I couldn't restrain my curiosity any longer and bought a Telecom XT pre-pay SIM a couple of days ago, just to see if it would work in my Android-running HTC Magic smart phone.
The first attempt worked fine for the phone but there was no data. My bad. I didn't know about APNs at that point. On my old phone, they weren't called that and it came preconfigured, so I had provisionally assumed the SIM might know what it was supposed to use for data. But a valid presumption.
Last night I was reading the XDA-developer wiki instructions for hacking / getting root access to my phone, with a view to trying some of the alternate builds that are out there (Cyanogen, RA-ION, etc..) ...and it talked about setting the APNs so you can use the Internet.
"D'oh!" I heard myself say. To myself. About myself.
Tonight I googled the Telecom XT APNs, set them up on the Telecom XT SIM...and away I went. I'd used 7MB before I really even knew what was going on. Yay! Well.....sorta Yay....cause then I had to top up the SIM of the number would be dead. I'd eaten the starter credit.
I did do a speed test. The peak was 1.2Mbps down (700-ish average) and 130kbps up. Not bad. That's probably what ate my mini data quota. I dialled *333 and threw $20, plus added a cheap txt plan and a cheap ($6 / each 20MB) data plan. Just in case. My Plan B.
Gidday I just got a HTC Magic and I wanted to set it up on Telecoms XT network. I'm a bit of a noob at this sorta thing so could you tell me what ya had to do to get it working properly on XT?
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