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So you have a Siemens S55 on Vodafone UK, enabled for GPRS and Bluetooth. Just use the Phone Link app on the Palm T3 and you'll have them talking the same language in no time, right? Err, no actually...

Using Phone Link to choose the pre-configured Vodafone UK GPRS option (Network Service), and a Bluetooth connection to your S55 (Phone Connection) doesn't work—assuming you have correctly enabled GPRS on the S55 and Bluetooth on both devices.

The following "how to" is courtesy of Vodafone UK Customer Care. The Palm instructions are for an OS 4 device I think, but they still make sense on the T3 under OS 5. I was able to establish an Internet connection by manually setting the "Bt to Siemens S55" (for Bluetooth) and the "Ir to Siemens S55" (for infrared) connection settings (as pre-configured on the Palm, as an alternative to "IR to Phone" as below). The Siemens instructions are likewise for the SL55, but the menu structure seems identical to that of the S55:

The Palm side

• Tap the Home icon (the round icon at the bottom of the screen with a house on a white background).
• Tap the downwards-pointing arrow in the top-right of the screen and select All from the drop-down list.
• Tap on the Prefs icon. This will bring up the Preferences screen.
• Tap the downwards-pointing arrow in the top-right of the screen and select Network from the drop-down list.
• Tap Preferences (top-left of screen).
• Tap on the field to the right of Service and enter Internet (use upper- or lower-case).
• Tap on the field to the right of User Name and enter web (in lower-case).
• Tap on the field to the right of Password. This will bring up a password screen. Enter web (in lower-case).
• Tap OK to return to the Preferences screen. It should now read -Assigned- alongside Password.
• Tap on the down-arrow to the right of Connection and select IR to Phone. A field will appear labelled (Phone). Tap on Tap to Enter Phone.
• Next to Phone #, enter *99#.
• Leave the three boxes un-ticked.
• Tap OK to return to Preferences.
• Tap Details. This will bring up the Details screen.
• Tap on the down-arrow to the right of Connection Type and select PPP.
• Tap on the down-arrow to the right of Idle Timeout and select Never.
• Leave the box next to Query DNS ticked.
• Tap on Script (bottom of screen). This will bring up the Log in Script screen.
• Tap the down-arrow next to End and select Send.
• Enter ATZ (upper-case).
• Tap the down-arrow next to End and select Send CR.
• Tap the down-arrow next to End and select Send. Enter the following text, ensuring that all punctuation marks are entered and no spaces are left: at+cgdcont=1,"ip","internet"
• Tap the down-arrow next to End and select Send CR.
• Send ATZ
  Send CR
  Send at+cgdcont+1,"ip","internet"
  Send CR
  End
• Tap OK to return to the Details screen.
• Tap OK to return to the Preferences screen.

The Siemens side

1. Select Menu and scroll to Surf & Fun and press Select.
2. Stay on Internet and press Select.
3. Wait for the start menu to appear then scroll down to 5 Profiles and press Select.
4. Highlight an empty profile 1 to 5, press Select and then press Edit. The cursor will move down automatically, unless otherwise stated, to the next field when Done is pressed and the field name is shown above the box that you need to enter the details in the box (see example below).

Profile name: Profile 1

To complete the following entries you will need to Press Edit, then keep pressing Clear to clear what is already entered in the box. Once the new entry is entered shown in bold italics select Done to move to the next field.

1. Profile name Enter: Vodafone GPRS Note: press 1 to input a space.
2. IP address: Enter : 212.183.137.012 Note: the full stops are entered automatically.
3. Port: Enter 9201 and press Done. (If already set to 9201 scroll down to Homepage)
4. Homepage: after the http:// enter wap:1999/vodafone.wml Note: For special characters press the S key and highlight the required character press the left menu button to select.
5. GPRS lingertime: Enter 120, then press Done.
6. CSD lingertime. Enter 60,
7. Conn. Profile: Enter Vodafone GPRS
8. Scroll down to Edit and press Select
9. Scroll down to 1 CSD Settings and press Edit
10. Dial-up number: Enter +447836900808
11. Call type: If Analogue is showing, select Edit and scroll up to highlight ISDN and press Select. If ISDN is showing scroll down to next field.
12. Login name: enter wap
13. Password: enter wap and select Save
14. Scroll down to 2 GPRS Settings and press Edit
15. Activated: If No is showing, select Edit and scroll up to highlight Yes and press Select. If Yes is showing scroll down to next field
16. APN: Enter: for Contract: wap.vodafone.co.uk; for PayT: pp.vodafone.co.uk
17. Login Name: Enter wap
18. Password: Enter wap, then press Save

To Check that GPRS is activated:

1. Press the red end key until you return to the Menu
2. Scroll to Setup
3. Scroll down to Connectivity
4. Scroll down to GPRS press Change, if not activated you will be asked to "switch GPRS on?" select Yes, if already activated you will be asked Switch GPRS off" select No.

Note: to use WAP, i.e if roaming to a country without GPRS select No Press the red end key until you return to the idle screen.

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