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Newbie - 25 Feb 2004 02:04 GMT

I've noticed (and another person has reported) that I cannot access SE's
WAP site (www.sonyericsson.com/fun or wap.sonyericsson.com) from my Z600
(or other WAP-only) phones. This is a relatively recent development and
I can still access all my other web sites.

I'm wondering if anyone can confirm this on their WAP-only phone. On my
P900, I can access GPRS direct (not through a WAP gateway) and it works
fine.

Larry

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Jason Cothran - 25 Feb 2004 13:04 GMT

| I've noticed (and another person has reported) that I cannot access SE's
| WAP site (www.sonyericsson.com/fun or wap.sonyericsson.com) from my Z600
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
| P900, I can access GPRS direct (not through a WAP gateway) and it works
| fine.

If you are the same one that recently posted in the Howardforums with the
problem, I am sorry for the redundancy, but I too have the problem
(Hierophant on HoFo) with my T616.

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Newbie - 25 Feb 2004 14:23 GMT

> | I've noticed (and another person has reported) that I cannot access SE's
> | WAP site (www.sonyericsson.com/fun or wap.sonyericsson.com) from my Z600
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> problem, I am sorry for the redundancy, but I too have the problem
> (Hierophant on HoFo) with my T616.

Only a few people have responded in the forum. But it DOES seem as if
someone (not the enduser) changed something.

Fortunately, this is low-priority but it's nice to have things "working
as advertised." Perhaps someone here will know something that we don't.

:-) Likely, I think.

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John Navas - 25 Feb 2004 20:27 GMT

>I've noticed (and another person has reported) that I cannot access SE's
>WAP site (www.sonyericsson.com/fun or wap.sonyericsson.com) from my Z600
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>P900, I can access GPRS direct (not through a WAP gateway) and it works
>fine.

Testing with my Ericsson T39m, I can get to www.sonyericsson.com though the
free Genie WAP Gateway (193.113.200.195), but not through the Cingular WAP
Gateway, so something was apparently changed by Cingular to cause the problem.

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Newbie - 26 Feb 2004 04:07 GMT

> [POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
>
[quoted text clipped - 10 lines]
> free Genie WAP Gateway (193.113.200.195), but not through the Cingular WAP
> Gateway, so something was apparently changed by Cingular to cause the problem.

John,

I really appreciate your confirming this.

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Sheri - 26 Feb 2004 19:39 GMT

I have posted this question on a few forums looking for answers to
this problem also. I have also been in contact with SE & Cingular's
tech support only to find SE referring me back to Cingular. Cingular
said to add it as a bookmark at MyWirelessWindow.com and access it
from there. That doesn't work. I have asked a few ATT & T-mobile users
who use T616/610s to try it & they can access it with no problem. I
can verify that because as of a few weeks ago, I had a T610 from
T-mobile & had no problem accessing the site.

> > [POSTED TO alt.cellular.cingular - REPLY ON USENET PLEASE]
> >
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>
> I really appreciate your confirming this.

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John Navas - 26 Feb 2004 20:13 GMT

>> > >I've noticed (and another person has reported) that I cannot access SE's
>> > >WAP site (www.sonyericsson.com/fun or wap.sonyericsson.com) from my Z600
[quoted text clipped - 8 lines]
>> > free Genie WAP Gateway (193.113.200.195), but not through the Cingular WAP
>> > Gateway, so something was apparently changed by Cingular to cause the problem.

>I have posted this question on a few forums looking for answers to
>this problem also. I have also been in contact with SE & Cingular's
[quoted text clipped - 4 lines]
>can verify that because as of a few weeks ago, I had a T610 from
>T-mobile & had no problem accessing the site.

That's probably due to different versions of WAP support in different phones.
Frankly, WAP is a mess.

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Newbie - 27 Feb 2004 04:32 GMT

> I have posted this question on a few forums looking for answers to
> this problem also. I have also been in contact with SE & Cingular's
[quoted text clipped - 23 lines]
> >
> > I really appreciate your confirming this.

Sheri, I tried the Genie gateway that John provided. It works like a
charm. Mostly, I was curious as to why it stopped working thru
Cingular's gateway -- they must've changed something -- either on
purpose or not. The truth is, there's little on the SE site that I care
about.

So I set up two wap sections on my Z600 (pretty much the same deal with
the T6xx series. If I need to hit the SE site, I just switch to that
gateway. I could just keep it set that way but now and then I like to
hit Cingular's WAP version of mywirelesswindow and, for that, I need to
use Cingular's gateway.

I just wonder what or why Cingular changed to cause this to happen. But
it's good to know that the "workaround" works.

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Sheri - 28 Feb 2004 04:43 GMT

> Sheri, I tried the Genie gateway that John provided. It works like a
> charm. Mostly, I was curious as to why it stopped working thru
> Cingular's gateway -- they must've changed something -- either on
> purpose or not. The truth is, there's little on the SE site that I care
> about.

Wow! Thanks for the info. I accidentally deleted Honey Cave & so
desperately wanted it back! Thanks! Now,.... is it "legal" to use this
Genie thingy?? I'm assuming we would still have to pay for the data
usage, correct??

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Newbie - 28 Feb 2004 04:58 GMT

> > Sheri, I tried the Genie gateway that John provided. It works like a
> > charm. Mostly, I was curious as to why it stopped working thru
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> Genie thingy?? I'm assuming we would still have to pay for the data
> usage, correct??

To the best of my limited understanding, you're paying for either
connect time, if you use CSD dial-up and the KBs transferred if you're
using GPRS. I don't believe the WAP gateway would affect that at all.

John seemed to suggest that Genie was a "free gateway" so I'm assuming
it's okay. If it's not okay, I promise, I won't tell on you. :)

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