FlyerTalk Wireless Problems/Feedback Thread
 

If you have problems with the FlyerTalk Wireless post them here. This area has been set up at:

http://www.flyertalk.com/wap/
(If you try to access it with a normal web browser you will likely just be sent back to the FT home page.)

Note:
If you are having problems logging in make sure you are entering your password in correctly as it is case sensitive and some phone browsers will capitalize the first letter in a form entry automatically. See the post by PremEx below for details.

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Works like a charm, thanks!

I can't seem to log in from my fairly new Motorola E815 cell phone using Verizon Mobile Web 2.0 Browser.

I get a message from FlyerTalk Wireless after entering my username and password that says something like "Either the username or password are incorrect, or you are not authorized to access this service."

:(

SOLUTION FOUND. See Post #10 below.

:)

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logged in on my nokia 6102 as we speak

Just double checked and you are authorized to access the service so, it like a compatibility issue...

Could you try it again just to make sure that it was not an error in entering username/password? Then if it is still not working could you go to the following page w/ your wireless device and let me know when you have gone to it?

http://wiforums.net/mime.php

Thanks,

My phone is getting redirected back to the main FT home page. The useragent is:

Qtek8010 (Mozilla\4.0 compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; Smartphone; 176x220)

Could you hit the following link and let me know after you have done so?

http://wiforums.net/mime.php

done.

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Figured it out! Brb.

Got on! Here's what happened to me:

I tried again but with the same denial and re-direct back to the log-in page. But I did figure out what was wrong and here's what my log-in problem turned out to be.

Apparently username is not case sensitive, but password is.

My phone's browser starts every line with a capital letter. But my password is all lower case. That was the problem.

On the browser's toggle options it only gives you a choice of letters, symbols, numbers but no case selection. It just defaults to the phone's default, I guess, and automatically capitalizes the first letter of each line.

So I just typed in a second/duplicate "first" letter to my password string (that second one naturally came out lower case) and then deleted the first capitalized one so that the password was all lower-case. Then I hit "Login."

And that worked! Don't know if you can add the words "case sensitive" at the password box or not, but that might be a good idea?

Looks pretty slick! Thanks!

Nice catch... thanks for letting us know what the problem was! ^

I have sent a support request to the WiForums team on this. Hopefully you will be able to access it soon, give it a try tomorrow afternoon and give us an update of if it is now working or not. Thanks,

It looks great. Is there a help page on the main forum for the wap site? It has several new features, which I would like to find out more about, but would rather not do it on wap because its so slow (if that's not totally contradictory ;) ).

There is not a faq yet on any of the features of FT Wireless on the regular site yet, no. That does sound a bit contradictory though, yes... ;)

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When I click on "My Forums" it has only a limit number of the many forums I subscribe to. Anyone else notice this, or am I missing a solution?

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Works fine here, too, when I use Opera.
Does not work with Pocket IE though. The The useragent is already registered at wiforums.net.

Can anyone confirm? I would be surprised if it did not work at all, I thought I had read that it worked some, but had some display problems in Pocket IE because of some non standards compliance within P. IE.

works fine on a Treo - but seems a bit tough to navigate a lenghty thread (too many pages to load, one after another), though that is to be expected...thanks FT!

BTW, the device is a MDA PRO (aka UTC Universal, Qtek 9000, PDA IV, XDA Exec, Imate Jasjar). I was redirected to the wireless help page. Perhaps this is due to the fact that this device is the first with Windows Mobile 5.0 and has a VGA resolution?

However, I just checked the useragent string and it seems pretty generic and does not seem to reflect anything specific about the device: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320)

Have you hit the mime page with your PDA yet?

http://wiforums.net/mime.php

Yes, it says, "already registered" or something similar.

Great to get a mobile interface to flyertalk, BTW! Thanks for all the effort :)

Sure thing. :) I have forwarded on the info on this to WiForums. Thanks,

This is a typical problem with WM devices, their browsers claim to be normal IE browsers... One option is to manually edit the user agent reference...

FWIW; opera on a JasJar and K-Jam works fine.

Same here (my PDA redirects to the wireless help page). PDA is HP iPaq 5550; user agent is "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 4.01; Windows CE; PPC; 240x320)" and OS is WinCE 4.2

On the wiforums.net/mime.php it says "The browser information for your particular WiDevice has already been submitted to the WiForums Device Compatibility Support Team"

On my Motorola Razr V3 all I get is "This page cannot be displayed". Will I not be able to access FT on my phone?

Does not work with Dell Axim X50v, which uses Windows Mobile 2003.

fduvall

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Well, it does work like a charm if you mean like a tiny ornament. :). It looks great, but I think reading posts one per page would end up being more annoying than slow page loads. What would really be cool is a way to set long pages for thread pages and fast, wap pages to navigate around with.

Either way, thanks for keeping up with the cool stuff!

I tried it on my Treo. I couldn't get to OMNI, but I was able to see some other forums.

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This is MUCH better. :) 1000% improvement in readability and speed.

I agree it would be nice to have 5-10 posts display per page, instead of just one.

Neat tool...great stuff

Loads up "ok" with the wap browser on a Nokia 6021 phone, but the header elements on the pages (coloured background bits), etc are transposed vertically and therefore a little difficult to read. The thread posts however display fine, so workable.

Neat feature of FT - thanks! ^

Me too. In my experience the biggest issues with mobile web browsing are too many or large images as well as complex tables/frames (these are gone with the very neat page layout ^ ) and less whether an additional 2-3k of text is transfered.

But then again, I use a 3G network most of the time :p

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Works like a champ for me as well. Thanks!!!

Is this only for cellphone browsing?

Just tried with my wifi Palm Tungsten C; no joy. Tried with three different browsers.

Update on Pocket IE from WiForums:
So for now Pocket IE is not supported unfortunately.

I'm not sure if this was not some sort of connection error, sounds like it could be. Please try it again and if it doesn't work visit the link I posted above to the wiforums site and let me know that it is still not working and any details about how it is not working. One other quick thing to try, your device may not handle http forwards correctly, to test this try visiting: http://gallery.flyertalk.com/wap/

Should work for things other than cell phone browsing... if you are still having problems please visit the wiforums link above as well and let me know what the error/problem is that you are seeing. Also try this alternate link to see if you are having problems with http forwarding: http://gallery.flyertalk.com/wap/

My PDA uses the previous version (I can't remember what it's called exactly - PocketPC 2003?), so does this also apply to mine?

I'm not sure, best bet is to give it a try and see if it works...

I did, and it didn't (post #24), but the above statement from WiForums doesn't strictly apply to me, hence the question... Thanks!

My bad, sorry about that. Thanks,

Folks; one thing to keep in mind is that Flyertalk Wireless is for WAP devices. The Palm browser, Pocket Internet Explorer and many other PDA based browsers are NOT wap browsers, they are true internet browsers. WAP browsers are found in cellphones, blackberry devices and as an option on some PDA's.