Off topic: Setting up GPS for the Blackberry 8800 (T-mobile)

Geek post com­ing up. Hav­ing just acquired the Black­Berry 8800 with GPS, I try it out. The GPS recog­nizes satel­lites, move­ment etc. but no bbmaps. I do a little inter­net hunt­ing and the online con­sensus appears to be that my prob­lem is with the TCP set­tings in Options/Advanced Options. My default APN is internet.com, with pass­word and user­name blank, and that is no good. The post I find sug­gests a T-mobile set­ting, but that too is duff.

So I call the oxy­mor­onic T-mobile Sup­port line and — on my third attempt — ask them what the T-mobile APN set­ting should be to get my GPS work­ing. They don’t know and ask their crack­berry sup­port team. After “an inter­net search” (!) they tell me the prob­lem is some­thing to do with the TCP and APN set­tings, but this is BlackBerry’s prob­lem not theirs and they really don’t know. They give me a toll num­ber for Black­Berry in the US.

I do another online search and find APN: general.t-mobile.uk, pass­word and user­name left blank. This works, and I hope it works for you.