Making Your T-Mobile Phone Run Opera Mini
November 1st, 2006
Opera Mini is a great little browser for your cell phone. If you’re a T-Mobile user, you will have some problems since Opera Mini wants to access it’s proxy on port 80. T-Mobile’s WAP browser uses port 8080 and Web Sessions are closed on T-Mobile phones. Time for a little hacking to get things moving. First thing you’ll need to do is hop onto Google and download a copy of P2KTools and decompress it. After you have done that, follow these steps:
- Connect your phone to your computer, and as the computer locates the new hardware, direct it to the drv directory in P2KTools for drivers.
- Execute P2KTools.exe.
- Click on the arrow next to Switch To and select P2K Mode.
- Click Connect.
- Select the Seem Editor tab.
- Under the Seem section, look for seem and rec and make sure the seem reads 0032 and rec reads 0001.
- Select Read From Phone.
- Click on byte 2F.
- Under the Bit operations section, under the 1, check the checkbox.
- Select Write To Phone.
- Click Restart to restart your phone.
- On your phone, go to Office Tools and select Web Access.
- Select Web Sessions.
- Create a new web session with the following info:
Name: Custom
Homepage: http://wap.myvoicestream.com
Service Type 1: HTTP
Gateway IP 1: 216.155.165.50
Port 1: 8080
Domain 1:
Service Type 2: HTTP
Gateway IP 2: 216.155.165.50
Port 2: 8080
Domain 2:
DNS 1: 000.000.000.000
DNS 2: 000.000.000.000
Timeout: 15 minutes
CSD No 1:
User Name 1:
Password 1:
Speed (Bps) 1:
Line Type 1:
CSD No. 2:
User Name 2:
Password 2:
Speed (Bps) 2:
Line Type 2:
GPRS APN: wap.voicestream.com
User Name:
Password:
Set the new web session as your default and open Opera Mini to check if it is connecting to the internet. If your Opera Mini still doesn’t work, go back to the newly created Web Session and select Launch.
November 2nd, 2006 at 6:56 am
nice tip! i love using my Opera Mini on my Sony Z710i hybrid on Tmobile! the formatting and layout is superior most phone’s wap browsers.
i’ve noticed that i’ve always been able to get Opera Mini working on my phones w/Tmo, however i do buy all of my phones outside of tmobile and get them unlocked/debranded. however i do have tmobile samsung phone that i might to try this with!
btw, does google maps/local work w/normal tmobile phones? you can get that by going here w/your phones wap browser, http://www.google.com/gmm
November 2nd, 2006 at 7:38 am
Seamonkey, I agree that Opera Mini is superior to the WAP browser. I use the heck out of it. As far as Google Maps goes, it works fine on my T-Mobile Razr. Thanks for the link, I’m sure I will be using it quite a bit as well.
December 6th, 2006 at 4:36 pm
Will putting this on my phone give me internet access without signing up for Tmo’s web service?
February 26th, 2007 at 11:54 am
Sometime in the past 30 days, T-Mobile has changed something on their network. (At least in the Mid-Ohio Region) OperaMini 3.0 reports “Connection Closed by Remote Host” after transferring 1k. OperaMini 3.1 doesn’t work at all (it fails the networking tests) –And Google Maps also reports that it can no longer find a “This application requires a Data Connection.”
Does anyone have any information on what has changed?
February 28th, 2007 at 8:37 pm
I was actively using my Motorola V3x (aussie import) on t-mobile in the greater Seattle area on 22 February. At midnight, j2memaps / opera 3.0.1/3.1 and even FPC Benchmarker network tests stopped working, and haven’t worked again since. I even added the t-zones/mobileweb 5.99 service, but it still isn’t working.
March 30th, 2007 at 12:49 pm
I spoke to t-mobile and i was told that they had a leak in their network but found out and installed a security patch, so now in order to run opera mini, t-zones for 5.99 must be active. I did it and now i can surf the web and its actually a little faster than before. Also dont forget to ask tmobile to end you the installation file for t-zones, its updated now.
March 30th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
sorry typo : Also dont forget to ask tmobile to SEND you the installation file for t-zones, its updated now.
April 2nd, 2007 at 10:58 pm
You sir, are my hero. I have tried opera mini on my friends phone and fallen in love with it, but i couldnt get it to work on my tmobile. I used moto4lin because i have a mac. It also works on linux
April 9th, 2007 at 10:17 am
I have samsung SGH-D820 phone and I cannot install opera mini on it. can any body have the answer to this problem.
Gznhussain
April 27th, 2007 at 10:56 am
Samsung T629 cannot get operamini to run.
loads to game folder and cannot give permissions
June 10th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
THANKSS!!!! YOU HELPED MEE!! WEE! THANK GOD FOR YA!!
June 21st, 2007 at 1:41 pm
Thank you soo much!!!!
June 28th, 2007 at 6:32 pm
I agree with shamanstears when he says I agree that Opera Mini is superior to the WAP browser. I use the heck out of it. As far as Google Maps goes, it works fine on my T-Mobile Razr. Thanks for the link, I’m sure I will be using it quite a bit as well. I think this guy knows what he is talking about. Great source of information.
July 1st, 2007 at 11:19 pm
please help. i have tmobile web and a nokia 5300. i am pulling my hair out trying to get various apps running. one of them being opera mini. pse can someone tell me what i need to do. thks. i am ready to pack it up and move to another service provider. tmobile is so limiting.
July 3rd, 2007 at 3:20 pm
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July 18th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
I FINALLY got my t809 flashed to a d820 only to find that OperaMini STILL wouldn’t work on tmobile… BUT, after MUCHO Googling I found that the problem lies in the 8080 port assignment… I changed it to port 9201 and Viola’… IT WORKS… Opera 3.1 finally works!!!
use all the settings listed at the top of this thread except the port # (use 9201) and see if it works for you.
August 18th, 2007 at 8:47 am
can you show a picture of byte 2F i don’t kno wthat to click
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December 26th, 2007 at 11:10 pm
mm this sounds good but im wondering do i need a driver for my phone or can i just use the p2ktool kit?
i have a samsung t729
thanks
email me at edfungus@gmail.com
thank you if you can help!
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January 13th, 2008 at 5:52 pm
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January 17th, 2008 at 10:45 am
I’ve been trying to install Opera mini on a Verizon LG enV (9900). They’ve got this thing so locked down I can’t get it to load, plus it appears this phone does not support Java. Anybody confirm that there is no way to load Opera onto the enV?
February 21st, 2008 at 3:03 pm
Hi -
Has there been an update yet to allow mini Opera to work with T-Mobile? They offer the best coverage in my area and I was hoping to try mini Opera with it.
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Do you have instructions for doing this to a Nokia phone? As far as I can tell the P2K tools work only on Motorola phones.
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