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Why must I surf in black & white?
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Posted by: MDesigner

I couldn't help but notice that IE will not display graphics properly. If you go to www.mapquest.com/pda and look up a map, it's just B&W. If you look it up via your computer's browser, you can see it's got color.

What's with this? How can I correct it?

Posted by: jojo268

I was having this problem too. try going to the internet explorer options and click on connections. make sure its set on WAP network and check the box that says automatically detect settings. that worked for me

Posted by: eminemslm0

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Originally posted by jojo268
I was having this problem too. try going to the internet explorer options and click on connections. make sure its set on WAP network and check the box that says automatically detect settings. that worked for me

mine still shows the howard forums picture and it looks like all GIF files in b&w. what firmware you have?

Posted by: bschimk1

Yeah, same here B&W for all pictures. When I used tmobile gprs settings everything was in color. Perhaps its the proxy connection settings that are converting everything to B&W?

Posted by: MDesigner

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Worked for me. Thanks! Firmware 0.342.

Posted by: Justin5117

WTF...I have the same firmware and it I checked the automaticlly detect and still ×××××× black and white images. What are you're guys other settings.

Posted by: markgamber

You do know that most actual WAP sites use low res B&W graphics, right? Not too long ago, WAP was deathly slow so images were tiny, B&W and very low res. Some sites have updated to use half decent graphics and other sites will now redirect you to a more colorful page if it detects a modern browser but the bulk of WAP sites are still very basic, B&W, low res and relatively fast to load.

Posted by: Justin5117

On my phone hofo logo's are black and white

Posted by: Raven001

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WTF...I have the same firmware and it I checked the automaticlly detect and still ×××××× black and white images. What are you're guys other settings.

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Posted by: markgamber

heh....yeah, I don't know why I bother posting anymore.

Posted by: rabanjr

Are you guys that are getting BW images going to the WAP sites or to the regular html sites?

As Markgamber tried to explain, many WAP sites use the lo res BW images to save time loading.

Try going to - http://howardforums.com. Not wap.howardforums.com

Give it a shot. I have never had a problem with it. Everything is in living color.

Good Luck

Allan

Posted by: JBHorner

Guys, if you're on Cingular, it's their proxy that is stripping the color.

Instead of selecting WAP in IE, change it to "the Internet." Go to those pages and re-load--you'll see that they come up in color. Switch back to WAP (i.e., going through Cingular's proxy), and they go back to black and white.

Joel

Posted by: eminemslm0

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Originally posted by JBHorner
Guys, if you're on Cingular, it's their proxy that is stripping the color.

Instead of selecting WAP in IE, change it to "the Internet." Go to those pages and re-load--you'll see that they come up in color. Switch back to WAP (i.e., going through Cingular's proxy), and they go back to black and white.

Joel

what does that do different. doesnt all the traffic still go through cingular?

Posted by: LarryH

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Originally posted by eminemslm0
what does that do different. doesnt all the traffic still go through cingular?

It goes through Cingular but not through their WAP Proxy server. It's that proxy server that's stripping out the color.