Possible Fix - - Loss of Use - Samsung Epic 4G Touch

Hey guys,
Please dont flame if this doesnt work, BUT after i got a LOS event, i decided to go into the ##DATA# menu to just look around for any sort of settings to help.
I did ##data#, then EDIT, then enter your MSL. i went into Other>Multimedia, backed out, then DSS.
My radio reset itself and got reception/data back!
Give it a try next time u got a LOS problem and report back here....
Sean

I followed that all the way to the DSS. What do you mean by that?
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Just going into the menus then back out did nothing.

Snazarian said:
Hey guys,
Please dont flame if this doesnt work, BUT after i got a LOS event, i decided to go into the ##DATA# menu to just look around for any sort of settings to help.
I did ##data#, then EDIT, then enter your MSL. i went into Other>Multimedia, backed out, then DSS.
My radio reset itself and got reception/data back!
Give it a try next time u got a LOS problem and report back here....
Sean
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Rebooting seems a lot simpler and less of a chance of screwing up any default settings. unless Samsung comes out with a new modem software , im sticking to rebooting. Besides, my phone doesn't really loose signal, only happened once so far since launch day. Just lucky I guess.

My phone gets LOS only when I'm in certain areas, and I used to do a reboot whenever I noticed it.
Now I just have a tasker profile set up so that whenever I get LOS, the phone reboots automatically, unless I'm using it. LOS doesn't bother me anymore.

Snazzytime said:
My phone gets LOS only when I'm in certain areas, and I used to do a reboot whenever I noticed it.
Now I just have a tasker profile set up so that whenever I get LOS, the phone reboots automatically, unless I'm using it. LOS doesn't bother me anymore.
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Can you please enlighten us into how to get tasker to do this?
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u can download it from the market, and im pretty sure a mod is going to move this also

reinaldistic said:
Can you please enlighten us into how to get tasker to do this?
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Yes, please share your profile
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Snazzytime said:
My phone gets LOS only when I'm in certain areas, and I used to do a reboot whenever I noticed it.
Now I just have a tasker profile set up so that whenever I get LOS, the phone reboots automatically, unless I'm using it. LOS doesn't bother me anymore.
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Please show how you have done this. I can't seem to figure out how to set that variable.

This worked for my LOS issue but make sure you have the stock kernel before trying it.
Some users said this worked for them. I just tried it this morning so time will tell.
***I think you need the stock Kernel or else you might get a bootloop
The MSL can be found by downloading "terminal emulator" and typing "getprop ril.MSL" It is case sensitive.
From there, go to the phone, and type ##72786# , at the SCRTN screen select yes, let the phone reboot, let the activation go through its thing NOT TOUCHING THE SCREEN unless it tells you to. Let it do a reboot again.
thanks - kingsway8605

Snazarian said:
Hey guys,
Please dont flame if this doesnt work, BUT after i got a LOS event, i decided to go into the ##DATA# menu to just look around for any sort of settings to help.
I did ##data#, then EDIT, then enter your MSL. i went into Other>Multimedia, backed out, then DSS.
My radio reset itself and got reception/data back!
Give it a try next time u got a LOS problem and report back here....
Sean
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Your radio will reset itself after making ANY changes in that menu (EPST).

sweets55 said:
This worked for my LOS issue but make sure you have the stock kernel before trying it.
Some users said this worked for them. I just tried it this morning so time will tell.
***I think you need the stock Kernel or else you might get a bootloop
The MSL can be found by downloading "terminal emulator" and typing "getprop ril.MSL" It is case sensitive.
From there, go to the phone, and type ##72786# , at the SCRTN screen select yes, let the phone reboot, let the activation go through its thing NOT TOUCHING THE SCREEN unless it tells you to. Let it do a reboot again.
thanks - kingsway8605
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trying this method out. so far so good.

Snazzytime said:
My phone gets LOS only when I'm in certain areas, and I used to do a reboot whenever I noticed it.
Now I just have a tasker profile set up so that whenever I get LOS, the phone reboots automatically, unless I'm using it. LOS doesn't bother me anymore.
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Would you mind to share, how to achieve such of wonderful task. Please.
Sent from my Super Amoled Epic Touch....

Snazzytime said:
My phone gets LOS only when I'm in certain areas, and I used to do a reboot whenever I noticed it.
Now I just have a tasker profile set up so that whenever I get LOS, the phone reboots automatically, unless I'm using it. LOS doesn't bother me anymore.
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I had the same idea, but wasn't sure how to go about it. So:
SHARE IT!
But seriously, give up the goods.

Has anyone tried locking the phone in roam using roam control? Im gonna try it and see if I still get LOS. I had another one today.

phatmanxxl said:
Has anyone tried locking the phone in roam using roam control? Im gonna try it and see if I still get LOS. I had another one today.
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Yes. There's a 95% chance you'll get LOS. Some times, you can go into Roaming, but then when you try to go to Automatic, you'll get LOS. Because Roam Control itself's method of changing networks is turning off the radio. The issue is LOS prevents it from turning back on.

Haha sorry guys, I was asleep. Of course I'll share!
I made a new thread for this because I don't want to interrupt the OP's thread. It can be found here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1301880
Cheers.

I haven't had LOS in over TWO WEEKS!!
All I did was odin the stock kernel on top of my stock rooted rom and voila the yellow triangle at boot up was gone.
I still have all my su permissions for wifi tether and other apps that need su permission. I only lost my cwm recovery, but I don't need that when the rom is stable, phone works perfect and does not LOS EVER!!!

Coming from the Evo 4G I had Juice Defender Ultimate installed on it and carried it over into the Epic Touch. For the longest time I was having issues with LOS and through trial and error and a couple flashed kernels and ROMS, at least one thing I do know now is that this program on extreme setting will kill signals on the Epic. IDK why this is because I used the extreme setting on the Evo. I changed it to "Aggressive" instead of Extreme and my issues with LOS are pretty much done.

janitorjohnson said:
I haven't had LOS in over TWO WEEKS!!
All I did was odin the stock kernel on top of my stock rooted rom and voila the yellow triangle at boot up was gone.
I still have all my su permissions for wifi tether and other apps that need su permission. I only lost my cwm recovery, but I don't need that when the rom is stable, phone works perfect and does not LOS EVER!!!
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Can you post links to which Rom and kernel to flash? I need to get this fixed.
Thanks

try LoStKernel. I used to get los every couple of hours until i flashed it. Chris41g has been working around the clock to make it and its pretty much awesome. good on battery too. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1296348

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[Q] Major problem!!!

not sure where to begin, i suppose by listing my phone specs after root--
using the galaxy s2, (epic 4g touch) using kernal 2.6.35-8lostkernelexp+, build number starburst 11.13.11 v1.9.8r and running nothing but the honey theme.
i rooted the phone about a week ago and until today, everything seemed to work fine, then suddenly, i was unable to send pictures via text. not a real big issue, but i travel alot and sending pics back home by messages i a big deal for me. i thought it was just somethin with the phone, and after rebooting and rebooting to see if it would correct, it did not. however, normal text's would go through, just not any pics. i could send and receive normal words with no issues.
then just today, i totally lost internet connection--although the 3g is lit up on top, and i have 4 full bars of signal, i cannot surf, all i get is "unable to display webpage". since im at home, i turned on the wifi option and connected through the router in my house, and all worked fine-- i got online, send pic texts, etc...but when i turned wifi off, nothing.
now, back when i rooted the phone, i still kept getting the annoying "system update" messages that the phone normally does, forcing me to install whatever update the phone grabs. to prevent that, i did the steps on this site which was here--
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1388778&highlight=freeze+ota
and disabled my update notifications. well, back to the beginning--now i have no internet at all and god only knows what else is wrong that i have yet to discover.
only thing i can think of at this point, is to unroot the phone , return it to the way it was and see how it goes but i dont want to do that--
any ideas?
yes im a noob said:
not sure where to begin, i suppose by listing my phone specs after root--
using the galaxy s2, (epic 4g touch) using kernal 2.6.35-8lostkernelexp+, build number starburst 11.13.11 v1.9.8r and running nothing but the honey theme.
until today, everything seemed to work fine, then suddenly, i was unable to send pictures via text. not a real big issue, but i travel alot and sending pics back home by messages i a big deal for me. however, normal text's would go through, just not any pics. i could send and receive normal words with no issues.
then, totally lost internet connection--although the 3g is lit up on top, and i have 4 full bars of signal, i cannot surf, all i get is "unable to display webpage". since im at home, i turned on the wifi option and connected through the router in my house, and all worked fine-- i got online, send pic texts, etc...but when i turned wifi off, nothing.
now, back when i rooted the phone, i still kept getting the annoying "system update" messages that the phone normally does, forcing me to install whatever update the phone grabs. to prevent that, i did the steps on this site which was here--
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1388778&highlight=freeze+ota
and disabled my update notifications. well, back to the beginning--now i have no internet at all and god only knows what else is wrong that i have yet to discover.
only thing i can think of at this point, is to unroot the phone , return it to the way it was and see how it goes but i dont want to do that--
any ideas?
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Why not nandroid a backup of your current setup and then do a full factory reset wipe and ODIN over a stock rom and see if that fixes it...if it does then there is no reason to bring a perfectly good phone back.
Diagnostic process bro, get on it.
However if that doesn't yield any results? Might be bad hardware (which I doubt) and probably not your fault.
EDIT: You haven't changed your PRL by chance, have you? Sometimes on 11115 or 00001 I get intermittent MMS function...and a few times, legit PRL or not, my wifi/4g have just stopped working. A wipe and stock-restore took care of that every time...though that was a week or two after the phone came out and we didn't have nearly as many tools and options as we do now.
Also, are you sure that you haven't somehow disabled 3G or put it into airplane mode? As insulting as that sounds I have to ask....
...sometimes even the brightest of us forget to plug things in.
Odin restore would be the first step.
I would try ##72786# in the dialer then entering your msl. After that just just hut yes then let your phone do its thing and reboot and reactivate. Just remember to cancel it during the firmware check.
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Beejis said:
I would try ##72786# in the dialer then entering your msl. After that just just hut yes then let your phone do its thing and reboot and reactivate. Just remember to cancel it during the firmware check.
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Good call...or even just trying to refresh your profile under 'updates' would be the easiest place to start...
The mms issues are likely a limitation of the ROM you are running (I haven't run Starburst in a couple of months so you'll have to ask about that in the ROM thread.) Easily resolved by using a third party app for mms if it is an important feature for you.
As far as the rest, the code provided by beejis is the reprovisioning code, also called a hands free reset and there is a bit more to the process than he stated (at least for a noob.) Hit the toolkit link in my signature and you'll find step by step instructions.
If that doesn't work, starting fresh is an incredibly simple process.
Also, posting the exact same question in two different forums is breaking a Cardinal rule, so you probably want to refrain from that, it won't win you many friends.
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Beejis said:
I would try ##72786# in the dialer then entering your msl. After that just just hut yes then let your phone do its thing and reboot and reactivate. Just remember to cancel it during the firmware check.
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yes i tried that, after the phone reboots, it says uptop "device not activated" and nothiing....i have to manually go into settings/about phone/system update and do it from there and even then, after a few secs, i get an error message saying unable to complete...
daneurysm said:
Good call...or even just trying to refresh your profile under 'updates' would be the easiest place to start...
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yes, tried that to.....get nothing but "error cannot complete" messages. all i can do now is make calls
If you have titanium backup, go into that app then click backup/restore at the top. Find system updates and click on it to see if it's frozen, if it is defrost it. Then try my steps again. Other than that I'd try to Odin a stock ROM.
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daneurysm said:
Good call...or even just trying to refresh your profile under 'updates' would be the easiest place to start...
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ok thanks, i went back to odin stock rom, did it from qbking77's post and the phone is back on stock...however............still no internet/data!!
i did do the ##number thing, the phone rebooted but notihng happened--i thought it was supposed to auto activate or something. so i went into settings/about phone/update profile....it scanned and after a few mins, i still get the error message "update could not be completed, if problem persists contact sprint customer support"
so im back on factory rom, but nothings changed---im where i was before--no data/internet....
before installing a different rom and such, i figure ill stop here and see what other suggestions may come about....sooooo, what next?
Take your phone in to a sprint store, an exchange may be in your future.
Just_s said:
Also, posting the exact same question in two different forums is breaking a Cardinal rule, so you probably want to refrain from that, it won't win you many friends.
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yes indeed, sorry about that. when i made the post here, i originally couldnt find it and thought it was auto deleted somehow because i had checked "is this a question" button at the bottom, so i went into the q/a section and made the post there...
didnt mean to do it twice
phatmanxxl said:
Take your phone in to a sprint store, an exchange may be in your future.
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gee i hope not... i got the phone dec 14th, cant imagine having probs this early....
what if i did a total wipe, factory reset? i know ill loose everything on the phone, and now that its not rooted any longer, i have no way to back up anything (or at least not that i know of)
just hoping theres a better fix than a return/ factory reset
Now that you are stock, call sprint tell them your issue (only tell then internet doesn't work) and they'll do stuff on their end to trouble shoot it. Hopefully that will fix it.
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I would try this. This will reset you back to exactly the way you got the phone. If you are still having problems then you will have to take it back to Sprint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vmEmheJnyg
cds0699 said:
I would try this. This will reset you back to exactly the way you got the phone. If you are still having problems then you will have to take it back to Sprint.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vmEmheJnyg
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thanks. thats exactly what i did before you made this reply hehe...
as before, still no data/internet
yes im a noob said:
thanks. thats exactly what i did before you made this reply hehe...
as before, still no data/internet
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That sucks, I'd recommend taking the phone to Sprint/where you bought it, and get it replaced/fixed. Good news is you're now back on stock so they won't really look into rooting as a problem. I always put phones back to stock before I take it in for a claim.
cds0699 said:
That sucks, I'd recommend taking the phone to Sprint/where you bought it, and get it replaced/fixed. Good news is you're now back on stock so they won't really look into rooting as a problem. I always put phones back to stock before I take it in for a claim.
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yea, dunno...
i did call sprint per Beejis reply here just above yours. after going through a ton of crap that i did yesterday and all today, the ## number crap, they tell me there's a nationwide outage. now i find that hard to believe since both my other phones in the house, wife/kid work just fine and they have data/internet and other ppl i know have no problems....i told the tech person that it just must be my phone only cuz everyone else's seems to work.
she did give me an outage number, maybe someone on here can verify it -- 8622911 so who the heck knows. what i do know is, i sure spent a heck of alota time on here, resetting my phone, unrooting, blahh blahh just to find out there's an outage which i doubt in the first place ...
we'll see,,,,,
If you are now stock/rooted, sounds like you need to use sfhubs auto root script to go back to stock recovery (overwrite your custom recovery) unroot, and take it back to Sprint.
DataHawg said:
If you are now stock/rooted, sounds like you need to use sfhubs auto root script to go back to stock recovery (overwrite your custom recovery) unroot, and take it back to Sprint.
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its just stock odin at this point, as if it came from the store.
also, still no data/internet as of this morning. dont know why sprint
is telling me this bs story of an outage, and even if so, i find it way hard to beleive its a 4 day outage
but yes, looks like im headed back to the store-- i got it at best buy, have insurance and all that, but ill wait till tomorrow or something just in case this phantom outage corrects itself
by the way, where do i find this sfhubs root your talking about?
oh one other thing i discovered today also, now gps dont work either, no location, no search no nothing and it is turned on......... sigh

I need to brick my phone

The short version is my phone is not working worth a damn. Will not connect to data, even while on my airave. Is dropping calls and just generally being a jerk. Sprint says nothing is wrong with the device and will not replace it, even though I have insurance.
I am currently on Calks v2.9.1 - Kernel is 2.6.35.14-rogue_ET-1.4.1+ and the EL29 Modem.
I have tried to recreate the steps to hard brick my phone but have failed. Can anyone help as I am going out of town tomorrow and really need my phone to reliably work.
Do you have these problems if your running stock
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randomrobbi said:
The short version is my phone is not working worth a damn. Will not connect to data, even while on my airave. Is dropping calls and just generally being a jerk. Sprint says nothing is wrong with the device and will not replace it, even though I have insurance.
I am currently on Calks v2.9.1 - Kernel is 2.6.35.14-rogue_ET-1.4.1+ and the EL29 Modem.
I have tried to recreate the steps to hard brick my phone but have failed. Can anyone help as I am going out of town tomorrow and really need my phone to reliably work.
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from what I understand if you flash ICS/CM9 and then try to flash back--or format, or perhaps anything at all--with a recovery+ICS kernel combo that there is a high chance of brick.
...I'm not so sure that I agree with your plan though...but that's easy for me to say, my phone works 100% and Sprint never gives me any ****.
rgregg504 said:
Do you have these problems if your running stock
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Oops...forgot to add that yes I do. Phone was reset to stock and applied all OTA updates before I went to the Sprint store yesterday. I restored my nandroid because I forgot to save text messages that I needed.
Well if you wanted to go the insurance route they wont deny anything when the phone is at the bottom of a lake... or so you told them where its at and with the battery having been out since the incident... nothing to say about it.
But it shouldn't come to that if its defective. Have you tried returning to stock or stock rooted firmware first to investigate the problem? I mean if youve tried hard bricking id figure you have been there as well?
Flash an ICS rom, flash a kernel repack that has rouge recovery, then use rouge to flash back to a gingerbread rom. That almost guarantees a brick.
blackroseMD1 said:
Flash an ICS rom, flash a kernel repack that has rouge recovery, then use rouge to flash back to a gingerbread rom. That almost guarantees a brick.
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Do you just mean one of the ICS Leaks and when flashing back to GB should I just flash a stock or would Calks suffice. I just ask because I have it on my SD card already.
Just flash roms for other phones, almost instant brick.
or use the touch based recovery or pull battery when flashing a modem through odin
Isn't purposely bricking your phone to get a replacement considered fraud?
kyouko said:
Isn't purposely bricking your phone to get a replacement considered fraud?
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Probably, but I guess I could say the same of posts i've seen where they bricked to get a white one.
<.<>.>
Try to find a GSM sgs2 radio and flash it in recovery, that'd do the trick.
randomrobbi said:
Oops...forgot to add that yes I do. Phone was reset to stock and applied all OTA updates before I went to the Sprint store yesterday. I restored my nandroid because I forgot to save text messages that I needed.
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This sounds fishy. If your phone really cannot connect to data (even while on stock), that is a clear problem. They HAVE to fix it. I would not brick it either... they might be able to figure out that YOU did that.
If they continue to give you grief, contact Samsung support directly.
edufur said:
This sounds fishy. If your phone really cannot connect to data (even while on stock), that is a clear problem. They HAVE to fix it. I would not brick it either... they might be able to figure out that YOU did that.
If they continue to give you grief, contact Samsung support directly.
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It connects to data, it just drops constantly and shows I have no connection. Of course it doesn't do it when I am standing in the store but that is just my luck with the store in my town.
randomrobbi said:
It connects to data, it just drops constantly and shows I have no connection. Of course it doesn't do it when I am standing in the store but that is just my luck with the store in my town.
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Get a video of it. Or stay in the store until it happens. Download a big file or something while you are there. This should be pretty easy to replicate if it really is as bad as you say. Also, have you tried a radio update? PRL and profile update? NVRAM reset?
edufur said:
Get a video of it. Or stay in the store until it happens. Download a big file or something while you are there. This should be pretty easy to replicate if it really is as bad as you say. Also, have you tried a radio update? PRL and profile update? NVRAM reset?
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I did a ##786# reset with my MSL and it still is spotty. I really don't know what the cause is. It started doing it a few days ago and is getting on my last nerve.
I just reset it to complete stock again. Going to go talk to the store manager and see what can be done before I brick it again. It is just getting old.
randomrobbi said:
I did a ##786# reset with my MSL and it still is spotty. I really don't know what the cause is. It started doing it a few days ago and is getting on my last nerve.
I just reset it to complete stock again. Going to go talk to the store manager and see what can be done before I brick it again. It is just getting old.
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maybe a tower is out in your area. Also, when I am in fringe service areas the weather has a very big impact on signal propagation. Even if it is a clear day but very very humid....though that wouldn't explain your air-rave at all.
EDIT: I just got an idea....upload the 00001.PRL (verizon 3G) and see how it performs (without the air-rave even being plugged in)...if all is well there is something wrong on Sprint's end....
randomrobbi said:
It connects to data, it just drops constantly and shows I have no connection. Of course it doesn't do it when I am standing in the store but that is just my luck with the store in my town.
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If it doesn't do it at the store, it is unlikely the problem is with the phone hardware.
daneurysm said:
maybe a tower is out in your area. Also, when I am in fringe service areas the weather has a very big impact on signal propagation. Even if it is a clear day but very very humid....though that wouldn't explain your air-rave at all.
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Yeah, my neighbor has the same phone. Mine dropped and hers did not. I mean I am on Wifi when at home but still doesnt explain it.
It's all very weird.
1. flash this > http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1544233
2. reboot to recovery and wipe data/factory reset....
3. profit???

Not Receiving Calls or Texts

Hello all,
Recently, I flashed Calkulin's E4GT 2 rom from his E4GT 3.0 one, and things had been working well for a day until it began to randomly crash and stopped notifying me/receiving any missed called/texts. I flashed back to 3.0, saw the same issues reoccur (calls/texts not coming through); reflashed 3.0 and wiped everything and still to no avail.
Data works perfectly, and I am able to send texts as well as call.
Any advice on what to do?
Try this go to settings, about phone, system updates then update profile and PRL then reboot phone and see if that helps.
call sprint (*2), tell them you want to do a DATA REFRESH, works everytime, just make sure you have your ESN ready.
tylerjames09 said:
call sprint (*2), tell them you want to do a DATA REFRESH, works everytime, just make sure you have your ESN ready.
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Doesnt what I told em to do, do the same thing?
rbtrucking said:
Try this go to settings, about phone, system updates then update profile and PRL then reboot phone and see if that helps.
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Thanks; tried this earlier and it didn't seem as if it works, but I pulled the battery out for 10-30 seconds and things seem to have returned to normal...somewhat.
tylerjames09 said:
call sprint (*2), tell them you want to do a DATA REFRESH, works everytime, just make sure you have your ESN ready.
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I'll do this if things seems to falter again; thanks a lot! ill they inquire about whether I've rooted or not?
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Doesnt what I told em to do, do the same thing?
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sort of, when people come into my store with this issue i usually do an update of the profile but if that doesn't fix it, i do a data refresh....update profile is like a "soft reset" and data refresh is like a "hard reset", both essentially do the same thing just one is more extreme and complete reprograms the phone.
Okay, so I called Spring and asked them to do a data refresh and also updated the PRL and Profile but to no avail.
Any other ideas? Or should I just unroot and go to Sprint and see if they'll be able to help me?
mattneedshelp said:
Thanks; tried this earlier and it didn't seem as if it works, but I pulled the battery out for 10-30 seconds and things seem to have returned to normal...somewhat.
I'll do this if things seems to falter again; thanks a lot! ill they inquire about whether I've rooted or not?
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they wont ask about rooting or anything like that...it wouldnt make a difference anyway because rooting shouldnt have an affect on your programming codes.
tylerjames09 said:
they wont ask about rooting or anything like that...it wouldnt make a difference anyway because rooting shouldnt have an affect on your programming codes.
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I would definitely return it back to stock before bringing it into sprint. I had a problem with my phone a couple months back and had to bring it in. First thing they did was check to see if it was rooted.
rbtrucking said:
I would definitely return it back to stock before bringing it into sprint. I had a problem with my phone a couple months back and had to bring it in. First thing they did was check to see if it was rooted.
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yeah def. don't bring the phone into a sprint store with it rooted haha. I've had a couple of those come in and we turn them right out the door because the phone was tampered with and it wont be fixed.
good point rbtrucking
tylerjames09 said:
yeah def. don't bring the phone into a sprint store with it rooted haha. I've had a couple of those come in and we turn them right out the door because the phone was tampered with and it wont be fixed.
good point rbtrucking
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Lol I am pretty sure the guy that looked at my phone knew i had rooted it before though because when I odin'd back to stock I did the full wipe and he kept asking me why is there nothing on this phone and lookin at me with a grin I just told em it was acting funny so I thought maybe a factory data reset would fix it.
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Lol I am pretty sure the guy that looked at my phone knew i had rooted it before though because when I odin'd back to stock I did the full wipe and he kept asking me why is there nothing on this phone and lookin at me with a grin I just told em it was acting funny so I thought maybe a factory data reset would fix it.
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yeah but on a side note...sprint can truly work on rooted phones, even with custom ROMS. It is just up the store if they want to or not. So next time you take it in and they say they cant work on rooted phones, its law that they have to...(unless your ROM is the reason for the issue) ha
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Thanks to everyone for their help; ended up going to the store today and they ran a diagnostics test and reset everything. They said they had some towers down as well, so that may have added onto the problems.
Once again, thanks to all!

[Q] steady modem?

anyone else having an issue with not recieving phone calls randomly? ppl tell me they call and i've called myself and get no ring what so ever. ive tried several diff modems....any suggestions/fixes?
Go to your settings > About phone.
Tell me what Baseband, Kernal, Build, Mod version (etc.) you are running.
Stick to el29
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lisac2100 said:
anyone else having an issue with not recieving phone calls randomly? ppl tell me they call and i've called myself and get no ring what so ever. ive tried several diff modems....any suggestions/fixes?
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Hi Lisa. Like Peanut said, please provide us with additional info.
As for my personal problem with this, I had this problem for weeks running 2 different Gingerbread roms. Calls just would go straight to voicemail, everything else worked fine (texting, outgoing calls). I ended up calling Sprint and having them walk me through a full re-provisioning of the phone with ##72786# and also ##501435# to fully resolve my issue.
I won't post the rest of the details on how to do it because you need additional information to accomplish this and it's just easier to have Sprint walk you through all the steps.
peanut1596 said:
Go to your settings > About phone.
Tell me what Baseband, Kernal, Build, Mod version (etc.) you are running.
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hi first thank you for the fast responses.
ok i was running a gb based rom but curently im on the ics "slim n trim" (loving it by the way for the most part) ive played with soooo many diff modems and nothing seems to work. its very random but i still have this issue. some calls i just dont get.
rom based: aokp
baseband: el29
kernal: fd26
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Hi Lisa. Like Peanut said, please provide us with additional info.
As for my personal problem with this, I had this problem for weeks running 2 different Gingerbread roms. Calls just would go straight to voicemail, everything else worked fine (texting, outgoing calls). I ended up calling Sprint and having them walk me through a full re-provisioning of the phone with ##72786# and also ##501435# to fully resolve my issue.
I won't post the rest of the details on how to do it because you need additional information to accomplish this and it's just easier to have Sprint walk you through all the steps.
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if i flash a gb based rom, walk through these steps and go back to an ics, will the settings still be set (##)? like when i do a prl update?
lisac2100 said:
if i flash a gb based rom, walk through these steps and go back to an ics, will the settings still be set (##)? like when i do a prl update?
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Yes, the settings will follow you through different ROMs. It probably would be best to be on GB when you do it. I don't know how it will affect AOKP. You will need your MSL and MSID if you try to do it yourself. That's why I suggested just calling Sprint, letting them know your problem (and just let them know someone suggested those 2 steps, you never know the level of expertise you get on the other end). It's just easier that way. Like I said, I didn't want to post the complete steps in case I missed something necessary and it caused you other problems.
OK dude try this.
Download fd19 modem.bin
Go into Odin mode
Flash fd19 modem into phone slot of Odin.
Let it run through phase and reboot.
See if it helps.
Idk why you are still on el29. It sucked eggs for me, but that's just me.
EDIT: here's the link. Just open the zip and pull the modem.bin file and follow these instructions.
http://tinyurl.com/cv4yqwg
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peanut1596 said:
OK dude try this.
Download fd19 modem.bin
Go into Odin mode
Flash fd19 modem into phone slot of Odin.
Let it run through phase and reboot.
See if it helps.
Idk why you are still on el29. It sucked eggs for me, but that's just me.
EDIT: here's the link. Just open the zip and pull the modem.bin file and follow these instructions.
http://tinyurl.com/cv4yqwg
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i was on fd19, wasnt getting good speeds and thought that was maybe the reason i wasnt recieving calls..i've tried several diff modems. i'll go bk to fd19 and see how that works
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i was on fd19, wasnt getting good speeds and thought that was maybe the reason i wasnt recieving calls..i've tried several diff modems. i'll go bk to fd19 and see how that works
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It varies for everybody. Fd19 works best for me. That's the only reason I suggested it
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tdunham said:
Hi Lisa. Like Peanut said, please provide us with additional info.
As for my personal problem with this, I had this problem for weeks running 2 different Gingerbread roms. Calls just would go straight to voicemail, everything else worked fine (texting, outgoing calls). I ended up calling Sprint and having them walk me through a full re-provisioning of the phone with ##72786# and also ##501435# to fully resolve my issue.
I won't post the rest of the details on how to do it because you need additional information to accomplish this and it's just easier to have Sprint walk you through all the steps.
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ok so i called sprint..they said that first code does a factory reset which i did..they said they have no clue what the second code is..can you provide the steps if you have the time?
Simple answer? Sprint sucks. All the phones I've had on sprint have done this
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lisac2100 said:
ok so i called sprint..they said that first code does a factory reset which i did..they said they have no clue what the second code is..can you provide the steps if you have the time?
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Sure thing. Call Sprint tech support and tell them you're reprovisioning your phone and need the MSID phone number.
From Dialpad ##501435#
Select 'Edit'
Select 'Touch Here'
Enter YOUR cell phone number on the virtual kepad that comes up and press the return key on the bottom right of the virtual keypad.
MSID
0000000000
Will be displayed on screen.
Once again select 'Touch Here'
Enter your MSID on the virtual keypad that comes up (it looks like a cell phone number, for example mine is 7272780149 for my phone. That's not my phone # btw )
Press the return key on the bottom right of the virtual keypad.
Select 'Done' and the phone will reboot.
Edit: Update your PRL & Profile once this has between completed and manually reboot your phone.
hmm...doesnt seem to do anything when i put in the ##...
lisac2100 said:
hmm...doesnt seem to do anything when i put in the ##...
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Aw Lisa you're killing me, I thought you were going back to GB.
You're not still on AOKP are you? Umm, well try *#*#501435#*#*
with all the extra characters. If it doesn't work guess you'll have to go back to Gingerbread for that. Sorry.
Edit: You're putting that into the phone dialpad right?
I'm having an issue with calls and not being able to send text and they tell me that it's because some towers are getting updated and I'll continue to have this problem until the end of June call sprint and see if they are doing anything to the towers around your area
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Might not be your modem, you could just be in a bad service area. Call sprint to tell them and see if they can give you an airave. Works wonders at home. Some people said they try to charge for it but they sent me one with no charges.
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4.4 no mobile connection? no baseband? no IMEI? solution

It's been said a few times that SELinux settings have an effect on mobile connection on some phones, not all, but some. Mine being one of them, that theory has also been criticized, ironically by those who's phones do not suffer from the issue. Anyways, if your trying a 4.4 ROM and have no APNs, no baseband, IMEI etc grab SELinux mode changer from the market, set to Permissive and be on your way. Why or what causes it is beyond me but changing to Permissive solves it. It takes a few seconds after boot for supersu permissions, a few seconds then for your APNs to be populated and baseband, after that you will get mobile connection working.
Hope this helps someone else fighting the same issues. Here's a video showing before and after, a little wait at the APN screen the second time for them to be populated. Also, sorry for the quality, just easier to record the screen directly compared to holding a camera.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4HgbdDdemE[YOUTUBE] never can get YouTube to embed properly..
Ducter said:
It's been said a few times that SELinux settings have an effect on mobile connection on some phones, not all, but some. Mine being one of them, that theory has also been criticized, ironically by those who's phones do not suffer from the issue. Anyways, if your trying a 4.4 ROM and have no APNs, no baseband, IMEI etc grab SELinux mode changer from the market, set to Permissive and be on your way. Why or what causes it is beyond me but changing to Permissive solves it. It takes a few seconds after boot for supersu permissions, a few seconds then for your APNs to be populated and baseband, after that you will get mobile connection working.
Hope this helps someone else fighting the same issues. Here's a video showing before and after, a little wait at the APN screen the second time for them to be populated. Also, sorry for the quality, just easier to record the screen directly compared to holding a camera.
[YOUTUBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V4HgbdDdemE[YOUTUBE] never can get YouTube to embed properly..
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Ducter.... you are such a life saver...if I could hit the thanks button 10000000000000000000000 times I would this 100% solved my problem....
So frusted w/ not being able to get data on 4.4 .....
Thank you!!!!
wondercoolguy said:
Ducter.... you are such a life saver...if I could hit the thanks button 10000000000000000000000 times I would this 100% solved my problem....
So frusted w/ not being able to get data on 4.4 .....
Thank you!!!!
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Glad it was of help, just passing on what I have read and tried to make it easier to find so made a thread for it, some of us have the issue but appears the majority do not.
I had the issue initially when installed with twrp, did it once again with cwm, worked like a charm. Good info to keep in mind though.
anybody got the apk handy they can upload? flashed the latest cm nightly not knowing it was 4.4.1, and the store won't connect via wifi for whatever reason.. i'd rather not have to do a clean install to get my phone working again.
Thanks.
Nevermind, I managed to pull it from the woman's unrooted moto x. It's here if anyone else needs it..
Saved Everything
@Ducter : Your A F*cking King.
ThanX A Trillion.
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@Ducter : Your A F*cking King.
ThanX A Trillion.
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just out of curiosity. vAre you guys having any issues with the AOSP roms slowing down the data speeds? I know people have said for a long time since GB I think that the tw roms are much faster than AOSP I never saw that on HSPA+ but I am on simple moble and they just turnrd on their LTE and my phone gets an average of 28 down and 14 up. on tw roms but on AOKP or other AOSP roms it gets 8 up and 3 down. Like the lte is not working. Anyone else have these problems?
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Thanks, you have saved me the headache of reverting back to stock and the time it would take to start all over from scratch. .
man i wish i knew this eariler. i wouldnt have gone stock then back to 4.4. thanks for the info!
Thanks finally found solution to my problem it was only happening to me with 4.4 PAC ROMs

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