[FBA]

My 9900 was purchased from Bell and was on the Bell network until 2 months ago, when I moved to Koodo Mobile. Everything has been fine, except my default APN settings (pda.bell.net). I changed my APN to sp.koodo.com so the Internet dependant apps work, but if I upgrade the OS, or set the APN to default, it keeps falling back to pda.bell.net. I checked the service books, and I don't find any entries in there for APN...so I'm wondering what it is that controls the default APN settings. I'm on a BES, but don't see anywhere on the BES where APN settings are controlled. It's no big deal, because I can always change the APN settings - but was curious as to why Bell APN settings keep popping back in there.

[Red_Berry_21]

because its the phone default APN ring your network to send you the setting and theyll have you up and running

[Shifty88]

Any chance you're updating your OS with official Bell ones instead of the Koodo ones? I don't know much but I'd assume that could be an issue.

[Bash_Man]

I could be wrong but I think the APN is hardware/vendor related. I have a Bell Bold 9900 unlocked used with Telus network. I had to go into and setup the apn manually to bb.telus.com instead of pda.bell.net, and I have a Rogers OS on there.

[FBA]

I'm guessing that is the issue...and seemingly can never be addressed without user intervention. Just more annoying than anything, but at least it's working. It took me a long time with one particular app to try and nail down why I was always getting a "tunnel failed" message. Hours and hours of screwing around and examining my firewall and VPN, until I discovered the issue on the device. Just another stupid RIM engineering marvel I guess...

You'd think they would control this through a service book from the carrier...sounds way too easy.

[Red_Berry_21]

ive had my internet setting sent to me by my carrier so i dont know why its any diffrent for your device

[FBA]

APN's are carrier dependant and are different for each carrier. Technically, the carrier should force the APN to the device, but that's not seemingly what's happening, at least not on my device(s) anyway. I had to setup the APN for my new carrier - and if I hit "default APN settings" it goes back to my previous carrier. Maybe you can explain to me why that's happening...