Hey everyone,
I had some difficulties getting the APN working correctly for my network. At one point I had it working, but then it stopped working (maybe after inserting an SD card?). One of the things I wished existed when troubleshooting was a resource where users shared the network and APN settings that enabled full functionality for their device.
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Note that this structure matches my settings, so you likely need to edit the structure for yours.
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Format
## Physical Device
- Model: **{value}**
- Carrier and Network: **{value}**
- Sim type: **{value (physical or eSIM)}**
- OS and version: **{value}**
- User Region: **{value (roughly where you are located, if comfortable sharing)}**
## APN
- Name: **{value}**
- APN: **{value}**
- MMSC: **{value}**
- MMS Proxy: **{value}**
- MMS Port: **{value}**
- MCC: **{value}**
- MNC: **{value}**
- APN Type: **{value}**
- APN Protocol: **{value}**
- MVNO type: **{value}**
- MVNO value: **{value}**
Note: APNs are case-sensitive, so please add the above information as mentioned.
## Other Settings
- *SMS App* > *Settings* (top right) > *SIM 2 - AT&T* >
- Group Messaging > **value**
- Download MMS content > **{value (\[on\] or \[off\])}**
- *Main Settings* > *Network and Internet*
- *Mobile Network* > *{[Your SIM card]}* > *Advanced*
- Mobile data > **{value (\[on\] or \[off\])}**
- VoLTE > **{value (\[on\] or \[off\])}**
- Preferred network type > **{value}**
- Wi-Fi Calling > **{value (\[on\] or \[off\])}**
- Calling preference > **{value}** (just a matter of preference, I think)
- Automatically select network > **{value (\[on\] or \[off\])}**
- Access Point Names > **\[see APN settings above\]**
- *SIM Cards* > *{Your SIM Card}*
- eSIM enabled > **{value (\[on\] or \[off\])}**
## Other notes
{Anything else you had to do to get it working}
FAQ
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Why isn’t group messaging / text photos working?
It may be that you have mobile data disabled, or have selected “Separate SMS chats” in the SMS App settings.See this quote from @urszula
"While simple one-to-one calls and SMS texts will work with basic call/text plan & no internet data plan is needed.Usually, group messaging on cell phones uses MMS, not plain SMS. MMS often requires cellular data to be enabled, even when you are only sending text in a group chat. It may not use your “internet browsing” data allowance in the normal sense, but the phone still needs carrier data/APN access to send and receive MMS.
Picture messages also need data (or WiFi) as well as RCS, iMessage, WhatsApp, Signal."