Hi Guys,
I just changed to another mobile phone operator and the HD2 gives me the roaming message with this operator yet I'm still inside the country. I believe its because this operator "uses" another operator's mobile infrastructure to provide their service and the devices thne think its a foreign operator and that you are in roaming as same thing happens with other operators that do the same thing.
The problem is that since I'm always in roaming mode, the push mail wonk work, phone will not update weather, RRS feeds, etc, etc. And if I allow autoamtic connections in the phone when in roaming, when I'm actually really outside the country (frecuently) it will connect and I will be charged for international data connections.
My question is, is there any application that will allow you to force the phone to take a especific roaming operator as national? i.e. to make it believe its not roaming when under that operator in particular? if it confuses that particular operator with a foreing one, to unconfuse it manually with an application?
Thanks in advance.
Hi!
I recently switched my mobile provider to Three Austria (Drei) and since their network is not perfect on the countryside they are allowing us to use another provider in there areas (T-Mobile Austria)
But since it is a different provider my Nexus 4 thinks that I am roaming and deactivates the data connection.
Is there another way than activating data roaming for all networks, so something like national roaming on stock rom?
Regards,
tailorian
tailorian said:
Hi!
I recently switched my mobile provider to Three Austria (Drei) and since their network is not perfect on the countryside they are allowing us to use another provider in there areas (T-Mobile Austria)
But since it is a different provider my Nexus 4 thinks that I am roaming and deactivates the data connection.
Is there another way than activating data roaming for all networks, so something like national roaming on stock rom?
Regards,
tailorian
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I'm on Drei too and I'm using the app "Roaming Control" which works perfectly (there is a trial version too). Seems to be the only solution so far since the "national roaming" option doesn't exist in the stock rom.
DerFremde said:
I'm on Drei too and I'm using the app "Roaming Control" which works perfectly (there is a trial version too). Seems to be the only solution so far since the "national roaming" option doesn't exist in the stock rom.
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This is very annoying since the function for national roaming is included in CM.
I just wonder why this hasn't been pushed up to the android source code...
i also use 3 in austria.
is roaming control the only way until now?
my problem is that my phone sometimes connects to hungarian networks even if A1 is available.
remote control stops data roaming => this is good
but why did my phone not stay on the local provider?
how can i tell my phone that it should not connect to another operator aslong a national operator is available?
P7000 Problem with Data Roaming
I have huge problems with Data Roaming in Croatia, have already tested all the settings, all without success.
According to my provider (WinSIM) automatic network search should be active and the APN be adjusted to internet.victorvox. Unfortunately, this does not work with the P7000. The SIM card in another device (G2 mini) does it work Data roaming without any problems. I hope you can help me. Calls works without problems.
tomalu said:
I have huge problems with Data Roaming in Croatia, have already tested all the settings, all without success.
According to my provider (WinSIM) automatic network search should be active and the APN be adjusted to internet.victorvox. Unfortunately, this does not work with the P7000. The SIM card in another device (G2 mini) does it work Data roaming without any problems. I hope you can help me. Calls works without problems.
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You did check the "plus" options on your phone, under Vpn you have an option were you can choose which operator you will use. (sorry my phone is French so it's all in French lol) it must be call "network" if you click on it it will takes some time and list you all the operator. Out of the box, mine was wrong. If you did that, try to go on airplane mode multiple time (on / off) to see if the roaming work.
leomon32 said:
You did check the "plus" options on your phone, under Vpn you have an option were you can choose which operator you will use. (sorry my phone is French so it's all in French lol) it must be call "network" if you click on it it will takes some time and list you all the operator. Out of the box, mine was wrong. If you did that, try to go on airplane mode multiple time (on / off) to see if the roaming work.
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did you mean available networks?
I have found it, I'm so stupid, in the bar to be drawn down there is still a function of mobile data, I thought however, that is data roaming On / Off overwritten that in the settings. It was not so. It works now.
tomalu said:
did you mean available networks?
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Yes that's what I meant, sorry xD" Good that your problem is resolved !
Hi! I have a problem with roaming, in particular with mobile data roaming.
Is there a way to whitelist or blacklist operators for roaming? I live a the bordes of Italy and France and I would like to avoid my phone to connect to certains french operators, this is because there are commercial partnership between my home operator and some foreign network and I want to use data mobile on certains foreign network but not on some other that are very expensive.
It will be ok to just disable Mobile Data when on certain networks or at worst to deny the roaming.
I am not rooted. I remember that at the time of old GSM mobile there was a preference list regarding roaming network, and now that we have phone that can make almost everything a lot of important feature are missing!
Any suggestion?
Many thanks!
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Okay, so I am on Verizon and I purchased the OnePlus 6T straight from OnePlus website. I have the 8gb ram and 256gb storage model. I have unlocked the bootloader but haven't installed a custom recovery or rooted yet. Just wanted to unlocked bootloader since it requires a wipe of device storage in case for the future.
Anyways, the phone works amassing, battery life is great, I had a pixel XL before this, screen is fantastic and is plenty fast but I have ran into an issue. The phone was activated on Verizon using Sim 1. Signal is not an issue, always have LTE from Verizon and way better signal than pixel XL ever had.
My issue is I live in a border town with Mexico and I just noticed that when I am close to the border, like within a mile the phone switches to Movistar cell provider. Movistar is a Mexican cell phone provider. Is not that I lost signal because my pixel XL had signal all over there before and the OnePlus 6T is stronger, is just that apparently the Movistar provider has a stronger signal on that area and the phone is choosing to pick up the stronger signal, even if it means going off and switching to roaming.
It doesn't cost me any $$ and speed is wicked fast while roaming but Verizon will only allow 0.5gb of roaming per day which limits the usability of the phone. Anyways, thanks for reading my long post, just wanted to give some context to the question and hopefully find an answer. Like i said, I did search and didn't find anything. If I have to root to install an add-on or an app that lets me pick my signal please advise. Also I know that I still have a strong Verizon signal because I used ltediscovery app to check and it shows the signal strength of whatever many signal phone is picking up.
Thanks in advance for reading and for answers.
One option might be Network Signal Guru in the Play Store (requires root). It's the only app I've found that allows the user to lock the phone to a specific band - which might help with your situation.
phil737 said:
One option might be Network Signal Guru in the Play Store (requires root). It's the only app I've found that allows the user to lock the phone to a specific band - which might help with your situation.
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Outstanding sir. Thanks for the information. I guess time to root then for me. Been waiting for a stable recovery for OnePlus 6T but I supposed no harm so far using current version of twrp, as far as I have read.
have you tried going to settings, internet, sim, sim1, network provider, disabling the automatic option and selecting your preferred provider manually? this way you will stick to that selection
OnkeIM said:
have you tried going to settings, internet, sim, sim1, network provider, disabling the automatic option and selecting your preferred provider manually? this way you will stick to that selection
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Either I do not have that option or I couldn't follow the steps.
When I go to settings, wifi & internet, Sim, sim1 then I see what is on the attached screenshot.
it seems you are missing some options
it should look like this: network operator
try to search for operator or network on the main options screen at the search bar on top.
if still no luck than maybe there is something wrong with your sim card or apn settings. you should try to contact OnePlus support than.
OnkeIM said:
it seems you are missing some options
it should look like this: network operator
try to search for operator or network on the main options screen at the search bar on top.
if still no luck than maybe there is something wrong with your sim card or apn settings. you should try to contact OnePlus support than.
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Mine does have network operator anywhere.
I look through all the settings and nowhere to be found. I am on Verizon network and only sim1 has a card in it.
Sim2 is empty.
I can get to the special settings through *#*#4636#*#* and even there changing different LTE settings keeps reconnecting to roaming network since the tower is like a stone through away.
Any other options would be greatly appreciated. Also the app that was suggested in 2nd post, rooted phone to try it and that option if it works is behind pay part and that app fee is $50/m. A bit steep for me so looking for options still.
Thanks in advance
Couldn't you just disable roaming?
AsuraDas said:
Couldn't you just disable roaming?
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I could but I only have an option for disabling data roaming, not roaming all together. I tried it in the past and all it did was kept me connected to the roaming network and turned off the data off of the roaming network connection. Meaning I had zero data connectivity.
I wonder if putting a Sim in sim2 slot would open up more settings ?
If anyone is using 6T on Verizon could you please go to wifi & network, sim1 and see if you get any more options than what I posted on previous ss about 3 post ago.
Thanks in advance
rfvreynoso said:
Mine does have network operator anywhere.
I look through all the settings and nowhere to be found. I am on Verizon network and only sim1 has a card in it.
Sim2 is empty.
I can get to the special settings through *#*#4636#*#* and even there changing different LTE settings keeps reconnecting to roaming network since the tower is like a stone through away.
Any other options would be greatly appreciated. Also the app that was suggested in 2nd post, rooted phone to try it and that option if it works is behind pay part and that app fee is $50/m. A bit steep for me so looking for options still.
Thanks in advance
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do you have a carrier locked device? that might prevent you from doing changes to your sim.
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do you have a carrier locked device? that might prevent you from doing changes to your sim.
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I don't believe this is carrier locked since I bought straight from OnePlus website. Hell, I was even charge a currency conversion fee by my credit card cause the purchased was in foreign currency.
rfvreynoso said:
I don't believe this is carrier locked since I bought straight from OnePlus website. Hell, I was even charge a currency conversion fee by my credit card cause the purchased was in foreign currency.
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you should try another sim (family or friends) and check if the missing option appears. maybe try your sim in another phone too.
lastly you could try a full factory reset (deletes all data)
at the end if it still does not work you really should call OnePlus for help.
also I found this app here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pomo.android.networkoperators
open it and select "available networks"
that should open the missing menu to toggle operator selection...