I just went to France for three weeks with my Sprint TP2 running Windows Mobile 6.5 (official Sprint upgrade, with Sprint SIM installed). I signed up for Sprint's unlimited data roaming plan before I left. When I arrived, my phone worked OK only for phone service with Sprint's European partners Orange F and F SFR - data roaming refused to work despite my following Sprint's written directions. I contacted Sprint and we tried various configuration changes, but after none of them worked, Sprint shipped me a Sprint TP2 running 6.1 (Sprint SIM) which worked fine for both phone and data roaming with default settings. Now I'm back in the US but would like to resolve the issue.
Questions for any XDA experts out there:
Where are the settings for SIM data roaming kept on the phone? (I couldn't find relevant settings in the TP2 Registry.)
Are there particular settings I should change to allow data roaming?
Are there any 'hidden' settings that might resolve this problem?
Could 6.5 have caused a problem that didn't exist in 6.1?
Any other ideas? Let me know if you need more information.
Many thanks!
not sure what settings they gave you.. but i can direct you in one place:
comm manager -> settings (right bottom soft key) -> Phone -> this is where i would go ..... check out network tab and GSM/UMTS services tab... use Get Settings to look deeper
let me know if that helps
There are a few likely possibilities:
1) The original SIM account information was improperly setup as voice only (quite likely).
2) The default connection info wasn't configured in the connection tab with the GSM data, and was still trying to connect to #777 (CDMA data line). This would obviously fail.
WM6.5 should work fine with data on both GSM and CDMA.
In the connections settings under manage existing connections you need to have the following to have Sprint dataroaming on GSM
Access Point = cinet.spcs
Server assigned IP and DNS
Thanks for the replies. As you could tell, I'm not an expert on this issue, and I've noticed that different versions of the TP2 apparently have different menu structures. So I have some follow-up questions:
For gamescan:
"1) The original SIM account information was improperly setup as voice only (quite likely)." Is this something that only Sprint can change, or something I can modify on my phone? (I would assume it's phone-specific, as the otherwise identical TP2 Sprint shipped me worked properly for data roaming.)
"2) The default connection info wasn't configured in the connection tab with the GSM data, and was still trying to connect to #777 (CDMA data line). This would obviously fail." Where exactly is that setting on a Sprint phone? I haven't been able to find it yet.
Thank you for the reassurance that 6.5 should work properly.
For highc:
"In the connections settings under manage existing connections you need to have the following to have Sprint dataroaming on GSM
"Access Point = cinet.spcs
"Server assigned IP and DNS"
Where are these settings on a Sprint 6.5 phone? I would have assumed that they're somewhere on the Comm Manager page, but I can't find the above under Phone or under Data Connection.
For mboguc:
The Get Settings button for GSM doesn't seem to have any settings that relate to data or data roaming. The only settings relating to roaming seem to be on the Get Settings tab for CDMA, which weren't accessible in Europe w/ GSM.
Again, I appreciate the feedback and hope to be able to narrow down the problem with assistance.
Start -> Settings -> Connections -> Connections
The phone settings and Comm Manager are both wrong places to be looking.
"Start -> Settings -> Connections -> Connections
"The phone settings and Comm Manager are both wrong places to be looking."
Thanks.
However, as noted above, menus vary depending on phone carrier and OS version. HTC has hidden the Windows Phone menus pretty well in 6.5. For my Sprint TP2 running 6.5, I have the following options for Start -> Settings:
Personalize (wallpaper, etc)
Wireless Controls (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mobile networks, push mail)("..wrong place..")
Sound & Display
Data Services (options for ActiveSync, social networks, e-mail, etc)
Location (set location service options)
Security (encryption, phone lock and reset)
Application (remove programs, etc)
SD card & phone storage (view available storage)
Date & Time
Locale & text
Updates & feedback
Other (miscellaneous settings - none appear to be relevant)
About phone (battery status, device info)
Nothing resembling Start -> Settings -> Connections -> Connections here... The Tools menu has Comm Manager, but as you note, it's apparently not what I'm looking for. No other relevant options under Tools.
Any other suggestions? Thanks.
Oh, sorry. I usually run with Sense disabled.
Just disable it in the Today menu senttings and it'll be easy to find. Bring up the Today settings and then uncheck "HTC Sense" under the items menu.
Go back to the home screen and viola, you have the vanilla Win 6.5 interface. It's faster than sense and everything is where it belongs.
You can always re-enable Sense if you want it after making your changes.
"Oh, sorry. I usually run with Sense disabled."
Ahh, thanks, yes that lets me get to Start -> Settings -> Connections -> Connections
This turns out to be the same as Start -> Settings -> Wireless Controls -> Phone -> Data Connection in Sense. Under that menu, I have two choices, Sprint and My Work Network. I gather from the above comments that the necessary fixes should be under Sprint -> Manage Existing Connections (not under My Work Network).
I assume Existing Connections is where highc's recommendations would go:
"Access Point = cinet.spcs
"Server assigned IP and DNS"
Of course, now that I'm back in the US, the only things there are for Sprint/CDMA; there's nothing there related to GSM data connections on either the Sprint 6.1 phone or my 6.5 phone... I assume there was something while I was there?
Are the GSM-related "existing settings" documented anywhere? There are quite a few choices, and I certainly don't want to brick my phone . And are these settings stored somewhere in the Registry?
You can have multiple data connections setup in there. That's the standard Windows Mobile location for what is basically dial-up networking settings.
Each "connection" is nothing more than a specialized number for an ISP (typically your carrier). You set a default connection and then the phone uses that whenever you initiate a data call.
If you switch to GSM mode and are runing off a SIM, this is where you would put the data call information for that carrier.
You cannot brick your phone by editing these settings. At worst you'll end up disabling data, but a quick call to your carrier will get you the settings necessary to get it back.
Anything that is stored on your phone will be visible here.
Samsung Galaxy Apollo I5800D rooted and unlocked.
now on Rogers in Canada
Phones works fine, texting works fine, WIFI works fine...
have no internet and can't send/receive SMS
If I goto:
Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names,
it's blank with no option to "ADD APN"
Do I need a code to enter APN info? eg: *#12345#* ???
1.Go to Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names
2.Press menu button (left button)
gogy1906 said:
1.Go to Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names
2.Press menu button (left button)
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Go to Applications > Settings > Wireless and Network > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names then Press left hand side menu button
After upgrading to ics, i cannot see the "network" option in the settings menu, which means that i cannot select mobile provider manually, i cannot enable data roaming abroad etc.
Any idea where it went??
When you are in settings, tap on the mobile network icon to go in specific settings.
Got it. Thanks!
This is not a Metro network unlock guide but a work around for certain circumstances where you may come in possession of a Metro variant Moto G Stylus 2020/xt-2043-4 & it might be totally locked out in the Android setup displaying a message after you press START
NETWORK LOCKED DEVICE
Please insert a valid sim card
Any sim card you insert doesn't do anything except im assuming a Metro sim card but i dunno I didn't have one to try. I had just broke my current device & I'd had this phone in my junk box for months and just sold the only other decent phone I had the day before so I pulled out the stylus and figured I could call metro to unlock it since it wasn't black listed. Well metro tells me that it is tied to another account & nothing they can do will help me but to take it into a Metro PCS store. So the next day I go to a store and the guy there was kind of a prick or maybe I was just pissy cause he told me there's nothing he can do it has to be activated with an account for 6 months before anything can be unlocked. So at this point I'm like F*$*@##!!!!!!
Then I do this crazy thing I do all the time and pull some awesome out of my .... Brain. I decide to do a FRP bypass technique to where I go into emergency call then emergency information click on the edit icon, select the picture then choose select a photo and go to the menu then hold down on Google drive opening the app settings. Select permissions and in permissions there's a search icon and I type in "settings" and select the settings app & open system settings. I connect my phone to a Wi-Fi network then go into apps choose show system apps, scroll down to the network unlock app and opened it and seen that you could open the app so I do and select to permanent unlock the device it's a success and phone reboots and a total bypass to the network restriction phone was now fully unlocked to all carriers.
Step by step guide
Emergency call
Emergency information
Edit emergency information
Select photo, select choose image
Go to menu then long press Google drive
In Google drive app settings go to permissions
Select search & type in settings
Launch settings app connect to Wi-Fi
Open apps choose show system apps
Open network unlock app
Select permanent unlock
And it's all is good your device will now be completely Network unlocked
I hope this helps anyone with the same problem I noticed a lot of posts about the same issue with nothing being resolved so good luck and enjoy your F****** Unlocked Stylus.
If you cannot get a network unlock you can still use the device by following guide except when you go to network unlock app instead go to Android setup in apps and disable the app and it will disable the Network lock screen that you cannot bypass and you'll be able to use the phone otherwise.
hi, purchased this phone second hand locked to t-mob. Speaking with Samsung, they says that it was sold to Sprint. I'm Tmob customer.
Working Samsung, Spring, Tmob my attempts to unlock the phone failed.
Interesting that if I go Settings>APPs, I can find App info for Network Unlock. But the application is hidden. Any way to start it? If not any recommendations how to unlock it?
I was reading here, this all new to me but I gathered that U5.0 Android 13 is impossible to flash to stock FW. Is this correct? Thank you.
OMG i just unlocked a moto e with the same app. Its not hidden its somewhere in settings. Sorry i came across it by pure chance today and was so excited when it worked that i dont remember exactly where it was.
But I saw it in Apps just like you and wondered where it was. Try putting in another SIM card. A message box will pop up saying that you have a new SIM and if you want to network unlock. If that doesnt work just search through settings. It will just be a Button but when i clicked on it, i was asked if i wanted a temp or permanent unlock.I chose permanent. and was accepted right away
@explicitKC - good! But in my case the app is not there. Here is what Tmob says on the subject.
And reading more I see that flashing stock FW will not Unlock the phone, unfortunately. But some web sites advertise the service. Pre-req. is to have phone connected to PC and they will use it to unlock. Dont want to go there as they may drop whatever they want on the phone if have malicious intentions.
T-Mobile device unlock
Learn how to use your device on another carrier or wireless provider's network. This may also be known as a SIM unlock, network unlock, or carrier unlock.
www.t-mobile.com
Swipe up on your Home screen to open your Apps list and follow the steps for your manufacturer:
Samsung: Settings > Connections > More Connection Settings > Network Unlock
OnePlus: Settings > Wi-Fi & internet > SIM & network, then choose Advanced or Network Unlock
LG: Settings > Network & internet > Mobile networks > Network unlock > Continue
Motorola: Settings > About phone > Device unlock > Continue
T-Mobile REVVLRY: Settings > Network & Internet > Mobile network > Advanced > Network Unlock
TCL: Settings > System > About phone > Device Unlock
CAT / Nokia / Wiko: Settings > About phone > Device Unlock
Older Android or other manufacturers:
For Android 7 and newer, open the Device Unlock app. If you don't have this app, your device is either unlocked or uses one of the newer steps above.
For Android 6 and older, choose your device on the Devices page, then click the PDF Manual drop-down to find your user guide..