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August 3, 2004
Hacking my Nokia 6230 onto ATTWS network
I bought a unlocked Nokia 6230 on Ebay (actually from a guy in Bellevue that ships from a wharehouse in Taiwan. Very cool in that the keyboard has the chinese characters on it. But of course ATTWS does not support the phone yet. Lots of searching on the web didn't turn up the exact right settings. The Nokia site and Wireless Services did not get me the right settings by SMS because they don't support the phone yet. I tried to download some settings for phones that looked similar, but to no avail. So here dear reader I have the WAP, MMS, and Internet settings for the Nokia 6230 running on ATT Wireless.
MMS:
Settings' Name: AWS MMS
Homepage: http://mmsc.mobile.attwireless.net
Proxies: Enable
Primary Proxy: 010.250.250.055:8080
Secondary proxy: :8080
Data bearer: GPRS
Connection Settings -> Bearer Settings
GRPS access point: proxy
Authentication: Normal
User name: [blank]
Password: [blank]
WAP/Internet:
Settings' Name: mMode
Homepage: http://hoome
Proxies: Enable
Primary Proxy: 010.250.250.054:8080
Secondary proxy: :8080
Data bearer: GPRS
Connection Settings -> Bearer Settings
GRPS access point: proxy
Authentication: Normal
Login type: Automatic
User name: [blank]
Password: [blank]
Have fun! I love the phone! I have a bunch of music loaded on it. I also use the FM receiver quite a bit. With the camera in my pocket I definitely take more pictures and movies. I recorded Finn saying something for my ring. very fun.
Posted by Martin at August 3, 2004 3:03 PM
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This link might be helpful in the future (unless you tried it and it didn't work for some reason):
https://secure.mouse2mobile.com/clients/nokia/americas/
-Russ
Posted by: Russ at August 4, 2004 9:53 PM
Russ,
thanks for that comment. You would think this site would be helpful, unfortunately this is the service run by Wireless Services Corporation (right here in Bellevue - I know them well) and while they have knowledge of all the possible combinations, they only maintain those that are authorized by the carriers. Since this phone is not supported by ATTWS at this time, the combination does not show up as an option. What this service does is send an SMS with the configuration. I tried similar phones, but the settings were always off slightly. One digit on the proxy, or the port. In the end, I had to manually enter the values myself after inferring the settings from other phones.
One interesting tidbit here is that where phones store this stuff is different between models even from the same manufacturer like Nokia! Even the Nokia 6200 TDMA version which is supported by ATTWS has different names for the settings locations than the 6230 GSM. This is WAY more confusing than it needs to be.
Posted by: Martin Tobias at August 4, 2004 11:19 PM
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