I own a Samsung Galaxy Note 3 (SM-N900), with Android 4.4.2 installed on it. It was purchased through Partner (Israel) and I have recently moved to Germany for work.
Upon my arrival, I purchased a SIM card from a carrier called Lycamobile and I regularly top up my account per demand.
Problem - the device is stuck on roaming mode.
What I've done so far:
I toggled Data Roaming in the More Networks -->Mobile Networks menu; when enabled, the device is set on Roaming Mode automatically (see figure #1).
When Data Roaming is disabled, mobile data is disabled, too (see figure #2).
Taking the SIM card in and out several times hasn't helped much (I've see that it helped Verizon users in the US in some forums online).
I manually changed the carrier to my carrier (Lycamobile) instead of letting the device choose one automatically.
Now, the mobile data works as I'm obviously not roaming, but it doesn't work great and I also have to be on roaming mode enabled, which is simply wrong.
Is any one familiar with this behaviour? Thanks in advance for the helpers.