Huawei G300 £65 from Tesco

sillygoose

rwalton159 wrote: »

Thanks sillygoose.

No problem, I thought you had installed a cyanogenmod version already? having some issues?

Roger1

I'm having difficulty staying connected with my Orange SIM. My G300 is Tesco/Vodafone unlocked via the Hong Kong contact.

No problem at home, where the wifi works off my broadband connection. When outside the house, I lose the phone connection. I thought at first I was in a poor signal area but it happens every time and I have to try to reconnect afresh.

When all else fails, read the instructions! Checking the manual, para 7.1.1 says:

Checking the Network Connection
1. Touch > Settings.
2. Touch Wireless & networks > Mobile networks > Network Settings.
3. Touch Network operators or Access Point Names to check the network
connection.
Your mobile phone will automatically read the access point settings from the
SIM/UIM card (if any). For this reason, do not change the access point
parameters; otherwise, you might not be able to access network resources.

OK, I get to the APN page which appears as a blank screen, i.e. no settings shown.

Help! How do I enter the Orange APN settings? (Normally I reconnect via Network operators / Available Networks.)

Thanks.

sillygoose

Roger1 wrote: »

I'm having difficulty staying connected with my Orange SIM. My G300 is Tesco/Vodafone unlocked via the Hong Kong contact.

No problem at home, where the wifi works off my broadband connection. When outside the house, I lose the phone connection. I thought at first I was in a poor signal area but it happens every time and I have to try to reconnect afresh.

When all else fails, read the instructions! Checking the manual, para 7.1.1 says:OK, I get to the APN page which appears as a blank screen, i.e. no settings shown.

Help! How do I enter the Orange APN settings? (Normally I reconnect via Network operators / Available Networks.)

Thanks.

are we talking data or telephone calling? if data see below.. if calls not.

This sounds like the 'may incur charges' notification issue. Try this test - at home with the phone on wifi, screen on go a walk until your out of range of your wifi. A message may pop up saying something like 'connecting to mobile data may incur charges do you want to connect? yes\no) If you don't answer yes it will not connect to mobile data. You have to go into setting and do it manually again.

This is an (incredibly annoying!) "feature" introduced in Android ICS by those bright sparks at Google.

If this is your issue, two ways round it. if your phone is rooted a five minute file edit disables it nicely. If not you can use a connection manager app to switch between mobile data and wifi for you in the background.

mike_the_bike_2

sillygoose wrote: »

I am using B940, an 'official' version from the Velcom operator in Belarus. Reason being its virtually pure, unbranded ICS. It doesn't have the wifi or volume bugs and no one has messed with it or tried to tune it up. Generally it has been stable over long periods with no crashes or slow downs.

I am quite glad now, I just bought a spare phone for my wife, a San Francisco II that had already been flashed with the popular Fish&Chips ROM. Its still taken quite a while to fix the known bugs and undo some of the creators customisation not to my liking.

My phone has been rooted but the bootloader left alone didn't bother with CWM Recovery either.

It does have the spell check bug, easily fixed if the phone is rooted by copying a couple of files over. Doesn't even have the huawei weather widget, but thats easily found and put back if wished.

Hi after using the B940 and spell check update for around 4 months on my G300 with no problems just now have a problem

The spell checker/dictionary has disappeared altogether when I text.. I've looked to see if there is a way i've accidentally switched off the dictionary but couldn't see anywhere I might have done it..Any ideas at all?? Many thanks

sillygoose

mike_the_bike wrote: »

Hi after using the B940 and spell check update for around 4 months on my G300 with no problems just now have a problem

The spell checker/dictionary has disappeared altogether when I text.. I've looked to see if there is a way i've accidentally switched off the dictionary but couldn't see anywhere I might have done it..Any ideas at all?? Many thanks

Hmm maybe just the spellcheck app locked up. Make sure fastboot is off in settings (fastboot stores the current state of the phone so it restarts as good, or bad as when it shutdown). Power off. Power up and leave the phone a good couple of minutes untouched to give everything time to start up nicely.

Check settings? ... Settings - Language&Input -
Spelling correction ticked.
click on the menu button to the right of it - Android correction, click on the icon to the right - Language - select use system language.

Exit out..
Settings Language, check its set, mine is set to English (United Kingdom)

Roger1

Thanks, sillygoose.

sillygoose wrote: »

are we talking data or telephone calling? if data see below.. if calls not.

Data certainly, possibly calls too. (I must try to call again.)

This sounds like the 'may incur charges' notification issue. Try this test - at home with the phone on wifi, screen on go a walk until your out of range of your wifi. A message may pop up saying something like ...

After about 20 metres outside, I got something like 'connection lost' and then 'page not available'. (It was a browser page showing traffic news.)

Forgive the newbie question, but are the file edit and connection manager app solutions simple? I think my G300 is rooted. I did an update using an earlier link in this thread (sorry, not sure which one but it was probably via huawei.com). I still get the Vodafone logo when switching on.

Thanks very much for your advice.

mike_the_bike_2

Cheers. Took fast boot off but did not resolve. What I did find out however that the spell check settings had been disabled and have reset them and dictionary now working..First time I've had a problem...great phone!

sillygoose wrote: »

Hmm maybe just the spellcheck app locked up. Make sure fastboot is off in settings (fastboot stores the current state of the phone so it restarts as good, or bad as when it shutdown). Power off. Power up and leave the phone a good couple of minutes untouched to give everything time to start up nicely.

Check settings? ... Settings - Language&Input -
Spelling correction ticked.
click on the menu button to the right of it - Android correction, click on the icon to the right - Language - select use system language.

Exit out..
Settings Language, check its set, mine is set to English (United Kingdom)

sillygoose

Roger1 wrote: »

Thanks, sillygoose.Data certainly, possibly calls too. (I must try to call again.)After about 20 metres outside, I got something like 'connection lost' and then 'page not available'. (It was a browser page showing traffic news.)

Forgive the newbie question, but are the file edit and connection manager app solutions simple? I think my G300 is rooted. I did an update using an earlier link in this thread (sorry, not sure which one but it was probably via huawei.com). I still get the Vodafone logo when switching on.

Thanks very much for your advice.

OK after you went out range of your wifi your phone would switch to using mobile data but there would be a break before it realises it needs to and it logs into the phone network, this is normal and could be a little while. So what happened to your website is to be expected.

If after say a minute the mobile data icon didn't show a connection and you could then click reload your web page and it came back that is the 1st question... is data switched to come on automatically

Under settings - wireless&networks - more - mobile networks - data enabled is ticked?
Then..
If you switch wifi off in settings you should then get a symbol or little letter appear above the signal bars in the top bar indicates a mobile data connection present.

JethroUK

zagfles wrote: »

£85 on the Vodafone site...

Bella_b wrote: »

You can get the G300 on Amazon now, £100 and you can also get the G330 for under £200 from sellers I think shipped from Germany.

Still £65 ish via very.co.uk after discounts as per my first post

JethroUK

my_definition wrote: »

I have this phone and im sure someone mentioned a while ago about how to switch of the message you get when going from wifi to internet. I cant remember the exact wording of it but its something along the lines of enableing inernet will lead to traffic? Ive done a search and read through a lot of pages but cant find it. Anyone help? Thanks

You can't switch the warning off although a later/hacked version of ICS have disabled it, along with working dictionary

Think ill give it a try if only I could remember which version it Was