There *must* be a way around this . . .
When I was in Arizona this winter, AT&T decided that because I had made too many calls off their network (I had the North American Plan), they decided to cancel my plan and gave me 2 weeks to find something else. I did - I went over to Verizon and got the same coverage I needed (Nationwide US + Canada) same minutes for the same money. However, Verizon is a CDMA network while AT&T is a GSM network - so rather than buy an HTC, I took a cheap phone and decided to use my Hermes (Cingular 8525) as strictly a PDA. As my service was cancelled, I removed the SIM card.
Now, back in the Eastern Time Zone, I find that the Hermes stays in Mountain Time Zone. Even when I make the change to Eastern Time, it reverts back to Mountain Time.
I figure that this has something to do with the fact that the phone part sets the time zone. I had tried, unsuccessfully, to hack the registry, but couldn't get the time zone to stay in Eastern Time.
Is there something that I can do change the timezone to Eastern.
Try going to Advanced Config->Phone->show NITZ page (change to yes) after all of that go done btm lefthand corner. It soft resets the Hermes.
After reboot go settings->Personal->Phone->scrool Tabs to Time Zones. Uncheck "Automatic change time zone and clock"->click ok. You are done
Thanks. However, I cannot locate Advanced Config. I inserted the old SIM card, and was able to go to the phone config and uncheck auto set TZ, but it still sets itself as Mountain Time.
Where is the Advanced Config found? I'm running Mobile 6, not 6.1.
Do a search in this forum "everything is here.
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I have a Orange SIM card which I got in Israel, I am now in Canada and that SIM works fine on my friends Nokia 6600, but when I try to use it with my XDA IIs I can't find any networks or anything. I am guessing its the GSM frequecy although the phone supports all of them. Does anyone have any idea what I need to do to get the SIM to work here? Does anyone know how to manually select a GSM frequency?
XDA IIs
ROM Version: 1.40.00 WWE
Radio Version: 1.15.00
Protocol Version: 1337.45
Hello psytech,
I believe you're roaming. Sometimes, you really cannot just plug your sim card then voila its working. If you are roaming, most of the time you really have to manually select the network.
anyway, i'm currently using windows mobile 2005, and no longer using windows mobile 2003 SE. i hope i could still help you or atleast you can see the pattern on how to do it.
here what you do:
1. click on the signal strength icon (the icon located on the upper right most portion of your screen just beside the speaker icon)
2. a dialogue box will appear with a clickable 'settings' button (located on lower left part of the dialogue box.), click the 'settings'
3. you will then see 3 tabs on the bottom part of the screen, 'phone', 'services', 'network'. click on 'network'.
4. you should find something like 'find network' button there, then just but before you click on it, choose 'manual' for network selection.
the rest is self explanatory, i hope i was able to help you. cheers!
You say your orange sim works fine on your friends nokia but does not work in your IIs.
Is it possible that your IIS device is sim locked as in will only work on the O2 network in the country you got it from.
If so unlock it via wiki (link in sig)
not it
I forgot to mention that the SIM worked fine in Isreal, my original SIM is orange (I do have an account with) I just can't get support cause I didn't buy the phone from them (capitalists).
About the network search. Thats what I've been doing for the last couple of days but I can not find ANY networks at all. which is what leads me to believe that its a GSM frequency problem.
What happens if you put your friends sim in your phone
GSM in Canada is generally 1900 http://www.gsmworld.com/roaming/gsminfo/cou_ca.shtml
doesn't work either
My friend's SIM doesn't work on my phone either. If canada is 1900, how can I make sure that my phone is currently using 1900. (I know it supports it, but how do I actually see that its actually scanning with it?)
What happens if you go to Settings->Phone->Network and then change Network Selection to Manual.
You should then get a list of networks. This will list all networks even if you cannot connect to them.
[edit] This has already be suggested earlier in the thread
If you do get some networks then the only reason that I can think of that you are not connecting is that under Prefered Networks you have a network selected that your carrier does not have a roaming agreement with.
Check your provider's website to see who they have agreements with.
no networks
My provider (Orange) has agreements with Rodgers, but my problem is that I am not listing ANY networks, I tried manual and even added the Rodgers network to my favorite networks, but when I try to search for networks I can't find any, I just get a blank window. This is very odd to me and I've never heard of anyone with that problem.
Like I've mentioned before, I updated my windows to TuMa 1.4 and my radio to 1.1.15. If there's anything else I need to do or anything I may not have done when I updated my network please tell me.
btw when I installed that TuMa windows I change my ID thingy to Tmobile.
Problem solved
Attenttion everyone:
It has come to my attention that there is a problem in the Band Selection CAB when it comes to certian cellular providers.
The problem so far appears on a Cellular One network that only supports 850Mhz. When the North American Option is choosen in the Band tab, the phone can not find a network to register on. I'm not quite sure why this happens yet, but there is a solution to fix.
http://relaysgoldens.com/sx66/ext_roms/BandSelect-fix.CAB
By installing this CAB, it provides a fourth option on the band tab, "Reset Value to Zero".
By selecting this option, the phone will be reset to it's default state, and will work normally.
I've trapped this as a bug in the 1.40.124 extrom and will be working to figure this out.
Note: the band selection setting is persistant, and will not be reset even if you downgrade the ROMs on the phone. If you are experiencing this problem, the ONLY way to reset the value is to use the CAB above.
-Chris
P.S. I've also updated the 1.40.124 RAR file on the website to include the updated bandselect CAB.
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I found that at http://pdaphonehome.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=53121 and it worked.
I'm trying to set "Preferred Network Type" to "GSM auto (PRL)" on my Galaxy Nexus as 3G coverage is really poor at work.
I get into the menu with *#*#4636#*#*, select "Phone information", choose the option in the drop down box, but if I press back and then enter the information menu again, it's back on "GSM/WCDMA auto" (the default)
Does anyone know a way to make this setting stick? There doesn't appear to be a save or update button anywhere.
Bumping this as it got little attention before.
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I'm trying to set "Preferred Network Type" to "GSM auto (PRL)" on my Galaxy Nexus as 3G coverage is really poor at work.
I get into the menu with *#*#4636#*#*, select "Phone information", choose the option in the drop down box, but if I press back and then enter the information menu again, it's back on "GSM/WCDMA auto" (the default)
Does anyone know a way to make this setting stick? There doesn't appear to be a save or update button anywhere.
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Doesn't stick on the nexus s either. I've simply come to the conclusion that samsung doesn't implement these things properly. Never have I had as many radio/gps issues on devices made by any other manufacturer as I have on samsung devices.
Just posting to say that the settings does stick on mine (I know this since I had to use it to disabled 2G back when the volume bug was rampant) so it must be a problem with certain set ups. No idea how to fix it though. Try a factory reset I guess?
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Interesting. I guess I'm going to have to go for a factory reset when I root it so will give it a try again afterwards.
Same thing here, any updates on this issue? Thank you.
The factory reset made no difference. In the end I've gone with rooting my phone and installing Toggle2G, which switches the phone to 2G when on wifi or when the screen's been off for a long time. This basically has the effect I wanted and saves a *lot* of battery power into the bargain.
Instead of hitting back after setting just hit home button it sticks if I do that
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iphones are the creation of people with nowhere left to turn
I thought that but I can't really be certain that it's ever made the right option stick.
Yea just go back in and it will stay where you left it....hit home to get out
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Thought I'd update this and point out that the LG Nexus 4 seems to have the same problem - putting GSM auto (PRL) on doesn't actually disconnect the HSDPA service. Of course, it's possible that the networks just aren't very good at updating their own PRLs as I understand it's something that has to be engineered by them. I just want a setting where if the 3G signal is rubbish and the 2G is good, it'll stop trying to use the crap 3G and use the good 2G instead and save my battery. Might be requesting something impossible, though.
Don't press back, select it and just press home, don't swipe it off the recent app list too, that way it will stick.
This appears to work much better on the Nexus 4 (which I now have) than it did on the Galaxy Nexus
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I just moved a locked Samsung A10e from AT&T to Mint (T-Mobile).
Here's what I learned:
I should have first unlocked the phone while still active on AT&T. This way I could still perform actions on the phone.
Then test the phone with the new sim before transferring the number. This way I can still use the phone.
I would have discovered the unlock still had a problem.
Here's what I learned. My Samsung was Unlocked by AT&T through their online request (https://www.att.com/deviceunlock/)
I inserted the new sim but it wasn't connecting to Mint. I found that if I changed the preferred network to "GSM/WCDMA preferred," (*#*#4636#*#*)
this resulted in a connection to Mint. But if I rebooted, it would revert back.
Then I found code *#2263#. I changed the setting here and the phone stayed on Mint after reboot. I changed the Band Selection from Automatic to WCDMA/GSM auto connect.
If you want to re-enter your unlock code, try this code #7465625*638*#.
The last thing would be to transfer the number according to AT&T process or dial *PORT.
OK, I took the plunge and got one. Checked a few things out, then went for the ICS update (official AT&T, at least for now) before I got too wrapped up in it. Seems I may have forgotten to check out that the data plan worked before the update -- I think I may have had Wi-Fi on all the time. Yeah, it was a dumb mistake.
Now I cannot get any data with any application when outside a Wi-Fi zone. Not even 2G, much less 3G. No connection and no indicator at the top. Phone is working on 3G just fine.
I have AT&T, though it's an old "Smartphone Unlimited" plan. It works just fine on my LG Expo (which is 3G). The phone is supposed to be unlocked (at least until I updated it, don't know if that affected it), but I have no non-AT&T SIM with which to try it. Have made no attempt to root it or load a custom ROM.
Are there some settings somewhere that I have to change to go through my old "wap.cingular" gateway (either rooted or not)? Should I try going to a custom ROM? Back to the original software (link, please, if that's the case)?
I'm going to see if a co-worker's T-Mobile SIM works with it (voice and/or data). But is there anything else I should try? Has AT&T finally caught up with me and my old, cheap, unlimited data plan and my SIM keeps me from connecting?
There should be no issue putting in a SIM from a working phone. If you go to System Settings->About Phone->Status, what is the network status? "Unavailable"? "Unprovisioned"?
Do you have signal, just no data, or do you have no signal?
I have full phone and text service, just no data (though, oddly, it says I have used 9.92KB of data). That occurs both at my home where I connect to my microcell and elsewhere. Of course, at home, I can also use WiFi for data.
"Mobile Network State" is "Disconnected". "Mobile Network Type" is "UTMS:3." If I turn the data network off and back on, it goes to "connecting" for a while, then back to "disconnected. I did find the location where it specifies the Access Point Names and it is set to "wap.cingular" just like my old phone. But unlike my old phone, the user name and password are "not set". These are uneditable fields.
I also went to the place it allows me to select my network operator and it offered me three different "AT&T" options. Two of the three gave me a message that my SIM does not allow connection to that network. When I try to switch to one of them, I see the data indicator go through Edge, 3G, and 4G, then off.
Only other odd thing I've noted is that the serial number is all zeros. The IMEI is correct, though; and I think that's what matters.
I'm becoming more and more convinced this is a problem with my SIM and the data plan it's tied to. It is from an old EDGE-only Windows Mobile 5 "smart phone" when that meant a device without a touch screen or QWERTY keyboard and a "PDA" was something that had either of those. The "Smart Phone" data plan was half that for a "PDA" but more than for a plain phone, and that's what I'm still paying. I've been buying phones outside of the AT&T system to hang on to that inexpensive, unlimited plan; but I may have reached the end of the line with it. I definitely need to try a SIM from another 4G capable phone,. both AT&T and T-Mobile, to see where I stand.
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I have full phone and text service, just no data (though, oddly, it says I have used 9.92KB of data). That occurs both at my home where I connect to my microcell and elsewhere. Of course, at home, I can also use WiFi for data.
"Mobile Network State" is "Disconnected". "Mobile Network Type" is "UTMS:3." If I turn the data network off and back on, it goes to "connecting" for a while, then back to "disconnected. I did find the location where it specifies the Access Point Names and it is set to "wap.cingular" just like my old phone. But unlike my old phone, the user name and password are "not set". These are uneditable fields.
I also went to the place it allows me to select my network operator and it offered me three different "AT&T" options. Two of the three gave me a message that my SIM does not allow connection to that network. When I try to switch to one of them, I see the data indicator go through Edge, 3G, and 4G, then off.
Only other odd thing I've noted is that the serial number is all zeros. The IMEI is correct, though; and I think that's what matters.
I'm becoming more and more convinced this is a problem with my SIM and the data plan it's tied to. It is from an old EDGE-only Windows Mobile 5 "smart phone" when that meant a device without a touch screen or QWERTY keyboard and a "PDA" was something that had either of those. The "Smart Phone" data plan was half that for a "PDA" but more than for a plain phone, and that's what I'm still paying. I've been buying phones outside of the AT&T system to hang on to that inexpensive, unlimited plan; but I may have reached the end of the line with it. I definitely need to try a SIM from another 4G capable phone,. both AT&T and T-Mobile, to see where I stand.
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In the Access Point Names make sure that the profile you were talking about is selected. Or from that screen if you hit the menu button it should give you the option of entering your own APN. If you've had data working on another phone I would suggest duplicating the APN settings from it and try making a new profile.
It could be the SIM/plan you're currently on but honestly this sounds exactly like what happens when your APN settings aren't configured correctly.
Turn the phone off, remove the SIM, boot it with no SIM. Go into Access Point Names and remove all the entries. Turn it off, put the SIM back in, turn it back on. If it doesn't autocreate an entry in Access Point Names, or the autocreated entry still doesn't work, take it to an AT&T store and ask them for help.
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In the Access Point Names make sure that the profile you were talking about is selected. Or from that screen if you hit the menu button it should give you the option of entering your own APN. If you've had data working on another phone I would suggest duplicating the APN settings from it and try making a new profile.
It could be the SIM/plan you're currently on but honestly this sounds exactly like what happens when your APN settings aren't configured correctly.
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There was no way to select the plan. So I made a duplicate of it, which did have a select button, selected it, and it now works great. Thanks so much for your help.
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take it to an AT&T store and ask them for help.
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That would have ben last resort. They would have wanted to "upgrade" my data plan to something that cost more and isn't unlimited.
Your solution might have also worked, but the first one offered led me to a solution, so I never tried yours. I'll keep it in mind, though.
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There was no way to select the plan. So I made a duplicate of it, which did have a select button, selected it, and it now works great. Thanks so much for your help.
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Glad it worked out for you!
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Got the LG G8 unlocked Amazon Alexa edition last August (2019). I use it with Sprint. I love the phone and it worked great, until a month ago.
All of a sudden, I can't make or receive phone calls or text messages, but I DO still connect to the Sprint cell service (I have bars) and I DO have working 4G LTE Data. Literally, one day it worked and the next day it didn't. I hadn't powered cycled the phone or anything between it worked and when it suddenly didn't. It just stopped working.
When I try to call out, the dialer gives me an "Out of service area" message, even though I'm within my service area. When someone tries to call me, it goes straight to voice mail as if my phone is turned off, except that my phone is turned on. When I try to send a text, it sits at "sending" indefinitely and never sends. When someone sends me a text, I simply never receive it.
Sprint, I do firmly believe, has done everything they can to troubleshoot it and proven it's not a network issue. Several different kinds of resets, including a factory reset. I was able to reactivate an older LG V20 on my account and it works just fine.
The phone is still under warranty with LG, and I was able to send it in for repair at no cost, but they did not find anything wrong with the hardware. They did do a software update of some sort, but that did not resolve the issue.
So now I'm essentially stuck between both Sprint and LG saying it's the other's issue. First unlocked phone I've ever bought and it bites me in the butt.
Any other ideas for troubleshooting either on the phone itself (beyond all the standard stuff which I've already done; I mean, if a Factory Reset doesn't help...), or with Sprint?
Thank you!
I had the same problem with Amazon variant. I used an app called Hidden Settings Muiu and went to "Phone Info" then switch the Preferred Network Type to LTE only leave it on there until it says LTE on data and no network on Voice then switch to LTE/CDMA and it get 1xRTT. Ive tried tweaking settings and everythingelse but no luck that seems to be 100% effective but anytime you **** with your network or restart you'll have to do that.
Edit: Do Global(PRL) then LTE only then to LTE/CDMA. Otherwise itll stay on EvDo for data not LTE.
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I had the same problem with Amazon variant. I used an app called Hidden Settings Muiu and went to "Phone Info" then switch the Preferred Network Type to LTE only leave it on there until it says LTE on data and no network on Voice then switch to LTE/CDMA and it get 1xRTT. Ive tried tweaking settings and everythingelse but no luck that seems to be 100% effective but anytime you **** with your network or restart you'll have to do that.
Edit: Do Global(PRL) then LTE only then to LTE/CDMA. Otherwise itll stay on EvDo for data not LTE.
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##3282#, apn settings, view, 3 buttons top right, reset to default. Works for most people, may or may not work for you
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##3282#, apn settings, view, 3 buttons top right, reset to default. Works for most people, may or may not work for you
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Did try that and gives me data but no cell service. Thank you though
Had same problem from a newbie...
I used ##873283# with dial key pad. It took a few times but finally worked. As soon as you power off or restart your phone, your back to where you started.
I bought mine from bestbuy 1 1/2 yrs ago. They are having lg send me a new one...
Lg v8 thinq This is the model I had* LM-G820QM.
Good luck.
Had my settings on LTE/cdma with roaming turned off.
I joined XDA in order to give thanks to several contributors. This is the first time I have tried messing with changing stuff on a mobile and I could not have done it without XDA. So as I have benefited massively from the information provided by all you folks on XDA, I thought it would be helpful to outline briefly my route to getting a $80 new-in-box phone off eBay to work in case it helps someone else. It took me a very long time to convince myself that this was a Chinese manufacture M9, for Verizon / CDMA rather than an Worldwide GSM model that it was advertised as, and despite the 0PJA100 designation imprinted on the case. Here is the eBay link, very similar adverts continue to appear under different names: https://www.ebay.com.au/itm/314253817210
It comes with Android 6.0 out of the box. So naturally I wanted to change this to Android 7.0. The first warning that something was screwy was the "updates only available in CDMA mode" and that updates were not available through HTC Sync Manager.
So I will skip the bits about me changing the MID and CID in order to load a full International 401 Nougat RUU,and then finding that although it booted, very little worked (what can I say, I learn very slowly by making mistakes ).
To load a phone-appropriate RUU, I had to reset the MID. Every bit of information I could find on the internet pointed to the correct MID being 0PJA3000. This is also incidentally the MID I wrote down before I started screwing things up! However, each attempted flash of firmware, ROM, or aboot, led to an error 10 wrong MID. I really don't know why I tried resetting the phone MID to 0PJA30000, it must have been a subliminal input from the tens of hours I spent reading about this phone, but anyway with MID set to 0PJA30000 (not 3000) I had no further flashing errors.
The following downloads, links all on the well written post on Android 7.0 Nougat ROM / Aroma. (thanks to Santod040). let to a clean, bloat-free and functioning phone:
4.49.605.16_NoBoot_TWRP3.2.1-0_firmware
HIMA_WL_N70_SENSE80_VZW_MR_4.49.605.16_AROMA
3.37.605.28_NoRedText_aboot
At this point I had a phone that identified itself as "Verizon", prompted me that I have the wrong SIM, could make calls, could receieve text messages, but could not send/receive MMS or work on mobile data (with no wifi).
To get both mobile data and MMS to work was a major PITA as it was not immediately obvious to me at least that the problem was no APNs set up.
I first set "Data Roaming" to "Allow access for all trips".
Network preference: for me in Australia / Optus is 50502 and GSM (tap GSM from the Add Network choices).
I ignored the usual "network preference list is full (0)" message and tapped the tick at the top of the screen to save my changes.
I cannot reproduce the exact route by which I set the two APNs as several of the outcomes seemed to be context dependent, and I have no idea if it is important in what order you do things.
I am pretty sure that the function to set the APNs is only available if "Preferred Network" is first set to LTE/GSM/UMTS. (It seems that the phone is happy with "Preferred Network" being changed to Global after you have set the APNs.)
With "Preferred Network" set to LTE/GSM/UMTS, then GSM/UMTS options is no longer greyed (is active). Under GSM/UMTS options you can select "Access point names" or you can select "Network operators". I have no idea if it is important to do this before "Access point names". On my phone, it found Optus (my provider) and Telstra (not my provider). Tapping Optus gave me the response "now registered".
Now under "GSM/UMTS Options" I selected "Access point names" and ignoring that the plus symbol was grayed out, tapped it anyway.
I retrieved the sets of responses from the Optus website. It took me several goes before I got them all correct. Apparently the trailing "/" on the MMSC is important. These setting will only be saved if you tap the three dots at the top of the screen and then tap "Save".
When I was done, there was a green dot in a circle next to the first APN (yesinternet) and none next to the second (mms). Anyone know what the green dot means?
Getting MMS to work. Apart from using the correct settings from the Optus website, it may be critical to initiate the MMS APN by sending a MM to yourself (with wi-fi off).