Virgin Mobile GPRS access from a Palm OS device

Virgin Mobile user? Own a Palm Pilot with Bluetooth? Want to access the Internet on your Palm OS device? Annoyed by this?

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Don't worry. There is a way to get everything working.

First, you'll need to have installed the latest version of the Phone Link app from Palm. You'll also need to have a working GPRS or 3G connection on your phone.

Next, set up the phone connection using Phone Link.

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Once you're done, you'll end up with a phone connection like this.

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Yes, my phone is called Plobby plone. Don't ask.

Now run Phone Link's network set up utility again

Network Service SetupSubscribe to high speed data service

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Once you click Next you'll get the “download more carriers” message. Choose instead to set up a dial-up networking connection. This is the important bit.

For the phone number, enter “*99***1#”; for the user name, enter “user”; for the password, enter anything, although a space works nicely. The 1 at the end of the phone number corresponds to your default GPRS access point. If you have more than one, change the number accordingly.

You'll end up with this dial-up connection.

Connection details

This will work with most phones. However, some phones, such as the Nokia 6630, will still need DNS server entries. Click on “Details?¢‚Ǩ¬¶” and change the settings as follows:

DNS entries

The DNS servers are 149.254.192.126 and 149.254.201.126

After that, you should be fine.

3 Comments

Excellent help and much appreciated

I've tried above but can't get it to work. Do I need a script. I'm using a Nokia 6300 with a Palm TX. The Nokia connects to the net and sends/rec email OK. I had been getting messages on the Palm saying I needed to subscribe to a packet data service which I couldn't understand as GPRS was already working. Any help appreciated.

Might be the driver that's a problem. Try experimenting with the phone driver you've picked. But often you need the exact one for your phone, or else it doesn't work.

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