Originally Posted by
Michael Ad
Hmm. OK. Glad to hear I didn't really blow it. I was on docomo most of the time.
Generally, if I went into airplane mode and back out, I'd get coverage again. When my data failed, I still generally showed LTE and several bars. My wife had the same, but hers just worked consistently.
I can't believe it's my hardware. Works without problems at home and in Europe.
Currently in Sapporo with later wandering out to the sticks of Hokkaido. Docomo working fine, but I am looking at the Docomo building as I type out my hotel window, so lots of bars. Just an FYI, my wife tends to low tech but she does like to be able to move around with a way to communicate. We have a T mo hotspot, so I brought it, and switched her sim with the hot spot sim, and now she has data and sms on her phone , Moto X. Extremely easy to do (5 minutes) and adds value to the plan. I should have been patient and let the auto APN get registered, but I decided to switch the APN to
Name: RoamingAPN (This can be anything. In our example it is “T-Mobile International Backup.”)
APN:
epc.tmobile.com
APN Protocol (if applicable): IPv4
It was much easier than getting a local sim. Since it is throttled anyway it didnt likely matter that i switched from the fast APN. It does have an "r" by it so I am monitoring data cost but when i used the hot spot in its native state in europe in January there were no ugly data surprises. YMMV