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Today for at least 2 hours from my living room, my E4GT had no service but didn't display the dreaded LOS signal. I found out about this by receiving an email telling me "your phone is going directly to voicemail for the last 2 hours, what gives?" Furious, I called this person immediately which went through as it normally should. While on the call I received 3 text messages, all delayed at least an hour.
I called sprint and they said there was no network outage, and that there is a known issue with LOS for this phone which has been discussed in this forum quite a bit. That said, I asked her what to do when your phone shows no LOS issue at all, and isn't receiving calls or texts. She had no solution other than "wait for samsung to release the fix."
Curious about my cell signal with E4GT, I used an app called "Network Signal Info" to log my phone's signal for 7 minutes just sitting on my coffee table. Astoundingly, my signal strength bounced around all the way from -106db (0 bars) to 5 bars (-76db). At one point, it even dropped from 5 bars to 0 bars. WTF!!!
I parsed the logs and created a crude graph which I am attaching. It covers 7 minutes of signal strength, logged every 10 seconds.
Has anyone else seen this happen? On my evo4g I never witnessed such a thing. I am wondering if my phone is effectively not receiving incoming calls every time it goes to 0 bars or -106db. Maybe someone else or multiple others can log what you see too? I hope this isn't normal for samsung devices....
A kmsg and logcat to go with this data would be even more enlightening.
I've had this happen as often as I've had the LOS circle show up. It will actually show full bars but no 3g signal, and when I try to send a text it just fails. It takes a reboot just as if the LOS circle was showing. I believe it's the same problem.
I've contacted Samsung and they blame it on Sprint, going so far as to say "you're carrier is known for bad coverage." It seems Sprint blames it on Samsung. Just what we need for a fast fix..... more BS from Sprint and Samsung.
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A kmsg and logcat to go with this data would be even more enlightening.
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Googling this issue apparently samsung phones have a higher variability in cell signal than htc and motorola phones. However, dropping to -106db seems quite ridiculous when moments prior it was -76db.
I mostly posted to see if anyone else is experiencing this issue. Anyone, anyone?
jirafabo said:
I've had this happen as often as I've had the LOS circle show up. It will actually show full bars but no 3g signal, and when I try to send a text it just fails. It takes a reboot just as if the LOS circle was showing. I believe it's the same problem.
I've contacted Samsung and they blame it on Sprint, going so far as to say "you're carrier is known for bad coverage." It seems Sprint blames it on Samsung. Just what we need for a fast fix..... more BS from Sprint and Samsung.
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See the thing is though, I didn't reboot or do anything. I just placed the call and the call went through just fine. I even had my gf call me 2 mins later and I received the call.
Its almost as if the cell signal is going to sleep and isn't being woken up when needed.
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Curious about my cell signal with E4GT, I used an app called "Network Signal Info" to log my phone's signal for 7 minutes just sitting on my coffee table. Astoundingly, my signal strength bounced around all the way from -106db (0 bars) to 5 bars (-76db). At one point, it even dropped from 5 bars to 0 bars. WTF!!!
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This happens to me all the time on my ET4G and two Nexus S 4g's I have. Sometimes they'll drop to -106 dBm and jump up to -76 dBm. It seems...weird. Sometimes they'll switch to roaming and jump up to -76 dBm too. Bars go from 0 to 5 seemingly randomly.
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This happens to me all the time on my ET4G and two Nexus S 4g's I have. Sometimes they'll drop to -106 dBm and jump up to -76 dBm. It seems...weird. Sometimes they'll switch to roaming and jump up to -76 dBm too. Bars go from 0 to 5 seemingly randomly.
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Have you ever experienced what I posted about calls going straight to voicemail, possibly because your phone is at -106db when call is placed?
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Have you ever experienced what I posted about calls going straight to voicemail, possibly because your phone is at -106db when call is placed?
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Not that I'm aware of. I once had a call disconnect when I was on my Nexus S 4g and signal went to -110dB (usually it doesn't go that low...only -106). But that person was on AT&T and I get dropped calls with that person a lot, and I never had a dropped call with anybody else with that phone.
The only time ET4G has lost connection for me is twice randomly, and it showed the circle with the line through it in the signal bar.
I'm in Minnesota BTW.
EDIT: Just saw my nexus s go to -65dBm and then 1 second later -96dBm.
Happens all the time to me..and it happened all the time with my Evo 3D :/
Yeah. I've had the Los circle, couldn't make an outgoing call, then had a call come in. Who knows. They need to fix this crap.
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Happens to me too. All we can do is wait for an official fix, it's not ROM/root/kernel related.
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Happens to me too. All we can do is wait for an official fix, it's not ROM/root/kernel related.
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Real question is: how long are we willing to wait?
Real problem is....many of us are already past the 14 day return.
It was much nicer when it was 30 days.
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Real problem is....many of us are already past the 14 day return.
It was much nicer when it was 30 days.
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Just got mine last week. Had no idea this was an issue. Had it happen to me yesterday twice. Initially thought it was due to the ROM i just loaded. Now I find out that it isn't it at all. Now looking at the 3D or Photon. The lack of signal no matter the frequency will drive me insane. That is why I left T-Mo to begin with.
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Just got mine last week. Had no idea this was an issue. Had it happen to me yesterday twice. Initially thought it was due to the ROM i just loaded. Now I find out that it isn't it at all. Now looking at the 3D or Photon. The lack of signal no matter the frequency will drive me insane. That is why I left T-Mo to begin with.
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No doubt. Im late to this party so i have till the 12th to return it. If this isnt fixed by then, its going back.
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Happens to me too. All we can do is wait for an official fix, it's not ROM/root/kernel related.
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I know that I'm going to get flamed for this bit I beg to differ. I have had my e4gt since launch day without so much as a problem. I rooted it on 10-2 and had the LOS problem within 30 minutes of rooting my phone. I have also had the issue discussed in this thread.
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Based on reading a lot of posts, IMO the bug is in the stock Samsung software but is triggered under a smaller set of circumstances like having poor signal and or switching to/from roaming (even if it didn't happen at your current location, but in transit)
IMO something changed in the custom kernels that exacerbates the problem so it happens in more circumstances than before. Just for illustrative purposes let's say it would have been triggered for 5% of peoples' situations with the stock kernel, with a custom kernel it might be triggered for 30 or 40% of the situations. I'm just totally making up those numbers of course.
Also the only real "stock" you can be assured of once you start flashing is this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1273647
All the other ones, there is a chance it is a custom kernel even if you see the word "stock" because sometimes folks use the word lightly and it is really "stock+" or stock Android with a custom kernel. I'm not saying every release is using a custom kernel as I haven't tested every one. However, there are some releases I thought were stock, but when I unpacked the initramfs from the zImage, realized it wasn't. Coming from a different platform where recovery and os were kept completely separate, I didn't realize at first but the CWM Recovery actually uses a custom kernel and if you install CWM, you also end up getting that custom kernel for Android as well.
sfhub said:
Based on reading a lot of posts, IMO the bug is in the stock Samsung software but is triggered under a smaller set of circumstances like having poor signal and or switching to/from roaming (even if it didn't happen at your current location, but in transit)
IMO something changed in the custom kernels that exacerbates the problem so it happens in more circumstances than before. Just for illustrative purposes let's say it would have been triggered for 5% of peoples' situations with the stock kernel, with a custom kernel it might be triggered for 30 or 40% of the situations. I'm just totally making up those numbers of course.
Also the only real "stock" you can be assured of once you start flashing is this one:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1273647
All the other ones, there is a chance it is a custom kernel even if you see the word "stock" because sometimes folks use the word lightly and it is really "stock+" or stock Android with a custom kernel. I'm not saying every release is using a custom kernel as I haven't tested every one. However, there are some releases I thought were stock, but when I unpacked the initramfs from the zImage, realized it wasn't. Coming from a different platform where recovery and os were kept completely separate, I didn't realize at first but the CWM Recovery actually uses a custom kernel and if you install CWM, you also end up getting that custom kernel for Android as well.
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You make some valid points but this issue is not exclusively related to rooted/custom roms. That fact points to it being a software or hardware problem.
On top of that, I guess i'm the ONLY one that gets this issue without even seeing the LOS red circle icon. I wonder why this is.
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You make some valid points but this issue is not exclusively related to rooted/custom roms. That fact points to it being a software or hardware problem.
On top of that, I guess i'm the ONLY one that gets this issue without even seeing the LOS red circle icon. I wonder why this is.
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Red circle? Mines is white. But no, a few other people have mentioned having the problem without seeing the icon. I did on the first page of posts in this thread actually. I believe that it just hasn't switched over to the icon yet. That is what worries me more, it can be LOS for two hours and not have the icon, then the icon will appear. I've also RECEIVED A CALL while the icon for LOS was showing. Couldn't make an outgoing call about 10 seconds before that.
The bug obviously doesn't have anything to do with current service, but more switching. I believe when it makes that switch, from no service, or wifi, or 4g, etc, back to 4g, it hangs somehow. In fact, the phone is still getting fine service, it just shows the LOS icon, which makes the phone THINK it can't receive or send calls.
I don't know anything and these are just my hypothesii, but I'm past my 14 days now and the worse part about it is Sprint acts like they've never heard of the problem and so does Samsung! That's scary.
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Red circle? Mines is white. But no, a few other people have mentioned having the problem without seeing the icon. I did on the first page of posts in this thread actually. I believe that it just hasn't switched over to the icon yet. That is what worries me more, it can be LOS for two hours and not have the icon, then the icon will appear. I've also RECEIVED A CALL while the icon for LOS was showing. Couldn't make an outgoing call about 10 seconds before that.
The bug obviously doesn't have anything to do with current service, but more switching. I believe when it makes that switch, from no service, or wifi, or 4g, etc, back to 4g, it hangs somehow. In fact, the phone is still getting fine service, it just shows the LOS icon, which makes the phone THINK it can't receive or send calls.
I don't know anything and these are just my hypothesii, but I'm past my 14 days now and the worse part about it is Sprint acts like they've never heard of the problem and so does Samsung! That's scary.
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I don't know how customer service at sprint works or whatever, but when I called sprint yesterday about this issue the woman I spoke with told me within 15 seconds that there is a "known issue for a minority of these devices." She suggested exchanging it but since I got this phone from amazon for a reduced price, not really an option (I may never do that again). I was impressed that sprint was very upfront and at least offered a solution instead of saying "no, theres no problem at all" like others have reported. When I told her I would be returning the phone within the 14 day period if it isn't fixed by then she said she'd do the same thing, and that there was "no option" to extend the 14 day period to 30 days despite my offer for me to put up with this problem for a full 30 days.
In the end sprint's new policies are all for the iphone launch and hurting existing customers.
As of now I'm on my 4th Gnexus and once again I'm being plagued with the same issue I have since my first one back on launch day. Loss of voice during a call, high pitch noises, (think scratching on a chalk board) loss of sound on all key press as well as numbers when dialing.
I have called about this issue. First time around Verizon said take it back get a new one. So I did that and so on happened 2 more times same issue same results. Now on my 4th one its starting again. So verizon said it was Samsung and Samsung said Verizon.
So I was hoping for some input on what direction I should go now.
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After so many replacements, I can only imagine that this is happening because of your location?
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My wife has the same phone and she has not had any of these issues. On the other had she doesn't use her phone as much as I do! I'm pretty much on mine all day and she maybe looks at it once a day.
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srh21 said:
My wife has the same phone and she has not had any of these issues. On the other had she doesn't use her phone as much as I do! I'm pretty much on mine all day and she maybe looks at it once a day.
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This is an obvious case of user-error. The odds of getting a defunct phone that many times in a row is about like winning the lottery, literally.
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As of now I'm on my 4th Gnexus and once again I'm being plagued with the same issue I have since my first one back on launch day. Loss of voice during a call, high pitch noises, (think scratching on a chalk board) loss of sound on all key press as well as numbers when dialing.
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when you said high pitch noises, do you mean that during a call you can hear a buzzing sort of noise when people speak? I get that on my nexus too, it's slightly irritating but I'll live with it, better than spending time to unroot it, go back to stock and then waste a whole week in the service centre.
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This is an obvious case of user-error. The odds of getting a defunct phone that many times in a row is about like winning the lottery, literally.
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It's obviously not user error.. If you read a bit you'd see there is a very lengthy thread about this very issue.. It's called microphone cutting out during call or something like that.. You can replace your phone as much as you want, it's not going to change it. the cause is unknown but I believe they have at least determined it not to be hardware..
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It's obviously not user error.. If you read a bit you'd see there is a very lengthy thread about this very issue.. It's called microphone cutting out during call or something like that.. You can replace your phone as much as you want, it's not going to change it. the cause is unknown but I believe they have at least determined it not to be hardware..
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That is correct. Audio outbound gets garbled and then lost completely. This is the worst bug of this phone. I can't count how many phone calls where I'd have to hang up and redial because the other person couldn't hear me anymore.
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I'd blame the carrier, as i'm on Orange UK, and I use T-Mobile UK as well, and call quality both ends, is excellent
Your wife may not have the issue but are y'all talking on the same tower when the issue arises? I'm on Verizon as well and never had this problem. That said, I don't talk a lot, maybe 400 minutes a month - mostly to my boss that has an iPhone so half the time I can't hear crap anyway due to that fact.
I will say, as a recent T-Mobile transplant that has used Verizon off and on for several years with work phones, Verizon doesn't seem to have the same call quality in general terms. Maybe it's just my ear, but even back in the day I owned some Motorola claim shells that sounded pretty muddy.
Have you tried to replicate the problem on a completely stock phone with no 3rd party apps? I wonder if there's a conflict somewhere.
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This is an obvious case of user-error. The odds of getting a defunct phone that many times in a row is about like winning the lottery, literally.
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Not sure how it could be user error as well. This isn't my first phone.
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Not sure how it could be user error as well. This isn't my first phone.
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Your wife may not have the issue but are y'all talking on the same tower when the issue arises? I'm on Verizon as well and never had this problem. That said, I don't talk a lot, maybe 400 minutes a month - mostly to my boss that has an iPhone so half the time I can't hear crap anyway due to that fact.
I will say, as a recent T-Mobile transplant that has used Verizon off and on for several years with work phones, Verizon doesn't seem to have the same call quality in general terms. Maybe it's just my ear, but even back in the day I owned some Motorola claim shells that sounded pretty muddy.
Have you tried to replicate the problem on a completely stock phone with no 3rd party apps? I wonder if there's a conflict somewhere.
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I pretty much tried everything. New sim cards, using it with nothing installed (stock) I'm super bummed I been waiting on a nexus device to hit Verizon for a while now. I'm not sure how much longer I'm going to put up with this.
What about rolling back onto 3G? Are you on the fringe of LTE connectivity at all?
I know a lot of people talk about call quality. Frankly, I haven't experienced any issues and no one has told me that it sounds like crap (and believe me, I have friends that would mention it, we're a HARSH bunch). I don't doubt they exist, and you certainly don't sound like 3/4ths of XDA that are overly dramatic whiners. Out of curiosity, roughly how many minutes a month do you talk? Any chance that it's just an issue where, well you know, the more you do something the more opportunity to experience something that goes wrong? I used to talk a ton for work, like 3000+ minutes a month. I had a lot more dropped calls then than now, know what I mean?
You know what I'd do, which Verizon would HATE but, hey, you are the customer. I'd take you and your wife's phone into Verizon, and have them flip the numbers around. Keep EVERYTHING else about the phones the same. Her apps stay, your apps stay, just swap the numbers around and try her phone with your regular use for maybe 3 or 4 days. If you can replicate the problem while she doesn't experience the issue at all on your phone, then you can probably narrow it down to either the tower your on, or maybe the phone really is just buggy after you've been on it for a while.
Every so often I'll have a long conversation and a call gets dropped, but I've never not been able to hear someone or them not be able to hear me. Like, they're the typical issues that you could assign to either being a tower pass off problem or the nature of LTE long before the phone (on either my end or the other person's end). But, like I said, that's a rare occurrence for me.
What version of ICS are you running? I had this same problem, specifically and most frequently the one where the audio cuts out of a call, sometimes it'd do it and force me to re-call my girlfriend as many as 3 or 4 times in an hour.
What fixed it was flashing ICS 4.0.4 released from Google themselves (if I waited for Verizon to do it I'd probably be single by now). This fixed it for me immediately right out of the gate. I've had the other issues you spoke of every so often but the audio cut out was constant. This fixed everything. Been running for a while without problems (month or so maybe?).
Eh...you didn't flash it straight from Google. At best, you flashed it straight from the Verizon/Google ota server the test ota is on
I stand corrected, this is what I get when trying to post while on hold at work. Not straight from Google, leaked 4.0.4. Originally found it elsewhere linked to a google domain site, but it's best served up here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481044
Give that a shot for now, fixed my woes anyway.
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I stand corrected, this is what I get when trying to post while on hold at work. Not straight from Google, leaked 4.0.4. Originally found it elsewhere linked to a google domain site, but it's best served up here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481044
Give that a shot for now, fixed my woes anyway.
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From here?
http://android.clients.google.com/p....signed-mysid-IMM30B-from-ICL53F.659e0a8f.zip
try a different SIM/Network. you'd be suprised
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try a different SIM/Network. you'd be suprised
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What network do you suppose he would try?
Sounds like the phone is doing you a favor. If I had to talk to my girlfriend for an hour a day I'd want my phone to kill itself.
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I stand corrected, this is what I get when trying to post while on hold at work. Not straight from Google, leaked 4.0.4. Originally found it elsewhere linked to a google domain site, but it's best served up here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1481044
Give that a shot for now, fixed my woes anyway.
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Did not fix the microphone going out issue for me :-( I just flashed the 4.0.4 leak on Tuesday hoping it would alleviate this problem, but I had the mic go out about 15 mins into a call last night. Same story as with stock, had to hang up and re-dial to continue the conversation.
Having a very strange problem with my S3. I've noticed it at home more than anywhere else but basically what happens is that if someone calls me, the phone doesn't ring on my end but I do get a voicemail notification after they've left a message. Then when I talk to them, they tell me that on their end my phone rang once or twice and then went straight to voicemail. And my phone doesn't show any missed calls so obviously, my phone never detected that there was an incoming call.
BTW, it doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes the calls come in just fine.
I've checked my signal strength and it's always between 3 and 5 bars. I've missed more calls than I can count because of this. Some of them were important calls.
And I don't have any problem making outgoing calls or using the data connection for anything.
Any idea what's going on?
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Having a very strange problem with my S3. I've noticed it at home more than anywhere else but basically what happens is that if someone calls me, the phone doesn't ring on my end but I do get a voicemail notification after they've left a message. Then when I talk to them, they tell me that on their end my phone rang once or twice and then went straight to voicemail. And my phone doesn't show any missed calls so obviously, my phone never detected that there was an incoming call.
BTW, it doesn't happen all the time. Sometimes the calls come in just fine.
I've checked my signal strength and it's always between 3 and 5 bars. I've missed more calls than I can count because of this. Some of them were important calls.
And I don't have any problem making outgoing calls or using the data connection for anything.
Any idea what's going on?
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Is it just certain contacts? You may have them set to go directly to voicemail by accident. I can't find where the list is in the phone though ahah, I can see how to add them to reject list though.
EDIT: Found it go to dial-pad and hit menu and then call settings and you will see call rejection see if you have anyone in there.
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Is it just certain contacts? You may have them set to go directly to voicemail by accident. I can't find where the list is in the phone though ahah, I can see how to add them to reject list though.
EDIT: Found it go to dial-pad and hit menu and then call settings and you will see call rejection see if you have anyone in there.
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Nope, has nothing to do with who's calling. Sometimes a call from the same person will come through but ten minutes earlier it didn't.
Ive had similar problems in the past. Turned out the phone signal was going up and down. When it was up, calls came through. And down, well duh. Either way, try a new radio. Maybe it'll hold a signal better. I've heard people complaining about H1, but cant say either way myself. Just a suggestion.
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Ive had similar problems in the past. Turned out the phone signal was going up and down. When it was up, calls came through. And down, well duh. Either way, try a new radio. Maybe it'll hold a signal better. I've heard people complaining about H1, but cant say either way myself. Just a suggestion.
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how can I try a new radio?
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there's a thread in development. some people call em modems, but its the same thing. Choice of 3 i think.
Having the exact same issue is your phone always in lte while this happens?
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Having the exact same issue is your phone always in lte while this happens?
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As far as I can tell.
stay away from LH1 modem it's trash....
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As far as I can tell.
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Same here
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My baseband version is UCLG1.
btw, I never had this problem with my iphone 3GS which I had for almost 3 years.
I have to say that even though on paper the S3 blows the iphone out of the water, for pure functionality without problems, the iphone is definitely way ahead of the S3. I'm pretty much stuck with it for the next two years but I have a feeling that if things stay more or less the same in the cellphone market, I'll probably be switching back to iphones after my contract is up. The S3 is very cool but I've just had way too many problems with it that I never had with my iphone. My iphone just..........worked. With my S3 calls don't come through, I'm constantly having to force stop apps so my battery doesn't drain all the time (and even then, half the time the battery drains like crazy no matter what), the visual voicemail is sketchy as hell and doesn't work right half the time, the data connection even when it shows a strong LTE signal is often very slow and times out a lot, and a bunch of other misc. annoyances that I never had with the iphone. I wouldn't say I'm sorry that I bought the phone because I wanted to try out the latest and greatest but when my friends and coworkers have asked me about it, I've been telling them they'll be better of waiting for the iphone 5. Sorry to vent but overall, after having it for almost two months, I've concluded that I'm very disappointed with this phone. Sure, I can do things with it that I couldn't do with the iphone but f*ck me, at least with the iphone I could do basic sh!t like receive phone calls and check my email without the connection timing out all the time.
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My baseband version is UCLG1.
btw, I never had this problem with my iphone 3GS which I had for almost 3 years.
I have to say that even though on paper the S3 blows the iphone out of the water, for pure functionality without problems, the iphone is definitely way ahead of the S3. I'm pretty much stuck with it for the next two years but I have a feeling that if things stay more or less the same in the cellphone market, I'll probably be switching back to iphones after my contract is up. The S3 is very cool but I've just had way too many problems with it that I never had with my iphone. My iphone just..........worked. With my S3 calls don't come through, I'm constantly having to force stop apps so my battery doesn't drain all the time (and even then, half the time the battery drains like crazy no matter what), the visual voicemail is sketchy as hell and doesn't work right half the time, the data connection even when it shows a strong LTE signal is often very slow and times out a lot, and a bunch of other misc. annoyances that I never had with the iphone. I wouldn't say I'm sorry that I bought the phone because I wanted to try out the latest and greatest but when my friends and coworkers have asked me about it, I've been telling them they'll be better of waiting for the iphone 5. Sorry to vent but overall, after having it for almost two months, I've concluded that I'm very disappointed with this phone. Sure, I can do things with it that I couldn't do with the iphone but f*ck me, at least with the iphone I could do basic sh!t like receive phone calls and check my email without the connection timing out all the time.
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All of the issues you listed are not really S3 specific because I have had none of them and have had my phone since release. Apart from the video voicemail which I can't comment on because I have never used.
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My baseband version is UCLG1.
btw, I never had this problem with my iphone 3GS which I had for almost 3 years.
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I've had my I747 since release in June and not experienced any of these issues. Over the years with Blackberrys and the Galaxies I found most problems result from variances in the network. Signal strength, carrier software and even where the phone is in the house. I dislike much about the iPhone (I do have a 4th gen iPod) and much prefer the openness of the Android OS and NO iTunes. Hope things with S3 get better for you.
Still having the problem. It seems to happen most often when I have LTE enabled. I disabled it using the method mentioned in another thread where you remove the sim then enter a code which takes you to the menu where you can choose what to use.
When I had LTE disabled, it didn't seem to miss as many calls. But when LTE is on, I miss a crapload of calls. I'd leave LTE off but for some reason it keeps re-enabling itself every few days so it's turning into a massive pain in the ass.
Any suggestions?
I have the same issue as you, but I'm on Wind Mobile. This issue happens intermittently anywhere between 1 to 2 days, my phone will stop being able to receive calls. It's very frustrating and Samsung is really no help. After two attempts on trying to "repair" my phone, they have failed each time. The only thing they did was they ran a "RF Test" and everything passed, they said. So they re-flash my phone with the same ROM - again and again.. I told them, "This is my second time sending it in, and you guys are redo'ing the same steps as the first repair. You don't need to be a rocket scientist to know this, but wouldn't you think when you send me back the phone - the issue is still going to be there?!" ... And sure enough, when I got the phone back, I was still unable to receive calls..
So I took matters into my own hands - I flashed it with a older release stock rom and I tested it for 2 weeks, and it was able to receive calls. When I flashed with the earlier release, it also flashed the baseband. Either way, I should not be prevented from using the up to date software! This is a Samsung issue but if you ever tried dealing with them over the phone, it's painful. They said they would send me a REFURB replacement - (believe me, I tried fighting for a brand new phone, since I paid for a brand new phone and this issue came straight out of the box - it's not even my fault to begin with!) it's been 3 weeks and I still don't see any phone replacement nor did I receive any mails from Samsung.
Btw, Galaxy S3 is the phone I have.
If you discover a permanent fix for this issue, please let me know. I've been searching but no luck.
Thanks!
UPDATE: it's been over a month and I still don't see any phone replacement nor did I receive any mails from Samsung. So I called Samsung today after a month and 2 weeks. They said my replacement have been cancelled. First they said it's approved and requested me to send in my receipt for the phone. I had done the the very moment I hung up the phone from when they told me my replacement was approved (that was over a month ago). They want me to sent it in again to Samsung so they can "test". This is just ridiculous and getting out of hand. Does ANYONE have a fix for this????
Other forums are saying this is a wide spread issue...
are u missing imei, or just the problem you descibe... try flashing the latest modem... maybe yell at it while it flashes...
Nope, just having the issue I described... IMEI is exist and is valid.
aftershocks said:
Nope, just having the issue I described... IMEI is exist and is valid.
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There's some newer modems out you could try but it still sounds like hardware...
Not sent from your phone...
Sorry for the late entry here but I'm also having the issue. aftershocks, and anyone else having this issue, open battery stats - what does your "mobile network signal" bar look like? Mine is mostly tan except for when I make calls, which then it goes green. I also have an HTC One X (AT&T model) and the bar's mostly green on the HOX.
I've flashed back to the original modem (UCLEM) to see if that helps and I'll move forward from there if not. UCDLK3 was the modem I was originally on when I noticed the missed calls. Here's the thread with radios: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1831898.
Has anyone noticed on their note 2 that its takes FOREVER to connect to a call, IF it does? I've been able to verify the issue across both me and my partners phone. most of the time i have to redial because the call just drops. i really dont want to have to exchange..maybe its the sim card? ideas?
Mine does this to, but its random....it does not happen all the time.
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Mine does this to, but its random....it does not happen all the time.
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as comforting as it is to hear someone else is experiencing it outside of my 4 walls, its sad to know that its not as frequent as mine guess an exchange is in order
Strangely, I have no issues at all. In fact, it's had some of the best reception of any phone I've had in a very very long time.
"Alright alright, hey hun, I'm in the Elevator and I'm about to reach floor 4 so the calls gonna cut out! I'll call you in a couple minutes when I'm out........ uh...... hello? Oh, you're still there. Well that was embarrassing."
Fido (Canada), Vancouver
CanaganD said:
Strangely, I have no issues at all. In fact, it's had some of the best reception of any phone I've had in a very very long time.
"Alright alright, hey hun, I'm in the Elevator and I'm about to reach floor 4 so the calls gonna cut out! I'll call you in a couple minutes when I'm out........ uh...... hello? Oh, you're still there. Well that was embarrassing."
Fido (Canada), Vancouver
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ROFL. ooooooooooook then ;p now i KNOW i should exchange, obviously i have a defective unit
hapticxchaos said:
Has anyone noticed on their note 2 that its takes FOREVER to connect to a call, IF it does? I've been able to verify the issue across both me and my partners phone. most of the time i have to redial because the call just drops. i really dont want to have to exchange..maybe its the sim card? ideas?
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ROFL. ooooooooooook then ;p now i KNOW i should exchange, obviously i have a defective unit
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Not following here. Is your wife's having the same problem or did you mean you verified yours has an issue because your wife's isn't?
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Not following here. Is your wife's having the same problem or did you mean you verified yours has an issue because your wife's isn't?
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Yes we are both experiencing it. I verified the issue with a test call from both our devices from multiple locations throughout the state. And, well, just from everyday use. I'm able to complete small tasks while I wait for the phone to connect. Like put my jacket and shoes on or climb mt everest.
Ok. Seems highly unlikely to have 2 defective units but guess it is possible.
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I have noticed this happening to my phone as well but it is not all of the time just random. I'm running Jedi rom what are you running?
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My Desire is coming up to 3 years old and otherwise works fine. Though the last few weeks it's been dropping the signal constantly. It'll drop out every few minutes and the icon gets the red cross showing it's dropped. Then it'll re-connect in about 1-2 minutes again. I'm getting texts a few days late and calls go to voicemail. I've changed the sim and it's exactly the same. I've also cleaned the contacts on the antenna under the lower cover of the phone, and all looks ok there. I've changed roms and gone to working backups I had and they're all the same. Latest radio (has been for years), and wi-fi seems fine. I don't think the phone has been dropped much, no more than the usual everyday knocks.
Had a quick search of the forums and not found anything other than what i've tried.
Any ideas of things to try guys?
loakyj said:
Though the last few weeks it's been dropping the signal constantly. It'll drop out every few minutes and the icon gets the red cross showing it's dropped. Then it'll re-connect in about 1-2 minutes again.
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Put your SIM in another phone (which is not SIM-locked) for a couple of hours and see how is your signal then. What you describe is not necessarily a phone problem, it may be network issue.
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Put your SIM in another phone (which is not SIM-locked) for a couple of hours and see how is your signal then. What you describe is not necessarily a phone problem, it may be network issue.
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Thanks for the reply! Had the sim in another phone on and off for the past few days. In the other phone it's fine and hasn't dropped once.
Which ROM are you on and what's your radio version?
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Which ROM are you on and what's your radio version?
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I'm on the latest radio 5.17.05.23.
And i'm on Mildwild 4.9 JG at the moment though i've skipped back to backups of previous Mildwild roms that have worked fine in the past.
Just had a good search of the forum and there seem to be a few very similar cases, no one has ever got an answer though by the looks. I'm determined not to write the phone off!