New Straight Talk APN for BYOP - if data quits working

yobosimn · Jun 26, 2013

Update: Straight Talk's website now tells you the apn setting you should be using, to do this visit the link at the bottom of this post and follow the directions. The apn settings in this post should be the settings all new users are assigned, checking the link would tell you for sure though.

Just a heads up, if you're using Straight Talk's BYOP sim card and your data quit working, you may have been transitioned to new apn settings. I read about it here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2310215 in the Nexus 4 forums.

It seems users there lost all mobile data connectivity after their service renewed. The new apn settings seemed to have restored their data connectivity. I suggest making a second apn setting on your phone with the new settings I've posted below. The reason why I suggest a second apn is so you can easily switch between apns if you lose data connectivity on the new apn, I see it as an easy troubleshooting step down the road.

Here is the new apn

Name: Straight Talk

APN: tfdata

Port: 80

MMSC: http://mms-tf.net

MMS Proxy: mms3.tracfone.com

MMS Port: 80

Straight Talk now let's you type in your phone number on their website to look up which apn settings you should be using, it can be found here
http://www.straighttalk.com/wps/portal/home/support/apn#.UwhwZHVdX8s

I hope somebody finds this useful and hopefully doesn't cause confusion.

SteveMurphy · Jun 27, 2013

Hmm, this could be very useful. Thank you. :thumbup:

Sent from the i777

fatbuttlarry · Aug 9, 2013

SteveMurphy said:
Hmm, this could be very useful. Thank you. :thumbup:

Sent from the i777

I tried this too on my Google Nexus 4 because the results from my speedtests have been very poor [pic attached].

Unfortunately for me, the new APN settings are not working. In the mean time, I have placed a support ticket with Straight Talk to fix this issue.

MWTTRON · Aug 26, 2013

yobosimn said:
Just a heads up, if you're using Straight Talk's BYOP sim card and your data quit working, you may have been transitioned to new apn settings. I read about it here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2310215 in the Nexus 4 forums.

It seems users there lost all mobile data connectivity after their service renewed. The new apn settings seemed to have restored their data connectivity. I suggest making a second apn setting on your phone with the new settings I've posted below. The reason why I suggest a second apn is so you can easily switch between apns if you lose data connectivity on the new apn, I see it as an easy troubleshooting step down the road.

Here is the new apn

Name: Straight Talk

APN: tfdata

Port: 80

MMSC: http://mms-tf.net

MMS Proxy: mms3.tracfone.com

MMS Port: 80

The new APN settings can also be viewed on Straight Talk's website here:
http://straighttalksim.com/support-data.php#

I hope somebody finds this useful and hopefully doesn't cause confusion.

The Above Settings are for CDMA I suspect.

The OLD Settings BELOW work on my GSM SGH2 I777.

This APN works for GSM,

NAME straight talk
APN att.mvno
PROXY proxy.mvno.tracfone.com
PORT 80
MMSC http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS PROXY 66.209.11.33
MMS PORT 80

Hope this helps!

jt122333221@gmail.com · Aug 31, 2013

MWTTRON said:
The Above Settings are for CDMA I suspect.

The OLD Settings BELOW work on my GSM SGH2 I777.

This APN works for GSM,

NAME straight talk
APN att.mvno
PROXY proxy.mvno.tracfone.com
PORT 80
MMSC http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS PROXY 66.209.11.33
MMS PORT 80

Hope this helps!

Is that why it's listed under the ATT section of StraightTalk's www.straighttalksim.com website?

M@xim · Sep 28, 2013

Do you all get LTE or 4G on straight talk network>>>??

creepyncrawly · Sep 28, 2013

M@xim said:
Do you all get LTE or 4G on straight talk network>>>??

You can not get LTE without the hardware. The SGH-I777 and the SGH-S959G are not LTE capable.

M@xim · Sep 28, 2013

creepyncrawly said:
You can not get LTE without the hardware. The SGH-I777 and the SGH-S959G are not LTE capable.

I currently have I747 from att, and I'm unable to get LTE on straight talk network.
On stock rom I get 4g & customer rom HSPA+

SteveMurphy · Sep 28, 2013

M@xim said:
I currently have I747 from att, and I'm unable to get LTE on straight talk network.
On stock rom I get 4g & customer rom HSPA+

Probably because you need the new LTE sim card from ST, which only recently came out; that is if your hardware supports it, as creepy stated.

And please be aware that this is the i777 forum.

Sent from the i777

DeepSleep85 · Oct 8, 2013

Here are my settings for the SGH_S959G

Name: StraightTalk
APN: wap.tracfone
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS proxy: mms2.tracfone.com
MMS Port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
APN type: default,supl,mms

tdizzle404 · Oct 16, 2013

Has anyone had issues sending or receiving mms messages?

enigma2446 · Oct 23, 2013

tdizzle404 said:
Has anyone had issues sending or receiving mms messages?

I've had some issues with mms but nothing serious. Nothing a quick airplane mode toggle can't fix for me.

< Coming to you live from the planet One X >

yobosimn · Oct 31, 2013

MWTTRON said:
The Above Settings are for CDMA I suspect.

The OLD Settings BELOW work on my GSM SGH2 I777.

This APN works for GSM,

NAME straight talk
APN att.mvno
PROXY proxy.mvno.tracfone.com
PORT 80
MMSC http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS PROXY 66.209.11.33
MMS PORT 80

Hope this helps!

From what I've gathered, there are two different At&t apn settings for straight talk's byop sim card, either att.mvno or tfdata. I use to be on att.mvno for my apn, but when I changed to their lte sim card, my apn settings became tfdata.

I'm not sure cdma phones have programmable apn settings.

yobosimn · Oct 31, 2013

tdizzle404 said:
Has anyone had issues sending or receiving mms messages?

I have had problems sending mms on the i777 on non-stock based roms such as cm. I had better luck getting mms to go if I disconnected from wifi and waiting for the phone to establish a data connection before sending the mms. I never had much luck with toggling airplane mode on and off to get an mms to go. If it didn't go the first time, I'd just forward the mms I was trying to send to the same person that I was trying to originally send it to, normally the forwarded one went. I decided to forward it to them because it took less time than making a new mms message all over again. hope that helps.

enigma2446 · Oct 31, 2013

In the mms proxy field put
66.209.11.33 Instead or try 66.209.11.34
< Coming to you live from the planet One X >

jeffm0927 · Dec 9, 2013

No new sim for LTE

SteveMurphy said:
Probably because you need the new LTE sim card from ST, which only recently came out; that is if your hardware supports it, as creepy stated.

And please be aware that this is the i777 forum.

Sent from the i777

That is not true, On New LTE card. I have a older SIm card I purchased 6 months ago. I get LTE with that card and never had to buy the new "LTE" Sim.

trevor.bman · Dec 13, 2013

jeffm0927 said:
That is not true, On New LTE card. I have a older SIm card I purchased 6 months ago. I get LTE with that card and never had to buy the new "LTE" Sim.

would you share your apn settings for refrence

SteveMurphy · Dec 13, 2013

jeffm0927 said:
That is not true, On New LTE card. I have a older SIm card I purchased 6 months ago. I get LTE with that card and never had to buy the new "LTE" Sim.

You may get faster speeds, but you're not getting true LTE, because our device simply doesn't have the necessary hardware.

But I'm glad you're getting better speed, I agree with trevor, please share your setup!

Stackman1 · Feb 21, 2014

yobosimn said:
Just a heads up, if you're using Straight Talk's BYOP sim card and your data quit working, you may have been transitioned to new apn settings. I read about it here http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=2310215 in the Nexus 4 forums.

It seems users there lost all mobile data connectivity after their service renewed. The new apn settings seemed to have restored their data connectivity. I suggest making a second apn setting on your phone with the new settings I've posted below. The reason why I suggest a second apn is so you can easily switch between apns if you lose data connectivity on the new apn, I see it as an easy troubleshooting step down the road.

Here is the new apn

Name: Straight Talk

APN: tfdata

Port: 80

MMSC: http://mms-tf.net

MMS Proxy: mms3.tracfone.com

MMS Port: 80

The new APN settings can also be viewed on Straight Talk's website here:
http://straighttalksim.com/support-data.php#

I hope somebody finds this useful and hopefully doesn't cause confusion.

I am activating Straight Talk bringing my i777 S2 from ATT. They told me to use the same settings as you've listed above. How long did your activation take? I got them on the phone at 11am and it is now 8pm. I'm still waiting - Is that normal?

Thanks
Pete

yobosimn · Feb 21, 2014

Stackman1 said:
I am activating Straight Talk bringing my i777 S2 from ATT. They told me to use the same settings as you've listed above. How long did your activation take? I got them on the phone at 11am and it is now 8pm. I'm still waiting - Is that normal?

Thanks
Pete

Well it depends, are you porting your number or are you getting a new number from them? When I activated my straight talk sim card, I got a new number and was up in running in minutes, if not instantly.

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