Chinese Android Phone Help !

rmoriarty247

Hi All,

I have recently acquired an Android mobile phone from China. It is a Samsung Galaxy S4 Replica. However, i cannot connect to my mobile network with the handset (3 Ireland). The handset recognises there is a SIM card installed but does not find the network.
The phone is completely unblocked and i have listed the specifications below.

Has anybody had a similar experience that could tell me why i cannot get onto my network?

Many Thanks in Advance To All .... Please help if you can !!

Basic Information
Model A9500
Quad Band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Sim Card Dual Card Dual Standby
Service Provide Unlocked
Style Straight
Color Deep Blue
Shell Material Plastic
System:
OS Android 4.2
CPU SC6820 Single Core 1.2GHz
ROM 512MB
RAM 256MB
Support Extend Card TF card, up to 16GB
Screen:
Display Size 4.7"
Type IPS screen, Corning II Gorilla Glass
Resolution 960*540
Screen Color 16000K Colors
Camera:
Camera Front 200W, Back 500W
Camera Function Support audio video filming, recording time, depending on memory card size
Camera Picture Resolution 240 * 320
Support Format:
Audio File Format MP3/WAV/AMR/AWB
Video File Format 3GP/MPEG4
Image File Format JPEG / BMP / GIF / PNG / GIF
Ringtones Type Polyphonic/MP3
E-book Format TXT / CHM / DOC / HTML
FM Radio Yes
Earphone Port 3.5mm Jack
Data Transfer & Connectivity:
Data Transfer Bluetooth, USB
Mobile Internet Security Settings-( Blacklist, privacy protection, power-on password, anti-theft feature)
GPS Yes
Battery:
Standby Time 72 hours
Talk Time 8 hours
Capacity 2600mAH
General:
Language English, Afrikaans, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Bosnian, Catala, Cestina, Dansk, Deutsch, Eesti, Espanol, Filipino, French, Hrvatski, Zulu, Italiano, Kiswahili, Latviesu, Lietuviu, Macedonian, Magyar, Nederlands, Norsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romana, Rumantsch, Slovencina, Slovenscina, Suomi, Svenska, Veitnamese, Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Bengali, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, India Urdu, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Simplified / Traditional Chinese
Phonebook 500
Message SMS, MMS
Input Keyboard / Handwrite
JAVA Yes
WIFI IEEE 802.11 b / g
Bluetooth Support V2.0
Multi-Touch Yes
Dimensions 5.31 x 2.64 x 0.39"/ 13.5 x 6.7 x 1 cm (L x W x H)
Net Weight (Including Battery) 148 g
Other Feature WIFI, GPS, FM, Bluetooth, Ebook, Email, Messaging, wallpapers, calendar, calculator, clock, camera, Play Store, etc

Copper_pipe

Try this app to get the settings

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.SIMAPNCheck

rmoriarty247

Many thanks Copper Pipe ... It has not worked for me unfortunately.
The phone detects the sim card as does the app which detected the following APN settings but the sim card is still not working on the network ... Do you have any other suggestions by any chance ? Any help would be gratefully appreciated !!

Many Thanks Again !

Name: 3
APN: 3ireland.ie
Proxy: not set
Port: not set
Username: not set
Password: not set
Server: not set
MMSC: mms.um.3ireland.ie:10021/mmsc)
MMS Proxy: mms.3ireland(dot)ie
MMS Port: 8799
MMS protocol: WAP 2.0
MCC: 272
MNC: 05
Authentication type: None
APN type: default,mms,supl

rmoriarty247

Just a quick extra point on this ...

I am able to access all the contacts saved to my SIM so the phone is definitely reading it. But still no network.

ubuntulinux

rmoriarty247 wrote: »

Hi All,

I have recently acquired an Android mobile phone from China. It is a Samsung Galaxy S4 Replica. However, i cannot connect to my mobile network with the handset (3 Ireland). The handset recognises there is a SIM card installed but does not find the network.
The phone is completely unblocked and i have listed the specifications below.

Has anybody had a similar experience that could tell me why i cannot get onto my network?

Many Thanks in Advance To All .... Please help if you can !!

Basic Information
Model A9500
Quad Band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Sim Card Dual Card Dual Standby
Service Provide Unlocked
Style Straight
Color Deep Blue
Shell Material Plastic
System:
OS Android 4.2
CPU SC6820 Single Core 1.2GHz
ROM 512MB
RAM 256MB
Support Extend Card TF card, up to 16GB
Screen:
Display Size 4.7"
Type IPS screen, Corning II Gorilla Glass
Resolution 960*540
Screen Color 16000K Colors
Camera:
Camera Front 200W, Back 500W
Camera Function Support audio video filming, recording time, depending on memory card size
Camera Picture Resolution 240 * 320
Support Format:
Audio File Format MP3/WAV/AMR/AWB
Video File Format 3GP/MPEG4
Image File Format JPEG / BMP / GIF / PNG / GIF
Ringtones Type Polyphonic/MP3
E-book Format TXT / CHM / DOC / HTML
FM Radio Yes
Earphone Port 3.5mm Jack
Data Transfer & Connectivity:
Data Transfer Bluetooth, USB
Mobile Internet Security Settings-( Blacklist, privacy protection, power-on password, anti-theft feature)
GPS Yes
Battery:
Standby Time 72 hours
Talk Time 8 hours
Capacity 2600mAH
General:
Language English, Afrikaans, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Bosnian, Catala, Cestina, Dansk, Deutsch, Eesti, Espanol, Filipino, French, Hrvatski, Zulu, Italiano, Kiswahili, Latviesu, Lietuviu, Macedonian, Magyar, Nederlands, Norsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romana, Rumantsch, Slovencina, Slovenscina, Suomi, Svenska, Veitnamese, Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Bengali, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, India Urdu, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Simplified / Traditional Chinese
Phonebook 500
Message SMS, MMS
Input Keyboard / Handwrite
JAVA Yes
WIFI IEEE 802.11 b / g
Bluetooth Support V2.0
Multi-Touch Yes
Dimensions 5.31 x 2.64 x 0.39"/ 13.5 x 6.7 x 1 cm (L x W x H)
Net Weight (Including Battery) 148 g
Other Feature WIFI, GPS, FM, Bluetooth, Ebook, Email, Messaging, wallpapers, calendar, calculator, clock, camera, Play Store, etc

Unfortunately for you this is not a 3G compatible handset and Three Ireland use a 3G only sim.
Any other Irish network sim would be fine.:(

oscarBravo

Something to watch out for: I saw one of those Samsung replicas a while back (not the S4) which claimed to have Android 4.2 on it, but was actually running 2.3 - it had a custom version of the "settings" app that lied about the OS version. It can be a problem when you're trying to install apps that require later versions of Android.

tallaghtmick

rmoriarty247 wrote: »

Hi All,

I have recently acquired an Android mobile phone from China. It is a Samsung Galaxy S4 Replica. However, i cannot connect to my mobile network with the handset (3 Ireland). The handset recognises there is a SIM card installed but does not find the network.
The phone is completely unblocked and i have listed the specifications below.

Has anybody had a similar experience that could tell me why i cannot get onto my network?

Many Thanks in Advance To All .... Please help if you can !!

Basic Information
Model A9500
Quad Band GSM 850/900/1800/1900 MHz
Sim Card Dual Card Dual Standby
Service Provide Unlocked
Style Straight
Color Deep Blue
Shell Material Plastic
System:
OS Android 4.2
CPU SC6820 Single Core 1.2GHz
ROM 512MB
RAM 256MB
Support Extend Card TF card, up to 16GB
Screen:
Display Size 4.7"
Type IPS screen, Corning II Gorilla Glass
Resolution 960*540
Screen Color 16000K Colors
Camera:
Camera Front 200W, Back 500W
Camera Function Support audio video filming, recording time, depending on memory card size
Camera Picture Resolution 240 * 320
Support Format:
Audio File Format MP3/WAV/AMR/AWB
Video File Format 3GP/MPEG4
Image File Format JPEG / BMP / GIF / PNG / GIF
Ringtones Type Polyphonic/MP3
E-book Format TXT / CHM / DOC / HTML
FM Radio Yes
Earphone Port 3.5mm Jack
Data Transfer & Connectivity:
Data Transfer Bluetooth, USB
Mobile Internet Security Settings-( Blacklist, privacy protection, power-on password, anti-theft feature)
GPS Yes
Battery:
Standby Time 72 hours
Talk Time 8 hours
Capacity 2600mAH
General:
Language English, Afrikaans, Bahasa Indonesia, Bahasa Melayu, Bosnian, Catala, Cestina, Dansk, Deutsch, Eesti, Espanol, Filipino, French, Hrvatski, Zulu, Italiano, Kiswahili, Latviesu, Lietuviu, Macedonian, Magyar, Nederlands, Norsk, Polish, Portuguese, Romana, Rumantsch, Slovencina, Slovenscina, Suomi, Svenska, Veitnamese, Turkish, Greek, Bulgarian, Russian, Serbian, Ukrainian, Hebrew, Bengali, Arabic, Persian, Hindi, India Urdu, Thai, Korean, Japanese, Simplified / Traditional Chinese
Phonebook 500
Message SMS, MMS
Input Keyboard / Handwrite
JAVA Yes
WIFI IEEE 802.11 b / g
Bluetooth Support V2.0
Multi-Touch Yes
Dimensions 5.31 x 2.64 x 0.39"/ 13.5 x 6.7 x 1 cm (L x W x H)
Net Weight (Including Battery) 148 g
Other Feature WIFI, GPS, FM, Bluetooth, Ebook, Email, Messaging, wallpapers, calendar, calculator, clock, camera, Play Store, etc

The bit I've highlighted there Ireland uses 2100MHz for 3G