Motorola T720 Phone and Verizon Wireless
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vzw_t720/
If you own a Motorola T720 phone and use Verizon as a provider, you should have noticed that Verizon only allows you to download ringtones and wallpapers from there "Get-It-Now" service, ONLY. Meaning, any other ringtone WAP websites that offer ringtones are blocked from your phone.
The above link are people taking charge. They're trying to develop a "hack" to the phone, or at least trying to get Verizon to change there stupid policy. Something worthy to note, they are already in contact with the Verizon president in this issue.
Go there, join the group and check it out! I'm a member!
(I own two T720's, two V120e's, and one V60c, all on Verizon)
Tekmaven
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On the T720 ...
go to browser setup
then to homepage
type in http://wap.oa.yahoo.com
WAP IP: 207.232.99.109
port 9201
some free, limited internet access
enjoy
cscgal
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When you type in the URL, it's very important you make sure you have the http:// part
cscgal
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It works on my other Motorola Phone... the V120.
Nice webmail and messenger features :-).
Tekmaven
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I'd like to ask a question how is this...
Just to follow up, the phone has, indeed, been cracked and you can now route around Verizon's Get It Now service.
You can read my tutorial on using gagin to upload ringtones and pix at http://jonroig.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=65 .
... materially, not to mention ethically, different than warez s/w cracks? If this was warez s/w crack related, would you condone it's posting on TTF?
aeinstein
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Personally I think stuff like this is okay because technically it's not doing anything illegal. (note the keyword: this stuff is all perfectly legal) It's basically just hunting and digging for an alternate service to Verizon's www plan. As for what I posted, it's just a Yahoo! WAP server - so that's perfectly legal also. Not really true "hacks".
(As an example of something illegal, connecting to the www via the Verizon service by fooling the phone into thinking you are a subscriber to the service, using a fake pin, etc)
What is also not condoned is like the way that someone (going back quite awhile) posted a WindowsXP serial. That was deleted within the hour. ;)
Check out this thread for more info:
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cscgal
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still seems a bit unethical to me, but...
aeinstein
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I dunno. To each his own, I guess. I don't really see a point into getting into any form of heated ethics debate over this.
I just don't see it as being illegal because you're paying Verizon for use of the phone service (and with that, a simple modem to dial into computer systems.) Then, if you want, you can pay Verizon extra for their paid service which gives you access to their WAP network (hence, the Verizon WWW service).
Instead, you're using your phone to connect to a Yahoo! WAP server, for example. It's not really a hack or a crack or anything illegal. It's just finding those people (and companies) who are providing you free access to the info on their servers (and providing access to their servers via a mobile phone).
It's like lets say you bought a modem from AOL (just pretend ;)) but then you used MSN's dial-up service because it was cheaper.
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