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    Before a recent trip to western China I got my Captivate unlocked, and
    tested it with a cheap T-Mobile SIM card.

    All the hotels I stayed in had plug-in internet but only two had (very
    slow) WiFi and in one of those the signal was only usable while standing
    in the middle of a long corridor. So in Kashgar I bought a cheap China
    Mobile SIM card. It worked for phone calls but not for data. I received
    a flurry of SMS messages, all in Chinese, some of which looked like setup
    info. But my translator couldn't translate cellphone setup lingo and
    despite multiple attempts, I never did get data to work. After about a
    week regular telephone didn't work either.

    A couple of tries with the AT&T SIM card at using Google Earth to see
    where I was generated a "you are using excessive data message" and the
    nice fellow at customer services (free call) said it was a couple hundred
    dollars. Happily, he was able to switch that month, retroactively, to a
    $25/50MB plan, thus saving a bundle.

    In the departure area when leaving via Beijing airport I saw vending
    machines for SIM cards and a desk where they had SIM cards - and perhaps
    knowledgeable people who could get them running. As I said, that was
    in the departure area when returning to the US.

    "It's cloudless in western China"



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    Dennis Ferguson
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    Re: Data roaming experience in western China

    On 2011-11-13, [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
    > Before a recent trip to western China I got my Captivate unlocked, and
    > tested it with a cheap T-Mobile SIM card.
    >
    > All the hotels I stayed in had plug-in internet but only two had (very
    > slow) WiFi and in one of those the signal was only usable while standing
    > in the middle of a long corridor. So in Kashgar I bought a cheap China
    > Mobile SIM card. It worked for phone calls but not for data. I received
    > a flurry of SMS messages, all in Chinese, some of which looked like setup
    > info. But my translator couldn't translate cellphone setup lingo and
    > despite multiple attempts, I never did get data to work. After about a
    > week regular telephone didn't work either.


    If I'm not trying to travel light I often carry a small WiFi router (mine
    is an Apple Airport Express, but I wouldn't recommend this because the
    configuration process is so wretched and requires a laptop) to deal with
    wired in-room Internet service.

    To use data with a SIM card you've purchased you can generally get by if
    you can configure the APN information (which I assume some of the magic
    text messages might have been trying to configure for you, but those
    often don't work when you are using a foreign phone). This consists of a
    name, and sometimes a username and password. Google finds lots of lists
    of these for particular carriers, e.g. this one:

    http://www.flexispy.com/Mobile%20APN...use%20GPRS.htm

    Once you know this you just need to know which configuration menu item in
    the phone lets you type it in, and use that. Unfortunately, on AT&T phones
    finding the right menu item is sometimes a problem since AT&T-specific
    firmware sometimes makes the configuration menu disappear when an AT&T SIM
    card is in the phone, but if they haven't neutered the phone to the point
    of uselessness it should reappear with the T-Mobile SIM, or some foreign
    card, inserted. Once you know how to enter the manual configuration you
    are usually good to go.

    In China, China Unicom is usually a better choice if they provide service
    where you are since their 3G service is standard, while China Mobile's
    is a made-in-China thing which won't be compatible with your phone.

    Dennis Ferguson



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    Morena50
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