Setting up O2 XDA to work on Orange - HELP PLEASE!

[Shadamehr]

Right - I've just spent half the day trying to configure my Unlocked XDA2 for the Orange network.

Making and taking calls - fine.
Sending and receiving texts - fine.

SMS, MMS, WAP, The Internet, Pass-thru activesync etc - you ARE joking aren't you!

I've follwed various Smartphone based help posts, but alas they are little use, as the Pocket PC is a very different beast, and even knowing the settings doesn't help, if you don't know where to put them etc (the XDA is totally different for setting up compared to a Smartphone).

So PLEASE - can someone, in plain english, simple step by step settings, help me get my XDA to fully work for all things, on the Orange Network please..?

Also, is there any easy way to get rid of the O2 Custimisation, and just have a standard Pocket PC theme?

 

[Rudegar]

o2 stuff if you mean on the today screen can be changed under settings and today screen there you can disable stuff you dont want there

if you mean in programs then you just delete programs you dont want in uninstall or in \windows\star menu\

about orange settings then i recommend you ask orange
since they sell the xda2 under the name SPV M1000
and since no operator have all that special ways of handling all that stuff
all you need is the info of what orange use

sms is a number in the settings which need to be set
most cellphone companys i know off auto adjust this though not sure about orange

MMS, WAP, The Internet(gprs)

you setup under settings\connections\connections and add the interfaces and enter the access points orange use


Pass-thru activesync
is something you activate on the pc in activesyncs options

 

[Shadamehr]

I rang Orange, who put me through to Fax and Data, who in turn put me through to the ever so helpful Mandy in Level 3 Support, who rang me back on my home number, and spent the next twenty minutes helping me set it up.

It helped immensely however, that I had already fiddled on and created some of the stuff needed.

So far, I have yet to figure out how to get it to use my ActiveSync pass thru however, as it insists on making a GPRS connection, when in the cradle.

I have also not got it to Sync via Bluetooth yet.

And two curious things.

Despite my numbers being in a format +44 7736 111 111 (made that up), when I go to send an SMS, and use the contacts function to locate the number, it instead inserts it into the To Field, with the preceding + dropped off, and thus it wont send.

Lastly, despite being a new XDA2, its a US ROM version, and only radio version 1.05 - handy, in that it meant I could unlock it straight away, but curious, as a European market, that I receive a USA ROM - maybe its to do with the UK shortage.

But does anyone know how I set it up for a Pass-thru, and also how, or why, it drops the prefix + symbol from sending SMS, and thus causes it to fail unless I manually insert a +

Cheers.

 

[Rudegar]

about the +44 thing then make sure you have chosen the right country in settings that solve such issues most of the time

about pass though then now we are talking home and internet
it got some setting where you can choose if you are connected to home as in bluetooth usb or wifi or the internet if it think it's on the inetnet it will always use the grps