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Re: International roaming / India - has issues
jains99 wrote: tried nebulo, but perhaps I am not doing it the right way. can somebody provide clear instructions?? i dont see any LTE/data bars, so pretty sure its not just DNS issue. perhaps ninjit’s scenario was different city: Bhopal, India. cellular connectivity VI (vodaphone). good actual network: VI India 3G however, no data connection (and tmobile connectivity chart is deep purple, and deep fake!!) ninjit wrote: I found a few apps on the google play store that let you use any DNS server you wish, by creating a minimal vpn connection on the device itself.These send the DNS requests to your server of choice, while just passing through all remaining traffic.I settled on Nebulo (because it was free with no ads or purchases) The same developer has an older app that I found worked a bit more reliably than nebulo https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frostnerd.dnschanger Try that one8Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: International roaming / India - has issues
A quick follow-up: I found a few apps on the google play store that let you use any DNS server you wish, by creating a minimal vpn connection on the device itself. These send the DNS requests to your server of choice, while just passing through all remaining traffic. I settled on Nebulo (because it was free with no ads or purchases) https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.frostnerd.smokescreen and now have working internet over mobile data on my phone when it is enabled.15Visto0likes0ComentariosRe: International roaming / India - has issues
I just landed in India a week ago and have been experiencing the same problems described by others here. Phone shows LTE/4G full bars, and "Connected" in network status, but there is an exclamation point over the indicator icon, and all apps claim no internet available. However, while trying different apps, I opened my work VPN (Cisco) and it gave a more detailed error message than just "no internet", it said "DNS name lookup failed". Unfortunately, I did not have a terminal/ping utility on my phone, but using hotspot I was able to connect my laptop and behold, there was internet, but no name resolution ping/nslookup google.com fails ping 8.8.8.8 worked fine With that info, I changed the settings on my laptop to use google's dns server (8.8.8.8) and had internet working at that point, albeit just via hotspot. I could not see a way to force use of a specific DNS server on my phone (Pixel, android 12) for mobile data, just in manual wifi settings. The private DNS feature only accepts a hostname, not an IP address, and so that too fails, since it can't look up the new server to switch to in the first place…a bit of a silly limitation, I think. Before India, I had been in Japan and Singapore, and had no issues with roaming at all. So it seems that T-mobile's own roaming data settings may have a DNS server that is often blocked within India for some reason. Hopefully this helps some of you too, and maybe T-mobile can help fix this soon.33Visto1like0Comentarios