How to access Weather function on ATT Tilt with WIFI

Why pay $30+ monthly fee for cell phone data plan? If your PDA has WIFI capacity, you can do many things via wireless internet without accessing the mobile data network.

Here is an example of how to renew the ATT Tilt’s Weather function using wireless network without the use of data plan.

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• Wireless internet

1. 
   Figure 1

   First of all, stop your device from accessing the ATT MEdia Net. In fact, every new PDA/smart phone owner should do this if they did not purchase / canceled a data plan service, unless your phone has been unlocked or re-flashed. Because the mobile carrier usually pre-set the phone to connect to their paid service.
   
   For ATT Tilt, tap the “3G” icon on the right top corner (Figure 1) – tap “Setting” (Figure 1) – you’ll be transferred to the setting page, then tap “Connection” icon (Figure 1)

2. 
   Figure 2

   Tap “Advanced”, then “Select Network” (Figure 2). Now you can see two options here, the first one is “program that connects to internet automatically”. The preset option is “MEdia Net” (Figure 2).

3. 
   Figure 3

   Now change it to “My Work Network” or any other name that you defined for your wireless network connection (Figure 3). Tap “OK” to return to the home page of the phone.
   
   Before connecting to wireless internet, now if you tap the Weather tab on the home page and select a city, Tilt will try to access internet to retrieve the up-to-date weather data. But since you’ve stopped it from connecting to MEdia Net and you haven’t turned on your WIFI, your phone gets no ways to update the data and should return a failure information (Figure 3)

4. 
   Figure 4 - WIFI

   Enable WIFI and connect to internet (Figure 4)

5. 
   Figure 5 -- Weather Updated

   Tap the “Weather” tab, now your phone will attempt to retrieve data again. Soon the weather information of the selected city will be displayed (Figure 5).

Tips & Warnings

• Don't have wireless at home/office? You can still update the weather info via USB cable. Install Microsoft ActiveSync and connect Tilt to your computer with USB. Once the partnership is established, your phone is connected to internet automatically. So you can surf the web, and of course update the weather info freely.