Before you can connect to myBitNet, data has to be enabled on the phone. Many times people that have never used WAP/WEB 2.0/INTERNET, or who have their Mobile Web plan turned off will also have data disabled on their phone. Many people that have had phones replaced and didn’t opt for Mobile Web service suffer from this problem as well. If this happens, you will not be able to use myBitNet (or any other proxy for that matter) until your carrier turns data back on. Fortunately there’s an easy way to figure out if data is enabled on your phone, and an easy way to get it fixed if it isn’t.

The way we can test to see if data is enabled is to use Get It Now (GIN) or similar service from your carrier.

Go to your GIN menu and try to download a list of games, or any other GIN item. If GIN works perfectly, then we’re probably dealing with a configuration error. Please contact us for further assistance. If you receive an error message like “Unable to retrieve catalog, please try again later” then chances are quite high that data is not enabled on your phone.

If this is the case, you can call your carrier and tell them “I can’t use GIN on my phone.” They’ll apologize then fix you. Once you can get GIN items (game lists, app lists, whatever), then you should be able to access myBitNet sucessfully.

Important concepts here:

• Data is not WAP/WEB 2.0/Internet, however; data must be enabled before WAP/WEB 2.0/Internet will work.
• You can test that data is enabled by confirming that GIN works.
• If GIN does not work, then WAP/WEB 2.0/Internet will not work.
• If GIN does not work, ONLY your carrier can fix it
• If GIN does not work, you have to call your carrier and tell them “I can’t use GIN on my phone.” They will flip a switch and GIN should start working.

For Verizon subscribers, unless you have the Vcast Vpak with Mobile Web 2.0, minutes will be deducted from your plan in accordance with peak usage for voice. Nights and Weekend use of Mobile Web does not use minutes from your plan.

If your phone supports it, try to setup your gateways to DNS name gw.mycellconnect.com, instead of hardcoding IPs in your phone.

You need to set your password in your phone. Otherwise, you will get the message:

“For Wireless Internet Services, please dial *611”

on you phone.

1. ##2769737 then press END
2. UP Proxy IP
3. UP Link1
4. AP1-IP enter gateway IP 208.78.102.118 (The Send Key Makes The DOT) Click OK
5. AP1-Port enter gateway Port number 8888 click OK
6. CLR all the way back to the Main Screen
7. Go to Web Browser and Set New Homepage to http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html

test it only

1. Enter the service menu of the phone: 923885 right (joystick) will enter long programming
2. It will take you to the NAM programing Menu
3. Select #5 WAP Params.
4. Pick the Gateway (1,2 or 3) you desire to edit
5. WAP menu is very self explainatory:
6. Primary IP: 208.78.102.118
7. Secondary IP: same as Primary IP
8. Home URL: is your home page which could be edited later or you could set it up now (http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html)
9. Port:8888
10. Bearers: leave that option alone
11. Linger timer: leave this option alone

1. 111111—Options—Browser Setup–UP Link A Enter Security Code(000000)
2. Then enter the IP under Primary IP. Enter the Port number under Primary Port. Hit Next.Enter the same info again. Hit Next again. Then exit out of the menu.

Thanks to Epic1621 from HoFo

I was able to get the Kyocera SE47 (slider phone) to work. Here’s what I did:

1. Type 111111 in on the main screen, like you would a phone number. and hit ok. That brings up a menu.
2. Go to Browser Setup, at the very bottom of the list
3. Go to UP.Link B
4. Add the IP and port info to primary, hit next
5. If there’s a second set of info, add it to secondary, hit next
6. Close that all up, open the browser
7. The browser is set to use the info in UP.Link A by default...this must be changed. When the browser times out(or gives you a security key not recognized message), click on setup.
8. Choose UP.Link
9. Choose UP.Link B
10. ...and you should be good to go. When you restart the browser, it’ll ask what you would like to set your homepage as. Use http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html

Thanks to Member “pinky52082” for the Kyocera SE47

1. Go to menu.
2. Hit 3 to go to the system menu.
3. Hit 0, Enter Service Code should appear on screen.
4. 000000 is the code to enter the service section.
5. Hit 6 “Wap Setting”.
6. Write down the ip in Ip Setting Link 1-1 incase you want to go back to it.
7. For Ip Setting Link 1-1 input thegateway IP number 208.78.102.118
8. For Portsetting link 1-1 port write down the port incase you want to use it again
9. input the port for the wap server 8888.
10. Ok out of those screens and hold the zero key.
11. You may be asked to enable security which is fine.
12. Once you are on the web hold zero again to bring up the web menu where you can set up your prefrences and homepage which can be set to http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html.

1. Press Menu, 0, 000000
2. Go to WAP Set these as follows:
3. User ID: your phone number
4. Password: your password
5. Proxy Address Setting: 208.78.102.118
6. Proxy Port Setting: 8888
7. Proxy LXL Setting: 8888
8. Homepage: http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html

I would double check all the settings. The one thing I had to do different and that was to enter a zero for the empty portion of the ip address I.E. for 11.11.11.11 , 011.011.011.011. Other than that make sure the WAP proxy is pointing to the right place. When I talked about pointing to the correct WAP proxy I was referring to step 7 listed above in your instructions for LG VX4400 & VX6000:

7. Go back to Advanced. Then press 3 for Set WAP Proxy and switch to Proxy #2. After this you may either be prompted for a homepage or be sent to Openwave’s homepage. When this happens, go back and repeat STEP 6. der

If the user misses or misconfigures this they will likely have issues.

Thanks to member “whoa!” for the LG4600

1. Go to MENU then 0 . At that Service Code prompt enter 000000. This will allow you access to the service menu. Then press 9, this will take you into the WAP settings.
2. For the new service, use WAP Proxy 2. Enter 1 for IP setting, then 4 this will take you to Link2-IP1. For Link2-IP1 enter gateway IP number 208.78.102.118 Press OK.
3. Press 2 for Port Setting. Then press 4 for Link2-Port1 and then enter gateway Port number 8888. Then press OK.
4. Press the END key to get back to the standby screen.
5. Start your web browser. NOTE=It will not initially work since you are no longer using Verizon’s service to get on the web. Don’t worry about it. After you’ve started your browser while it is trying to connect PRESS AND HOLD THE ZERO KEY. This will take you into the browser menu.
6. Once in the browser menu, press 6 for Advanced. Then 2 for homepage. For a homepage you can enter http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html

1. Go back to Advanced. Then press 3 for Set WAP Proxy and switch to Proxy #2. After this you may either be prompted for a homepage or be sent to Openwave’s homepage. When this happens, go back and repeat STEP 6.

1. Open the phone
2. Press OK on the NAV Pad to bring up the menu (this is the center button)
3. Press 0 seven times
4. Press 8 (WAP Settings)
5. Press 1 (Proxy Address Settings)
6. Press 1 (Primary Address)
7. Enter the name of the proxy server you want to use, replace address with 208.78.102.118 and SAVE
8. Press Clear
9. Press 2 (Proxy Port Setting)
10. Press 1 Primary Port
11. Enter the port of the proxy server 8888 and SAVE
12. Press Clear
13. Press 3 (User Password)
14. Enter the login and password for myBitNet

This phone is confirmed working.

* Warning: Any damage you do to your phone is your responsibility. * Warning: You should be prepared to perform the steps below before subscribing. If you aren’t willing to do this, please don’t subscribe.

Configuration of the 8300 can be done by anybody, but you need to be willing to work on your phone’s filesystem. Otherwise, alternative proxy’s probably aren’t for you.

1. Download and install Bitpim.
2. Connect the phone to the PC with a USB cable or Bluetooth. The only detailed instructions I’ve seen suggest using bluetooth. I don’t know if that’s the only way to do it or if it was the author’s preferred method, so you’ll have to sort this out. It is KNOWN to work via Bluetooth.
3. Once your phone is connected via USB or Bluetooth, fire up Bitpim and select VX8300
4. With the phone selected, click on View → View Filesystem then click on the Filesystem tab.
5. Copy /OWS/paramtable1.fil to your harddrive. Important: Make a backup copy of this file before you start working on it.
6. Open the file with the hex editor. Navigate to the third byte and change the value from 00 to 20.
7. Upload the file with Bitpim back to the phone.
8. USE BITPIM to reboot your phone. Right click one of the folders in the filesystem and select Reboot Phone.
9. On the phone, press Menu - 0000000 - 8 Wap Settings and from there you’ll change the primary proxy and primary port to the 208.78.102.118 and 8888
10. Reboot the phone

This phone is confirmed working.

* Warning: Any damage you do to your phone is your responsibility. * Warning: You should be prepared to perform the steps below before subscribing. If you aren’t willing to do this, please don’t subscribe.

Configuration of the VX8550 can be done by anybody, but you need to be willing to work on your phone’s filesystem. Otherwise, alternative proxy’s probably aren’t for you.

1. Download and install Bitpim.
2. Connect the phone to the PC with a USB cable or Bluetooth. The only detailed instructions I’ve seen suggest using bluetooth. I don’t know if that’s the only way to do it or if it was the author’s preferred method, so you’ll have to sort this out. It is KNOWN to work via Bluetooth.
3. Once your phone is connected via USB or Bluetooth, fire up Bitpim and select VX8550
4. With the phone selected, click on View → View Filesystem then click on the Filesystem tab.
5. Copy /OWS/paramtable1.fil to your harddrive. Important: Make a backup copy of this file before you start working on it.

The first thing we’ll change in this file is your browsers homepage which starts at offset address 0x0000000B. The default value is “http://homepage” ... OVERWRITE this value with “http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html“. The new value is much longer than the previous ... so you’ll have to overwrite the some of the NULL characters that follow the original address as well. Be sure to overwrite them though ... don’t make the file any larger by insert values. The second instance of “http://homepage” at offset 0x0000008C can be left alone.

Next, overwrite the port value at offset 0x000000CC. The original setting “8080” ... change it to “8888”. Do the same for the second port value at offset 0x000000EC. Leave the other port values “0443” alone.

Now change the address for the Primary Proxy server at offset 0x000002A1. The original value is “gw.vzwwap.com”. Change it to “208.78.102.118”. Since the new value is shorter than the old, be sure to clear out the remainder of the original address (i.e. “om”) by overwriting it with NULL characters.

Change the address for the Secondary Proxy Server at offset 0x000002F2. The original value is “gw.vzwwap.com”. Change it to “69.120.133.58”. Again, be sure to overwrite the remainder of the original address with NULL characters.

Finally, this last change is to make it easier to launch your browser. My old phone (VX8100) had a shortcut key to launch my browser. However, the Chocolate doesn’t seem to have one. To get around this, I modified one of the preset shortcut keys to launch my homepage as opposed to it’s own application page. Since I don’t use Chat and never intend to ... I decided to modify that shortcut to launch my homepage. To do this, go to offset 0×00000343 in your hex editor. The default value should be “http://mw2.vzwwap.com/chat“. Overwrite this value with “http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html“.

That’s it for modifying this file. Save it and close your hex editor.

Return to Bitpim (which hopefully you left running). Right click on “paramtable1.fil” and “overwrite” the file with the modified file you just created. When I do this, the “PM_DONE” file disappears, but you don’t seem to need it anyhow.

1. Reboot the phone

First you have to make sure that you can edit your WAP settings. By default they are locked. It is remarkably simple to unlock them.

1. Connect to your phone using BitPim.
2. Click View > View Filesystem. This will add a filesystem link to the left pane. Click on it.
3. Navigate to /OWS in your filesystem. Right click on paramtable1.fil and save it to your hard drive. Keep an unmodified backup copy of this file in case something goes wrong.
4. Open your new copy of paramtable1.fil in a hex editor, WINDOWS: XV132, OSX: 0xed. Change the third byte from “00” to “20”. (Thanks to Rodstree for figuring this out.)
5. Save the copy.
6. Right click on paramtable1.fil back in BitPim. Overwrite it with your new modified version.
7. Once the file is transferred, turn off and turn on your phone.

Now you have to update the wap settings to make them work with your proxy.

Press OK to open the menu on your phone. Press 0, and then six more zeros to open the service menu. Press (8)WAP Setting. Under Proxy Address Setting and Proxy Port Setting, you’ll find Primary and Secondary configurations. The Primary Address goes with the Primary Port, and likewise with the secondaries. Change both the primary and secondary addresses to 208.78.102.118

1. Press menu then 0 to get to the service menu
2. The code is 000000
3. Goto WAP settings
4. Goto proxy address setting
5. Change both the primary and secondary addresses to 208.78.102.118
6. Hit back and goto proxy port setting
7. change the primary port and secondary port to 8888
8. leave the password the same (it should be vzm, set your account password to this when you register with myBitNet)
9. goto homepage and change it to http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html (OPTIONAL)
10. your phone will restart and your ready to surf!!

Courtesy of John Ady

These steps are confirmed working on this phone with the proxy.

* Warning: Any damage you do to your phone is your responsibility. * Warning: You should be prepared to perform the above steps before subscribing. Requirements:

1. Before you can change your settings, you’ll need software that provides access to the phone’s filesystem. Bitpim is a popular option.
2. USB Drivers for your phone.
3. USB Cable for your phone.
4. A HEX Editor. Click here to download XVI32, a Freeware Editor.

Once you’ve installed your phone’s driver, Bitpim and a Hex Editor, you’re ready to begin.

These steps are for changing the WAP Proxy on the Chocolate

1. In Bitpim, use ‘detect’ phone. It will say it found ‘Other CDMA Phone.’ (Once the Bitpim developers add support for the Chocolate, this message will change to something more specific for the 8500.)
2. On the filesystem tab, go to the OWS folder, and find the file paramtable1.fil
3. Make a backup of this file before proceeding
4. Use BitPim to save a copy of paramtable1.fil that you are going to edit
5. Use your hex editor to:

# -Change the proxy1 address to 208.78.102.118 # -Change port1 to 8888 # -Set your password # -Set the username to your mobile number

1. Save the file and upload to the phone

#Reboot your phone. You’re good to go. Note of mention: This works on the vx8600 as well

1. Hit Menu, than press 0 73887 * (do it quick)
2. Than enter code 000000 Then goto Web Sessions
3. Then select New Entry type in name.
4. Open the newly created session name.
5. Name: whatever you like
6. Homepage: leave it as as
7. User ID: your phone number
8. Password: your password
9. Gateway IP 1: 208.78.102.118
10. Service Type 1: HTTP
11. Port 1: 8888
12. E2E Port 1: 8888
13. LXL Port 1: 443
14. Gateway IP 2: 208.78.102.118
15. Service Type 2: HTTP
16. Port 2: 8888
17. E2E Port 2: 8888
18. LXL Port 2: 443

Originaly by phreakincool

1. To switch between Web Sessions, press ##2769737 (do it quick)
2. To create a new Web Session, press #073887* (do it quick) (#073887* is #0SETUP*)
3. Then enter code 000000
4. Then goto Web Sessions
5. Then select “New Entry”. Type type in name. Ex. Free Web
6. Open the newly created session name.
7. Name: whatever you like
8. Homepage: leave it as as OR put in your own starting wap page.
9. User ID: your phone number
10. Password: your password
11. Gateway IP 1: 208.78.102.118

# -(V3m - Gateway 1 - leave blank)(v3c?)

1. Service Type 1: HTTP
2. Port 1: 8888
3. E2E Port 1: 8888
4. LXL Port 1: 443
5. Gateway IP 2: 208.78.102.118

# -(V3m - Gateway 2 - leave blank)(v3c?0

1. Service Type 2: HTTP
2. Port 2: 8888
3. E2E Port 2: 8888
4. LXL Port 2: 443

Courtesy of engineerohio

1. Use menu + 0 + 73887 (setup) + * + security code to get into browser setup
2. Follow previous steps for v120c V60i / T720 / T730
3. Menu→Settings→Browser Setup→[New Entry]
4. For the name you can whatever you want
5. For homepage you can put http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html
6. Wap ip 1 enter gateway IP number 208.78.102.118
7. Wap port 1 enter gateway Port number : 8888

1. Menu + 073887* (you’ve got to hit the 073887* short and smoothly).
2. When it prompts you to enter the service code, enter 000000. Then find browser setup; and add new.
3. For the name you can put whatever you’d like
4. For homepage you can put something like http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html or another WAP page of your choosing.
5. For WAP IP 1 enter gateway IP number 208.78.102.118
6. For WAP Port 1 enter gateway Port number 8888
7. Leave username and password blank.
8. Speed is 14.4

1. Hit Menu, then choose Mobile Web (option 5)
2. Then Web Sessions (option 2).
3. Then select New Entry type in name.
4. Open the newly created session name.
5. Name: whatever you like
6. Homepage: http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html
7. User ID: your phone number
8. Password: your password
9. Gateway IP: 208.78.102.118
10. Gateway 1:
11. Service Type 1: HTTP
12. Port 1: 8888
13. E2E Port 1: 8888
14. LXL Port 1: 443
15. Domain 1:

1. Main Menu > WebAccess>Web Sessions>Press Menu>Highlight New>Select>

1. Name: mycellconnect
2. Homepage: http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html
3. Service Type: HTTP
4. Proxy: 208.78.102.118
5. Port: 8888
6. Timeout: 15 minutes
7. Line Type: ISDN
8. CSD No.1: Leave Blank
9. DNS 1: leave Blank
10. DONE>LAUNCH
11. User Name: your phone #
12. Password: your password

1. Main Menu > WebAccess>Web Sessions
2. Highlight>mycellconnect>press menu>select as your primary

1. Helpful hints:

About daily, Clear your Cache, Clear Cookies, Clear your History, Turn phone off and on.

thanks to: Bixbyte

1. Type in *3001#12345#
2. If prompted for a code enter your lock code(usually the last 4 of your number if you haven’t changed it) or if that doesn’t work try the MSL (000000 is default).
3. Select Server Address. Then Server 1 IP address. Write down the numbers currently in there in case you want to use Verizon’s Mobile Web in the future and have to reconfigure it.
4. Then you’ll have to enter the IP and Port of the WAP gateway you want to use. -For the gateway type this in: 208.78.102.118:8888

(208.78.102.118 is the IP and 8888 is the Port)

1. Then start the browser. Hit the power button briefly to bring up the Browser Menu. Select option 6 for Advanced then 2 for Homepage, Set homepage to http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.html

1. Press Menu
2. Press 4
3. Press 0
4. USER LOCK = Last four of your tel number.
5. Select gateway/ press 1
6. Select address/ press 1
7. Select address 1/ press 1
8. Enter 208.78.102.118
9. Press save at end then hit clr
10. Press clear agian
11. Select port/ press 2
12. Select port1/ press 1
13. Make port 1 8888
14. Press save.
15. Press the red END button.
16. Press the internet button (right of get it now)
17. Set your homepage http://www.mycellconnect.com/wap.htm

Setting up the mybitnet dialup connection:

1. Go to Start > Settings, go to the ‘Connections’ tab, and select ‘Connections’
2. Go to the ‘Advanced’ tab and press the ‘Select Networks’ button.
3. You should now be at the ‘Network Management’ screen. Under the first pulldown, press the ‘New...’ button.
4. On the ‘General’ tab, enter the name “mybitnet”.
5. Go to the ‘Modem’ tab and press the ‘New...’ button
6. Enter “mybitnet” and select the modem as “Cellular Line”, then press ‘Next’
7. Enter your carrier dialup number in the ‘Phone number’ field, and then press ‘Next’
8. Enter the username and the password, and then press ‘Finish’
9. Select the ‘Proxy Settings’ tab and tick ‘This network connects to the Internet’ and ‘This network uses a proxy server’. Enter the mybitnet proxy server
10. Press ‘Advanced...’ and in ‘WAP‘, enter the server address and the ‘WAP’ port number, mybitnet port number
11. Press ‘OK’ to close the Advanced dialog, “OK” again to save the settings, close the ‘Network Management’ dialog with the ‘OK’ button, and press ‘OK’ a final time to exit ‘Connections’.