Re: Firefox OS and ZTE phone
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:54:05PM +1100, Petros wrote:
I bought a ZTE phone with Firefox OS on it (from eBay for ca. $90, still on the way to me),
mostly out of curiosity.
The start with the ZTE Open is a disaster.. I am on a Telstra account. The phone finds "Telstra available" if I search for "3G only" networks. However, it only connects to "Telstra 2G EDGE" which does not give me an Internet connection at all - nothing loads in the browser, it all times out. This makes the phone useless as a smartphone.. Any ways to fix it? Thank you Peter
On Mon, 2013-12-02 at 14:33 +1100, Petros wrote:
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 02:54:05PM +1100, Petros wrote:
I bought a ZTE phone with Firefox OS on it (from eBay for ca. $90, still on the way to me),
mostly out of curiosity.
The start with the ZTE Open is a disaster..
I am on a Telstra account. The phone finds "Telstra available" if I search for "3G only" networks.
However, it only connects to "Telstra 2G EDGE" which does not give me an Internet connection at all - nothing loads in the browser, it all times out.
This makes the phone useless as a smartphone.. Any ways to fix it?
Thank you Peter
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You might need to check your APN settings. Andrew Greig
On 2 December 2013 22:33, Andrew Greig <pushin.linux@gmail.com> wrote:
You might need to check your APN settings.
I would second this. It is likely that your Firefox OS doesn't have the APN settings required for your carrier built in, so they may need to be configured manually. Can happen especially for grey imported phones, they sometimes need to be manually configured for Australian carriers. -- Brian May <brian@microcomaustralia.com.au>
On 2/12/2013 2:33 PM, Petros wrote:
However, it only connects to "Telstra 2G EDGE" which does not give me an Internet connection at all - nothing loads in the browser, it all times out.
This makes the phone useless as a smartphone.. Any ways to fix it?
You need to know the /radio/ capabilities *before* you buy a phone.... ;-) What is the actual phone model? Also, even if the phone itself supports the right radio(s) ... then there might be a driver issue when using a different OS than which the phone was meant to have -- is Firefox OS the /right/ OS for the phone or an after market mod? Cheers. A.
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