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My sim has blocked calls and messages. Only allows data
I have done some research and it looks like network mode 3g has been switched off in my area. The network mode on my phone says LTE/3G/2G (auto connect). My phone has nothing to connect to. According to Samsung my Galaxy A71 is compatible up to 4G so why has Smarty not made this available to me. I just wonder why, in all the myriad of questions I was asked did nobody think to ask this one. I am being sent a new sim card. Maybe this will be set to 4G
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I have done some research and it looks like network mode 3g has been switched off in my area. The network mode on my phone says LTE/3G/2G (auto connect). My phone has nothing to connect to. According to Samsung my Galaxy A71 is compatible up to 4G so why has Smarty not made this available to me. I just wonder why, in all the myriad of questions I was asked did nobody think to ask this one. I am being sent a new sim card. Maybe this will be set to 4G
Patricia_378926 My questions were intended to discount some basic issues that we see.
A new sim is unlikely to make any difference unfortunately.
It may be that your phone is not compatible with the protocol that Smarty uses for VoLTE. There have been many posts about this issue as it has come to the fore since 3G turn off.
My next step was to refer you to: https://help.smarty.co.uk/en/articles/8985136-checking-if-your-device-is-4g-volte-compatible
Volte is live but my network is just as described no sign of 4g
Patricia_378926 The problem seems to be that there is not simply one flavour of VoLTE and Smarty's version does not necessarily work with all phones.
Assuming that you checked the article that I signposted you to, have you also done a Network Status check and cleaned the sim?
