I pay $30 for my mobile hotspot and unlimited data on my Galaxy Nexus, and just today the hotspot feature no longer works. When I activate it, it says error and just stops working. Spent about 90 minutes on the phone with Verizon they reactivated my phone, changed settings and couldn't get it to work. As a last resort they wanted to do a factory reset. At the time I couldn't do that, and they said if that doesn't work then I'll need a new phone.
I tried the reset a few minutes ago and it didn't help,still says error.
Any suggestions?
I have tried a few of the hotspot apps on the market, none have worked.
I found a thread on vzw community site with my exact same problem.....
http://community.vzw.com/t5/Samsung-Galaxy-Nexus/Galaxy-Nexus-Hot-Spot-issue/m-p/759470
Hoping someone on sad can help.
Phone is rooted on stock rom(4.02) and radios.
I flashed with Revolution Rom and was able to use my phone as a mobile ap without problems. I'm on just the plain 4gb data plan. Before flashing VZ blocks it because I'm not on a mobile hotspot plan. You ought to give that a try.
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Peter Alfonso's "Bugless Beast" 4.0.3 rom supports native tethering as well (and is available right in Rom Manager) =)
If you're going to be rooting, then stop paying for hotspot you'll get it for free on custom ROMs (or stock ROM once devs figure out how to stop VZW from checking in on tethering).
martonikaj said:
If you're going to be rooting, then stop paying for hotspot you'll get it for free on custom ROMs (or stock ROM once devs figure out how to stop VZW from checking in on tethering).
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This!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4rs fed said:
I pay $30 for my mobile hotspot and unlimited data on my Galaxy Nexus, and just today the hotspot feature no longer works. When I activate it, it says error and just stops working. Spent about 90 minutes on the phone with Verizon they reactivated my phone, changed settings and couldn't get it to work. As a last resort they wanted to do a factory reset. At the time I couldn't do that, and they said if that doesn't work then I'll need a new phone.
I tried the reset a few minutes ago and it didn't help,still says error.
Any suggestions?
I have tried a few of the hotspot apps on the market, none have worked.
I found a thread on vzw community site with my exact same problem.....
http://community.vzw.com/t5/Samsung-Galaxy-Nexus/Galaxy-Nexus-Hot-Spot-issue/m-p/759470
Hoping someone on sad can help.
Phone is rooted on stock rom(4.02) and radios.
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I was getting this yesterday during the great 4G outage. Vzw claimed that tethering is only 4G and thats why I got error. Who knows its working now.
aiiee said:
I was getting this yesterday during the great 4G outage. Vzw claimed that tethering is only 4G and thats why I got error. Who knows its working now.
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Mine is working today as well............
Very weird issue
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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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...
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
For the past 3 weeks, I've been unable to update PRL or profile . I keep getting "Network error. Please try again later." I've tried several times a day, every day in various locations.
Basically this error prevents me from using the Hotspot mod. Any ideas?
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Try a ##scrtn#
This will not wipe anything on your phone. It will simply reset your mobile network connection and force OTA provisioning.
By chance are you running AdBlock Plus? As it will block those from updateing.
\m/ said:
Try a ##scrtn#
This will not wipe anything on your phone. It will simply reset your mobile network connection and force OTA provisioning.
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Ok, tried this, but then my phone wouldn't activate; kept saying "Network error" when it tried hands free activation. Then, I couldn't call using the phone anymore. However, Going to settings-->activate device fixed it. But I still can't update PRL or profile.
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By chance are you running AdBlock Plus? As it will block those from updateing.
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Nope, I wish it was that easy
If you have another device laying around, try going onto Sprint.com and do a service swap to it. Then service swap back to this one. If you do not have one, you might need to call Customer Care to have them try it with a dummy device.
I recall having an issue similar to this on my wife's device. I don't remember exactly what I had to do to resolve it, but I did get it fixed.
Update in case anyone had the same problem. I called Sprint and got the run around until they finally said it was a hardware issue (ie: my phone) and not a network problem.
I decided to just live with it (and without WiFi hotspot) for a while. Then magically it started working again a couple of days ago. I bet it has something to do with the Sprint network being worked on that the techs were just clueless about. Seems to me that Sprint takes its sweet old time upgrading its towers.
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Network Error, Please Try Again Later
I have had that issue for sometime now too. I only discovered it because my phone downloaded the ZVD update and for it to install properly it requires to update the profile first. I have the same "network error, please try again later" on both PRL and Profile. Spent about an hour with a higher level tech on the phone trying all types of things with no success. When I install the ZVD update it breaks the phone and wont receive calls and requires a push from sprint to reactivate. Every time I reboot now It attempts to do a hands free activation and fails but it is working. Last time this happened (ZVC update) I had to wipe the phone to fix it which I'm not in the mood for anytime soon. I've been waiting for a decent ROM with WiFi calling built in.
Rooted on stock ZVC
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By chance are you running AdBlock Plus? As it will block those from updateing.
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Yeah, old thread but thanks as this just helped me out. This is for my LG G4 by the way.
Thanks.
This is a common problem with Sprint. It's not your fault or the phone's fault. It's Sprint's rat butt network acting out. There's nothing that you, the techs you call (even if you get lucky and get a U.S.-based representative), or anybody else can do. The phone will keep trying to activate itself every few minutes until it finally does get through. Then you're set to go, except of course for the dropped calls, missed or delayed text messages, and 500k data speeds (on their alleged LTE network). That's assuming that one of the Sprint bloatware apps doesn't decide to freeze/soft-brick your phone.
There's a reason that Sprint is virtually giving away their services (i.e. the half-off your previous bill, free activation, and pay the early termination fee for the other carrier). They're Number 4 of the 4 major carriers, and that's not likely to change in the near future, because most of the MVNO's latch onto Sprint, which further burdens the resources they do have.
couldn't have said it better myself...then I keep asking myself why am I still with sprint!
THANK YOU! It was Adblock causing the error. Took me some time to find this answer.
Hey everyone, I can't seem to recieve/send text messages and I cannot place calls (says EMERGENCY ONLY)
I am on the T-Mobile network and have done nothing to my phone that could've cause this. I still have signal though.
I tried:
-Flashing 10c and 10m modem
-Reboot
-Turn on Airplane mode and turn it back off
-Took out sim card, put it back in (while phone is off)
and nothing worked. I also tried put my sim card in my Galaxy S3 to see if I get data and can place calls, and everything on the Galaxy S3 works fine! But not on my G3
Here is a picture that shows my network status. I also still have my IMEI, it isn't lost. So what could've cause this? And what can I do? :crying:
I'm in Austin, TX if that matters.
Thank you!
Edit: Fixed my problem! Callled T-mobile and they removed an accidental block on my phone (weird...).
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Hey everyone, I can't seem to recieve/send text messages and I cannot place calls (says EMERGENCY ONLY)
I am on the T-Mobile network and have done nothing to my phone that could've cause this. I still have signal though.
I tried:
-Flashing 10c and 10m modem
-Reboot
-Turn on Airplane mode and turn it back off
-Took out sim card, put it back in (while phone is off)
and nothing worked. I also tried put my sim card in my Galaxy S3 to see if I get data and can place calls, and everything on the Galaxy S3 works fine! But not on my G3
Here is a picture that shows my network status. I also still have my IMEI, it isn't lost. So what could've cause this? And what can I do? :crying:
I'm in Austin, TX if that matters.
Thank you!
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This crap happened to me yesterday too!! I think I ended up disabling mobile data, changing the Network Mode to another setting like WCDMA ONLY for a minute… once I put Network Mode back to the GSM/WCDMA//LTE only and turned mobile data back on it was fine. It made NO SENSE though!! How can you have service and full signal, but only be able to call 911!?!? Another BS T-Mobile glitch! I'm SERIOUSLY going back to Verizon this weekend I think. No wonder T-Mobile is cheaper and Verizon is more expensive. Why do I ALWAYS forget that YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!!
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This crap happened to me yesterday too!! I think I ended up disabling mobile data, changing the Network Mode to another setting like WCDMA ONLY for a minute… once I put Network Mode back to the GSM/WCDMA//LTE only and turned mobile data back on it was fine. It made NO SENSE though!! How can you have service and full signal, but only be able to call 911!?!? Another BS T-Mobile glitch! I'm SERIOUSLY going back to Verizon this weekend I think. No wonder T-Mobile is cheaper and Verizon is more expensive. Why do I ALWAYS forget that YOU GET WHAT YOU PAY FOR!!!
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I tried doing what you did, but it didn't work. I have no idea why this is happening. Im going to restore a nandroid from a month ago and see what will happen. Ill report back here if anything changes...
Nabeel10 said:
I tried doing what you did, but it didn't work. I have no idea why this is happening. Im going to restore a nandroid from a month ago and see what will happen. Ill report back here if anything changes...
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I also disabled most of my xposed modules too. Not sure if that did the trick or not. I did several things. I'll let u know if I can remember any other details to how I fixed it. Good luck bud.
Update: Restoring an early nandroid backup DID NOT fix my issue
I fixed my problem! I called T-mobile and they said someone filed an insurance claim on my account! Apparently it was a glitch in their system. I'm actually shocked that something like that could have happened. That's really sad. Oh well, my problem got fixed! Thanks for your help!
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I fixed my problem! I called T-mobile and they said someone filed an insurance claim on my account! Apparently it was a glitch in their system. I'm actually shocked that something like that could have happened. That's really sad. Oh well, my problem got fixed! Thanks for your help!
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I hope you talked your way into a discounted month or something similar because that's [email protected]#$% up!
Been having this problem for awhile now, but it's getting more frequent.
If I'm connected to a wifi network, be it home or work, and I then step away from it, my data connection will be stuck at 1X (ie no data), even if my signal is at max bars, and I'm in an area where I know I've had data before.
Sometimes toggling data or airplane mode will bring it back, but that fix is working less often now. Rebooting the phone seems to fix it, and I'll immediately get 4G LTE data. But this is happening every other day now, and I can't keep resetting the damn thing every time I get into the car in order to make sure that my email and messaging apps still work.
Is there some way within the settings to force the phone to reestablish data with the tower without resetting?
EDIT: Took it to Verizon, who gave me a new sim card. Will test for the next few days and see if that fixes it.
Update : the problem resurfaced. As usual, reseting fixed it, but this is getting obnoxious. I'll take it back to Verizon and see what they say.
i have this issue too, any updates?
Jaws4God said:
i have this issue too, any updates?
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Verizon requested a warranty replacement through HTC, so...yeah. There's your answer, I guess.
Aganar said:
Verizon requested a warranty replacement through HTC, so...yeah. There's your answer, I guess.
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so did that fix it?
sent via Tapatalk app with my HTC 10
Jaws4God said:
so did that fix it?
sent via Tapatalk app with my HTC 10
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Well, I received a new phone overnight via FedEx, and the new one hasn't lost its data connection yet.
So yes, I supposed it's "fixed"... But I wouldn't really consider having a new phone sent to me a "fix", since this option is probably not available to all users.