Hi all, I've got a strange problem and am running out of ideas trying to troubleshoot it.
I have a ZTE blade, running Cyanogenmod 7.1. I have the Facebook app installed on the phone and have Opera Mobile, but not mini yet (some searches suggest this could help provide a solution, though I've yet to try it). Both FB and Opera are as up to date as the playstore provides. My mobile provider is 3Mobile who give me an "unlimited" data package (I think the fair usage cap is about 3 Gigs but I rarely get near that and have never had it throttled/cut off).
The problem I have is that I can't get on facebook (1st world problems suck eh :\ ). Well more precisely sometimes I can't get to facebook, either through the app (refreshing data just times out and says the connection is lost) or through opera mobile (navigating to m.facebook.com OR http://facebook.com OR https://facebook.com).
If my phone is connected to our home broadband via wifi both the app and opera connect fine. This makes me think the problem isn't with the app or a setting within opera.
If I use my phone's data connection neither work with opera throwing up this error https://www.dropbox.com/s/vq51zmmas0ru8u2/2012-08-14 14.49.12.png. First thoughts is that the data settings are broken/wrong. Except that other sites, including this one, load in the opera browser using the phone's data connection. Next I checked my emails through opera just to see if it was the secure https that caused the problem, but gmail, hotmail and my banking site open fine, all using secure connections.
This makes me think there is a specific problem with 3mobile and facebook.
Except, if I use wifi to tether my laptop to my phone and use the phones data connection to access facebook on my laptop it works perfectly. Just to be sure there wasn't a data problem with the phone, I am typing/posting this via the tethered phone now.
Which kind of rules out any nefarious blocking by 3mobile (the thought had occured, though I realise that it is highly unlikely).
Any further ideas what I could check or how to proceed from here would be very welcome.
I have a ZTE blade, running Cyanogenmod 7.1. I have the Facebook app installed on the phone and have Opera Mobile, but not mini yet (some searches suggest this could help provide a solution, though I've yet to try it). Both FB and Opera are as up to date as the playstore provides. My mobile provider is 3Mobile who give me an "unlimited" data package (I think the fair usage cap is about 3 Gigs but I rarely get near that and have never had it throttled/cut off).
The problem I have is that I can't get on facebook (1st world problems suck eh :\ ). Well more precisely sometimes I can't get to facebook, either through the app (refreshing data just times out and says the connection is lost) or through opera mobile (navigating to m.facebook.com OR http://facebook.com OR https://facebook.com).
If my phone is connected to our home broadband via wifi both the app and opera connect fine. This makes me think the problem isn't with the app or a setting within opera.
If I use my phone's data connection neither work with opera throwing up this error https://www.dropbox.com/s/vq51zmmas0ru8u2/2012-08-14 14.49.12.png. First thoughts is that the data settings are broken/wrong. Except that other sites, including this one, load in the opera browser using the phone's data connection. Next I checked my emails through opera just to see if it was the secure https that caused the problem, but gmail, hotmail and my banking site open fine, all using secure connections.
This makes me think there is a specific problem with 3mobile and facebook.
Except, if I use wifi to tether my laptop to my phone and use the phones data connection to access facebook on my laptop it works perfectly. Just to be sure there wasn't a data problem with the phone, I am typing/posting this via the tethered phone now.
Which kind of rules out any nefarious blocking by 3mobile (the thought had occured, though I realise that it is highly unlikely).
Any further ideas what I could check or how to proceed from here would be very welcome.
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