This is how I set up my Voq Professional phone to access the cut-down web site that T-mobile makes available to its pauper (aka prepaid aka To go) customers like me hahaha

Basic T-zones for T-mobile To-Go customers includes

• Access to your balance information (VERY useful) - NEW: deep link required ooh vicar - http://10.176.39.70/dsb/t-mobile/myaccount/?category_code=1011&m5=&lbs= works for me - but go to the main page (see set up below) and search on "Account" and you should get straight there
• Access to News, Sport and (believe it or not!) stock quotes* under the option "News & Sport"
• Some other fairly useless stuff (much of which does not work perhaps because the Voq does not have Java(?) - e.g. we cannot buy ringtones for $1.99 each hahaha! what a pity!)
• Does not include
  • Full web access
  • Email
  • anything else
  • (To my knowledge you need a monthly plan to get this other stuff)

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  The setup process consists of three stages

  1. Set up a WAP data connection to the T-zones access point using data from t-mobile techsupport (Tier 2)
  2. Set up a proxy from WAP to Internet (this enables internet explorer to understand the WAP page) using information from http://www.gruups.com/tzones/
  3. Set up a favorite in IE to point to the t-zones home page

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  Stage 1: Set up the WAP connection
  Important note: The t-mobile lady asked me where I was - West, Central or East USA - so the below settings are for WEST
  You may need to call T-mobile techsupport to get the settings (perhaps the DNS servers will be different) for other parts of the country
  (P.S. Jorge Besada writes in from Miami to say that DNS entries of 0.0.0.0 worked for him there on the East Coast - thanks for the tip, Jorge!)

  1. From the home screen press the Start softkey
  2. Select 9. More...
  3. Select 3. Settings
  4. Select 9. More...
  5. Select 1. Data Connections
  6. Press the Menu softkey
  7. Select 1. Edit Connections
  8. Select 5. GPRS Connections
  9. Press the Menu softkey
  10. Select 1. Add
  11. Enter or select the following data in the boxes:

      Description	Tzones
      Connects to	WAP Network
      Access Point	wap.voicestream.com
      User Name	leave blank
      Password	leave blank
      Primary DNS	216.155.175.40
      Secondary DNS	216.155.175.41
      IP address	216.155.165.050

  12. Press the Done softkey
  13. Press the Done softkey

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  Stage 2: Set up the proxy from WAP to IE (this is from http://www.gruups.com/tzones/)

  1. If you are following immediately from stage 1, from the "Connections" screen select 4. Proxy Connections (If you have exited back to the home screen repeat points a to g from stage 1, then select 4. Proxy Connections)
  2. Press the Menu softkey
  3. Select 1. Add
  4. Enter or select the following data in the boxes:

     Description	TzProxy
     Connects from:	WAP Network
     Connects to:	The Internet
     Proxy (name:port):	216.155.165.50:8080
     Type:	HTTP
     User name:	leave blank
     Password:	leave blank

  5. Press the Done softkey
  6. Press the Done softkey
  7. Press the Done softkey
  8. In the Data Connections screen ensure that "Internet Connection" and "WAP connection" both point to "Tzones"
  9. Press the Done softkey
  10. Press the Done softkey
  11. Press the Home softkey

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  Stage 3: Set up a favorite to quickly access the T-zones pages

  1. From the Home screen start Internet Explorer (IE)
  2. Press the Favorites softkey
  3. Press the Menu softkey
  4. Select 2. Add Favorite
  5. In the "Name" box enter ".tzones" (the . to ensure it will be first in your favorites - this is because, if you are a prepaid customer, this is the only website you will be able to access (saaarry!) (you can, however, "deep link" to within the T-zones menu hierarchy e.g. "http://mobile.cnn.com/wml.ne/en/us/i.wml" to access CNN))
  6. In the "Address" box enter "http://wap.myvoicestream.com"
  7. Press the Add softkey
  8. Select your newly created favorite
  9. Press the Go softkey

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  You should then get the text-only T-zones menu, and you can use your joystick to toggle down to News and sport etc
  Note that My Account no longer works - just says "redirecting" - however you may try the deep link in the first section
  Also, any other favorites like Google etc will not work if you are a prepaid customer: T-zones will tell you that "Your plan does not support this feature"
  But what you do get is free and does not even use up your To Go minutes, and you can surf news without eroding your minutes balance

  *To get the stock quotes go News & Sport, CNN, 3 Business, 3 Stock Quote and then enter symbol and press Send
  (I know! and it's free!)

  Let me know if it works for you via email from my email information page
  

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  Other Tips

  To eliminate unwanted programs from the start menu, investigate the "/Storage/windows/Start Menu/" directory
  

• Delete or (safer!) move shortcuts out of this directory to a subdirectory say ("Various")
  
• Programs are displayed in alphabetical order with subfolders listed last, so if you wish to change the order of programs you will have to use that alphabetical order (perhaps by prefixing most wanted programs with "." or "a")
  
• You need to fool with that directory from Activesync on your PC (connect the Voq and press the "Explore" button) - you cannot access all the files from the phone
  
• Also, changes to the Start menu will only take effect after you restart the phone (perhaps the Start menu is copied into RAM at each startup)
  
• Good luck, and of course, ensure everything is backed up before you start - all this is WITHOUT GUARANTEE in the best Baltic Exchange tradition!

  For some complex registry tweaks (including changing what appears on the MRU list (most recently used) and on the start menu) check this post

  To change the way your home screen looks check out this cool program, Facade, from SBSH software.
  

• Honestly it is pretty complicated, because if you want to use it to its best functionality you need to understand XML programming
  
• But anyway, the Facade Default screen is pretty cool and shows five lines of appointments instead of just one, if you are not up to programming. And there are forums on shsh.net where the geeky folks publish their home screens for us common folks to use!

  Using web on Virgin Mobile Pay As You Go in the UK
  

• Set up the following GPRS connection (see stage 1 step k above):

  Description	Vierge
  Connects to	The Internet
  Access Point	goto.virginmobile.uk
  User Name	user
  Password	leave blank
  Primary DNS	leave blank
  Secondary DNS	leave blank
  IP address	193.30.166.2

• Then select the new connection ("GPRS (Vierge)") in the connections menu as your "Internet connection". Switch your "WAP connection" to Automatic.
• Don't forget to change them both back to Tzones when you get back to USA (see stage 2 step h above)