Configuring my V3x

I'd just spent a good portion of the day trying to configure out how the MMS settings for my V3x should be setup! For anyone looking for something interesting to read, you can skip this post.

Cutting to the chase, I got it done manually, based on the settings placed on the M1 website for their prepaid MCard. To anyone out there who needs just as much help, here it is: you need to setup the settings for MMS in 2 places. This is not counting the automated GPRS settings you receive via sms by dialling your phone model "Vx3p" (the 'p' stands for it being prepaid) and sending to 109. Apparently there is this bunch of web sessions under Main Menu>WebAccess>Web Sessions. You have to configure one of the 10 choices as "M1_MMS" (or anything you fancy) and also everything else as per their settings for the post-paid here. Everything, up to the GPRS Access Point Name (APN) that is. I followed the instructions on the prepaid page instead.

• GPRS APN: miworldmcard
• Username: 65
• Password: it gotta be blank, empty it!

That's it for the Web Sessions portion. The second half, go Message Centre> Options (the left soft key) > Setup > Message Setup > Multimedia Msg Setup > Server Info

I believe they have a maximum number of entries for this area at 3. Either create a new one or pick an existing entry to change.

• Service Name: enter whatever "M1_MMS_Mcard"
  
• Server Name: http://172.16.14.20:8002/ (from the prepaid page)
  
• Web Session Name: as per what you edited in the first half
  

Considering I wasn't too well-versed with the Motorola handphone operating system (and the lack of instructions and usability thereof) it took a while. Their site wasn't too helpful and I was having problem configuring the stuff automatically via their sms settings update. Google was not too helpful either. Everything else came up in relation to other telcos, but nothing local to Singapore. And then I stumbled upon the Motorola phone hacking communities. I was this close to resorting to hex editing for removing the redundant WebSessions I had on the phone. Fortunately it was too painstaking that I ended up manually keying in the settings instead. Which was probably the wiser choice any given day, to not meddle with things I hardly understand.

Oh and the origins of this phone... well... I got the V3x for my dad, then swopped it from his postpaid SIM card with my mum's prepaid one. And because the credits in the prepaid is expiring (after 6months) in a couple of days, my mum decided to let me fully utilise it until I top it up yet again. You can see how little of the phone my parents use, given their age, so this prepaid is unfortunately a vicious cycle of topping up and "fully utilising" at the end of 6 months. There's about $50+ worth of credits on it! And yes, I'm using it concurrently with my Dopod 838Pro. :)