I have read posts from many other people who can't get mobile hotspots to work with Orange UK, but I can't find a solution. Has anybody else?
The problem is that when I enable the mobile hotspot, it turns off after a few seconds and prevents mobile internet working on the phone at all. I understand it is due to Android now allowing carriers to differentiate between tethered and normal data. Tethering is allowed on my plan, so it should work.....
Orange UK's call centre were completely hopeless.
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[Q] How do I use my Vibrant for gps and wifi while avoiding roaming related charges when in Canada or another country?
[A] this is the question I asked support at t-mobile. I got 2 answers, neither were completely correct. The problem is that you cannot block IMs and phone calls from reaching your mobile unless you go into airplane mode. (Note that you will receive charges for IMs and for calls you do not pick up as long as they register on your phone. This is what I was told by one rep. Other reo said that I should not be able to receive these since my account was not set up for international services, but as msgs and calls came in, I got worried.)
The short of it is this: for $20, I bought CoPilot off the android market and downloaded the North America maps. This app does not require data connection, and it works remarkably well. I then put the phone into air plane mode. After doing this, I enabled gps and wifi. This allowed me block all direct calls and IMs while retaining the ability the ability to use the phone for gps and for browsing when there was an available wifi network. (having a google voice account actual enabled me to send IMs when connected to a wifi network.)
It all worked so well, I am further considering dropping my data plan altogether since the places I typically use the internet are places with wifi (though perhaps I will wait until the 2.2 update is pushed.)
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pyrusman said:
[Q] How do I use my Vibrant for gps and wifi while avoiding roaming related charges when in Canada or another country?
[A] this is the question I asked support at t-mobile. I got 2 answers, neither were completely correct. The problem is that you cannot block IMs and phone calls from reaching your mobile unless you go into airplane mode. (Note that you will receive charges for IMs and for calls you do not pick up as long as they register on your phone. This is what I was told by one rep. Other reo said that I should not be able to receive these since my account was not set up for international services, but as msgs and calls came in, I got worried.)
The short of it is this: for $20, I bought CoPilot off the android market and downloaded the North America maps. This app does not require data connection, and it works remarkably well. I then put the phone into air plane mode. After doing this, I enabled gps and wifi. This allowed me block all direct calls and IMs while retaining the ability the ability to use the phone for gps and for browsing when there was an available wifi network. (having a google voice account actual enabled me to send IMs when connected to a wifi network.)
It all worked so well, I am further considering dropping my data plan altogether since the places I typically use the internet are places with wifi (though perhaps I will wait until the 2.2 update is pushed.)
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In terms of GPS, you are correct, you would have to purchase a third party GPS app for that (since google maps doesn't cache. Well it does, but if you find yourself lost after choosing a route and don't have wifi available then you are forced to turn on data so it can redownload your route, since it only caches your route and nearby streets.) To block incoming phone calls you just set up unconditional call forwarding (**21*18056377243# send) which will forward all of your calls to VoiceMail. The 1805 number can be replaced with your VM provider of choice (ie Google voice.) To undo, just dial ##21# and send. After that just disable data roaming and you are good.
In terms of stopping IM/SMS/MMS, just have care add message blocking (or better yet, go to your tmobile account and add it from there) its a free service that blocks all incoming or outgoing sms/mms/email as sms/IM. Sometimes the reps will just add the sms/mms block so you might want to add it yourself from the site.
Also if you purchased the vibrant on a contract then you can't remove your data.
pyrusman said:
[Q] How do I use my Vibrant for gps and wifi while avoiding roaming related charges when in Canada or another country?
[A] this is the question I asked support at t-mobile. I got 2 answers, neither were completely correct. The problem is that you cannot block IMs and phone calls from reaching your mobile unless you go into airplane mode. (Note that you will receive charges for IMs and for calls you do not pick up as long as they register on your phone. This is what I was told by one rep. Other reo said that I should not be able to receive these since my account was not set up for international services, but as msgs and calls came in, I got worried.)
The short of it is this: for $20, I bought CoPilot off the android market and downloaded the North America maps. This app does not require data connection, and it works remarkably well. I then put the phone into air plane mode. After doing this, I enabled gps and wifi. This allowed me block all direct calls and IMs while retaining the ability the ability to use the phone for gps and for browsing when there was an available wifi network. (having a google voice account actual enabled me to send IMs when connected to a wifi network.)
It all worked so well, I am further considering dropping my data plan altogether since the places I typically use the internet are places with wifi (though perhaps I will wait until the 2.2 update is pushed.)
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Or if you want to keep the FULL functionality of your phone while traveling internationally you could buy a prepaid SIM for a carrier in the country you're visiting.
Col.Kernel said:
Or if you want to keep the FULL functionality of your phone while traveling internationally you could buy a prepaid SIM for a carrier in the country you're visiting.
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this ^^
If you did not want to get a SIM, you could just take your t-mo sim out. This way you could still use wifi, then use Google voice for texts and VM.
ive been using the phone for a few weeks now and it was fine until today, i cant connect to the internet via edge . ive tweaked with all the settings but nothing seems to work. everything else is fine . ie i can make calls and send text's but i cant connect to the internet. i checked under the status and it shows the mobile network state is disconnected. i have no clue as to wat this is since im new to android.
pls help!
Have you turned MOBILE DATA off via the power on/off menu .
jje
ive checked that too.
Go to Settings- Wireless and Network- Mobile Networks- Access Point Names and see if the APN is ticked or not or the correct APN is ticked.
everything is back to normal again,it connected to the internet, by itself . must be a random bug in the os
problem solved. peace
I have experienced the same thing with my phone, except that it shows "activated". After a while it just started working again.
I've had the phone for a couple of months now and everything has worked fine till now, a little bugs here and there but no issues. A few weeks back (on android 2.3.3) I was unable to make or receive calls, but surprisingly was able to make text messages. I tried everything, turning flight mode on/off; the phone on/off; etc. I was on the verge of contacting Samsung but then suddenly the thing started working once I came back home from the office.
There has been no problems till then but today suddenly (now on android 2.3.6) the outgoing calls no longer work, same for outgoing text message; but I still get incoming calls and messages.
Just to be sure that this wasn't a SIM or service issue, I tried changing SIM's (different SIM did not work on the phone) and used my SIM on different phone (where it worked).
Also 3G doesn't work as well, but connection here is spotty so I wouldn't trust that. The only message I see different on the 'About Phone' tab is 'Mobile State-Disconnected'. I have full signal strength and all that.
My thoughts are that it was, or rather is a phone specific issue and would appreciate someone else's thoughts on the matter. As to my problem I assume it will sort itself out in a little while.
FYI: Samsung Galaxy S2; Android 2.3.6; NOT rooted; Indian version; On Airtel Mobile Network.
Mobile network state disconnected.
Hi guys, I have the same problem with my network connection also my 3g does not work anymore, I`m play with some secret codes like a ##72786# on my epic 4g touch sprint phone flashed to metro pcs and now I have no 3G service. In the setting menu under network status say Sprint. How can I get my 3g back?. The mobile net. 3G is on and the wifi is off. I need to change the network to metro pcs in the status setting and how can do that? Thanks for your help and sorry for my bad English.
I am in the UK on Virgin, which uses the T-Mobile Network. Recently they have been having issues in my area, meaning I can only intermittently access the t-mobile signal, and even when I can, I cant receive incoming calls (Although I can make them).
Theoretically its not a problem as I can roam onto the Orange network by manually selecting the network. However, it seems that as soon as the t-mobile network is available, the phone automatically reverts to it and my problems start all over again.
Is there any way I can force it to stay connected to Orange? Or can I set Orange as the preferred network?
I am running the ressurection remix 4.0.4 rom.
Thanks in advance for any help,
Pebrey
It's not much help to you I know, but I had the reverse issue (on Orange, wanted to use T-Mobile) and according to all the searching I did and a call to Orange, it cant be done; it needs a change to the SIM card. I ended up changing network instead!
Orange and T-Mobile have merged together to form Everything Everywhere, so if your being put on orange or T-Mobile that's just your phone selecting the network with the best coverage
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Cannot get my sim to stay on tmobile, keeps changing to tmobile orange, which is useless if u want to use your mobile internet. Would like a way for it to stick to tmobile!?
So today I got an p9000 elephone. Awesome phone buy I have problem with data. I'm in Germany and here eplus network is using aldi network, o2 and few similar providers. Sometimes I get R near strength bar. I am unable to use data then even tho I checked data roaming(this happens cause I am not in main network medion mobile but in o2 network ), then I need to use airplane mode and turn it back off so I can regain access to main network. Any advice's on this?
Thanks in advance.
Same problem here. But I live near the border to Austria, so I can't enable data roaming, because I don't want to pay Austrian network... I think national roaming doesn't work with the P9000...
But I tested turning on the roaming option for national roaming. That worked for me, even if there is no internet connection shown... But it's too risky for me to have Austrian network. So it's no solution for my problem.
exactly the same same problem here
Hi!
I started having problems with sending/receiving MMSes after upgrading my HTC U11 to Android 9 a few days ago.
The problem disappears when I turn mobile data on.
My mobile operator uses its own transmitters but also uses networks of three other operators to provide services in areas where they have no coverage.
That's why I always have National Roaming active in my settings. If I have a weak signal, I can switch to a different operator (with whom my MNO has an agreement).
For many years using different Android versions and different HTC devices I could use national roaming without having to turn mobile data on.
I turned the mobile data on only when I had no access to Wi-Fi and wanted to connect to the internet.
And now if mobile data is off I can only send/receive MMSes while connected to my home network/operator. Whenever my phone switches to a different operator, I am unable to send or receive any MMS and I have to turn mobile data on.
Looks like national roaming was previously separated (worked independently) from mobile data and now it works only when mobile data is on.
Do you think it's related to the new Android version itself, or maybe to its interaction with a specific phone model?
Best regards,
Matt