New APN setting for straight talk ATT

Just before lunch today I lost all data, could make calls and text. I called straight talk. I got the normal run around. I asked if there was any outages in Alabama. Was told no. I called my local ATT store and they said they have no reports. So I looked up straight talks apn again just to make sure something didn't go crazy. There is a NEW APN. I put it in and I have data working again.
http://www.straighttalksim.com/support.php#
new settings

Field

Settings


Name
straight talk

APN
tfdata

Port
80

MMSC
http://mms-tf.net

MMS Proxy
mms3.tracfone.com

MMS Port

I had to switch apn's on both mine and my wife's nexus 4's today in order to recieve mms. I had to clear the cached data and reboot the phone before the new apn would work. As soon as we rebooted mms messages from the last week all downloaded at once. Thought it might help some out.

Its not makeing since, working on some and not others! Something that just hit me, yesterday was my renewal date. Not sure if thats haveing something to do with it or not.

AT&T Straight Talk APN Settings

I noticed that CM10 has introduced the new Straight Talk into the CyanogenMod nightlies. Being adventurous and not knowing about the changes from this thread, I applied it; however it did not work for me.

Moving back to the old APN set everything back to normal. I didn't see super speed increases but it does work again.

I've long suspected that the old APN was overloaded which is why we see speed problems, if people are migrating to the new APN that could be why there are speed increases on the old one.

Here are the old and new settings for reference:

New Settings

Old Settings

jaredmny said:

I also use GVoice for messaging... I never use MMS, so unfortunately can't really test.

Working APN settings are:

Code:

NAME: Straight Talk
APN: tfdata
PORT: 80
MMSC: http<DELETE>://mms-tf.net
MMS PROXY: mms3.tracfone.com
MMS PORT: 80

Delete the part that says <DELETE>... Sorry, I can't put urls in messages yet.

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I tried those settings. Still no data. I've tried every APN setting I could find online, nothing has helped.

I just spent over an hour stuck in Straight Talk customer service hell. This is my first experience in 4 months needing to call them, and now I understand why people complain so loudly and so frequently about them. Let me tell you how it went:

1st call from my N4 - The CSR told me she couldn't help me because I was calling from my Straight Talk device and she needed me to check settings when I wasn't using it. She provided me with APN settings to check after I hung up (has she not heard of speakerphone?) and then I asked her to just check if there's a problem with my account, she said there wasn't and to call back from another phone.

2nd call from my wife's phone - Transferred 3 times, finally sent to the "high data usage hotline" where it read an automated message. After the message there were no options to talk to another CSR, it eventually hung up when I didn't ask it to repeat.

3rd call from my wife's phone - Transferred 2 times, when CSR told me they were transferring me to the high data usage line I told them I was just there and it was just an automated message that didn't help me. They said "listen to the message, it has instructions on how to get your data working". I thought maybe I missed something so I let them transfer me and I made sure to listen REALLY hard. All it tells you is that using high data is against Straight Talk's TOS and that you should go to another carrier if you don't like it (yes, it really says we'd be happy to port your number to another carrier if you don't agree with our TOS). Again, it hangs on up me when I can't figure out how to get back to a CSR from there.

4th call from my wife's phone - Transferred twice. I adamantly tell the 2nd CSR that I have no data, that the high data usage line does not help me, and that my data is NOT throttled, it is NON-EXISTENT. She is equally adamant that my data has only been THROTTLED, not SUSPENDED, and that she should transfer me to the high data usage line so I can understand why it has been THROTTLED. We talk in a circle for about 5 minutes. I tell her it has not been throttled, it is not working at all, she says its been throttled. Ok, finally she says "since your data was throttled, and you kept using data, is has been suspended for 24 hours. Don't use data on your phone for 24 hours and when the system sees that you are using normal data amounts it will reinstate your data". She didn't say it in those words, but very broken English, but I got the gist of it after needing her to repeat it a few times.

So, my data stopped working about this time last night, my 24 hours should almost be over. If the last CSR is to be believed (althoug there is no reason to) then my data should come back tonight, although it will be throttled for high data usage until my renewal date later this month. I might add that if anything I have used LESS data than I normally do in the last couple weeks. I haven't tethered or streamed music or netflix on anything other than over WiFi in over a month. So why would they choose to now "throttle" me (their version of throttling is cutting off data I guess? I never noticed a data throttle, probably b/c my ATT data is so slow to begin with)

I regret purchasing a year of service up front. As soon as my year is over in November I'm switching to T-Mobile's $30/month plan if its still available. I am never recommending ST to anyone, ever, for any reason. Unless maybe they are gluttons for pain and frustration.