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APN randomly disappear

I've noticed since using custom roms I keep loosing my APN settings.
I'm using G1 in Poland, with polish GSM network ERA and I've latest Cyanogen's ROM and since there is no polish APN settings in that I must edit this manually.
If I edit APNs first, just for start to give only basic information it's fine but if I edit it further (add proxy etc.) sometimes after save I'm loosing everything (also the MMS settings).
Yesterday everything was fine, I had APN for networking and for MMSes and I played outside with GPS and MyTracks and after returning home I found all APNs were gone.
What to do to fix it?
I tried to adb push apns-conf.xml from polish ROM but phone is not using it. Backup for Root software copies the apns-conf.xml I've in /system/etc but this is not what I define in Settings/Wireless controls/Mobile networks/Access Point Names :|
Little help, please.

I have the same problem. (running the ION)
The APNs completely disappear sometimes. The phone keeps working as if they're still there, but the list is empty.
Rebooting fixes the problem (until the next time they disappear).

Same here, rooted a few friends g1's (putting ion r2 onto the phone). Started adding the apn's, hit save, blank screen. Wait a few minutes, try again... sometimes the settings "stick" but most of the time, I just get a blank apn list.
Any fix would be more than welcome.

i believe this is an ION problem
i never had such problem before using ION and now that I've switched to cyanogen builds,
i never have a problem with apn again

Compiling a complete APN List

I've searched all the 3 Android devices forum's and came up empty handed, so please let me know if a topic like this one already exists.
I've seen lots of people complaining the ROM they just installed didn't have data connection active, most of them don't realize they can/have to edit the APN list manually to have a data connection.
As some probably know, these APNs are all defined in a file called apns-conf.xml inside the /system/etc/ folder in your phone. The file can have all the APNs we want and I thought it would be useful to have a "mostly complete" list of the APNs from the cell phone companies all over the world to be included in the ROMs cooked around the XDA forums, this would make life easier for everyone who installs a new ROM.
With that in mind I started compiling an apns-conf.xml file. The file is based on CyanogenMOD's apns-conf.xml file (which seemed very complete to me) and then I added some other APNs I found on other ROM's apns-conf.xml.
The resulting file can be viewed and edited (using Google Docs) in the following link:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZNbAmKkmakoZGZxZHNwMnpfMjJkaHg3ejN3eg&hl=en
What I'm proposing is that everyone interested checks out the file and corrects or adds their operator's/country's APN lists. That way we can incrementally build a "complete" APN list with the community effort.

Good idea. Wist that ROM creators would use this list.

Bump for visibility!
I find it weird that only one person found this idea interesting and helped out. Thanks btw woo456

Not sure how to add to the file but these are the APN settings for uk vodafone customers.
UK VODAFONE HTC Magic APN Settings
Setting up WAP & MMS
1. Press the Menu button
2. Tap Settings
3. Tap Wireless Controls
4. Tap Mobile Networks
5. Tap Access Point Names
6. Press the Menu key
7. Tap New APN
8. Tap Name and enter a name e.g. Vodafone WAP and tap OK
9. Tap APN and enter
for Pay monthly customers: wap.vodafone.co.uk
for Pay as you go customers: pp.vodafone.co.uk
10. Tap Username and enter wap and tap OK
11. Tap Password and enter wap and tap OK
12. Tap MMSC and enter http://mms.vodafone.co.uk/servlets/mms and tap OK
13. Tap MMS Proxy and enter 212.183.137.012 and tap OK
14. Tap MMS Port and enter 8799 and tap OK
15. Tap MCC and enter 234 and tap OK
16. Tap MNC and enter15 and tap OK
17. Press the Menu key
18. Press Save

HellHitZ said:
I've searched all the 3 Android devices forum's and came up empty handed, so please let me know if a topic like this one already exists.
I've seen lots of people complaining the ROM they just installed didn't have data connection active, most of them don't realize they can/have to edit the APN list manually to have a data connection.
As some probably know, these APNs are all defined in a file called apns-conf.xml inside the /system/etc/ folder in your phone. The file can have all the APNs we want and I thought it would be useful to have a "mostly complete" list of the APNs from the cell phone companies all over the world to be included in the ROMs cooked around the XDA forums, this would make life easier for everyone who installs a new ROM.
With that in mind I started compiling an apns-conf.xml file. The file is based on CyanogenMOD's apns-conf.xml file (which seemed very complete to me) and then I added some other APNs I found on other ROM's apns-conf.xml.
The resulting file can be viewed and edited (using Google Docs) in the following link:
http://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AZNbAmKkmakoZGZxZHNwMnpfMjJkaHg3ejN3eg&hl=en
What I'm proposing is that everyone interested checks out the file and corrects or adds their operator's/country's APN lists. That way we can incrementally build a "complete" APN list with the community effort.
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silly question: what's the difference compared to http://www.karrderized.com/romguide/apns.php

lpasq said:
silly question: what's the difference compared to http://www.karrderized.com/romguide/apns.php
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That website is probably created after running the apns-conf.xml file through a XML parser, and I'm pretty sure it is using the apns-conf.xml file from this thread. But it's not the same thing, the apns-conf.xml file is for use with ROMs or to push into the device, that website shows the file in a readable format making it easy to add manually to the phone.
@Roy_Drage: It's not hard to add to the file, but I'll add that one.

HellHitZ said:
That website is probably created after running the apns-conf.xml file through a XML parser, and I'm pretty sure it is using the apns-conf.xml file from this thread.
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Indeed it is. I whipped that page up to make a slightly more human-readable APN list than a raw XML file. And yep, it uses your list.

I proposed a fix for SFR APN. Here in France we can get different APN depending if we bought the "Full Internet" option or not. With "Full Internet", we use a different APN "sl2sfr" which don't use a proxy. Without this option we have to use "wapsfr" APN which is filtered.

Good to see some people interested in this

uk vodafone
i have a uk vodafone contract and backed up my details i noticed your vodafone contract apn said apn="wap.vodafone.co.uk" but should actually be apn="wap.vodafone.co.ukapndroid" so i have edited it accordingly , great idea by the way always scared i lose that bit of paper

Thanks for posting this. I have a Rogers Magic on AT&T and only use apn: wap.cingular and everything seems to work. Anyone know why the following is necessary?
[email protected]
pass: CINGULAR1
mmsc: http://mmsc.cingular.com
mmsproxy: wireless.cingular.com
mmsport: 80
mcc: 310
mnc: 410

davidreece said:
i have a uk vodafone contract and backed up my details i noticed your vodafone contract apn said apn="wap.vodafone.co.uk" but should actually be apn="wap.vodafone.co.ukapndroid" so i have edited it accordingly , great idea by the way always scared i lose that bit of paper
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The apn field you edited was correct. The "apndroid" you had at the end of yours was put there by an app you used called APNdroid. It is used to disable/enable data connection on the phone, it works by changing the APN field by adding "apndroid" at the end, making the phone unable to connect.

Added some apns for the Swedish operators. Hope its correct.

HellHitZ said:
The apn field you edited was correct. The "apndroid" you had at the end of yours was put there by an app you used called APNdroid. It is used to disable/enable data connection on the phone, it works by changing the APN field by adding "apndroid" at the end, making the phone unable to connect.
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really sorry about that i forgot i had installed that, hope i didnt cause anyone any problems

SFR - France
Very nice idea !!
Here are the infos for SFR/France
SFR
Name : SFR-MMS
APN : mmssfr
MMSC : http://mms1
Proxy MMS : 10.151.0.1
Port : 8080
MMC : 208
MNC : 10
Type : mms
Name : SFR
APN : sl2sfr
Serveur : *
MMSC : null
MCC : 208
MNC : 10
type : default
Keep up the good work !
D.

yeh i ran into a similar problem with the APN, found this link- its rather long but it has quite a few apns, just CTRL+F3 and find your APN.
hope it helps
http://www.karrderized.com/romguide/apns.php

wow this is really interesting. bumping to hopefully gain more ground on it

This is probably a stupid question but the there server area when it indicates "*" does this mean you are suppose to put in the asterisk there?
Sorry and thanks for the help!

archboy69 said:
This is probably a stupid question but the there server area when it indicates "*" does this mean you are suppose to put in the asterisk there?
Sorry and thanks for the help!
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Some APNs require a specific value for the server, there are others that have asterisks. My operator, for example, uses asterisk. But to answer your question, if the Server field has an asterisk then yes, you have to put an asterisk in the server field when entering the APN data on the phone.

I edited the swedish tele2 APN.¨
I dont know if it makes any diffrence but the ip i have working in my phone had .030 at the end, this file had .30 maybe doesnt mather. Anyway, I also squeezed MMS and Internet settings togheter as there is no need for two APN for that.
Hope that is ok.

Re: new ROM issues

Re: new ROM issues
Have a the Hero on TMo USA and it was working great before the update. I applied the new ROM and it doesn't let me choose any new APN after I enter and save the new setting for TMo than the default.
Am I doing something wrong?

You can still edit existing APNs to your chosen settings. I have no idea why it is not possible to add a "selectable" new APN.
B

Type "default" in the "APN type" field.

Thanks! That seems to do it.
So much for HTC Help.

Cool
From what iv read, Android accepts only 2 values in that field - "default" and "mms" (or it can be left blank).
With the original ROM, leaving it blank didn't seem to affect our ability to select that APN. However, with the 2.73 ROM, it must be set.

Thank you for this info. I was trying to make it work for the last hour.

[Q] MMS won't work

After reading tons upon tons of answers for how to make MMS work after switching carriers (was on Rogers, now on Koodo) I still have yet to figure out how to make my MMS work...
What I've tried:
Soft Reset
Hard Reset
Official Network Profile App
Officially Developer Unlocking Phone
Using "Samsung Tools"
Acessing Root Menu and changing "AutoDataConfig"
My current Diagnosis version is 0628 (just reinstalled earlier - so... most recent?)
And my WinPhone is on Mango 7720
I apologize if perhaps you've answered this a lot, but I honestly have spent the past 5 continuous hours trying to figure this out (plus, many before)
Thanks for any help and suggestions!

Your Diagnosis is most recent (that's release date in MMDD format)
If you have any manual APN added, uninstall Network Profile, delete those and try again.

Thanks for the response!
Deleted Network Profile and all xap programs...
reinstalled Samsung Tools
Restarted...
Still doesn't work :/
Retry installing/using Root Tools...
Restarted...
MMS still won't send or download
Is there someway I can put in the exact information myself? Instead of it trying to automatically sync on startup?
(I'm with Koodo and they give exact settings:
MMSC URL: http ://aliasredirect.n et/proxy/koodo/mmsc
Proxy server: 74.49.0.18
Port: 80
any way to type that in somewhere?)

Try this. Pasting here fore search reference:
By default WP7 device configures data and MMS settings for the SIM card used on the first boot. If you change the SIM card you can manually change the APN for data, but for MMS settings you would need to reset the phone to initiate the automatic configuration. To reset the phone go to the System page under Settings, tap about, and then tap reset your phone.
Important note: Reset erases all user data from the phone. You must synchronize information using the Zune software or manually back up data before performing this step.
If this doesn't work either, try adding your settings in the APN (settings, cellular, add apn)

Yea, that was one of the first things I tried "Hard Reset"
I assume my Koodo SIM card doesn't like automatically syncing?
EDIT: Yep, Just did another hard/full reset (This time through diagnosis app) annd MMS Still won't send or receive...
(and then once again developer unlocked, tried Samsung Tools, tried Root, and then tried the official Network Profile app - nothing.)

Welcome to the club ! I've been trying to get my Focus to work with FIDO for better part of 7 months. Texting and MMS just does not seem to be configurable with the Rogers Samsung Focus. To the point that I'm now selling mine on Kijiji. Any takers for $200 ? I'll deliver anywhere in north Toronto area!

This is the one of the reasons I am not yet ready to jump to WP7. I have AT&T focus and I use StraightTalk pre-paid. I could never use MMS on it. So, went back to my Xperia Arc even though I love WP7.
I tried all methods OP tried already and gave up. I can never get why MS did such a dumb thing of not having a function to manually add settings. This is going to be a pain in countries like India as people switch SIM cards all the time when they cross state borders.

Im having the same issues with TELUS as well... It sometimes actually works but is really unreliable.
Sent from my Focus using XDA Windows Phone 7 App

Edit APN - Rooted Galaxy S5

I've just updated my rooted Galaxy S5 to the OE posted elsewhere here. I was hoping this update would take care of a problem that I've had since the prior update - I can send, but not receive pictures via text message (MMS).
I did some research into the matter and found that the issue is with a setting within Settings / More networks / Mobile networks, under Access Point Names. In the access point name for Verizon, there should be a server set under MMSC that's supposed to allow this to happen properly. Problem is, I can't change anything under there. When I go into Access Point Names, the + at the top to add an APN is grayed out, and clicking the settings (...) icon only has an option of "Reset to default" - which is also grayed out. If I touch the one existing entry for Verizon Wireless (VZWINTERNET), it shows all the settings, which are all grayed out and can't be edited. The MMSC field is not set, and because I can't edit it, I can't change it to the correct value so that I can specify a server as I've found in other pages on the subject.
Unless that's old information and a MMSC server doesn't need to be set, in which case I'm still at a loss for why I can't actually send a picture via text message.....
If there really needs to be no value set in the MMSC field for text messages to contain a picture, I'd appreciate knowing that.
And if not (heck, even if it is, I'd like to know), then is there some method by which the APN settings can be edited on a rooted phone?