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I have flashed several roms, radios, and kernels to this phone and none of them will roam. Not even stock out of the box. I also have a photon and I can be in a location with little to no sprint service and the photon will roam on cdma with full bars but the epic touch wont leave sprint to roam. Db never makes it above -100. I don't even know where to begin. I have tried forcing roam, but nothing. I have went through all the settings for network and mobile data/voice every option I could think of and the phone is still stuck on sprint
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I agree.. Ive also tried the same.. Roam control is a joke to me ..
So you both have attempted to use Roam Control but to no avail. What is it exactly about Roam Control that isn't working for you two?
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So you both have attempted to use Roam Control but to no avail. What is it exactly about Roam Control that isn't working for you two?
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For me whenever roaming control is on, it never really activates roaming and if it does the signal still is bad when the person next to me on verizon and or tmobile has all 5 bars.. So either roam control doesnt turn on fully or it doesnt want to connect to better outside network towers ??
roam control doesn't work in all areas with Sammy phones. Frequency for roaming is different. Roam control site explains it better than me.
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Btw roam control dies work. The problem is the prl. If you are using a normal pro it will only roam on 1x. You need a business prl like from korey's thread.
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Also, Sprint prl's will use VZW for roaming as a last resort.
Download Net Monitor and check to see who you are actually roaming on.
What PRL and what location are you at?
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Also the pirated versions don't work ...
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Also the pirated versions don't work ...
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Yep, that is the problem that I see most people having. They download a pirated copy of the app and wonder why its not working. The developer has implemented something to disable the roaming function with pirated versions. To use Roam Control to its full potential, either buy the app or go on a hunt for version 1.4.
I have the same problem.....p***es Me off,but im trying different modems,hopefully I get better signal or I might just try flashing my phone to boost or cellcom
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For me whenever roaming control is on, it never really activates roaming and if it does the signal still is bad when the person next to me on verizon and or tmobile has all 5 bars.. So either roam control doesnt turn on fully or it doesnt want to connect to better outside network towers ??
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Are you sure that you are actually switching over to roaming? Do you see a small triangle next to the signal bars.
First off, your never going to roam on T-mobile since they're GSM.
Samsung phones have a "bug" where they cannot roam on the cellular band; they will only roam on the PCS band. Your friend on Verizon is probably connected to a strong cellular band signal and when you force roam your connecting to a crappy PCS signal.
I have a paid version of the app. On my photon which is a sprint phone will roam perfect. Tested the app on that phone and it made no difference, the phone already roams like its supposed to. Same house the epic touch won't leave sprints network. I can barely hold one bar with every roam setting in thx phone turned on. I installed roam control again from the market onto this phone and even the app can't get it to roam. Still 3G at one or no bars on sprint network. Also what are these prls I keep reading about on all these roms. I know I could search the forums and find an explanation on what they are how to change and whatnot but are these codes that important? And would that effect the phones roaming and signal strength? Because even with the photon not roaming and using sprints network I can hold a steady 2 or more bars but with a sucky data speed
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I'm in the same boat when in a dead zone it's a crap shoot whether the phone will roam or not
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I have been talking to Sprint everyday since LG2 was released. Nothing but problems staying connected to Airave. Sometimes I loose 3g for hours, sometimes it drops to 1x, and sometimes voice and data are lost. So, I'm back on LF9 modem as it seems to be the best modem right now. They have done every test on Airave possible, communication between them and Airave is perfect. My brother has HTC EVO LTE and when he comes over, he has none of these issues on Airave. Pretty much narrows it down to the S3 modem itself or modem firmware.
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I have been talking to Sprint everyday since LG2 was released. Nothing but problems staying connected to Airave. Sometimes I loose 3g for hours, sometimes it drops to 1x, and sometimes voice and data are lost. So, I'm back on LF9 modem as it seems to be the best modem right now. They have done every test on Airave possible, communication between them and Airave is perfect. My brother has HTC EVO LTE and when he comes over, he has none of these issues on Airave. Pretty much narrows it down to the S3 modem itself or modem firmware.
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i have lg2 modem and my airave works fine..never had problems
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i have lg2 modem and my airave works fine..never had problems
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I wish I could say the same, LF9 working better, could be my ISP also, recently found out Lousiana Suddenlink customers statewide had internet issues.
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My GS3 will only connect to my Airave for data, not voice. Power cycled both the Airave and the phone multiple times and nothing I do can get the thing to use the Airave for voice. I can still call out and receive calls, but i'm connected to a native Sprint tower. I don't get the usual tone you hear when you're connected to an Airave, the mobile light doesn't blink, and there's zero bandwidth usage on my router when calling. I can verify through my router that it is definitely connected to the Airave for 3G data though as I can almost peg my slow-ass 1.5 mbps DSL.
My Airave connects fine, but is as bad as it's ever really been. Only get about one or two walls worth of penetration with the stupid thing, it's pretty worthless in larger homes. In 2 bedrooms, the back yard, garage, and office the Airave just causes dropped calls. What I could use is a "Roaming Only" button, as there is very strong Verizon service in the area (those handful of times the phone goes to roaming are very good times).
This happens with the OG Epic, E4GT, GS3, iPhone 4S, and an old blackberry. If only they allowed us to up the xmit power on the things or install better antenna's.
I had LG2 and my airave was working okay. I have lg8 now and it seem to be working the same.
Sprint is sending me the new 2.5 airave device to replace my 2.0 one should have it shortly. Hopefully the new software in the 2.5 will work better. Been having your same issue since I got the device on lf9
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Can you physically tell a difference on the 2.5 from the 2.0. I recently got a new airave and was wondering which one I got.
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Seems like most people have had a decent experience with the Airave? I just ordered one off of ebay. Hoping to get more than 1 freaking bar in my apartment. I drop calls all the time and I have to go outside or stand near a window to get more than one bar. Hoping this will get me a couple more bars. Only spent 37$ for it...so it's not a huge loss if it doesn't work as advertised. I tried to get one free from sprint but alas, they however did say they would pay the 5$ or whatever it is per month so hopefully they'll still do (been a few mths) that when I call them up and tell them I have an Airave.
Yes the 2.5 is smaller and will have airave 2.5 on it. But now I'm running into an issue to where the GPS is saying I am in Austin when I am 20 minutes from downtown Dallas. Call quality has increased but data drop still to 1xrtt however it does pick back up evdo rev a quicker.
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Yes the 2.5 is smaller and will have airave 2.5 on it. But now I'm running into an issue to where the GPS is saying I am in Austin when I am 20 minutes from downtown Dallas. Call quality has increased but data drop still to 1xrtt however it does pick back up evdo rev a quicker.
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I dont understand why people care if it has 1xrtt or evo rev a, or whatever!!
just turn on the darn wifi and who cares!
I don't pay sprint for data usage and pay Verizon fios for data for nothing. Plus I game don't need excessive bandwidth sucking my latency. Plus the arrive only uses a small amount of bandwidth to convert ur isp signal to evdo rev a
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I don't pay sprint for data usage and pay Verizon fios for data for nothing. Plus I game don't need excessive bandwidth sucking my latency. Plus the arrive only uses a small amount of bandwidth to convert ur isp signal to evdo rev a
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that still doesn't explain why one can't just turn on the wifi? you are saying too much bandwidth speed is not good?
Pc gaming not on the phone lol
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Pc gaming not on the phone lol
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ah ok.....i get it..you want to save bandwidth for your PC...lol..sorry..my bad
that makes sense...but when people try to use 3g data and complain from an airave, it's a moot point because most phones have wifi now
Yep add tends to stop me from typing in details lmao
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Stock LG2
Sprint sent me an Airave due to poor signal at work. I use WiFi for data while I'm at work so that has never been an issue. I installed it in my server room (one wall between my office and the Airave) and I get full bars. I walk to my company's neighbor which is connected to our buisness and it drops to two bars (three wall and about 40' destance). The signal does drop but its still usable. Over all I am very happy with the product.
Does anyone have any specs on the differences between the 2.0 and 2.5?
Personally I hope they fix the issue of it needing to be in FRONT of your router (right off the modem). Or at least make it so the airraves internal router boots up first before it tries to connect to the sprint service.
Should my device lose power I always lose internet for about 15-20 min while the stupid device boots up and connects... Thankfullyl i'm on a battery backup, but it can be annoying.
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Does anyone have any specs on the differences between the 2.0 and 2.5?
Personally I hope they fix the issue of it needing to be in FRONT of your router (right off the modem). Or at least make it so the airraves internal router boots up first before it tries to connect to the sprint service.
Should my device lose power I always lose internet for about 15-20 min while the stupid device boots up and connects... Thankfullyl i'm on a battery backup, but it can be annoying.
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i have the old one and I don't need to keep it in front of the router...i just plug it in the router like I plug in my computer to the router
I keep getting this data roaming guard warning popping up and can't get it to stop. I have turned all of the roam guard settings off except for the GSM settings but I can't turn those off because they are greyed out and locked to be checked. I don't care that my phone goes into roaming, infact its going to happen a lot due to riding the metro every morning where the stations are above ground but the track between each is under ground with AT&T service. my problem with it is a) it turns the phone on every time wasting battery and b)it wont stop.
This also happens in places with low reception for sprint.
So short of turning my phone off or the data service off during times where this could happen, is there a way to get those locked check boxes unchecked or to stop the notifications?
I have exactly the same issue extremely annoying. I figure the fall for the wrong and plan on calling sprint see what they can do about it. I. don't imagine theyll have any ideas and the call will be a waste of time but. if you don't complain they won't fix it.
I get the same thing.
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due to riding the metro every morning
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MD represent!
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I get the same thing, too.
What's even stranger is that I've had it tell me it can't send a text due to "International Roaming"
I live in the Midwest. No international roaming here!
Get the same problem here in San Antonio, TX
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This happens to me on a daily basis. So annoying.
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Glad I am not the only one having this issue. I thought surely there was a button I was missing. I just came from the Evo3D and had this problem when using a Virgin Mobile ported rom. I work in the middle of a corn field so roaming happens more frequently than not
Same here i'm in Irving, TX noticed when I get it, I just hit the on/off switch and error went away.
same issue. live in south jersey. I always hit send anyway when trying to send a text in "international roaming". i figured once my bill is 1,000's of $$ for international roaming can I argue and blame it on them. clearly I have not left the country nor am I close enough to Canada to pick up Rogers/whatever I remember picking up in upstate NY
I hate it too. Will see if I can disable it through smali for my ROM
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Do you guys have any issues with signal on your GN2? My GN2 will just drop all signal and show a circle with a slash in it as if there is no signal at all. At first I thought it was my airave but it happens when I am not within range of my airrave as well.
I also have issues getting the phone connect to my Airave 2.5. Anyone have any ides about this?
I just noticed that I will have full signal and while trying to send a text, the text will look like it's sending but the signal will drop. I have to wait for the signal to come back and re-send the text. 5 minutes later and the same thing happens.
I had a problem like this also, I reset my Airave and then updated profile and it worked. Maybe give that a try.
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I had a problem like this also, I reset my Airave and then updated profile and it worked. Maybe give that a try.
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Yeah I've tried this. I reset my Airave and the GN2 will connect but at times it just disconnects.
I still have the problem where I'll turn on my phone and there will be no signal and it will connect to the sprint network after a minute. This happens with or without the airave.
I just flashed the phone back to stock and still having the same problems.
Did you update your profile after resetting the airave? Just a thought?
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I had this problem in my house and what I did was turn roaming from automatic to sprint only and it helped. I also unchecked roaming guard for data and voice
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I had this problem in my house and what I did was turn roaming from automatic to sprint only and it helped. I also unchecked roaming guard for data and voice
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Thanks. I'll give this a shot.
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Thanks. I'll give this a shot.
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Let me know if it works for you
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Let me know if it works for you
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Nope. I just set it to home only for the roaming mode instead of automatic and I unchecked the domestic roaming guards. I still get signal drops.
I think (not 100% sure) that the signal drops when the phone is idle and not when its downloading something or even when I'm on a call. Not sure if that helps.
After you set it to sprint only did you unplug the airave for a minute or so, then plug back in? Just a suggestion. I was constantly roaming when I would first come home and it would not connect to the airave. I stopped having the problem after I switched to sprint only. I hope you figure it out.
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Same deal here. We ended up calling sprint and they sent out a 2.5 unit which has been more reliable, if not perfect. If we run into this with the new unit a quick switch to airplane mode and back again usually fixes it and if not then a phone reboot does. While your way this not the most reliable I think it's definitely have something to do with the note. Be sure to call Sprint so they are more likely to address it.
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Let me know if it works for you
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After you set it to sprint only did you unplug the airave for a minute or so, then plug back in? Just a suggestion. I was constantly roaming when I would first come home and it would not connect to the airave. I stopped having the problem after I switched to sprint only. I hope you figure it out.
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No I did not but that's only because I was not near the airave when I changed the sprint only setting. My connection drops outside the range of the airave too.
I took my phone to a corporate Sprint store and the tech told me that due to the towers in my area being down (due to the hurricane) that's why my signal drops. But I don't buy that...my signal was fine on Friday with my Galaxy S3. My signal drops at work a lot and my co-worker with his Sprint Galaxy S3 does not have the same signal problems.
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Same deal here. We ended up calling sprint and they sent out a 2.5 unit which has been more reliable, if not perfect. If we run into this with the new unit a quick switch to airplane mode and back again usually fixes it and if not then a phone reboot does. While your way this not the most reliable I think it's definitely have something to do with the note. Be sure to call Sprint so they are more likely to address it.
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I have an Airave 2.5. Sorry, I should add that to the OP.
Here's an update. I called sprint and told t change support about the problem. They ran through the usual steps like update profile, prl, and a factory reset. They made sure the provisioning was okay on their end and it was. Since I have TEP, they decided to ship me a new or refurbished Note 2. Let's see how that one goes.
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Here's an update. I called sprint and told t change support about the problem. They ran through the usual steps like update profile, prl, and a factory reset. They made sure the provisioning was okay on their end and it was. Since I have TEP, they decided to ship me a new or refurbished Note 2. Let's see how that one goes.
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How did it go?
I think I am on the same boat. I have a brand new airave 2.5+. My GN2 only connected to it twice, after lengthy updating PRL, profile, etc. I can't make it connect normally. Wife's iphone 4s connect OK. I was told because a tower (not very strong signal) is preferred, my phone doesn't connect to airave. I think it is a bug but don't find a solution. I search this forum and found people have similar issue for GN3. I tried PRL 51097 but no luck. BTW, I am on PRL 2011 now.
Can someone post PRL 2011? I made some progress on PRL 55016 but my phone has 2011. I don't know how to read it out, nor do I have the MSL.
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Does anyone understand why on earth my phone reconnect to cell tower right after I hang up a call? The phone was connected to airave before and during the call (according to the signal strength, unless I was fooled).
It wasn't prl. It was my Note 2. At the time Sprint sent me a new Note 2 and it worked fine.
So as much as I love my note2 I want to talk about something not unique to it..wifi calling
When I switched to the note2 I also switched to t mobile from sprint..I wanted an gsm note2 I could unlocked for international travel to use in country sims so tmobile was the choice.
But the thing is when I go overseas im almost always in a hotel with wifi..and tmobile wifi calling has been a God sent. .ive never even had to swap out for local sim..calling, texting, back home all over wifi at local us rates..how great is that..it is my favorite feature..yet almost no other carrier has anything like it.. surprising
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I really like it, but I hate how good of a WiFi connection you need.
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Not important for me at all
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I'd use the crap out of it if it didn't use my minutes
I'm sure it's useful for those people who don't get a good signal at home, which isn't me, so it's pretty useless and unimportant.
I use it all the time.
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When people are in buildings that cell signals can't penetrate, they quickly become jealous of wi-fi calling. Having this additional capability is simply awesome sauce when you need it.
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So as much as I love my note2 I want to talk about something not unique to it..wifi calling
When I switched to the note2 I also switched to t mobile from sprint..I wanted an gsm note2 I could unlocked for international travel to use in country sims so tmobile was the choice.
But the thing is when I go overseas im almost always in a hotel with wifi..and tmobile wifi calling has been a God sent. .ive never even had to swap out for local sim..calling, texting, back home all over wifi at local us rates..how great is that..it is my favorite feature..yet almost no other carrier has anything like it.. surprising
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you used WIFI calling using T-mobile sim card and it charges you as a local minutes!? its too good to be true
I thought it would charge you for roaming rates, wouldnt it?
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you used WIFI calling using T-mobile sim card and it charges you as a local minutes!? its too good to be true
I thought it would charge you for roaming rates, wouldnt it?
Thanks,
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It acts like the device is in the usa.
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It acts like the device is in the usa.
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Thanks thats great news for me Che Cheng
It is the most important thing. Without it I wouldn't be able to use my phone 75% of the places I go. Can't afford Verizon anymore hence my T-Mobile venture. Once again...thank goodness for WiFi calling.
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Critical.
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This is an addon with some biz plans. Critical for my company as alot my techs are in datacenters which have cell blocking tech, the buildings are just to thick, or some with heavy RF interference etc for any signal to get through. Even more when my guys are on the road. Beyond the lie that vzw or att say is everywhere, my guys can always pull off road at a pukeUds and call in.
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I'd use the crap out of it if it didn't use my minutes .
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It is one of the best features of the phone IMO. In many areas (like mine), T-Mo is actually worse than it was 10 years ago (when they were borrowing AT&T networks), with only 3G/4G in some spots and 90% Edge. I think it's great that they included something like that to keep customers sorta happy. I was afraid the voice would be terrible on it but it isnt. I wish other carriers had something like that.
Do you know if there's a way to enable Wi-Fi calling with moderate Wi-Fi connection? My device takes literally 10 minutes because my WiFi connection fluctuates from full bars to like three so it never connects.
WiFi call is the main reason I stay with T-Mobile/stock ROM. Especially I travel overseas a lot.