T-Mobile (mobilephonesdirect) use Orange Signal?

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My girlfriend has just bought a HTC Desire from T-Mobile via ‘mobilephonesdirect’. Does anyone know how she sets the phone up to use the Orange signal if the T-mobile one is out of range? I know if you buy a phone direct from T-mobile you simply text ‘YES’ to ‘2121’ but this doesn’t seem to work with her mobile?

Cheers
 
Thanks mame, the web indicates the below:

Your phone number: 07538******

Your account is not active
Thanks for applying but we can see from your details that your T-Mobile account is currently not active, so unfortunately you can't sign up at the moment.

You'll need to give us a call on 150 from your T-Mobile phone to remove the suspension, then you can come back and try again.

I guess she'll need to give T-mobile a ring (Must be due to her buying via a third party.)
 
I use it and it works well.

Bought my Desire from MPD about 5 months ago.
I signed up through the T-M website about 3-4 weeks ago now, and has been fine.
Only issue is that sometimes when I am on the train and constantly switching between the 2 networks is my internet seems to get a lot of error 504's

And it does kill the battery a bit quicker now, but that is to be expected as its constantly scanning for other available networks.
 
Been brilliant for me, never got any phone signal from Orange in my current place since I moved, now I get 3g via t-mobile :)

The signup was really simple?! Took me a couple of minutes, and I was online using T-mobile.
 
deadite66 said:
sounds like a pita to me, i'll wait until the bugs are worked out.

https://kareena.orange.co.uk/share/legals.jsp
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disclaimer: I work for orange.
I have been using it since internal beta testing and while the legal stuff is scary, it's actually technically pretty good. Beats having zero signal (this will obviously depend on how strong your signal is at your usual locations like work/home). I have it on a generic samsung galaxy S, orange desire, a san fran and it doesn't really affect the phone. iphones deal with it fine too, infact the phones which most issues have appeared on tend to be the older obscure ones (4 year old blackberries etc...). The roaming thing is because to the phone it looks like you're doing dataroaming. This is to stop us from having to program new rom's for every phone we ever made.

I think it's reversible for consumers, I know I can turn it off by calling my helpdesk internally at orange. There's not really any downsides.

Been brilliant for me, never got any phone signal from Orange in my current place since I moved, now I get 3g via t-mobile

The signup was really simple?! Took me a couple of minutes, and I was online using T-mobile.
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Assuming you have an orange contract, you can't get 3G on your roaming network as it's not turned on for consumers yet. You can only have 2G on the roaming network.

They're now one company so why the frig they're making people sign up to do this...I don't know.
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It's only 2G, we want everyone to have 3G too in a bit ;) Think of it as how google does betas. Really, everyone's invited but the beta period is a bit longer while we work out the small kinks.
 
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Myshra said:
disclaimer: I work for orange.
I have been using it since internal beta testing and while the legal stuff is scary, it's actually technically pretty good. Beats having zero signal (this will obviously depend on how strong your signal is at your usual locations like work/home). I have it on a generic samsung galaxy S
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So have you bothered enabling Data Roaming on your Galaxy S or does it do it automatically?

Just got my Galaxy S :)
 
I hear, although have no proof, T-mobile customers can use the orange EDGE network though which is nice. EDGE is technically designated 3G but is really just 2G+ x-treeeeme turbo mode (which explains why it's probably true), I think that's the only thing I missed. oops forgot to say the latest iPhone update should have fixed the "roaming is going to cost you blah blah" messages when switching network. Also checked with the helpdesk - yes, anyone can get the service removed so if it doesn't work out for you - no problem :)

The 1 millionth person just got converted to dual network mode. go us.

So have you bothered enabling Data Roaming on your Galaxy S or does it do it automatically?

Just got my Galaxy S
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I enabled it before I went on t-mobile but I don't think it does it automatically on the stock roms. Unless you go abroad you're in zero danger of being charged, if you join upto the share feel free to do it.
 
Having problems! the T-mobile website still says that the number is not eligible as its not active, T-mobile (via 150) have said the account is set up, I’ve just tried to register for ‘my T-mobile’ and that won’t accept the T-mobile number? I’ll have to phone support again and try to explain what’s going on, it’s good to read that someone has got this working even though the phone was purchased via a third party.

Cheers
 
it did say:
You'll need to give us a call on 150 from your T-Mobile phone to remove the suspension, then you can come back and try again.
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So I doubt it's going to go away with the wind sorry. Telcos often do this to 3rd parties to stop scams because there are a truckload possible with 3rd parties.
 
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