APNs

OK, so I'm sick and tired of visiting various sites to find the APNs for the carious 3G/4G providers our clients use at work and at home, so here's my own list...

Provider	3G/4G	APN	Account type	Comments	URL
Aldi Mobile	3G	mdata.net.au	Personal	No business use - see 1.4.1.d here.	Aldi Mobile
Amaysim	3G	internet			Amaysim
ApexN	3G			Optus based plans	ApexN
Bigpond	3G/4G	telstra.bigpond		Username and password required
BoostMobile	3G	telstra.internet		Mainly personal use - see 1.1 here.	BoostMobile
Exetel	3G	exetel1	Premium	Older Optus-based plans
Exetel	3G	connect	Standard	Newer Optus-based plans
Exetel	4G	yesinternet		New Optus 4G plans
Internode	3G	internode
Optus	3G	internet		Best option	Optus
Optus	3G	yesinternet		Use if "internet" doesn't work	Optus
Optus	4G	yesinternet			Optus
Pacnet	3G	internet	Static IP	Optus infrastructure	Pacnet
Pacnet	3G	pacnet	Static IP	Optus infrastructure	Pacnet
Telstra	3G/4G	telstra.internet	Business account	This is the Telstra 10. private NATted network. Code is "GPTCOMB3".
Telstra	3G/4G	telstra.iph	Any account type	This is their "iPhone" APN. Call and ask for the "GPDWLES3" code to be added to your account.	Whirlpool
Telstra	3G/4G	telstra.extranet	Business account (10 digits)	This gives you a real, usable dynamic IP. Call and ask for the "GPTEXB3" code to be added to your account.
Telstra	3G/4G	telstra.corp	Business account (10 digits)	This is for Telstra Wireless IP WAN users. Call and ask for the "GPCORPB3" code to be added to your account.
Vodafone	3G/4G	live.vodafone.com		This is NATted on the 10.0.0.0/8 network	Vodafone
Vodafone	3G/4G	vfinternet.au		This gives you a real, usable dynamic IP.  Or so it appears.  But it is NATted through 10.64.64.64 still.  Ggrrrr...
Voicetalk	3G	splns357		Try getting any sense out of VoiceTalk!

There are some other sites out there with useful collections of APN configuration information:
Whirlpool APN - Access Point Name


Regards,

The Outspoken Wookie

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 Factory Mode

OK, after trying everything I could find on the 'Net (unsuccessfully, obviously) I decided to do one final search before buying a new handset and came across http://www.444android.com/showthread.php?p=86539 which is the only thing I found that worked - my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 no longer continually boots into factory mode, which means that it is no longer as useful as a 80.5 x 151.1 x 9.4 mm, 182.5g brick!

Having then found this, I followed another too many hours and too many links to eventually get the LiquidSmooth 4.4.4 ROM installed (basically involving needing to use the TWRP Recovery environment to reset permissions and reformat the entire device (http://teamw.in/project/twrp2/115) and then the ClockworkMod recovery environment from https://www.clockworkmod.com/rommanager to load the LiquidSmooth 4.4.4 ROM (http://galaxynote2root.com/sprint-galaxy-note-2-roms/liquidsmooth-rom-for-galaxy-note-2-android-4-4-4/)), I found that the phone still had no signal at all.  It looks like the phone chip really has died.  Oh, well - here comes a Note 3! :)

Regards,

The Outspoken Wookie