Etisalat Mobile TV on SE Smartphones

Posted: April 26th, 2007 | Author: dotblack | Filed under: Mobile-Web, UAE | 3 Comments »

I’ve received nine e-mails asking me how to configure Etisalat’s Mobile TV on Sony Ericsson smart phones namely P990 and M600. The problem lies in the tricky way of operating the Mobile TV from Etisalat’s side. So here I’ll explain how to make it work on your SE P990 and M600.

Requirements

As you were informed by Etisalat you need a 3G enabled mobile which P990 and M600 are, and a Wap Internet connection.

The confusion starts here. You need a 3G enabled mobile to view the Mobile TV channels while you still need a Wap connection which Etisalat calls Ewap.

Why do you need an Ewap connection? The irony is in the fact that Etisalat’s Weyak portal works only while browsing it through using the Ewap profile. A 3G Internet connection is different and Weyak’s Mobile Portal identifies only Ewap users. One more thing, you need to be subscribed to Weyak as well. Okay to get it straight we need these to start:

• Ewap subscription/settings
• Weyak subscription
• Mobile TV subscription/settings

If you want a shortcut, skiping the Ewap subscription/settings and Weyak subscriptions and avoiding all the hassle skip to the third step to save yourself sometime and some subscription charges.

Ewap subscription/settings

Ewap subscription is Free, but it usually takes up to 24 hours until it gets activated. In case you did not want to subscribe to Ewap, I’ll be showing you a way of accessing the channels list without the need to neither of subscriptions to Weyak or even Ewap.

To subscribe to Etisalat’s Ewap dial **122#* follow the instructions and subscribe. Once you’re confirmed after 24 hours, you’ll be receiving the connection settings as SMS which you have to accept and install the settings.

So now you have the Ewap connection and you can browse the internet with it.

Weyak subscription

To subscribe to Weyak, send “a weyak” to “1010″ and you’re set.

Mobile Web Subscription/Settings

To subscribe to Mobile Web, send “s mtv” to “1010″, wait for a confirmation SMS, and then another SMS that holds your configurations.

At this point you’ll be having a connection by the name “live.ae” in your connection list. This is the connection that has to be used by your media player once trying to view the channels.

Connection Groups setup

This is the step that we’ll make everything work.

Go to: Main Menu>Tools>Control Panel>Connections>Internet Accounts. Under the “Account” tab, you’ll have all the setup connections and the built-in connections that come with the phone.

The trick is here, you have to be able to choose an Internet connection every time you use an application such as the Browser, E-Mail Client and the Media Player. Luckily the E-Mail client has an option to choose a group account to use for E-Mail access.

As for the Browser and the Media Player, we’ll have to work around it by taking the next two steps.

1. Enable “Show Connection Dialog”
2. Setup Connection groups to work with each type of application

To enable showing the connection dialog every time you access the Internet go to: Connections>Internet Accounts>More>Options and check the option “Show Connection Dialog”. So now whenever you open your Media Player to open an internet location it will ask you to choose a connection group which we will setup in the next step.

Setting up groups is really easy. Go to: Connections>Internet Accounts>More>New Account>Group Account. Create two groups:

1. Mobile TV
2. Data

Now go to the “Groups” tab. Choose “Mobile TV” and click on “Add new account”, you’ll be given the list of existing connections. Choose “live.ae” connection and save.

Do the same thing with the “Data” group and choose “Ewap” and save.

You should be set now.

Open your Media Player, it’s called “Online” in M600i, I can’t remember the name in P990i, but you could see the icon has a globe with a film strip around it. After you opened the Media Player, go to: More>New Link and enter the followings.

URL: rtsp://10.99.121.200/channel06.sdp
Name: BBC World

Do this for a test, if it worked then you’re set and working.

To have the whole list of channels in your media player for later reference. Here’s the list:

1. rtsp://10.99.121.200/channel01.sdp
2. rtsp://10.99.121.200/channel02.sdp
3. rtsp://10.99.121.200/channel03.sdp
4. rtsp://10.99.121.200/channel04.sdp
5. rtsp://10.99.121.200/channel05.sdp
6. rtsp://10.99.121.200/channel06.sdp
7. rtsp://10.99.121.200/channel07.sdp
8. rtsp://10.99.121.200/channel08.sdp
9. rtsp://10.99.121.200/channel09.sdp
10. rtsp://10.99.121.200/channel10.sdp
11. rtsp://10.99.121.200/channel11.sdp

And you’re done. Try the above and let me know how it works with you.

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