Getting online with your phone

[Prodigal Son]

I got a new phone about a week ago and cannot get online with it to send/receive email or browse the internet. It's a Sony Ericsson m600i and when I went to China Mobile office to have them enable whatever they have to enable to get online, they played with the phone for 15 minutes before telling me I have to go to a Sony store to get something adjusted. I go to the Sony place and they tell me to go back to China Mobile. I go to a different China mobile and they tell me it can't get online because it's 水货 (the model I got is the EU model which is identical to the 608c Chinese version except for the software). So, they refuse to help.

Edit: figured it out. This is what I needed: http://www.tongfamily.com/phones/china_mobile_wap_mms_smtppop_and_gprs_settings.php

[roddy]

What kind of speeds are you getting with those settings. I think you need to use the cmnet gateway for full GPRS speeds, but I could be wrong.

[cdn_in_bj]

What kind of China Mobile SIM/plan do you have?

[Prodigal Son]

Speeds are about what I expected for GPRS - loading gmail takes maybe 3-4 seconds, but using something like google maps is much slower. I don't know much about my SIM card, or what plan I have, it's a 139 number and an M-Zone sim card.

[venture160]

Sony's phones have to be manually adjusted to surf the China Mobile GPRS network. I bought a S500i down in Shenzhen last week, and being since it was bought on the gray market I had to set everything myself. Just take it to your local Cellphone store and they should be able to set it. I.E. ZHongguancun Dinghao basement

[Prodigal Son]

Sony's phones have to be manually adjusted to surf the China Mobile GPRS network. I bought a S500i down in Shenzhen last week, and being since it was bought on the gray market I had to set everything myself. Just take it to your local Cellphone store and they should be able to set it. I.E. ZHongguancun Dinghao basement

I went to two China Mobile offices before posting this thread; in the first one a guy in the GPRS section played with my phone for 15 minutes and then gave it back to me saying he couldn't get it to work. The second one refused to help me with the problem because my phone is 水货 (the Chinese version is the 608c and costs more than twice as much). Finally I found the link to configure it myself.

[cdn_in_bj]

I don't know much about my SIM card, or what plan I have, it's a 139 number and an M-Zone sim card.

Thanks, I currently have a Shenzhouxing card and have been thinking about switching to M-Zone.

[venture160]

If you are in Beijing I would reccomend going to Zhongguancun and having the people who sell grey market phones take a look at it, they should be able to fix it.