Using T-Mobile on a Sony UX180P
September 17th, 2006 bySomeone asked me if I had managed to get T-Mobile working on My Sony UX180P once I had got it unlocked from Cingular.
I had been using Orange as I was taking advantage of their ?1 a day unlimited Data but that has now come to a close for 3G Data so I am now using my T-Mobile pay as you go card. They only charge ?1 a day for unlimited data too on their pay as you go scheme and the good thing with this is you don’t have to order as an extra and they will simply keep billing you per kb until you have spent £1 and then cap the charge.
I am in the UK so this process with be different in other countries but I set it up to work with the T-Mobile sim card by doing the following:
1: Pretty obvious but you have to unlock the data card from Cingular
2: Put the T-Mobile sim card into the card slot and switch on WWAN.
3: Load the Cingular Connection Manager
4: Go to profiles then click add new profile and choose “Create Custom Profile”
5: Choose service type “Packet”
6: Leave the dial up number as shown on the screen “*99***1#
7: Enter “general.t-mobile.uk” as the Access Point Name
8: Enter “user” as username, password “wap” then click next,
9: Leave all the ip settings alone and click next. Name the profile, I chose “T-Mobile” and finish.
Then on the Cingular Connection Manager main screen click “Connect Using” and choose your T-Mobile profile. If you are in service it should come up with Ready “T-Mobile”, click connect and that’s it.
There may be other ways to do this but this is what worked for me.
6 Comments Add your own
1. Donnie Swafford | January 2nd, 2007 at 7:25 pm
I just wanted to say thanks for posting this. I had set up a couple of TX series and had replaced the Cingular software with a 3rd party. Thanks to this technique (I used it with a China ISP here in HK rather than T-Mobile) I was able to set up an SZ series and a UX series with the Cingular Software. Saved me some time.
2. AJ in Tampa | February 12th, 2007 at 11:07 pm
Beautiful, thanks for posting saved me a BUNCH of time and got in working with T-Mobile EDGE in Tampa, FL USA.
3. G Kismar | April 16th, 2007 at 12:30 am
Excellent, I’d like to thank you very much for posting this article, It was amazingly helpful, Saved me a lot of time and effort, Regards, Gokhan
4. Joe | May 20th, 2007 at 7:15 pm
Thanks for the post. AJ, do you know what we use for the access point name here in the US? or does anyone else know? thanks.
5. Philip Nicosia | May 20th, 2007 at 9:04 pm
I’m not in the US so I don’t really know for sure but a quick search on Google suggests it might be Access Point Name (APN): wap.voicestream.com username and password both left blank.
6. ro | July 8th, 2007 at 4:54 pm
hi.
i followed all the steps to connect with tmob sim and cingular shows it as connected to tmob.however it doesnt really work with full signal.either that or it is reeeeeally slow.any ideas?
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