I don't own an NS but I am hearing reports that some folks are getting a roaming indicator on when they use the 850/1900 Nexus S on Fido. Don't know if it matters whether the NS was bought from Fido or from another carrier. In this situation, it is necessary to (dangerous!) enable data roaming to get any data at all.
Anyone else experiencing this? Any bright devs got ideas on how to fix it?
Bump. Any ideas?
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Bought from BestBuy today, (Fido version) and Roaming indicator is on.
I flashed CM7-RC4, MIUI 1.4.8...same issue. Then I decided to flash Radio from original I9020AUCKB2 to suggested version (I9020XXKB3)
Issue is still there + now my carrier shows-up as Rogers Wireless, not Fido
Will try different things and report back
nakadm said:
Bought from BestBuy today, (Fido version) and Roaming indicator is on.
I flashed CM7-RC4, MIUI 1.4.8...same issue. Then I decided to flash Radio from original I9020AUCKB2 to suggested version (I9020XXKB3)
Issue is still there + now my carrier shows-up as Rogers Wireless, not Fido
Will try different things and report back
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For the specific case of CM7 + Fido, you might consider turning on the "National data roaming" option. It should shut off the roaming indicator for all carriers with the same country code as your SIM. Since all CDN networks you can access with a Fido SIM are covered without roaming charges (except Dryden, Ontario and Northwest Territories), this is a less risky option than keeping all data roaming on.
Of course you would not want to enable such an option on a Wind or Mobilicity SIM with the i9020T, because then you could rake in huge charges.
Using new Stable Release (CM-7) and using National Roaming takes care of this, The right carrier name shows-up (Fido) and the r icon is no longer present.
Thanks!
I noticed that a funny work around is to turn on airplane mode, then turn off airplane mode.
The roaming "R" symbol disappears and the correct carrier name appears. APN settings should appear automatically, but if they do not Fido's APN settings are the following.
APN: internet.fido.ca
USER: fido
PASS: fido
You will have to do the airplane mode on-off trick each time you restart the phone to get rid of the roaming R symbol.
I'm using Fido with a Nexus S for Koodo.
the people at fido technical is aware of the issue and is being bombarded with service tickets. the roaming issue only takes place because rogers essentially merged the hardware with fido without much thought so they're technically 2 separate entities still piggybacking each other when necessary. but if youre continually in roaming after a reboot i did find an easy bypass that you can do during a boot.
*#*#4636#*#*
phone information>scroll down
turn radio off then on again> scroll up
run ping test
within 3 seconds it should pick up your 3g properly, if it doesnt work you can toggle the network type
I bought an Atrix in the USA but I'm living in the Netherlands. I was able to unlock my phone with an unlock code from AT&T, however the internet is not working. Calls can be made and H+ shows in the upper right corner but no connection.
After some research (*#*#4636#*#*), I saw that the band was USA and no other selection option were possible.
My question: can the band be changed to EURO in order to make the phone usable?
Have you entered your porvider apn?
I bought mine in the US too and i created a new APN with my provider settings and it works fine.
Yes, I have entered the APN settings and verified them with Vodafone. Problem seems to really be located in the bands used.
CynicalDreamer said:
Yes, I have entered the APN settings and verified them with Vodafone. Problem seems to really be located in the bands used.
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vodafone netherlands runs on 900 band and the atrix supports this automatically, you cannot change the band. if the phone is seeing the H+ then it already recognize your network you just have to make sure you use the right apn and have data enabled in your settings. also make sure there is a green circle next to your apn name, this enables the apn.
You may have not activated CDMA in * # * # 4636 # * # * (Phoneinfo) you need to make GSM Auto (PRL)
(CDMA is only U.S. Baseband) in Europe we have WCDMA
wcdma is 3g in north america. ive been using wcdma only setting to stop my phone from going to edge
Settings -> Wireless & networks -> Mobile networks
Change the "Select network" to automatic if it's not already.
download apn internet on off =)...its work for me ....
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You may have not activated CDMA in * # * # 4636 # * # * (Phoneinfo) you need to make GSM Auto (PRL)
(CDMA is only U.S. Baseband) in Europe we have WCDMA
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CDMA is not in the atrix. we use WCDMA just like europe.
spline1 said:
You may have not activated CDMA in * # * # 4636 # * # * (Phoneinfo) you need to make GSM Auto (PRL)
(CDMA is only U.S. Baseband) in Europe we have WCDMA
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AT&T uses WCDMA as well.
We don't use CDMA, that's Verizon.
EDIT: dLo beat me to it.
Still no luck...
1. WCDMA selected as preferred network type.
2. APN triple checked and activated.
3. H+ showing in upper-right corner.
4. Enabled roaming in the data manager to make sure this wasn't blocking anything.
5. Tried SIM in HTC Wildfire with same APN and network settings => WORKING
Any more ideas on what is blocking my internet?? :S
It seems that putting the Atrix on WCDMA preferred is not working, it will automatically switch back to GSM....
I still believe the fault is located in the inability to set the bands to EURO or even automatically. You can only select USA here... If there is anyone who knows how to change this, maybe give a direct command to the modem, I will express my gratitude using paypal
Did you activate the phone in the US? like did you put in AT&T SIM and turn it on? I had the same problem with my phone when I activated it in us, i'm waiting on a new one that has not been activated in US.
I unlocked the phone in the Netherlands with a Vodafone SIM. Tried using a SIM from a different provider just now: T-Mobile = working!
Now I have to figure out what the difference between T-Mobile & Vodafone is.... Any ideas?
CynicalDreamer said:
I unlocked the phone in the Netherlands with a Vodafone SIM. Tried using a SIM from a different provider just now: T-Mobile = working!
Now I have to figure out what the difference between T-Mobile & Vodafone is.... Any ideas?
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I have none, sorry... I use O2 here in Germany without problems. Unlocked in US. Activated and used a US (AT&T prepaid) SIM for a while before coming here, too.
What I HAVE learned (the hard way) is that different SIMs FROM O2 will have different APNs. I.e., O2 prepaid options have different APNs than their contracts.
My network type is GSM auto (PRL) and I don't have problems going G->H+
Hum....maybe getting a replacement phone wont help me then. Oh well its on its way already.
I looked into the APN differences but the one I used was the correct one, so that can't be the problem.
Had a long conversation with Vodafone yesterday. When they finally connected me through with an engineer this guy managed to explain it to me in this way: Vodafone has policies on what phones can be used to access their network, different models need to be accepted individually. Sometimes changes need to be made on the network. According to him this was the reason my Atrix has no internet connectivity in The Netherlands, the phone hasn't been released here and the network hasn't been tested with it.
Thing that I find strange is the fact that other providers in The Netherlands have no problem with internet on the Atrix...
Everything else is working fine. I'm using an AT&T DVP on the Virgin Mobile (Bell) network in Canada. I checked to make sure the bands were the right ones for the network before I bought it.
I figured it out... had to find my networks APN settings. I'm such a noob.
I am with sky UK network and just went to Ireland and the roaming wouldn't work. I manually entered all the APN settings but when I saved, it didn't appear in the list. I can't see any network issues, but perhaps some setting that might make the roaming incompatible? Any ideas?
I recently bought Mi A1 from someone, now that I inserted the sim, I can get calls, but no data service. Is there a way to fix this problem? Without having to change service provider?
Your APN needs setting correctly, get the APN settings from your sim provider and update the APN in your phone settings.
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Your APN needs setting correctly, get the APN settings from your sim provider and update the APN in your phone settings.
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I tried this with no success. Is there something else?