In the “note to me” posts I’m going to blog things that are not that obvious, which I had to figure out, that I want to remember and that, possibly, can be of some help for you if you have a similar issue.

This time I just wanted to access my T-Mobile hotspots flat that came with my iPhone contract from the train I’m sitting in. Login failed, though, because I couldn’t remember the login credentials.

Gladly I remembered that I stored the number I had to send a text message to in order to activate the hotspot flat in the phone. It is the 9526.

Just as I activated the account, I sent the text ‘open’ once again to this number. Shortly after that I got a text message with my credentials. By default, your user name is your mobile number. Important: to login to the hotspot, you have to take your username and add a @t-mobile.de to it. So by default a login name oils look like “491711234567890@t-mobile.de”

You can change both your username and your password by sending other text messages to the 9526. To change your user name, send ‘alias newusername’, where new username is the username you want to use in the future. In order to change your password send the text ‘passwort newpassword’ (yes, the first is the german word passwort). You will get a confirmation via text message shortly after sending. If the desired username is already taken you will be informed of that of course.

After changing my username I could login to the hotspot and use it to post this ;)