Increased ability to edit APN details

Feature Requests
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I’ve recently purchased a Sony Xperia 10 III with the express purpose of trying out SailfishOS. I’m in Canada, so I understand I’m sort of out of the support area for all of this. One immediate issue that presented itself was inability to send or receive MMS messages, and this is despite mobile data working perfectly well after editing APN info. I am unable to find the area to edit all APN details to discover whether this is a bug, or just incorrect details being autofilled (I had a similar issue when I was first trying LineageOS on a Oneplus 6, but the settings were all available to edit). A similar menu to Android’s APN settings menu would be nice, rather than a small subset of the settings split across two submenus.

In other words, I’d like to edit/view settings such as MNC, MCC, and APN type…

(Example of the available settings in the Android menu here: Essential Phone Support | TELUS)

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So this is a feature request for sorting things different? Perhaps you should elaborate your idea further - I dont get the point, the MMS-Settings you need one time in the life of your phone and there are easy to find.
Or do you have a problem you cant solve? You found the MMS-Settings? There are under “mobile network” in the settings-app.

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I’ve entered the correct details for the fields that are available, but most of them were auto-populated incorrectly (as if it were a non-cellphone device) or were blank. However, even with the correct details in the MMS access point menu, MMS still fails to both send and receive. So I’d like to be able to check all the other APN setttings to see if they are incorrect.

I do notice on other threads that the MMSC and proxy addresses seem to commonly be IPs in other countries, but both are DNS hostnames from my provider. Could be nothing, don’t really know.

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It seems you misunderstand.
MCC and MNC are inherent properties of the network - they are used to identify the network, i.e. match a set of settings to the operator. They are not client-side configuration or “settings”.

I don’t believe there are any attributes being set from config behind the scenes.
What reason do you have to believe that it is the case?

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you can check mcc and mnc with dbus.
use e.g.:

 /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qdbus --system org.ofono /ril_0 org.ofono.NetworkRegistration.GetProperties

or something like

for i in $(/usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qdbus --system org.ofono /ril_0 |grep Get| rev | cut -d " " -f 1 | rev); do /usr/lib64/qt5/bin/qdbus --system  org.ofono /ril_0 ${i%()}; done

to check multiple properties

if you have 2 sim slots you have to use correct /ril_n

(you have to either install qt5-qttools-qdbus first or use dbus-send command)

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I had a similar inability to send/receive MMS messages on the previously mentioned LineageOS Oneplus 6. I remember being able to enter new APN settings manually, because many of them had been populated incorrectly, and MMS worked properly afterwards. That’s the only reason I’m asking about it, really.

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Is this something I do from the terminal app on the phone, or from my PC?

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with pc and ssh or terminal and phone

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Alright, using the dbus-send command on the terminal app with the command you provided throws the error “ Interface name was not valid: ‘org’ ”

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with dbus-send you have to change command slightly, .e.g.

dbus-send --system --print-reply --dest=org.ofono /ril_0 org.ofono.NetworkRegistration.GetProperties

method return time=1767190172.849600 sender=:1.11 -> destination=:1.4032 serial=20232 reply_serial=2
   array [
      dict entry(
         string "Status"
         variant             string "registered"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "Mode"
         variant             string "auto"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "CellId"
         variant             uint32 ...
      )
      dict entry(
         string "Technology"
         variant             string "lte"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "MobileCountryCode"
         variant             string "262"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "MobileNetworkCode"
         variant             string "03"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "Name"
         variant             string "Blau"
      )
      dict entry(
         string "Strength"
         variant             byte 17
      )
   ]
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Alright, well, the MCC and MNC are correct. So no idea why MMS wouldn’t be working. Still can’t see the APN type (on Android listed as default,mms,supl,hipri,ia), but maybe that’s an Android specific thing.

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They are still not settings.

Presumably the APN type for MMS is always MMS with no reason to change?

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As I’ve already stated, from experience, they can be wrong, and MMS is still not working.

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Some users reported that they had to disable VoLTE for MMS to work for them.

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At this point after flipping through a few forum threads, I’ve tried:

  • Making a call first, to see if I perhaps wasn’t completely registered on the network (thankfully the call lasted longer than the 15 minute cutoff I’ve seen others mention)
  • Switching to SIM slot 2 (which strangely did not work for mobile data or VoLTE, whereas SIM 1 is fine)
  • Doing the runaround with switching which combination of SIM slots are active
  • Attempting to send with mobile data switched on and off
  • Trying an older set of MMS APN settings from my provider
  • Switching out the MMSC and proxy hostnames for the resolved IP addresses as pinged by my PC
  • Switching MMS size in the messages app settings
  • Switching VoLTE on and off
  • Trying again both before and after restarting the phone after every SIM setting change

…and in various combinations. Still just MMS not working. As far as the topic of the thread is concerned, I’m wondering if one of these APN types that is listed on Android (default, supl, hipri, ia) helps register the phone properly on the network in some way. But I’m no telecom networking expert, just a fiddling idiot.

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Those particular (non-)settings, or just settings in general?
Of course the actual settings being wrong will make things not work.
MCC+MNC is basically just the name of the network.