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4llerbuntu:
https://www.thecable.ng/exclusive-tunde-ayeni-wrecked-skye-bank-management-writes-osinbajo

mecussey:
lol....Edo pple sabi do that thing wella

MissRaine69:
I will forever talk about broke girls
Broke frustrated grils who bring nothing but tonnes of needs and wants.

Nma27:
Dutse, bwari areas

Nma27:
how

Nma27:
So this phone can buy 2 plots of land in Abuja

Benita27:
Only lazy men don't make provision for their family.

Benita27:
The man is an irresponsible man. Quote me anywhere. I believe what the woman said, perhaps she was charging him 'cause he doesn't take care of her and the child's needs but wants to bleep.

pranil:
Choemcast Audio oand video both work. I use play store from India so Google music also works . Even if Google music could ot work there are plenty of apps which support googlecast Audio - Personally I use Deezer ( www.Deezer.com) and TuneinRadio along with Pocketcast regularly

4llerbuntu:
you see the problem is when you are quicker to yarn than discern. and i don't mean this in a confrontational manner.
For some reason you all felt it was important for me to be right. Which is mad weird because there's no gain in my being right or wrong.


Please refer to my posts on previous pages.

1.
With my experience in relating with people with differing skill levels I've learnt that you don't suggest a difficult solution before the simple ones.



2.
in all honesty i did not immediately avert my mind to the firmware as a primary issue.
this is because i assumed anyone who unlocked the mifi also changed the firmware as a matter of course.
As you didn't, the other person who said your unlock process was poorly done was right.



3.
ironically i actually did mention changing the firmware. the posts are there for reference. I didn't stress it because naturally i know not many people would be comfortable with flashing a mifi.
if i suggested 3 solutions and you tried one that didn't work its expected that you maybe try the other two. its a choice



4.
For the record, the bug is actually related to the APN. no matter what you set as the APN it doesn't actually change from the Spectranet APN. if you ran a trace on your Mifi you would see it still tries to call that spectranet APN.

other networks aren't as finicky about APN like Ntel network is. About a week ago i tested etisalat and glo sim cards in my ntel router, i didnt even set any APN before they worked.



5.
Funny thing is flashing the Mifi does not remove the bug still. it just makes it such that you can now switch the APN when it defaults to the Spectranet one.
You will still need to do this occasionally, especially if you are fond of switching the sim out of the Mifi.



6.
The very first response to my suggestion was unbelievably antagonizing. I immediately apologized for commenting but i kept being attacked. Did you seriously expect me to be bothered about saying more? Can you explain to me exactly why my suggestion of a solution even if wrong warranted so many insults?



7.
I deliberately posted the screenshot of my device info page. my imei etc was exposed. I'm savvy enough to know that is wrong but i did it. also asked other people to post theirs on the chance someone would eventually figure it out. which you did



Finally, please do not insinuate that i post things here for validation or approval, or that i will engage in a pissing contest with random strangers on-line.

With all due respect, we don't know each other but i joined nairaland when it was 3 months old thereabouts and i was not a teenager then sef. that should give some indication about certain info about me. I've had more than one account as people like OYB will tell you.


Its not about being right or wrong. Its about helping each other. But the events here in the past week was a learning experience about how-to and how not to do that.

Ultimately, i'm happy you fixed your issue. It is unimportant to me whether i contributed to a solution or not. It doesn't add one kobo to my account, nor are there any perks to such a thing on nairaland

So enjoy your mifi and refrain from posting snarky comments about people who only tried to help

pranil:
May times but the plumbing headaches stop me from doing so. Now the solar panels are dropping in price I am thinking of converting existing geysers into solar geyser using SolarPV-

e.g. One 200 Ltr Solar water heater at 200 K + plumbing upwards is similar to 3 x 300 Watt + one Gyserwise controller -
http://www.geyserrobot.co.za/Technical_Details/technical_details.html

So you are a geek as well? Interesting. Any idea if the Google Chromecast Audio works in Nigeria? Google is found of geo restrictions

I will switch off NEPA to Gyserrobot using a Relay based on SOC. So If the SOC is high then Gyser will use the PV

Just have to find time during my many projects.
Currently trying to automate my projector screen to drop down on voice command from google home

oyakhilomeh:
Hello, if he's an Engineering personnel or he's ready to work in a telecoms environ. Forward his CV to me. Vhictor@hotmail.com

4llerbuntu:
I'm not sure you understand the scenario.

How is the Telco responsible for a defective Mifi they didn't sell?

If your phone stops getting signal today, is it MTN fault?

The data and sim works fine. If the Telco says you should buy their own devices that they tested and can support, we will accuse them of all sorts.


It's funny because now it seems I'm defending Ntel that I'm always criticising, but facts are facts

Like I said, the issue isn't a new one with that device. I had a similar experience using MTN with it.

As for complaining, well if insulting everyone who made the mistake of commenting about the issue is complaining, the world has gone mad

Zizicardo:
. overflow from the sea, assisted by excess rainfall.

oyb:
if ntel were so bothered about modems and lock in, their modems would not be unlocked.

fotyy:
You actually just showed why you would block below



Btw, Didn't someone here ignorantly lay claims stating Ntel doesn't try to make you buy their own mifi? Well now you see your assertion was wrong



The above quote is a bunch of crap! First Ntel nor Spectranet nor swift nor smile or other networks don't manufacture devices ! They just have partnerships with device manufacturers like ZTE, Huawei etc which lock the device to the network and may provide customised firmware on the device until you provide an unlock code and/or flash/install a different firmware on the device. But when it is unlocked it becomes free to use and nothing, I mean nothing the network can do apart from blocking the IMEI from connecting to their own Network!! They can't! I repeat they can't prevent or block the unlocked modem from working on other Networks that supports the band

If they could play shenanigans like you falsely claimed, they would have just locked back their device from unlock status back to lock status

So the only shenanigans here is coming from Ntel!

Now to put more holes in that crap shenanigans theory, why would Spectranet block the device from connecting specifically to only Ntel?? Yet the same Spectranet unlocked device works perfectly with Swift, Etisalat 4G, Smile and MTN 4G which supports the Huawei e5372 bands? Or has Spectranet, Swift, Smile, Etisalat and MTN suddenly merged and no longer competitors?

And you wrote " Go and buy a universal LTE modem or mifi that supports LTE bands 3 and 8".... but since when did Huawei e5372 stop supporting band 3 and band 8? It was supporting band 3 and 8 before Ntel became operational in Nigeria! Infact I have been using mine for months with Ntel before you guys decided to prevent it from successfully connecting to your Network as a strategy to make us ditch our working mifi device to buy your newly introduced mifi

walcolm:
The only con I can think of is that Google doesn't allow their latest OS on older hardware so you might end up on android version 6 at best

Other than that you should be fine. You'll stop being a BlackBerry user though