[8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General] anorak:
ok - had my tytn (on vodafone) for a week now (infact we've got about 10 of them at work so I've been seting them all up). Had a few issues - no sms notification of voicemails (used the vodfone.net email/alerts service as per forum and works now), a strange issue where all handsets could send sms but would not receive 100% of them (from any network) (had to hard reset all the devices!!)

the main one I have struggled with is the connections.

I got my internet set up no problems pretty much strsight away.

I also got a vpn connection setup and working and then ran into the issue where you would open terminal services client and try and connect to one of the machines on the vpn and it would just drop the vpn connection straight away - turned out to be fixed by putting the servers I wanted to connect to via terminal services in the exceptions list and then ouila - i could open terminal services client - tell it to connect to the server i wanted and as if by magic the device would fire up the internet connection, then the vpn connection and then the desktop would connect!

brilliant I thought :D

Finally I turned my attention to getting mms working (it was enabled on the sims - I checked) - I noticed there was no mms server in mms service properties (under messaging) so created that.

Tried to send an mms to self and it just tried to send it and then it just would sit in outbox.

then I downloaded a cab of vodafone settings from one of the forums - mms now sent received fine but later discovered that vpn would not connect :eek: Finally I worked out that my exlusions had stopped working!:confused: Tried removing all the settings but it still wouldnt work. Searched to see if there was a registry key to enable this but couldnt find on. Finally after several hours I bit the bullet and did a hard reset. Set it all up again as previously (minus the vodafone cab) and all was well as again (but no mms again)

I then found the mms server settings on a forum and manually entered them and mms was working again - then discovered that If I tried to connect to the net it would use the wap connection under work (not the my isp one under internet even though settings were for progs to connect via my isp) - that I thought I could live with until I discovered that my vpn would try and connect and after a bit just fail!! (I'm guessing that the server that the wap connection uses doesnt allow vpn traffic whereas the one that the internet connection (gprs/3g) does)

So I'm really stuggling to get everything working together.

The only solution I have come up with so far is to put the wap connection as an additional connection under my isp and then switch to it when I want to send an mms (and I guess to receive one as well which is a bit useless, and i'm still not convinced of doing it this way).

Has anyone managed to get all of this working together!!! or am I just missing/misunderstanding something? Can someone explain!!?

here is a summary of what I have tried:

changed mms server to use "my isp" - wont send

as above but with mms proxy in for port 9201 - wont send

as above but changed to use "my work connection" - tries to establish vpn when sending mms

as above but removed proxies for http/s - tries to establish a vpn again

as above but put in vodafone wap connection under my isp - message sent ok! and received ok (over vodafone wap conn) - but no vpn!

took proxy out all together and works fine - but no vpn!

vpn still connects with term servcs (over vodafone wap conn)

If you have read this far - thanks! Sorry for the length of the post but I thought my experiences of some of the headaches I've had with the devices may be useful to others and save them some stress.

btw other than that I think the TYTN is great - works well and already some of our users are pleased because they can work more when out on the road - and happy users mean a happy techie :)