I have been in poland for 10 days and had wanted to use my phone internationally but as soon as I left USA to Europe. I had no service. I was under the assumption that the BA was a Tri-band phone. Is there anyone that has had the same problem using Xplodes new rom and trying to use this phone in europe.? I have the SX66 version and My wife has the i-mate version of the BA. Both have the same problem. I also tried to download several phone band changing cabs somewhere on the forums and they just redered my phone useless and I had to hard reset. I also saw on the forums that someone had written that the change of the GSM frequency was automatic but it does not work as the local carrier would be "ERA-GSM" and i have "No Service". This has ticked me off my whole vacation. Any help would greatly be appreciated. Thank You
Rich.
PS. I hope people can use this thread to perhaps put any patches or files that may allow our BA's to work in europe. That would be cool as this is my first thread.
Strange...I'm in France and have no problem wiz the dial wiz Orange
thats a very weird problem.
have you done a soft-reset, and then, enabled the phone in the connectivity manager?
i am in europe too, my BA come imported from USA and it is working nicely here.
Or the most probably stuff is:
You forgot to activate the roaming service with your operator, and since you have no roaming service active, you are unable to use your phone outside USA with your USA card, because no network allow it to be registered.
SandStorm said:
thats a very weird problem.
have you done a soft-reset, and then, enabled the phone in the connectivity manager?
i am in europe too, my BA come imported from USA and it is working nicely here.
Or the most probably stuff is:
You forgot to activate the roaming service with your operator, and since you have no roaming service active, you are unable to use your phone outside USA with your USA card, because no network allow it to be registered.
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I am back from vacation. I love poland and hope to retire from there. Anyway yes it is true about no roaming service which i do not have. And i thought about that but i tried using a polish sim card also and nothing. Is there a way to change frequencies anyway?
This device is quad-band, it is mandatory for it to work in the entire world...
Takiyon said:
I am back from vacation. I love poland and hope to retire from there. Anyway yes it is true about no roaming service which i do not have. And i thought about that but i tried using a polish sim card also and nothing. Is there a way to change frequencies anyway?
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Nice to hear from a foreigner, that you like Poland
About SIM card: you might still have simlock in your BA. I don't think band change is an issue. This must be something more basic. Have you tried to make list of available networks (without logging in) - there should be 3 of them all over Poland (BTW:where have you been in Poland?): Era GSM, Plus GSM and Orange (on older list of operators int might be Idea), and in very rare cases Play Mobile (for sure in case of this one you could see only number, no name, just 260-06).
2nd idea I have is that after switch to WM5 you forgot about soft reset after first boot and GSM module was not yet up.
my blue angel works in europe, both on 900 and 1800Mhz, and of course there was no problem with 1900Mhz...the issue, i think, which was said over, is that you didn't have roaming enabled...
jakubd said:
Nice to hear from a foreigner, that you like Poland
About SIM card: you might still have simlock in your BA. I don't think band change is an issue. This must be something more basic. Have you tried to make list of available networks (without logging in) - there should be 3 of them all over Poland (BTW:where have you been in Poland?): Era GSM, Plus GSM and Orange (on older list of operators int might be Idea), and in very rare cases Play Mobile (for sure in case of this one you could see only number, no name, just 260-06).
2nd idea I have is that after switch to WM5 you forgot about soft reset after first boot and GSM module was not yet up.
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I think you are right jakubd. It may be a sim card issue. But the phone does not say it. Maybe things have changed such because I know I used to use Era GSM Sim cards but it was a new card i bought. If it is a simlock problem how can I use that card in my BA? I am sure I was able to use my mom's T-Mobile card I don't remember but I will check it out and get back. Also My family lives in Bielany, Warszawa. I have been to Zakopane I love it. Next time I go me and my family will go to the seaside.
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This device is quad-band, it is mandatory for it to work in the entire world...
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Since when???? Get your facts straight.
The device is NOT quad band - but it should work in Europe no problems. It could just be a roaming problem like people say. Can you call your provider and ask or are they out of reach?
BTW: You can find out how to unlock the BA in the wiki for free.
Biohead said:
Since when???? Get your facts straight.
The device is NOT quad band - but it should work in Europe no problems. It could just be a roaming problem like people say. Can you call your provider and ask or are they out of reach?
BTW: You can find out how to unlock the BA in the wiki for free.
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Actually the device is quad band - 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900. You can check the spec page for the individual unit.
Here is the link for the PDA2k : http://www.clubimate.com/t-DETAILS_PDA2K.aspx
Here is the link for the SX66 : http://www.mobiledia.com/phones/siemens/sx66.html
Back when I had wm2003 on it, I had built cab that allowed me to change the band setting on the 1.13.00 radio rom.
As for not being able to use it abroad, I had the same issue when I went to aruba. Didn't call to get international roaming enabled and the unit refused to see any cell network. Now that I have it enabled, my SX66 works just about everywhere I go.
-Chris
Hi Guys
I have a touch diamond (diam100) with h3g italy sim card, radio 1.12.25.19 a quad band one and usually works all over europe except when I came in UK!
The diamond was an Orange locked phone that I bought on ebay and then I unlocked with hard spl and flashed with an original htc rom 1.93.00 and tried different evolved radios.
So I tried everything but it won't connect to any network in Uk and h3g neither!
Somebody can tell me why? And How can I solve this? If I stay in uk it doesn't work because was orange? Also if I unlocked it?
The band and gsm+umts are in auto but I can't change theme, it says try later I can't connect, and I tried from edimburgh to dundee. It was happened last year also in london but i thought was a wrong radio so I changed it but I couldn't check until today
Help please I can't find nothing on the forum.
Hi all,
I was very sure that before i upgraded my HTC Hero, i can see the dual nam menu from the "Setting". But after i upgraded to 2.27 firmware, i no longer have that menu. Does anyone know how to get "dual nam" appear again?
Regards,
Aditya
My guess is you need to run a RUU of the older sprint software. Search around all build RUU's are posted.
i searched around the web for how to downgrade to 1.29, but no luck. the closest i can get is downgrading to 1.5. unfortunately, a website that generates the required mtd0.img was down, so i couldn't downgrade to 1.5. any idea?
Wow. I have no idea what that is. Can you inform me of its function?
what i mean by dual nam function is the ability of a cdma phone to store 2 number within a single phone. it can be from the same or other carrier. you can switch your number without having your phone reconfigured by your carrier. you can easily switch your number from your phone menu.
in US, i almost never consider this function, as cdma carrier in US, AFAIK, prohibit this. but since i'm overseas, i can inject another carrier in the same phone without purging my sprint number.
Hi Guys
Ive just unlocked my HD7 and debranded it from O2 UK.
Ive having a problem getting MMS working on Tmobile UK are any other people having this problem?
I can find people with the same issue on Tmobile USA but not UK.
I would have thought it should as Tmobile sell a Samsung WP7 device.
Did you try HTC Connection Setup? Might be that carrier settings are not correct
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Did you try HTC Connection Setup? Might be that carrier settings are not correct
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Yep done that.
Got it working in the end, i swapped some sims around so the phone kept changing network. Then put the tmobile one back in and shazam all working.
I susspect it was something funny happening with Mango.
DISCLAIMER:
I'm from Belgium and English is not my native language, I am aware that my English is not great so please forgive me.
Hello,
I recieved my HTC One two weeks ago after waiting 2 months. It was a pain in the ass to get the phone.
Here in Belgium the phone is still not for sale so I had to buy the phone on a site from the Netherlands (algebeld.nl).
Now, here is the problem:
I wasn't aware that I was able to recieve 4G LTE in my region until a few days ago, I didn't know this because I never recieved 4G on my phone. Aparently I should recieve 4G and looked into the settings and everything is set to recieve 4G, so my settings are not the problem.
Another thing I noticed was that I am still on older software and didn't recieve the latest update, I'm still on 1.29.111.11.
This concerned me so I did some research and it turns out (not 100% sure though) that my device is branded to T-mobile, even though it is an unlocked device.
So the reason I can't connect to 4G is (I think) the radio module is clocked at a different frequency so I can't recieve 4G.
I was under the impression that I was buying an unbranded device so this kinda blows...
No 4G isn't the only problem, I will also have to wait for OTA's a lot longer.
So my question is:
Is there a way to solve this? I could root my phone in order to get the latest software but still if there comes an update which updates the hboot, it will check my cid and there will be a chance I won't be able to update my hboot and install the update.
If I could just solve the cid problem it would be awesome because 4G isn't THAT big of a deal, but it would be even better if there was a way to recieve 4G or totally debrand my device. I don't know if there is a way to solve this through software since it's the radio module that has a different frequency and that's a hardware problem :s
Anyway, thanks in advance!
Misterthomas32.