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[sg9015]

Apologies if this is off topic but i'm hoping that someone has an answer to this particular issue.

I have a mobifone sim and every 2 minutes or so I get a vietnamese 'note' flashing up on the phone. It is obviously advertising something that I don't want, need or understand. The problem is that this is draining my battery at an annoying rate and I can't seem to turn these 'notes' off.

Anyone else have the same issue? Is it the same with all carriers? Am I going crazy?!

[underthesky]

I managed to disable this note by hitting a few random items on the menu. You should ask a local to do it if you're stuck. I had a Viettel SIM before and never had these annoying adverts.

[sg9015]

Thanks for the advice. I'll ask a vn friend to have a look. Mobifone is also a completely useless network. Texts arrive 24 hours later. Network busy signal. Don't make my mistake (anyone who is reading this in the future).

[sg9015]

MOD EDIT



I have 3 sims with Mobifone and the advetising seems to be linked with something on the Supersim menu that I can't delete from my handset. Two of these numbers haven't been given out to anyone but a few friends, one number could be in general circulation but ironically this gets less advertising? I'm not sure if that's what you were getting at.

The only other sims I have held have been UK, French and Kazakh and compared to all three, Mobifone has so far been terrible. But, maybe the other carriers will be just as bad.

[vit]

I'm with vinaphone. Good service and no ads like you describe, but I do get an SMS every now and then from the carrier advertising recharge promotions.

[sg9015]

I found out today from a local that if you send a text to 9241 and have 'TC' in the body of the message, it will cancel the advertising.

So far so good!

I think this works across all the networks

[CThomas]