![]() Newdirt, if you are still reading this thread – do you know what is up with the iPhone 4S models no longer able to use 4G HSPA+ services? What if I don’t care about LTE? I ask because the HSPA is fine for my wife and gave her almost 3-7Mbps downstream but since I upgraded her iOS recently from iOS 6 something – to the latest iOS, it has choked and seems throttled hardcore. It looks like they have finally fixed the bug that caused data and MMS not to work with Straight Talk iPhones and these two options offer a permanent solution. I recommend either calling Straight Talk or getting the new SIM. – SIM swap and change back to the old att.mvno APN settings. You can then activate the new SIM online or by phone. – For $6.99 you can order a new AT&T SIM from Straight Talk or Walmart, these will use the new tfdata APN. If you don’t feel like calling customer service, here are two other options: MMS and data should start working again after this (if the customer service representative doesn’t seem to know what you are talking about, ask to be transferred to a more technical department). Straight Talk will provision your account to accept the new carrier settings. Let them know you are having technical problems and that your SIM needs to be provisioned for the new tfdata settings. Call Straight Talk customer service at 1-80 from a second phone line (you’ll need to reboot your phone during the process).ģ. Double check you are on iOS 7.0.3 and carrier update TFW 15.6.Ģ. If you lost data and/or mms after the carrier update, this is what you’ll need to do:ġ. This means NO MORE SIM SWAPS required with the new carrier update for people with the new Straight Talk SIM card. In the other hand, people with the new Straight Talk SIM (using tfdata APN settings) are reporting both mms and data work without doing anything else. Some people with the old Straight Talk SIM card (the one using att.mvno APN settings) are reporting they’ve lost mms and data after the TFW carrier update. I’m curious to know if somebody has any problems to report after the 7.0.3/carrier update? Please leave me a comment if you are experiencing any issues. Tracfone offers services under various brands including Straight Talk, NET10 Wireless and Simple Mobile. For those of you who might be wondering what TFW means, it stands for TracFone Wireless. Also “Network” and “Carrier” now read “TFW” instead of “AT&T” (it’s great not to see the AT&T name on my phone anymore). Upon doing so, my status bar changed from “HOME” to “TFW”. ![]() Both mms and data are working as they should after the upgrade.Īfter rebooting, I was given an option to update the phone’s “carrier settings”. I’m glad to report that everything seems to be A-ok. I brought my out of contract iPhone from AT&T to Straight Talk less than two weeks ago and I didn’t want to go through setting mms again using the SIM swap method. I just updated my iPhone 4s to iOS 7.0.3 and was a little worried about losing data or picture messaging.
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