Yes. It's the most common reason people can not use an unlocked AT&T Treo 750 on a non-AT&T (Cingular) carrier, and that's what the old AT&T wireless is.
I suggest you install opera mobile. If you can get to the internet with opera mobile (not subject to the IE proxy setting) then it's something with IE, most likely the proxy setting.
If you never put a Cingular SIM in the Treo 750, this proxy should never have been set. If you hard-reset the phone and bring it up the first time with a non-cingular SIM, it's not supposed to configure it. As soon as you drop a Cingular SIM in, it activates and does not de-activate even if you swap back to a non-Cingular SIM.
Most people that get them unlocked had a Cingular SIM in them at one time.
The .cab file is harmless to run. If you have a registry editor, you can even totally delete that registry key ("EnableAutoDetect".) It doesn't need to be there and doesn't even exist until it's set when a Cingular SIM is in it.
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Hmmm... the only SIMs that have been in this are blue SIMs. I've been back and forth with the mmode settings trying to get this sucker to work, so Opera will be a good test. People here and over at the mmode forums at cingular have to me my settings were right, so maybe this would explain it.
I'm still having problems and I'm in the same boat with regard to using an old AT&T blue sim on a new Cingular device... I've never put a Cingular SIM in though, which is why I think this registry setting was never enabled in the first place..
I'm able to connect to the web through Opera. However, IE and Outlook do not work. I looked through my registry and there is no setting for EnableAutoDetect at the path that was suggested.
Does anyone have any other tips or ideas to try and debug this? RF9, any other possible Registry Settings that you came across while trying this out that could be related to this? I'm stuck!
I just got my 750 today and have been playing. I had the tmo MDA before i got my 750. IE is loading wap sites (particularly phonescoop.com) I did not have this problem with the MDA. I did some seaching and figured i need this reg edit. i downloaded the cab file and installed it and IE is still loading phonescoop was a wap site. What am I doing wrong? please help
Does anyone know why the speed test on dslreports seems to be far far faster when the proxy is enabled?
The proxy manipulates the test. Basically acts as in intermediary between your device and the server.
The speed test is downloaded by the proxy at a fast speed, then sends a response back to the server that the test is complete while you're still downloading it to your phone, or something similar to that.
The proxy does compress images so what you download is far smaller than what the server is sending, that's why pages load faster. But this speed test is just text in an HTML body, so I'm not sure if it's doing any compression on this or not. If it were an image it would be easy to see what's going on, but I'm not sure in this case.
But true is the case with ANY proxy based solution that it will trick the speed test in to thinking your phone was doing the download directly when in fact the Proxy was doing the download, then relaying it to the phone at a slower speed.
Additionally, the proxy can take out factors such as latency. Your phone sends back response packets to the server and there's a turn around time between an action and a response due to latency. The proxy can optimize this between it and the server by short circuiting the phone from the equation, thus ACTUALLY speeding up the download process a little by removing latency.
That's what a proxies are for.
Ironically I see much slower responses in getting pages to start loading through the proxy, but over all the pages download faster once they start. That's just the delay time in the overloaded AT&T proxy dealing with the request.
So to answer your question, the proxy can make 'trick' the speed test in to thinking you have a 1Mbps connection when in fact you may have 180kbps or something like that.
Guys I got it fix, the easiest way to delete the block that Cingular place on Internet Explorer is to just hard reset the phone. I did that this morning and it work. Remember a hard rest deletes all info, files etc from the phone so even what Cingular has in there would be deleted.
Of course you will back up your phone first, but I suggest when you sync it back you manually select which files, folders you want to go back on the phone because if you select all the block file might go back on the phone.
After I hard reset the phone, I set the date, time etc then I went straight to my settings to configure my provider internet settings and yes it worked on one shot. For you who haven't read my last post, I bought the phone from Cingular and straight out the box I tried to set up the internet. When I did I couldn't browse because Cingular had it block. I did a hard reset this morning and bammmm it worked.
What my next test is, I will connect to the Cingular network now and browse the web. What I will check to see if by doing that the block file will be loaded back to the phone and then see if it block the internet again.
Hi there,
I am from Brazil and I am not getting success in conecting internet from my TREO 750, from cingular, but now, unlocked..I've tried to install a proxy.cab too..my cel internet provider here doenst know how to help me too..
Could anyone here say how it will be possible to do it without editing the registry?
Thanks a lot,
Silvio Testasecca
Originally Posted by RF9
Hey folks. I posted two .CAB files.
EnableCingularProxy.cab and DisableCingularProxy.cab
Obviously the "Enable" cab restores the registry setting back to the default which is Proxy enabled.
However the file I posted last night had an error in it and did not enable the proxy as it should have. I fixed it and uploaded the fixed version, it's there now. I tested it and they both work to enable/disable the proxy.
So if you downloaded it last night or this morning, download the enable cab again to get the fixed file otherwise the one you have won't work.
I posted the new one at 11:25 Pacific.
I'm stoked that I was able to get this in a .CAB so you don't have to muck with a registry editor.
PS.
I added the .cab mime type to the web server so that you can now download the .CAB files directly to your Treo 750 via Pocket Internet Explorer. Prior to this they would come down as garbled text.
Just to let everyone know this also works on WM6 and the speeds do seem to report slower but the pages seem to almost jump from one to the next, makes the device seem snappier. And the pictures look good
Hi there,
I am from Brazil and I am not getting success in conecting internet from my TREO 750, from cingular, but now, unlocked..I've tried to install a proxy.cab too..my cel internet provider here doenst know how to help me too..
Could anyone here say how it will be possible to do it without editing the registry?
Thanks a lot,
Silvio Testasecca
We need a lot more information than you're providing to help.
1) Have you configured the internet settings in your Treo for your wirelsss carrier under start>settings>connections>connections ?
2) Are you able to initiate an internet connection where it turns the "G" icon in to a small G icon with two small arrows?
If #2, then your Treo is connecting to the internet and perhaps the proxy setting or something else is preventing the browser from talking to the internet.
If you're not even getting to #2, then your Treo is not even configured to go online.
Please share what you have done to attempt to get online so we can help you figure out what's wrong. The Proxy hack is merely the very last thing that will keep IE from talking to the internet if it was even set. And the proxy is only set when a AT&T/Cingular SIM is put in the device the first time (then it's set permanentely until you disable it.) But if you did a "Hard" reset/factory reset and never used an AT&T or Cingular SIM, the proxy SHOULD not have ever been enabled.
Just to let everyone know this also works on WM6 and the speeds do seem to report slower but the pages seem to almost jump from one to the next, makes the device seem snappier. And the pictures look good
While this does work on WM6, it's not necessary.
At least on the Treo and 8525, they come with applications called "proxy manager" which does this for you now so you don't have to use the proxy .cab or .reg file.
These proxy managers do EXACTLY the identical thing as my .cab/.reg files do which is edit the registry value from 0 to 1. I often wonder if they didn't get the idea from me?
I am using the reg edit on the 8525 WM5 and it works. But after soft boot, the reg returns to proxy on. Other regedits have stuck. I am using Total Commander.
Do what I did and you won't have to download anything on the phone including cab files or mess with they Registry on the phone. I backed up my contacts only when I sync then I did a hard reset of the phone, the hard reset cleaned out all of Cingular internet settings out the phone. When the phone booted up the first thing I did was put my provider internet settings in the phone and BAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM. I was able to browse like a charm.
Treo 750, IE has cingular proxy hard coded
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