Roaming not working (Free.fr plan in Switzerland)

REPRODUCIBILITY (% or how often): 100%
BUILD ID = OS VERSION (Settings > About product): 4.3.0.12 Free
HARDWARE (XA2, X10, X10 II, …): XA2 Dual
UI LANGUAGE: English
REGRESSION: (compared to previous public release: Yes, No, ?): ?

DESCRIPTION:

Mobile plan operator: Free (France). Roaming subscribed + intl options enabled (verified).
Roaming Doesn’t work in Switzerland
Roaming was working on other phones with the same SIM/plan.

PRECONDITIONS:

STEPS TO REPRODUCE:

  1. Have a Free mobile Plan
  2. Try to use it in Switzerland

EXPECTED RESULT:

Could use phone normally

ACTUAL RESULT:

Local networks can be seen in Settings > Mobile Data > Select networks but are greyed out.
Below Select networks is written Network Denied
Sim tried on both slots, with and without a local Sim which is working.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

(Please ALWAYS attach relevant data such as logs, screenshots, etc…)
I would post a log but where is it located for Phone connections?

Next time you’re confronted with this problem, you can check this tutorial from Jolla. I checked myself and Ofono logger seems to be only available from OpenRepos, at least on my Xperia 10 II.

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Next time is today!
I’ll do it right away, thanks.

Roaming in Guernsey with an x10iii and the operator Free is working but …..

I live in France. My operator is Free. My smartphone is the x10iii with Sailfish OS.

I went on a three-day trip to the island of Guernsey. The phone network my phone registered with was JT (for Jersey Telecom i think, which must operate on the islands of Jersey and Guernsey?).

It was three days of “hell.” The phone kept registering/deregistering on JT, and I must have received the welcome message to the Channel Islands from my operator Free with its rates more than 200 times.

As a result, the phone ended up losing the network completely, with the icons disappearing (mobile data in the shortcuts, network in the system menu, etc.), and only a reboot could restore it.

This also greatly disrupted AAS (Android App Support), and I had to stop and restart AAS countless times to be able to launch Thunderbird or Signal.

I managed to create oFono logs (thanks @pherjung), but I won’t post them here as they contain personal datas.

I’ll see if I open a ticket report in zendesk, but first I’d like to know if other people have had to “put up with” such inconveniences!
Note: I tried to get VoLTE to work but without success, so I disabled the corresponding button in the menu.

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I do not know much about French mobile plans but the ones I know provide for roaming in the EU of which Switzerland is not a member.