Path: csiph.com!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed9.news.xs4all.nl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Roger Mills Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android,uk.telecom.mobile Subject: Re: Dual SIM problem with Moto G (2nd generation) in UK Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 22:14:01 +0000 Organization: Association of Revolting Peasants Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net uKU5BZSsPeUuRymM6k8BvwKUajxFyC8r8QkDiu0uiLDEbkYhaZ Cancel-Lock: sha1:H0j8hMFLExGaBXl1sH8/bpOrjKE= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:11.0) Gecko/20120312 Thunderbird/11.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.mobile.android:37246 uk.telecom.mobile:30621 On 03/01/2017 21:18, Mike S. wrote: > In article, > Roger Mills wrote: >> >> This seems to be related to the fact that in the Mobile Network Settings >> menu there is an item called "Preferred network type" for each of the >> SIMs. This is automatically set to 3G for the PlusNet SIM, and doesn't >> provide any other options. For the '3' SIM, it's set to 2G - and greyed >> out. I think this is the problem, because '3' SIMs won't work on 2G >> networks. It looks as if the phone doesn't permit both SIMs to be set to >> 3G at the same time. > > You've nailed it. Most Chinese-designed dual-SIM phones use the same > chipset and firmware arrangement, and that usually allows only a single 3G > SIM to be active (often restricted to Slot 1). I am not aware of any way > around this as it's built into the hardware. > > Yes, that sounds about right! In my case it isn't limited to Slot 1 - but that doesn't solve anything. It gives 3G to whichever SIM is selected for mobile data and 2G to the other one. So, if I want to use anything other than the '3' SIM for mobile data - which I do - I'm stuffed! -- Cheers, Roger ____________ Please reply to Newsgroup. Whilst email address is valid, it is seldom checked.