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Mobile Web for non-EVDO dudes???

Humanfuse

Feb 5, 2005, 8:59 AM
Greetings,

Been lurk'n here for a month or so and all the great posts helped me decide to jump on board. I received my new 8000 via FedEx Thursday. From my receipt, Retail price $389.99; 2 year agreement price, $269.99; My corporate discount price, $139.99; After my new every 2, I paid $39.99 for the 8000.

My area does not have EVDO service yet, but I do want Mobile Web. Have any non-Vcast people had any success getting WAP working?

Here is what I have done:
Entered service memu on the 8000
Changed the pri and sec, IP and Port to those listed at http://www.waptunnel.com
I set the Normal and LXL ports the same.
Changed homepage to http://wap.google.com
Opened my Openwave browsed in the GIN memu option # 4
I got a Connecting =...
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sodiumlake

Feb 5, 2005, 9:15 AM
How do you get to the service menu on this phone I have tried to and can not figure it out.
thanks
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SForsyth01

Feb 5, 2005, 10:27 AM
Hit the OK button to access the menu. Then Press 0. The service code is 000000.
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Humanfuse

Feb 6, 2005, 10:13 PM
OK I got a little further. I had a typo on my router's virtual server IP address. I changed it to the IP of the PC on my LAN running nowwap as a service. When I open the phone's browser, I see the connection on the nowwap's "service" tab. I get a bunch of inbound bytes, but only a few out bound bytes. After a few seconds, I get a "504 gateway timeout" error on the phone.

So the phone's browser is connecting to the wap gateway on my PC but it does not look like Nowwap is connecting to the internet. I shut down zonealarm to make sure that was not in the way. Same results.

I tried to enable "Route connections via external HTTP Proxy Server" on the Options tap. I entered my private IP and port as the HTTP Proxy server. I got a bunch more i...
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