Are you looking for the Rain APN settings for your Samsung phone? Samsung is the most popular phone brand in South Africa. Today, over 40 percent of South African smartphones are made by Samsung. Currently, there are about 26 million smartphone users in the country. That means over 10 million people have Samsung smartphones. If you have a Samsung phone or tablet, you may be looking for the Rain internet settings for your device. That’s the information that we provide in this article;
Rain Internet Settings for Samsung Phones
The following are the Rain APN settings for Samsung Phones;
- Profile name: rain
- APN: rain
- Username: not set (empty)
- Password: not set (empty)
How to Configure Rain APN Settings on a Samsung Phone
Those are the Rain APN settings for Samsung phones and tablets. But how do you configure these settings on your phone? Remember that Samsung smartphones run on the Android operating system. The following is how to configure Rain APN settings on a Samsung phone;
- First, you need to go to Settings.
- Next, go to Wireless and Networks
- From there, click on More.
- Now you need to click on Mobile networks or Cellular Networks.
- Next, click on Access point name.
- Create a New Profile. This can be done by clicking on the plus sign to the top right of your screen.
- Set up your Rain APN settings using the details given above.
- Save your profile.
- Go back to Mobile Network.
- Choose 4G/LTE as your preferred Network Type.
These settings are different on my phone
Android has many versions, so you may discover that these settings are slightly different for your version. However, you shouldn’t have any problem navigating to the appropriate section.
Why bother with these settings?
You are probably here because you have been having problems getting connected to the internet using your Rain SIM. Maybe you bought your SIM and inserted it into your phone. However, you are not getting any internet, in spite of the fact that you have a full signal.
So, now you are looking for solutions to this problem. Most likely, the APN settings on your phone are not set up correctly. Under normal circumstance, the moment that you insert your Rain SIM into your phone, everything gets configured automatically. But sometimes that does not happen.
In that case, you will want to set up the Rain APN settings for your Samsung tablet or phone. It’s also important to choose LTE/4G as your Preferred network type. Rain runs on LTE. If you choose 2G, then you wont be able to get internet access. 4G is also very fast, so that’s what you are looking for.
What is an Access Point Name (APN)
We have been talking about setting up the APN on your Samsung phone so you can get Rain internet. But what is an APN? You may have been wondering about this.
APN stands for Access Point Name. It’s essentially the Gateway that is used to connect your phone to the internet. In the event that the APN is not configured correctly on your phone, you will not have any internet connectivity.
Leave questions on the SA Broadband Forum
Hopefully, this article has been of help to you. In it, we showed the Rain internet settings for Android devices. We also showed you how to configure you device.
If you have comments, leave them in the appropriate section below. If you have questions, post them on our SA Broadband forum. Our experts stand ready to help you with well researched answers.
Also check out our Rain APN settings for Huawei router article. That’s for those who have Huawei routers and who use Rain SIM cards to get connected to the internet.