Can't set my APN settings properly (Public Mobile, Canada)

[franknarf8]

Hey Sharad!

Thanks for the test build; I’ve just installed it, but it unfortunately doesn’t seem to work :S.

The “Network & Internet / Mobile network / Network” setting shows ‘Public Mobile’, but there are no entries in the ‘APNs’ settings page (Where there used to be Telus settings). That page is now blank and shows the following text following text written in “Access Point Name settings are not available for this user”. I’ve tried restarting the device a couple of times, logging in with my google account and playing around with a couple other settings, but I’m not able to make this work (or try out any custom APN settings).

Is there any further troubleshooting info I could give that would be useful to you?

Would it be possible for you to re-enable the manual editing of APNs? I found this reddit post about which commits introduced those changes in the android codebase.

Thanks

• Frank

[Sharad]

We entered the following settings:

<apn carrier=“Public Mobile”
mcc=“302”
mnc=“220”
mmsport=“80”
mmsproxy=“74.49.0.18”
mmsc=“http://aliasredirect.net/proxy/mb/mmsc”
apn=“sp.mb.com”
type=“default”
/>

The link you gave has slightly different settings. And this another link has slightly different.

Is it possible for you to call Public Mobile and ask them for the right Android settings? Or we can create another build with different settings?

[Sharad]

My colleague @robert has put together another test build for you. Will upload and share the the link tomorrow.

[franknarf8]

Hello Sharad,

I have another phone (Nexus 5X) which connects properly, so here are the snapshots of it’s APN Settings page. I hope it can help!

Take care

- Frank

(Looking forward to that build btw )

[Sharad]

Here you go (new build) . Let us know how it goes. Any screenshots will be helpful.

[Faith_Jones]

Hi! I just got my Teracube, and am also on public mobile. Also can’t access my data, which I think is the problem on this thread. I could also help if you need another tester, or would love to hear a solution.

[Sharad]

It’ll be great if you can try the same instructions and let us know.

@Sharad

• Download the new image from here.
• Unzip it to its img file.
• Backup your data (Check under Settings > System > Backup).
• Follow these flashing instructions to flash the image to your Teracube.

ps: I have updated the above instructions with the new image

[franknarf8]

Hello Sharad,

It still doesn’t work. Here are screenshots of my APN settings page.

I don’t know if it’s worth mentioning, but Public Mobile uses the infrastructure of Telus.

Is there anything else I can do? Some utility I could run?

Thanks!

[Sharad]

Is it possible for you to do a root and try out the settings? We added the suggested settings to the apns-conf.xml - so not sure why its not working.

One more thing - can you try a different carrier SIM in this new build. Just to make sure that our apns-conf is working at all or not.

[Faith_Jones]

Hi. I tried the updated version you suggested, and I can confirm that I also still can’t access data. I will to find another sim card carrier, but in the meantime is there some other information I could provide to help you?

[Sharad]

Hi @franknarf8 and @Faith_Jones - here is a new test build. Not much has changed - just a cleanup of the apns-conf file.

This is the only entry we have added:

<apn carrier=“Mobile Internet”
mcc=“302”
mnc=“220”
apn=“sp.mb.com”
type=“default,mms,agps,supl,fota,hipri”
mmsc=“http://aliasredirect.net/proxy/mb/mmsc”
mmsproxy=“74.49.0.18”
mmsport=“80”
mvno_type=“gid”
mvno_match_data=“4D4F”
/>

[Sharad]

@franknarf8

snapshots of it’s APN

I just realized that gid is uppercase in your screenshots. We had added it as a lowercase. Let me know if the new build works or not. Can create a new one with uppercase “GID”

[Faith_Jones]

I just tried the newest update, but no luck. Data is still not working.

[Sharad]

This is another attempt - Build #3.

Here is the apns file that is in there. apns-conf.xml (498.9 KB)

@franknarf8

I have another phone (Nexus 5X) which connects properly

@franknarf8 - is it possible for you to extract the apns-conf.xml file of this phone and share with us? Typical location is

/etc/apns-conf.xml … OR … /system/etc/apns-conf.xml

[Faith_Jones]

I tried the newest build, still no luck

[Sharad]

We need a working apns-conf file. @franknarf8 - could you get that file from your Nexus phone or ask on the forums?

[franknarf8]

Hello Sharad,

Sorry again for the delay; I lent my phone to my girlfriend while here Teracube can’t connect to the internet :S.

So, you will find the full apn.conf.xml I found in my Nexus 5X here : https://github.com/ni-fgenois/teracube-apn
(I can’t link xml files to this issue, only photos it seems, so you will find them in this git repo)

There seems to be 3 entries of possible importance in that file :

<apn carrier="Mobile Internet"
      mcc="302"
      mnc="220"
      apn="sp.mb.com"
      type="default,mms,supl"
      mmsc="http://aliasredirect.net/proxy/mb/mmsc"
      mmsproxy="74.49.0.18"
      mmsport="80"
      mvno_match_data="50"
      mvno_type="gid"
  />

  <apn carrier="Mobile Internet"
       mcc="302"
       mnc="220"
       apn="sp.mb.com"
       type="default,mms,agps,supl,fota,hipri"
       mmsc="http://aliasredirect.net/proxy/mb/mmsc"
       mmsproxy="74.49.0.18"
       mmsport="80"
       mvno_type="gid"
       mvno_match_data="4D4F"
  />

<apn carrier="PC mobile"
      mcc="302"
      mnc="221"
      apn="sp.mb.com"
      type="default,mms,supl"
      mmsc="http://aliasredirect.net/proxy/mb/mmsc"
      mmsproxy="74.49.0.18"
      mmsport="80"
      mvno_match_data="50"
      mvno_type="gid"
  />

Hope you find what we need in there!

Take care

- Frank

[franknarf8]

Hello @Sharad ,

Any updates on this issue?

Is there anything else I can do?

Thanks

- Frank

[Sharad]

We are testing how apns settings work - its taking a bit. Hang on - we should have something for you by next week.

[franknarf8]

Awesome Ok,

I know these things can take time, hang in there and have a nice weekend!

• Frank