How to use proxy in your T-Mobile SDA

Got an SDA phone but cannot afford to get the total internet plan for $30? Get a T-Zones or T-MobileWeb plan instead and setup a proxy to let your SDA access the Internet

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• SDA phone
• T-Zones or T-MobileWeb plan

1. Go to your SDA phone menu, Settings, Connection, Proxy
2. Add a new proxy connection, if there's any previous settings, delete them.
3. Use the following information to setup your proxy:
   Name: T-Zones
   Connects from: The Internet
   Connects to: WAP Network
   Proxy: 216.155.165.50:8080
   Type: HTTP
   
   Leave user name and password blank
   
   Click Ok all the way until you return to the main screen
4. Go to Settings - Connection - GPRS, then add a new connection with the following settings:
   
   Connect to: The Internet
   Access point: wap.voicestream.com
   
   Leave username and password blank
   
   set Primary and Secondary DNS to: 0.0.0.0
   Leave IP Address blank
5. Launch your Pocket Internet Explorer. Go to Options - Connections, uncheck "Automatically detect settings." and choose "WAP Network" as the network.

Tips & Warnings

• If the T-Mobile CSR told you that T-Zones won't work on SDA, just tell them that you want to add it anyway
• This method is actually legal, I have heard some T-Mobile CSR actually explaining on how to implement this method
• You can actually setup your own proxy server and connect your phone to your proxy server if you know how to do this
• T-Mobile might change the way T-Zones work in the future and it may not work anymore
• This method only overcome the restriction placed with T-Mobile on port 80, port 23 for mail is actually still open!