 5)
- Agile Mobile Messenger (Free: Yahoo, AIM, ICQ…)
- Pocket Nester (Free: NES emulator that works on my 8500)
- Via Virtual Earth (Free: pretty awesome, quasi-Stephensonesque)
- SBSH Facade ($15: homescreen plugin with improved calendar, launcher)
- The Core Pocket Media Player (Free: does what it says)
- BreakSoft Mobile Registry Editor (Free: runs on desktop PC, thus much easier for typing in new values)
- Connectivity options for Cingular
- Dial-up
- No Entries
- GPRS
- Name: Cingular
- Connects to: The Internet
- Access points: wap.cingular
- User name: WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
- Password: CINGULAR1
- Primary DNS: 0.0.0.0 (or, optionally, OpenDNS at 208.67.222.222)
- Secondary DNS: 0.0.0.0 (or, optionally, OpenDNS at 208.67.220.220)
- IP Address: (blank)
- Proxy
- Name: MEdia Net
- Connects from: The Internet
- Connects to: WAP Network
- Proxy: wireless.cingular.com:80
- Type: HTTP
- User name: (leave blank)
- Password: (leave blank)
- MMS (to access these, start the messaging app, then select Menu, Options, Account Options, MMS, Menu, MMSC Settings)
- Name: Cingular MMS
- MMSC URL: http://mmsc.cingular.com
- WAP Gateway: wireless.cingular.com
- Port 80
- Connect Via: The Internet
- Max. Sending Size: (whatever you like)
- WAP Version: WAP 2.0
- Dial-up
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[...] As you may have noticed, I’ve been compiling a list of configuration information for a totally new, configuration-free Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone. This is, of course, because I have one and need to get it working. [...]
12 July 2006, 10:24 ammark kevin:
Please send me the internet settings for cingular SGH SAMSUNG D407
16 February 2009, 12:13 amColin:
If this stuff is still up-to-date — I don’t know if it is, actually — just use it as it is. Your phone, about which I know nothing, may have slightly different names for some of the settings, but it should be pretty transparent where your connection (GPRS) and proxy settings go. That’s the important part.
Were I you, I’d contact Cingular for help. If there’s some reason you can’t (bringing an unsupported phone onto the network, say, as I did), then go to an AT&T store and find the demo phone most like yours, and make the settings on your phone match the settings on the demo. This is basically what I did back when I imported my 8500.
Good luck!
17 February 2009, 2:51 pm