Palm T|X Issue fixed

Posted by Creeva

August 24, 2007

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