Web: No Gateway Reply – Nokia E63 + WLAN (and 5 days with new E63) September 29, 2009
Posted by karthicksundararajan in Uncategorized.Tags: BSNL, E63, Huawei, No Gateway Reply, Nokia, Nokia E63, sony Ericsson, T610, wa1003A, Web: No Gateway Reply
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I bought a Nokia E63 last Wednesday (23-September-2009). Not a big Nokia fan myself, getting convinced by the ‘value for money’ fact and decent looks , I wanted to try that out and went for the sexy black color.
I faced some problems (common) and fixed it myself / from the internet. Just thought of sharing them for the sake of fellow E63ians.
I had a Sony Ericsson T610, and have been using that for 5 years. It is a rock solid phone, by all means. It survived my rough use, rains, numerous fall downs, over 1000 hours of talk time, and 20000+ texts. I did not even go to the service center once in its life time (even the battery is stock) and I am still using that as my secondary mobile. Recently the battery started fading out quickly within a day 
. I was bored of the ALARM tone , polyphonic ringtones, service provider’s no-support for GPRS, no third party application support, 4MB memory, VGA camera, etc. Decided it was time for a change, and went for E63 after considering IPhone, HTC G1, HTC Touch Diamond on the higher end, Blackberry Curve 8520, Nokia E71, E63 on the lower end. Finally settled down with E63.
Glitches faced during mobile switch:
Phonebook copy
To put simple, all options of transferring my 500 odd contacts to new phone failed.
Bluetooth to bluetooth phone transfer failed for some weird reason, T610 to my laptop bluetooth transfer was failing for some reason, wire transfer to my laptop could not be done because I had already thrown the T610 USB connectors and CDs away. I then tried synchronizing my contacts with outlook and Voila!! It worked. My laptop’s Outlook now had the contacts in it. I found I could transfer them in two ways – simply synchronize using PC suite or use the software vCard export V3.0 to export all the contacts as separate vcfs and transfer to the E63. All’s well now.
GPRS activated and working. but WIFI?
Pissed off with the Wi-Fi thingy. E63 wouldn’t work in my home WAN. I was not able to download anything from GPRS as my current data plan was expensive for bulk downloads.
E63 would detect the wi-fi network, accept my wi-fi password, add it to the access point, but always threw WEB: GATEWAY NO REPLY when I tried to browse. Took quite a bit of time to figure it out. But, worth jotting it down somewhere for someone to refer. Here is what I did and which finally worked (after seeing so many forums and so many solutions)
And ya, I am using a Huawei WA1003A router.
- Set up a home page in the access point – ya I did, but it did not work. Same ‘Package No Reply’ error.
- Give manual IP4 settings, restart the phone – did not work. Same ‘Package No Reply’ error.
- Change the WPA key if at all you use for your wireless security to 10 digit HEX WEP string – tried it, did not work. Same ‘Package No Reply’ error.
- Removed the wireless security, let my connection open, tried connecting now. Same ‘Package No Reply’ error.
- Give the MAC address of the phone and unfilter it in the router home page – did not try, thought it was just stupid since my router was set such that did not filter any devices.
- Update the phone’s firmware to the latest one – did not try since I wanted to do keep this if there is no other go. By the way, my phone’s firmware is 100.21.110 which is good enough for wi-fi.
- Update the router’s firmware -did not try since I wanted to do this after updating phone’s firmware – lastest option.
- tried with hotspot wifi connections. sadly it threw ‘WLAN could not be connected’ or ‘web: gateway no reply’ all the time.
- After all this, I remembered that I give the broadband connection user id and password from my laptop and is not STORED in the router. DAMN!!!! so stupid that was. I quickly went through the router homepage, tweaked it, gave the user id and password, saved, enabled DHCP (for some reason from some forum), restarted the router and Wi-fi now works like a charm in my E63. Complete configuration details of Huawei WA1003A router can be found HERE.
- Understood that ‘Web: No Gateway Found’ is a generic error message that comes out for various reasons.
- Don’t recommend giving the phone to Nokia Care before you try your hands down with your router / connection thing because the Nokia Care folks just flush the phone and install the latest firmware. Nothing else as I enquired them.
- Better to talk to the Nokia promoters in the Nokia priority sales showroom (not Nokia care service center), they can actually help by connecting to the showroom wi-fi. I found out that the problem is not with the phone, but with the connection only after browsing for sometime from within a Nokia priority sales showroom.
Writing this alongside enjoying some music videos in youtube through my wlan connected E63
Have fun, hope this helps!!!
My blog is a Fucking Fabulous blog! March 14, 2009
Posted by karthicksundararajan in Uncategorized.Tags: award, Karthick Sundararajan, Personal
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Awarded by bloomsUnlimited, I am deeply honoured with this!
Every nice thing in this world comes with a price tag, don’t they? So, this award comes home with a set of rules:
* Put the image on your blog
* List 10 truths about yourself
* Give the award to 5 other people
* Provide meaningful quotation
I have already put the image top up in the post. Errrrr 10 truths about me to put in the internet is GROSS! RUCK FULES! I hate ‘em, afterall rules are meant to be broken.
Maybe I can try writing some truths about me, but just can’t think of passing the same to 5 another guys – I have quite a few in the blogroll and I have been trying to maintain this site as a semi-informative and most of the hits come for them and not to read my personal yada-yada.
1. The first thought that struck me on seeing this pass by award and intimidating someone to write 10 truths is “It is guckin fay!” lmao – NOT to offend the award originator or the midway passers or the daisyblue(oom) who generously passed on the award to my blog (Thanks Dais 
)
But I seriously believe that these sorta things are humongously girlish. After all who will read all nice things about guys nicely written and posted? lol, guckin fay!
I decided to continue writing – I ain’t a gay, but just to maintain the f*kin dignity of the award!
(This is a truth to be counted in )
2. I drive bikes at real crazy speeds (kinda my possessed obsession). I know it is bad, but always I’ll be sure that I don’t harm the public. I am trying to dampen it after I saw a freak that overtook me at about 115 – 120kmph in a bessie beach sunday eve drag race crashed with a pedestrian and got the ped’s skull opened. It seriously SUCKS.
3. I cuss a lot and it’s already evident from this post lol
4. I hate my current profession.
5. I was seriously pissed off, distressed for the past few months for various reasons n just getting out of it.
6. Sixth truth is that I don’t really get anything from my grey cells that I could harmlessly put in the internet – They are awfully asking for a good sleep which I haven’t had for the past one week. So, cutting the crap with this.
Rules are meant to be broken as I already said 
So, am stopping my rambling with this, and I aint passing this to any fellow bloggers (Rather I follow a very few non-technical bloggers) – If in case you have a blog, you read this and you don’t have this award already, freely treat it as an award that I pass on to you, my READER – Go on, have fun.
Oh, missed it – the “Meaningful” quotation:
“Dreams are like greams road, fruitshops and gallopin gooseberries might be there, but reality is like “Andhra mess” where all the crowd is in” – makes meaning, no?
chao.
New Year 2009 January 1, 2009
Posted by karthicksundararajan in Uncategorized.Tags: 2009, Greeting, New year, Wish
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A nice new year wish that I got from one of my friends. Hats off to the one who made it.
Wish you all a HNY!
IT Culture – Bizarre article by vikatan (Sakthi Vikatan) September 27, 2008
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என்ன கொடுமை சார்…8( இத வாசிச்சிட்டு கமெண்ட் பண்ணுங்க.. என்னோட கமெண்ட்ஸ் inline ல.
Article from Sakthi Vikatan: My source - http://www.muthamilmantram.com/viewtopic.php?f=156&t=28295
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ஐ.டி. (தகவல் தொழில்நுட்ப) துறையில் பணி புரிபவன் நான். என்னைப்
போன்றோருக்கு தாங்கள் தரும் அறிவுரை? – கோபிநாத், சென்னை-28
sun music ல யாருமே போன் பண்ணலைன்னா studio க்காரங்கலே போன் பண்ணி பாட்டு போட சொல்ற மாதிரி, கேள்வி கேக்க ஆள் இல்லைன்னு இப்புடி மொட்டையா ஒரு கேள்வி! gopinath from சென்னை-28 டு சக்தி விகடன் asking for an advice – நம்பற மாதிரியே இல்ல…
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நீங்கள் கூடுதல் புத்திசாலிகள்- கெட்டிக்காரர்கள். எந்த ஒரு விஷயத்தையும்
பளிச்சென்று பிடித்துக் கொள்ளும் கூர்மதி உங்களுடையது. வெற்றி என்பது
உங்களுக்கு ஒரு விளையாட்டுப் பொருள். வாழ்க!
”வெற்றி என்பது உங்களுக்கு ஒரு விளையாட்டுப் பொருள்” - சும்மா ஏதோ கீழ கெடந்து எடுக்கற மாதிரி இல்ல எழுதிருக்காங்க… Simple example- ஒரு வேலை கெடைக்கறதுக்கு Infosys off-campus written test கிளியர் பண்ணவங்க கிட்ட கேட்டு பாருங்க என்ன பண்ணாங்கன்னு. I (not only I did, but most job seeking freshers I knew did) used to practice over 1000 puzzles from Shakunthala Devi Puzzles to Puzzle you, More Puzzles, The Great Book of Puzzles and Teasers by George Summers, Logical Deduction puzzles by George Summers, Quantitative Aptitude by R.S.Aggarwal, Old question papers for the written test (heard that the pattern has now changed) in hardly one or two month’s time. So, there definitely IS some hardwork behind all the so-called-easy-success. And, I can say that there is nothing in this world that will come fall into your hands so easily as you have thought off and written.
பணம் மட்டுமே வாழ்க்கை அல்ல! உங்களின் பெற்றோர் தங்களது பணிக் காலத்தின்
இறுதியில் வாங்கும் ஊதியத் தொகையை, நீங்கள் முதல் மாதமே வாங்கி விடலாம்.
அதற்காக, அவர்களை விடவும் நீங்கள் அதிபுத்திசாலி என்றோ, திறமையாளர்
என்றோ, பெரிய மனிதராகவோ எண்ண வேண்டாம்.
How Sarcastic! Worst written part of the whole article.
உறவினர்களை அற்ப ஜந்துக்கள் போல நினைக்க வேண்டாம். தம்பி- தங்கைகளைப்
படிக்க வைக்க நிறைய செலவு செய்யுங்கள். குடும்பத்தின் பந்த- பாசத்தை,
இணைய தளத்தில் டௌன் லோட் செய்ய முடியாது!
Past times, same kind of useless desperate remarks were being made on the Bank jobs and other white collar jobs and now IT taking its turn. Who knows, same kinda comments could be made on GOOD writers tomorrow.
வெளிநாட்டுப் பணம் வரலாம்… வெளிநாட்டுப் பண்பாடு வரலாமா? பிற மனிதர்கள்
எல்லோருமே நாம் பயன்படுத்திக் கொள்ள மட்டும் அல்ல!
Every Culture has its own merits and de-merits. Neither Dravidian culture is the perfect one nor Western culture is the worst one. Sicko writer needs foreign money but not their good practices.
பத்து ரூபாய் கூடுதல் சம்பளம் என்றதும் கம்பெனியைக் கைகழுவுவது கொஞ்ச
காலம் பெருமையாகத் தெரியலாம். ஆனால், ஒரு நாள்… இந்தத் துறையின்
செயல்பாடே இதனால் ஸ்தம்பிக்க வாய்ப்பிருக்கிறது.
Echooos me, first learn that job hops mainly happen for money, challenging work, new opportunities and not for name and fame.
உணவு, உறக்கம், ஓய்வு, காலா காலத்தில் இல்லாதபடி உடம்பை- மனதைச்
சீர்குலைத்தால், 40 வயதுக்குப் பிறகு உயிர் வாழ்வதே பிரச்னையாகி விடும்.
யோசியுங்கள்.
Exaggerated truth. But still I second this.
எப்போதும் ஏ.ஸி-யில் இருப்பதால், உங்களுக்கு வியர்வையே வருவதில்லை. அது,
உடலுக்குக் கெடுதல். உடலை வியர்க்க விடுங்கள். தண்ணீர்த் தாகம் எடுக்காத
போதும் நீர் அருந்துங்கள். கண்ட கண்ட குளிர்பானங்கள் குடிப்பதை விட்டு
விட்டு, எலுமிச்சை, ஆரஞ்சு, ஆப்பிள், திராட்சை சாறு அருந்துங்கள்.
பார்லியும் சேர்த்துக் கொள்ளுங்கள். தினந்தோறும் நிகழ வேண்டிய காலைக்
கடனை முடிக்க மாத்திரைகள் சாப்பிடுவதும் நல்லதல்ல. கண்களிலும் கவனம்
வையுங்கள்.
I accept. But this is exaggerated as well.
உட்கார்ந்தே இருப்பதால் எடை கூடும்; சர்க்கரை அதிகரிக்கும்.
கொலஸ்ட்ராலும் பழுத்துக் கிடக்கும். மூளைக்கு வேலை என்பதால் ரத்த
அழுத்தமும், சக்கைப் போடு போடும். எல்லாவற்றையும் எதிர்பார்த்து வெற்றி
கொள்ளுங்கள்.
காதலிக்கும்போது அல்லது திருமணத்துக்குப் பெண் தேடும் போது… சம்பளம்,
வேலைவாய்ப்பு, செலவழிக்கும் இயல்பு போன்றவற்றை இரண்டாம்பட்சமாக வைத்துக்
கொண்டு, ஒழுக்கம், குணம், பண்பாடான குடும்பம் ஆகிய விஷயங்களுக்கு
முன்னுரிமை கொடுங்கள்.
This has been ruthlessly pointed to IT bachelors. I personally feel that this advice suits for almost all unmarried people.
‘இன்று போலவே என்றும் சம்பளம் வரும்’ என்று கனவு காணாதீர்கள். சிக்கனமாக
செலவழிக்கப் பழகுங்கள். உங்களால் அதிகம் செலவழிக்க முடியும் என்பதற்காக,
சிரமப்பட்டு சம்பாதிப்பவர்களது மனம் புண்படும்படி ஜம்பம் அடிக்காதீர்கள்.
அந்நிய நாட்டின் தயவில் அதிகம் சம்பாதிப்பவர்களாகிய பலரும் இந்த நாட்டு
வெற்றிக்கு உழைப்பவரை இளக்காரமாக நினைக்காதீர்கள்.
Again a misleading statement. Not only IT people work abroad. It is so dumb like saying that every Afgan is a terrorist!
வெளிநாடுகளில் வேலை பார்த்துவிட்டு ஊருக்குத் திரும்பும் போது,
ஓட்டல்களில் தங்கிக் கொண்டு… உறவினர்களை- அம்மா- அப்பாவை, ”என்னால் வர
முடியாது. இங்கு வந்து பார்… ஆட்டோவுக்கு வேண்டுமானால் காசு
தருகிறேன்!” என்று கூறி அசிங்கப்படுத்தாதீர்கள். பணத்தை விட ரத்தம்
கனமானது.
No Comments. I have seen this only in movies, haven’t even heard of people doing such things. Writer might have seen Vadivelu-Parthiban-Dubai comedy before writing this, maybe, ya
வெளிநாடுகளில் பிறந்து வளரும் குழந்தைகளுக்கு எதிர்ப்புச் சக்தி குறைவு
என்பது உண்மைதான். என்றாலும் சிறிது நேரமாவது தாத்தா- பாட்டி… அதாவது
உங்களின் பெற்றோர், உங்கள் பிள்ளையைக் கொஞ்சுவதற்கு- உணவு ஊட்டு வதற்கு
அனுமதி கொடுங்கள்.
உங்களை காயப்படுத்துவதாக இந்த பதில் அமைந்தால், என்னை மன்னியுங்கள்!
உங்களை நோகடிப்பது எனது நோக்கம் அல்ல. இவை யாவும், உங்களைப் போன்றோ ரின்
பெற்றோர்கள், உங்களிடம் சொல்ல முடியாமல் என்னிடம் புலம்பிய புலம்பல்கள்.
நான் வெறும் தபால்காரன்… அவ்வளவே! நமக்கு வரும் எந்த நோட்டீஸூக்கும்
தபால்காரனை நோக முடியாது
A clever Disclaimer! If you don’t own what you say / write, then you shouldn’t have written it.
PS: Due to some technical problems with my browser, I couldn’t write the whole post in Tamil 
Best of Vadivelu… punch vida sonna tinch vidriya :D hilarious July 4, 2007
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Interview experiences-part 2 July 3, 2007
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This post is the continuation of my previous post about interviews. People started asking that did I attend 37 intws now, really? Yes, I did. But I did not go to 37 different companies. some were repeats . Here comes the list…
- - wipro technologies ( off campus at pollachi mahalingam college – failed in technical written test)
- icici infotech ( now 3i infotech) – failed in the written test
- zylog (campus placement and got thro… but they asked for original certificates – so dint take that up)
- IGI global ( campus placement – dint get through the interview)
- ICICI (after all rounds, I understood that it was a telecalling job., jeez, I ran away dropping my resume folder there)
- convergys(in second round I told that I’m not interested in relocating to bangalore – intw happened at ‘The Aruna Chennai’, nungambakkam)
- quintegra(cleared the written test and still awaiting for the interview call heheh lol)
- sutherland (in ‘Next’, Nandanam – failed in the second round – they asked to speak about a topic continuously for two mins ;( )
- sutherland (in hotel president, radhakrishnan road, mylapore – for HP support – rejected since I dint knew the devices that can be connected to an USB port)
- sutherland (in DBS business center, nungambakkam – for windows XP support – rejected since I dint knew how to partition a hard-disk and about the logical partitions of HDD)
- sutherland (in DBS business center, nungambakkam – for windows XP support – selected but for non-technical voice based support. So, I dint take this offer up)
- NICCS (in kilpauk – pulla pudikkara idam… came out screaming this was actually a call center training institute. after several rounds,they said that we need to take up a training paying 5000 Rs and after completion, NICCS will assist in placements)
- cosmosoft, kodambakkam(rejected since I did not knew Java)
- a company in anna nagar (dont remember the name… it was opposite to a park in the first floor – they said they will get back later… they called up sometime later and I decided not to take up since it was a very small company – looked like mannar & co for me…)
- hexaware – (cleared the written test with josh, failed in the GD due to two braggarts… only one girl was selected in our batch)
- isoft in loyola – cleared the written test – but they said they will get back later and they never came back to me
- isoft in loyola – again went for the written test. same set of questions cleared the written test, GD and interview too… they got back to me after I joined polaris – so I did not take up the offer
- polaris – Got the offer, accepted it and worked there for almost two years.
- CTS – cleared written test with ease, but badly screwed up in the interview… interviewers damaged my self-confidence. this made me to think that I should never step in to an intw without preparation.
- infosys – cleared the written test at meenakshi college, kodambakkam, and cleared the interviews at sholinganallur Infy. One of my best performances so far. The panel was really impressed and gave me lotsa options. I took up the offer… but did not join Infy.
- oracle(at le royal) – failed in the technical interview (third round)
- oracle(at le royal) – failed in the technical interview (third round)
- oracle(at taj connimara) – failed in the managerial/HR interview fourth round)
- fidelity(at taj coramandel) – opening was for PL/SQL developer. I somehow managed to clear the written test. but the interviewers told that they will get back to me for a suitable java opening… and they never came back as usual.
- oracle(telephonic) – three rounds – did well…but dint get call after that.
- oracle retech(telephonic) – cleared one tech round… but I was not interested in taking that forward since I was a bit suspicious about the company’s association with Oracle corp.
- perot systems(telephonic) – cleared one tech round. but the profile was for pro*c, oracle professionals.
- credit suizze(c++) – went to bangalore for attending this. After going there, came to know that they were not ready to interview a java guy. So I went to c++ panel and failed.
- efunds – got the offer. but did not join the company.
- EDS – cleared all rounds. I did not take up the offer since I was not comfortable with the pay they offered.
- HCL – cleared all rounds. I did not take up the offer since I was not comfortable with the pay they offered.
- ml – got screwed up in third round because of my showiness in resume abt my oracle certification.
- rsq – got the offer. but did not join the company.
- navis – got the offer. but did not join the company.
- tvsinfotech – they found out another guy before they finish the interview process with me. so dropped in the middle.
- capgemini – cleared first round. they never called me up for the managerial round.
- HP – cleared the interview, took up the offer.
My success rate in interviews is 16 outta 37 ( I’ve included the numbers which I’ve cleared and they never called me for subsequent rounds ). After I gained some experience, the success rate has increased tremendously. As I said earlier, I believe that technical competence can make one to get through any interview. If not technically sound, good attitude + preparation will do good in most cases. Comments / ideas / advises are most welcome.
Awesome video June 7, 2007
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Jeez, One of the best wildlife videos I’ve ever seen.
Hatsoff to guys who shot this!
