Manual Roam

andy0

If it's a phone with an offline or aircraft profile setting, then selecting that and back to normal might involve fewer steps.

Nokia phones produce the profile drop-down selection from a brief press of the power button

tracyp

this is a great step by step guide. anytime i have difficulties in receiving my messages i always try this and i have to say it always works. well done jakeyboi

albertlambertsen

thanks for that have tried but when i choose an option of another operator it says access denied.... any ideas please

mgb2

@albertlambertsen wrote:
thanks for that have tried but when i choose an option of another operator it says access denied.... any ideas please

pull your sim out for a minute or 2... when you power the phone back up it will be forced to scan for the network, which is exactly what the manual roam acheives. (obviously, it's easier to not have to pull the sim, but, if you can't do the manual roam that will work).

jokeyboi77

@albertlamberts… when it says access denied thats what you want and when its says this just repeat the process and this time choose o2 (gg)

mgb2

you can tell i'd just woken up... doh

dat's wot's sposd to appen innit

georgemcfcbrown

I'm on iPhone mate you no what I press on it? . It don't have what u just said

jokeyboi77

@georgemcfcbrown

sorry for not getting back to you mate with iphones this dosn't seem to work but if you turn off imessage and use normal txt messages that usualy does the trick mate

linda1009

Thanks, I'll do this.

ray2

thankyou,you are a star it is working now .

annalittle

Thank you for your help... i tried this will try sending a text and hopefully it works. I have been on giffgaff for a bit and it is strange that it has only recently started happening? Cheers for your advice 🙂

xxcloe17xx89

annalittle

same as me what was your out come I’m thinking new sim

cokenpie

Thank you, latest text sent successfully.

jokeyboi77

@ray2 @annalittle @cokenpie

yous are all very welcome and to stay updated to the message centre switch your phone off and on everyday and you shouldn't have this problem again unless its network related

bailieb

Hi, many thanks for this - giving it a shot right now. Cheers

jokeyboi77

@bailieb it should work mate goodluck

lauren_mather

Im currently running through t-mobile network, and all my texts are sending and being recieved... but it still says giffgaff network at the top so i am slightly confused and dunno if i dare switch back to the o2(gg) network incase it stops working....

GG you have really let me down ☹

jokeyboi77

@lauren_mather

it may have changed back to o2 (gg) automaticaly and thats you working again because if you we're still on the tmobile you wouldn't be able to send or receive txts so thats you updated to the message centre and your txts will work fine now

terry1987

thanks for this helped alot 🙂

jokeyboi77

your welcome terry1987

denty

Hello, I'm not sure if this is a different issue, I am not receiving all text messages, this began happening on the 16th, I put my sim in a different phone the reverted back and got some of my text messages however not all of them. Some new texts made it through, then the problem seems to be happening again. I've tried turning phone off and on, then again doing this without the sim in the phone and I've tried the manual roam, initially my phone said the network was too busy, then it managed to find different networks. Should the old unreceived texts appear? I am unsure what to do next and would appreciate any advice. Many thanks, Denty