on 15-12-2021 20:32
Hello, I had set up my international roaming for my trip abroad. When I first came into the country I managed to get cell service (I don't need to use my data) but when I wanted to temporarily place my SIM in another phone, I ended up losing the connection and cant receive nor send calls nor SMS anymore.
Can anyone from the staff please help me figure this out? I've still got the APN setting and I tried restarting my phone but no luck. It won't register with the local network anymore.
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on 15-12-2021 21:09
This worked for another customer this afternoon who was in your situation
Android
iPhone or iPad with a Physical SIM
Restart phone
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on 15-12-2021 20:53
Hi y_SAHM,
Thank you for your post and welcome to our forums 🙂
Is your SIM still in the other handset or have you placed it back in your original one?
Have you tried manually selecting your network? Do you have any screenshots for us?
Zoie
on 15-12-2021 21:02
Hey Zoie! It's back in my original handset now. Got some screenshots here now - I can't manage to register with any of them when I go manual either, even though when I first got into the country it automatically registered with Batelco.
Could the roaming be reset on Virgin Media's end somehow? I'm also concerned that if its reset and it works and then I try to move it back to the other phone that the same issue will happen again.
on 15-12-2021 21:09
This worked for another customer this afternoon who was in your situation
Android
iPhone or iPad with a Physical SIM
Restart phone
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on 15-12-2021 21:13
Bless!! Thank you enlli! That would be very handy for VM to keep on their site it sounds 😄
Got service now, thanks again and have a good day!
on 09-06-2022 14:26
Above solution worked (setting roaming to manual international). Was stuck with no data or signal. Phoned Virgin on partners phone whilst he was driving us through France. Tech help wanted me to remove my SIM to give the number. Strangely I didn't have the pin to remove it with me!!! Said she couldn't help without it. Continued Googling on his phone and found this solution. Thank goodness!
on 09-06-2022 14:33
Hi Kh81,
Thank you for your post and welcome to the forums.
Great to hear @enlli strikes again! Apologies that you had to go through the first part - but I am glad to hear this is resolved 🙂
Cheers,
Ryan.
on 05-07-2022 20:41
Virgin Media Roaming does not work. I am in Italy for a month and can't hear the caller. Made changes VM suggested and didn't help. Now they say I need a new Sim - whie in Italy?! Lots of others with the same issue on the VM Community website. AVOID!!
on 06-09-2022 20:44
Didn't work for me.
on 06-09-2022 20:48
Sorry to see the steps are not working for you @GarySmallridge, as this is the case I am going to send you a PM to confirm your details to check this further.
Regards
Nathan
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