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Hey everybody, I've just read a post about browsing the internet (wap) free of charge on your phone. I thought this was strange because I know that you don't pay for browsing, but for the data you receive because you are browsing.
I was right and further on in the topic there's talk about network loopholes where you can trick your service provider into thinking your not downloading. This has something to do about opera mini mod "shodow connect".
I wanna know if there are any knowm loopholes for vodacom or anything I can do to browse for free? O and by the way it's Vodacom South Africa, I'm using a SE W800i with opera mini mod 2.06 and Vodacom's default GPRS profile.
[ This Message was edited by: sitnet on 2008-11-05 17:56 ]
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Posted: 2008-11-05 15:13:07
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OK so I actually got somewhere!!!! Not very far, but better than nothing. Free browsing works like this: What you do is you use a mobile browser (like opera mini mod) that you can change your server. Then you change the sever to any site you can brwse free on your phone (like i.e. your service providers "home page"). Then when you connect to the internet your service provider thinks you are connected to their site and don't charge you.
OK so I used Opera mini mod 3.10 and the following settings ( GO here: Menu>tools>settings>network)
•Opera mini server:
http://live.vodacom.com@80.232.117.41:80
•The "Check time-out for connections" setting is clicked (marked) and set to 120(s)
• The "shadow connect" setting is clicked and the address to connect is :
http://live.vodafone.com
•All the rest of the settings are left default
OK so I can connect to the internet but I still get charged (R2 per Megabyte to be presice, and that's South African Rand). I don't know what I'm doing wrong except that I'm using the wrong OM mod version, but I've just downloaded the right one and am gonna try it now.
If you see anything else that I'm doing wrong please correct me.
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Posted: 2008-11-05 18:55:53
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dennevhyn_31 Posts: > 500
I believe your following the settings that i posted. Don't ever tell that it's BETTER THAN NOTHING. You're just unlucky that it doesn't work in your phone.
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Posted: 2008-11-07 10:01:00
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On 2008-11-07 10:01:00, dennevhyn_31 wrote:
I believe your following the settings that i posted. Don't ever tell that it's BETTER THAN NOTHING. You're just unlucky that it doesn't work in your phone.
OK, but do you think it will work if I use microemulator (with opera mini mod) and my phone as a modem?
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Posted: 2008-11-07 18:01:05
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dennevhyn_31 Posts: > 500
I'm not sure. What is the homepage and proxy address of your network provider?
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Posted: 2008-11-08 23:06:05
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On 2008-11-08 23:06:05, dennevhyn_31 wrote:
I'm not sure. What is the homepage and proxy address of your network provider?
My homepage is
http://live.vodafone.com (I have tested and I can browse totally free on my phones default browser) and my default proxy is 196.006.128.012 but opera mini mod doesn't want to connect with that proxy so I use 80.232.117.41 .
The other thing that I realized is that I can't use 80.232.117.41 as my proxy at my phones internet profile settings but only at opera mini mod, I have to use my default proxy at menu>Settings>Connectivity>Internet settings>Internet profile>More>Settings (this is where I change my phones internet settings).
Thanx very much for the help, I appreciate it very much!!
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Posted: 2008-11-09 15:24:34
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@sitnet, you should not changing your internet settings...
Just configure opera mini mod 2.06
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Posted: 2008-11-09 23:35:00
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dennevhyn_31 Posts: > 500
@sitnet: med is correct. Just restore the original internet settings. You just need to change the network settings of opera mini. Try to install the mod v2.06.
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Posted: 2008-11-10 01:50:00
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On 2008-11-09 23:35:00, med wrote:
@sitnet, you should not changing your internet settings...
Just configure opera mini mod 2.06
ok thanx I'll do that. thankyou very much, but it still doesn't work, any other ideas?
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Posted: 2008-11-10 06:08:00
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On 2008-11-10 01:50:00, dennevhyn_31 wrote:
@sitnet: med is correct. Just restore the original internet settings. You just need to change the network settings of opera mini. Try to install the mod v2.06.
after I restored my phones settings om mod does connect with my homepage as the server but I still get charged. I think it's my ip adress in om mod thats wrong. what other things can I try?
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Posted: 2008-11-10 06:15:00
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