topic Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN in Other Devices

Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:22:01 GMT

I can't connect to my mobile Internet on my nokia lumia 635, what are the apn settings? I hate having to phone up customer services.

Also if you could help me set up picture messaging that would be great xD

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

jonsie — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:25:31 GMT

Try texting ACTIVE to 2020, save the settings and reboot the phone.

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

MI5 — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:30:43 GMT

Manual settings here if required http://www.geeksquad.co.uk/articles/o2-apn-settings#windows

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

Bambino — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:33:08 GMT

Make sure you look at the charges for picture messaging. Be aware that they are not included in your monthly allowance.

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

Anonymous — Wed, 08 Oct 2014 10:45:21 GMT

Alternatives are e mail , what app and viber.

Much better than £0.40p per mms !

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:28:34 GMT

...stupid question (?) but does the Internet APN have any influence on whether Find My Phone will work properly? Am finding that the Find My Phone function on recently purchased Lumia is attrocious in terms of reliable functionality and am trying to check settings on device to see whether there is a reason for this.

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

MI5 — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:28:02 GMT

Not if you have location services enabled as it will use GPS.

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

jonsie — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:31:15 GMT

If you have Web connection when you switch off wifi then you have the correct apn and it will make no difference at all to locating your phone. As said, make sure location services are on.

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:38:26 GMT

...the location services is definitely ON. Comparing to my iPhone the Find my Phone service pales to the extent that it behaves as if for most of time it is not receiving GPS signal and passing data back to Microsoft. No reason for this - the Drive + function works beautifully for turn by turn navigation but the Find My phone service just fails 90% of the time (will be lucky if it will update location more than twice in a 10 mile car journey).
It SEEMS like it is only updating location when in Wifi area (eg the whole time it was abroad in Norway last week it only briefly confirmed location at Bergen airport despite having working network data connection elsewhere) It was able to pick up email and make calls but the Find My Phone service was unable to locate it ONCE on all the occasions it was tried.

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

MI5 — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:35:15 GMT

The phone will use wifi, gps and cell towers to provide accurate location data, assuming you have all 3 of them enabled and working.

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:39:44 GMT

Something definitely wrong in my opinion but do not know where to look beyond the settings have already checked.

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

jonsie — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:47:24 GMT

I would contact Microsoft and get the phone checked out. Please think about taking it to O2's repairers.

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

MI5 — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:59:56 GMT

But remember the phone will only report the location when the app requests it - It's not a constant stream of data or else your battery would only last 5 mins.
It may only be tracking say, once per hour.....

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

Anonymous — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:03:48 GMT

I thought this was a push request (as with iPhone) - ie I log into the Windows Live home page for the device and query location - I assume that only at that point the phone is prompted to supply location?

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

MI5 — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:08:40 GMT

It will attempt to supply a location then but it will also send data for "last known" if the phone is off at the time the request is made.

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

jonsie — Mon, 29 Jun 2015 11:10:14 GMT

@Anonymous wrote:
I thought this was a push request (as with iPhone) - ie I log into the Windows Live home page for the device and query location - I assume that only at that point the phone is prompted to supply location?

That's how I understood it to work. It will however track your location at regular intervals but android will give you a location of your phone within 50 feet when using find my phone.

Re: Nokia Lumia 635 Internet APN

Anonymous — Mon, 28 Sep 2015 19:38:24 GMT

http://www.geeksquad.co.uk/articles/o2-apn-settings#windows

Many thanx just used this on my 635 and my daughters 640, successfully ☺