2005-01-05:
Changing homepage on T-Mobile Sony Ericsson T610/T616

I have a Sony Ericsson T610 with a cellular plan from T-Mobile.

Everytime I start up the browser on the phone it goes to the T-Zones homepage, and I can't go to a new page or bookmark until it's mostly finished loading. That isn't useful if you never use tzones because you have your own cell data hub that you'd rather use.

Unfortunately, the t-zones profile is locked on T-Mobile phones, so this means you can't change your homepage, which I find ludicrous.

You can work around this by creating your own data profile that isn't locked.

Main Menu -> Connectivity -> Data Comm -> Data Accounts -> New Account
  GPRS Data
  Give it a name
  APN: wap.voicestream.com
  user: (none needed)
  passwd: (none needed)

Main Menu -> Connectivity -> Wap Options -> WAP Profiles -> Add Profile?
  Give it a name
  Connect using: (the new data comm account created above)
  IP: 216.155.165.050
    (I think you can also put this IP in the Data Comm profile by editing it..)
  Select this profile


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