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My name is Andrew Sutton, aka Shandy.

I am currently living and working in the UK within the garment industry as an IT specialist. This blog contains mainly IT related issues.

I was a Microsoft VB MVP for a couple of years (Apr 2004-Mar 2006) and was a vbCityLeader between April 2003 and June 2007.

If you are looking for my Sri Lanka or Morocco experiences check out Shandy's Sri Lanka Blog or Shandy's Morocco Blog. My personal (Non IT) blog is now at Shandy's Place

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Thursday, May 31, 2007 #

How To Use An i-mate SP3 On Virgin Mobile PAYG To Act As A Modem For A PC
I managed to get my i-mate SP3 to act as a modem for my Dell 620 laptop by adding the following modem initialisation string in the bluetooth setup dialog.

+CGDCONT =1,"IP","goto.virginmobile.uk", where goto.virginmobile.uk is the apn address as entered in the settings from my previous post, Setting Up An i-mate SP3 With Virgin Mobile Pay As You Go In The UK To Use The Internet.

I also had to setup a dialup connection using the *99# number with no user name, password nor domain entered. The network was set to Internet.

The access speed is pretty slow but it does work.

posted @ 4:41 PM | Feedback (1)

Using Email On An i-mate SP3 With Virgin Mobile PAYG
It appears that to enable email on my i-mate SP3 I needed to enable WAP. Enabling an internet connection was not enough. To setup WAP I needed to create a dialup account using the WAP Network option and the *99# number. No user name, password or domain entries were required.

The actual network setting is set to Internet. Setting the network directly to WAP does not seem to work but with a WAP entry being setup, even though it is not directly accessed seems to do the trick.

Virgin Mobile do not, as far as I know, have their own publically usable email servers so you need to specify both incoming (POP3) and outgoing (SMTP) servers as your own email servers (Personally I use vbCity's email server)

posted @ 4:31 PM | Feedback (0)

How To Get A Ringtone Listed On An i-mate SP3
I'd always previously relied on the intrinisic ring tones on my i-mate SP3. However, with the improvement in sound quality with the BIOS upgrade I recently performed I thought I'd put on my old favorite of The Professionals theme tune as the ringtone when I receive a call. It took a little bit of trial and error to get the tune listed as a possible ringtone. It turns out the ringtone must be placed in the root of the Storage, My Documents folder to get the ringtone included in the list of selectable ring tones. Both wav and mdi formats seem to be supported. I still have to figure out how to get a sound listed on the text message arrival sounds list.
posted @ 10:46 AM | Feedback (0)