*WARNING* This is still VERY useful info if you want cookie support through HoTTProxy for your phone – it lets you check your gmail, etc.  BUT this is NO LONGER going to be minutes usage if you don’t have a plan that includes internet, there will be a per MB charge added to your bill!  Please read: Verizon WAP Hackers Must Read: New $1.99/MB Charge

If you do not want to use your cell phone’s providers WAP service you might find a little hard to change the settings. Your first problem would probably be that the settings are no where to be found! Once you do manage to find the secret menu then you have the problem of not being able to edit any of the fields! Well this can all be changed but it will take some work and it’s not an exact science. All of this information can be gleaned from the pages of HowardForums.com. If you want to hack any cell phone that is the place to start, and I doubt you’ll have to look elsewhere. This process is almost exactly the same for most new LG phones. You’ll be playing with some sensitive areas of your phone so be very careful and think twice about this especially if you are out of your return period for the phone and don’t have a backup phone available. Here are the 10 steps you’ll need to take if you are planning on hacking your vx8600…

Step 1. To be able to edit the WAP settings you’re going to have to make a change to (or replace) a file in your phone’s file system, and to mange that you’re going to need to see the file system. One way to do this is to download and install BitPim. This program will come in handy for getting lots of information on and off of your phone. If you get any errors or “locked” messages, try the newest test release.

Step 2. You need to be able to connect your computer to your phone. There are two ways to do this that I am aware of, the first is to use a Bluetooth Adapter the second is to use a data cable. People are more likely to have bluetooth so I’ll focus on that. Have the phone find your computer from the bluetooth menu and pair the two, the serial port service is the one we’re going to need and we’ll need to know what COM port is being used. (Right-click the bluetooth icon on the taskbar and goto advanced config > Local Services Tab > Note the bluetooth serial COM port)

Step 3. Right-click the bluetooth icon on the taskbar and select quick-connect > Bluetooth Serial Port > LG VX8600 to connect the phone with the computer and start BitPim. In BitPim goto Edit > Settings and put in the LG VX8600 and the com port you noted in Step 2. Auto detect doesn’t seem to work over bluetooth.

Step 4. In Bitpim select View -> Filesystem and then click on the new filesystem icon that appeared and expand the file system view.

Step 5. In the OWS folder (make a copy of everything in here on your computer) there is a file called paramtable1.fil. Using a hex editor, open the paramtable1.fil and change the third byte over from a ‘00′ to a ‘20′, if it bumps the ‘00′ over, make sure to delete it before you save. Upload the altered paramtable1.fil to replace the current one.

Step 6. Go to the service menu. For the some LG phones you just press zero on the main menu, for the newest phones you dial ##program8600, where 8600 would be 9900 if you had the vx9900.

Step 7. Go to the WAP menu option and change your primary port to 80, and the primary hostname to wap.google.com

Step 8. If your phone didn’t restart, go ahead and do it for good measure.

Step 9. This is where you cross your fingers that I didn’t forget any steps.

Step 10. Get online! You should be able to get to any site Google has indexed. I highly recommend you take a look at setting up HoTTProxy on your home computer and using that instead.