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Originally Posted by Smileyguy3000
I sort of bought i by accident. I asked which phone had wifi and the salesman pointed me to the galaxy. He said it had a google OS but I had no idea about the dependancy on synching and all that! I probably should be arguing for a refund but I like its other features, good quality sound and it was half the price of an iphone.
If I disable APNs is it easy to re-enable (and what are APNs?)
I only want to disable my mobile carrier internet access temporarily and use wifi when I can (at work) because my internet access from the mobile carrier is so expensive.
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I have no idea how you can accidentally buy a phone
But it's all good, I personally believe you've made a good purchase, even if it's a huge pain from time to time.
An APN is an Access Point Name, which is your connection to your mobile network provider. For example, I have two APNs, one for data usage (3G, Edge, gprs) and one for MMS messages. You can add, edit or remove these by will from Settings -> Wireless controls -> Mobile networks -> Access Point Names. I've had some problems with these though, losing the APNs cuts me fully from making data connections (unless I'm on wifi) and sending MMS, that's why I said it's not recommended. If you want to try it though, please WRITE DOWN THE APN INFO BEFORE REMOVING IT. I haven't found a disable button anywhere, so it's either edit or remove. Please write down the info so you won't have trouble adding them there again like I did.
If you have wifi on all the time and are in a wifi zone you won't need to remove any APNs. Wifi always overrides the mobile data networks.
Edit: Bah, I'm a slow writer today.