Comments on: T-Mobile G1 Still Uses The Internet – Even When You Tell It Not To

By: Tim Jacobsen

Tim Jacobsen — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:03:04 +0000

I have a simple solution for when you travel,

Find your APN settings and note them down, then change them to bogus info and your phone won’t be able to connect to the internet, I have done this on my Nexus One and confirmed it works.

You can test it in your home country first (also disable wifi while you are testing otherwise you may get tricked!). I haven’t traveled yet so can’t confirm it would work when overseas, I imagine the phone may request from the provider what the APN settings are automatically as I didn’t set them up they were just there on a brand new phone, if so you will have to change it when you get there…

All I did was put an ‘x’ in front of the APN type field then tried to send email, no go

By: Yoseph

Yoseph — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:50:31 +0000

I have a T-mobile G1 and I tried hard to get it connected to internet to the ethiopian Telecommunication but failed. I followed all the procedures but still the status indicates diconnected. Any help???

By: Allen Carson

Allen Carson — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:22:01 +0000

Bumped this to MyLinkVault (not sure what it is? well A free online bookmark manager. Other bookmark managers can be so clumsy to use

By: Vinny

Vinny — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:48:50 +0000

The Data Plan is only good if you stay in the country. when you are in another country then you’re in trouble.

Anyway this does not fix the issues of data roaming overseas. I think T Mobile and Android folks should fix this. Let the user have control over data roaming and let them CHOOSE if they want data roaming enabled or not.

You cannot sell a phone that is made to be used overseas and then have the data connection ‘left’ on even when the user switched off data connection.

Effectively;
1) if you want to use the phone overseas without data connection then you CAN NOT… unless you want to pay costly overseas data roaming charges.
2) leave your phone switched off when overseas.

This is not good to force users into a corner and make money out of this situation. The phone is not fit for its purpose(when using the phone overseas). Trades Description Act (in the UK) comes to mind.

By: jo

jo — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 18:21:40 +0000

Do your research and GET A DATA PLAN! T-mobile uk did me a data plan with flext35 for £35 a month

By: Nico

Nico — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:37:01 +0000

I bougth a G1, unlocked it that I can use it when I’m back in Switzerland (heading home in 3 weeks). I have it now 2 days and I’ve been charged over 40$ until now. I didn’t use the internet, mail, market at all yet… I think I have to turn it off until I return.

By: partyandbs

partyandbs — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:46:44 +0000

There needs to be some way to fix this because when you change the APN with APNDroid then you cant send and receive MMS. I am on ATT with no data plan

By: Artimos

Artimos — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 05:33:22 +0000

Thank you Mateusz..i think you give the answer

By: Mateusz

Mateusz — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 06:55:23 +0000

Try APNDroid from Market. You don’t have to remove APN app changes it to invalid (to avoid data connection) and automaticly restore it when you want use APN.

By: zhangjunyi

zhangjunyi — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 15:39:28 +0000

I met same problem on G1.

I once pressed the YouTube application, and then quickly quit. continue do some other simple operations of menu, and put the phone there.

After less then one day, I found the phone is out of power, and found the G1 have spent me 100MB data streams. It’s sucks. I even don’t know where it gone.