G960U no longer working on PureTalk USA due to 3g shutdown - Samsung Galaxy S9 Questions & Answers

have an unlocked S9. 4G/LTE intermittently flashes in the header, but unable to make calls. texting works fine. carries says buy a new phone.. put in a att sim and phone switched over to att (from TMO) no problems, still not working. yes I updated the network settings also.
anyone else with same problem or ideas how to fix?

I have exactly the same problem. My S9 quit working on 2/25 and was told by PureTalk that It was time for a new phone. I backed it up and did a factory reset and worked fine until yesterday morning. Same issue. On hold now for just over an hour to try one last time with PureTalk customer service. This will be my last attempt to "fix" the issue. Looks like I'll be headed to AT&T...

I am looking at options to replace myself.

With puretalk I'm seeing weird things going on with this. My S9 stopped working about March 2nd. When I switched to an alternate installed APN called ATT Nextgenphone it had Fato added on the types, I could make calls with that, until I restarted then I couldn't. But I couldn't text. If I switched back to the Puretalk suggested APN, I could text but I couldn't make calls. I tried the same thing with an S10 I got because at first they said it was compatible then a day later they said it was not compatible. I got same results with it. I can call on one APN but not text and I can text on the other APN but not call.
So the phones are able to do both but there is something with their tech that they can't handle it. I am currently trying to port to another carrier that says I can get 5G on an S10.
I put port request in but their porting department said it takes 24 hours to port. We'll see about that.
Added:
As it turns out Puretalk lied again, it didn't take 24 hours. It was ported within an hour.
I already had gotten a US Mobile sim card so I attempted to get that going on my S10. Calls worked but texting images didn't. I tried some of their online help steps which are numerous. After those I couldn't make calls (something about setting up LTE Only setting - BAD). So I set back to the original from that and called them They gave me the correct APN settings which are these.
Everything works now. Puretalk and their AT&T shutdown games are history to me.
APN name : Verizon 2
APN: vzwinternet
MMSC: http://mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms
MMS port: 80
MCC: 311
MNC: 480
APN protocol: iPv4/iPv6
APN roaming protocol: iPv4/iPv6
APN type: default,supl,mms

The problem is with the budget phone plans that only allowed 3g, not the S9 phone. But all you should need to do is get a new 4g SIM card from your provider , not a new phone.

Don't know if this is a permanent solution. My family has 2 s9 and 6 s9+ phones all with pure talk. Half of them quit working half still work fine. The only difference was in the model number. (s9) SM-G960U quit working, (s9) SM-G960U1 still works. (s9+) SM-G965U quit working, (s9+) SM-G965U1 sill works. So using this forum I figured out how to flash SM-960U1 firmware to the SM-G960U phone using Frija/Odin. Now both s9 have U1 firmware and both are working flawlessly with pure talk. Haven't yet had opportunity to flash s9+ phones yet but I am expecting the same results. Hope this helps.

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[Q] MMS issue

I just got the Lumia 900, and everything is working fine except I cannot send/receive MMS. I am currently on the newest update, but my APN settings were not built into the phone like they should have been. I manually inputed them and the data is working fine now, but pictures still will not send. Am I the only one with this problem? If not, has anyone figured out a fix? I called both Nokia and At&t. At&t told me the issue was that I didn't have a data plan, which I do, and Nokia told me to have At&t send an APN update push to my phone. At&t said they couldn't do that. Anyway, let me know if you all know of anything that could help.
Thanks in advance.
UPDATE: After spending 2 hours on the phone with AT&T and Nokia, I finally got tired and called an AT&T rep that I know. She took a look at my account and realized that I had data on my account, but it was never set up with the 4G data which is why I could access the internet via HSPA or HSPA+ but couldn't get MMS. The phone was just confused. She made the change for me and it's working fine now. If you're on AT&T, just call 611 and make sure you're on an LTE plan, not just a 4G plan and see if that fixes your problem.
ddelong22 said:
I just got the Lumia 900, and everything is working fine except I cannot send/receive MMS. I am currently on the newest update, but my APN settings were not built into the phone like they should have been. I manually inputed them and the data is working fine now, but pictures still will not send. Am I the only one with this problem? If not, has anyone figured out a fix? I called both Nokia and At&t. At&t told me the issue was that I didn't have a data plan, which I do, and Nokia told me to have At&t send an APN update push to my phone. At&t said they couldn't do that. Anyway, let me know if you all know of anything that could help.
Thanks in advance.
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Something seems wonky here.
You have a Lumia 900 on AT&T with a qualifying DATA plan, and you can't get MMS.
A couple of thoughts:
What aren't you saying? Hacked? Rooted, Unlocked??? Bought it off of eBay?
Have you tried a Hard Reset with the sim in? During setup, the first indication of a setup problem is, Time Zone, Region, Time are not setup automatically. Does this happen?
Do you have an official mini sim, or is this a cut down one? Cut down ones...might not work.
Take it back to the place you bought it....do a hard reset in front of them. Does it work? By work I mean does it detect time zone, time, your number. NO, its not usual for them not to...don't believe that if they tell you that. If there is NO detection....something is wrong..either with the Sim or the account.
Have them check your account...right there...is it setup? You should NOT have to input an apn on this phone, if all of the above is correct.
I have had 2 lumia's and a Samsung Focus S since March 2nd. Each one had to have the account reset. For some reason something went wonky on the phone during setup. Dropped vm, one time it was data plan not initializing. A Quick check caught them...
alodar1 said:
Something seems wonky here.
You have a Lumia 900 on AT&T with a qualifying DATA plan, and you can't get MMS.
A couple of thoughts:
What aren't you saying? Hacked? Rooted, Unlocked??? Bought it off of eBay?
Have you tried a Hard Reset with the sim in? During setup, the first indication of a setup problem is, Time Zone, Region, Time are not setup automatically. Does this happen?
Do you have an official mini sim, or is this a cut down one? Cut down ones...might not work.
Take it back to the place you bought it....do a hard reset in front of them. Does it work? By work I mean does it detect time zone, time, your number. NO, its not usual for them not to...don't believe that if they tell you that. If there is NO detection....something is wrong..either with the Sim or the account.
Have them check your account...right there...is it setup? You should NOT have to input an apn on this phone, if all of the above is correct.
I have had 2 lumia's and a Samsung Focus S since March 2nd. Each one had to have the account reset. For some reason something went wonky on the phone during setup. Dropped vm, one time it was data plan not initializing. A Quick check caught them...
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I am in the same boat. Bone stock 900.
Looks like an issue with 4G. When I change my data connection to 3G MMS works as expected, change it back to 4G, no workie...
I was going to mess around with APN to see if I can get one set up that works. There is a Nokia Network Setting app that can help with this but it's not on the Market Place anymore. I've been doing some searching and this appears to occur on many different carriers with 4G. I'm in the US on ATnT, but it is happening overseas too.
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Might have figured mine out, I added an APN
apn: wap.cingular
user: [email protected] (all caps)
pass: CINGULAR1 (all caps)
proxy: 66.209.11.32
port: 8080
There is not slot for MMS so I skipped that, it would be:
mmsc: http://mmsc.cingular.com
Go to settings
Cellular
Edit APN
Input the above
Save (check mark)
I then toggled in airplane mode for 30 secs and then out of it. Sent my self a MMS and it worked, sent one from my wife's phone and it worked. Both of those scenarios were failing on 4G before. PITA
That app is off the marketplace
magic140.6 said:
I am in the same boat. Bone stock 900.
Looks like an issue with 4G. When I change my data connection to 3G MMS works as expected, change it back to 4G, no workie...
I was going to mess around with APN to see if I can get one set up that works. There is a Nokia Network Setting app that can help with this but it's not on the Market Place anymore. I've been doing some searching and this appears to occur on many different carriers with 4G. I'm in the US on ATnT, but it is happening overseas too.
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Might have figured mine out, I added an APN
apn: wap.cingular
user: [email protected] (all caps)
pass: CINGULAR1 (all caps)
proxy: 66.209.11.32
port: 8080
There is not slot for MMS so I skipped that, it would be:
mmsc: http://mmsc.cingular.com
Go to settings
Cellular
Edit APN
Input the above
Save (check mark)
I then toggled in airplane mode for 30 secs and then out of it. Sent my self a MMS and it worked, sent one from my wife's phone and it worked. Both of those scenarios were failing on 4G before. PITA
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glad you got it to work. Are you in an LTE area?? I still maintain that having to input that apn indicates something is not correct. But, also realize you gotta get the phone working
alodar1 said:
glad you got it to work. Are you in an LTE area?? I still maintain that having to input that apn indicates something is not correct. But, also realize you gotta get the phone working
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Yes it work but..... It seemed to have reduced my data download speeds. So I deleted the APN and that got my LTE speed back.
Will toggle to 3g when an MMS fails for me. Will also start to bug ATnT about this too.
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Hearing from a couple decent sources there is a fix coming soon from Nokia. Not holding my breath for today or tomorrow but I did get the same info from a couple of different sources.
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magic140.6 said:
Yes it work but..... It seemed to have reduced my data download speeds. So I deleted the APN and that got my LTE speed back.
Will toggle to 3g when an MMS fails for me. Will also start to bug ATnT about this too.
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I'm more convinced than ever tht LTE may not be our friend. Nokia may be finished with the beta test, but AT&T isn't...or any other carrier that is
Can send MMS via LTE with my L900. No connection problems since I got it before launch day. Do you have a properly provisioned micro-sim.
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Getting Straight Talk LTE on sim purchased before LTE announcment?

I've had StraightTalk, using AT&T towers for just over a month (using an AT&T GS3). This was prior to their announcement about LTE becoming available. Everything pointed to needing a new sim card to take advantage of it. Yesterday, I noticed the LTE icon in my status bar. At home I get around 17 mb/s, and at work I get only like 1.5-2 mb/s.
I first noticed the icon on the CM 10.2 9/23 nightly. I'm running the most recent 10.2 nightly, and I'm still getting LTE.
Has anyone else had LTE pop up, when using Straight Talk using the old sims?
tokuzumi said:
I've had StraightTalk, using AT&T towers for just over a month (using an AT&T GS3). This was prior to their announcement about LTE becoming available. Everything pointed to needing a new sim card to take advantage of it. Yesterday, I noticed the LTE icon in my status bar. At home I get around 17 mb/s, and at work I get only like 1.5-2 mb/s.
I first noticed the icon on the CM 10.2 9/23 nightly. I'm running the most recent 10.2 nightly, and I'm still getting LTE.
Has anyone else had LTE pop up, when using Straight Talk using the old sims?
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What are your exact APN settings? There was another user about a week or two ago, who claimed he got it after calling cs, but it was gone the next morning...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2442536&highlight=straight+talk
I never had to enter these, as CM already had them loaded into the rom
APN Settings:
Name: StraightTalk ATT
APN: tfdata
Proxy: Not set
Port: 80
Username: Not set
Password: Not set
Server: Not set
MMSC: http://mms-tf.net
MMS Proxy: mms3.tracfone.com
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
Authentication type: Not set
APN type: default,supl,mms
APN protocol: IPv4
APN roaming protocol: IPv4
APN enable/disable: APN enabled (greyed out)
Bearer: unspecified
MVNO type: none
MVNO value: Not set (greyed out)
I have had straight talk for about a year and a half, long before LTE was available on straight talk. I tried to switch the old apn to the lte with no luck. I would just not get data. I ordered a new sim and intended to have my number transferred over to it. I called customer service this morning with sim in hand and asked to be upgraded to lte. They transferred me to someone that could help and he took about 10 minutes and I did not even need my new sim. They did something on their side. I asked if I would need to change the apn and they said no the old one would work. That turned out to not be true. I drove into town as I do not have lte at home and I had no data. I switched to the lte apn rebooted and boom LTE! So it seems now if you have an old att sim that was HSPA only you can call and get it switched over. I was shocked that I got right though and did not get put on hold forever and this worked. Maybe they hired more customer service reps, or I just was lucky.
eman5oh said:
I have had straight talk for about a year and a half, long before LTE was available on straight talk. I tried to switch the old apn to the lte with no luck. I would just not get data. I ordered a new sim and intended to have my number transferred over to it. I called customer service this morning with sim in hand and asked to be upgraded to lte. They transferred me to someone that could help and he took about 10 minutes and I did not even need my new sim. They did something on their side. I asked if I would need to change the apn and they said no the old one would work. That turned out to not be true. I drove into town as I do not have lte at home and I had no data. I switched to the lte apn rebooted and boom LTE! So it seems now if you have an old att sim that was HSPA only you can call and get it switched over. I was shocked that I got right though and did not get put on hold forever and this worked. Maybe they hired more customer service reps, or I just was lucky.
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This is correct they can provision your old sim to work on LTE as long as unused the new apn. It is hit or miss when u call there customer service odds are you will get someone who exactly knows what they are doing 1 out of 10 lol
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APN
enigma2446 said:
This is correct they can provision your old sim to work on LTE as long as unused the new apn. It is hit or miss when u call there customer service odds are you will get someone who exactly knows what they are doing 1 out of 10 lol
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The above posted APN settings are exactly what I am using and LTE seems to work fine. Mind you I purchased the sim card in Nov. of 13. GS3 I747 4.1.2, downgraded to 4.1.1 root injected, sim unlocked then flashed to Hyperdrive 16. All is well with LTE on this end.
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eman5oh said:
I have had straight talk for about a year and a half, long before LTE was available on straight talk. I tried to switch the old apn to the lte with no luck. I would just not get data. I ordered a new sim and intended to have my number transferred over to it. I called customer service this morning with sim in hand and asked to be upgraded to lte. They transferred me to someone that could help and he took about 10 minutes and I did not even need my new sim. They did something on their side. I asked if I would need to change the apn and they said no the old one would work. That turned out to not be true. I drove into town as I do not have lte at home and I had no data. I switched to the lte apn rebooted and boom LTE! So it seems now if you have an old att sim that was HSPA only you can call and get it switched over. I was shocked that I got right though and did not get put on hold forever and this worked. Maybe they hired more customer service reps, or I just was lucky.
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I think it might depend on the service area. Where Im at I only get H+ but a hundred miles away in a bigger city bang it auto switches to LTE and hello speed, goodbye battery.

[Q] can't access internet

hello everyone,
so i have bought a Samsung Note3 N900T recently.
and i have paid for the unlock service, so the phone is now unlocked,
so today i went to At&t store and ask for a new sim for my note3 (i used to have an iPhone5, the sim card didnt fit for note3)
after active my sim, i can use my the Note3 to make calls, send regular text.
BUT no matter what i do, i CANNOT get internet access, i have followed the steps by the APN settings, tried a few times and im sure eveything was typed correctly. but neither 4G/LET nor 3G signal shows up.
btw, the only regular text can be send, no pic text. but calls work well.
anybody can help me out?
Have you tried making sure you're set up to an access point? If so, reset it... That may work
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luckerww said:
hello everyone,
so i have bought a Samsung Note3 N900T recently.
and i have paid for the unlock service, so the phone is now unlocked,
so today i went to At&t store and ask for a new sim for my note3 (i used to have an iPhone5, the sim card didnt fit for note3)
after active my sim, i can use my the Note3 to make calls, send regular text.
BUT no matter what i do, i CANNOT get internet access, i have followed the steps by the APN settings, tried a few times and im sure eveything was typed correctly. but neither 4G/LET nor 3G signal shows up.
btw, the only regular text can be send, no pic text. but calls work well.
anybody can help me out?
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Make sure your APN settings are: leave everything normal except for these settings below
APN: phone
MMSC: http://mmsc.mobile.att.net
Multimedia Message Proxy: proxy.mobile.att.net
Multimedia Message Port:80
MCC:310
MNC:410
APN Type: default, mms, supl, hipri
Bearer: LTE
Also type in the dialer:
*#2263#
Enters in ServiceMode
Chose LTE/WCDMA then you can the back button to get out of all of it.
After I did that to mine, I had Data & everything worked out for me.
Where are you located? Some areas like in the south it's rare to get 4G, usually you're on 3G or Edge.
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att s3 on ST with issues

ok, sgh-i747. fresh NJ1 rooted flash done yesterday. using phone on straight talk with att sim. supposedly lte capable. at work i can pick up 2-3 bars of lte no prob. runs great. but this morning the phone automatically switched from lte/gsm auto. to wcdma mode on its own. it did this three times in a row inside ten minutes. then all good most of the day. however this afternoon it did it again twice. sticker on phone say i727. phone info states the same. so what would cause a gsm phone and gsm simcard to suddenly go wcdma for no reason? i do suspect a bad sim. ive heen having connection issues as well. at home signal isnt the greatest but on att i always maintained 1-2 bars of 4g. using the straight talk sim it will connect to 4g for a few minutes maybe, and then drop to edge. if i am not on lte, it will not stay on 4g. jumps to edge. its not the phone i dont think. this morning i put my sim in gf phone,same exact phone. entered same exact apn settings, rebooted, and waited. after a minute or two it dropped to g then to edge. her att sim in her phone usually maintains a steady 4g at 1-2 bars. never drops. her sim in my phone works flawless. same thing. steady 4g at 1-2 bars. how is that? doesnt the phones radio determine signal strength and what network type to use? it seems my thinking is wrong. everyone says sim cards have nothing to do with signal but after seeing my ST sim react the same in someone elses phone, i gotta think different. my settings are the most common ones
name: Straight Talk
apn: tfdata
no proxy
port: 80
(i did make an apn with no port set as well. makes no difference to me)
mmsc: http:/ / (no space) mms-tf(dot)net
mms proxy: mms3(dot)tracfone(dot)com
mms port: 80
apn type: default,supl,mms,internet,hipri
i made a few different apns with different type combos. and one with no apn type. each time tho i deleted the apn, then rebooted, then entered settings, rebooted again.
would all the rebooting and different apn settings and messing around mess up a sim card? ive had this card about two weeks. seemed to work really good for a few days. and of course tech support is no help. also, was trying to research ST sim cards to see if some were better or some problematic. found nothing for mine
TF64PSIMC4DD
any help or ideas?

[Q] mms working with Cricket?

I've followed most of this thread (http://forum.xda-developers.com/fire-phone/help/guide-fire-phone-fireos-google-apps-t3206603) along with updating to 4.6.6, to set up my fire phone, and almost everything is working. I've activated the phone with a Cricket sim, and I can get internet and sms fine. I still can't get mms to send or receive. I've tried several different APN settings from the Cricket website and others. I've tried using the stock messaging app as well as handcent.
Is anyone else using Cricket with their fire phone and able to send/rec mms? If so, what are your APN settings?
My wife's fire phone is working with Cricket, including MMS. I think Cricket takes up to 24 hours to re-reoute SMS/MMS correctly. Maybe give it a day and see if it fixes itself.
embhorn said:
My wife's fire phone is working with Cricket, including MMS. I think Cricket takes up to 24 hours to re-reoute SMS/MMS correctly. Maybe give it a day and see if it fixes itself.
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So it does work. That's good news. Turns out my wife's BLU phone doesn't work either. It's been over a week since she switched. Would you mind looking at the APN settings and telling me if they match these (taken from https://www.cricketwireless.com/sup...e-byod/customer/bring-your-own-android.html):
Name: Internet
APN: ndo
Proxy: Not Set
Port: Not Set
Username: Not Set
Password: Not Set
Server: Not Set
MMSC: http://mmsc.aiowireless.net
MMS Proxy: proxy.aiowireless.net
MMS Port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 150
Authentication type: Not Set APN type: default,mms,fota,hipri,supl
Thanks
I would have to wait until tonight to check her phone, but my Nexus 5 is working with those APN settings.
Well, it turns out the fire phone is set to use the AT&T APN. The Cricket APN is there on the phone, but the AT&T one is selected. And everything is working fine on her phone.
Here is a thread from howardforums that describes this same situation.
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1835537-Cricket-Wireless-MMS-APN-settings
Also, I neglected to mention that I use Google Voice, so all my SMS/MMS gets routed as data. Which is why I thought the Cricket APN worked for my Nexus 5.
embhorn said:
Well, it turns out the fire phone is set to use the AT&T APN. The Cricket APN is there on the phone, but the AT&T one is selected. And everything is working fine on her phone.
Here is a thread from howardforums that describes this same situation.
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1835537-Cricket-Wireless-MMS-APN-settings
Also, I neglected to mention that I use Google Voice, so all my SMS/MMS gets routed as data. Which is why I thought the Cricket APN worked for my Nexus 5.
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Yeah, thanks. I've tried all the settings on that thread. No joy. Maybe it's something wrong with my account since all four phones have the same problem
After u create APN are you setting the apn, I believe u click save and select, I missed that the first time around
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embhorn said:
Well, it turns out the fire phone is set to use the AT&T APN. The Cricket APN is there on the phone, but the AT&T one is selected. And everything is working fine on her phone.
Here is a thread from howardforums that describes this same situation.
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1835537-Cricket-Wireless-MMS-APN-settings
Also, I neglected to mention that I use Google Voice, so all my SMS/MMS gets routed as data. Which is why I thought the Cricket APN worked for my Nexus 5.
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I'm using Verizon LG g4 with the cricket sim and had a crappy signal and no mms...after messing around for days figerd out that in network setting it needs to be on the LTE wcdma setting that will say 4g but really it's LTE...and as u mentioned above, I found an att apn and everything works awesome!...mms,text,cells in comeing and out going....go to cricket Web site and the att apn you want is listed as alternate APN
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trinilu27 said:
I'm using Verizon LG g4 with the cricket sim and had a crappy signal and no mms...after messing around for days figerd out that in network setting it needs to be on the LTE wcdma setting that will say 4g but really it's LTE...and as u mentioned above, I found an att apn and everything works awesome!...mms,text,cells in comeing and out going....go to cricket Web site and the att apn you want is listed as alternate APN
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Thank you more times than I could ever say! I have a carrier unlocked LG H830 (G5), and have spent more hours than I'd like to admit trying to get outgoing MMS to work on Cricket Wireless. You name it, I've tried it. I would never EVER have thought to change the Network Mode. That fixed it. Granted, instead of showing "LTE", it's now showing 4G (3.5G), and my data speed down is about 5MB, but Cricket throttles the down speeds anyway. And, at home on Wifi, it doesn't matter anyway. So again, thank you!
For the purposes of future Google searchers:
For outgoing MMS to work on a carrier unlocked LG H830 (LG G5), the Network Mode must be set to GSM/WCDMA.
Regards,
Mark

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