Alcatel Ot 310

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Igot an unlocked T-Mobile Alcatel Linkzone hotspot for use with my public mobile service. It's got the specs to be compatible, and I see the carrier name says Public Mobile, and I get good service bars (3-4) at 4G LTE.

I can even an SMS from it, I confirmed that, but when I try to connect to it via a wifi device the internet doesn't work! Everything on the devices side says uplink is good and no problems, but I've tried multiple devices to connect and none work. The only thing weird is the APN says NULL and when I add Public Mobile and put all the info and click apply, it says success but the thing still says NULL

I'm too afraid of losing my connection again so I cannot confirm which of these two was the solution; not having a space in profile name, or disconnecting the device first. Either way it is now online and I have a connection! Thank you all for the suggestions!

It is Public Mobile. I did a tracert to google dns (8.8.8.8) on my laptop while on the alcatel linkzone hotpsot connect, and it went past the router....right into a telus network then nothing, they cut me out

@Kyle2 You do have a data plan and its active? When you put the sim into a regular phone can you can access data with no issues? If they are rejecting you, funny if it had something to do with the time zone bug.

You did say your self the APN comes up blank meaning there could be some local issue which still makes me think to try the troubleshooting reset / firmware update directly on the device however if what you are saying is true and you are 100% sure not needing to do any trouble shooting then I am not sure how anyone here could help you since its passed your device I suggest contacting the @CS_Agent for technical support

I would suggest not bothering the moderators for something like this. Their mandate is primarily to get the service up and running, not to chase down hardware issues for customer which can get really tricky. Remember, Public Mobile does not sell hardware.

My essential phone has been neutered in that the APN addition function has been blocked since android O. Looking online why, there was discussions that one of the reasons is that carriers like T-Mobile needs this to control tethering. The APN type field needs to have dun added and without APN editing/adding, it can't be done. I wonder if the problem is that the lack of APN adding capability is hampering the tethering here. Just a thought.

This may seem silly, but I have heard of a weird problem that has effected many users on the linkzone.... Go into settings and change the Date/Time to 24 hour format... this has actually helped quite a few people, there are even youtube videos about the 24 hour bug.

I have this black alcatel link zone that was working. the 1st 2 lights are on and the 4th is for the battery the 3rd used to light up and now it doesnt and for some reason my wifi is not working anymore. The 3rd icon is an envelope and it doesnt light up. I have tried everything. It is paid, it is updated, i have reset it, and it has been restarted what can i do?

Super strange on my issue. The network signal just keeps blinking when I use my personal sims that have voice line. But when I slip my company phone (voice) or my data only sim (tablet) network is working and connecting.

An unusually high number of transaction attempts encountered by Secure-D in Brazil and Malaysia coming from a series of Alcatel Android smartphone models Pixi 4 and A3 Max, led our analysts to investigate deeper. In doing so we identified that a pre-installed Weather forecast application, siphons a lot of data and attempts such transactions. The application package is com.tct.weather and comes from TCL Corporation, a Chinese tech firm known for making the Alcatel and Blackberry devices. It collects and transmits geographic locations, email addresses, IMEIs to a server in China and has a number of privacy invasive permissions on the device. The application is also available on the Google Play store and has more than 10m installs with a seemingly healthy 4.4 user rating. Had it not been blocked it would have succeeded to subscribe users on Alcatel phones in countries like Brazil, Malaysia and Nigeria to paid services for which users would have been billed more than $1.5 million. This activity occurred in the background and succeeded in remaining undetected by the users, behaving liek a typical malicious application. These findings further expand on the previously covered case of Gmobi, a provider of Firmware-Over-The-Air technology (FOTA) to mobile device manufacturers that also relied on their pre-installed application to attempt ad fraud and misuse personal information.

In the examples below ad-fraud is attempted by loading a page with ads and also programmatically generated clicks triggered the purchase of a paid subscription (the JokerVR service) and consequent charges to the airtime of the user.

In this 2nd example, the application went through multiple urls eventually redirecting it to the purchase page of a premium digital service available to subscribers of TIM Brazil (one of the largest mobile operators in Brazil). The SIM card on the device under investigation was one of TIM in Brazil.

While investigating the application we extracted the pre-installed apk file and analyzed the permissions it has access to, finding them to be misused and providing a seemingly simple Weather forecasting application with excessive permissions able to gather and transmit personal information from the user.

Not for use by third-party applications.The pre-installed and the downloadable on Google Play Store version of the com.tct.weather application require different Android permissions (capabilities or information that the application can access).

In Brazil, 2.5 million transaction attempts initiated from this Weather application on Alcatel devices were blocked in July and August 2018. Those 2.5 million transaction attempts to purchase a digital service originated from 128,845 unique mobile phone numbers.

Alcatel is a French brand of mobile handsets owned by Finnish consumer electronics company Nokia and used under license by Chinese electronics company TCL Corporation. On Google Play Store, the developer of Weather-Simple weather forecast appears under mie-alcatel.support, while TCL Communication Limited appears when looking at the privacy policy of the app. And when looking at the other Android applications offered by the mie-alcatel.support on Google Play Store, we can find the 4 applications below, one of them being called TCL Weather.

Secure-D combines machine learning algorithms with payment processing workflows to protect mobile operators and their subscribers against online transaction fraud and data depletion, caused by all types of malware and other online threats. The platform processes over 480 million transaction requests per month, has detected and blocked over 42,000 malicious apps and has identified more than 19 million infected smartphones around the globe.

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