My wife has an unlocked LG KS360 and we haven’t been able to send or receive MMS messages for the longest time. I looked all over the internet to find settings and none of them worked. Of course the most obvious solution was the one that worked.
I just called T-Mobile and told them it didn’t work. They don’t have the KS360 in their support database because it’s a European phone, so I just had them send me the setting for the KS500.
The settings arrived to the phone and I just had to hit activate! Working like a charm. A rare case where the internet loses.
Misc
ks360, mobile phone, mss, t-mobile
I have always been envious of my friends who have been land-line free. They save money and no longer have to contribute to the overpriced monopoly that is Ameritech SBC AT&T. As much as I longed to be land-line free I have never been able to take the plunge for a few reasons:
- I have multiple cell phones so I would have to pick one to get all the calls for the whole family which isn’t ideal
- You can’t have multiple people talk on a call at the same time
- You have to carry your cell phone around the house rather than have handsets in each room
All that changed this summer when my cell phone carrier T-Mobile launched their T-Mobile @Home package providing customers unlimited nationwide calling and all the goodies for just $10 a month. Basically its a VOIP router that uses a SIM card to allow you to make calls over the internet using your regular land-line handsets. The day this little beauty came out I ran out to a T-Mobile store and picked one up. When you purchase the router you can have T-Mobile transfer your old land-line phone number over so you don’t have to go through the hassle of changing numbers.
I wasn’t exactly sure how I would set it up in my house since all my routers are in my basement and not near where my house phones are. Fortunately when I got it home everything was a snap to setup and I was making internet calls in no time.
Here are some pictures and the steps I took to get everything setup and running in my house:
1. The router is a typical broadband router with 802.11g wireless. However, this one also has 2 slots for SIM cards and 2 phone ports on the back allowing you to plug a phone into the device to make calls over the Internet.
2. The instructions with the router suggest plugging the router into the Internet and then plugging a phone into the router. This works great except I don’t want just one phone hooked up to the router but rather I wanted all my phone jacks in the house to go over this connection (just like it worked before). So instead of plugging a phone into the router I just plugged in a phone cord and connected it to an outlet I have in my basement.
3. I thought that this would be all I needed to do to get all my outlets in the house connected to the router but whenever I picked up the phone I just got this weird busy-like signal. Even though my AT&T connection was dead it was still causing some conflict on the line with the VOIP router. So this was easily remedied by “cutting the cord” to AT&T (this was fun and therapeutic). I went out to my phone box outside the house and just unhooked the wires that were connected to my phone lines inside.
4. Here is a shot of the finished setup — a wiry mess that manages to keep me connected in all ways necessary (@Home router is on the bottom).
This setup has worked great and I have been saving money every month and have a bunch of great phone services that I never was willing to be ripped off paying for before (caller ID being the big one!).
Misc
freedom, land-line, t-mobile, voip
