The discussion roam takes on an entirely new meaning when applied to an Android phone. It means that your phone receives a prison cell indicate whenever you're outside your cell telephone carrier'southward operating surface area. In that example, your phone is roaming.

Roaming sounds handy, but there's a catch: It almost always involves a surcharge for using another cellular service — an unpleasant surcharge.

Relax: Your Android phone alerts you lot whenever information technology'southward roaming. A Roaming icon appears at the top of the screen, in the condition area, whenever you're outside your cellular provider'south signal area. The icon differs from phone to phone, but generally the letter R figures in it somewhere, similar to what'south shown in the image.

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How to turn off data roaming on your telephone

In that location's little you tin do to avoid incurring roaming surcharges when making or receiving phone calls. Well, yes, you could wait until yous're back in an expanse serviced by your master cellular provider. Yous can, still, altogether avoid using the other network's data services while roaming. Follow these steps:

  1. Open the Settings app.

  2. In the Wireless & Networks section, bear upon the More than detail.

  3. Choose Mobile Networks.

    On some Android phones, you may have to choose Battery & Data Managing director and so Data Delivery.

  4. Remove the check marker past the Data Roaming option.

    On some phones the selection is titled Global Data Roaming Access. Choose it and and then choose the Deny Data Roaming Access option.

Your telephone can yet access the Internet over the Wi-Fi connection when it roams. Setting up a Wi-Fi connexion doesn't make y'all incur actress charges, unless you lot have to pay to get on the wireless network.

How to avoid texting surcharges

Some other network service you might want to disable while roaming has to exercise with multimedia, or MMS, text messages. To avoid surcharges from another cellular network for downloading an MMS message, follow these steps:

  1. Open the phone's text messaging app.

  2. Ensure that y'all're viewing the apps' primary screen, the ane that lists all the conversations.

    Affect the Back icon or the app icon in the upper-left corner of the screen until the app's main screen is displayed.

  3. Touch the Action Overflow icon or Carte icon.

  4. Choose the Settings or the Messaging Settings control.

  5. Remove the check mark by the Auto-Recall or Roaming Auto-Recall command.

    Or if the item isn't selected, yous're good to get — literally.

The lock screen may too announce that the telephone is roaming. You might see the name of the other cellular network displayed. The text Emergency Calls Merely might also appear.

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