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Roaming

Off to France on Saturday and I'm dreading the automatic connection any tips of making sure my phone won't connect and cost me the earth currently on t mobile UK
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Sure.
Go to settings - wireless and networks - mobile networks - untick the box that says data roaming and your phone will not use data whilst abroad.
Hope this helps.
Rik.

Or just hold down the power putton and choose the bottom option "Mobile Network" and this will completely disable the data connection.
Phil

I'm on t-mobile and have just had a great 2 weeks in France. Wherever I went I seemed to get a 'E' connection which was very good and fast enough for Google maps.
Cost me £10 for 50mb over 31 days but you can get 20mb for a fiver to use in 7 days
I use phone for work emails and found the French signal very good. I choose Orange sfr I think which had the best data signal.
Hope this helps

Only guaranteed method to avoid data charges is to call your carrier and ask them to DISABLE roaming on your sim, also to make a record of it on your account.
Even if you do somehow manage to enable data roaming on the phone the sim won't allow it.

Orange uk with tmobile signal share

Hi I am in the uk and on the orange network, since I received a text from orange saying that I could share the tmobile signal about a week ago I have hardly ever got a signal anymore, I thought sharing the network was supposed to make it better not worse.
I set everything up as it said and I spoke to the customer service department to check it was set up as it should be and they said it was, but the problem is still there whatever I do.
So I wondered if there was other people on here that used orange in the uk and if so what's your signal like?
And
What radio do you guys use to get the best reception?
Thanks
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Are you still picking up the Orange signal? Or the joint Orange T Mobile one?
I have the same setup and my phone stays on Orange most of the time and only flips to the Orange/Tmo one when the Orange signal is rubbish.
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I was going to try and merge my t-mobile signal but i remember
my friend told me that android specifically has problems with it.
anyway this is taken from t-mobile site, dunno if u tried it :
HTC Desire : How to enable the sending and receiving of messages while using the Orange signal
To enable the sending and receiving of messages whilst using the Orange signal, choose the following path from the home screen of the device:
Menu >
Settings >
Wireless & networks >
Mobile networks (Set options for roaming, networks, APNs)>
Ensure the box labelled “Connect to data services when roaming” has been checked, in the section labelled Data roaming.
and this might help? :
Known issues with Android phones not set to enable 'data roaming'
Android phones are set not to enable ‘data roaming’, so when you’re using an Orange signal:
You won’t be able to send or receive picture messages or browse the internet
You might get a message that says, ‘You have lost data connectivity’
If you receive a picture message or activate an internet page, you might get a warning message, ‘Generic network failure’ or ‘Unknown error’
You might see the ‘roaming’ icon (a triangle) whenever you’re using an Orange signal
You might see a message ‘Allow data roaming? You may incur significant charges!’ each time your phone picks up an Orange signal
When you pick up an Orange signal your phone will ask you: ‘Allow data roaming?’
What to do: Enable ‘Data roaming’ on your phone, but remember to disable it if you leave the UK to avoid charges.
What to do: We’re working on a special fix for you to download to your phone. Keep an eye on our Help & Support section for when it’s available.

[Q] Voice roaming w/o activated data roaming

I have a rooted Desire Z aka Vision running CM 7.1.0 stable since it came out.
Past weekend I crossed the national border into Austria, and to my surprise the phone didn't even attempt to log into the foreign network. No problem to switch networks manually, but I would expect the device to do that just by itself (it's a tough job to go into "Settings - Wireless & Networking - Mobile Networks - Network Provider" etc. while driving a car...).
To save myself from excessive costs I have disabled data roaming on the device, but I'd like my phone to be able to be called up even while being abroad.
Is this something CM7 is not supporting? I think I remember that other ROMS including Stock HTC Sense supported this, but I'm not too sure about that.
If there's no proper support available, is there some alternative method like manually entering foreign network providers into some kind of "preferred networks" list?

Roaming with my S3 on Jellybean??HELP??

I frequently run from Toronto to Buffalo. I took my S3 from ICS to Jellybean 4.1.1 and have had no issues until yesterday.
Upon crossing, I lost all service. I tried to go into the menus and see what was the matter without success. Later, I
realized that under MOBILE NETWORKS, Data Roaming wasn't checked. So I checked it off........still no service until
I was about a mile from the border, back on Rogers.
Anyone experience this?? I've bad numerous blackeberry's and cross without an issue all over the US and Caribbean.
I'm confussed.......and concerned about making another trip to the US, without my briefcase which has a backup blackberry
in it........
Suggestions? I fugured that checking the roaming box would have grabbed a carrier..........NOPE.........meanwhile,
my friend who has the same phone still on ICS worked fine................that's the strange part...........
Thanks guys.

Hi!
One thing you could check is if you activated the automatic selection of carrier, and if your phone can see other carriers' networks.
1. Go to Settings.
2. Under Wireless and networks, open More settings.
3. Under Networks, select Mobile networks.
4. Select Network operators.
5. Your phone should now disconnect and search for visible networks. (It should show networks you can connect to and ones you cannot; that is normal.) See if you find any carrier listed on this screen when the search is completed. If no network appear, press again Search networks to scan the visible networks again.
6. Press Select automatically to automatically register to the prefered network. When Rogers is in this list, your phone should register automatically to Rogers. If not, then it should roam on a network with which Rogers has a roaming agreement. You should also be able to manually select to which network you would like to roam by pressing the carrier's name (again, you will register only if Rogers has a roaming agreement with the said carrier).

Happened again this morning. However, I did what you said (here in Toronto) and it found BELL, TElus and Rogers. Now, it
would't find anything across in Buffalo. VERY strange. Called Rogers when I crossed and they were no help.
Could it be possible that it's an issue with Jellybean?? The phone is rooted and I used the Robinson's root injected JB ROM.
Suggestions? I'm crossing again in the morning... Can test more settings.....can't bring my old blackberry because it's a
regular sim and this thing uses a micro...
Alexandre-P said:
Hi!
One thing you could check is if you activated the automatic selection of carrier, and if your phone can see other carriers' networks.
1. Go to Settings.
2. Under Wireless and networks, open More settings.
3. Under Networks, select Mobile networks.
4. Select Network operators.
5. Your phone should now disconnect and search for visible networks. (It should show networks you can connect to and ones you cannot; that is normal.) See if you find any carrier listed on this screen when the search is completed. If no network appear, press again Search networks to scan the visible networks again.
6. Press Select automatically to automatically register to the prefered network. When Rogers is in this list, your phone should register automatically to Rogers. If not, then it should roam on a network with which Rogers has a roaming agreement. You should also be able to manually select to which network you would like to roam by pressing the carrier's name (again, you will register only if Rogers has a roaming agreement with the said carrier).
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Question How to change preferred network type?

I'm on EE UK but the preferred network type setting doesn't appear to be present in SIM options?

It appears that some providers suck hard and don't want to allow you to switch networks. That's not a phone thing-y, it's a provider thing-y. Which means that your phone will of course still change networks, but only if the "higher" one is not available, ergo your phone will only connect to 4G, if 5G is not available - if the 5G connection is bad, that will probably cause problems for you, because your phone will probably not want to connect to 4G automatically.
I can easily switch preferred network types
Settings -> Network & Speed -> SIMs -> (scroll down, between 4G Calling & Carrier settings version) -> Preferred network type (5G, 4G, 3G, 2G).
It that's not available, your network carrier sucks. No more to say here.
I'd suggest you either switch providers, or contact your provider to see if they are willing to change this. It's definitely on their end, cuz people like me can change the settings easily.

cd993 said:
I'm on EE UK but the preferred network type setting doesn't appear to be present in SIM options?
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You may be able to change preferred network type with *#*#4636#*#* dialer code.

cd993 said:
I'm on EE UK but the preferred network type setting doesn't appear to be present in SIM options?
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EE (& BT Mobile) hide the menu.

Morgrain said:
It appears that some providers suck hard and don't want to allow you to switch networks. That's not a phone thing-y, it's a provider thing-y. Which means that your phone will of course still change networks, but only if the "higher" one is not available, ergo your phone will only connect to 4G, if 5G is not available - if the 5G connection is bad, that will probably cause problems for you, because your phone will probably not want to connect to 4G automatically.
I can easily switch preferred network types
Settings -> Network & Speed -> SIMs -> (scroll down, between 4G Calling & Carrier settings version) -> Preferred network type (5G, 4G, 3G, 2G).
It that's not available, your network carrier sucks. No more to say here.
I'd suggest you either switch providers, or contact your provider to see if they are willing to change this. It's definitely on their end, cuz people like me can change the settings easily.
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Or you could just make sure Adaptive Connectivity is enabled and not worry about it.
You would have to drag me away from EE (BT Mobile) screaming and kicking given the coverage and speeds they have, to say they suck over one menu option missing is absolutely laughable.

cd993 said:
I'm on EE UK but the preferred network type setting doesn't appear to be present in SIM options?
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When the Note 20 first came out a lot of carriers wouldn't let you change network type but there's an app in the play store that was working on the notes.
Force 4G/5G Only - Apps on Google Play
Lock your phone to 4G/5G mode or VoLTE network
play.google.com

ggrant3876 said:
When the Note 20 first came out a lot of carriers wouldn't let you change network type but there's an app in the play store that was working on the notes.
Force 4G/5G Only - Apps on Google Play
Lock your phone to 4G/5G mode or VoLTE network
play.google.com
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Crashes or alternately just disappeared for me when I click on the first option "4G LTE with only one SIM". Reported the crash. Thanks, though. Maybe they'll update it.

An alternative to the dialer code is to boot into safe mode, and the preferred network type setting will appear in: Settings -> Network & internet -> SIMs between Data warning & limit and Carrier settings version (at least it does on my Google Fi Pixel 6 Pro).