t610 o2 online questions, please help

just got a t610 on the o2 online 100 tarrif and i have a few questions that
id apprciate answering

1. Which would be better to use my 500 free wap mins or my GPRS which will i
get more out of. according to the tarrif if i dont use my wap mins a get 1mb
of gprs and i was wondering which setting i should use

2. why dont the delivery reports work? i sent messages to my old phone and
recieved them yet i have not had delivery reports like i used to on the t68i
even though i have turned on the status request section is there sonething
else i need to do

3. is there a number you can ring to find out how many free mins are left
like on orange?

4. Ive been reading that people on o2 have problems mms ing becasue it is
not activated, should i just ring them and get it turned on

many thanks for any replys!

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"BiGwAg" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> just got a t610 on the o2 online 100 tarrif and i have a few questions
that
> id apprciate answering
>
> 1. Which would be better to use my 500 free wap mins or my GPRS which will
i
> get more out of. according to the tarrif if i dont use my wap mins a get
1mb
> of gprs and i was wondering which setting i should use

1MB won't get you too far. It depends what you're doing really. The T610 has
the facility under 'calls' then 'costs' then 'data meter' or something like
that to see how much GPRS traffic you've used - so you might as well
experiment with both. Sometimes GPRS feels as dog slow as WAP anyway....

> 2. why dont the delivery reports work? i sent messages to my old phone and
> recieved them yet i have not had delivery reports like i used to on the
t68i
> even though i have turned on the status request section is there sonething
> else i need to do

turn delivery report requests off
prefix each message *0# (asterisk zero hash)
sorry - there's no other way to do it

> 3. is there a number you can ring to find out how many free mins are left
> like on orange?

nope

> 4. Ive been reading that people on o2 have problems mms ing becasue it is
> not activated, should i just ring them and get it turned on

it will need to be activated.... good luck

"Wibble" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> > > 4. Ive been reading that people on o2 have problems mms ing becasue it
> is
> > > not activated, should i just ring them and get it turned on
> >
> > it will need to be activated.... good luck
> >
> >
> And you will need it. Took me two telephone calls, three emails and two
> weeks to get mine activated for MMS. Rang up the complaints line and they
> did it within 15 minutes :-(

I ended up having to write to the Directors' home addresses.

www.fitlads.net/o2/ makes interesting reading if you're bored

(and before anyone suggests: "reply via same service centre", don't!)

> > 4. Ive been reading that people on o2 have problems mms ing becasue it
is
> > not activated, should i just ring them and get it turned on
>
> it will need to be activated.... good luck
>
>
And you will need it. Took me two telephone calls, three emails and two
weeks to get mine activated for MMS. Rang up the complaints line and they
did it within 15 minutes :-(

"BiGwAg" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:<[email protected]>...
> just got a t610 on the o2 online 100 tarrif and i have a few questions that
> id apprciate answering
>
> 1. Which would be better to use my 500 free wap mins or my GPRS which will i
> get more out of. according to the tarrif if i dont use my wap mins a get 1mb
> of gprs and i was wondering which setting i should use
>

I'd go for the free WAP/free MMS. On your tariff, you can send picture
messages for free (but it eats up 4 of your 500 text each time). AFAIK
you can either have the ability to send/receive MMS or have GPRS. You
can't have both on O2 Online. I have no idea why.

> 2. why dont the delivery reports work? i sent messages to my old phone and
> recieved them yet i have not had delivery reports like i used to on the t68i
> even though i have turned on the status request section is there sonething
> else i need to do

When I worked in PAYG, we always said that O2 don't support delivery
reports but I read about that *0# on that consumerdeals.co.uk site.
Not sure if it works. Really strange tho - since O2 EIRE supports
delivery reports straight out of the box.

> 3. is there a number you can ring to find out how many free mins are left
> like on orange?
>

You can get that information from your o2 bill - log in and see the
unbilled usage bit. The system is 24 hours + whatever time it is
behind (i.e. at 12:30pm today, it was 24 hours + 12h 30mins behind)
but it's fine as a projection and even shows text messages. You could
also get that information from the 0906 guys, or the finance guys
(0870 220 3297), or the retentions guys (0870 225 9933) - but they'd
really be getting that information from the unbilled screen too.

Unbilled usage is actually something that's really improved since the
May 8th upgrade was fixed on 1st July.

> 4. Ive been reading that people on o2 have problems mms ing becasue it is
> not activated, should i just ring them and get it turned on

General advice is to mail [email protected] inc. name, date of
birth, mobile no and address, asking them to do that. Do you want MMS
enabled? 077xxxxx990, aye?

On 8 Aug 2003 08:43:44 -0700, [email protected] (James) wrote:


>I'd go for the free WAP/free MMS. On your tariff, you can send picture
>messages for free (but it eats up 4 of your 500 text each time). AFAIK
>you can either have the ability to send/receive MMS or have GPRS. You
>can't have both on O2 Online. I have no idea why.
>

oh I completely forgot that part. so I just order 02 online offpeak
tariff with the T610 so will they have it default for MMS or GPRS and
how do I get it change from one to the other if I need to in the
future?


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On 8-Aug-2003, moc.dlrowltn.nojunk@"_T*R*A*P*S*I*H*T*E*V*O*M*E*R*_"okram
(Mark Kelly) wrote:

> >I'd go for the free WAP/free MMS. On your tariff, you can send picture
> >messages for free (but it eats up 4 of your 500 text each time). AFAIK
> >you can either have the ability to send/receive MMS or have GPRS. You
> >can't have both on O2 Online. I have no idea why.
> >
>
> oh I completely forgot that part. so I just order 02 online offpeak
> tariff with the T610 so will they have it default for MMS or GPRS and
> how do I get it change from one to the other if I need to in the
> future?


I have the online 200 tariff and as far as i can see you can use both GPRS
and WAP plus MMS. I was a bit confused as the online stuff says you get
0.5MB but the paperwork i got says you can used either WAP or GPRS (2MB in
my example). I emailed the O2 guys and got a reply which matches what it
says online, 0.5MB and WAP. You get the 500 WAP and also 0.5MB GPRS. If you
think you have the choice you may end up having a bill as you don't actually
have the GPRS you think you do I would imagine!

If you log in, go to my account, view my bill and unbilled calls, go to
mobile summary, and select your mobile. (Nearly there, I don't know if there
are quicker ways to this!) click now on Inclusive allowance details and it
breaks down what you have left on your account (remember it takes 24 hours
to show up all). I know I have used GPRS to connect but it doesn't seem to
show up.

As for MMS, I seem to be able to send and receive them on my phone but they
rarely seem to turn up to other people's phones. Is this a problem with it
not being set up okay or just that MMS is tempremental? I better email o2
and wait for the 6 day wait again!

rang up o2 to sort out the mms and was told that they would sort it out and
it would take upto 5 days

my mate did the same he got a sim update so he actually has an mms account
on the phone and told he could use it in 3 days, they really need to sort
themselves out!
"Andy" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
> On 8-Aug-2003, moc.dlrowltn.nojunk@"_T*R*A*P*S*I*H*T*E*V*O*M*E*R*_"okram
> (Mark Kelly) wrote:
>
> > >I'd go for the free WAP/free MMS. On your tariff, you can send picture
> > >messages for free (but it eats up 4 of your 500 text each time). AFAIK
> > >you can either have the ability to send/receive MMS or have GPRS. You
> > >can't have both on O2 Online. I have no idea why.
> > >
> >
> > oh I completely forgot that part. so I just order 02 online offpeak
> > tariff with the T610 so will they have it default for MMS or GPRS and
> > how do I get it change from one to the other if I need to in the
> > future?
>
>
> I have the online 200 tariff and as far as i can see you can use both GPRS
> and WAP plus MMS. I was a bit confused as the online stuff says you get
> 0.5MB but the paperwork i got says you can used either WAP or GPRS (2MB in
> my example). I emailed the O2 guys and got a reply which matches what it
> says online, 0.5MB and WAP. You get the 500 WAP and also 0.5MB GPRS. If
you
> think you have the choice you may end up having a bill as you don't
actually
> have the GPRS you think you do I would imagine!
>
> If you log in, go to my account, view my bill and unbilled calls, go to
> mobile summary, and select your mobile. (Nearly there, I don't know if
there
> are quicker ways to this!) click now on Inclusive allowance details and it
> breaks down what you have left on your account (remember it takes 24 hours
> to show up all). I know I have used GPRS to connect but it doesn't seem to
> show up.
>
> As for MMS, I seem to be able to send and receive them on my phone but
they
> rarely seem to turn up to other people's phones. Is this a problem with it
> not being set up okay or just that MMS is tempremental? I better email o2
> and wait for the 6 day wait again!