Telstra HTC HD2 Connection Settings
The Shiny New Phone
I bought an HTC HD2 sight-unseen from the Telstra online store yesterday, and the “five business days” for delivery worked out to be one in total. Score!
With the phone as supplied, aspects of the phone are uncustomizable, and the Internet connection is one of those things.
Most Internet-connecting items worked fine – browsing the web, Twitter, etc – but ActiveSync kept complaining about my connection settings. I verified passwords, server settings, but nothing seemed to work.
The Fix
A tip from a colleague fixed it:
Go through the ActiveSync Wizard to add your mail information. On the very last page, there is an Advanced button. Click that baby and you’ll find a connection drop down. Select the Internet or Telstra.Internet connection.
And now, I have mail through Exchange again. W00p!
Now, to work out how to uncustomize the HTC Sense app a bit.
Comments
Anonymous
January 01, 2003
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January 01, 2003
r7 - HTC look like they've recently released a new WWE ROM (1.66) which might be worth a try. My phone sends MMS but can't receive it directly, and when I got Telstra to beam the settings to it using the web form, it broke basically all the Internet aspects of the phone (so I had to hard reset it and start over) - bit weird, but there you go. I don't know what to suggest other than working with HTC or contacting Telstra. Sorry!Anonymous
January 20, 2010
I had same ttouble. See post on whirlpool & xda foe how to do withoit pc. fo to email bitton tap inbox,settimgs acct etcAnonymous
January 24, 2010
Thanks for the fix! Had the same problem. I agree, it would be nice to get rid of the Telstra shortcuts on the Home screen.Anonymous
January 24, 2010
Get a registry editor and you can unlock them at HKCUSoftwareHTCManilaConfiguration The icons are numbered sequentially as keys from 0, so edit 0, 1, and 2 Each has an IsReadOnly value that can be set to 0.Anonymous
January 30, 2010
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February 06, 2010
i have telstra locked htc hd2 phone but i am using a vodafone simcard and cannot connect because its locked to telstra internet can some one help?Anonymous
February 07, 2010
I have the same problem with the device but when i try and apply the fix that you recommend, I get a choice between dedicated and Internet, i select the Internet option and hit save but it keeps setting it to dedicated. any ideas?