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Old 09-14-2009, 07:00 AM
Ed from AZ
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Notify when phone wants to connect to data?

I have the Verizon XV6900 (Verizon version of the HTC Touch) with
Windows Mobile 6.1. Is there an application or script I can install
on this that will notify me whnever the phone is trying to connect to
data?

Currently, I have data (Internet) access blocked, and I unblock it to
use it whnever I want, which is not very often. I pay by the
megabyte, which would be more expensive than the add-on package if I
used it all the time - but I don't. I'd like to keep the block off,
but I've had this thing try to connect at odd times (odd to me, anyway
- I'm sure it makes perfect sense to the phone!) .

It would make this whole process easier form me if there was a pop-up
that would tell me "Your phone is trying to access data. Do you want
to allow this?", and give me the option to deny it and maybe ask again
in an hour or so, or just deny for that program altogether.

Does anyone know of such a thing?
Ed
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Old 09-14-2009, 09:00 AM
Jeff L.
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RE: Notify when phone wants to connect to data?

I don't have the Phone in front of me so i'm going from memory only and i'll
appologize now if this doesn't help,
But on my wife's HTC Touch (AT&T FUZE) WM6.1 under Settings > Sounds &
notifications > Notifications - I believe she had had the option to enable
sounds for the Data Connection.
I have a T-Mobile "Wing-less" and I have a "Connect" "Disconnect" sound
setting but on my phone it doesn't seem to apply to the Data connection.
I had enabled it on her phone though and she tells me that it makes a noise
everytime it connects and disconnects from the G3 data connection.

"Ed from AZ" wrote:

> I have the Verizon XV6900 (Verizon version of the HTC Touch) with
> Windows Mobile 6.1. Is there an application or script I can install
> on this that will notify me whnever the phone is trying to connect to
> data?
>
> Currently, I have data (Internet) access blocked, and I unblock it to
> use it whnever I want, which is not very often. I pay by the
> megabyte, which would be more expensive than the add-on package if I
> used it all the time - but I don't. I'd like to keep the block off,
> but I've had this thing try to connect at odd times (odd to me, anyway
> - I'm sure it makes perfect sense to the phone!) .
>
> It would make this whole process easier form me if there was a pop-up
> that would tell me "Your phone is trying to access data. Do you want
> to allow this?", and give me the option to deny it and maybe ask again
> in an hour or so, or just deny for that program altogether.
>
> Does anyone know of such a thing?
> Ed
>

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Old 09-14-2009, 03:40 PM
Ed from AZ
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Re: Notify when phone wants to connect to data?

On Sep 14, 8:51*am, Jeff L. <Je...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> I don't have the Phone in front of me so i'm going from memory only and i'll
> appologize now if this doesn't help,
> But on my wife's HTC Touch (AT&T FUZE) WM6.1 under Settings > Sounds &
> notifications > Notifications - I believe she had had the option to enable
> sounds for the Data Connection.
> I have a T-Mobile "Wing-less" and I have a "Connect" "Disconnect" sound
> setting but on my phone it doesn't seem to apply to the Data connection.
> I had enabled it on her phone though and she tells me that it makes a noise
> everytime it connects and disconnects from the G3 data connection.


Hi, Jeff. Thanks for the reply. A sound is a bit better than
nothing, I guess. But I'd rather have a pop-up with what is trying to
connect and the option of allowing a connect or not.

Ed
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Old 09-15-2009, 10:00 AM
Ed Hansberry, MS-MVP/Mobile Devices
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Re: Notify when phone wants to connect to data?

Ed from AZ <prof_ofwhat******.com> wrote:

>On Sep 14, 8:51*am, Jeff L. <Je...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>> I don't have the Phone in front of me so i'm going from memory only and i'll
>> appologize now if this doesn't help,
>> But on my wife's HTC Touch (AT&T FUZE) WM6.1 under Settings > Sounds &
>> notifications > Notifications - I believe she had had the option to enable
>> sounds for the Data Connection.
>> I have a T-Mobile "Wing-less" and I have a "Connect" "Disconnect" sound
>> setting but on my phone it doesn't seem to apply to the Data connection.
>> I had enabled it on her phone though and she tells me that it makes a noise
>> everytime it connects and disconnects from the G3 data connection.

>
>Hi, Jeff. Thanks for the reply. A sound is a bit better than
>nothing, I guess. But I'd rather have a pop-up with what is trying to
>connect and the option of allowing a connect or not.
>
>Ed


It is a bit of a pain, but if you don't do it too often, it might
work for you. Go into the internet settings for the phone and add
an "x" to the end of the server name. It will try and connect and
then fail because the server doesn't exist. When you want to
access it, simply remove the X.
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Old 09-15-2009, 11:00 AM
Todd Allcock
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Re: Notify when phone wants to connect to data?


"Ed Hansberry, MS-MVP/Mobile Devices"
<spamfree-silvernino********.spambegone.com> wrote in message
news:mhhva51paf82utvfrjthch2t8rstf6aqgj@4ax.com...

> It is a bit of a pain, but if you don't do it too often, it might
> work for you. Go into the internet settings for the phone and add
> an "x" to the end of the server name. It will try and connect and
> then fail because the server doesn't exist. When you want to
> access it, simply remove the X.


A shortcut might be to use Paul O'Brien's "NoData" utility:
http://www.modaco.com/content/pocket...tility-nodata/

A little app that lists your cellular data connections and allows you to
toggle then on or off. It's a little quicker than intentionally munging and
munging your data settings every time you want to turn data on or off.



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Old 09-16-2009, 06:50 AM
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Re: Notify when phone wants to connect to data?

On Sep 15, 10:53*am, "Todd Allcock" <eleccon...@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:
> "Ed Hansberry, MS-MVP/Mobile Devices"<spamfree-silvern...********.spambegone.com> wrote in message
>
> news:mhhva51paf82utvfrjthch2t8rstf6aqgj@4ax.com...
>
> > It is a bit of a pain, but if you don't do it too often, it might
> > work for you. Go into the internet settings for the phone and add
> > an "x" to the end of the server name. It will try and connect and
> > then fail because the server doesn't exist. When you want to
> > access it, simply remove the X.

>
> A shortcut might be to use Paul O'Brien's "NoData" utility:http://www.modaco.com/content/pocket.../new-free-util...
>
> A little app that lists your cellular data connections and allows you to
> toggle then on or off. *It's a little quicker than intentionally munging and
> munging your data settings every time you want to turn data on or off.


Thanks for the link, Todd! I think I'll give that a shot when I get a
chance.

Ed - I'm on Verizon. The closest I can come to is that the phone
dials #777 to connect. But I did find hidden back in there a username
and password screen. I'm going to call Verizon and see if a tech can
tell me what's going on here - if I enter a password, will it ask me
every time and fail if I cancel out of the PW screen? I would assume
so - but that's gotten me into trouble before!

Thanks for the help!
Ed
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Old 09-16-2009, 10:50 AM
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Re: Notify when phone wants to connect to data?


"Ed from AZ" <prof_ofwhat******.com> wrote in message
news:cc583528-056b-427b-bb09-9d5081c25a4d@o13g2000vbl.googlegroups.com...
On Sep 15, 10:53 am, "Todd Allcock" <eleccon...@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:
> "Ed Hansberry, MS-MVP/Mobile
> Devices"<spamfree-silvern...********.spambegone.com> wrote in message
>
> news:mhhva51paf82utvfrjthch2t8rstf6aqgj@4ax.com...
>
> > It is a bit of a pain, but if you don't do it too often, it might
> > work for you. Go into the internet settings for the phone and add
> > an "x" to the end of the server name. It will try and connect and
> > then fail because the server doesn't exist. When you want to
> > access it, simply remove the X.

>
> > A shortcut might be to use Paul O'Brien's "NoData"
> > utility:http://www.modaco.com/content/pocket.../new-free-util...
> >
> > A little app that lists your cellular data connections and allows you to
> > toggle then on or off. It's a little quicker than intentionally munging
> > and
> > munging your data settings every time you want to turn data on or off.

>
> Thanks for the link, Todd! I think I'll give that a shot when I get a
> chance.
>
>
> Ed - I'm on Verizon. The closest I can come to is that the phone
> dials #777 to connect. But I did find hidden back in there a username
> and password screen. I'm going to call Verizon and see if a tech can
> tell me what's going on here - if I enter a password, will it ask me
> every time and fail if I cancel out of the PW screen? I would assume
> so - but that's gotten me into trouble before!


That would work, but only until you actually want to connect. If it tries
to connect with the wrong password it will ask you for the right one, and
when you finally give it the right one, it stores that one instead and will
continue to connect as needed until you store the wrong password again. For
Verizon data, the username is your phone number, and the password is vzw
(lowercase.)


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