I am using a Pixel 2 XL with straight talk and zero problems. I set it up with my previous sim card and it worked right away. However my wife is having terrible problems and her data is not working.
Does anyone have a working Pixel 2 XL on Straight Talk - Verizon Sim?
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I got hotspot to work with the build.prop change from here: https://xdaforums.com/showpost.php?p=76127117&postcount=34
Terminal gave me an error, but in the end it worked. I am rooted.
Terminal gave me an error, but in the end it worked. I am rooted.
From what I can tell the only way to get on ST is to do the SIM switch trick. However, I don't have access to a T-Mobile SIM...I was wondering could I just get a T-Mobile SIM from ST and stay with that one (btw there's no TMobile in my city but they have coverage here just don't know how good) ...or I saw in a earlier post that someone just went to TMobile prepaid and it worked for them. With that said could I just jump on like att prepaid ? Thanks I'm advance...i really just need to leave Verizon it's just way too expensive for myself and family... Ready to jump contract with Verizon
You have to buy that BYOP SIM kit that comes with 3 different SIM cards and obviously just use the Verizon one. trafone BYOP Sim card kit will work too, it's what I used. You have to download the straight talk app via WiFi to activate, I would factory reset first though
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I forced those with ADB (With the SIM out to get all the fields) but never got MMS even using the MMS type. I'm gonna try the SIM trick tomorrow though.
EDIT: Okay, I got it. I don't know why, but it didn't work the last time I tried it.
If you take the sim card out, in ADB you can run
Code:adb shell am start -a android.intent.action.INSERT content://telephony/carriers --ei simId -1
This forces the new APN screen to come up.
I then used
Name: straight talk
APN: TRACFONE.VZWENTP
Proxy: Not set
Port: Not set
Username: Not set
Password: Not set
Server: Not set
MMSC: http : //mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms < remove spaces after http
Multimedia message proxy: Not set
Multimedia message port: Not set
MCC: 311
MNC: 480
Authentication type: Not set
APN type: default,mms,supl
APN protocol: IPv4/IPv6
Turn APN on/off: APN turned on
Bearer: Unspecified
Mobile virtual network operator type: None
Mobile virtual network operator value: Not Set
and it is working fine after I put my SIM back in.1I wouldnt call it resolved since it requires swapping sim cards from other providers...seems like its a crappy work around at best.
Wifi Tether still isnt working (requires adding 'dun' to apn, which even with the sim card swap trick isnt working, in addition to needing a build.prop entry to unlock the tether button in the software). the build.prop hack works and lets me turn on wifi tether but i dont get data.
Wifi tether (and activation in general) worked fine on my Nexus 6p using 8.0 and 8.1 beta on Straight Talk Verizon sims, set dun automatically, so it seems unique to this phone.1
You see LTE the whole time, no 3g. My understanding is that both the voice call and the data are both on LTE as basically two normal internet connections, like if you were streaming videos from two different site. In general in LTE theres enough bandwidth to do both, but if you were like streaming 1440p video and doing a voice call you might run into bandwidth issues and have slow down or choppy audio.
