As most of you may know, a T-Mobile Galaxy Tab will not allow you to insert a SIM card from a phone and use it for data, even if you already have an Android data plan on your account and on that number. Bought a new tab from a private owner, and was pissed off about that. However, I have a G2, and remembered something I had configured on my phone.
So, I found an easy way to resolve this. My G2 does 4G. Instead of putting the sim into the Galaxy Tab, I enabled the wifi hotspot feature and used that to connect the Tab to the Internet. At 4G speeds. On my unlimited data plan. For free. Saves me more than a grand/yr (assuming the $85/mo+taxes cost of the 10gb/mo plan which I don't have to pay).
Take =that= T-Mobile. Bet your greedy, beady-eyed beancounter (read "Business Prevention Officer") boys didn't think about =that= one... <chuckle>
I know this is an old thread, but I just did not want people to be discouraged from buying this awesome tablet because of misinformation.
There is an alternative solution.
Refer to this guide. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1446500
Hi. Anyone know why my coworker's iphone at&t sim works in my tab but not the pay-as-you-go sim that originally came with it?
I'm using the JK3 modem with the overcome beta2 rom. Is there an issue with this modem working with the type of plan I have?
Thanks!
AT&T APN Data Settings for Galaxy Tab
Go to Settings, Wireless & Network, Mobile Networks, Access Point names and make sure you have one called Broadband (assuming you are on the ATT monthly data only plan)
If you dont, create a new APN
Name: Broadband
APN: Broadband
Just leave the other options as is, save it & select it.
I think by default it comes up with the ATT wap.cingular APN which doesn't work with the Tab Data plan.
I use the JK3 modem too.
Awesome! That did it.
Thanks!
RichAP,
you are the F**Kin man. I spent 2 1/2 hours on the phone with at&t with no result. after search this furom and changing names (a whole 15 mins at the most) I finnally have data. Maybe these "tech customer service" people should use xda when help people out, or maybe my dumb ass should have looked first. either way thanks RichAP.
No problem, glad I could help!
I've also had an issue with the stock AT&T Data Usage widget messing up my either my APN or Data.
Followed these instructions, but I think I have another layer of complexity.
My Tab is an international version and when I signed up on the att.com/addsession (or whatever the name is) page, it tells me they don't have a data plan for my device. Is that because my version of the Tab has voice capabilities?
I'll call AT&T tomorrow but thought I would see if anyone else has had this issue.
Is anyone switching between the Note and an ATT LTE phone? I deleted the APN's that were there and added the same ones from the Note. I'm not in an LTE area anyways. Will this work? Will ATT recognize my device and do some kind of provisioning that might mess things up when I go back to the Note? All is good once I put the correct APN in. I just wonder if ATT will provision it and then it not work because it's looking for that 4g LTE plan APN.
Hey,
I have been on the non-smartphone plan unlimited by ATT for about 4 months. They don't recognize the i9100 as a smartphone. Now I can not access internet/data. I was wondering what APN settings I should be using to fix it.
Thanks
I have purchase this guy back in March of 2010 and received the PB99110. I didn't have data service back then and never had up until a few weeks ago. Before I was on AT&T until April this year. I switched to T-Mobile because they were cheaper and was shown coverage was good enough in my area. I switched over to them and well, both my wifes Galaxy Note and my phone could hardly get a voice connection. I eventually switched over to StraightTalk with using an AT&T SIM that ST provided.
I for the life of me cannot get any form of data connection on this phone. I swapped SIMS between my works iPhone 3GS and data works on it. Putting my works SIM in my Nexus One still doesn't get 3G nor Edge. I've updated the APN settings for AT&T and tried the ones for Straight Talk. I have also tried using the APN that my SIM wants to use.
Currently using CyanogenMod-7.2.0-passion and I have tried to flash to factory as well. Still no data =/
I'm running out of ideas here. Help, please!