topic Re: Disable Managed Roaming in XPERIA archive

Disable Managed Roaming

SteffenB — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 22:02:02 GMT

Phone: Xperia Z3+
Android 5.0
Area: Managed Roaming, not! data roaming, not international roaming
Problem: in an area with bad mobile network coverage, with network search on Manual, phone prompts me every 15sec to initiate network search.
This is extremely annoying!
Any remedy, any settings I can change?
I live close to a border, so turning on automatic network search is not an option for me.
Thank you!!

Re: Disable Managed Roaming

NeoBeum — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 22:12:23 GMT

Aircraft mode?

Re: Disable Managed Roaming

Uliwooly — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 22:17:38 GMT

@SteffenB

@NeoBeum might have the only option to turn off the radios on plane mode

Re: Disable Managed Roaming

SteffenB — Wed, 30 Mar 2016 22:58:41 GMT

Thank you for your suggestions - but flight mode or "airplane mode" would not help, as this would de-activate the Wifi connection too. And the Wifi (WLAN in Germany) is working just fine.

Re: Disable Managed Roaming

NeoBeum — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 16:52:03 GMT

@SteffenB wrote:
Thank you for your suggestions - but flight mode or "airplane mode" would not help, as this would de-activate the Wifi connection too. And the Wifi (WLAN in Germany) is working just fine.

Is there a setting that you could manually set to only work on that type... like GSM only or something? but set it to something older (I dunno... maybe GPRS or WAP if that's still an option on the phones these days) that doesn't exist, so it will never actually find it and never search for anything else... I'm not sure what networks run in Germany, I'm in Australia.

I used my X10mini as a walkie talkie by installing Whatsapp on it when my simcard was in it, registering the number to the x10m, then removing the sim card, and have it only use WIFI... maybe you could try something like that

Re: Disable Managed Roaming

Uliwooly — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:40:12 GMT

@NeoBeum

The moment you restart the phone by removing the SIM card > open whatsapp > it won't allow you to use it unless you insert a SIM card. If there's a way around it do share it.

Re: Disable Managed Roaming

NeoBeum — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 17:50:34 GMT

I have an old APK of it... but now that you mention it, I'm wondering if it's because the mini is rooted

edit: I'll have another look on the mini, it's in my cupboard, I only use it when my cousin was around

Re: Disable Managed Roaming

NeoBeum — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:17:08 GMT

@uliwooly wrote:
@NeoBeum
The moment you restart the phone by removing the SIM card > open whatsapp > it won't allow you to use it unless you insert a SIM card. If there's a way around it do share it.

I got curious so I booted up some of my old gear... and I can still log in to whatsapp without a sim. The x10mini is the rooted phone, the other is not, on standard rom ... at first both gave me the incorrect date error, but I was able to fix it on the samsung, the x10 mini wouldn't let me change anything yet, because I haven't signed in to a google account, as my main one has 2 factor, and I don't think that version of android will support the log in style. I just freshly installed Whatsapp on to the xCover(samsung). But after that initial error, and me forgetting to pull out one of my test SIM cards on it, it came up with that date error. Once I changed it again, to correct date, it was able to log me in and post a message to one of the group chats I have set up

I took the photo on the Z5C, which currently has the active sim card on it and whatsapp

I received the verification pin on the Z5C and just punched it into the XCover... turned the phone off, and on, and its working

Re: Disable Managed Roaming

NeoBeum — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 20:36:28 GMT

and just a test message

I also highlighted the icon that pops up when you dont have a sim card inserted on the samsung phones

With all of that still working the way I remember, you should be able to use it for video chat aswell... I remember I was video calling myself

Re: Disable Managed Roaming

Uliwooly — Thu, 31 Mar 2016 21:24:34 GMT

@NeoBeum

Cool, thanks, I'll test it out.

Re: Disable Managed Roaming

NeoBeum — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 20:48:56 GMT

@SteffenB wrote:
Thank you for your suggestions - but flight mode or "airplane mode" would not help, as this would de-activate the Wifi connection too. And the Wifi (WLAN in Germany) is working just fine.

I just tested on 6.0, and you can override Airplane Mode after you turn it on. It was a little bit different back in Froyo - (but I think this was for tethering with Airplane Mode...) or they made it that way back then.

Theres another work around for this too.

*#*#4363#*#*

Select "Phone Info" >> Turn Off Radio

I was going to write up a guide about it because I think alot of people get confused about it and not many people know that you can turn on Wifi and Bluetooth after you turn on Airplane Mode - which ends up disabling radio, but then you're free to use WiFi.

You end up with something like the original iPod. Wifi Only, no SIM.

I made a small video demo

https://vid.me/Up0D

Re: Disable Managed Roaming

BlackGuardian — Wed, 16 Nov 2016 15:39:31 GMT

@SteffenB wrote:
Thank you for your suggestions - but flight mode or "airplane mode" would not help, as this would de-activate the Wifi connection too. And the Wifi (WLAN in Germany) is working just fine.

Actually that will work fine. Turn on Airplane mode (which does turn of WIFI), then turn the WIFI back on. Many airlines now have WIFI on the plane so this feature needs to be there. After that you are out of contact with the cell network but have WIFI. the messages will stop. I had this exact problem and this solution worked.