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Help ICS - Roaming indication on home network

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richhenn

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Hi everyone,

Recently upgraded my Galaxy S2 to ICS using a guide at cnet.co.uk.

All appears to work fine apart from one thing - sat at home, my signal indicator shows that I am roaming and a warning notification reports "You have lost data connectivity because you left your home network with data roaming turned off". To clarify, I'm at home, a Three network customer and never saw the roaming indicator at anytime before in the UK. I also have data roaming turned off for the usual obvious reasons.

Has anyone encountered this and does anyone have any ideas how I can rememdy this situation?

Regards,
Rich
 
I have this to. This only occurs when you're not on a stock ROM. Stock ICS works fine that I downloaded with checkfus.

The only thing I can see is that it's when I loose network connectivity altogether or when I drop down to a 2G network signal.

I guess ICS interprets this a roaming on another network weirdly .....
 
May have got to the bottom of it

there's a file in /System/etc in ICS called spn-conf.xml. This file is used from what I can see to tell the phone when it's roaming or not (amongst other things)

there's a line in the non stock roms with :

<spnOverride numeric="23210" fake_home_on="23201"/> <!-- H3G Network -->

I'm going to test this at home tonight and see what happens.
 
richhenn said:
Hi everyone,

Recently upgraded my Galaxy S2 to ICS using a guide at cnet.co.uk.

All appears to work fine apart from one thing - sat at home, my signal indicator shows that I am roaming and a warning notification reports "You have lost data connectivity because you left your home network with data roaming turned off". To clarify, I'm at home, a Three network customer and never saw the roaming indicator at anytime before in the UK. I also have data roaming turned off for the usual obvious reasons.

Has anyone encountered this and does anyone have any ideas how I can rememdy this situation?

Regards,
Rich
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Welcome to the forum richhenn and thanks for joining.

Maybe the ics firmware you flashed made your phone think it was on a different network. Maybe something to do with the csc but not sure as its been a long week and my mind can't think too technically.

I would suggest flashing the official Three UK ics (lpq) from here and see if it sorts the problem.
[ROMS]Official i9100 carrier branded firmware download for Odin Flash - xda-developers
 
Shotgun84 said:
Welcome to the forum richhenn and thanks for joining.

Maybe the ics firmware you flashed made your phone think it was on a different network. Maybe something to do with the csc but not sure as its been a long week and my mind can't think too technically.

I would suggest flashing the official Three UK ics (lpq) from here and see if it sorts the problem.
[ROMS]Official i9100 carrier branded firmware download for Odin Flash - xda-developers
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The mind boggles why this happens, i've tried mucking about with copying bits and bobs from the stock ICS over to the modded ICS ROMS /tna

Unfortunately it would appear that i'm stuck with stock or I move house and get a better mobile reception indoors :P
 
Hello everyone,

Thanks for the input to this one - very much appreciated.

Well, an update. From what I can see, the standard Samsung ICS firmware will cause the data roaming warning, however on installing the new 3 ICS firmware it causes the warning to disappear. I can only summarise that 3 have coded something different to take account of their network setup.

I think I'll stick with the 3 firmware for now. I've worked out how to remove their apps from appearing on the screen so I'll stick with it until I can solve this one :)

Thanks again,
RIch
 
I have a similar problem. I have and Unbranded S2 and have recently updated to ICS when the firmware was released on the 17th April.
I am also on the 3 network.

I have had the roaming signal before when I had gingerbread 2.3.4, but only when I was out walking (I live near the Lake District) so thought this was natural with regards signal.

However after updating to ICS, I still get the Roaming, but now I don't get a data connection, (before on 2.3.4 I had roaming but still had data connected with G (GPRS) or E (EDGE)).

Now I have nothing, even though I have, Use Packet Data and Data roaming both ticked.
 
Mutant04 said:
I have a similar problem. I have and Unbranded S2 and have recently updated to ICS when the firmware was released on the 17th April.
I am also on the 3 network.

I have had the roaming signal before when I had gingerbread 2.3.4, but only when I was out walking (I live near the Lake District) so thought this was natural with regards signal.

However after updating to ICS, I still get the Roaming, but now I don't get a data connection, (before on 2.3.4 I had roaming but still had data connected with G (GPRS) or E (EDGE)).

Now I have nothing, even though I have, Use Packet Data and Data roaming both ticked.
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i have an almost identical problem and live in the country although I can get a data connection albeit not great. I am on 3 and recently upgraded. I get the data disconnection due to roaming warning. However, was in a city centre location all weekend and didn't get it. I think signal strength might be more critical with ICS in dodgy signal areas.
 
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