Edit; I figured it out. For whatever reason, my phone thought i was in airplane mode, even though it wasnt. I still had 3g and everything, but the Call Setting were grayed out. Toggling on/off airplane mode fixed it.
I tried to check my email, but a little pop up comes up saying "It's not supported now." What is happening?
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First of all, the setup:
Myns Warm Two Point Two RLS 3 with netarchy toastmod 4.2.1 bfs-bfq-havs-more-smartass kernel.
I was in Orlando this past weekend for a family vacation and decided to test out a few things. I wanted to see how well 4G worked and how bad the battery drain was because I'm taking a business trip to Vegas in a few weeks. I turned it on, and it sat there "scanning" forever. That's all it ever said, until I turned it off a few hours later. Maps show that I should have had 4G coverage. I'm not sure if it's a ROM issue, a kernel issue, a Sprint issue, or something else entirely.
My second issue - I use Handcent SMS exclusively. I would snap a picture with the phone camera and share it via SMS. It would automatically resize and then try to send, but never would send. I kept getting "generic network failure" on any image that I tried to send. I finally got irritated enough to try and just email the pic, but it wouldn't even go through my Exchange email (at this point I didn't try Gmail, because I was ready to toss the phone in a pond...) I can receive MMS, but seems like I can't send any pictures. Anyone have any ideas what may have been going on?
I have found that you can't send MMS with 4g enabled. Seems to be something wrong with the phone or Android in that it doesn't switch to the appropriate protocol automatically. you have to turn off 4g, let it send, then turn 4g back on.
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I have found that you can't send MMS with 4g enabled. Seems to be something wrong with the phone or Android in that it doesn't switch to the appropriate protocol automatically. you have to turn off 4g, let it send, then turn 4g back on.
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Fair enough - but once I determined that 4G wasn't going to connect, I turned it off. The MMS was being sent with only 3G enabled.
I cant find an answer to this anywhere. If i missed something then im sorry.
i randomly get an alert for "international data roaming" on my evo. theres some text beyond that but it gets cut off. i think it starts as "you have entered internation...." and then its cut off. it seems to only happen when im connected to wifi. turning wifi off then on clears it. pressing the clear button removes it for a little while then it pops up again. it mostly happens at home, where i have horrible reception(0-2 bars), and has happened once or twice at work where i get ok to decent reception.
has this happened to anyone else? its been happening almost on a daily basis since i rooted back in January. hasn't shown up on any bills.
i don't have "international data roaming" enabled, nor do i have "national data roaming" enabled. "data enabled" is checked. "system select" is et to automatic.
this has happened on every rom iv used. gingerbread and froyo.
again, if theres something i missed please let me know.
thanks in advance!
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Chirstopher said:
I cant find an answer to this anywhere. If i missed something then im sorry.
i randomly get an alert for "international data roaming" on my evo. theres some text beyond that but it gets cut off. i think it starts as "you have entered internation...." and then its cut off. it seems to only happen when im connected to wifi. turning wifi off then on clears it. pressing the clear button removes it for a little while then it pops up again. it mostly happens at home, where i have horrible reception(0-2 bars), and has happened once or twice at work where i get ok to decent reception.
has this happened to anyone else? its been happening almost on a daily basis since i rooted back in January. hasn't shown up on any bills.
i don't have "international data roaming" enabled, nor do i have "national data roaming" enabled. "data enabled" is checked. "system select" is et to automatic.
this has happened on every rom iv used. gingerbread and froyo.
again, if theres something i missed please let me know.
thanks in advance!
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I get that same message using CM7.....don't look too much into it. I don't get the message every single time but I would say, once a week I think. All I did to fix it was go into settings/mobile networks and toggle international data roaming on and off. If that doesn't get rid of the message then just reboot........Oh and don't worry, you're not being charge anything extra or whatever!
If that doesn't solve your problem, my advice would be to flash a sense rom or try another rom because to my knowledge, the CM7 rom is the only one that has that message pop up randomally.
more than anything i just find it annoying, it shouldnt be there. iv gotten it on all cm7's, evokings gingerbread, and the savage gingerbread. its not urgent, i just realy want it to go away..
For security purposes at some point sprint will turn off international calling if not used. Sounds like it may fix it, but I can not be sure.
this happens, for me at least, when i roam onto another carrier. if unchecked ill get voice but no data. enabling it allows me to data roam. why it thinks its international idk.
In the ##DATA# menu, there is a menu tree called EVDO, with a sub selection called "DDTM."
What does this selection actually do? I thought it had to do with calls interrupting data?
I ask because I changed this setting to off, and it fixed the ONE instance I had of the losing the data connection... No reboot required, it just suddenly came back with the roam warning, and I had data again.
And now, even though the setting itself SAYS "ON", when I go to change the setting, "OFF" is actually selected. I still get calls while streaming Netflix, so I'm wondering if something is wrong with this particular piece of the firmware?
im curious to know this too!
With DDTM, whenever you are actively using 3G, it will disable calls as opposed to stopping the 3G in order to take the call. So leaving that off is good, because if you were just chillin' and your phone is in your pocket and it starts syncing...and then you get a call..that call is going straight to voicemail while it finishes syncing.
That's why my wife was pissed, she said she would call and call and i would never answer but my phone never rang. Just changed it to off
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Thanks for the insight because I kept getting voicemails without the phone ringing and thought I was just losing my mind
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It must have just been a pure coincidence that my data came back (after 5 minutes of no radio indicator, and error 97s) when I toggled that.
I hate coincidences!
Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere? When I manually turn WiFi off when I get to work I'll look down some time later and the phone will have turned WiFi back on by itself. I'm not sure how long this takes, but so far I'm having no luck finding a setting that would affect this. I didn't have this problem on my EVO 4G, so does anyone have any idea why this is happening. I've got a Sprint S3, btw.
Sprint Connection Optimizer I think is causing your problem...not sure where the setting is since my 32Gb is lost in Sprint/Samsung Limbo, but look under network settings I think.
Settings> more settings>mobile networks>automatic connections> uncheck sprint automatic connections
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Actually, I'll try that, but I think it may have actually been the "Network Notification" under the Wifi advanced settings. You can't change that setting when Wifi is off, but it remains checked if Wifi is manually turned off, so I wonder if there's a bug where Wifi will turn back on to to fulfill the network notification function.
So far, since turning that option off I haven't had the issue, but I'll keep an eye out. Either way, thanks for pointing out the Sprint Automatic Connections location, I couldn't find it to save my life. I'll leave it enabled for now, to see if the network notification setting actually fixes the issue.
Sprint Connections Optimizer
Here's a screenshot of how Sprint describes their Sprint Connections Optimizer. I wonder how much this monitors our use of WiFi Tether on rooted devices and reports it back to Sprint. Probably safer to leave unchecked until we know more from the developers on what it actually records and submits.
I'd love to see a thread on all the Sprint bloatware and which ones can be safely removed with Titanium Backup without disabling any major functionality like visual voice mail.
yea, i see this "solution" all over. it does not work, my optimizer is off, i go into menu with *#0011# and shut off wifi power mode. neither work, it just keeps coming on "while im driving" and kicks me off of my internet radio. any other suggestion im willing to try. i dont want to root this phone just to keep wifi off.
If you have any remembered wifi connections forget them so your phone can't auto connect and if the sprint optimizer connections has been disabled then it's weird that wifi keeps triggering. Because wifi shouldn't auto connect to found hotspots automatically.
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yea, i see this "solution" all over. it does not work, my optimizer is off, i go into menu with *#0011# and shut off wifi power mode. neither work, it just keeps coming on "while im driving" and kicks me off of my internet radio. any other suggestion im willing to try. i dont want to root this phone just to keep wifi off.
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Are you rooted? If so, use Titanium Backup to freeze the connection optimizer.
I have switched from Sprint to Verizon and I now have 2 unused HTC EVOS (both rooted). I would like to do one of two things.
1. Is it possible to flash a rom that turns off all radios except for Wi-Fi and maybe GPS? The cell radios kill my battery, and I'd like to maybe use these as Android iPod touches, for media playback and games. If I do this they will never need cell access, so I'd like to turn that off like Airplane mode, while leaving wi-fi on.
2. The second option would be to flash these phones to a pay as you go service like trac-phone. That way the kids would have a pay as you go phone.
If anyone has information on how to do either of these that would be great, keep in mind that the phone numbers these phones have been moved to Verizon, so if someone has info on option 2, I would need a phone number on the phones, maybe google voice or something.
Thanks for any info!
Brian "ThePCTech"
You can always enable Airplane mode and then enable WiFi. I do that all the time (with my old Hero) I know that it also work with my Evo (on MikG). You have to do it in the right order. Enabling Airplane mode will disable WiFi. You then have to enable WiFi while Airplane mode is on. I am not sure if there is a ROM that will allow you to permanently set the phone this way. It is also possible that rebooting the phone may require you to manually re-enable WiFi when it comes back up in Airplane mode.
There is no Rom that is so minimalistic that it has no radios etc or that has the radios off when you flash. Basically any Rom you have, you are going to have to do this, read below:
Hello Brian "ThePCTech" the answer to your first question about being able to turn off your mobile carriers service. The answer is yes. Go to your settings and go to WiFi, scroll down and you should have two options to turn off mobile network, un-check both of them. Go back to your settings and find your GPS and un-check it. Go back to settings to WiFi and turn it on. Now, you only have WiFi enabled and everything else on your phone is off.
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You can turn off or un check "Mobile Network".
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Does this turn off all cell radios? Data and voice?
Brian
just go airplane mode. lots of newer roms have the ability to disable the network icon showing in the status bar as well.