3G iPad mini

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3G iPad mini

Ipad Mini 3G issues : I have a cellular contract with Vodacom South Africa. When I first tried to use cellular data the ipad logged on and worked fine on 3G . Two hours later I got the message 'No Service' The SIM card works fine in my iPhone 5 showing LTE but never 3G . The sim from the iPad works in the phone , showing 3G active . Could this be a GSM radio issue or failure? I have the Sprint version that covers all the right frequencies for 3G , Edge and HSDPA as well as the right LTE channels for Vodacom. Have tried both APN settings provided by Vodacom , rebooted several times , removed the SIM card etc spending hours on the phone to the service provider to no avail. Can anyone shed some light on this ?

iPad, iOS 6.0.2

Posted on Dec 27, 2012 4:55 AM

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Melrose1221 Author

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Dec 27, 2012 6:01 AM in response to Melrose1221

I swapped the original Sprint card and back again , now it works ! Hope it doesn't lose the signal again

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Jan 9, 2013 12:36 AM in response to Melrose1221

I am also having the same issue. Has your issue been resolved completely? I have an iPad mini 32GB, purchased from the iStore, and I've spoken to Vodacom who say have the device checked. I spoke to the iStore people, who say its possibly the SIM card.

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Melrose1221 Author

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Jan 9, 2013 5:55 AM in response to yegengovender

Since I swopped SIM cards around , waited for the APN settings to change then swopped back to the Vodacom sim the problem has not re-occurred and I am logged on to Vodacom . I did a sim swop initially and this did not help ( only lost R100 ) you have to use another providers sim for it to work . The problem seems to be with Vodacoms software . Hope this helps.

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Jan 19, 2013 11:39 AM in response to Melrose1221

I was in 2 minds about paying for yet another SIM card and eventually decided I didn't need the grief and would send it back to the iStore. Before returning it, I did a reset settings and the network has been fine since then. It's been 3 days now without losing signal.

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