Thursday 2 October 2014

Connecting TalkTalk mobile data using a Nexus 4

Summary: Take the sim card out; boot with no sim, or a different sim; reinsert the TalkTalk sim.

I just restored my Nexus 4 Kitkat android to factory settings because it was going very slowly and I thought that might help (it did by the way).  Anyway when I tried to reconnect to my TalkTalk mobile data again it wouldn't connect.  I did not receive any of the configuration messages that TalkTalk tried to send me.  I checked the APN settings manually and I definately had the right settings, but still it wouldn't connect.  I rebooted after making the changes.  Still no joy.  Then I thought I'd check against another phone: it had exactly the same settings, so I thought it might be the phone so I swapped sims, and then both of them connected to data!  I then swapped the sims back and they both still connected!

It may have worked if I had just removed the sim and booted like that, then turned it off again, inserted the sim and then rebooted again.

Anyway, very pleased to finally get it going again.