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I was on the phone with cingular today because I want to upgrade to the cingular 8125. From everything I have read on these forums and some others, it is possible to use the wifi without using gprs in any way. The lady on the phone told me that even if I am using wifi through a free access point, I will still be charged for data usage, or would need a data plan. One of the key reasons I want this phone is for the wifi (my college campus is entirely wireless).
I just wanted to make sure that I will be able to connect to wifi without any charges or a data plan, just as say a laptop with wifi would be able to do.
Thanks in advance
edit: Now that I think about it, I think I may have put this in the wrong forum. Sorry about that.
I'm actually buying the 8125 for same purpose as you (I'm not in college, however, just a nice feature to have when needed).
From what I understand, you can possibly disable GPRS within the registry, you can remove the connections for Media Net, and you can also just hit cancel on the window that pops up when it tries to connect. I noticed the option to cancel the connection when testing out the 8525 in a cingular store.
In conclusion, you can use WiFi for free. You can also call Cingular and tell them not to allow any access such as the GPRS service. Do a google search for something like wifi on 8125. There are plenty of people that have done this same thing, so you'll definitely find an answer.
Yeah, I read about disabling the gprs. I just wanted to make sure that the cingular lady was wrong. I got several other confirmations of this on the xda-dev forums.
Is gprs and 3G the same thing? Has anyone posted a step by step for an 8525 yet. Ive read a bunch of post and havnt ran across it yet. I have wireless at home and at work so i really dont need to pay for it 3 times. Im thinking everyday wifi hotspots would be an o[ption too. What about it?
I believe 3G is only available in select areas, and moves much faster than GPRS. However, I don't know if it's disabled in the same way. I just read for a different phone, you have to change the connection from dual mode to gsm? I'm not really sure, but if it helps, then great.
I heard the same thing from cingular and I have also talked to 3 very knowledgable gentelmen in a cingular retail store who all told me that what cingular told me is not true. Wifi is wifi and it is NOT charged by cingular as long as you aren't connecting through one of their services. My recommendation is, and this is what I did, call cingular and have them disable all access points so that it is impossible for you to ever connect via cingular's service. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PURCHASE A DATA PLAN TO GET THE 8125 OR THE 8525! CINGULAR CUSTOMER SERVICE STAFF DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT! Sorry, I am so angry with cingular over all of the misinformation I've received in the past 2 weeks (not to mention the past 3-4 years!) that I contacted their executive offices. I'll share the outcome with everyone very soon hopefully.
It stands to reason that the phone could just acces through a hotspot. My son says he thinks he can disable the cingular connection. It just makes sence. The folks in the cingular store dont seem to know anything about the 8525. Ill try it for sure after this 1st month that ive already paid for has expired.
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