When is CIngular supposed to release the AKU2/ADP2 ROM?

[jocojr]

Does anyone know when Cingular or any other US carrier is supposed to release the new ROMs that support PUSH email?

[darkjedi]

cingular is said to be releasing it in the 2nd quarter of 06. the exact date is of course...unknown.

[lewcamino]

Well, cingular has usually SUCKED when it comes to supporting devices. They are only interested in selling new ones... and the marketing behind doing so. So I wouldent hold your breath. Do I sound bitter? :x

Later; Lew

[jocojr]

The reason I ask is that my ISP is screwing me. I am having a problem getting DirectPush to work. And they are telling me that they will not support it until a US carrier releases a ROM to support it. What sucks even more is that 4smartphone works just great with PUSH but my other ISP wont even help.....

Does anyone know if any WM5 device by any US Carrier released DirectPush?

[summiter]

The reason I ask is that my ISP is screwing me. I am having a problem getting DirectPush to work. And they are telling me that they will not support it until a US carrier releases a ROM to support it. What sucks even more is that 4smartphone works just great with PUSH but my other ISP wont even help.....

Does anyone know if any WM5 device by any US Carrier released DirectPush?

None yet, and Cingular has only commited to providing the AKU2 update for 2125/8125 "in 1H06", meaning sometime between now and June 30.

The HP 6900 *might* come out prior to then, which will have AKU preinstalled, but I don't know what carrier is picking up that device.

I'm suprised your ISP hasn't alredy isntalled Exchange SP2..it offers much more than just enabling push.

[jocojr]

None yet, and Cingular has only commited to providing the AKU2 update for 2125/8125 "in 1H06", meaning sometime between now and June 30.

The HP 6900 *might* come out prior to then, which will have AKU preinstalled, but I don't know what carrier is picking up that device.

I'm suprised your ISP hasn't alredy isntalled Exchange SP2..it offers much more than just enabling push.

No they did upgrade to SP2.. but for some reason when I set up my 8125 it keeps pushing over to Always up to Date and not Direct Push

[summiter]

None yet, and Cingular has only commited to providing the AKU2 update for 2125/8125 "in 1H06", meaning sometime between now and June 30.

The HP 6900 *might* come out prior to then, which will have AKU preinstalled, but I don't know what carrier is picking up that device.

I'm suprised your ISP hasn't alredy isntalled Exchange SP2..it offers much more than just enabling push.

No they did upgrade to SP2.. but for some reason when I set up my 8125 it keeps pushing over to Always up to Date and not Direct Push

Just checking, since you didn't say, but you are using one of the AKU2 ROMs on your 8125, correct?

If so, something strange is afoot. Either your ISP really doesn't have SP2 on their front end servers, or they've gone and disabled push, which is enabled by deafult on SP2 install. I can't think of any reason to disable it, unless they plan to charge an additional fee for it or something.

[jocojr]

Yes I updated to an AKU2 ROM, 2.16.9.1 to be exact....

[summiter]

Yes I updated to an AKU2 ROM, 2.16.9.1 to be exact....

How quickly things change.. A US carrier just released the AKU update. It was released by Sprint for their 6700.

It was just released and Sprint customers are having a heck of a time finding it online or finding stores that have received it. But it is officially available to Sprint business customers.

Read through this thread to follow the latest...

http://www.pdaphonehome.com/forums/showthread.php?t=68618

Now tell your ISP to get their shite together. =)

[jocojr]

Summit!!

Thanks your awesome... if only I could find something official on Sprints site.... all the links in that post were invalid....

[Sleuth255]

@jocojr:

I'm betting the solution to your problem can be found in System Manager for your ISP's exchange server. They don't have the Direct Push checkbox checked in mobile settings. This checkbox is right under the one that enables SMS based AUTD 1.0.

I have found that I was unable to set up a direct push connection until I checked that. Once checked, I was unable to set up a SMS based connection btw.

[jocojr]

Sleuth,

Thats what I think too, but without me seeing the settings its hard to know what they did..... But they swear everything is setup correctly.

Joe

[w00fy]

Cingular has always been big on hype and short on follow through. Like lewcamino has said, I wouldn't hold my breath. It took them almost 5 months after the announced release date to get the 8125 out the door. Also look back to other false starts and half baked promises such as "blue"/"orange" network integration, Push to Talk, 3G, and various promised devices.

Personally I do not think they will put much energy behind DirectPush. IMHO, the bean counters probably figure all that data traffic will drag down their profits. They are content on selling overpriced text message packages, cheesey ringtones, and their new video service.

I am personally happy with the QTek ROM. In fact, my 8125 only had the official Cingular ROM for all of 20 minutes. That is how long it took for me to install ActiveSync and install the QTek Beta ROM. Last week I upgraded to the official AKU2 package. So far everything works perfectly.

[exchguy]

I've also upgraded my 8125 to the K-Jam AKU 2.0 upgrade. The radio stack has worked much better than the stock rom as well. I think cingular will get around to providing the upgrade, as Sprint has recently done for their PPC-6700/HTC Apache but it might not be until early summer. Why wait for Cingular when you can use it now?