Posted by dazbradbury
Ok, well I just came accross this today, it could be old news, in which case delete it, if not then enjoy. I haven't tested it as I'm too lazy 2, but just thought I'd share it.
"1 Firstly you must have a o2 sim card installed into your mobile phone.(must
be the 300 text per month sim!)
2 Please note that there are different o2 sim cards,the 300 a month means
you have to put £10 in every month to recieve your 300 texts.
3 Once you have topped your sim card up with some credit you will find you
have the following;
£10 worth of talktime,
300 wap minutes,
300 texts.
4 Take notice of what date it is on your mobile phone when you top up.
5 Use your phone as normal for that month or until you run out of texts.
6 Once you have run out of texts,reset the date on your mobile phone to the
date when you first topped up and DONT USE YOUR PHONE THAT DAY!!
(meaning dont make a connection with anyone with your mobile but leave
turned on!!)
7 The next day you can change your date settings back to normal.
8 Now all you have to do is wait for the new month and you will recieve a
message from o2 saying"THANKYOU FOR TOPPING UP,YOU NOW HAVE YOUR FREE 300
TEXT MESSAGES"
9 IMPORTANT!! matter where abouts in that month you run out of texts,You
only(ONLY!)get a max of 300 texts per month so make sure you dont run out
halfway through the month as you will have to wait till the start of the new
month to get your free 300 texts."
hope someone finds this useful...
Posted by o44wen
6 Once you have run out of texts,reset the date on your mobile phone to the
date when you first topped up and DONT USE YOUR PHONE THAT DAY!!
(meaning dont make a connection with anyone with your mobile but leave
turned on!!)
7 The next day you can change your date settings back to normal.
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THE ABOVE YOU DO NOT NEED TO DO! the rest, yes do it all it will work!
this also happened to me 3months ago but this will only happen for two months of free txt. after the two months is up you will have to top up again.
Posted by MikLSP
Also interesting is that O2 quote 300 WAP mins. However, using GPRS (which is much better ANYWAY!) seems to go unchecked so giving U unlimited free WAP.
Posted by dazbradbury
Have you got some currently working settings? Ones that definately work?
Mine used to, but not sure what happened, they just stopped.
If you have could you post all the settings you've got? screen-shots would be nice!!
Posted by MikLSP
Here are the setting I use, sorry but I dunno how to post screenshots yet.
Internet Accounts:
Account name:O2 WAP GPRS
Connection type:GPRS
(ADVANCED)
User name & Password required: Tick
User name:payandgo
Password:Password
Address:payandgo.o2.co.uk
WAP Accounts:
Account name:02 WAP GPRS
Internet account:O2 WAP GPRS
Use Proxy:Tick
Address:193.113.200.195
Port:9201
Username:(blank)
Password:(blank)
Have I missed anything?
PS. these are from my P800, settings are the same for other phones like T610 but menus read differently.
Posted by dazbradbury
yeh, does that work with opera? And also all the ther tabs in internet accounts advanced settings. You've only gone through the first tab.
It still doesn't seem to work for me...
Posted by MikLSP
All other tabs in ADVANCED remain the same as they are in a 'new' profile.
As for use with Opera Browser, I don't know cos I don't use it.
Posted by o44wen
Yes the unlimited free GPRS WAP is free until the end of january. Check out their website for details.
Posted by MikLSP
Oh no! will they be putting a limit on it after Jan? How much?
Posted by o44wen
The rates at the moment are quoted as giving the first 100kb free and then saying various amounts after that depending if you are a heavy or light user. I think they are the cheapest prices around on any 2g network. Not on the web now so cant give you exact price details but if you in to their website www.o2.co.uk you will find it.
Posted by Prosody
GO HERE
It states :
"* From 1st February 2004, when you use O2 Active, you will be charged at a rate of £2.35 per megabyte. On average a page of information in O2 Active is 10 kilobytes depending on the amount of graphics and text. So every time you use O2 Active and download a page you are only charged for the amount of data you use, typically 2.3p per page. Plus if you use O2 Active a lot, from the 1st February 2004, you will be able to purchase an O2 Active Bolt On giving you almost unlimited usage of up to 5MB for just £4 a month. Usage over this 5MB limit will be charged at the standard pay as you use rate."
--Chris--
Posted by MikLSP
I think this is only applicable to 'normal' O2 sims. This thread is referring to O2 'online' sims (formerly know as Genie). These give 300 free texts and 300mins free WAP per month as long as you spend £10 or more per month or credit.
It is this that seems to have unlimitted free GPRS and has done for some time. I'd be surprised if this changed!
(it is also possible to change the 300 texts to 3other options)
"MMS25"- 200txt + 25MMS
"MMS50"- 100txt + 50MMS
"MMS75"- 0txt + 75MMS
I use MMS25. need to visit an O2 shop & get them to ring Genie to get these activated
Posted by lowrida5656
ye in australia we have prepaid wich is pretty much the same thing except u just get $25 (or watever amount you put on it) of calls/wap/sms.. but wen u send an sms it takes 2 days to charge it to deduct the 25cents from your credit, so wen u have 30cents or watever left u just sms nonstop for 2 days and all it costs is 30cents.. lol
Posted by jalu
dazbradbury is wrong.
O2 don't use your phone timers to judge when you need to top up.
Jalu
Posted by o44wen
welcome back jalu. Not heard much of you since you bought the samsung. You were the best in here at the o2 questions.
Posted by grex
i agree. it would certainly seem unlikely that your phones settings would be visible to your network provider. ...
Posted by imblana
how do u change da date
thks Ali G
Posted by BadBaby
O2 Online sim is excellent for GPRS access, but ive heard that the unlimited downloads will be changed by the end of march! Ive downloaded over 20meg and it hasnt cost me a penny!
Posted by SCORPIONKING1982
not sure if this is whats happening but its possible. ive found that if i top up by twenty pounds in one go or ten pounds twice within my 30 day period then my free txt will start again next month without actually having to top up within that month itself. does that make sense to anyone cus it dont to me lol
Posted by djpowelly
Ive been gettin free GPRS since i got my card on the 24th!
Posted by harvey172
Ive been gettin free gprs since october 2002!! ;-)
Posted by JohnM
I use an o2 300 text and wap mins sim for free wap on gprs. It works fine on my t610 but not on my P900. I've tried the settings posted here but no luck. Any ideas guys?
Posted by JohnM
Anyone?
Posted by loveandkisses
Hi, I was wondering if anyone could help me I recently bought an o2 x1 active mobile phone and the free 300 texts and wap sim, after about a week using it The free texts stopped there was no way i'd used up 300 texts maybe 100/150 but that's it. Anyway apparently when you top up your supposed to get a text or something saying you've got 300 free texts is that true? (because I didn't get one)
Thanks!
Posted by Lynx69
Have you run out of credite because as soon as your balance is 00.00 then your free texts and wap freezes uyntil you top-up again.
Posted by loveandkisses
Hi, Thanks for answering No my credit hasn't run out I still have £5.35 on it
Posted by webvictim
You have to ring or email O2 and get data access enabled for your SIM card. When I got a Panasonic GD67 (uggghh) a while ago the GPRS wouldn't work, so I emailed O2 using their website and they activated it. It's worked like a dream since then and I still seem to get unlimited free GPRS. It really is an amazing deal from O2, 300 free texts, free internet and all for £10 a month, which you get to spend on calls anyway so it actually costs nothing. I'd be nuts to change
Posted by webvictim
Before I got my phone upgraded today I got a text message from O2 talking about something relating to GPRS being charged for - I got this morning while I was still in bed and didn't read it properly when I saw it was from O2, now it's gone and I don't know what it said...
Posted by gregface
it sed that from the 10th of june gprs will become chargeable and for information on what the charges are phone 2202 from your mobile
see the o2 300 txt tarrif do we get 300 wap mins, or 300 gprs mins? i no it says wap, but do we get free gprs?
Posted by webvictim
I always thought that we got 300 minutes of free WAP and a certain amount of free GPRS, but I don't know how much it was. If they're starting to charge for it that sucks a bit, maybe someone's finally spotted that too many people are getting it free?
Posted by loveandkisses
What is GPRS?
Posted by Lynx69
GPRS=General Packet Radio Service
Basically means you can send data at higher speeds than normal.
GPRS is charged as data, independent of connect time.
Its basically wap but a sort of broadband for your phone. It is faster than normal wap, and doesnt occupy your phone-line like normal wap does.
The following thread will give you more information:-
What is GPRS?
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Posted by Neil Chen
O2 online users get 1 MB of GPRS under the new system. After that they're charging for it at about £2.35 per MB
Posted by loveandkisses
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Thanks for the info, My phone has that:)
Posted by loveandkisses
Whats everyone's view on the 3p texts bolt ons? Where you can get 400 texts a month for £11.99
Posted by gregface
not as good as 300 free texts for £10 of talktime
Posted by webvictim
Also, you get to spend the £10 on calls on the 300 text deal, whereas you don't get to spend the £11.99 for the 300 text bolt-on
1mb of free GPRS is better than nothing, I'm glad they've kept it at that. I don't use it that much anyway, just when I want to check the weather forecast when I'm out or anything like that.
Posted by loveandkisses
Thanks guys, I just thought it might of been a bit better then the 300 txt bundle seeing as you don't actually get the 300 texts it's 200 texts and 300 wap minutes
Posted by needles
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Definitely 300 texts....
Or 200 texts and 25 MMS
Or 100 texts and 50 MMS
Posted by loveandkisses
I have just topped up my phone, I'm due to get my 300 text messages on the 19th, do i have to top up again on the 18th, or as long as I have still got £10 or over on my phone do i not need to top up
Posted by Lynx69
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You will have to top up anytime before the 18th but you wont get next months free txts until the 19th. If your credit goes to 00.00p then, they say, your free txts freeze until you top up again, i have never gone below 0.01p
Posted by loveandkisses
Thanks babe:)
Posted by Lynx69
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My pleasure x x x (u best me a girl :S )
Posted by loveandkisses
Lol I sure am:)
Posted by djpowelly
If u drop below 1p, u still can use ur free txts
Posted by four
i am on o2 online 200, i get 500 free wap mins, but only 0.5mb gprs. i dont like that very much, and it costs an extra tenner a month to get 5mb. i download quite a bit of mp3 & pics, so i am unsure on whether to use my WAP and let it take LOADS AND LOADS OF TIME, or to do it via gprs that is £2.35 per mb or something. i wish they did the thing that orange did, £4 a month for unlimited data (wap/gprs)
Posted by lordmat
somw one said earilyer about there p900
not getting the free wap
just go to the se web sites and get the gsm settings to u thats what i did and it works
Posted by mkush
*bump*
Posted by djpowelly
Why the bump?
Posted by Dj Boyi
So does this still work?