Hi,
I know it has been a few months since this post but I was wondering if you can help answer a few questions for me.
I was wondering if the Motorola Atrix HD phone you purchased was an unlocked phone? You see, I too ordered one off of eBay thinking that is was unlocked but it turned out later I found out it was a locked Atrix HD. I ordered my At&t compatible micro sim from Straight Talk, activated the account and was ready to go. PHone and text worked but no internet and MMS. I called ST, spend hours on the phone with them trying different versions of APN settings besides the ones that came with the sim card. I even downloaded (through wifi) an app called "tweakker" that gave me other APN settings for ST for my Atrix HD. Tried them as well and still no internet and mms. I am able to add new APN settings and save them but the phone doesn't even acknowledge that I have APN settings. Each time I click on the browers icon or anything that needs internet connection I immediately get a windown saying "no intetnet connection".
I contacted Morotorla and spoke to their rep this morning for another 2 hrs and they are "baffled". (No I started to worry . . .if Motorola has no clue . . then what?) All APN settings are the way they should be. My phone was manuctured in Aug 2012, so it came with the latest android version ICS 4.0.4 on it, no upgrades needed. I love the phone but cannot access it fully.
After looking for answers on the internet, trying to see if someone else is using the Motorla Atrix HD I came accross you post. I am wondering if my problem accessing the internet has to do with the fact that the phone is LOCKED vs. typing in an unlock code, inserting another carrier's sim and unlocking the phone that way.
Straight Talk told me I don't have to have an unlocked phone in order for my internet to work since the sim card is using AT&T towers/frequencies. It doesn't see it as foreign. Well, I beg to differ at this point. I am starting to wonder if the problem lays in me not having an unlocked phone. The strange thing is that if you use a foreign carrier sim in a locked phone shouldn't the "sim unlock code" window pop up on the phone prompting you to unlock the phone? In my case, I got the phone, took it out of the box, popped the sim card in and I was ready to make calls (activated the card first). The "sim card unlock code" window never popped up.
So that leaves me to wonder why does it work for people on the internet I read about. That is what brought me to write and ask you this quetion.
When you got your phone . . . was it an unlocked phone? Did the phone prompt you to enter a "sim unlock code" or anything at all when you put your sim card in? Did you get internet right away? I don't even have any 4G, 3G, G . .. or anything next to my bars. Just "HOME" in the upper left corner. Nothing for internet.
Before I order unlock codes and try to unlock the phone I just needed to know if the sucess off others was due to the fact that their phone was unlocked.
Thanks for any anwers you can give me.
/rosengard