http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk A web gateway with the finest UK car related newsgroups. en Sat, 25 May 2013 16:09:52 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/images/002/misc/rss.jpg http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49099-pac-expiry-new-post.html Sun, 19 May 2013 09:53:32 GMT Hi guys looking for clarification on porting. My 12 months minimum term with Orange finishes on the 18th June. I have requested my PAC today as I want to take the number to Asda mobile. The PAC expires on the 17th June. Can I phone the PAC through to Asda on the 17th, which should result in Hi guys

looking for clarification on porting.

My 12 months minimum term with Orange finishes on the 18th June.

I have requested my PAC today as I want to take the number to Asda
mobile. The PAC expires on the 17th June.

Can I phone the PAC through to Asda on the 17th, which should result in
the port happening on the 18th, or is this not possible as the PAC
expires on the 17th?

I did read somewhere that the number transfer can happen up to the 32nd
day, which seems to suggest that the PAC can be used on the expiry date.

I guess I could phone the PAC through on Friday 14th which would result
in the number porting on Monday 17th?

Some clarification or confirmation would be much appreciated.

Thanks
]]> UK Mobile Phones BC http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49099-pac-expiry.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49098-wierd-voice-mail-problem-voice-new-post.html Sat, 18 May 2013 18:02:43 GMT We have two phones with Virgin pay-as-you-go on Direct Debit SIMs in
them. The SIMs have been moved between phones a few times as we've
changed and upgraded.

We have a problem now where, when you call one of the numbers and the
call isn't answered, you get through to the voicemail of the *other*
number. Even more confusing is what happens when you call one phone
from the other, it tries to go to voicemail on the *called* phone but
since that's the voicemail of the calling phone you end up listening to
the voicemail rather than being able to send one.

Can anyone suggest how to unscramble this, Virgin's help was pretty
useless.

We can't change the SIMs around as we want to retain our own numbers.

It's as if the voicemail system is locked to the phone rather than the
SIM.

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Chris Green
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]]> UK Mobile Phones cl@isbd.net http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49098-wierd-voice-mail-problem-voice.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49097-emergency-only-mobile-new-post.html Sat, 18 May 2013 13:42:46 GMT
A few years ago I bought a £15 mobile in Comet to keep in the car for
emergencies.

I bring it in and charge it up and test it occasionally and a couple of
times it has failed to register the SIM (it's a Nokia phone on the Virgin
network). I called Virgin and they performed some magic to re-connect it.

It's now done it again.

Before I try and get it re-connected is there any mobile or service which
is suitable for this type of use? It is only any good if I can use it
after it's been sitting in the car for a year or two (assuming I keep it
charged). It's utterly useless if I am stuck somewhere and it decides it
can't register the SIM.

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Jeff Gaines Wiltshire UK
It may be that your sole purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others.
]]> UK Mobile Phones Jeff Gaines http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49097-emergency-only-mobile.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49096-ip-address-gprs-new-post.html Sat, 18 May 2013 07:30:40 GMT Is there a way of finding a PAYG Vodafone sim's ip address without
having the sim in hand?

We have one in a remote piece of kit which I would like to download
data from other than going there and connecting a notebook to it.

AJH
]]> UK Mobile Phones news@sylva.icuklive.co.uk http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49096-ip-address-gprs.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49095-recommendations-zip-app-new-post.html Fri, 17 May 2013 10:15:30 GMT Hi,
I'm looking for a good zip app for the htc one mobile
Any recommendations
Thank you
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Nitram
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]]> UK Mobile Phones http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49095-recommendations-zip-app.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49093-why-did-prophet-muhammad-marry-new-post.html Wed, 15 May 2013 15:51:34 GMT WHY DID PROPHET MUHAMMAD MARRY AISHA THE YOUNG GIRL? This is an important book talks about a common issue misunderstood but misused by lots of thinkers and orientalists. It is “Why did Prophet Muhammad marry Aisha the young girl?” The author shows the reason behind their discussion. They want to distort the picture of Prophet Muhammad not criticize the marriage of young girl. Also if this... WHY DID PROPHET MUHAMMAD MARRY AISHA THE YOUNG GIRL?

This is an important book talks about a common issue misunderstood but
misused by lots of thinkers and orientalists. It is “Why did Prophet
Muhammad marry Aisha the young girl?” The author shows the reason
behind their discussion. They want to distort the picture of Prophet
Muhammad not criticize the marriage of young girl. Also if this kind
of marriage was strange, why did not the disbelievers of Quraish use
it as a pretext against Muhammad?! The author discusses other topics
such as: Europe also allows marrying young girls, the age of consent
in most countries worldwide.

http://www.islamhouse.com/330161/en/..._Young_Gir l?

thank you
]]> UK Mobile Phones BV BV http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49093-why-did-prophet-muhammad-marry.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49092-there-any-major-downside-ovivo-new-post.html Tue, 14 May 2013 15:33:05 GMT I have one Ovivo SIM running on their "buy it for £15 and then pay
nothing more" deal and don't see any problems. I'm thinking of getting
one for my wife's phone too, similar fairly low usage will fit in the
free allowances most months with very occasional extra usage.

Am I missing something obvious or is this really by far the best deal
for a fairly low usage mobile phone? It's certainly a good deal to
replace our Virgin "pay as you go on DD" which until now had the
advantage of needing no topping up to keep alive and costs nothing for
no calls (important for me in particular, my bill is regularly 0.00).

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Chris Green
]]> UK Mobile Phones cl@isbd.net http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49092-there-any-major-downside-ovivo.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49091-roaming-cheaper-than-within-uk-new-post.html Mon, 13 May 2013 18:13:34 GMT We have two Virgin "Pay as you go on DD" phones, we had a query about a
call recently and I was studying out recent calls carefully.

I suddenly realised that roaming calls from France back to the UK were
*cheaper* than calling the same numbers in the UK!

Calls to landlines etc. within the UK cost 40p/minute, calls from France
to the UK cost 30p/minute.

We use the phones very little so they're still a reasonably good deal
for us, especially with the relatively cheap roaming as that's one of
our major uses for them!

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Chris Green
]]> UK Mobile Phones cl@isbd.net http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49091-roaming-cheaper-than-within-uk.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49090-sim-visitor-uk-new-post.html Mon, 13 May 2013 09:22:27 GMT Some cousins of mine who live in Australia are visiting the UK this
summer and asked me to suggest a UK SIM to put in their phones while
they are here and in other parts of Europe.

I thought that Giffgaff might be suitable. I'd happily post them a
couple of SIMs, and assumed that they would be able activate them before
leaving so they know their new temporary numbers in advance, and would
be able to use their phones as soon as they reached Heathrow.

But it seems from postings on the Giffgaff site that you can't activate
the card with a credit/debit card that is registered outside the UK. Is
this a general problem, or just some arbitrary bit of user-hostile
behaviour on the part of O2/Giffgaff? If anyone knows of SIMs that
could be set up from outside the UK and maybe topped up using a foreign
credit card (and are not too expensive) then I'd be pleased to know
about it.


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Clive Page
]]> UK Mobile Phones http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49090-sim-visitor-uk.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49089-nokia-lumia-battery-saver-mode-new-post.html Mon, 13 May 2013 08:57:20 GMT My Nokia Lumia 820 says that leaving the phone on battery-saver mode
is 'not recommended'. However, the phone can still receive calls and
texts so I don't see the problem. The battery definitely seems to
last a bit longer between charges. Am I missing something?
]]> UK Mobile Phones http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49089-nokia-lumia-battery-saver-mode.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49088-replacement-battery-new-post.html Sun, 12 May 2013 09:37:45 GMT Want to buy a replacement battery for a Blackberry Curve 9300. There are a lot around at only about £3. Would they likely be alright at that price? Grateful for any recommendations. Want to buy a replacement battery for a Blackberry Curve 9300. There are a
lot around at only about £3. Would they likely be alright at that price?
Grateful for any recommendations.


]]> UK Mobile Phones http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49088-replacement-battery.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49085-worldsim-con-new-post.html Sat, 04 May 2013 11:10:07 GMT A friend of mine recently picked up a WorldSIM sim card before
travelling to a number of countries abroad. It promised free incoming
calls to a UK number and cheap calls from abroad.

The UK number actually turns out to be allocated to the Isle of Man, so
UK networks charge to call or text it. Their website gives completely
different call rates to the enclosed leaflet, in other words it's much
more expensive to use than thought.

Does anyone else have an experience of these?
]]> UK Mobile Phones http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49085-worldsim-con.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49084-android-app-stop-other-apps-new-post.html Fri, 03 May 2013 19:11:16 GMT Is there any app that will run on Android phones and either block any mobile data connections (in the interest of preventing roaming data charges whilst abroad) Is there any app for same that will block a specific app/number of apps from connecting to the internet whether over mobile data or wireless (due to privacy concerns and ad blocking) Thanks Is there any app that will run on Android phones and either block any mobile
data connections (in the interest of preventing roaming data charges whilst
abroad)

Is there any app for same that will block a specific app/number of apps from
connecting to the internet whether over mobile data or wireless (due to
privacy concerns and ad blocking)

Thanks


]]> UK Mobile Phones http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49084-android-app-stop-other-apps.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49083-htc-wildfire-s-storage-problem-new-post.html Fri, 03 May 2013 11:29:56 GMT I've had a Wildfire S for about 16 months. I hardly use it at all for calls
and SMS, typically one or two of each per month. It's mainly used for
e-mail, and a few other Internet things, bus and train times etc..

For several months it's been running very low on internal storage. If I go
to settings|SD & phone storage at the moment it's telling me that I have
3.84 MB free. If I then go to Make more space and clear the cache for all
applications I typically get a few kB back. I have a few apps installed on
the 'phone, three of which cannot be moved to the SD card, but these are
small. I have it set to only keep mail messages on the 'phone for one day.

If I then go to settings|applications|storage use it tells me that I have
4.2 MB of internal storage free, with 146 MB used. This is after I have
gone into each application and deleted data wherever I can. The largest
user of internal storage is Mail with 21.29 MB, followed by maps with 11.7
MB; nothing else has more than 5 MB, and most are tiny.

I have a file manager installed and have looked through the file system
starting from / but can find nothing using large amounts of storage, other
than on the SD card.

The problem is getting gradually worse; until recently I could generally get
about 12 MB free, but about half that is about the best I can get now.

Does anybody have any ideas as to what could be using this storage which I
haven't thought of?

]]> UK Mobile Phones http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49083-htc-wildfire-s-storage-problem.html http://www.mobilebanter.co.uk/uk-mobile-phones/49082-orange-ovp-how-often-does-new-post.html Wed, 01 May 2013 14:07:34 GMT I have an old phone with an Orange OVP SIM in it - which I'd like to
keep for emergencies.

Does anyone know how often you have to use it to stop Orange disabling
the SIM and giving someone else the number? And is it sufficient to
receive a call/text, or does it have to make one? I have a vague
recollection this has been discussed on this group before, but I
couldn't find the thread, and of course the Orange website is no use at all.

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Clive Page
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