hey guys,
i have a verizon droid incredible 2 that has s-off and is rooted, but still using the stock 2.3.3 rom. i was going abroad to visit some family, so i called up verizon, gave them my IMEI number, and voila my phone was unlocked and i could use foreign sim cards.
when i was abroad though, i could not get data to work for my phone, but i was able to make and receive calls with the new sim. after i used my cousin's phone to see if my data pack was working, her phone got a message from the sim carrier which had all the apn settings. my phone though never got the apn settings. after reading here i saw on one post that with unlocked verizon phones you have to enter the new apn's manually.
since this can be quite a nuisance, are there any custom roms for the inc2 that, once installed, can pick up the apn settings automatically? or if not, an app or any other way the inc2 can pick up the designated apn's for the new sim automatically?
(sorry if this is a noob question :laugh:, i couldnt find an answer anywhere else)
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Hello! I have an unlocked Galaxy Nexus on the Bell Mobility Network in Canada, that I have a US T-Mobile prepaid SIM card for traveling in the States, and getting cheap data: yay for $3/day unlimited talk, text, and data! I was away a month ago, and just noticed today, that I was unable to send picture messages. The phone said to check my APN settings, to which I said, "Wtf does that even mean?" and googled it. Upon figuring it out, I checked the settings, and it still had my T-Mobile info in there, not my Bell settings. I changed it, and everything is hunky dory, nbd.
My question is, why didn't it automatically change, when I got back to Canada and put my Bell SIM in? Also, when I got to the States, I had difficulty joining the T-Mobile network. It was stuck roaming on AT&T and I couldn't access data. I had to physically make it join the T-Mobile network, by going into the mobile settings, hitting network operators, and selecting T-Mobile from the list. I happened to figure that out on my own, purely by accident. I didn't have to do that, when I originally got the T-Mobile SIM during black Friday. I just popped it in, and it worked. My Bell APN settings were fine upon returning after Black Friday too. Does anyone know why the issue this time? I was only running the previous version of Jellybean back in November, the phone has since updated to new Jellybean, could that be why? Or is my phone crapping the bed?
Thank you for any input :0)
PS phone is unrooted and running stock Jellybean 4.2.1
Hey guys, I'm wondering if anyone know how to access the MVNO setting (mobile virtual network operator type) within APN of the HTC One M8.
I live in Australia and currently on the Virgin Mobile Network which is a MVNO of Optus. I was on a M7 and recently bought a M8 off a friend for cheap. However when I have installed the nano SIM, I can only make calls and texts and could not get the internet to work even when the APN settings are correct. I took it to the Virgin Mobile store and they have also tried playing around with the APN settings with no luck.
The odd thing is that when I remove the SIM card and place it in another phone it doesn't work on the other phone either . But when I try place a SIM card from another carrier (Telstra) into my M8 it works fine. Virgin Mobile has issued me a new nano SIM and I did the same tests and got the same results which is really odd. Virgin Mobile has also checked on their system and confirmed to me that internet is ACTIVE.
I've been reading around and the only other solution I can think of is accessing the MVNO setting and changing in to IMSI in hope it works. If anyone could please tell me how to access MVNO on the M8 it would be much appreciated.
Network: Virgin Mobile
Phone is SIM unlocked
Bootloader unlocked, S-OFF and Super CID
ROM: Android revolution HD 21.0
Firmware : 3.28.401.7
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oblivianz said:
Hey guys, I'm wondering if anyone know how to access the MVNO setting (mobile virtual network operator type) within APN of the HTC One M8.
I live in Australia and currently on the Virgin Mobile Network which is a MVNO of Optus. I was on a M7 and recently bought a M8 off a friend for cheap. However when I have installed the nano SIM, I can only make calls and texts and could not get the internet to work even when the APN settings are correct. I took it to the Virgin Mobile store and they have also tried playing around with the APN settings with no luck.
The odd thing is that when I remove the SIM card and place it in another phone it doesn't work on the other phone either . But when I try place a SIM card from another carrier (Telstra) into my M8 it works fine. Virgin Mobile has issued me a new nano SIM and I did the same tests and got the same results which is really odd. Virgin Mobile has also checked on their system and confirmed to me that internet is ACTIVE.
I've been reading around and the only other solution I can think of is accessing the MVNO setting and changing in to IMSI in hope it works. If anyone could please tell me how to access MVNO on the M8 it would be much appreciated.
Network: Virgin Mobile
Phone is SIM unlocked
Bootloader unlocked, S-OFF and Super CID
ROM: Android revolution HD 21.0
Firmware : 3.28.401.7
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I just checked on my phone under mobile networks > APNs and at the very bottom I get the option to choose the MVNO type and value, so the only thing I can suggest is making a twrp backup of your current arhd and flashing another rom with that option (since it's not appearing on the one you're using).
The rom I'm on right now is Dirty Unicorns.
I think you might be on to something
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mattprice86 said:
I just checked on my phone under mobile networks > APNs and at the very bottom I get the option to choose the MVNO type and value, so the only thing I can suggest is making a twrp backup of your current arhd and flashing another rom with that option (since it's not appearing on the one you're using).
The rom I'm on right now is Dirty Unicorns.
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Thanks for your help. I managed to solve the issue. It was simply a bad imei, changing it did the trick.
oblivianz said:
Thanks for your help. I managed to solve the issue. It was simply a bad imei, changing it did the trick.
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I need to try to this my imei number is no goodfrom the previous owner whofiled it lost when he thought it had been stolen yet lucky me it showed up a day after he the replacement did for the HTC One Max????? (HTC6600LVW) yet I am sticking with my Galaxy Note 3 as the 200 difference from the CPU is a great deal when being held next to each other... So I've decided to sell it to my roommate who uses metro pcs told her to buy an unlock pin for her SIM card to work. I read about rooting the phones but being that it is not mine I'm not lying to the poor girl am I?
Greetings everyone!
Signed up so that I can hopefully help someone else in need with their LG G3 phone using the Straight Talk 4G LTE Verizon sim card.
After many hours of flashing roms and trying out various things, it turns out for some reason other variants of the stock roms like Bliss Pop, CoudyG3, and Skydragon will not work with the data. I can still use my phone and make calls and i can still get text messages and even pictures sent through text messages, but for the life of me data would NOT work.
The only rom that did work again was the Jasmine rom. To my understanding it works pretty close to the stock verizon rom that comes with the LG G3. After the flash, BOOM! Everything worked and data came back to life.
I noticed the APN settings is very very different but this rom wont let you go in it to see it's settings. Surely there is a way to import/export the APN data to push on over to another custom rom? Just weird that after putting this specific custom rom data happily worked again.
BTW, if anyone tries to activate a verizon lg g3 with straight talk, be careful. Though their stupid website said that the phone was already registered with another tracfone provider/service, I was still able to get the phone to work. If after entering your MEID/EMI or whatever the numbers are and the straight talk website spits it back out at you, CALL straight talk. I got screwed and used up the network access code which somehow got lost into oblivion, but turns out that they themselves can manually add the Verizion 4G LTE sim card with the network access code card. (I bought the 4g LTE sim card package from wal mart). As long as the phone is in good standing, it will work!
Thanks. Hope this helps someone else out trying to get it to work with straight talk. I will try and see if there is a way to export this APN setting. I was told by straight talk that you don't need an APN set, but i think they are lying.
Peace!
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Back again,
Happy to report im using skydragon Rom with straight talk. Turns out you do in fact need to set the apn in the settings. Just add this apn
acct.tf.gw6.vzwentp
This is the apn for the Verizon 4g lte sim card when you use it. I didn't have to reset the phone but now data works great.
Hey question. I have a Straight Talk S3 currently running CM 11 kitkat based rom and things work great but I found other roms I want to install one of them being a Pac-Man custom rom but I have no data. I have a Verizon CDMA 4G LTE sim coming in acouple days just need the apn settings. Could anyone help me out with this? Thanx in advance for any help.
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Surely it is the same APN setting as above. Try it out once you get your Sim card. Also, that S3 being a different phone may pick up on the access point names when you try another rom and set itself up, but if data is still not working, then try that APN I posted on the first post.
Also, be careful that you are actually connecting at LTE speeds as long as your area has it. Flashing to another rom I was only connecting at 3G. Turns out that once I tried another rom, you have to set the preferred network to LTE, then give the phone a reset. It took it a moment after reboot, but LTE finally showed up.
Depending on your phone, there are other settings to be set in it's hidden menu settings using the phones dialer. Just google around.
Hope this helps!
So I jumped on the AT&T/DirecTV Unlimited data deal and ported my phone today. It all looked normal and I got the activation texts and such - it even populated the nxtgenphone APN info (though it was deselected and I had to select it). Anyway, I've had no data at all. As a test, I switched the APN to phone and data works, but the speeds appear to be much lower than what my wife's iPhone is seeing on the nxtgenphone APN. Anyone got any tips?
I'm running Viper 2.5, latest US unlocked firmware and US unlocked selected as carrier, and it works fine on AT&T other than this......only other thing I can mention is when I select preferred band or whatever it shows WCDMA/GSM and if I change it to WCDMA/GSM/LTE it reverts back for some reason. Any help much appreciated. I've called AT&T and they're like, uh, we don't sell the HTC 10 so can't really help you... grrrrrr.....
vettejock99 said:
So I jumped on the AT&T/DirecTV Unlimited data deal and ported my phone today. It all looked normal and I got the activation texts and such - it even populated the nxtgenphone APN info (though it was deselected and I had to select it). Anyway, I've had no data at all. As a test, I switched the APN to phone and data works, but the speeds appear to be much lower than what my wife's iPhone is seeing on the nxtgenphone APN. Anyone got any tips?
I'm running Viper 2.5, latest US unlocked firmware and US unlocked selected as carrier, and it works fine on AT&T other than this......only other thing I can mention is when I select preferred band or whatever it shows WCDMA/GSM and if I change it to WCDMA/GSM/LTE it reverts back for some reason. Any help much appreciated. I've called AT&T and they're like, uh, we don't sell the HTC 10 so can't really help you... grrrrrr.....
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I'd suggest ruu to stock us unlocked rom and see if the issue persists.
Or, try clean flash of viper.
I have no issues using US unlocked on AT&T with both stock rom and ice.
Thanks for trying to help. I just finished trying stock RUU and same problem. I'm convinced, as I was before, that this is AT&T's issue. I've read numerous posts this afternoon that because the HTC 10 (and other phones) aren't in their "LTE approved" database, nxtgenphone APN won't work, or it will only give HSPA speeds. Seems like everyone who has resolved it, or didn't run into the issue at all had another AT&T LTE phone they could use for the IMEI on the account, or the rep entered the model as an iPhone or similar to make it work. Really, really frustrating, as they refuse to help me and I'm starting to think I should just terminate in the 14 day window and do T-mobile or Verizon.
I have at&t and everything worked out of the box, I've never been on stock rom, always on Viper I did the unlock and s-off without a sim and never had an issue or called at&t to activate the device I just transferred my sim from my note 4 to the HTC 10, no provisioning issues at all, VOLTE works, LTE is fine as well while on a phone call... No issues... If you need anything to compare let me know
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jocarog said:
I have at&t and everything worked out of the box, I've never been on stock rom, always on Viper I did the unlock and s-off without a sim and never had an issue or called at&t to activate the device I just transferred my sim from my note 4 to the HTC 10, no provisioning issues at all, VOLTE works, LTE is fine as well while on a phone call... No issues... If you need anything to compare let me know
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Thanks for replying. They did confirm it was a provisioning issue and they fixed it today. They had to do something different, as the default HTC 10 provisioning and IMEI check didn't fix it even when they tried it a second time, but they were able to adjust something and LTE definitely works now. VoLTE working here, too. Thanks!
What happened with my HTC 10 and my SIM card this weekend? I was able to fix it so I'll explain problem and solution. I'm just looking for an understanding from someone smarter than me.
TL : DR ==> Why do two different devices with the same service have locked SIM settings that changed between devices and causing one of the devices (HTC 10) to not have working data?
My HTC 10 is on Viper10 (Nougat Sense based). My wife's phone is a OnePlus3 (FreedomOS (stock based rooted rom on Nougat)).
Both devices are on T-Mobile same plan. We both have T-Mobile so when travelling international we enjoy using the service. Well this is our first trip with both of these devices. We land in Canada and check the box allow data roaming on both phones. The OP3 lights up immediately and has LTE data. The HTC 10 shows no data. I have a signal for voice and whatnot but no data. Going into phone settings it says "disconnected because service is unavailable" under the mobile data toggle. If I go under about phone at the bottom of settings it says LTE but it just refuses to connect the phone.
I don't have much time to mess with this on a vacation but I'm seriously not happy right now. I work though it by trying to swap the SIM cards thinking maybe that's the issue. Nope. OnePlus3 lights up data on my HTC's SIM card but the OP3's SIM card causes same error on HTC 10. I have MultiROM so I booted up a new ROM just for testing to see if maybe it was the ROM causing a problem. I switched to an AOSP based ROM and same problem. No data but I have a signal for basic phone usage.
Now I'm starting to get pissed. I went into the APN section of both phones. They both have a lock icon next to the one supplied by T-Mobile but the APNs are slightly different in their configuration. HTC 10's shows APN roaming protocol as IPV4 whereas the OP3 shows APN roaming protocol as IPV6. I manually created a new APN on the HTC 10 with the exact same settings on the OP3 and BOOM instantly got data working. :laugh:
So to recap from above, why do two different devices with the same service have locked SIM settings that changed between devices and causing one of the devices to not have working data? It wasted a good hour of my trip trying to fix it. If that APN switch didn't fix it I was about to give up and just use the wife's phone for the trip.
Some things you could try...
Deleting apn settings, then hit reset to default. Then reboot phone. Also if you're using T-mobile SIMs they are tied to the device by IMEI. In TLDR seemed like you were trying to swap SIMs.
concerning the data being weird after SIM swap (if they're both unlocked) maybe they have different bands or one has stronger radio.
drago10029 said:
Some things you could try...
Deleting apn settings, then hit reset to default. Then reboot phone. Also if you're using T-mobile SIMs they are tied to the device by IMEI. In TLDR seemed like you were trying to swap SIMs.
concerning the data being weird after SIM swap (if they're both unlocked) maybe they have different bands or one has stronger radio.
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Thanks for the advice! I had swapped the sim card from my unlocked HTC M9 to a new unlocked HTC M10 and everything was great for a week until one morning it wasn't. I was familiar with creating new APN s when travelling. Followed your advice to a T. Worked first time. I'm currently on the Bell network in Ontario.
Jodstrac said:
Thanks for the advice! I had swapped the sim card from my unlocked HTC M9 to a new unlocked HTC M10 and everything was great for a week until one morning it wasn't. I was familiar with creating new APN s when travelling. Followed your advice to a T. Worked first time. I'm currently on the Bell network in Ontario.
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Another thing you can try is boot into the BOOTLOADER, not download mode, and do 'fastboot erase persist'
bynarie said:
Another thing you can try is boot into the BOOTLOADER, not download mode, and do 'fastboot erase persist'
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Also note that the command is for S-OFF only devices. And that command only helps when you downgraded the firmware from oreo to nougat or lower. For S-ON devices it works completely different. It has no relation to APN settings.