Cingular USA Settings for the Trinity

[ronr9286t]

I've now had my Trinity for a week and I love it. The GPS and TOM TOM are great. I bought a car mount from Mobile Planet (Expansys) and it works better than the Magellan I was using. The phone functions work generally well, although not as crisp as my Cingular 8525.

I set up the MediaNet connections manually using the settings from the AT&T web-site, and it seems to work well.

There are cab files for all of the Cingular settings that are posted on the XDA Hermes/TyTn list, but I'm not sure if there are any settings in that cab that will improve my Trinity's connectivity. I'm also concerened that I may in some way disable the Trinity with this cab file.

Any Comments?

Ron

[Baxter]

I'm in the market for my 2nd Trinity. Where did you get it and what did you pay? Some resellers still have old stock with the old ROM.

As far as your settings go, I saw little or no difference with the cingular settings in my area. There are a couple of options you have including DNS servers and access point. I've had good luck with the folowing:

cellular line GPRS
access point - wap.cingular
user name WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
pw CINGULAR1
no domain
Advanced server settings
DNS 208.67.222.222
ALT 208.67.220.220

Others may have a different experience. I never installed the cab.

[vanydotk]

I'm in the market for my 2nd Trinity. Where did you get it and what did you pay? Some resellers still have old stock with the old ROM.

As far as your settings go, I saw little or no difference with the cingular settings in my area. There are a couple of options you have including DNS servers and access point. I've had good luck with the folowing:

cellular line GPRS
access point - wap.cingular
user name WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
pw CINGULAR1
no domain
Advanced server settings
DNS 208.67.222.222
ALT 208.67.220.220

Others may have a different experience. I never installed the cab.

I got my Trinity from Phone Source USA for 593 shipped. Here goes a link to their ebay auction.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Brand-new-HTC-P3600-Color-Black-Shipped-from-NV_W0QQitemZ220114643425QQihZ012QQcategoryZ64355QQ ssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[DeviLduck]

Results from quick experiment: San Francisco, USA

HTC Trinity (Latest LVSW.1.0.0.7 rom & Radio.1.41.00.11)
The Cing cabs (from this Forum) used to make settings put adv server config numbers in. Everything else is exactly same as manual setup with auto or configured servers.
Advanced server settings
DNS 208.67.222.222
ALT 208.67.220.220

Phone Band network type set: Auto
GSM/UMTS set: GSM(1900+850)+UMTS(1900+850)

Method: Connections, Advanced, Selected Network, MEdia Net settings or WAP (no proxy) settings, IE defaulted to Windows Live, clicked on url to DSL Reports-Speed Test, 600K used for every test, resulting kbits/sec, re-entered DSL Reports url each test. Between different network settings runs, made change, & soft reset. 2 separate run sets for both network configs & auto/non-auto adv server setup. All numbers kbits/sec.

MEdia Net-AUTO: 804, 889. Avg=847

MEdia Net-Adv settings: 880, 857. Avg=869

WAP-no proxy-AUTO: 634, 618. Avg=626

WAP-no proxy-Adv settings: 632, 705. Avg=669

(For accuracy, each number of the first 2 pairs presented are also averages of 3 separate runs each, with lowest value dropped & 2 used for avg of that run.)

Either method shows MEdia Net as mycingular.net or WAP-non-proxy as myvzw.com, but different ip addresses, for these runs.

Looks like NO STATISTICAL DIFFERENCES in overall results as to the use of Advanced dedicated dns settings.

Also, using the Cingular apps, i.e., MobiTV, Media Net Video, Streaming Video or Music, or other (non-Cingular) Internet Streaming Video & Audio sites, AUTO server-assigned settings worked almost always.

When switching to Adv dedicated settings instead, sometimes a change to AUTO-server assigned would be necessary to get the Video or Audio to run correctly.

Similar results obtained with HTC Tytn.

[Baxter]

The only diff I saw with DNS is the time it takes to locate and open web pages. Much faster with the DNS settings I listed above for all of my devices. It has been a year or so since I have changed anything. Results may not be the same now.

[nbc17]

How did you put in these settings? I went to Settings --> Connections --> GPRS Setting, but it only has 2 radio buttons: "PAP authentication" and "CHAP authentication".

I'm in the market for my 2nd Trinity. Where did you get it and what did you pay? Some resellers still have old stock with the old ROM.

As far as your settings go, I saw little or no difference with the cingular settings in my area. There are a couple of options you have including DNS servers and access point. I've had good luck with the folowing:

cellular line GPRS
access point - wap.cingular
user name WAP@CINGULARGPRS.COM
pw CINGULAR1
no domain
Advanced server settings
DNS 208.67.222.222
ALT 208.67.220.220

Others may have a different experience. I never installed the cab.

[Baxter]

Create a new connection with those settings.

[maevro]

I am using the .cab 'Cingular WAP MediaNet MMS Settingsv2' on my Trinity and I am always getting nice 3G speeds (Since I am in UMTS or HSDPA areas 95% of my day).

[nbc17]

If I go to Settings --> Connections --> Tasks, I only see
"Add a new model connection"

"Add a new VPN server connection"

....

I have tried all of those options, but don't see to be able to create a connection described by you. Can you help? Thanks.

Create a new connection with those settings.

[DeviLduck]

If I go to Settings --> Connections --> Tasks, I only see
"Add a new model connection"

"Add a new VPN server connection"

....

I have tried all of those options, but don't see to be able to create a connection described by you. Can you help? Thanks.

You said: "How did you put in these settings? I went to Settings --> Connections --> GPRS Setting, but it only has 2 radio buttons: "PAP authentication" and "CHAP authentication"."

For GPRS, choose CHAP. Then return to Connections, to continue dialog.


Go to Settings/Connections/Connections:
There you should see: 2 main Headings: Media Net & My Work Network

Also, you have the Advanced tab at bottom, Click on that:
Click on Select networks

Choose on top dialog, My Isp for setting up Data connection OR media Net for setting up proxy connection.

OR, an easy way is:

The file commented on in previous post by maevro, is the easiest way. Do a search on forum, you'll find it easily. Install the cab. Search for cab: Cingular WAP MediaNet MMS Settingsv2

[Baxter]

Just create a new modem connection.

[nbc17]

Thank you guys, I appreciate it. I am able to get it to work now. How come mine says I connect to EDGE, but not 3G? Again, thank you.

[maevro]

Wow, why go through all of this? Download this .cab and run it & it will set up all the AT&T/Cingular settings...I have said this a while back in this thread....