Strange data problem with HTC One
tdenson
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Can anyone help me please. I am in Kenya at the moment and I have local SIM cards in both my iPhone 5S and my HTC One. I have got Three to unlock my HTC while I have been away so I had no chance to try another SIM back home. I received an unlock code by text and it seemed to work, however, it is telling me that mobile data is turned off, despite my settings showing it turned on. The same SIM card works in my iPad fine and I've also tried a SIM from another network operator here in the HTC with the same result. I'm out of ideas.
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Yeah, what i meant though is on Android phones when abroad even if you switch data on in the settings, it won't work unless you switch roaming on as well in the settings also.
Can't remember if i had to do the same with my iphone last year in Rhodes or whether on apple devices once you turn data on it just allows it.
Yeah, it's the same on an iPhone in that both mobile data and data roaming would need to be switched on. Although, I'm not sure if data roaming will need to be enabled if it's a local SIM on its home network.
As it happens I am talking to you via a tethered iPhone and have data roaming disabled, so that only applies if you don't have a local SIM card.
yes. At one point I thought that might be my problem but no such luck.
Brilliant. Googling Safaricom APN settings came up with "those elusive safaricom APN settings for Android" and it sure was complicated but worked. I guess I had been lulled into a false sense of security by the iPhone "just working" with a Safaricom sim in it (and no that isn't meant to precipitate a fanboy war please )
if you're using a local sim the phone is not roaming.
i'm minded of the conversation i heard in a japanese bar with an american tourist asking for domestic beer.
possibly.
or, perhaps more likely. safaricom uses airetel or they both use the same network.
Weird. I used a Greek local sim in my Nexus 4 and it 'just worked' as well.
Cant understand why you had such an issue. Did you put the sim in your iphone first then the HTC by any chance?
Yeah, i missed that bit!!
Yes, probably the most likely explanation thanks
I've found that some phones and carriers automatically grab the APN settings, and some others don't. I guess it depends on the SIM card.
See i had the same problem but it was nothing to do with the phone. I put it in our ipad on holiday first and it worked as you would expect. Then put it in the phone and it didn't. Had to do what tdenson did. We got another sim and stuck it in the Mrs phone and it worked right away.
I think its because the APN data was grabbed by the ipad so the carrier didn't send them out for the next device it was put into.
Ah, that's exactly what I did - put it in the iPad first to test it. Looks like that was where I went wrong.