The Official Chocolate 2.0 (vx8550) WAP Thread

**Humpa** · 11-28-2007, 03:05 PM

Originally Posted by pprina

I found out what was wrong. The paramtable1.fil file on the first page can't be downloaded. When I did a right click and save as it was saving the error as a text file. Weird. Does anyone have a copy of the paramtable1.fil from this thread?

Just edit yours. Change the 00 to a 20 and you can make all the edits you want right from the phone.

EDIT: here are the full instructions in case you also want to edit some of the url's in there as well:

Open the paramtable1.fil in a text editor and the hex values start like this in the top left ... the very first row:
30 1E 00 ........
You want to change it to:
30 1E 20 ........
Once you do that, you will be able to edit the proxy settings and Homepage url from the WAP Settings menu on the phone itself.
After you replace the paramtable1.fil and reboot the phone, of course.

While you have the paramtable1.fil open, you will see various url's after all the websession info.

These are the default URL's:
http://mw2.vzwwap.com/chat
http://mw2.vzwwap.com/email
http://mw2.vzwwap.com/newsandinfo
http://mw2.vzwwap.com/pixplace
http://myacc.vzwwap.com/selfServe/forms/myacc.jsp
http://mw2.vzwwap.com/addfavorite/
http://mw2.vzwwap.com/search
http://mw2.vzwwap.com/goto

Some of those url's are in the Get It Now menu, and some are in the actual web browser menu.

These are in the Get It Now menu:
Editing the chat url will change where you go when you go to Messages > Chat
Editing the newsandinfo will change where you go when you go to Get It Now > Get News & Info
Editing the pixplace url will change where you go when you go to Get It Now > Get Pix and Flix > Pix Place
The above can also be assigned to the 4-way directional pad as shortcuts - except the News & Info one.
News & Info behaves differently as a shortcut as opposed to navigating there from the Get It Now menu.
If you use Get It Now > News & Info, then your phone is trying to go to the newsandinfo url that is in the paramtable1.fil (or whatever you edit that url to).
If you create a shortcut to News & Info instead, then it goes to the Homepage URL that you set in the WAP Settings.

These are in the web browser menu itself:
Editing the search url will change where you go when you are using the browser and click Menu > Search
Editing the goto url will change where you go when you are using the browser and click Menu > Go To
Editing the addfavorite url will change where you go when you are using the browser and click Menu > Favorites

**GoatofCMU** · 12-07-2007, 06:04 PM

I'm on my second 8550 now... made all the hex edits, rebooted several times through bitpim and i still can't edit the settings on the phone...

**GoatofCMU** · 12-08-2007, 05:06 PM

Humpa, help!

**ericlikewhoa** · 12-08-2007, 07:03 PM

i dont understand how to freakin work with bitpim....i trying to do all this without a service cable, and through bluetooth transfers. is it possible. bitpim detects my phone, and i did the steps and used the hexeditor, but dont know how to send it to my fone and restart it with bitpim. im trying to do this so that i can browse some sites, and hopefully get AIM on the phone for free. is this posible?

**GoatofCMU** · 12-08-2007, 09:28 PM

highlight the param.fil and right click, then hit "overwrite..." and select the one you edited. Then, under the root, you can see the option to reboot.

**GoatofCMU** · 12-08-2007, 11:12 PM

I fixed my problem guys. Simple typo in the hex edit, I'm glad I didn't brick the phone!

**GoatofCMU** · 12-08-2007, 11:26 PM

Wirelessly posted (LGE-VX8550/1.0 UP.Browser/6.2.3.2 (GUI) MMP/2.0)

Test post.

**ronopolis** · 12-08-2007, 11:28 PM

Does anyone know if these same instructions (or something close) will work to get free wap on the 8350?

**GoatofCMU** · 12-09-2007, 12:08 AM

Ron, I'd assume that the instructions for that phone are more similar to the 8300 ones.

**Humpa** · 12-09-2007, 10:11 AM

Originally Posted by ronopolis

Does anyone know if these same instructions (or something close) will work to get free wap on the 8350?

All the LG's that have a paramtable1.fil are the same. The instructions I just posted (post #241) are generic - I use those instructions for all the LG phones (except the Voyager, since it doesn't have the paramtable1.fil).

**jdubs** · 12-10-2007, 07:42 PM

is this still free or do i get charged by mb downloaded? i heard something in nov. they changed the rates so it's now per mb downloaded rather than minutes? can anyone shed some light on this? i don't have a data or internet plan with vzw.

edit: i have america's choice II. according to the rep i spoke to, i'm still charged by minutes used and not by MB's used. weird because i just re-upped for another 2 years on 11/28/07

**bighornram** · 12-10-2007, 08:55 PM

Mine is incrementing the data counter.

**C DM** · 12-10-2007, 10:39 PM

Originally Posted by jdubs

is this still free or do i get charged by mb downloaded? i heard something in nov. they changed the rates so it's now per mb downloaded rather than minutes? can anyone shed some light on this? i don't have a data or internet plan with vzw.

edit: i have america's choice II. according to the rep i spoke to, i'm still charged by minutes used and not by MB's used. weird because i just re-upped for another 2 years on 11/28/07

Seems pretty normal, unless you are upgrading to LG Voyager you don't have to switch plans to the new ones, so you can remain on the old/grandfathered plan that you were on.