Coming from Sprint, the Epic 4G had a proxy configuration in the stock setting that I assumed monitored and filtered traffic from the wireless radio. I have had no side effects with my previous phone after deleting the proxy address.
My question is:
Will deleting AT&T's "wireless.cingular.com" proxy setting alter the performance of my phone?
Proxy is for the benefits of carrier, not consumer. Yes, you can delete it without issues. But out of box, the phone is configured to use 'phone' apn without a proxy. There is also a wap apn with proxy but that is only used for mms and GPS supl data. Neither are editable.
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is there any relation between the wifi settings and apn settings in the mobile settings?
Whenever i setup my mobile network apn, and turn on my wifi (mobile network is off) i'm not able to connect to the web?
but when i delete the apn settings and reset apn settings, and reboot the hero, wifi works fine.
apn settings i use:
####################
name stc
apn jawalnet.com.sa
10.1.1.1 proxy
port 8080
user name
password
server
mmsc mms.net.sa
mms proxy 10.1.1.1:8080
mms port 8080
##########################
is there a way to disable the apn when i connect to the wifi?
It's the proxy that messes up WiFi afaik.
Yes you can. Long press home screen and look for HTC WIDGET UNDER SETTINGS AND SELECT MOBILE.....
PS- I think this question should have been asked in Q and A.
after having trouble connecting to some of my cellular provider services, i have found that no matter what i enter in the User/Pass configuration in the APN settings, its always using the same User/Pass, which is
user: [email protected]
password: NotUsed
after few searches, i have found that the atrix is using the user and password that configured at the file: /system/etc/ppp/peers/pppd-ril.options
so no matter what is configured at the APN setting, it will always use the config from the file...
i do have the ability to edit the default user and password in the file, but still i cannot use more then one user and password...(i've also tried write a '#' before these lines, but it didn't worked out....)
this limitation is quite annoying, first because it's just limiting me! and specially because my cellular provider is using few APN's with different user and passwords....
so i have to use more then one....
is there anyway to bypass that file? so the atrix will use the actual user and password i have configured in the APN settings?
tnx!
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That's very strange. I have mine configured with the Claro AR APN, and I don't have the issue you describe. User clarogprs and password clarogprs999. Its working fine, with no data issues.
BTW I have 4.1.8.3 with latest Gingerblur.
How are you checking what user/password is being used?
Thread moved.
There is several methods to authenticate users, that are stronger than the APN user and password, so many networks just don't use it... so in many networks this wont be an issue...
I spent most of a day trying to get an APN definition for MMS working on my new (and first) smartphone. Searching for answers, I found a lot of conflicting information regarding the meaning and specification of "APN type." I finally decided to go to the source (code) to understand. Here's what I found for Android 4.1.1 (sorry if this is duplicative, but nowhere could I find an exhaustive list):
from /android/4.1.1/frameworks/base/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/Phone.java, /android/4.1.1/frameworks/base/telephony/java/com/android/internal/telephony/DataConnectionTracker.java, and /android/4.1.1/frameworks/base/core/java/android/net/ConnectivityManager.java
default any type for which no APN entry is defined
mms Multimedia Messaging Service
supl Secure User Plane Location, geographic device location
dun Dial Up Networking bridge
hipri High Priority Mobile data
ims IP Multimedia Subsystem
fota Over the air Adminstration
cbs Carrier Branded Services
* all types of traffic (literal asterisk string)
"APN type" may be specified by including one or more of the above strings in a comma-separated list (apparently only lower-case, no spaces). In my case (Italy Coop-Voce branded service apparently carried by TIM), specifying a GPRS APN with APN type "default" and a second APN definition with APN type "mms" was sufficient to provide working Internet, SMS, and MMS access. After saving the MMS APN definition, I saw that it showed no radio-button for selection. I thought that meant the definition was faulty, but not so; it works just fine for MMS nonetheless (apparently the radio button selects only the primary data APN).
from /android/4.1.1/frameworks/base/core/java/android/net/ConnectivityManager.java
MMS An MMS-specific Mobile data connection. This connection may be the same as TYPE_MOBILE but it may be different. This is used by applications needing to talk to the carrier's Multimedia Messaging Service servers. It may coexist with default data connections.
SUPL A SUPL-specific Mobile data connection. This connection may be the same as TYPE_MOBILE but it may be different. This is used by applications needing to talk to the carrier's Secure User Plane Location servers for help locating the device. It may coexist with default data connections.
DUN A DUN-specific Mobile data connection. This connection may be thesame as TYPE_MOBILE but it may be different. This is used by applicaitons performing a Dial Up Networking bridge so that the carrier is aware of DUN traffic. It may coexist with default data connections.
HIPRI A High Priority Mobile data connection. This connection is typically the same as TYPE_MOBILE but the routing setup is different. Only requesting processes will have access to the Mobile DNS servers and only IP's explicitly requested via requestRouteToHost will route over this interface if a default route exists.
IMS IP Multimedia Subsystem
FOTA Over the air Adminstration.
CBS Carrier Branded Services
Note: directory structure and module content vary with Android version. Some earlier versions do not define all above APN types; otherwise, type strings and meanings appear to be consistent across versions.
Thank you for sharing.
I know it's an old post but I won't to open a new thread since I think this is still gave good informations about apn.
I would like to know if it's useful tu change apn type values manually.
My previous carrier(wind) in type apn had this values:
Code:
default,supl,agps,fota,dun
.
My current carrier (kena mobile) has just
Code:
default
in apn type and
Code:
pap
in authentication method.
This are the settings obtained via carrier auto-configuration procedure for Moto G5 plus(my smartphone).
What do you think? It's useful tu add different values after
Code:
default
or it's a total waste of time since the carrier system override what you set locally on your device?
Thank you very much.
there's also the "admin" type which you can use for using duplicated SIM cards.
T-Mobile's APN settings for the LG ThinQ has a type called "xcap":
Sorry, don't have enough posts to include the link.
Anyone know what xcap is for? I Googled for this APN type value, but haven't found anything about this value.
Thanks,
Q
Thanks for the info. Valuable information in this post. Thumbs up!
Ok so I live on my phone and need my VPN. the wife surprised me and got a new S5 to replace my old S3. I tried to use the VPN client like i had on my S3 and it wouldnt work. Here is what I did in order to get it to work. Mind you I tried everything and this is what i found that fixed it.
1. go into settings, More networks, Mobile networks, Access Point Names, and hit the + at the top to add a new APN
2. name the APN whatever you want
a. under APN insert fast.t-mobile.com
b. under MMSC insert http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc
c. under APN type insert default,mms,supl
d. change APN protocol to IPv4/IPv6 ***this is what it caused my connection to fail, the default APN was set only for IPv6
e. change APN roaming protocol to IPv4/IPv6
Hopefully this helps
using the latest version of the app, copied everything from the default (non-editable) APN to a new one just so I can change the APN to IPv4. made sure this new APN was selected and then... no connection to the Internet as the 4G LTE icon disappears. If I change the APN to IPv4/IPv6 then the 4G LTE icon appears again. Regardless when I connect my laptop to the app's SSID, Windows tells me there's no Internet connectivity. Any suggestions on what I might be missing?
You should be able to keep it on the default setting there.
What apn are you using