GPRS - Disable it

[GoFlyKiteNow]

When you buy a smart phone or PDA, the provider usually have
some exclusive firmware flashed within the ROM to activate the GPRS
easily, even when you have switched off your GPRS service setings.

And you may not know about it and end up with a big bill as a surprise.

There is a very small free software called NoData that can be easily installed
in your phone device and when it is activated, it completely prevent
the GPRS service from being activated without your knowledge.

The program is available for a few mobile phone operating systems.

 

[Watchman]

Noted ! Thanks !

 

[kaipoh]

When you buy a smart phone or PDA, the provider usually have
some exclusive firmware flashed within the ROM to activate the GPRS
easily, even when you have switched off your GPRS service setings.

And you may not know about it and end up with a big bill as a surprise.

There is a very small free software called NoData that can be easily installed
in your phone device and when it is activated, it completely prevent
the GPRS service from being activated without your knowledge.

The program is available for a few mobile phone operating systems.

The service providers are bandits-day light robbery! no wonder my friend ckoked up $3,000/-bill even he off the phone while oversea.

 

[TeeKee]

The service providers are bandits-day light robbery! no wonder my friend ckoked up $3,000/-bill even he off the phone while oversea.

what do you mean off?

standby mode or really power off?

 

[GoFlyKiteNow]

You can download from this site.
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=U75OD13X

After you install this prog, an Icon will appear on your screen "NoData".

Click on it to activate and it will show you all the 3 types of GPRS services.
MMS, Video and Data. Set all three services to "Disable" mode.
Thats it.


Make sure that you do this everytime you change your SIM card
( example when you reach overseas or hard reset your phone ).

Howeve you can still use any WiFi service without any problem.

For good measure, when you switch on your fone overseas
just do a quick check to see if the NoData settings are still
in "disable" mode.

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BTW- My freind just paid over 300 bucks for unwanted GPRS service.!

 

[fox_hound_33]

The NoData software is only for Windows Mobile if i am not wrong. I have been using it for a few months already. No problems at all and does a great job of shutting down your GPRS.

 

[csjcsjcsj]

If your handphones were purchased under contract directly from network operators e.g. Sinktel / Starhub / M1, their settings including GPRS can be more likely been setup before sales since they are both the network operator as well as the handphone seller, this is likely that they Bao Kah Liao and do everything. Otherwise if you purchased handphones & your network services separately - like me then there is no way it could had come with settings such as GPRS & MMS already setup inside, because each network's settings are different.

This means you have to check & turn them off (delete the profiles or modify the settings until they won't work e.g. gateway IP set to 127.0.0.0, when your phone was supplied by M1 / Starhub / Sinktel. Otherwise, you mostly don't have the workable settings unless someone or yourself had done auto settings like SMS to 109 or 104 etc.

A caution is that some handphone models have got a Kay-Poh initial setup wizard that will carry out step by step auto setup when 1st used. That Kay-Poh could had GPRS setup done. But you can check.

Years back there were international headlines when an Ang Moh Idiot from USA went roaming in Asia for a month and downloading his favorite TV show to watch daily, and got a bill like few hundred thousand dollars.


http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/091027/8/1tsec.html

〈獨家〉手機坑錢？「自動上網」　話費爆増2千元
TVBS 更新日期:"2009/10/27 17:59" 施協源

明明沒有多打電話，電話費卻從每個月300多暴增到2600多，有民眾投訴，手機每天每小時會自動上網連線，害他電話費暴增，原來電信業者主動開通GPRS功能，手機桌面又設置快捷鈕，害很多人不小心按錯設定，不少網友也因為類似事件上網抱怨。

電話帳單連續2個月從300多爆増成2600多，吳太太很生氣，尤其是詭異的通話明細，讓她懷疑是電信業者動手腳！

攤開通話明細，光是國內上網傳輸費就高達2283元，最離譜的是，手機只要開機，每個整點的59分33秒左右，手機就會準時自動連線20秒。吳太太：「我高度懷疑，是你們(業者)內部系統有問題，我們不可能那麼精準，而且固定是20秒，誰有那個時間呢。」

吳太太認為自己被坑了，沒有付這筆通話費，手機送修，廠商說根本沒壞，後來改向電信業者投訴，結果反而收到存證信函，被催繳電話費。吳太太：「你們一面要我們繳錢，一面又要我們上法院，那我們算什麼。」

電信業者說，吳太太可能誤觸手機，不小心設定了RSS服務，只要開機就會定時上網更新、接收訊息。

但同樣的糾紛還真不少，網路上就有人痛批，電信業者主動開通GPRS功能，又在手機桌面設置快捷紐，害很多人不小心按到，如果不想當冤大頭，趕快檢查一下你的手機還有電話費帳單。