Vodafone GPRS settings for Chinese Mobile Phones

This information has been provided by Tech Bangalore visitor Michael via comments, who also won “Best Commentator Award” for the month of October. You can refer to his complete comment over here.

1. Select Menu / Services / WAP / Settings

Edit Profile - On selection, there is a list just select the first or any profile and u get two options
1. Activate Profile
2. Edit Profile

Select Edit Profile and edit the following fields as below:

1. Rename Profile: Vodafone_gprs
2. Homepage: http://live.vodafone.in
3. Data Account: Vodafone_gprs

4. Connection type u get three options:
Connection-oriented
1. IP Address: 010.010.001.100 give done
2. Security: Off

Connectionless
IP Address: 010.010.001.100
Security: Off

HTTP
Proxy Address: 010.010.001.100
Proxy Port: 9401 (NOTE: I think as mentioned above this is for Tamil Nadu, so whichever city or country your from ask for your mobile operator IP or Proxy whatever)
Select Done

Save Settings if asked and Then give Activate Profile

Browser Options
Timeout: 300 by default, I just put 150 just in case a page takes too long to load

Show Images: On
Ok Save Yes

Then there is Data Account Below Wap
GSM Data (I just left this alone)
GPRS Select Edit
1. Account Name: Vodafone_gprs
2. APN: portalnmms
3. Username: (Leave Blank/None)
4. Password: (Leave Blank/None)
5. Auth. Type: Normal

I dont know about MMS coz I don’t usually use, but anyway just for safety I chose the second one under Data Accounts and edited as follows,
1. Account Name: Vodafone_MMS
2. APN: portalnmms
3. Username: (Leave Blank/None)
4. Password: (Leave Blank/None)
5. Auth. Type: Normal

BUT there is Under Messages Itself an option for MMS where in you have
Message Settings / Server Profile
Edit first profile to
1. Rename Profile: Vodafone MMS
2. Homepage: http://live.vodafone.in
3. Data Account: Vodafone MMS
4. Connection Type:
Connection-Oriented
1. IP Address
010.010.001.100
Connectionless
1. IP Address
010.010.001.100
1. Proxy Address
010.010.001.100
2. Proxy Port
9401
Username: (Leave Blank/None)
Password: (Leave Blank/None)
Done / Save / Yes
Activate Profile - Yes

In Menu / Settings / there is something called Network Setup under which you have GPRS Connection, there are two options When Needed or Always. Either works I guess I just left it on When Needed. (makes more sense)

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Let me first tell you what is Push Email, you will receive email as soon a new email is received by the mail server, just like SMS. To use this service you need IMAP or POP access to your mail server & also your mail server should support anyone of them. With POP access you can download your emails to phone, but server & phone will not be in sync. For ex: if you delete a mail on your phone, it will be still there in server. IMAP is more advanced which syncs both mail boxes. Whatever you do on any place, gets reflected everywhere. Thankfully Gmail provides IMAP access for all the accounts, you have to enable it by going to “Settings–>Forwarding & POP/IMAP”. Basic GPRS plans like Airtel Live & Vodafone Live doesn’t provide IMAP access, you have to activate Airtel Mobile Office & or Vodafone Mobile Connect.

Configuring on Phone:

This configuration is for Phones which come up with inbuilt mail client, if your phone doesn’t have that try using gmail mobile app available at http://m.google.com.

Open email client on your phone, goto “Settings–>Add new email” & configure as mentioned below:

Incoming Mail Server:
Email/user ID: Your Gmail ID
Password: Gmail Password
Incoming Mail Server: imap.google.com
Mailbox name: Gmail (you can use anyting)
Mailbox Type: IMAP4
Security Ports: SSL
Port: 993 or Default in some phones

Outgoing Mail Server:
Email/user ID: Your Gmail ID
Password: Gmail Password
Outgoing Mail Server: smtp.google.com
Security Ports: SSL/TSL
Port: 465 or 587 or Default in some phones

After configuration connect to your mailbox, now you wil receive emails as soon as they arrive!

Long back I have written about Vodafone Live GPRS Settings. This post will describe about settings of Vodafone Mobile connect formly called as Hutch Access. For those wondering what is the difference between these two GPRS connections, Vodafone Live is limited to browsing websites on Phone. But Vodafone Mobile Connect allows complete access to internet such as IMAP/POP access, ability to use VoIP Clients (ex: Fring) & also can be used to access internet on your Laptop or Computer.

Here are the settings:

Connection Name: Anything
Data Bearer: Packet Data
Access Point Name: www
User Name: None (I mean leave it blank!)
Password: None
Authentication: Normal
Homepage: You can set any website

Advanced Settings:
Network Type: IPv4
Phone IP Address: Automatic
DNS Address: Automatic
Proxy Server Address: None
Proxy Port Number: 0

Settings alone can’t do anything, you have to activate Vodafone Mobile Connect first to use this service. Tariff for Vodafone Mobile Connect is as follows:

Prepaid pack
Monthly rental: Rs 199
Usage charges @ 5p / 10KB

Postpaid pack

To activate this service call to Vodafone Customer Care (Happy to help!?) at 111. If you want guide to access internet on Laptop or Computer using this connection, please refer to
Desktop settings for Airtel internet through Mobile Phone. Though it is for Airtel, guide stands same for Vodafone also.

I don’t have time to write about it right now, so just attaching mail from Vodafone. In the mean time Airtel already announced launch date to be on August 22nd, but it has not announced price yet. I will write a detailed article about whether to go for iphone or not shortly.

Hello Prashanth,

Thank you for registering for your Apple iPhone 3G™ with us.

We are delighted to announce that the iPhone 3G will be available in India from August 22, 2008 It will be available in 8GB & 16GB models, priced at Rs 31,000 and Rs 36,100 respectively.

Be the first to get the iPhone

We have received a large number of registrations. As there are limited stocks, make sure that you get yours first, by paying an advance of Rs 10,000 to confirm your booking.

Where can you make this advance payment?

The iPhone 3G will be available at select Vodafone Stores. All you need to do is drop in at any select Vodafone Store between August 20 and 21 and make the advance payment by cash or credit card. Don´t forget to show the iPhone booking SMS, which you would have received from us, when you visit the Vodafone Store to pay the advance. To find a Vodafone Store near you, click here

Get an appointment now. No queues for you.

Once you pay the advance, we will immediately give you an appointment date and time, starting August 22 when you can come and experience a full demonstration and collect your iPhone, all ready to use with your contacts and settings, by paying the balance amount.

Hurry! Limited stocks.

Remember, the sooner you confirm your booking, the earlier you´ll get your iPhone. We have limited stocks and it will be on first come, first serve basis.

Happy to help

If you have any queries, log on to www.vodafone.in/iphone or call Vodafone Care on 111 (toll free) and we´ll be happy to help.

Hurry and be one of the first to make the iPhone 3G your own.

Regards

C P Joshi

AVP - Customer Service

You might have already seen ads about Vodafone Call Conference. But it doesn’t says much about usage & charges, which I am going to write here. Vodafone Call Conference allows you to talk to maximum five people at a time! And also each person you added to conference can add more five people! You can use call conference right away, there is no activation required.

Usage:

Click to enlarge - Call Conference Steps

The above image gives you step by step procedure to make a conference call. It might vary a bit for diferent phones. I have tried this on my Nokia phone & found that once conference starts you can’t add more people in between. So first call all people whom you want to include into conference call by keeping all other on hold & then make it conference. For Ex: Follow exactly same procedure till Step 3 in image, now you added two persons into you conference. You should not continue to step 4 if you want to add more people. So, before Step 4 add third person by keeping other two on hold. Same thing applies if you want to add fourth person. once you are done with adding all people for your conference, continue to 4th Step.

Charges:

Conference Calls will be charged as per your tariff. But if you have any plan with charges for calls is less than 30 paise or if you have free minutes, 30 p/minute will be charged. For Ex: I have a postpaid plan which has 450 free local calls & above that will be charged 40p/minute. Any conference call made within free minutes will be charged 30p/minute & above free minutes will be charged as per my tariff i.e, 40p/minute. It means that you have to pay minimum 30p/minute for conference call. You will also be charged for each call you make & not for conference call as a whole. Say, you made a call conference with 3 people, you will be charged for each of them.

Overall it’s a great servcie to have fun with friends & family. It can also be used for buisiness conference calls. Enjoy Conferencing!

A quick update: I was shocked to see iPhone ad by Vodafone on TOI yesterday. Now Vodafone has started bookings for iPhone. If you are a Vodafone subscriber, you can send an SMS as IPHONE to 56789 to book an iPhone! You can also book your iPhone online at Vodafone website. But there is no announcement of 3G service by Vodafone. Vodafone website also says “Currently compatible only with 2G networks. Only select features and services are currently available in India”. Vodafone has not yet made any announcement on price, plans & features. I also tried calling Vodafone customer care, but they know just as much as I know. So, we will have to wait until Vodafone makes any further announcement. i will post here as soon as I get any info

I am the big time fan of Apple iPhone. But these days I started hating Apple, arrey how many days I have to wait to get this cool gadget? I really felt bad about Apple for delaying release of iPhone to India. From past few days I am hearing lot of buzz about Airtel & Vodafone releasing iPhone in India. After Apple’s announcement about it’s upgraded 3G version of iphone, Airtel & Vodafone both said they are going to release iPhone to India soon!

A popular tech news website Techtree wrote that, Vodafone is going to start booking for iPhones through customer care & website in another few weeks. Airtel also announced it also starts booking for iPhone in few weeks. Airtel customers can send “iphone” to toll-free number 54321 to get updates about iPhone, prices, package…etc.

What will be the price in India?

Apple announced new upgraded 3G version of iPhone recently, which will be released on 11th July. The new 8 GB model is available for 199 USD (Rs.8246) & 16 GB model for 299 USD (Rs.12,390). But, remember that these prices are only applicable to US in collaboration with AT & T, a big service provider in US. There was a roomer that AT & T was giving some money to Apple for each it customer it gets. It was one of the reason to get such a great gadget for less. So prices in India will depend on service provider who is bringing it to India, i.e, Airtel & Vodafone.

What to do with 3G? It’s not yet in India!

The new Apple iPhone is 3G enabled, but in India 3G technology is not yet in use! I am curious that, will Airtel & Vodafone will launch 3G service along with release of iPhone to India? For those who don’t know about 3G, it’s a third generation mobile technology to bring broadband internet speeds on your mobile phone! you can see Wikipedia entry on 3G for more. Currently India supports only EDGE (Wikipedia), so we will not benefit out of new 3G upgrade in iPhone if our network doesn’t supports it.

Related reading: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2008/06/09bharti.html

Operator logo will be displayed on the mobile screen.By default it will show operator name ex: Airtel, Hutch..etc. You can display other images or text as operator logo instead of name of operator by installing new logo. There are many web sites providing operator logos, just google it.But what I tend to explain here is removing logo part completely. You might have experienced a problem while using any celebrity wallpapers on your mobile, where logo displayed almost on face of celebrity which is disturbing. You can remove operator logo by installing a blank logo. From your mobile wap browser goto address http://victorynet.de/wap/betreiberlogos.wml and install blank logo. Now goto your phones display settings & check for “Operator Logo” option, set operator logo ON. It makes blank logo as on & displays nothing. If you make it OFF, operator name will be displayed.

Hutch introduced a new service which lets you back-up your data stored on your mobile phone. Through this service you can back-up Phone Book,SMS,MMS,Games,Applications,Ringtones…etc.
This could be help full to back-up all your critical data & you can recover them when you lost handset or changing handset. There are two types of services one for GPRS enabled handsets & another for Non GPRS handsets. In GPRS enabled handsets you can back-up all the data mentioned above,but in Non GPRS handsets you can only back-up Phone Book. To avail this service sms BACKUP to 52585 & follow instructions. Your data will be protected by username & password. After activation it automatically backs up your data.When you lost handset or changing to other handset sms RESTORE to 52585 & all the data stored in server will be sent to your new handset. Charges for GPRS enabled handsets are Rs.50/month & for Non GPRS handsets it’s Rs.30/month.

To Activate Hutch GPRS type sms as PH & send it to 123
Click here for location other than Karnataka.

Charges: