HI
I have a UK t-mobile galaxy note. T-mobile allows you to roam on to Orange. I have NO t-mobile signal at home so I used to set my note to orange manually and it would stay on orange. Now due to the way T-mobile are roaming the phone does not recognise the raom between t-mobile and orange meaning it will roam between these networks no matter what setting I change!
Is there a way or an app to force the phone to use orange and not roam ?
TIA
John
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Hey Guys,
I've upgraded my MDA to the latest firmware from T-Mobile and did the soft-reset trick to avoid the installation of the T-Mobile extended rom junk.
The phone works great but it says that it is roaming even though I'm on my home network. It never did this on the old rom. FYI... the phone is unlocked and is being used on the Rogers network in Canada (which is my home network and where the SIM is registered).
Any ideas?
- Tatusmi
roaming update
Well I've made phone calls to Rogers and T-Mobile and here's the verdict.
The phone is not actually roaming, there is no roaming charges applied, the SIM card still knows where it is; however, the new ROM from T-Mobile is a USA based rom and it makes the phone think it's not on it's home network and therfore display the roaming icon.
Fortunatly, a bug in WISBar hides the icon most of the time so I guess I'll just live with it. If anyone has a solution to get rid of the icon I'd love to hear it though.
- Tatusmi
Although I'm a T-Mo USA customer, my MDA always showed roaming as well (without the extended ROM to disable it) because my SIM is from T-Mo's predecessor, "Voicestream" which had a different MNC.
To fix it, use a registry editor and change \HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\DisableRoamingIndicator to "1" and the roaming icon is disabled.
elecconnec said:
To fix it, use a registry editor and change \HKLM\Drivers\BuiltIn\RIL\DisableRoamingIndicator to "1" and the roaming icon is disabled.
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If I disable the icon, will it show up when the phone actually is roaming?
Also, you mentioned without the tmo extended rom software to disable it... will this work correctly with the addition of the tmo ext rom? Is there a .cab we can extract to run on it's own?
- Tatusmi
I installed the "AT&T TILT AKU.0.7.0 Cooked ROM Clean+BigStorage" and noticed in the phone settings it is set to AT&T without a choice for selecting networks. When I go to JAPAN will it automaticly find the correct network for international roaming in JAPAN if I call AT&T to set up the international roaming service.
Hello All,
I have an unlocked Diamond (originally on Orange UK) now using a 'Three' UK SIM.
Unfortunately, I constantly roam onto Orange where data sessions fail to work. Data sessions connect, but HTTP traffic is blocked and other types of data is obviously much slower (too slow to use). This sometimes happens where Three's signal is available but Orange is stronger.
Forcing manual selection of networks does not prevent roaming to Orange. The order of preferred networks is not saved and reverts to (Three, Orange, ...) as soon as I exit the menu.
Is there any way I can do one of the following:
Disable all roaming?
Disable GSM/GPRS/EDGE?
Lock the phone to Three only?
Force manual selection of network?
Any help appreciated
Thanks!
If you wanna stop EDGE for WIFI roaming you can use NoData.cab, look on the forum.
bugmeyes said:
Hello All,
I have an unlocked Diamond (originally on Orange UK) now using a 'Three' UK SIM.
Unfortunately, I constantly roam onto Orange where data sessions fail to work. Data sessions connect, but HTTP traffic is blocked and other types of data is obviously much slower (too slow to use). This sometimes happens where Three's signal is available but Orange is stronger.
Forcing manual selection of networks does not prevent roaming to Orange. The order of preferred networks is not saved and reverts to (Three, Orange, ...) as soon as I exit the menu.
Is there any way I can do one of the following:
Disable all roaming?
Disable GSM/GPRS/EDGE?
Lock the phone to Three only?
Force manual selection of network?
Any help appreciated
Thanks!
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I just wrote a script to keep you connected to 3G or HSDPA networks only. Tryout WombatPhoneRoam
I hope it is what your looking for
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=3076932&postcount=1
Wombat
this app automatically do this job: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=503131 (disable data in roaming, and re enable under home automatically)
[Q] Network operator selection
I've recently flashed Cyanogen Mod 9 on my Samsung Galaxy S Plus GT-I9001 and I'm wondering what operator I should choose for my carrier in the Network Operators settings. My carrier is Virgin Mobile UK which uses the Everything Everywhere network and if I choose the auto select option it will change the operator to Orange. Should I leave the operator settings as Orange or will they charge me roaming costs for using their network?
I have a sprint note 8 and ive tried to follow the guides to flash unlocked firmware and keep getting sha256 error. I put my Verizon SIM card in and it works but it is always roaming and Verizon said I don't have a phone active on my account. I don't know if there is a way to fix it and I'm super frustrated trying to flash unlocked firmware trying to fix it any help would be appreciated.
If the phone has a clean IMEI it will work on T-Mobile, Metro PCS, AT&T, Verizon Prepaid (PagePlus) or any other GSM carrier in the US and worldwide, Phone will work on Roaming State , Make sure you add your Carrier APN for the Data settings.
Sounds like you are stuck in roaming state nothing you can do about it.. I bought the unlocked model cause I figure it's best to bout be carrier locked
What do you mean by roaming state?
Surely roaming state is when user roams onto a different network other than their own. Example, T Mobile customer travels to Spain and roams onto Mobistar Spanish cell network using his or her existing T Mobile sim card regardless of what the device is.
Perhaps that's how it works between the two USA cdma carriers? - the way you mentioned it.
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Limeybastard said:
What do you mean by roaming state?
Surely roaming state is when user roams onto a different network other than their own. Example, T Mobile customer travels to Spain and roams onto Mobistar Spanish cell network using his or her existing T Mobile sim card regardless of what the device is.
Perhaps that's how it works between the two USA cdma carriers? - the way you mentioned it.
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So fp r short you are using sprints towers on Verizon's network is what I believe read below
roaming is a term used to describe the ability of phones to connect to the network of a different carrier, abroad or at home in order to offer users the same features they use while on their “home” network – making and receiving calls and text messages and surfing the web. Roaming is possible thanks to the international agreements carriers have with other carriers, in order to offer their wireless services in other regions of a country or of the world.