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Roaming Symbol Problem

I just recently bought a Rogers HTC Magic, rooted the phone, and unlocked it. Everything seems to work completely fine. At the moment however, I seem to be having an issue with a Bell Mobility sim card. Bell's HSPA sim works fine, and I seem to be able to use voice and data ok, but the problem lies in that their seems to be a roaming symbol ("R") on my reception bar. Im using the phone in my local calling area which is somewhat misleading to me.
Im using MyHero 2.0.5 ROM at the moment. Does anyone know why this is happening? Thanks in advance!

Agreed
I'm doing the same thing. I'm running cyanogens roms and I get the same thing. Best I can tell is that this is normal on the magic. Just be careful if you live near the border like I do.

I figured this was normal too. I guess i'll try other SIM cards to see what they say as well, thanks!

Ya I also have this phone running on Bell, wish I could get rid of the roaming. It also asks if I want to connect once in a while too.

Shouldn't the romaing be dictated by the sim? I have a bell sim, on the bell network, why do I get the roaming icon? is there a way to change the phone so it doesn't think it's a rogers and not roaming or something?

Are you sure you have the Bell APN Settings and not the Rogers Settings in the phone?
Settings -> Wireless Control -> Mobile Network Settings -> Access Point Names
If it says Rogers you're Roaming on the Rogers Network.

I put in the bell APN. I don't think we can even roam on rogers network, wouldn't work. Either way, it's the Bell APN.

I don't have a clue as to the differences between Bell and Rogers sims... but I can tell you that my HTC Magic, on Rogers, with a Rogers sim (duh), running Amon_RA's most excellent RAv1.6.2H only shows roaming when actually roaming.
I was in the US yesterday and watched it flip from a Rogers tower to ATT. I was watching to make sure it was not using any data when roaming on a US network. The symbol, lockscreen info and the carrier listed in the status pulldown all were updated correctly.
It might have something to do with the ROM you are running. However I bet that given the phone came from Rogers, it has some carrier info buried somewhere that it is comparing to the carrier you are on (Bell) and triggering the roaming status.
If you disable data when roaming in the settings menu, what does it do? If it disables data, then the phone thinks it is roaming, which would support my carrier data mixup theory.

I will try a different rom on the phone. Unless someone knows for sure what I can do to fix this.
If you disable roaming there is no data, because once in a while it prompts to connect, if you say no, you get nothing. Sometimes my wife must accidentally hit no (its her phone, she probably says no cause shes not sure what it does). I just want to make it so she does not get the prompt ever (settings are all set).

I have a rogers HTC Magic (unlocked) I'm using a fido sim, it thinks its roaming as-well but I have only fido apn settings. It only roams with certain roms and radio's. I can use alot of roms eg. cyanogen,Hero HOFO 308,GYD 2.1.1 without roaming but when I update radio and flash cursorsense roms it thinks it is roaming. I have to enable data roaming in order to get a 3G signal. as a fido user I dial *#123# to see if I'm in my local zone zone. A fido tech rep told me that most unlocked phones indicate roaming because of the phones hardware programing. The hard programing of the phones checks the sim and sees that it is using a diff sim card and starts indicating roaming when in fact you are not. A rogers salesman also told me the same thing. He said as long as your carrier is displayed on your phone homescreen then you are good.

I have the AT&T Tilt, not running the AT&T ROM. I've tested a few different SIM cards on my phone and here's what I've found:
Rogers: Roaming works correctly. In Canada, no roaming indicator, in the USA, roaming is indicated correctly.
Telus & Bell (HSPA): Roaming indicator always on.
I've heard that this may be due to the SIM card listing more than one Mobile Network Code: 302361, 302653, 302657 (original Telus CDMA networks, not compatible with the phone or any kind of SIM-based network so it's uncertain why it would be on the SIM card), PLUS the HSPA network code 302880. It's possible that the phone is not reading that far into the list on the SIM and therefore does not know that 302880 is a home network.

Tilt 2 Roaming Triangle and telus
I'm on Telus and have a Tilt2. The original ROM that came with the unit didn't show the roaming triangle. I have attached some screen captures of the ROM. I've attached a copy of the registry (Remove the .cab it was the only way I could get it to upload).
I'm now running Jackos rom and it does show the roaming triangle.
Hopefully somebody can find where the settings are located and hopefully it's contained in the registry.

Have the same problem on the Stocks ROGERS 1.5 Rom. Sales associate said you should not get roaming charges since you aren't actually roaming and if you do, just contact your phone provider.

rogers htc dream unlocked now on roaming?
i also have a htc dream from rogers unlocked not rooted and my bell sims card works like my phone calls and my text but i can't get my data to work and when i click on the apns theres not thing and i am not able to adjust anything in there, if anyone can help it would be great, so pretty much the bell sims card works but i cant use my data and it says im roaming

hol17 said:
Have the same problem on the Stocks ROGERS 1.5 Rom. Sales associate said you should not get roaming charges since you aren't actually roaming and if you do, just contact your phone provider.
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i also have a htc dream from rogers unlocked not rooted and my bell sims card works like my phone calls and my text but i can't get my data to work and when i click on the apns theres not thing and i am not able to adjust anything in there, if anyone can help it would be great, so pretty much the bell sims card works but i cant use my data and it says im roaming
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If you aren't outside of Canada and you get the roaming symbol; they can not charge you roaming fees.

Roger and Telus PLMN Compared
I'm not sure if this will help,
I have attached a picture of the PLMN from a Rogers sim and a Telus sim
Maybe someone knows how to adjust the information on these lists.

Dave778 said:
A fido tech rep told me that most unlocked phones indicate roaming because of the phones hardware programing. The hard programing of the phones checks the sim and sees that it is using a diff sim card and starts indicating roaming when in fact you are not. A rogers salesman also told me the same thing. He said as long as your carrier is displayed on your phone homescreen then you are good.
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The phone companies in Canada must be less uptight about unlocked/rooted phones
If you asked those questions to a t-mobile or at&t rep, they would straight up refuse to talk to you
American cell phone companies are still stuck in the "Ma Bell" mentality, where everything that touches their network must be under their control

anyone figure out a fix? I'm having these roaming issues as well on the bell network with unlocked at&t phone.

I have Same probleme Here, Bell on a AT&T Tilt 2 phone, Always get Roaming message.
any registry edit or mod available to make it work without these message ?
thks

BiOs2k said:
I have Same probleme Here, Bell on a AT&T Tilt 2 phone, Always get Roaming message.
any registry edit or mod available to make it work without these message ?
thks
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I searched around to a fairly moderate extent and I have found many people with the same problem, yet I can't find any resolution to this issue.
I'm not even sure where the issue lays. Is it with the hardware/firmware? SIM card? Windows Mobile? Is it the rilphone.dll? or maybe some registry entry. Maybe it's on the Bell network side?
Someone told me they put a Rogers SIM into their Fuze and it didn't show up as roaming, yet when they put a Bell SIM in, it's back to roaming. So what's the difference between Bell and Rogers?
Here's a question for anyone who has this problem, when you boot android does it still show as roaming?

Virgin Mobile?

I was wondering if anyone knew if the Hero will work on Virgin Mobile? I've looked round everywhere and I can't find any answer! Can anyone help here?

the hero should work fine on any network, maybe you will have to set up your internet/mms settings manually but thats about it

Noo
So this isn't possible because its CDMA phones set up for use on their network specifically, basically you have to buy a 'V' branded phone from them or amazon.com to use the network.

Help needed with unlocked x10 (always roaming)

I have a Rogers branded phone that is unlocked and is being used with Fido or a while. Everything works just fine, however I need to tweak the phone so it would stop showing the roaming indication on the desktop, it's always roaming because it sees that I'm on the Fido network and it probably validates against a registry or file somewhere in the file where it says home network = Rogers.

Hi I thought I just wanted to let you know that your usage doesn't count as roaming... as in your airtimes are always local as long as you are in your local calling area. That's based on the experience with my unlocked HTC dream on telus. Make sure you double check with display though.
On a side note, I'm using an unlocked x10 with telus and it doesn't have a roaming icon.
Sent from my X10a using XDA App

mania02 said:
Hi I thought I just wanted to let you know that your usage doesn't count as roaming... as in your airtimes are always local as long as you are in your local calling area. That's based on the experience with my unlocked HTC dream on telus. Make sure you double check with display though.
On a side note, I'm using an unlocked x10 with telus and it doesn't have a roaming icon.
Sent from my X10a using XDA App
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I know that I'm not actually roaming even though that r is showing on top the reception bars in the display panel. I just want to find out if there is a way to get the phone to think that fido is my home network and not Rogers.

hmm... i'm not sure what 'roaming' means but I bought the phone from Rogers, unlocked it and I'm using it with Fido right now too. I don't seem to have any problem with it. It detects Fido and displays it on my home screen. But I've also rooted the phone too, and I think that rooting process debrands the phone as well. Have you rooted your phone? if you haven't I suggest you do, and you can follow this guide for rooting the phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717949. Hope this helps

junkk29 said:
hmm... i'm not sure what 'roaming' means but I bought the phone from Rogers, unlocked it and I'm using it with Fido right now too. I don't seem to have any problem with it. It detects Fido and displays it on my home screen. But I've also rooted the phone too, and I think that rooting process debrands the phone as well. Have you rooted your phone? if you haven't I suggest you do, and you can follow this guide for rooting the phone: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=717949. Hope this helps
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Roaming is the r above your reception bars, does it show on your phone? I went ahead and I did the root thing however the r is still there

Hey you aren't alone with the always roaming issue...The new Bell Telus network seems pretty screwy with this roaming indicator and some unlocked phones, it's not just limited to android either.
My Fuze and another persons TP2 both always show roaming. Stick a Rogers SIM in and roaming is gone.
Here's some threads, no one can figure it out yet
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=777437
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=621652
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=641299
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=683785
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=583227

I had this problem before with my unlocked LG COOKIE with a rogers sim. it was always showing up as "ROAMING" but now with the x10, no more problems.. tried same sim on a blackberry, no roamin ether... its wierd

Well, I had this issue with an T-Mobile branded HTC Dream, unlocked and being used on Three UK, it always shows up as Roaming, what I do is this:
Settings > Wireless Controls > Mobile Networks > Network Operators
Let it check for an network operator, and the choose the correct one from the list, which in your case is Fido.
Hope it helps!

[Q] How to Unlock my mobile network settings?

Hi,
I recently bought a HTC Surround (AT&T), im from Costa Rica and we don't have AT&T as a carrier.
The phone works great with the GSM band but when i try to look for any 3G settings (using 850Mhz band) i cant find any options.
According to an article in the internet (i cant post any links yet) there should be an option called "Mobile Network" where i can turn the 3G on or off, so im guessing AT&T disabled the option (phone doesn't have any 3G sign on the sign bar at the top just the antenna bars).
Is there any way to Unlock the 3G options on this phone?
Thank you.

Help me out a little with your request. The place to turn on/off data is under cellular in the settings page. However, I haven't found "Mobile Network" on mine. However, I did download HTC Connection Setup which allowed the phone to search for various carriers and automatically set up the connections. That program is in Marketplace under HTC apps.
BTW, is your phone SIM unlocked?

Thank you for answering ...Sure ill help you with what ever you need... we might be able to narrow down my problem... lets see
1. HTC connection: yea i tried the app actually i have it installed on my phone but its giving me a message saying "Carrier doesnt exist in the data base" that i need to go a create apn (isnt that for phone internet). so i cant use the application, our carrier here is called I.C.E.
2.The band Costa Rica is using for 3G is the 850MHz. my SIM card is linked to a GSM account (1900 MHz) but the phone should be able to recognize the band tho, isnt that right?
3.how do i know if my phone is sim lock? i just placed my GSM SIM card inside and its working, do i need to try with a different card?
4. how does 3G works in this phone? is it configurable?

I'm pretty sure you are going to have to configure an APN for it to use 3G. As for band switching, I don't think it's possible with the current interface (at least on AT&T). Perhaps there are some registry entries that we will soon be able to access when some of the WP7 developers make headway, but right now, there is nothing of which I'm aware. If you can call on your network, the phone is already SIM unlocked, so no need to worry there.

I found some nice info about switching 3G or 2G etc... which it helps but i think it didnt work on mine.
Does anyone know how to set the HD7 (or surround) to 3G only?
Dialer> ##3282# Call > Settings > 3G only.
But in my case what i saw after that was that all the antenna bars were gone and then it went into no service then picked up signal again. After checking the settings after dialing again it was set to automatic again and if a switch it to 3G only it does the same thing again.
So im guessing it didnt work, ill try to talk to my carrier and see if we can create an APN to handle the 3G.
Is there a chance that the 3G feature is locked by AT&T?
Thanks for all your help if by any chance you find out something else i will appreciate the help.

Well apparently i got it fixed my phone seems to be working on 3G right now, i have the 3G sign on the top bar.
To make the story short.
I just configured my internet, added the roaming options and then tried again ##3282# only 3G and it worked now its showing 3G next to the antenna bars.
Thank you jwzg for your help.

Can not change the language
I have HTC surround. I did unlock AT&T phone. Now it works in Russia.But when I'm changing the languge from enlish to russian: can not save it. Please help me

need help
i have a question and i need some help pease... i have and htc surround which was unlocked from att and now am using t-mobile with the phone however i do not get 3g working what can i do is there any fix for it?

xSebast said:
Hi,
I recently bought a HTC Surround (AT&T), im from Costa Rica and we don't have AT&T as a carrier.
The phone works great with the GSM band but when i try to look for any 3G settings (using 850Mhz band) i cant find any options.
According to an article in the internet (i cant post any links yet) there should be an option called "Mobile Network" where i can turn the 3G on or off, so im guessing AT&T disabled the option (phone doesn't have any 3G sign on the sign bar at the top just the antenna bars).
Is there any way to Unlock the 3G options on this phone?
Thank you.
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Hi. If your SIM card is old (GSM) add APN: icecelular. If your SIM card is new (Kolbi), add APN: kolbi3g

jaraya13 said:
Hi. If your SIM card is old (GSM) add APN: icecelular. If your SIM card is new (Kolbi), add APN: kolbi3g
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hi guys
I living to Costa Rica and i have a HTC Surround 3G network not problem apn icecelular
so MMS messenger is a problem, how is the configuration ??????

geovannyguadamuz said:
hi guys
I living to Costa Rica and i have a HTC Surround 3G network not problem apn icecelular
so MMS messenger is a problem, how is the configuration ??????
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that's easy no problem just download this app from the market is called connection setup I believe then just open it and follow instructions however I have a big question am in US and have an htc surround unlocked from att but I have t mobile and I cannot get 3g is there any setup configuration that has to be make in order for the 3g to work

Thanks!!!
Download connection setup to marketplace and running
the carrier doesn´t exist in database
In Costa Rica mms don´t support ???

geovannyguadamuz said:
Thanks!!!
Download connection setup to marketplace and running
the carrier doesn´t exist in database
In Costa Rica mms don´t support ???
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I guess not, we have to wait for a custom rom the adresses this issue.

map1989 said:
that's easy no problem just download this app from the market is called connection setup I believe then just open it and follow instructions however I have a big question am in US and have an htc surround unlocked from att but I have t mobile and I cannot get 3g is there any setup configuration that has to be make in order for the 3g to work
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No, you don't have to do any special configuration. I think TMobile bands for 3G are different frequencies from ATT, so sadly, I think you are never going to be able to have 3G connection on your Surround while you are on TMobile. Regards.

mmmmm tmobile used different bands
mmmmm input to sim movistar in htc, rigth in connection setup appers to configuracion of Nicaragua chance to Costa Rica and input sim ice connection don´t exist in data base... :-( mms is not working!!!

Use of Samsung Focus in UK?

I was wondering, if I was to order a SIM unlocked Samsung Focus from america (there are a few on ebay) would I have any problems using it in the UK?
As far as I can tell it has the same GSM bands as UK phones, but I am wondering why it wasnt launched in the UK?

I think you will have trouble configure MMS for use with your own network of choice (known issue and seems no solution so far). Also, it may or may not support the 3G frequency depending on which band your carrier uses (Focus only supports 2100Mhz band outside of US).
In UK, you should just order the Ominia 7. Same phone (and looks better than Focus, IMO) sans the SD card slot. But with the amount of trouble of getting any SD card to work reliably with Focus, you might jsut forget about it ever had a SD slot in the first place.

I ordered mine to Norway from ebay. Everything but MMS works perfect, and the MMS issue can be fixed with an app from the Samsung Zone in the Marketplace which allows you to change the settings that at&t have hidden away.

I got the Samsung Focus recently and I'm using it on Vodafone UK. I notice that sometimes despite the phone saying full 3G there's no connection and I have to reboot the phone to get a data connection. Anyone else had this?

I have an unlocked Focus too... for those that have successfully got the 3G to connect - what tarriffs are you on, and how did you get it setup??
Cheers

Samsung Focus in the UK
I have a Samsung Focus from Ebay. I have unlocked the phone from fastgsm which was instant and simple to do.
I have the internet and 3g working fine so far by simply adding the Vodafone APN settings in the menu. I haven;t tried mms messages but don;t really use them anyway but think they should work if you use the samsung app for configuring the phone fromt he store.
Just a quick comment. I can;t get the radio to pickup much. I have changed the region to International but I am still getting a terrible signal although I do get some stations they are quickly lost if you move at all. Any help?

^^ I have the same problem with the radio. Unlocked via FastGSM.

howdy. I've got an unlocked focus on vodafone pay as you go SIM; they can't seem to give me any APN etc settings that allows the internet to work. Do you mind me asking what you've entered into yours??

StephenCurry said:
I have the internet and 3g working fine so far by simply adding the Vodafone APN settings in the menu. I haven;t tried mms messages but don;t really use them anyway but think they should work if you use the samsung app for configuring the phone fromt he store.
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howdy. I've got an unlocked focus on vodafone pay as you go SIM; they can't seem to give me any APN etc settings that allows the internet to work. Do you mind me asking what you've entered into yours??

StephenCurry said:
I have a Samsung Focus from Ebay. I have unlocked the phone from fastgsm which was instant and simple to do.
I have the internet and 3g working fine so far by simply adding the Vodafone APN settings in the menu. I haven;t tried mms messages but don;t really use them anyway but think they should work if you use the samsung app for configuring the phone fromt he store.
Just a quick comment. I can;t get the radio to pickup much. I have changed the region to International but I am still getting a terrible signal although I do get some stations they are quickly lost if you move at all. Any help?
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Please can you provide details of the apn settings that i must enter as the vodafone rep told me to enter some wap rubbish that didn't work. thanks Lee
Hi update to anyone with the same problem on vodafone enter the apn number in settings-cellular. at bottom add/edit apn:
APN wap.vodafone.co.uk
user name wap13
password wap14
hope this helps.