My Phone won't work in Switzerland ! ??

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My Phone won't work in Switzerland ! ??

Post by Jody »

I have a honor 20 e lite (I think)

dual sim, one English, one French.

Both sims work fine in France, both work fine in UK, both work fine in Spain.

When I go to Switzerland, both sims can't find a signal !!

Any ideas what could be causing this/ what to do about it?

All I can find online is "turn it off and back on again" but as I can't try that until I get to Switzerland next week, I'd rather not find out that it doesn't work right when Im at GVA looking for lost guests !
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Re: My Phone won't work in Switzerland ! ??

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Doesn't solve the issue, but get the wifi in the airport and use whatsapp or similar to contact the guests?

One issue is - do you know for sure that both sims have signal in Switzerland? I can't imagine not, but I do know that Free is a bit shit there. My work phone this year was Free and I couldn't text guests in the airport as no signal and it was hit and miss around the airport. Had to use the wifi and hope they had apple phones or whatsapp!!!
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Re: My Phone won't work in Switzerland ! ??

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No signal at all or just no data?

If it's data then it'll be the APN settings.
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Re: My Phone won't work in Switzerland ! ??

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KungFooBob wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 10:49 am No signal at all or just no data?

If it's data then it'll be the APN settings.
No signal at all.
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Re: My Phone won't work in Switzerland ! ??

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Is there a International Roaming setting that can be switched on/off?
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Felix wrote: Thu Mar 31, 2022 4:36 pm Is there a International Roaming setting that can be switched on/off?
There is, but it's switched on. Otherwise it wouldn't work in Spain, the French card wouldn't work in the Uk and the Uk card wouldn't work in France.
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Re: My Phone won't work in Switzerland ! ??

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Some countries use particular frequencies for phones and not all phones can use all frequencies. When 3 or 4g came out there were some Chinese phones that wouldn't work in the UK.
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Frequencies or roaming agreements.

My phone worked well in some parts of the USA, but not in others. Signal good, but no agreement with my SIM provider
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