How To: Straight Talk and Nokia Symbian Belle

**landoftherich** · 10-22-2011, 08:35 AM

This is for the 100 or so people who will ever want or have the opportunity to run a Nokia phone with the beautiful new Symbian Belle OS on Straight Talk's network. I couldn't find any guide for this on the web, so here are the settings I used (after much trial and error) to get internet & MMS working:

1. Go to Settings --> Connectivity--> Settings --> Network Destinations --> Internet

2. Delete any existing access points that use mobile data (WAN access points can stay).

3. From the menu button choose New Access Point

4. Choose No when it asks you to automatically check for available points

5. Choose Mobile Data

6. Name the Access Point "Data" and hit OK.

7. Now choose the access point you just created and enter in the following info:

Connection name: Data
Data bearer: Mobile data
Access point name: att.mvno
Username: None
Prompt password: no
Password:
Authentication: Normal
Homepage: None

8. Click on menu button in lower right corner and choose advanced settings. Under there you should have:

Network type: IPv4
Phone IP address:automatic
DNS address: automatic
Proxy server address: None
Proxy port number: 0

After those settings are saved you should now have a working internet connection.

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To get MMS working, follow these steps:

1. Go to Settings --> Connectivity--> Settings --> Network Destinations --> WAP services

2. Delete any existing access points

3. From the menu button choose New Access Point

4. Choose No when it asks you to automatically check for available points

5. Choose Mobile Data

6. Name the Access Point "MMS" and hit OK.

7. Now choose the access point you just created and enter in the following info:

Connection name: MMS
Data bearer: Mobile data
Access point name: att.mvno
Username: None
Prompt password: no
Password:
Authentication: Normal
Homepage: http://mmsc.cingular.com

8. Click on menu button in lower right corner and choose advanced settings. Under there you should have:

Network type: IPv4
Phone IP address:automatic
DNS address: automatic
Proxy server address: proxy.mvno.tracfone.com
Proxy port number: 80

9. Once those are saved, go into Messaging --> Menu button in lower right corner --> Settings --> Multimedia message and make sure the following 2 settings look like this:

Access point in use: MMS
Multimedia retrieval: Auto in home network

MMS should now be working - ENJOY!

**efparri** · 10-22-2011, 08:43 AM

All phones use the same settings on a particular carrier. The only difference is how to enter the settings menu. So do not try to look for settings just for a certain phone. The settings could have been obtained from either the Sticky iPhone thread or the Sticky Android thread.

**landoftherich** · 10-22-2011, 10:31 AM

The settings in this guide are Not for a specific phone, they are for an operating system called Symbian Belle. The system currently runs on 3 Nokia handsets that can be used on Straight Talk. Also, some older Nokia handsets will be upgradeable to Symbian Belle.

While all carrier settings are the same, where they can be found in each operating system varies. As you can see in the guide, the setting locations and field names in Symbian Belle are Very different from Android and iOS.

While the Android and iPhone stickies are very helpful in setting up ST on those phones, they were of little help in setting up ST on Symbian Belle. This thread aims to bridge the gap.

**efparri** · 10-22-2011, 11:05 AM

How to enter the settings should be available in the User's Guide. All you need from this forum is what the settings are. Your message is superfluous.

**landoftherich** · 10-22-2011, 12:16 PM

Originally Posted by efparri

How to enter the settings should be available in the User's Guide. All you need from this forum is what the settings are. Your message is superfluous.

It should be in the user guide, but isn't. I'm sorry you feel its superfluous. I searched the internet for hours looking for this information, and can tell you had I found it consolidated in one place the word I would use to describe that would be Helpful...not superfluous. Have you considered that those upgrading old devices won't even have a user manual for this OS?

I'm just trying to save anyone wanting to run Belle on ST the hassle I went through, I apologize if my attempt to help others offends you.

**efparri** · 10-22-2011, 12:22 PM

Since you have it, what is the point in posting it here? This forum would become too cumbersome if each user posted how to setup his individual model here. The how-to steps belong in the manufacturers' forums. Then it only has to be entered once.

**landoftherich** · 10-22-2011, 12:34 PM

The point? I already posted the point. Do you want me to post it again? I'm confused, wouldn't such an act be "superfluous"?

But I will say this again since you missed it the first time. This walkthrough is not for an individual model. It is for the Symbian Belle operating system running on many different phones and soon to be available as an upgrade on older Symbian ^3 models. Have a great day.

**efparri** · 10-22-2011, 01:36 PM

There is a Symbian Forum. Since you had already posted messages in that forum, you could have posted your initial message in this forum there as generic instructions where others would enter the appropriate settings for their carrier.

**silentjudge** · 10-22-2011, 03:32 PM

Chill out, the OP is just trying to help people. Its not a waste of space, it will inevitably go to the bottom of the thread listing, but people who need it will be able to find it via search.

**efparri** · 10-22-2011, 04:17 PM

That's why the iPhone thread is so long. People think that every variation requires a new thread. The moderators have already removed the hardware subforums from the carrier forums. Do we want to create a separate empire in the Straight Talk forum? There is nothing special about entering settings to allow connections to Straight Talk. Once the instructions are entered once, there is no need to enter the same instructions for each carrier. The phone does not change because you change carriers.

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**silentjudge** · 10-22-2011, 04:26 PM

The iPhone thread is so long because the OP hasn't been updated (granted it can't be due to Post Editing restrictions on Hofo).
What we need to do is re-vamp the 2 How To Threads and make them better organized. Also, just lock and un-sticky the current ones and make new ones.

For example, both the How To threads don't mention that the E5 is compatible, so we constantly get people asking about using the E5 SIM.

I started a Wiki article on the ST Android how-to:
http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.p...t_Talk_Android
I'm going to see if we can get the current How To edited after the Wiki Article is fixed up to have a link to this, so we can constantly update the info.

**efparri** · 10-22-2011, 05:40 PM

if one were buying a Nokia smartphone just to get the SIM card, why purchase the latest and greatest? A refurbished phone would work just as well. If one were buying the Nokia E5 to use as is, the ability to swap the SIM card to another phone would be irrelevant.

**silentjudge** · 10-22-2011, 06:00 PM

Originally Posted by efparri

if one were buying a Nokia smartphone just to get the SIM card, why purchase the latest and greatest? A refurbished phone would work just as well. If one were buying the Nokia E5 to use as is, the ability to swap the SIM card to another phone would be irrelevant.

Perhaps they want to use the E5 for a period of time and have the option to SIM swap. This is their decision, those people who asked were aware of E71s and 6790s.

**MrRomeo** · 10-22-2011, 06:03 PM

Originally Posted by silentjudge

The iPhone thread is so long because the OP hasn't been updated (granted it can't be due to Post Editing restrictions on Hofo).
What we need to do is re-vamp the 2 How To Threads and make them better organized. Also, just lock and un-sticky the current ones and make new ones.

For example, both the How To threads don't mention that the E5 is compatible, so we constantly get people asking about using the E5 SIM.

I started a Wiki article on the ST Android how-to:
http://wiki.howardforums.com/index.p...t_Talk_Android
I'm going to see if we can get the current How To edited after the Wiki Article is fixed up to have a link to this, so we can constantly update the info.

I made the iPhone how to, and the OP doesnt need to be updated (and cant be!) everything in the OP is still valid! As for other phones coming with compatible sim cards, it wont kill anyone to make a sticky listing all of the ST phones that come with "P" sim cards. I think that will work the best instead of putting that info in the how to threads and confusing people even more.

The reason the iphone post keeps going and is so long is because new IOS updates keep coming out and people need more questions answered, if you dont want to answer the same question a hundred times, then dont! Its that simple! No one is making you answer noobish questions here, you choose to come here out of your free will and do that. Leave the question answering to those of us not on a high horse!

**MrRomeo** · 10-22-2011, 06:06 PM

Oh and I don't see what the OP of this post did wrong and why he is being attacked! IOS, android and symbian are separate operating systems with separate ways of getting to the settings. Thanks for posting this OP, I hope one of the mods makes this a sticky and deletes all of the negative posts as Im sure it will help plenty of people.