Hey,
Since yesterday my phone is always on roaming, i have two questions:
1. What does roaming mean?
2. How to disable it?
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Settings>more>mobile networks>data roaming>untick
All I know is that I keep it on and only incur charges if I use it outside my country(which I won't).
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But what does roaming exactly mean? It changed just yesterday till now.
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Roaming means you are outside of your home network aka abroad.
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What are you saying about it.Was it off and came on?.What do you mean "it changed"?.
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If you are talking about the data roaming option in settings that comes only to effect if you are abroad. It's basically telling your phone whether it's allowed to use data traffic while outside of your home network.
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If you are talking about the data roaming option in settings that comes only to effect if you are abroad. It's basically telling your phone whether it's allowed to use data traffic while outside of your home network.
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I'm not abroad, it changed by itself and I have "R" letter above the signal, Do you mean that now I'm not connected to my network? Why would something like that happen suddenly? And how to change it back?
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No idea how it could happen if you are in your home country. You may try to contact your operator to check what they see in their systems.
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Are you on the three network? If so you have dropped off 3 network and gone on the the orange 2g network. 3 have a roaming agreement with orange..
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Why you asked here & didn't contact your carrier in the first instance is beyond me. For whatever reason, your phone is obviously connecting to a network other than your carrier by default.
Why ? Who knows ? Could be a problem with your carrier where you're using your phone, and your carrier has a roaming agreement with another carrier so your phone is trying to use that network as it's the only one available.
Contact your carrier to find out/get this sorted. Nothing anyone here can say to sort it for you.
Roaming means you are not in your home network. Not necessarily you are abroad... In India when you move to a particular region where your network provider has no cell towers, you could still get the signal... This is because they have agreement with other providers there... In this case you will see the roaming symbol in Android. The setting in android phone is just to let the phone know that i would not like to use data network when in roaming. Because carriers charge more than usual for data used in roaming.
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just a trick to make max allowed connection from 1 to 8 on gsm/umts network mode
make sure you get 3g network as this doesn't work over 2g connections
just make network mode and select network to automatic
and open mobile hotspot setting>manage devices>device limit
you 'll probably get 8 devices selections
I am getting on my mopho in india on bsnl,airtel tested.
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Yea till the bill comes... Sprint don't play that lol
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deepak251146 said:
just a trick
I am getting on my mopho in india on bsnl,airtel tested.
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umm....its not a trick, its built-in, in the OS.
Here in the US, the carriers (Sprint for the Photon) control everything about their phones and tethering is one of the features that is locked. They (all) want money from customers and hence force customers to buy a tethering plan.
Fortunately for us, rooting solves the problem.
Not to mention that Airtel will be reporting your data usage to Sprint as an international partner with them. That's the only reason you're even allowed on the Airtel network - because you have an active Sprint account.
You will be billed for data usage and airtime, at international rates without an international plan or a prepaid sim, you better believe that.
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Not to mention that Airtel will be reporting your data usage to Sprint as an international partner with them. That's the only reason you're even allowed on the Airtel network - because you have an active Sprint account.
You will be billed for data usage and airtime, at international rates without an international plan or a prepaid sim, you better believe that.
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I hadnot yet activated my photon over sprint.And in my locality sprint international roaming partner is reliance cdma(confirmed).I had got it worked on any gsm sim card in india.
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Yea till the bill comes... Sprint don't play that lol
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I am not using over sprint international roaming.I installed native sim card and getting 8 devices mobile hotspot on 3g network on gsm/umts mode selection. sprint has nothing to do with this.
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I appreciate your knowledge.
plz note that motorola photon's new update included 3G UMTS hotspot functionality for a single Wi-Fi enabled device .
release notes: www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Suppor...RN_Blur_Version.45.3.6.MB855.Sprint.en.US.pdf
so I got it working from one device to 8 devices after switching network mode to automatic.
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deepak251146 said:
I appreciate your knowledge.
plz note that motorola photon's new update included 3G UMTS hotspot functionality for a single Wi-Fi enabled device .
release notes: www.motorola.com/staticfiles/Suppor...RN_Blur_Version.45.3.6.MB855.Sprint.en.US.pdf
so I got it working from one device to 8 devices after switching network mode to automatic.
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Some good info for me here.
deepak251146 said:
I am not using over sprint international roaming.I installed native sim card and getting 8 devices mobile hotspot on 3g network on gsm/umts mode selection. sprint has nothing to do with this.
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Please explain how you are getting this for free and how this applies to us? If not Sprint (who provides access and billing to these technologies *outside the US* using the "native" sim card), then who is your gsm/umts provider?
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Please explain how you are getting this for free and how this applies to us? If not Sprint (who provides access and billing to these technologies *outside the US* using the "native" sim card), then who is your gsm/umts provider?
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It will not work on Sprint network nor wherever sprint coverage is available as on switching network mode to automatic it will connect to sprint network.
I am using it in india on airtel gsm sim card and "airtelgprs.com" apn for internet connection.Mobile hotspot's data connection is using my airtel's apn which is deducted from my gprs plan.I am using over 3 devices connected from my photon for a month now.
I am able to do this only after updating it to the new ota update available aka 198_6. In the updates release note mobile hotspot over 3g for 1 device has been revealed.you will get device limit as 1 on swiching network mode to gsm/umts. but when u make the network mode to automatic you 'll get device limit as 8 while you are still on 3g gsm network.
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So using Airtel in India is free? Or was your title suggesting a free tip to opening the max connections to 8?
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So using Airtel in India is free? Or was your title suggesting a free tip to opening the max connections to 8?
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yeah you got me bro I was trying to suggest to open max connection to 8.
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yeah you got me bro I was trying to suggest to open max connection to 8.
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Ahhhh, okay. Thats what I've been trying to find out, where that "free" was coming from lol. Thanks for the info. I'll be sure to back-track to this thread if I ever go overseas.
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Ahhhh, okay. Thats what I've been trying to find out, where that "free" was coming from lol. Thanks for the info. I'll be sure to back-track to this thread if I ever go overseas.
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actually here in india there is a trick to browse internet for free on airtel using proxy server's and is giving quite fast speed.
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Ok here's the deal, over the past week or so, sort of mid afternoonish time, I lose the ability to call, text or use data on my handset her signal remains constant. A quick fix to this is changing a setting in network from auto to GSM only which I am told logs off 3g and uses the 2g network yet once I switch to GSM only texts and calls return to normal. I've tried a new sim card from vodafone which didn't change the problem and I was wondering if anyone has had simalar problems and could maybe share a fix, as I don't want to keep my phone on 2g as its very slow.
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I've also tried different kernels, firmwares and a full reset which non of those helped either.
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Im a bit of a noob at this android thing but do you maybe need to import your carriers data settings? I had a look on my sgs2 but couldn't find them. On my old iphone you had to enter the carriers settings to access the 3g network
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Ok here's the deal, over the past week or so, sort of mid afternoonish time, I lose the ability to call, text or use data on my handset her signal remains constant. A quick fix to this is changing a setting in network from auto to GSM only which I am told logs off 3g and uses the 2g network yet once I switch to GSM only texts and calls return to normal. I've tried a new sim card from vodafone which didn't change the problem and I was wondering if anyone has had simalar problems and could maybe share a fix, as I don't want to keep my phone on 2g as its very slow.
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try a different modem. as some modems are region specific.
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Im a bit of a noob at this android thing but do you maybe need to import your carriers data settings? I had a look on my sgs2 but couldn't find them. On my old iphone you had to enter the carriers settings to access the 3g network
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you will find the data setttings here.
menu - settings - wireless and network - mobile networks - access point -
I've tried between ki3 and ki4, previous firmwares have used the ki3 modem more recently in intras frankenstien firmware. But my problem is more recent. This couldn't be an efs problem could it?
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How do I disable it?? It keeps appearing.
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turn off roaming if you haven't already......which country/operator you with?
Have you been abroad recently?
At Sweden! Turned off data roaming and packet data already.
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I have seen this reported by people living near borders, where the phone locks onto cell tower in neighbouring country, but other than that I'm not really sure
Hi guys, is there a way to stop my phone swapping between networks? I am with Orange but because they have teamed up with T-Mobile it changes to T-Mobile sometimes.
Thing is my signal is worse on T-Mobile so is there a way to make the phone stop changing network? I have manually selected Orange but still it goes to T-Mobile!
Thanks
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Also it is really draining my battery any help appreciated
Cheers
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i guess it's your SIM card since it has "preferences" set to t-mobile and not to orange
i don't think you can change that, unless you get an orange card which is not the solution you are looking for....
or either ask for a replacement card or get more info if the new sim cards provided from t-mobile have a double network set
Settings -> wireless and networks more -> mobile networks -> service provider and select orange there. Doesn't this work?
That way network selection is set to manual. If it still switches networks after that, I'm afraid there's nothing you can do about it, except maybe complain to orange call center.
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This is funny because I thought it was all EE now.
Hi folks,
I know that the thread title may sound strange and kinda noobish to some of you but it is meant serious. Well, I'm a flashoholic and I'm changing my ROMs fequently.
The last three months my invoice was higher and it was statet that this is caused by using mobile network. The point now is, that I don't use mobile network, I only use WiFi at home for online actions with my phone.
I've checked the details of my invoice in my provider account and there are listed small amounts for data usage that are adding to a "15 bucks more" sum per month. When flashing a ROM, the mobile network is activated by default at start up but of course, I'm switching it off as fast as possible. Maybe that could be the cause but I'm flashing ROMs since I've got my S3 and things like this never happened.
I just would like to know if there is someone who has faced equal problems, as strange as it may look like.
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Instruct your cell provider to disable GPRS on your account, then you can't use any data.
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Instruct your cell provider to disable GPRS on your account, then you can't use any data.
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Thanxx for your reply and the information, I didn't know that.
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Instruct your cell provider to disable GPRS on your account, then you can't use any data.
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Or remove your sim when activating.
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