Using Nokia Lumia 630 with Tesco Mobile

leck

I switched from 3 to Tesco Mobile a couple of days ago. I don't think the phone is properly configured to work on TM.

On the Tesco Mobile website it says:

If you have brought your phone with you from another network, it will need to be set up with Tesco Mobile settings before accessing the internet or using mms. Choose your phone from the list below to have these settings sent you by sms.

But the list does not show the Nokia Lumia 630. Anyone know where else to find the correct settings?

Kamili

Tesco mobile are appallingly bad for this, their site is full of omissions and errors.
They don't publish the settings for phones they don't sell. I'm on a 640xl and MMS doesn't work through them. If I could find a similar deal elsewhere I'd be long gone. Customer service is very lacking.

However there is a talk to Tesco forum on here, you can go poke them directly and hopefully they will help.

Nodferatu

My mother was on Tesco mobile and she foind it was absolute rubbish.

AnCatDubh

No specific experience of your issue OP, but as another poster has suggested the Tesco Mobile TalkTo forum are good at assisting.

I'm presuming that your 630 handset is unlocked from three ie. when your TM Sim is put into your 630 that you at least get a carrier identifier on your phone app?

In terms of Tesco Mobile themselves, I'd have to report the opposite to what some others have said. The price plans are great and in my use case it suits me perfectly, service is fine when i've had to ring them but to be honest that might have been twice in the last 18 months (initial registration and a stolen phone) - no better or worse than others imho, and the TM TalkTo folk here on boards will try to be as helpful as they can. I've found the value of the overall proposition so good that I've moved 3 family members over to them. On the downside 4G not yet available, and you are still limited AFAIK to the older O2 infrastructure ie. the benefit of the merged three/o2 infrastructure isn't yet realised for TM customers. I'd be guessing that they will be last in line along with the other virtual mobile network operators (48, CP Warehouse's offering, etc..) but hey, that stuff would be nice to have but would only be a bonus.

eezipc

Nodferatu wrote: »

My mother was on Tesco mobile and she foind it was absolute rubbish.

I've been on Tesco Mobile for about 2 years now. I think its fine. Never had any problems with it.
Just thought a bit of balance would not go amiss here...

Kenny Logins

Nodferatu wrote: »

My mother was on Tesco mobile and she foind it was absolute rubbish.

Nothing wrong with Tesco mobile. I never had a problem outside of the network going down (affected other MVNOs too), which was very rare.

€15 p.m. all in is very hard to beat, and when they get 4G I'll go back to them.

mp22

Try this lot
Windows Phone Settings

Your Tesco Mobile Windows phone is configured to work out of the box. If you have ported your phone to Tesco Mobile from another operator you may have to alter some configuration settings.

Follow the below steps to get the most of your mobile phone on the Tesco Mobile Network.

• From Windows 8 main screen, select the App List then scroll down to Settings.
• From the settings menu select Mobile + SIM.
• Click on the view internet APN button.
• This will display the screen called Internet APN.
• In the APN box enter tescomobile.liffeytelecom.comTo enable you to send MMS messages on the Tesco Mobile network complete the following settings.
• In the Mobile +SIM screen, scroll down and click on the edit MMS APN button.
• Enter the following into the MMS settings.
  MMS Section:
  • APN: tescomobile.liffeytelecom.com
  • WAP gateway(URL): 10.1.11.19
  • WAP gateway port: 8080
  • MMSC: http://10.1.11.68/servlets/mms
  • IP type: IPv4
  
  Don’t forget to change the IP type to IPv4, otherwise MMS will not work.

leck

mp22 wrote: »

Try this lot
Windows Phone Settings

Your Tesco Mobile Windows phone is configured to work out of the box. If you have ported your phone to Tesco Mobile from another operator you may have to alter some configuration settings.

Follow the below steps to get the most of your mobile phone on the Tesco Mobile Network.

• From Windows 8 main screen, select the App List then scroll down to Settings.
• From the settings menu select Mobile + SIM.
• Click on the view internet APN button.
• This will display the screen called Internet APN.
• In the APN box enter tescomobile.liffeytelecom.comTo enable you to send MMS messages on the Tesco Mobile network complete the following settings.
• In the Mobile +SIM screen, scroll down and click on the edit MMS APN button.
• Enter the following into the MMS settings.
  MMS Section:
  • APN: tescomobile.liffeytelecom.com
  • WAP gateway(URL): 10.1.11.19
  • WAP gateway port: 8080
  • MMSC: http://10.1.11.68/servlets/mms
  • IP type: IPv4
  
  Don’t forget to change the IP type to IPv4, otherwise MMS will not work.

I had already entered those settings. Only thing different I had was 80 for the MMSC port on the second screen (blank on yours) so I deleted that.

leck

Having problems with webtext function. Tried online at https://my.tescomobile.ie/tmi-selfcare-web/webtext. This is not populated with my contacts, do they have to be imported manually? Wasn't working yesterday when I entered number manually but does seem to work now. But would still like to know if there's an easy way to see my contact list from phone in here.

In order to send web texts from phone, I installed a Windows app called webtextr and set it up with these settings:
Username:
Password:
Network: Tesco Mobile
Server URL: http://cabbagetextr.com/send.php

But get this error:
Error: unexpected response from phone network's website

mp22

leck wrote: »

Having problems with webtext function. Tried online at https://my.tescomobile.ie/tmi-selfcare-web/webtext. This is not populated with my contacts, do they have to be imported manually? Wasn't working yesterday when I entered number manually but does seem to work now. But would still like to know if there's an easy way to see my contact list from phone in here.

In order to send web texts from phone, I installed a Windows app called webtextr and set it up with these settings:
Username:
Password:
Network: Tesco Mobile
Server URL: http://cabbagetextr.com/send.php

But get this error:
Error: unexpected response from phone network's website

I could not get that or any other webtext app to work on my 1020 when i moved to tesco.I have to log on to the website to sent webtexts.
Contacts manual input is what I do

leck

mp22 wrote: »

I could not get that or any other webtext app to work on my 1020 when i moved to tesco.I have to log on to the website to sent webtexts.
Contacts manual input is what I do

Not what I wanted to hear, but thank you for letting me know.