wm6 and roaming

[siralexanderthegreat]

just wrote bloody long post and pc crashed in internet cafe-

so gonna write a short one now.

i am running darkforce wm6-very stable does what i want it to do in the uk

howvever in stockholm at present and cannot browse internet or send/recieve email for what will amount to the same the problem.

the handset is obvioulsy unlocked and with t-mobile,but when abroad last year with different wm5 roms -no problems everything worked fine,have spoken to t-mobile who are about as much use as a choclate tea pot

1) when trying to connect to internet-it does nothing-if i force the connection and get it use the csd t-mobile -i get 'failed to dial' message

2) when trying to retrive pop3 email(no exchange server involved) get new message about extra charge as roaming and then it try to connect for a spilt second before displaying error syncronising

i can roam all networks pick everything up?

please help people

[fla242]

hello,

I've no probleme with data connection when roaming my provider is SFR (france) and roaming provider is proximus (belgium).

Have you trying with another roaming provider ?

[siralexanderthegreat]

as many as i can try telia,vodafone se ,iq etc etc

no joy-beginning toi think it is to do with t-mobile

[siralexanderthegreat]

also without stating the obvious, as and when i can find a free wifi-everything works

[fallenczar]

are you having prob only with your data connection?? back in uk (?) were you using 3g or gprs and lastly in setting/phone/ is the band set to wcdma (3g) or gprs

[siralexanderthegreat]

in uk had set data to auto all have tried every over type- but still does not explain why it worked seamless before -it either is something within the wm6 rom(i doubt) or t-mobile(proable)

but as i m traveling as soon as i get back i would like to get to the bottom of it.

[TehPenguin]

It may not be your Universal - it may be your provider

Did you inform T-Mobile that you were going overseas? They need to activate international roaming on your account...

I've seen this problem before (working in a phone shop and all...), a customer from country xxxxx can't make\receive calls - because international roaming is not active on their account

[corwinckler]

Hi

I had similar problems. While Roaming previously (From SA (MTN), roaming in Mauritius (on Cellplus and Emtel) under WM5, I had no problems with SMS (text) or data calls.

Recently upgraded to WM6 (Laurentius' V7 VideoCall) and when landing in Mauritius last week, I could not send SMS(text) or connect data. It picked up the network. I did not test normal voice calls, since I usually dont make any while roaming. I simply used my sim card in a different handset for the week, but it was very frustrating, since Ive come to rely heavily on data access while travelling overseas (for email, skype, etc)

Regards
--Cor

[beast0898]

Hi all, Could you all edit your posts and enter your Radio SStack Ver ?
And if you can remember what Ver you were on when it used to work on WM5.

As stated in the post, the 1.18 Stack had updates for roaming, I haven't had a chance to test it myself, could anyone provide feedback on roaming with 1.18.


Cheers,


Beast

[siralexanderthegreat]

dark force(excellent) and radio 1.15 will try upgrade as leave country in a few weeks

[p_hsieh]

I roam between China, Hong Kong and Taiwan a lot. It appears data works better with some local service providers only. So what I do is when travelling to a new place, know which local providers data network 'roams' better with my China Mobile, by manually selecting, and trying, one by one, on the phone control panel, network selection part. Once I found one that worked, then I manually fix to that one.

Now everytime I travel to a different region, I just do, phone control panel->network->manual-> choose the known good one.

I hope this works in your situation and network providers.

Peter