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Is anyone else having massive problems with the Orange Network in UK? My Desires signal is weak a majority of the time, if any signal at all and mobile network poor. Is it just me or is there a tweak for my phone to make the signal stronger? After chatting to a mate who has a Samsung Galaxy S, he has the same problem with Orange so i'm wondering if it is the network?
not sure probably depends on your area. One thing as Orange and t-mobile have merged in the UK you can use the t-mobile network as well as orange without additional charge.
http://help.orange.co.uk/orangeuk/support/personal/Signal-sharing
It's the network being rubbish as they're trying to merge T-Mobile and Orange. Mine is coming and going all the time and has been like that for a while. Will end up leaving them when my contract finishes as they used to have the best signal where I live.
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Something similar happened for me at home at the start of the year. Previously I had decent EDGE coverage.
Then signal came and went, all data came and went and now I have passable GPRS only. Good thing I also have decent wifi.
Long story short - its probably a signal 'upgrade' to do with the T mobile merger. One of the features of the merger is rationalisation of cells - or switching them off to you and me.
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Most likely it is Orange. Earlier this year I ring them up about 5 times complaining about the same issue. Tbh it never got dealt with but it ironed itself out. I'm not happy with Orange anyway so when my contract ends I will be changing.
Swyped...
Make sure your phone is set to auto network select...not manual ..
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Cheers guys. I think i'll be leaving Orange at the end of the contract. I notice that since the t-mobile merger my signal has got much worse.
Definitely a problem for me too, i am using a stock Desire bought sim free and get a really poor signal but my mate has an Orange branded Desire with an older firmware and gets a much better signal so may be a problem with newer rom updates.
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I found out something very interesting today.I'm on tmobile and when my phone picks up the orange signal it only a 2g signal.They don't tell you that when you sign up.I'm not sure but it might be the same set up visa versa and that would explain the signal problems.For now I have selected tmobile only and things have been better and I noticed a difference straight away.Tmobile has a message on the Customer Service line saying that sometime in the near future we will be able to use orange 3g as well,though i'm not sure if that means orange customers can use tmobile 3g,although I should think it would..
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Same for Orange, they said we will be able to pick up T-mobile 3G signal sometime in the future.........until then, when the Orange signal is ****, not very good, i get standard T-mob signal, sorry Orange, but i'm also off at the end of my current contract, the signal is garbage.
Have been loving my One X for almost 2 weeks now but have a bit of a dilemma. Firstly does everyone have a similar signal problem as I'm getting i.e. once or twice a day I completely loose connection to my carrier (t-mobile UK) and sometimes have to reboot in order to regain network? Secondly if this isn't a mass problem do I return my handset or wait for the OTA update to see if this improves? I know there has been quite a bit of discussion on the effects of the bottom left corner giving the phone a so called "death grip" and was wondering if any update would improve this as this would surely be a hardware issue? Anyone's thoughts on this would be greatfully appreciated
TIA LEWY
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Same.
I have the same issue (losing signal and having to reboot) around 4 or 5 times a day, on an unlocked One X on Three UK.
This only started happening to my phone after the 1.28 OTA update a couple of days ago. Before that, the signal was rock-solid.
Am going to try a complete reset of my phone and see what happens.
Some for me. H3g (tre) Italy.
My problems were from day one. So thought I would hold out and see if 1.28 made any difference. Since Wednesday after installing the update my signal greatly improved and have not had to reboot once! I cut down my existing sim and thought I may have damaged it, but it's fine now.
Same here (tmobile uk)
I'm on T-mobile UK and have a unlocked phone. Have the same problem although I have not had to reboot to get the signal back. Mine just seems to disappear for a few seconds and then comes back on it's own. I think it has improved slightly with the 1.28 ota. Signal does generally seem a little stronger now.
anyone out there had the update on t mobile UK .my signal is low ,its a bit embarrassing when my wifes galaxy ace on t mobile has got a better signal than my htc one.oh and the battery life is CRAP
Yes, I have. My phone is unbranded. Signal does seem better, gsm that is. Still get drop outs but not so often.
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Yes, I have. My phone is unbranded. Signal does seem better, gsm that is. Still get drop outs but not so often.
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DID you buy it unbranded or did you do it yourself cheers
It was supplied unbranded.
Just noticed that I lose signal when it changes network. T-mobile to orange seems to be pretty smooth but when changing the other way the signal drops out for a while.
I've been losing signal a lot on 1.28 here in the UK on Vodafone and really don't want to exchange the phone because the hardware is perfect. I tried a new SIM yesterday, but that made no difference and because I don't want to swap out the phone I'm pinning my hopes on the new software. Is that sensible?
Also, I've tried some of the signal boosters available on the market and they don't seem to help. Has anyone had any success in this area?
Thanks in advance...
I don't know the answer to your question but I am on Vodafone and have noticed that the signal jumps between H, G and E loads
I'm on orange and have the same problem which I didn't have with my S2.
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Firstly, Ive recently left Voda due to my then Bold 9900 often showing SOS and when it did show 3g, not been able to make a call, having to revert to GSM to make a call. The later was while standing within several vodafone sites.
Im now on ThreeUK. They have not got a 2g network of their own to fall back on and in most parts the roam onto Orange has been turned off.
Anyway, when I got my first HOX on 1.26 the signal was rubbish. Where I did have coverage before on a Desire S, there was non. Holding the two devices next to each other the HOX was approx 14dmb diffence in the RX levels. This meant where the Desire S had full signal, the HOX had half. Where the Desire S had half, the HOX had non or 1 bar.
After the update to 1.28 (i sent the branded Three handset back and bought a unbranded one) the signal was far far better. I have no updated to 1.29 via the RUU and its still great.
Most people found that the 1.26 to 1.28 (or 1.29) improves the signal, only a few are reporting issues with signal on the later updates.
Steve
Thank you for the response. Trouble is, I'm actually on 1.28 and am getting the poor reception. So I guess it's good to know that a software update can make a difference - I just have to wait for one to arrive...
It all depends if they changed the radio in the software update which as they suggest they improved battery life then it's quite likely that they did. If that is the case then it could be reversed but I doubt they will.do anything unless they have a large volume of issues.
Unbranded HOX here no issues with Vodafone. However at work indoor very poor but that's probably signal indoors is useless but when I get outdoor its fine. Can't wait for S-OFF so we can start testing different radios.
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Any update that brings a new radio/base and will likely improve signal I'm not sure if these updates do have those things though.
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I'm running Android Revolution 5.2.0 which I think runs on the latest 1.29 base and I'm getting constant signal drops where I work in the UK. Never had it with my Galaxy S before. I haven't ever done an RUU update since original stock firmware. Would flashing a newer RUU help?
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I've also got this issue, though it would seem It's not everywhere, some places no drop out, others constant dropout. Had my work Iphone 4 (uses vodefone cell) sat next to my hox today and only the hox had issues with signal (although both were low when the hox did have signal). Almost feels like it's only certain cells, or possibly when only in range of one tower? ... Not sure...
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Signal Reception issues resolved
I had purchased HOX on 17-May and immediately got 1.28 update. Since then I had signal reception issues. It continued even after getting 1.29 update. After testing my SIM with Galaxy S3 and observing asu/dBm values, it was confirmed that my HOX had the problem. I took it to official HTC Service center and they just reflashed entire 1.29 ROM (not just the update). That seems to have resolved my issues. There are no dropped calls. I am getting signal in all the low signal areas that I know off.
I've just done a bit of traveling with my carrier unlocked HTC 10 on T-Mobile's network, and I've encountered quite a lot of reception issues with this device. I'm not sure what the issue is, but am curious about others experiences road tripping with this device.
Previously I've only used the phone in my home area (Chicago). The device has performed flawlessly there. This past week, however, I road tripped to Maine and back and had a lot of problems with coverage. I'm fairly new to T-Mobile, so I would normally write it off as their network, but my wife's iPhone 6s performed great in these areas, as did my Moto X Pure Edition.
Here are some of the issues I experienced:
In rural Maine, while the phone was roaming on AT&T, many incoming calls and texts would not come through at all. This behavior was intermittent, despite having 3+ bars of AT&T signal.
While the phone was roaming on AT&T, many outgoing texts would fail to send. Rebooting the phone was often the only way to get them to go through. Again, this was with strong AT&T signal.
Moving between AT&T and T-Mobile coverage areas in rural Maine, the phone would fail to reconnect to T-Mobile service on its own. In order to make this work, I would either have to reboot the phone, toggle airplane mode, manually select T-Mobile under Mobile network settings -> GSM/UMTS Options -> Network operators or, if those all failed, run the LTE Discovery app. I'm not sure why that would make the phone reconnect to T-Mobile service, but it seemed to do so consistently.
The phone would lose signal completly in areas where our iPhone 6s and Moto X Pure Edition had LTE signal
The phone would lose LTE signal and move to 2G/EDGE or no mobile data at all in areas where our iPhone 6s and Moto X had LTE signal
I've seen similar issues discussed over in http://forum.xda-developers.com/htc-10/help/awful-lte-signal-update-t3378163, but it seems I'm experiencing more than just weak LTE signal.
Has anybody else experienced anything similar? Or am I having some sort of hardware issue? It seems crazy to me that this device would perform so poorly compared to the iPhone 6s and Moto X Pure Edition, both of which are also carrier unlocked. HTC told me I should try a new SIM, otherwise there might be a hardware issue, but I'm wondering if this is more widespread than just my device.
Haven't had any issues with mine
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I live in Maine and haven't encountered any issues yet. Although I do live in So Maine so T-Mobile is pretty solid here. I would try the new SIM to see if that fixes the problem.
Are you s-off and unlocked? If so which firmware version are you on? The US Unlocked version or something else? If you're not on the US unlocked firmware I would try flashing that, if you're S-Off. If that fails to fix it then I'd suspect a hardware issue.
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I live in Maine and haven't encountered any issues yet. Although I do live in So Maine so T-Mobile is pretty solid here. I would try the new SIM to see if that fixes the problem.
Are you s-off and unlocked? If so which firmware version are you on? The US Unlocked version or something else? If you're not on the US unlocked firmware I would try flashing that, if you're S-Off. If that fails to fix it then I'd suspect a hardware issue.
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I'm on the US Unlocked version--not sure if it's s-off, I haven't done anything to it myself, so I'm using it however it came from HTC. Not sure if they are s-off by default or not.
Unfortunately I won't be back to Maine to test this new SIM this year. I guess I'll have to test locally side by side with my wife's iPhone to try to determine if it's still dropping coverage so regularly once I get out of a metro area.
I have a T-Mobile model that is running unlocked firmware and I experience switching problems when moving from wifi to lte. Simply put, I cannot connect to T-Mobile after leaving wifi unless I reboot the phone.
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I have a T-Mobile model that is running unlocked firmware and I experience switching problems when moving from wifi to lte. Simply put, I cannot connect to T-Mobile after leaving wifi unless I reboot the phone.
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Do you use the LTE Discovery app? I wonder if that would work for you too, running though that process once usually made my phone pick T-Mobile signal back up.
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Do you use the LTE Discovery app? I wonder if that would work for you too, running though that process once usually made my phone pick T-Mobile signal back up.
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I have in the past on other phones and I will try here
same problem
I had a same experience where my phone roamed onto AT&T network and it would not come back to T-mobile network. This happened when traveling from Michigan to Columbus OH and Michigan to West Virginia.
Both of the time, only way to fix was go to advanced setting and choose carrier or reboot phone.
Besides bloatware installed by carriers on the branded (U) version, are there any other differences compared to the unlocked unbranded (U1) firmware?
It seems like the Android 11 (U) has better call and data connectivity compared to my prior experience of Android 10 (U1).
I know it's not the exact comparison but I am just wondering if there is some inherent differences in performance and band frequency in the carrier version.
I wonder about this subject too
One big difference I see, I'm on At&t... Without the carrier branding, I don't get Wi-fi calling.
one big feature on unlocked firmware: unlimited hospot. if you carrier plan asks you to pay monthly for hotspot. You can do it for free unlimited in unlocked ver
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One big difference I see, I'm on At&t... Without the carrier branding, I don't get Wi-fi calling.
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This is a BIGGIE for me and the reason I went back to the At&t firmware.
1) I get spotty reception at my house and have for years (Verizon is worse), and I'm in the middle of town
2) I get worse reception, well none, in my office at work. So, I need wifi calling.
I had an unlocked Pixel 4 for about 6m, as much as I loved it, it was almost useless at home and work. So, I traded it to a buddy for his S20....I flashed the unbranded S20 firmware right after I got the S20 and while I loved the lack of bloat, I needed the Wifi calling.
I guess functionality won over what I'd rather have.