Disconnecting GPRS
 

I've got my GPRS over bluetooth connection sorted out now, but how do I disconnect?

Any help will be much appreciated.

Thanks.

If we're talking about GRPS that's in your cellphone (i.e. your cellphone creates the GRPS connection) then it's usually always "on". If you check your mobile phone, you should see a "gprs" logo on the screen when GPRS connection is available, and if you use your mobile phone's network settings you can disable GPRS (the logo should disappear), and after that, in case you open WAP browser for example, your mobile phone probably tries to use the regular GSM data call to transfer the data. The key point in here is: GPRS connection can be, and usually is, always active but it doesn't consume bandwith unless you are transferring something. That usually means that when you close all applications that are connected, no data should be transferred trough GPRS anymore and it's "unused". To shut it completely down one would probably need to alter the cellphone's network settings.

EDIT: another option is to cut off the bluetooth connection to the mobile phone, if the GRPS packets are transferred from the phone to your pc over bluetooth. If the bluetooth connection is established, information can be transferred using GRPS and the only problematic part is how to make your cellphone forward the data to your pc over the bluetooth connection instead of "stopping to the cellphone". This doesn't, however, change the fact that your GPRS connection is still available and established, unless you force it not to be used using your cellphone's settings.

Thanks B0uncer. There is something you said that is not totally correct though. First of all, I work in a Vodacom Data Store. Vodacom is South Africa's biggest cellphone network and we specialize in data. If you're not doing anything there is still small amounts of data being transferred in order for the connection to be kept active. Its minimal and costs next to nothing but there still is transfer.The GPRS sign on the cellphone doesn't neccessarily mean the connection is active. It depends on the color of it. It can just mean its available. When you access it even threw the WAP browser on the phone it still connects to the GPRS network first. So in other words, just like I can send a command from the computer to activate the connection with the GPRS network, there must be a command that can be sent to the phone to disactivate it too. Just like it was when I used it in Windoze.

Thanks for the input though. If you have any further comments or ideas, please feel free to post them.

Thanks again.