Hi,
I'm on 2degrees network in New Zealand, but in certain areas (including where I live), they use Vodafone's cell towers.
As a result, my Desire tells me I am Roaming. Cost wise, it's fine as it's technically not roaming but my phone thinks it is.
As a result, the phone has the R symbol next to signal strength, and also messes slightly with my data/network settings (data on roaming etc).
Is there anyway to tell the phone that this network is not roaming and to see it as 'home'?
Is that possible?
Cheers in advance
Rob
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The mystery of my free T-Mobile sim I ordered to evaluate the signal reception in the house has been solved, er indoors binned it as being junk mail a few days ago *cue bin raking*
The reason I asked for the sim was because the couple next door are both on t-mob and need to come outside to make calls even though the T-Mobile coverage checker threw up a 3 bar 'good' rating for both 2 & 3G signals.
Anyway, seems okay in mine (gable end), my question is that my o2 displayed a 'G' for 3G signal, this t-mob doesn't ...but if I ask it to access the web a 'G' then appears as its connecting, and when I close down the web the 'G' disappears.
In summary, when the mobs lying around doing nothing the o2 always displays the 'G', the t-mob doesn't.
Is this the norm?
A "G" displayed by itself means it's connecting via GPRS.
A mobile broadband connection is displayed as either "3G" or "H" depending on the connection type.
G is 2G or GPRS
3g would indicate 3g
H would indicated HSDPA
Cheers chaps
Changed some settings on the mob for data 'always on' and they both matched.
On hol for 10 days, will pick it back up on my return
Hi All,
I live in Kansas where in a lot of places service can be poor or not existent. While visiting my family and my girlfriends family over Christmas, who live in two different areas in Southeast Kansas, where both phone and 4g/3g/1x data signal does not exist from Verizon. US Cellular is the main carrier for service in both areas with great coverage and I noticed that my new galaxy nexus did not automatically connect to the US Cellular network in either location for roaming. I was left with no connectivity at all for the entire weekend
My question is there a reason why my galaxy nexus did not automatically connect to the US Cellular network to roam?
Also is there a way to force my phone to connect to US Cellular when I am in these dead zones for Verizon?
Thanks in advance?
As a side note, I have the Data Roaming checked in the Mobile Network Settings and I have the System Select set to Automatic.
Well I broke down and called Verizon Wireless technical support today.
The tech that I spoke with checked the two areas that I go to and confirmed that Verizon is mostly non existent. He then went on to say that the phone should roam in both areas and he did not have any answer as to why it was not roaming.
His solution to my problem was to purchase a prepaid US Cellular phone and forward my calls to it when I am in these areas. I must admit that it is a solution, but what an asinine thing for a Verizon employee to tell a subscriber. He also stated that Verizon just needs to add more towers in the area, which I can almost guarantee will never happen.
So as of now I am still at a loss as to why my phone is not roaming in these areas.
Hi guys
I'm on T-Mobile (UK) and use a GSM Galaxy Nexus. In my area (Manchester) the 4G network has been switched on and I now have two 'EE' networks on my phone - one is the T-mobile side of the network and the other is Orange (I guess?) when on the tmobile network i get 2+mbps down on my internet connection. When on the orange side of the network (which the phone is VERY keen to go onto) it drops to >1kbps and ~1500ms ping on speedtest.net and horrific internet performance.
I pay t-mobile a small fortune per month but any complaint falls on deaf ears.
What i'd like to know is if i can modify the ROM in any way to prevent it roaming onto the poor side of the EE network?
Carl
As EE is now a single entity it'll go between the various masts and latch on to which ever it feels is closer/stronger - not a lot you can do about it tbh
However something must sit behind the two network names listed under find networks?
In any case, tmob have admitted it's a problem their end and are working on fixing it.
I have a samsung s3 and here in Eastern Canada, I'm with FIDO (use Rogers towers) and the coverage is not as good as Bell's. New rules allow each of them access to all the towers. This means me as a customer can now freely roam from one carrier's tower to the another. The only problem is that FIDO has setup the phone so that its network has priority even if it has one bar on 2g it won't switch over to Bell's towers unless I lose the signal completely. Is there a was to force the phone to switch over faster? Or is there a way to disable 2g and allow only 3G 4G and LTE?
Somehow this has been changed on my phone causing me all sorts of trouble.
I'm using 3 in the UK.
Does anybody know what the setting should be?
Some of the bands result in only 3G (not 4G) others result in a total loss of connection when I reboot.
For anybody not in the UK, it's a 4G/3G company without any 2G coverage.
Cheers.