Hey Everyone,
Been reading here for a long time and can always find information I need - thanks for the hard work. I've come across one I can't fix. I just upgraded from a Nexus 5x to a OnePlus 3. I'm using Appalachian Wireless, many of you may not be familiar with it. Anyhow, I can't access the APN settings. I go to where it should be, but nothing is there. Here's the thing - randomly it just happened to show up a couple times. When I got the option to actually change it, it wouldn't save. Rebooted phone and now the setting isn't there, as in, it completely disappears.
I had to change these settings on my 5x for mobile data to work, it wasn't a problem. Any idea why I can't access the APN settings? Actually it's not a matter of access, I can't even see the option now. Any advice out there? Thanks
If you dont have a supported carrier, the APN settings will not show. If you put a Sim card in the phone that the OP3 will work with, the APN settings will pop up. Happened to me as well. I bought the phone thinking it would work on Verizon and I figured I just needed to change the APN settings and it would start working. It wouldn't show until I put in a Sim card that the phone would work on.
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I have the 3t and I'm on consumer cellular (so it might not be the same for you), but after what seemed like forever, I found the APN settings in a place I never expected them. In 'Settings,' I went to 'SIM & Network' and clicked on 'SIM 1' (or SIM 2, depending on where you have your card). It was there that I found 'Access Point Names.' Hope this helps.
Hey irlyas,
I have just got my 3T and am also on consumer cellular. Would you mind posting what your APN settings are? I am able to send/receive calls texts and pictures, but when sending or getting standard texts in a group they are sent and received as individual messages. Mucho sadness. I highly doubt it is necessary to use a different chat app than the default one built in, I must have just jacked up a setting somewhere.
Cheers,
// Albert
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I have a Rogers Galaxy Note 2 on the Telus network unlocked using the hardware method posted here previously. Since the unlock I've had some weird data inconsistencies. It wouldn't allow me to do a speedtest; if I refreshed my gmail manually, it would say no connection but if i pressed it an extra time or two, it would work; and scrolling through facebook pictures it would tell me the network was unavailable but the pictures would load anyway. I accepted this as a subtle difference between the two phones.
I couldn't sleep last night and decided to play around with the APN settings. I changed all my APNs to have the bearer "LTE" and to my surprise, I could do speedtests! I thought I had cured everything. But today, my girlfriend tried to send me an MMS, but I couldn't see it at all; if I turned the bearers to unspecified, MMSs worked. I've tried a couple combinations of the two to no avail.
I'm currently using the APN settings given to me by the app Tweakked with the "Unspecified" bearer and MMS works but the data inconsistencies are still there.
Please help. I can tell the hardware functions with Telus, I just need to know if I need to do anything else to get it working smoothly. Thanks in advance!
Clyde
Clydenon said:
I have a Rogers Galaxy Note 2 on the Telus network unlocked using the hardware method posted here previously. Since the unlock I've had some weird data inconsistencies. It wouldn't allow me to do a speedtest; if I refreshed my gmail manually, it would say no connection but if i pressed it an extra time or two, it would work; and scrolling through facebook pictures it would tell me the network was unavailable but the pictures would load anyway. I accepted this as a subtle difference between the two phones.
I couldn't sleep last night and decided to play around with the APN settings. I changed all my APNs to have the bearer "LTE" and to my surprise, I could do speedtests! I thought I had cured everything. But today, my girlfriend tried to send me an MMS, but I couldn't see it at all; if I turned the bearers to unspecified, MMSs worked. I've tried a couple combinations of the two to no avail.
I'm currently using the APN settings given to me by the app Tweakked with the "Unspecified" bearer and MMS works but the data inconsistencies are still there.
Please help. I can tell the hardware functions with Telus, I just need to know if I need to do anything else to get it working smoothly. Thanks in advance!
Clyde
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Fixed it...weird... THANKS ANYWAYS!
I've been using my XZ2 Compact on Verizon since it was released. No issues. Switched to Total Wireless today, and my internet will not work. Voice and text works fine. Total Wireless operates on Verizon's network. This SIM card works fine when I put it into a Google Pixel.
My APN settings are locked (there is no "+" button). Automatically updating the APN settings adds a Verizon profile that is totally different than the one that automatically popped up on my Pixel. I can delete the existing APN profile, but I cannot add one. I've restarted the phone many times, both while connected to WiFi and not. I get internet back immediately if I reboot with the Verizon SIM.
I've searched around the interwebs, and I cannot find anything. Any help would be appreciated.
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I've been using my XZ2 Compact on Verizon since it was released. No issues. Switched to Total Wireless today, and my internet will not work. Voice and text works fine. Total Wireless operates on Verizon's network. This SIM card works fine when I put it into a Google Pixel.
My APN settings are locked (there is no "+" button). Automatically updating the APN settings adds a Verizon profile that is totally different than the one that automatically popped up on my Pixel. I can delete the existing APN profile, but I cannot add one. I've restarted the phone many times, both while connected to WiFi and not. I get internet back immediately if I reboot with the Verizon SIM.
I've searched around the interwebs, and I cannot find anything. Any help would be appreciated.
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I use another mvno and the part that's most important is 'apn name' when using an mvno mine has to be set to say reseller... Have you tried pressing download internet settings? That usually fixes the problem and bring back the plus or allow you to manually change the apn setting after it downloads it. Take it you aren't using the dual sim as sometimes switching the Sims around brings back the apn menu.
Thanks for the insight. I have tried downloading settings several times, it just bring back the "VZWINTERNET" APN.
It is a single SIM US model.
I have not tried renaming the APN. That is the one thing I can edit on it.
jmdale1984 said:
Thanks for the insight. I have tried downloading settings several times, it just bring back the "VZWINTERNET" APN.
It is a single SIM US model.
I have not tried renaming the APN. That is the one thing I can edit on it.
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Does total wireless publish the apn settings? Sometimes ios/android uses slightly different settings. Just look at what apn name should be, and try to match it up..
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I use another mvno and the part that's most important is 'apn name' when using an mvno mine has to be set to say reseller... Have you tried pressing download internet settings? That usually fixes the problem and bring back the plus or allow you to manually change the apn setting after it downloads it. Take it you aren't using the dual sim as sometimes switching the Sims around brings back the apn menu.
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I'll try that as soon as I get home, thanks!
I can't believe it! Changing APN Name to "TRACFONE.VZWENTP" is all that was needed. Thanks a bunch!
jmdale1984 said:
I can't believe it! Changing APN Name to "TRACFONE.VZWENTP" is all that was needed. Thanks a bunch!
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Glad you are up and running! Anytime.
Today I lost my ability to make phone calls or do anything with my phone away from WIFI.
If I tried to make a phone call, I'd get a "Not Registered to Network" error message.
I can still do WIFI calling but nothing else away from WIFI connection.
I then went into network settings and chose "manual" for network operators. I was able to restore texting and calling. But I have no data. The options that I see from the scan after choosing "choose network operators manually" are 3-5 choices and they all read "Home". Some of these options give me error messages and others gives "Registered to network" - which then lets me call and text message.
So far I have tried rebooting. Taking out the sim tray and placing the sim card back in. I have tried resetting network settings. I have tried resetting APN to default.
Anyone know of a fix for this Samsung message occurring on the A70?
I am trying to do what I can to avoid resetting to factory defaults.
Thanks.
Others things I have tried:
Placing sim card in the other tray.
Making sure my sim card works in another phone. (It does.)
I fixed the issue.
Restoring APN to defaults or resetting APN, does NOT work, apparently.
I had to manually create and save an APN and enter the appropriate data, as instructed by my carrier's website.
The key data entry was probably adding a website (fake example: "t-mobile.com") to the "APN" entry, which was blank in the default APN that my Samsung was using. I wonder what happened there.
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I fixed the issue.
Restoring APN to defaults or resetting APN, does NOT work, apparently.
I had to manually create and save an APN and enter the appropriate data, as instructed by my carrier's website.
The key data entry was probably adding a website (fake example: "t-mobile.com") to the "APN" entry, which was blank in the default APN that my Samsung was using. I wonder what happened there.
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Last week an earthquake has occured at Istanbul (5.8) and all the gsm carriers stopped working for hours at whole country. That was interesting. And when you tried to call someone, phone were showing a dialog which was shown to you. And also as you said, peole had to use wifi to call someone via WhatsApp etc.
So, I think the problem you lived may be your gsm carrier's issue and probably they fixed it while you were trying to fix it yourself.
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Last week an earthquake has occured at Istanbul (5.8) and all the gsm carriers stopped working for hours at whole country. That was interesting. And when you tried to call someone, phone were showing a dialog which was shown to you. And also as you said, peole had to use wifi to call someone via WhatsApp etc.
So, I think the problem you lived may be your gsm carrier's issue and probably they fixed it while you were trying to fix it yourself.
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No. The notion of an outage of service occurred to me but ultimately the fact was my sim card worked just fine in my other phone.
The problem and fix had everything to do with the APN file. I'm just wondering why that APN would change all of sudden.
What I've read about Samsung phones is that this "Not registered to network" is a common problem.
I hope this thread will be useful to someone in the future.
Hi - Never done this before, but I am having problems with MMS using my G8 (LM-G820UM) and hoping someone out there might be able to help. You will have my eternal gratitude. At this point, I would even consider rooting if you think that would help.
The current issue: I mistakenly bought a US/Sprint phone and am in Canada. It appears that cross-flashing on a G8 is verboten, so that's not an option (please correct me if I am wrong - the threads I have read seem to be several months old). Everything seems to work properly, no problem with voice, Internet, and SMS... but I cannot send or receive MMS. My APN appears fine... though I cannot edit it. But here is what makes me scratch my head:
Available network modes are Automatic (what I use), LTE/CDMA, CDMA, GSM/UMTS. If I switch to LTE/CDMA then MMS works fine, but SMS and voice disappear.
So... the solution I've come up with, which *sucks*, is to swap network modes whenever I want to send or receive MMS... which isn't very often, but does come up once a week or so.
I have tried changing to each of the "Preferred Network Type" options within ##4636##, but none of these worked for both SMS and MMS at the same time.
Reading the forums, I found a solution involving ##3282# and performing a "reset"... which appeared promising... but there does not appear to be an edit or reset option when I enter the menu.
Thank you!!
And also... live and learn... one more thing to check/test when I buy a used phone...
You can use google messages it works perfect mms i have a sprint g8 also on movistar carrier from mexico.and i use google messages for the same reason.
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Hi - Never done this before, but I am having problems with MMS using my G8 (LM-G820UM) and hoping someone out there might be able to help. You will have my eternal gratitude. At this point, I would even consider rooting if you think that would help.
The current issue: I mistakenly bought a US/Sprint phone and am in Canada. It appears that cross-flashing on a G8 is verboten, so that's not an option (please correct me if I am wrong - the threads I have read seem to be several months old). Everything seems to work properly, no problem with voice, Internet, and SMS... but I cannot send or receive MMS. My APN appears fine... though I cannot edit it. But here is what makes me scratch my head:
Available network modes are Automatic (what I use), LTE/CDMA, CDMA, GSM/UMTS. If I switch to LTE/CDMA then MMS works fine, but SMS and voice disappear.
So... the solution I've come up with, which *sucks*, is to swap network modes whenever I want to send or receive MMS... which isn't very often, but does come up once a week or so.
I have tried changing to each of the "Preferred Network Type" options within ##4636##, but none of these worked for both SMS and MMS at the same time.
Reading the forums, I found a solution involving ##3282# and performing a "reset"... which appeared promising... but there does not appear to be an edit or reset option when I enter the menu.
Thank you!!
And also... live and learn... one more thing to check/test when I buy a used phone...
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I've had the exact same problem, and the reset option within the ##3282# menu is definitely the solution. You have to go to apn settings, view, 3 buttons at top right, and reset. If you had the right sim in of course, mms should now work
antintin said:
I've had the exact same problem, and the reset option within the ##3282# menu is definitely the solution. You have to go to apn settings, view, 3 buttons at top right, and reset. If you had the right sim in of course, mms should now work
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You are a lifesaver! Yes, that was what I was missing - now everything appears to be working as expected. I believe it was your post in another thread that started me down this path as well, thank you for bringing it full-circle.
If you have a phone which needs APN settings modified for it to function fully this may be of interest. In many cases you can simply go into Settings > Network > Network and Internet > Mobile Data and add an APN or edit an existing APN.
However in some cases you may find as I did that the SIM / phone combination does not allow you to edit or add APN settings. If you have root their may be ways to edit the APN configuration files directly. However with Android 10 and some other situations that becomes difficult if not impossible. In my case even the phone network service support could not update the APN setting. I knew what the APN settings needed to be but since I had an unrooted Android 10 device (a smartwatch in this case but it will work for phones also) I could not get access to folders to edit the configuration and it is unlikely it would have been saved due to Android 10's read only system partition.
On this device I had cellular phone calls and text working but NO Mobile data. I could see the APN settings were not correct for the service I was on for Mobile data to work. I tried everything for days to edit but it was grayed out and I could not add a new APN. In the process of pursuing a solution I found that putting in a different SIM (in this case a Textnow SIM for their new free phone service through Sprint) that I could edit the APN settings when that SIM was inserted. So you will need to find a SIM card that will allow you to edit settings.
Now the real trick involves hot swapping SIM cards so if you aren't comfortable with that then you won't be able to do this. There seems to be differing opinions on this but no phones or watches or SIM cards were damaged when I tried this.
What I did was edit the other SIM by changing the APN settings. Then when I hit the back key it said something to the effect the settings were not allowed on this. At that point I pulled out the SIM with the device ON. I then put back in the SIM for my service provider with the device still on. The settings showed up now on my formerly uneditable SIM ! Mobile data now worked fine. I
I had a second device I wanted to put the SIM in (identical to the first device) hoping the settings would still be there but they were not. Apparently communication between the SIM card and the phone gets APN settings transferred to the phone or watch. So I wanted to do the same procedure on this second device. In attempting that it did not seem to be working the same at first. However after trying for about an hour it finally worked on the second device also. So persistence pays off if it doesn't work at first. I kept turning things on and off in the Mobile data settings, rebooting and playing around with developer options. I wish I could say exactly what got it to work on the second device or why it just worked on the first device the first try but I haven't been able to pin down the variable which achieved success.
But the conclusion is that is you can't edit your APN settings normally you may have success with this method if you keep at it a bit. Good luck and please post here if you have success with this method and share any insights into how you got it to work for your device.
I know I'm a little late your one man party here. I just wanted to finally clear the air on this once and for all. So that every one can edit any and every so called "locked APN" for whatever carrier and or devices. So here we go. First off long time telecom cyber security engineer.
Step 1: Find all the APN's that your specific Carrier used for your Sim card and device. Write them down or screen shot them. Some carriers and devices may only use 1, others 2-3 +.
Step 2: Click and add another APN just as the 1 that is locked on the device. Option for option identical and click save. If you have only 1 APN. It should have now saved, unlocked the APN and you should have 2 identical. You can now go back and edit the APN that you just created. If not or you can't it usually means you have more APN's to add before they will unlock. Ultimately allowing for deletion. Have patience as this may require a little time of trial and error. Good luck all and have fun with it.
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I know I'm a little late your one man party here. I just wanted to finally clear the air on this once and for all. So that every one can edit any and every so called "locked APN" for whatever carrier and or devices. So here we go. First off long time telecom cyber security engineer.
Step 1: Find all the APN's that your specific Carrier used for your Sim card and device. Write them down or screen shot them. Some carriers and devices may only use 1, others 2-3 +.
Step 2: Click and add another APN just as the 1 that is locked on the device. Option for option identical and click save. If you have only 1 APN. It should have now saved, unlocked the APN and you should have 2 identical. You can now go back and edit the APN that you just created. If not or you can't it usually means you have more APN's to add before they will unlock. Ultimately allowing for deletion. Have patience as this may require a little time of trial and error. Good luck all and have fun with it.
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Thank you so much for sharing. Worked perfectly.