HTC Desire Data Roaming

[TW]Fox · 11 Jun 2010 at 20:01

Hi guys,

Leaving the UK tommorrow, my HTC Desire is set not to allow Data Roaming.

Can I trust it or should I manually disable widgets, updating, etc?

osc89er · 11 Jun 2010 at 20:22

Disable mobile internet entirely?

roboffer · 11 Jun 2010 at 20:49

Not sure Fox, but I will be in a similar situation myself in a couple of weeks. Id be tempted to try it, and keep an eye on it through an app that monitors your usage and if it does use it, just turn off the mobile internet as suggested above.

jr1104 · 11 Jun 2010 at 22:55

Get APNDroid off the market. This will entirely disable the mobile internet, making sure no apps can use it in the background. Used it in Spain this week, and seems to have done the job.

[TW]Fox · 11 Jun 2010 at 23:03

Surely turning off 'Mobile Network' acheives the same thing?

osc89er · 11 Jun 2010 at 23:59

I think APNdroid changes the APN so the mobile can't communicate even when mobile internet is on. This might help so you can have mobile internet on for wifi but then it definitely won't communicate over 2g/3g.

Scottland · 12 Jun 2010 at 00:02

I was in the states and Canada at Christmas and my HTC Hero was fine with just setting it to disable roaming data. The network bars that normally have g/3g/h etc was being shown as 'r' so that should show you that its working.

Robbo · 12 Jun 2010 at 00:40

Just disable Mobile Network, its not really any hassle.

But you should be fine with Data Roaming off.

Epyon · 12 Jun 2010 at 01:13

[TW]Fox;16733371 said:
Hi guys,

Leaving the UK tommorrow, my HTC Desire is set not to allow Data Roaming.

Can I trust it or should I manually disable widgets, updating, etc?

Worked perfectly for me a few weeks ago, even when I lauched the browser to use GPRS it needed confirmation; to ensure.

fowler002 · 12 Jun 2010 at 01:29

osc89er said:
I think APNdroid changes the APN so the mobile can't communicate even when mobile internet is on. This might help so you can have mobile internet on for wifi but then it definitely won't communicate over 2g/3g.

surely that's what the wifi option is for

mobile network/internet is for the edge,3g,etc not wifi.

I'm off to america in 9days, going to take my o2 sim out and use a usa payg(do they have that sort of thing in america?).

Yas786 · 12 Jun 2010 at 03:06

fowler002 said:
I'm off to america in 9days, going to take my o2 sim out and use a usa payg(do they have that sort of thing in america?).

Yep they do...your stuck with AT&T or Tmobile i think.

londonbairn · 12 Jun 2010 at 09:34

Just turn mobile network off, wifi works fine independantly of it....

jr1104 · 12 Jun 2010 at 10:56

Yeah, turning off mobile network should be fine. I just used APNDroid to make absolutely sure, since I've seen people say that some apps can still background update somehow even if it's off. Don't know how much truth is in that, but I'd rather not come back home to a huge bill.

muon · 12 Jun 2010 at 11:03

[TW]Fox;16734416 said:
Surely turning off 'Mobile Network' acheives the same thing?

Yep. On my last 2 android phones, when I hit my monthly usage limit, doing this worked.

gumbald · 12 Jun 2010 at 12:19

Data roaming being off worked fine for me.