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How to customise network settings automatically?

One thing I've never been able to figure out is how to customise network settings as the automatic Connection Setup has never worked properly for me.
I'm using Virgin Australia as my operator and the connection setup always detects it as Optus and configures it accordingly.
I then have to go into Connections and change the Access Point it uses to connect (instead of 'internet' it's 'VirginInternet') and then it works fine.
Is there some way I can do this via registry key in my SDconfig.txt or hack the connection setup util to do this properly? (I've tried updated versions of the connsetup too but none of them do it properly).
If anyone can point me in the right direction I'd really appreciate it.

if you have a virgin mobile simcard that should take care of everything for you.

I do, but it doesn't work as I've mentioned.
Maybe it's something to do with my number originally being ported from Optus to Virgin (though I definitely have a Virgin mobile sim).
Funnily enough, the operator is recognised on the front manila tab as Virgin - it's only in the connection setup that it gets it wrong every time, and I'm sick of having to change this manually every rom install.
If anyone has any solution to this problem, let me know.

So how long have you been dealing with this? Have you been billed by Optus for using their network? If the front page is showing virgin mobile I think you should be good. My old Samsung Blackjack used to say i was on Rogers, when in fact it was on Fido, a subsidy of Rogers.... I would call virgin mobile and Optus if I were you to get this sorted out.

No - I'm not getting billed by Optus.
Reason it's defaulting to Optus is that Virgin are using Optus's network in Australia and basically onselling it or whatever the term is. They're like a virtual provider I guess you could say.
I can't use the settings that are auto-configured - it just won't work at all until I change the access point name.
Unfortunately, knowing this doesn't help me at all - hence why I'm trying to find a way to automatically fix this every time I do a rom install - so if we get back to my original question - does anyone know of any way to change the default access point name via a registry change or any way I can 'fix' the connection setup app to do the right thing for my phone.

Radix999 said:
No - I'm not getting billed by Optus.
Reason it's defaulting to Optus is that Virgin are using Optus's network in Australia and basically onselling it or whatever the term is. They're like a virtual provider I guess you could say.
I can't use the settings that are auto-configured - it just won't work at all until I change the access point name.
Unfortunately, knowing this doesn't help me at all - hence why I'm trying to find a way to automatically fix this every time I do a rom install - so if we get back to my original question - does anyone know of any way to change the default access point name via a registry change or any way I can 'fix' the connection setup app to do the right thing for my phone.
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I have the same problem, did you find an answer?

Market Enabler

Does anyone know how to get the Market Enabler to permanently set the values? Every time the phone restarts the settings return to my Rogers carrier. I want them stuck on T-Mobile!
Also, anyone know how to fix the slow starting downloads issue?

I'd be careful having them permanently set.
I accidentally left my phone on a foreign carrier (I'm in Aus) and I got charged out of the ass for roaming costs.

rickytenzer said:
Does anyone know how to get the Market Enabler to permanently set the values? Every time the phone restarts the settings return to my Rogers carrier. I want them stuck on T-Mobile!
Also, anyone know how to fix the slow starting downloads issue?
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AFAIK, you can't make them permanent. I have noticed that sometimes they will stay set and other times they are partially changed back to Rogers, even without rebooting. They definitely switch back after a reboot. I suspect they are derived from carrier info, or supplied by the carrier during the boot process so you need to override them after each boot.
The slow starting issue does not seem to be related to Market Enabler. I see it even set to Rogers when updating free apps. Also see it on both 3G and WiFi so it is not connectivity related at the phones end.

shadowfax1007 said:
I'd be careful having them permanently set.
I accidentally left my phone on a foreign carrier (I'm in Aus) and I got charged out of the ass for roaming costs.
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The settings that MarketEnabler changes are just on the phone and also the roaming bit gets not changed.
bjtheone said:
AFAIK, you can't make them permanent. I have noticed that sometimes they will stay set and other times they are partially changed back to Rogers, even without rebooting. They definitely switch back after a reboot. I suspect they are derived from carrier info, or supplied by the carrier during the boot process so you need to override them after each boot.
The slow starting issue does not seem to be related to Market Enabler. I see it even set to Rogers when updating free apps. Also see it on both 3G and WiFi so it is not connectivity related at the phones end.
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The settings will reset every time some network settings change (like getting into roaming or booting up).
Even if Android has a short network hickup or you get into a zone, where you don't have mobile coverage and get back to (can also happen if the signal strength is very low) the settings get overwritten.
MarketEnabler basically just sets the system variables for SIM and Network carrier (only used internally by Android and not your carrier) and that's the biggest reason why it does need root and everytime the phone sends a value changed event (changing sim, changing networkstatus, ...) this values get updated with real one.
We could integrate some hook into marketEnabler that listens to this updates and change it back to the faked one BUT this causes different apps to not behave correctly (every app that is depending on this like lookup of Cell-ID Gps, ...) and thats why I haven't implemented it.

Images are not loading properly over 3g - help!

Nexus One, Froyo (FRF85B), 3G on AT&T in NYC
Same thing happened on FRF50 and 2.1
Here's a screenshot:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7648594/snap20100629_103346.png
EDIT: Heres the same thing over wifi:
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/7648594/snap20100629_103813.png
Image in question.
Any ideas?
EDIT: I found a bugreport that appears to be related. So this isn't new. Has anyone found a solution?

I don't seem to have gotten this problem on AT&T in SFO, going directly from EPE54B to FRF85B. However, I recall seeing some posts about this when FRF50 came out. If I'm not mistaken, they may have solved it by clearing the Proxy setting in Mobile network settings -> Access Point Names.

Access point names contains only Cingular 410, wap.cingular
I don't have a proxy setting there, btw.

catzilla said:
Access point names contains only Cingular 410, wap.cingular
I don't have a proxy setting there, btw.
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So you're saying the Proxy setting inside Cingular 410 is already blank? Or there is no Proxy setting present at all?

Ah, I see what you mean. If I click on the APN, there are more settings inside, with the proxy wireless.cingular.com. Should I remove that?

Yes, removing the Proxy value should do it. I'm not sure if you need to reboot or anything. Good luck.

You, sir, are a life saver!
It works!
Why did I get a proxy value in the first place?

It probably comes from the settings AT&T sends your phone when it auto-configures itself for the network. My last AT&T smartphone (Tilt 2) came pre-configured with the Proxy setting as well. AT&T is trying to lower the strain on their network by re-compressing images for as many people as it can.

To the point of making them totally illegible.
Thanks for all your help!

what happened is it seems google tried to play nice with ATT, so google must have started adding the proxy setting for att in the access point list. this saves ATT some bandwidth by reducing the quality of images and going thru ATT's proxy. every unlocked phone i've owned i've made sure to delete the proxy info as it always messed up my images like that.
wonder why google tried to play nice with ATT? to get on their good graces maybe?

T-Mobile do the same thing in the UK. Didn't know it's possible to fix it though.

Lost Data Connection!

3G and H are appearing but nothings happening, no activity. This is after a data\cache wipe. Any fix or do I need to flash again?
On JPO

Check your apn settings. Also, try searching for your network provider.

terranq said:
Check your apn settings. Also, try searching for your network provider.
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It's set to orange internet, network provider is set to orange.

dial *#*2263* and make sure all the bands are selected (go under combi bands and select them all). Other than that, not sure.

That's not doing anything on my phone, you sure that works with froyo?
Nevermind, tried sgs tool, all are selected... Still not working..
Ps: swype is awesome.

Shocky2 said:
It's set to orange internet, network provider is set to orange.
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Get the exact APN name from Orange and make sure it's set for internet.
Sometimes, telcos have multiple APN settings.
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What he said. Sorry I got the code wrong, I was going from memory. Failing that (apn check), you may have to reflash, but I'd see if you can get some insight from someone a little more experienced than me

maybe he updated to froyo and lost his imei

Don't understand why but it appears to be working now, I also tried it this morning with no luck maybe it's due to location, but it was working fine before...
Very strange, will try later today and see if it's still working.

Shortly after getting home, got no service message, after reconnecting to network the 3G connection is dead again.
I'll reflash later, this isnt right..

Exactly the same after being flashed and reseting everything to defaults, this is great.
Last time I touch clockwork recovery.
Can't even make any calls now , either the sim cards messed up or the phone is...
I'm starting to hate this phone.

[Q] Bought used phone, no signal / poor reception

Hi all,
I have a question to those more knowledgeable about GSM network/settings (I come from a CDMA background). I bought my girlfriend a Captivate on EBay for Christmas; everything is working OK except it cannot get any signal. As far as I know everything is set up as it should, it just won't show any bars. While using the ServiceMode app [*#0011#] it goes from NO SERVICE to GSM : LIMITED and back over and over. While using her old phone in the same spot it has full bars. We went to the ATT store and made sure everything was set up on their end. I think the phone is defective but I figured I would check here first. I'll attach some relevant (I think) screen caps and if anything jumps out or you have anything for me to try and fix this, please let me know.
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Also does anyone know the exact location of the internal antenna? I opened the phone up to see if something came lose during shipment or whatever and I didn't really get anywhere. I wanted to try and jury rig a extended antenna to see if that helped reception.

You flashed that ROM/theme on the phone? Or it came like that when you bought it?

That is Serendipity 5.1.. I figure while she can't use the phone as a phone, she should still benefit from a nice rom and kernel. When I received the phone originally it had the stock rom. Before I flashed a custom I made sure to check everything out first and the problem was there since the beginning. Since then I've flashed back to stock, tried different radios, etc etc but the results are always the same.
I don't know what the person before me did to the phone though, maybe he/she flashed something incorrectly and wrote over important settings? I don't know what I'm looking at that's really why I am asking here.

Grabbed some more settings, anything seem strange or wrong?

Stupid question, but do you have an active AT&T Sim card in the Phone? btw, these phones absolutely, positively will not work on Sprint or any other CDMA carrier.

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Stupid question, but do you have an active AT&T Sim card in the Phone?
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Yes I have her new Sim card which was activated at the store over the weekend. I can switch it between her two phones, old one full bars, Captivate no bars.

Check you APN Settings. Menu> Wireless and networks > Mobile Networks > Access Point Names and let us know what they are, and we can go from there.

Says ATT WAP

Tap where is says att wap and check the settings to see if they match these:
Name: ATT WAP
APN: wap.cingular
Proxy: wireless.cingular.com
Port: 80
Username:not set
Password:not set
Server: not set
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS Proxy: wireless.cingular.com
mms port - 80
mcc 310
mnc 410
authentication type - none
apn type- internet + mms
If not, adjust them accordingly and see if it clears up. If not I'd say you have a serious hardware problem.

Those settings look good to me. Thanks for the help I suppose my problem is more serious. Anyone know of anything else I can check to maybe narrow my problem down? I'm not afraid to try and replace a radio/circuit board/internal antenna.

enter *#2263# and check that band selection is set to automatic.

Yep set to AUTOMATIC - Select GSM & WCDMA All Bands

Is there something equivalent to a PRL for GSM phones? Something that tells it what towers it can connect to?

idk if its related but i have poor signal problems too with my phone sometimes only shows bars and no h or edge and sometimes just says no service or emergency calls only

Yeah same here, right now it says Emergency calls only. I know for a fact that there are at least 6 GSM cell towers in this vicinity.

Can this issue have something to do with a failed unlocking attempt? I've been trying to research all routes and I tried to "unlock" to phone by using SGS Unlock Tool (rooted method), it was never successful. It states "Sorry, no codes found unknown error", possibly meaning that something internally is screwed up? I'm just pulling stuff out of my bum at this point. Any help will be appreciated!

Last bump for the weekend. Any suggestions? Already bought a new one but I still have 30 days to return it if I can figure out how to fix this.