How To Set GPRS Settings In Nokia S60 Mobiles?

In my previous post you have seen What Is Your Nokia Mobile Platform?. Now I think you will come to know whether your Nokia mobile comes under S40 or S60. This post is exclusively for Nokia S60 users.

If you search for manual GPRS settings in the internet, you will get lot of articles. But all these articles tells about the Access point names, IP addresses and Proxy Port Numbers etc., you don’t get even single article that explains HOW TO SET THAT GPRS SETTINGS IN YOUR MOBILE. So here I will explain how to set those Access point names, IP addresses and Proxy Port Numbers on your Nokia S60 mobile.

For example. you want to set GPRS settings manually for AIRTEL network. So for Airtel Live fallowing are the manual gprs settings.

Account Name or Connection Name: Airtel Live

Access Point Name(APN): airtelfun.com

Proxy IP: 100.001.200.099

Fallow The Below Steps:

Some times compare  to words, pictures are more explanatory. See fallow below screen shots.

For example take Nokia N73 as S60 mobile.

Step 1: Press Main Menu (red colour box shown in the screen shot) and then press Tools.

Step 2: Press Settings and then Connection.

Step 3: Press Access Point , then press Options and then press New access point.

Step 4: Enter connection name and access point name and other details of your network.

That's it!! Save settings.

Press Main Menu (red color box shown in the 2nd screen shot), and select Services > Options > Bookmark manager > Add bookmark. Write a name for the bookmark and the address of the page defined for the current access point.You can create your own bookmark like google > www.google.co.in and browse.

To set the created access point as the default access point, select Options > Settings > Access point.