CECT P168 Advanced Browse Settings

// November 2nd, 2008 // Hardware & gadgets

As you may know from a previous post that I have a CECT P168+ (chinese phone). The phone works grate, but it has a few major downsides. One of the most important downside is that the browser is really bad. It does not render almost any web page. I could not even access my gMail account. Well…I found a solution.

First of all, I must warn you that this involves editing things in the engineering mode. So, if you have a flashing cable this is the moment to make a backup of your firmware. Also, Don’t change enything else except for what I am telling you. You can really easy brick your phone if you don’t know what you are doing.

So, let get started. first of all go to engineering mode. To do this dial *#3646633# on the screen. You will see a list of setting. Go to Misc. and then to WAP. What we must do is change the type of pages the browser accepts. Go to Accept Header and change it to HTML. Until now the browser only accepted WAP2.0 pages. So rendering gMail or other more complex pages was impossible. Click OK and then Back.


Another thing we must to is trick the server to think we are using a more complex phone with a very advanced browser. That is why we must change the User Agent. Right now, it is set to MAUI E800. I tested a few and the one for Nokia N72, N93 and for SE E900i and W800i work best. if you have time (and money) test the others as well and if you find one that works better post it here. Press OK and then back.

Press the Red button to exit engineering mode. Now, you should be able to browse more websites. I also discovered that it opens pages a little faster than before. The thing is, that now it will open images as well. So it will make more traffic. Unless you have a plan that lets you browse website at very cheap prices from your mobile phone I don’t recommend this.

This should also work on the original CECT P168 and also on the CECT P168c, but I did not try it cause I don’t have any of the other phones.

Hope this was useful for you all.

6 Responses to “CECT P168 Advanced Browse Settings”

  1. Kevin says:
    November 2, 2008 at 5:21 pm

    I have a p168+ and a p168c and have never had any problem going to the gmail site. You must use mobile or wap pages on these phones. I will try your suggested settingsand see what happens. Cantoni.mobi has a nice list of these commonly used sites.

  2. Admin says:
    November 2, 2008 at 5:33 pm

    Response to kevin:
    With this settings you can now access normal pages in HTML, not only WAP pages. You can acces almost any website with no major problems.

  3. randy says:
    November 13, 2008 at 2:49 am

    i just purchased a cect 186+ will changing these engineering mode settings work on this phone without dammage to it? thanks
    Randy@crosswinds-ranch.com

  4. randy says:
    November 15, 2008 at 1:35 am

    i just came back from t-mobil (3rd time) everything on the phone works but the internet y-mobile said its the phone ?
    HELP PLEASE thanks

  5. stephanie says:
    January 20, 2009 at 8:25 am

    i just purchase a cect i9/i68.
    and because i dont have a plan. can i still get on the internet? , or will it be standed charges?
    or will it be free.
    oh and 1 more questian.
    does the cecti9/i68.
    have app installing like the iphone.
    please reply.
    HELPP ME!
    THANKYOU.
    x

  6. Admin says:
    January 20, 2009 at 11:10 am

    You must have an operator for your mobile phone. Not necessarily a plan that has free traffic, but your operator must allow internet access.
    About the app installation…I don’t think it has. I am not sure since I only have a P168+

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