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GoPhone (Att prepaid) called me out today on my Note

So a few days ago my text messaging completely stopped working.
Cannot figure out why.
Was prodding GoPhone today for a solution for my "Razr"...when he said 'btw, your sim card says you have a Samsung phone'...'did you put a Samsung sim in your phone?!
I did ditch my gophone sim a couple weeks ago and got 4g sim from Att.
He said thats your problem.
My understanding was they couldnt tell from sims or imeis?
Wonder if the gigs up with.prepaid smartphoners.

rockky said:
So a few days ago my text messaging completely stopped working.
Cannot figure out why.
Was prodding GoPhone today for a solution for my "Razr"...when he said 'btw, your sim card says you have a Samsung phone'...'did you put a Samsung sim in your phone?!
I did ditch my gophone sim a couple weeks ago and got 4g sim from Att.
He said thats your problem.
My understanding was they couldnt tell from sims or imeis?
Wonder if the gigs up with.prepaid smartphoners.
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Not all Samsung phones are smartphones. I'm confused, didn't you begin this with the premise that you were working with a prepaid go phone sim card?
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Yeah I did....but was could not get the H+...or any data at all (perhaps I didn't wait long enough)...So I walked into an Att store and got a 4G card.
All worked well til last weekend til the problems began.

You activate it with a dumb phone, then changed your APN's in the Note to match right?

http://imei-number.com/imei-lookup/
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Welp... That was quick... They called me out on my $15/mo unlimited pretty quickly...

I went into ATT...got another 4G similar card....text/MMS working fine now.
However I DO think they are monitoring activity close now.
I've already sent a few MMS's ....which when identified, I believe will have ATT nix these functions again.
Ah well....it'll be the 4G plan and contract at that point.

I wonder when att will carry the note

PickleHead said:
Welp... That was quick... They called me out on my $15/mo unlimited pretty quickly...
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That Sux! My note will be here Monday. How long did it take? Not much you can do about this though.

aleicgrant said:
can someone please share the correct APN for ATT 4G to use on the note. I am on the unlimited plan
thanks
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APN Name: AT&T Phone HSPA+
APN: phone
Type: Internet
For MMS I think the APN is:
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMSC proxy: wireless.cingular.com
MMS port: 80
MCC/MNC: leave default (310/410)
APN type: internet + mms
That's what I have and it works for me. I'm on a grandfathered unlimited plan, the phone is usually on H+ but due to my crap signal here it drops to 3G once in a while.

les_garten said:
That Sux! My note will be here Monday. How long did it take? Not much you can do about this though.
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the next morning lol

PickleHead said:
the next morning lol
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Well Crap-ola!

rockky said:
Yeah I did....but was could not get the H+...or any data at all (perhaps I didn't wait long enough)...So I walked into an Att store and got a 4G card.
All worked well til last weekend til the problems began.
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I don't think the gophone, or the medianet plans are supposed to touch 4g at all, aren't they 3g plans?
You use different settings for them. It's probably the 4g that got you busted.
- Frank

People are getting caught because they are using the wrong data APN's.
use the following apn settings for your samsung at&t compatible 3g device. This will let you use hspa+ aka fake 4g.
Name: Cingular 410
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy: <Not set>
Port: <Not set>
Username: [...]
Password: CINGULAR1
Server: <Not set>
MMSC: [...]
MMS proxy: [...]
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
Authentication type: <Not set>
APN type: <Not set>

PickleHead said:
Welp... That was quick... They called me out on my $15/mo unlimited pretty quickly...
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Did you use the settings below?
inurb said:
People are getting caught because they are using the wrong data APN's.
use the following apn settings for your samsung at&t compatible 3g device. This will let you use hspa+ aka fake 4g.
Name: Cingular 410
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy: <Not set>
Port: <Not set>
Username: [...]
Password: CINGULAR1
Server: <Not set>
MMSC: [...]
MMS proxy: [...]
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
Authentication type: <Not set>
APN type: <Not set>
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inurb said:
People are getting caught because they are using the wrong data APN's.
use the following apn settings for your samsung at&t compatible 3g device. This will let you use hspa+ aka fake 4g.
Name: Cingular 410
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy: <Not set>
Port: <Not set>
Username: [...]
Password: CINGULAR1
Server: <Not set>
MMSC: [...]
MMS proxy: [...]
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
Authentication type: <Not set>
APN type: <Not set>
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Where is the field that causes the trouble. I've collected a handful of these apn settings. They are all a little different.

les_garten said:
Where is the field that causes the trouble. I've collected a handful of these apn settings. They are all a little different.
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From what I can tell, there are only two correct sets of APN settings; the newer 4g data plan settings, and the older data plan settings that incorporate the dumbphone plans. It may look like you've seen more different sets than that, but I think if you look closely and ignore the "Name:" field, you'll see they all boil down to one of two. The name doesn't matter and it's only for you on the phone to identify the settings. It never gets transmitted to the network.
So you'll see several variations of it as different people think of different names to give that set of settings, but there are only two functioning APN settings' for AT&T.

les_garten said:
Where is the field that causes the trouble. I've collected a handful of these apn settings. They are all a little different.
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We should perhaps take a survey of people who got busted, but the 4G specific APNs seem to all have a null APN and APN proxy.
The 'safe' medianet ones seems to all have an APN of wap.cingular.
- Frank

What type of phone (cheapest) needs to be purchased with the GoPhone plan in order to have the Unlimited Data plan? I was considering StraightTalk but the cheapest phone that comes SIM-ready is $99 (E71 Refurbished).
Thanks!

When i got busted I think i was using the
Name broadband
Apn broadband
You can get a strong connection with that but it signals Att in a not good way I think.
The Apns without the username and password I think are best....ie keeps you under the radar better.

Mobile data randomly cut off *resolved*

Headed out to lunch Friday afternoon and it appeared as though mobile data on my N7100 was down. Rebooted several times, reset APN to default, pulled battery, could not restore service. I have been using the default APN settings for Cingular.wap
So, I go to ATT, they give me the international phone run around, new SIM card that provisioned for "4G", reset my data plan from scratch, push new settings, have me reboot several times, blah blah blah anyhow they can't fix it. No mobile data at all. For the hell of it I changed my APN to the following and it lit right up. Switching back to Cingular APN and no data! The only change is that I am in Little Rock, AR and ATT just rolled out LTE two weeks ago. I am not sure if they have some how invalidated that APN or what, but I hope this information can help anyone searching for sudden data cut outs on the N7100 with ATT.
APN Settings that restored data:
Name: Phone
APN: Phone
Proxy: <not set>
Port: <not set>
Username: <not set>
Password: <not set>
Server: <not set>
MMSC: http://mmsc.mobile.att.net
MMS Proxy: proxy.mobile.att.net
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
Authentication type: <none set>
APN type: default,mms,supl
Random though, not convinced yet but after doing this my speedtest.net hit 7.5mb a couple of times. With cingular.wap it never got over 2-3 and that was very few and far between (usually avg 1-1.5). I had seen posts indicating that the pta/phone APNs would give faster speeds but those would never work for me before. Anyhow, it is what it is, thanks for reading, have a good one.

I did the same thing the other day. My APN is slightly different than yours but probably doesn't matter. I saw increased speeds too. From max 7Mbps to a max of 13Mbps. I'm a little worried it won't last though.

jhamer83 said:
I did the same thing the other day. My APN is slightly different than yours but probably doesn't matter. I saw increased speeds too. From max 7Mbps to a max of 13Mbps. I'm a little worried it won't last though.
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That is the APN I was given in my upgraded ATT Note II. I copied it before I sold it and put it in my Note I and it works great. I hope to use it in the preferred N7100 I am looking to get soon.

[Q] Activate N4 on AT&T - Data Problems

I think I need some help with activating my N4 and getting the right data speeds that I should be. Here's my problem:
Got my N4 yesterday, and at the same ported my number from Sprint to AT&T. Popped in the sim card and started using it. Voice and texting worked fine (from what I could tell), but no data. My AT&T business rep told me my IMEI wasn't accepted in his system (probably just because it's a new phone?) so that he had to code it as a SGS3. I looked online and found somewhere talking about if they assign an LTE profile to the N4 it will get crummy service. And that's exactly what I was seeing from the Speedtest.net app. I called him back and told him what I read and he tried a different phone, which seemed to help the noticeable speed of loading web pages. Somehow during the day it got reset to a SGS3, so I went in to the ATT store last night and reassigned a Moto Atrix (original) to my N4.
Now the page loading seems plenty fast and if I go into Settings - About Phone - Status the network shows HSPA:10 and HSPA+:15, but if I pull up Speedtest.net and run a test it's atrocious again. Average is like 300-1400 ms ping, 4 kbps down, 800 kbps up.
What I'm not sure of is if I really am getting lousy speeds, or if the Speedtest.net app is broken for the N4 or Android 4.2. However, if I jump on WiFi and do a speed test it pulls accurate results.
I have tried the APN settings found here on the forums, I've tried using the Offline APN Database app from the Play store, and even tried the APN settings given to me by an ATT customer service rep.
Anyone have any experience they can share? I just want to make sure I'm getting the right data speeds I'm paying for. Thanks.

Mr. Monkey said:
I think I need some help with activating my N4 and getting the right data speeds that I should be. Here's my problem:
Got my N4 yesterday, and at the same ported my number from Sprint to AT&T. Popped in the sim card and started using it. Voice and texting worked fine (from what I could tell), but no data. My AT&T business rep told me my IMEI wasn't accepted in his system (probably just because it's a new phone?) so that he had to code it as a SGS3. I looked online and found somewhere talking about if they assign an LTE profile to the N4 it will get crummy service. And that's exactly what I was seeing from the Speedtest.net app. I called him back and told him what I read and he tried a different phone, which seemed to help the noticeable speed of loading web pages. Somehow during the day it got reset to a SGS3, so I went in to the ATT store last night and reassigned a Moto Atrix (original) to my N4.
Now the page loading seems plenty fast and if I go into Settings - About Phone - Status the network shows HSPA:10 and HSPA+:15, but if I pull up Speedtest.net and run a test it's atrocious again. Average is like 300-1400 ms ping, 4 kbps down, 800 kbps up.
What I'm not sure of is if I really am getting lousy speeds, or if the Speedtest.net app is broken for the N4 or Android 4.2. However, if I jump on WiFi and do a speed test it pulls accurate results.
I have tried the APN settings found here on the forums, I've tried using the Offline APN Database app from the Play store, and even tried the APN settings given to me by an ATT customer service rep.
Anyone have any experience they can share? I just want to make sure I'm getting the right data speeds I'm paying for. Thanks.
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i am having same problem..only default apn works. speedtest wont work but data seems faster. by the way i am on medianet plan.

Anecdotal, but I just had them whip up a new Micro SIM at an AT&T store, popped it in, set my APNs, and it worked fine. It SOUNDS like they are mucking up something on their end. Tell them to remove any phone identifier if they can.
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Just for a comparison:
The APN settings I am using for ATT (if not mentioned, leave as-is):
Name: AT&T HSPA+
APN: phone
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
APN type: default,agps,supl,fota,dun
For MMS:
Name: Cingular MMS
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy: wap.cingular.com
Port: 80
MMSC: http://mms.cingular.com
MMS Proxy: wireless.cingular.com
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
APN type: mms

Mr. Monkey said:
I think I need some help with activating my N4 and getting the right data speeds that I should be. Here's my problem:
Got my N4 yesterday, and at the same ported my number from Sprint to AT&T. Popped in the sim card and started using it. Voice and texting worked fine (from what I could tell), but no data. My AT&T business rep told me my IMEI wasn't accepted in his system (probably just because it's a new phone?) so that he had to code it as a SGS3. I looked online and found somewhere talking about if they assign an LTE profile to the N4 it will get crummy service. And that's exactly what I was seeing from the Speedtest.net app. I called him back and told him what I read and he tried a different phone, which seemed to help the noticeable speed of loading web pages. Somehow during the day it got reset to a SGS3, so I went in to the ATT store last night and reassigned a Moto Atrix (original) to my N4.
Now the page loading seems plenty fast and if I go into Settings - About Phone - Status the network shows HSPA:10 and HSPA+:15, but if I pull up Speedtest.net and run a test it's atrocious again. Average is like 300-1400 ms ping, 4 kbps down, 800 kbps up.
What I'm not sure of is if I really am getting lousy speeds, or if the Speedtest.net app is broken for the N4 or Android 4.2. However, if I jump on WiFi and do a speed test it pulls accurate results.
I have tried the APN settings found here on the forums, I've tried using the Offline APN Database app from the Play store, and even tried the APN settings given to me by an ATT customer service rep.
Anyone have any experience they can share? I just want to make sure I'm getting the right data speeds I'm paying for. Thanks.
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Add a new APN with the following settings. It helped me. You may need to get an AT&T REP to assign you to a different data plan if it doesn't work but it worked for me as soon as I switched to it.
Name: AT&T US HSDPA
APN: phone
Proxy: <not set>
Port: <not set>
Username: <not set>
Password:<not set>
Server:<not set>
MMSC: <not set>
MMS proxy: <not set>
MMS port: <not set>
MCC:310
MNC:410
Authentication type: <not set>
APN type: default,supl,agps,fota,dun
APN protocol IPv4

I had similar issue when I activated my sim on my N4. Because they don't have the imei in their system you may get bumped to a data plan that doesn't support Hspa+. Tell them to remove the imei. In my case they used the imei from my sgs2(my previous phone I had data plan with) and it works now. Only issue is I'm not getting great speeds only around 2-3kbps. Not sure if its still mucked up on their end

Ameri-CAIN said:
Add a new APN with the following settings. It helped me. You may need to get an AT&T REP to assign you to a different data plan if it doesn't work but it worked for me as soon as I switched to it.
Name: AT&T US HSDPA
APN: phone
Proxy: <not set>
Port: <not set>
Username: <not set>
Password:<not set>
Server:<not set>
MMSC: <not set>
MMS proxy: <not set>
MMS port: <not set>
MCC:310
MNC:410
Authentication type: <not set>
APN type: default,supl,agps,fota,dun
APN protocol IPv4
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Seems identical to mine, save for the name. Definitely try these if you don't already have them.

Ameri-CAIN said:
Add a new APN with the following settings. It helped me. You may need to get an AT&T REP to assign you to a different data plan if it doesn't work but it worked for me as soon as I switched to it.
Name: AT&T US HSDPA
APN: phone
Proxy: <not set>
Port: <not set>
Username: <not set>
Password:<not set>
Server:<not set>
MMSC: <not set>
MMS proxy: <not set>
MMS port: <not set>
MCC:310
MNC:410
Authentication type: <not set>
APN type: default,supl,agps,fota,dun
APN protocol IPv4
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Yeah this is what worked for me as well. I'm working with an AT&T corporate support rep, I'll let you guys know what he says. Seems like I am getting much better speeds via speedtest.net. MMS also works with those settings.
EDIT: Just got an 800ms ping twice. That just doesnt feel right.

I added hipri to the same settings you guys listed above saw an increase in speeds. Top 3 are with hirpi added
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Phone pta increased my speeds, everything is on par with my old galaxy s3
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Here is my APN settings
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Here are my speeds getting
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Speedtest.net isn't giving me accurate readings (0.8 KB/s down...) but I'm still on HSPA:15 and data works fine. Using the default APN settings that everyone else in here is using, except I added hipri to the APN modes.
MediaNET plan here.

So I've been playing with the phone for the past few days. The data is definitely better than where I started, but I am getting complaints from people calling me that the phone rings and rings without ever getting to VM, or that sometimes it rings a couple times and plays a generic AT&T message. I also notice loss of service every now and then. Any ideas guys? This is a little ridiculous. Should be plug and play. Wonder if it's because AT&T made up an IMEI for me?
EDIT: Sometimes when I do a speedtest I get a network communication error or if I use the Coverage Map app it gives me a failed for downloads. Data is intermittent.

[Q] AT&T iPhone 5 w/ LTE to Nexus 4

Hello all,
I've had a heck of a time to get my Nexus 4 data speeds where they should be.
I originally had, and still have, an iPhone 5 with the nanoSIM. I purchased a nanoSIM to microSIM adapter on Amazon and slipped it into my Nexus. The WAP settings allow SMS/MMS & phone to work, but data is dismal at best. I get all of 0.1Mbps/10Kbps per second. It's awful.
I've scoured the web, XDA-developers, Android Central, etc., all with no luck. I've got at least 5 APN's that I've tried and tested, rebooting my phone after each APN switch, and the speedtest (dot) net app still shows 0.1Mbps/10Kbps per second download.
My current settings are:
If you have an iPhone 5 LTE plan shared with a new Nexus 4 and want to swap SIMS without calling AT&T just create the following APN on your Nexus and you'll be fully operational on both devices.
#Nexus4 #iPhone5
Name: (Anything you want.)
APN: phone
Proxy:
Port:
Username:
Password:
Server:
MMSC: h t t p : / / mmsc.mobile.att.net
MMS Proxy: proxy.mobile.att.net
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
Authentication type:
APN type: default,mms,supl
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These are my current settings.
Is there anything I need to do to provision my SIM to work with the Nexus 4? Is it because my data plan is an "iPhone" data plan as far as AT&T is concerned? Help!

[Q] Verizon S5 not working with T-Mobile SIM

from my understanding, Verizon Galaxy s5 comes factory unlocked as well as all other verizon LTE phones, although, my t mobile SIM is not working for the phone, i cannot contact verizon as it is on the blacklist for them, i tested with AT&T SIM and the phone does work for GSM so why doesnt it work for my t mobile sim? is it a faulty SIM? i have contacted samsung and t mobile about this and they were no help

jtd930 said:
from my understanding, Verizon Galaxy s5 comes factory unlocked as well as all other verizon LTE phones, although, my t mobile SIM is not working for the phone, i cannot contact verizon as it is on the blacklist for them, i tested with AT&T SIM and the phone does work for GSM so why doesnt it work for my t mobile sim? is it a faulty SIM? i have contacted samsung and t mobile about this and they were no help
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There's now a IMEI blacklist that of the major U.S. carriers all share (Verizon, AT&T, T-Mobile, Sprint, as well as some regional carriers). That means blacklisted Verizon phones may not work on T-Mobile or AT&T (in the past, it only meant they wouldn't work on Verizon). Perhaps AT&T hasn't updated their system with the most recent info to include the phone you have while T-Mobile has.
There's always a chance that it's something else, but I have no problems with my S5 (which isn't blacklisted anywhere) on T-Mobile's network with an active T-Mobile SIM.

jtd930 said:
from my understanding, Verizon Galaxy s5 comes factory unlocked as well as all other verizon LTE phones, although, my t mobile SIM is not working for the phone, i cannot contact verizon as it is on the blacklist for them, i tested with AT&T SIM and the phone does work for GSM so why doesnt it work for my t mobile sim? is it a faulty SIM? i have contacted samsung and t mobile about this and they were no help
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turn off phone insert tmobile sim
press and hold vol UP + home button+ pwr when you see blue recovery text in corner let go of pwr
while in recovery menu choose erase system reset then choose erase cache and then choose reboot
upon startup ignore welcome msgs and setup ?'s skip skip skip skip till your at the home screen
now go to settings and more networks then mobile networks and choose where it says lte/utms and choose the option GLOBAL
wait a few mins 1-3 mins for signal once u get signal go back to more networks choose apn hit + and add the apn name tmobile and apn
Name: T-Mobile US LTE
APN: fast.t-mobile.com
Proxy: <Not set>
Port: <Not set>
Username: <Not set>
Password: <Not set>
Server: <Not set>
MMSC: http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc
MMS proxy: <Not set>
MMS port: <Not set>
MMS protocol: WAP 2.0
MCC: 310
MNC: 260
Authentication type: <Not set>
APN type: <Not set> OR Internet+MMS
APN protocol: IPv4/IPv6
APN roaming protocol: IPv4
Enable/disable APN: <greyed out unless there are multiple APN's>
Bearer: Unspecified
Tap the Menu key.
Tap Save.
Tap the desired APN profile you want to use.
The bullet point fills with green next to the APN profile.
reboot make sure ur still set to global mode and wait
if nothing happens you may have a broken simslot or your simcard is junky try other simcard before you make this a solid idea tho