Creeva’s World 2.0

When I first go my RAZR 3 months ago from t-mobile I man­aged to track down online how to pair it to my palm TX. The ongo­ing issue I was hav­ing the past 6 weeks was that it would still con­nect but it stopped pass­ing data. I knew it wasn’t my palm since my wife was hav­ing the exact same issue.

I kept mean­ing to get to this but it was a low pri­or­ity for the most part — and the moments when it was a high pri­or­ity I had no inter­net con­nec­tion I could get on via another device to trou­bleshoot and fix it.

The­o­ret­i­cally the way I had been doing should have worked accord­ing to doc­u­men­ta­tion online. How­ever since this is kind of a niche use the doc­u­men­ta­tion may not be up to date and some peo­ple may have already known the work around.

Since fight­ing this issue and mak­ing it a PITA to track down and trou­bleshoot I wanted to post the answer so some other hap­less sould doesn’t have to endure the pain of fix­ing it.

I man­aged to get the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion from this site:

Connection Name: tzones

Data bearer: Packet data

Access point name: wap.voicestream.com

User name: N/A

Password: N/A

Authentication: Normal

Homepage: http://wap.myvoicestream.com

Advanced Settings (Handsets not equiped with WAP 2.0 may skip this section)

Proxy serv address: 216.155.165.050

Proxy port number: 8080

So I enter the proxy server into my PDA’s browser and it now works. Like I said accord­ing to the next arti­cle for straight through non-wap traf­fic this shouldn’t be required — so more work pos­si­ble get­ting the lap­top to con­nect (haven’t tried that either but will tonight.…maybe).

Another thing I’m going to track down since I can’t host my own server is see­ing if I can set up my PDA to use another proxy other then t-mobiles (curse Ver­i­zon for not allow­ing servers — btw they balked at me because I wanted a busi­ness class DSL so I could host and I gave up after try­ing to explain it for 3 hours — the loss of being able to VPN home is not worth the pain of endur­ing idiot ques­tions like “why would you have a busi­ness class con­nec­tion at a res­i­den­tial address”.

On a side note to show how much I use my cell phone for calls these days now that I’m no longer a con­sul­tant, my cell phone had been miss­ing for a week. I had checked online and there was no unusual activ­ity so I hadn’t left it in pub­lic or had it stolen. So every now again over the last week I was tear­ing up cush­ions and putting them back — only to repeat the rou­tine a day or two later. Crawl­ing on the floor to search the nooks and cran­nies of couches and cars. Finally last night out the cor­ner of my eye I saw it — it had stayed hid­den for a week under a reciept on the cof­fee table.

AARRRGGGG