Imate II...First Tmobile and Now Cingular

[looknow12]

Hi all,

I've been a long time user of the Pocket PC Phone. I picked up an Unlocked (or so I thought) IMate II about 6 months ago and inserted my Tmobile chip in it and everything worked great.

Recently I went over to Cingular, signed up and walked away with my simm chips. Here's the problem I'm having:

1) No matter where I go, the phone has a Triangle (indicating Roaming) and it says T-Mobile in the Dialer. If I go to options, click on Preferred Networks, it has a ton of networks, the first three are Cingular and they are checked. If I click OK on this dialog, I receive the error message "Unable to save your changes to the network. Try changing settings later, or disconnect data connection and try again. Retry | Cancel.

2) My second problem is no matter what I put in for GPRS Connection it will not connect. I have tried isp.cingular (APN) and ISPDA.MYCINGULARGPRS.COM (username), cingular1 (password) and I have tried others to. One starts with WIXDC001* and that doesn't work.

I am hopeful that someone can help me here. I am unsure if these issues are related.

Thank you in advance,

[andygee]

Well depending on the area you are in most of Cingular's GSM towers are on 850 mhz. The xda II doesn't cover that frequency. There are a handful of states that still have 900 mhz coverage for them but not many. That's what makes you roam to T-Mobile, since they are the only provider on that frequency in your area.




Hi all,

I've been a long time user of the Pocket PC Phone. I picked up an Unlocked (or so I thought) IMate II about 6 months ago and inserted my Tmobile chip in it and everything worked great.

Recently I went over to Cingular, signed up and walked away with my simm chips. Here's the problem I'm having:

1) No matter where I go, the phone has a Triangle (indicating Roaming) and it says T-Mobile in the Dialer. If I go to options, click on Preferred Networks, it has a ton of networks, the first three are Cingular and they are checked. If I click OK on this dialog, I receive the error message "Unable to save your changes to the network. Try changing settings later, or disconnect data connection and try again. Retry | Cancel.

2) My second problem is no matter what I put in for GPRS Connection it will not connect. I have tried isp.cingular (APN) and ISPDA.MYCINGULARGPRS.COM (username), cingular1 (password) and I have tried others to. One starts with WIXDC001* and that doesn't work.

I am hopeful that someone can help me here. I am unsure if these issues are related.

Thank you in advance,

[looknow12]

Thanks for the reply. I believe that's the answer.