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Jenny
Hi b0yce,
To get the correct MMS and Internet settings in place on the handset, please take a look at our internet settings page.
Just to clarify, the two APNs can be in place simultaneously without issue. Most services now use the Internet option, but some apps and services may still make use of the older WAP APN.
The My Vodafone app should run successfully with the settings in place, but it may not show your allowances until your allowances refresh with your regular billing cycle due to any pro-rata period.
Dave
Vodafone don't like people going down that route
On the Original galaxy S they openly did instructions on how to do this
Now they have left this off
But wap causes more problems then it should and it should be left just to handle MMS and Sms as it was originaly set up to do (Wireless Application Protoco)
You may also find you get a Better Data connection
Ok sorry i have not got back to you bee ill :smileyfrustrated:
Wow what alot to go through
1) Will the Vodafone App be able to pull-down my Account Settings, Remaining minutes, Data Usage etc... using the 2nd APN when it is selected? I have some niggling feeling that it needs to use Contract WAP, but that could be just me!
In a word Yes both end up at a Vodafone Server just the Internet bypasses the wap server
2) By my reckoning, the APN Type parameter is quite important and since they both contain default wouldn't this mean that only the actively selected APN be used for all types of Data usage/retrieval?
Yes and no if you have a green dot on the Internet it will go there first to gain a connection and use that as Default no if that gets no connection it will look at another so it pays to leave the wap one on.
Now a App can be set to look for a Apn as far as i no Vodafone Apps only Use a wap connection the phone does all the work
a APN is not the connection but uses the connection to get to a Server at Vodafones end
Basically I am wondering if we should have both APN's set-up and for the 'Contract WAP' to remove the default keyword from APN type so that Vodafone App (if it needs this APN), MMS messaging and anything else that requires it will work with this, and for everything else the Internet APN will be used i.e. for Internet traffic?
Yes you need both as SMS and MMS are channeled Via the wap and those apps are set up to look for a wap connection now the stock brouser will use what ever you pic eg green dot Now other brousers can be set up to use other conections
But it all ends up back at Vodafone or Via Vodafone
3) Which APN is considered better than the other, if we are to only use the one?
Well in a sence there both the same just differant servers both end up at Vodafone
Just that wap has more security
4) Is the data monitored differently between the 2 APNs or total for all data connectivity, if indeed the Samsung Galaxy S3 will switch between the 2 if they are individually configured correctly?
No that is done back at Vodafone Both Apn's end up at the same place
as i expland above it uses the one with the green dot unless a app is set up to use a differant connetion
I use the Internet to talk to my nas drive as Wap blocks this
Now by default Vodafones wap service Blocks this so people could not setup there emails :catsurprised:
now this effects there Buisness section but can effect Your own personal emails with your ISP
and no mater what settings are sent wap blocks this !!!!
Now to Q2 if i have not covered it !!
here is what happens it will try and use the first Apn First and treat that as Priority so if you put a Green dot in the Internet one it will try that first and use that as its primary but if that does not get conected it then looks for any other>
now if you then need to set up any others after the internet or need to use the internet one as a tunnel you have to be put after the internet one.
Now i would leave the wap one on as the internet can some times drop so the phone will then look for which ever one works
