Hi,
I bought a HTC touch hd about 5 months ago, which i lost about 1 month ago. I phoned orange and told them to cancle my simcard, i didnt give them an imei number (obviously cos i didnt have it), just my lost phone number. I bought a HTC touch dual from ebay the day after which has been working perfectly. Then a few days ago, my friend phoned me saying he has found my touch HD, i got it from him, put my simcard in it and i got signal and was able to phone people from it but when i did a soft reset, it didnt get the signal back, there was just an exclaimation mark (!) next to the signal meter in the task bar, when i go into the phone settings, it says "no service" and when i click find, it says "cannot register to network."
To confuse the situation even more, when i turned the phone back on a few hours later, i regained signal and was able to phone people, but as soon as i did soft reset, it lost signal again. Over the past week i have been constantly testing it and have noticed that if i turn the phone on after about 5pm, it gets signal but as soon as i reset the phone, it loses signal again until 5pm the next day. i know it sounds strange but thats wot happens.
Iv just unlocked the phone to all networks (using the xda tool ) and tried my o2 sim in there but that does exactly the same thing, i will try it at 5pm tomorrow. Iv tried phoning orange but they are useless, and the staff in their shops just tell me to phone customer services.
Also, i can use GPRS/HSDPA all the time and go on the internet and stuff, everything on the phone works, except the actual phone itself (unless i turn it on after 5pm and leave it on, will only lose signal after a reset)
Would this point towards them blocking my phone? cos i always thought, once your phone is block, it will never get signal unless the imei is changed.
Also, is the imei on its own IC inside the phone? Does anyone have access to a service manual or at least know the circuit location of the chip? im an electronics engineer and have the facilities to change and read small ICs. If the worst comes to the worst, i will change the imei with either 1 from a faulty touch HD or from my touch dual, whichever is easier.
1 more thing, dont post telling me its illigal to change the imei, i already know, its illigal to download copyrighted stuff, break speed limits or take drugs but people still do it everyday.
Thanks in advance to any help given
Mr Moo
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Not sure if anyone else has had this problem but i randomly get mobile network drops once or twice a week. The phone works perfectly well but the mobile network just drops, you cannot scan for network at all. The only way i have found around it is to enable plane mode to drop all connections and then turn plane mode back off so the network starts up. This often takes between 5 - 10 mins for it to kick in.
Tried two roms but now back to stock but still happening.
Have you tried flashing the latest radio? They are listed in the dev section.
The recent OTA 1.21.405.2 update included a new radio I think. Did you put this on too?
Since then, I have also been having the network drop out. I am missing a lot of calls as a result. Prior to this update I had two months of problem-free operation on my stock 2.1 ROM.
From reading the google forums, this is a wide-spread issue. The light at the end of the tunnel seems to be that people updating to 2.2 froyo seem to see the problem stop. Two weeks to wait for us stock ROM boys according to the rumours then! Fingers crossed.
It's a bit embarrassing having this flashy toy when it struggles to be a phone at random intervals. At the weekend one of my less techy friends was waving his Nokia 6210i in my face saying, "At least I can make and recieve calls!". So I changed the language on his phone to Turkish when he left it lying about. The old ones are the best.
I am going to test the 1.21.405.2 theory by doing a factory reset later this week when I have time. Problem should persist if it is the new radio. Will post back with the results.
OK did a factory reset this morning. I left all my apps off, and did not set back up any google account business. I basically left it as a standard mobile phone.
Within 7 hours, guess what....yes it's lost the connection again. Strongly believe this is a radio problem. I'm too noob to know if I can flash the radio without rooting. Anyone?
I have since submitted my complaint with HTC CS. Will await their response, and post it here.
In the interim, turning airplane mode off and on again does regain the connection, and I have installed an app from the market place called "No Coverage Alert". It will now beep and buzz if I loose the connection so at least I will be aware every time it bombs out. Far from ideal but should do for now.
Watch this space.
Yes i have tried the two radios posted but i havent tried any international ones such as europe or asia. I still randomly get network drop and i need to turn radio off and back on again for it to pick up.
Maybe i should ask a chef if these drops are logged anywhere on the device so i can root in and look at the logs myself and diagnose what the network drop is on my phone.
Just to confirm, tried multiple radios and roms, i know exactly what i am doing all i would like is explaination of why it happens. It is not user error as i have tried with stock rom, no fancy apps etc to stop it from working or changing config.
its got something to do with the network radio libs that need a service restart. i am 100% sure if i rooted in and knew which service to restart it would work also
Erm.... this is a little embarrassing but I feel I need to own up to prevent misleading anyone. I have arranged with HTC customer support to send my Desire back for repair. They pick it up Monday.
I bought a cheap £10 phone to keep me going. It arrived this morning. After I had finished laughing at it, I put the SIM card in and powered up the phone.
"No SIM card instered" was the message it greeted me with. After numerous power-up and power downs, and some SIM card hoakee-coakee, it finally recognised the SIM card......then dropped the signal to Orange. EXACTLY what my HTC Desire did.
Doh.
I had tried the SIM card in another phone (my girlfriends Blackberry) when the problems first started and it had worked straight away. But the SIM card seems to be random in it's failures. Should have tested more rigorously.
Sorry guys but in my instance it seems I have simply a faulty SIM card. The first one I have ever had go wrong in 12 years, but there you go. I was too fast to blame Android/HTC.
A|ex, please try your SIM card in another handset. Do several power-ups to see if it goes wrong. Would explain why trying numerous radios/ROMs has not helped you.
Let me know?
I had the same issue. Talked all day and evening, then toyed around with the phone a little, flashed a new ROM, no connection. oO okay, that's weird. Tried 3 different ROMs, reset to factory settings. Went to Orange, the SIM was borked. Thankfully, getting a new one took all of 5 minutes and didn't cost me a dime.
Yep. Was the SIM card. The new one arrived from Orange this morning. Popped it in and it's working straight away. My 3G has even improved slightly I reckon.
Six hours of use and not one drop yet.
Thank god for that.
Hey guys,
I'm with Vodafone UK (notorious for their bad signal coverage) but this morning when I woke up, my HOX has had absolutely no signal.
I've tried everything I can think of to resolve the issues, standard restart, hard restart, removing the sim card etc. but to no avail.
I also wondered if it was maybe Vodafone having a bad day too and asked my friends who are also with them, if they had any signal. They all have full signal.
Then i checked the settings on my device, phone identity.
For some reason, the IMEI, IMEI SV, IMSI and phone number are now all unknown. I'm not really sure what this means, but I know they normally have something underneath them.
This has led me to believe its an issue with my sim card/contract whatever... maybe I haven't paid my contract so Vodafone cut me off, went online and checked. Everything has been paid for.
Got any suggestions as to whats wrong and how I can resolve this please?
Hi,
I had a similar problem (also on Vodafone, but it may just be coincidental). I had no signal for a couple of days and thought it was due to a screw up during my number porting from O2.
Anyway, after 2 days of calling customer services and having my SIM swapped twice I went into the store and they replaced my phone. It's fine now.
Funny enough I also woke up to phone having zero signal, but am with o2. After 1min or even less signal came back.
just got off the phone to the Vodafone people.
After trying my sim card in my friends Vodafone HOX (black), I got signal. This has led me to believe its a hardware issue, but despite this the phonerep still insisted it might be a software issue (I have the latest OTA update, same as my friend and his is fine? NB: his device doesnt have the flicker issue unlike mine).
Will have to visit the local store to have the shop monkey tell me the dreaded, "we'll have to send it away for repair" probably. If this is the case, the phonerep said I would probably have to pay for any repairs/new handset as I dont have insurance. Is that fair because I'm still well within warranty..?
Sounds about right, if you within your 28 days you can ask for a replacement. As per rules. Even HTC say to replace. Anything after 28 days needs to be sent to HTC for repair. You shouldn't have to pay for any repairs it should be covered under warranty. They can refuse or charge if you have tampered with it, as in did the HTC unlock and installed a custom rom.
See what the shop says, if HTC do charge then kick up a big fuss.
No issues with my vodafone sim in mine, however had terrible issues with GG, kept losing sim card I assumed it was a faulty sim card causing the issues.
Hey there, my girlfriend is on Vodafone with an iPhone 4S, she lost her signal yesterday morning and still hasn't had it back bar a five minute window this afternoon. she lives near a place called Devizes (its in Wiltshire) but her mum had it back from last night, I don't know anyone else on Vodafone so I don't know how far it has spread.
Edited to add: you can check for reported signal/mast issues here (http://forum.vodafone.co.uk/t5/Faults-Board/bd-p/69) the bit on the right of the first set of numbers in the thread title is the start of the postcode for the area the mast is based.
Think I'm a few days past the 28 days, just my luck! And I haven't done anything to the phone whatsoever, everything is stock.
More evidence that something's gone wrong... After leaving it on charge all night (as per), the battery has dropped from 100% to 14% in the space of 4 hours with just some casual wifi usage. It's also extremely quick to heat up now, and thats just from leaving it on charge.
If they make me pay for a blatant hardware issue I will kick up a massive fuss. Why should I pay to have the manufacturer fix a phone that has clearly been made to an unsatisfactory level?
Guys I need help. Today while at work in my pocket, my phone lost all signal totally and won't pick it up again. I was running CM9 Beta 1 and I've seen people say they've had similar problems so I tried reflashing, nothing happening. I've since tried Trip's version of CM9 and LeeDroid, no service. With Leedroid it at least recognises that I've removed the SIM, but putting it back in isn't helping. I haven't dropped it, it hasn't gotten too hot, it's just stopped functioning. Do I need to relock and hope they'll repair? This is my only phone and I dread being without it for weeks. I bought it SIM unlocked from Carphone Warehouse about three months ago, so the chances of a swap seem remote.
Big problems on o2 at the min if that's who u r with
I'm on Giffgaff, so sort of. It seems odd that it won't find any network at all though, even without SIM..
signal
i'm on o2 also...got no signal...o2 totaly down by the live service status once i got the page to load..
O2's service page claims Blackpool should be working.
tried to ring customer services and cant get through from landline either..
O2 is giffgaff and tesco mobile aswell
All off the same network
Yeah. I HOPE I'm one of the affected customers as it means my One X isn't broken, but I've surveyed half a dozen local O2/giffgaff users I know and they're all working fine, so I'm either unlucky or very unlucky.
Mine is fine, but i know many with none workin sim card, they do know about it and r fixing as we speak
i thought mine was broken also. also did a checkmend imei report as i thought it had been blocked. still have no network now..
just came back a min ago......yeahhhh..
spoke too soon...lol
http://crave.cnet.co.uk/mobiles/o2-down-in-parts-of-uk-50008586/
Hello guys. I have some major issues with my S3. In general it has very weak reception compared to my S1. I've had two providers KPN HI and Tele 2, the latter uses t-mobile's network. With both providers and several different sim cards I encounter the same problems. Not only is reception in general weaker than my S1, it also drops calls very frequently. Mind you, I live in central Amsterdam, where I've never had reception problems with any provider at all. Sometimes when signal drops it comes back after 10 to 20 seconds. Sometimes it's completely gone and I have to reboot the phone to get service again. On average, I have to reboot the phone 6 to 8 times a day. The phone is on stock rom, latest firmware.
My s3 has been to samsung repair two times. The first time they checked for software issues. After a week they told me they couldn't find anything wrong, but they updated to the latest firmware. The problems were still there. They then took my phone for 3 weeks. When I got it back they couldn't say if they found the problem, but the phone went through general inspection (?) so it should be fine. Wrong. Literally one hour after having back my phone I tried calling someone. I was standing outside, had 4 bars of reception, but got dropped out of the conversation after 3 seconds. The no service symbol was showing. I rebooted and tried to call again. This time it worked. After an hour I checked my phone and surely, the no service symbol was showing again.
I'm getting very tired of this. I have a 550 euro phone that doesn't make me do phone calls 2 out of 3 times. People calling me have complained that they get voicemail instantly. I called Samsung and they told me they couldn't do anything but take the phone in for repair again. The shop where I purchased the phone says the same thing. I have no choice but to send it to repair, which means that I will lose my phone for at least 3 weeks again.
If someone can offer me advice, please, I would appreciate it very much. I wish I didn't gave away my s1...
Edit: Should've posted this in the general s3 sub.
Ask them for expedited repair and shipping, Samsung does a pretty good job and helping out when you're nice and friendly with them.
Let them know the situation, tell them you don't want to cause any problems, but that this is the third time you've sent the phone, if they can kindly either do a more thorough review of the phone and figure out what's wrong with it and fix it or give you a different new/refurbished phone. Or something.
Hi everyone, I have searched XDA and Google to no end for a fix.
I just got this phone used like new off eBay yesterday from a reputable mobile dealer. I have spent hours playing with it and testing it and can confirm everything on it works beautifully!... except mobile service. >_____________<
Coverage is terrible to nonexistent at least half the time I use it, whether at home or out and about. I got a new SIM, same problem. My previous phone had great coverage and it was an unlocked AT&T iPhone 4.
The service bar indicator often shows a white circle with a cross. When I try to register it with T-Mobile, an alert appears in the top bar saying "Mobile Data is currently turned off" -- even though it isn't-- while the phone shows "Registering on T-Mobile..." for a minute, until finally saying "Unable to connect. Try Later"
It has a good IMEI, locked to T-mobile, stock unrooted Android 4.3 and is in excellent all around condition. I troubleshooted this with T-Mobile for two hours yesterday at the store. We are all trumped. They said they would have a network engineer check things out on their end and I should get a call back in two days from tech support.
Please help! I have already contacted the eBay seller about the phone but if at all possible I would like to fix the issue myself if I can.
Just noticed something. Without SIM card inserted the phone shows several bars of cellular service. With the SIM card in, the cellular service bar shows a white circle with a slash.
Maybe the SIM reader is toast?...yet, the phone acts like there is a SIM in when it is in...in other words it doesn't say insert SIM or no SIM or anything like that.