Tethering With The Katana Eclipse X

[metallicpoet]

I just got a new Sanyo Katana Eclipse X today. After playing around a bit with it, I attached it to a data cable and fired up Sprint Smartsuite. To my surprise, it was able to connect to the Internet with no problem. I do not have a PAM plan, and I did not do any hacking to disable the NAI. Is this normal? Does the Katana Eclipse X, like the Sanyo MM-9000, not have a NAI? I would expect it to not allow me to connect considering I don't have a PAM plan.

[BrettW]

it is normal and if you continue doing it youll either get charges or a nasty letter warning you to stop then charges

the katana eclipse x has nai and it cannot be disabled

also in the future please do not spam across multiple parts of the forum

[IanR]

If you want to make sure that you don't get data charges you have to call and ask Sprint to disable the NAI on your phone. However there is one drawback, if you do disable the NAI, you can't use picturemail at all. But, if picturemail is something you don't worry about just call TS and have them disable the NAI, it's a free service.

Ian


I just got a new Sanyo Katana Eclipse X today. After playing around a bit with it, I attached it to a data cable and fired up Sprint Smartsuite. To my surprise, it was able to connect to the Internet with no problem. I do not have a PAM plan, and I did not do any hacking to disable the NAI. Is this normal? Does the Katana Eclipse X, like the Sanyo MM-9000, not have a NAI? I would expect it to not allow me to connect considering I don't have a PAM plan.

[SawThoseHornsOff]

If you want to make sure that you don't get data charges you have to call and ask Sprint to disable the NAI on your phone. However there is one drawback, if you do disable the NAI, you can't use picturemail at all. But, if picturemail is something you don't worry about just call TS and have them disable the NAI, it's a free service.

Ian

So let me get this straight, once nai is disabled, you essentially have free pam?

Or are you saying disabling nai prevents pam?

[kupikunskio]

If you want to make sure that you don't get data charges you have to call and ask Sprint to disable the NAI on your phone. However there is one drawback, if you do disable the NAI, you can't use picturemail at all. But, if picturemail is something you don't worry about just call TS and have them disable the NAI, it's a free service.

Ian

What's a free service?
Legitimate PAM most certainly isn't free, and NAI isn't a service, it's a way of identifying users of the network (NAI= Network Access Identifier) and disabling it on the network side and disabling it on a phone (ala A900) are two completely different things with drastically different results. Disabling on the phone simply allows you to force a tethered connection to use the phone's NAI, essentially hiding the tethered device from the network; disabling on the network simply disables data provisioning on the device which causes an error on the device, likely (and usually) 1012 provisioning error, and consequentially disables data on the device.