Hey guys. I have a slight problem on my phone. If I lose service on my phone it won't automatically reconnect to the network. I have to go into my mobile network settings and have the phone search for the network and than click on the network for it to connect. Its not a network issue its a phone issue and I was wondering if anyone knows of a good app, paid or free that will do this automatically for me because if I'm not paying attention and I lose service it just says no service until I do the steps above.
Thanks!
A message pops us whenever I try to use Hot spot and USB.
I am using refurbished version of this phone in Pakistan so this gives error that
"Your Phone cannot currently connect to Verizon's Server",Internet Connection is not available or weak,Ethernet Connection is using a proxy or Verizon server is not responding.
In Pakistan there is no Verizon so how can I solve this problem?
This feature only works on Verizon. If the Playstore is available to you, can find some tethering apps available there that do not require Verizon. Simply search for Tethering in the Google PlayStore
I have Straight Talk on an old Verizon phone, a Galaxy Nexus.
Google Play Services won't connect over mobile data, 3G CDMA or 4G LTE. Because of that my Google Voice app doesn't work when not connected to wifi. I rely on Google Voice, its the only number I use, I need it to send and receive SMS's.
I think the problem is with my Straight Talk service and probably not my phone or Google.
Everything was working fine. 3 days ago my mobile data stopped working. I did a nandroid backup, then factory reset my phone, the APN had changed. It had been TFTWO.GW9.VZWENTP, it changed to TRACFONE.VZWENTP. Data was working again with the new APN, took me a day to realize I wasn't receiving my GV messages.
Found an app called PNF Root, it has a setting called "Play services monitor". Play Services connects when connected to wifi, constantly fails to connect on mobile data.
I'm having the same issue with Straight Talk (Verizon towers) on a Verizon Galaxy S6. My APN is TRACFONE.VZWENTP.
Did you find a solution to this?
i am using a Poco F1 and i am outside India, Recently i lost my Jio network reception and i thought it was because i did not recharge my international services pack but after i did a successful recharge i still did not get any network. Usually here in Hungary, it will connect to 'Telenor HU' network. I contacted the customer service and they told me to enable the roaming services in the STK or Sim Toolkit application whoich i am unable to find in my phone!! Please help someone Thanks in Advance.
Edit: i have not yet hard reset my phone to check whether it reappears or not!! And also i cannot find the STK app even in the application manager in settings
Edit2: i found that the sim tool kit is missing only in devices with Android 10 but only it is missing from the app tray. It can be found from the application manager from settings
Hi so I recently activated the unlimited free text and calling from textnow on my samsung galaxy s8+ unlocked sm-g955u on their sprint network. When I had first done it I realized I was able to use free high speed data throughout much of my device with the exception of some games and apps it wouldnt work on.
So I set out trying to find away to bypass restrictions and limitations of the free data I had. I couldnt figure it out in the least, I tried everything I knew to hide usage. And in the process something horrible happened, I lost all that free data on everything except for the google search bar app. In which the google search bar you can search anything you want and all the results come up super fast. The catch is, I can no longer click any links and load pages beyond it. It just sits on a white blank page after clicking a link.
I tried to figure out what I did to change it or put their (I'm assuming) normal restrictions of data usage back in place where it was meant to be from the beginning. I havent been able to unlock the data since.. I e tried vpn like psiphon pro that I could use to get free high speed unlimited data from any captive portal login. But it doesnt work, rather textnow refuses to connect. Any sort of vpn textnow seemingly rejects the connection and I cant even place texts or calls.
I know textnow uses the sprint lte data service for its software. I know there is what I would call high speed lte data associated with my activated sim for text now. I can tell just simply by the load speeds of the google search bar reguardless of what you search for. That and what I had experienced when I first activated my sim and device.
So I'm coming here for a little help in brainstorming how myself and many other people who activated their own unlocked device in the talk and text plan, can bypass the restrictions textnow places on where the data can be used at. The data now is restricted to just textnow and google search (also nessecary functional apps) I know there is a way to hide this use of data, I tried the captive portal login which is speedy, but on pie i cant open the login into a browser to spread the service and i cant find a way to use the portal login to search anywhere else but textnow webpage.
Any ideas people? I'm sure many many people would benefit greatly to a loophole if any were found, and there is a loophole because my device was at first capable of near unrestricted data access before i tried to fully unlock it. If you know someone that might have some valuable input please tell them about this discussion and bring them here.
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I've been trying to find the same thing with no luck
Slickmin1 said:
I've been trying to find the same thing with no luck
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I realize this post is from last year, but I just ran across it and wanted to give my input in the event it may help somebody. As most TextNow subscribers are aware, T-Mobile's prior acquisition of the Sprint network is now geared towards shutting down the Sprint 3G & 4G networks nationwide. In fact, the lights have already went out on the former, while the 4G side is slated for complete shutdown by mid-2022. Accordingly, TextNow is presently migrating all subscribers over to T-Mobile's GSM 4G-LTE/5G nationwide network. Subscribers who were already using Sprint compatible devices are receiving free upgraded GSM SIM cards from TextNow to make the transition seamless. Unfortunately, this will likely be the end of all the free high speed 4G-LTE data subscribers enjoyed while connected to Sprint's network. This free data exploit was due to a proxy anomaly caused by the default reverse tunneling settings of certain brands and models of smartphones. While the knowledge will do little good now, the "restrictions" of using the data device-wide, across all apps and services, could be bypassed by setting up pdaNET+ on the TextNow device as host access point. Then, by enabling a WiFi direct hotspot via local proxy, the connection could be shared by a Windows 10/11 PC or laptop, by way of the pdaNET+ client-side setup. Then, by using the native Windows 10/11 hotspot feature, the data connection could be resolved and shared by other mobile devices in a normal device-wide manner. So while the TextNow host device would be unable to use the data across all apps and services, any devices connected to the Windows hotspot would have unfettered and unrestricted use of the data. Depending on how tech-savvy you wanted to be, the Windows PC Ethernet port could be used to traffic the data into a home router or extender for expanded sharing. Great while it lasted. I just recently received my TextNow GSM SIM in the mail, and haven't yet had time to experiment with data connectivity or exploits thereof. I will keep my findings posted here as I probe the uncharted waters .
So as you might or might not know, there already is a pseudo free data that is running on the google servers. Example: open a browser and search through google and you will get the results, its slow so I'm assuming its 3g. but they have a firewall that is blocking every other site unless its running via google servers.
You could theoretically setup a google hosted server yourself, maybe rent a cloud server out from google and run programs through there. run a tunnel through that for unlimited data on the phone. Someone just has to figure out how to do that.
For anyone reading this and wondering what we're talking about. Textnow is a free phone app you can use with their SIM/network and never pay a dime for phone service and texting, including media texting. It's totally free.
If this were to be more useful in terms of what sites we could visit, it would be a lot more lucrative.
Another idea I had, if someone has a pentesting rig that can run this network and see which ip addresses are being blocked, we could start building a list of sites that are whitelisted, both IP's and hostname resolved (http/s for example) this would allow us to see where we can start digging to find a place to setup a tunnel here.
I know that google has server hosting via their cloud computing network, you can even host DHCP style servers on it, so you could theoretically use this to tunnel through if the google server IP range is whitelisted. which it might be..
Google has an VPN that's free with Fi, so maybe you can pay for the VPN if you don't use Fi, therefore it's going through Google servers to then the user, so maybe if it costs less than TN's 1GB plan, we could consider it if it works.