Okay, let me start off by saying I'm not entirely sure if this is a device issue, or a service issue.
Whenever I try to send an SMS, it spins that damn circle and eventually throws a failed message. Sometimes the addressee receives the text, more often than not, they don't.
So my question is, does anyone else have this issue? If so, how'd you fix it? If not, any advice or next steps I should take?
-Matthew
EDIT: Calls work just fine, it's only texting.
What ROM are you on ? How man bars of signal do you have when you are experiencing the issue ?
Stock jelly bean. I had full bars but signal was roughly -87dBm with I think 11 amu. It started later in the evening but the next day everything was back to normal.
Must've been an outage.
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Has anyone else experienced problems with text messaging and the Airvana? When I send a text it tells me that message is not going through and to try again. The recipient actually receives the message and gets spammed 5+ times with the same message.
Also, if I received text messages during this period I get all the responses together within a few seconds.
This only occurs, randomly, while connected to the Airvana. I know this is isolated to the Airvana unit because when I switch back to my old Airave it doesn't happen.
This is why I stopped using mine.
happens to me all the time with that damn airvana
I used to have the same issues, and it was very frustrating. I did however notice improvement after I ported my sprint # to google. and upgraded to the latest radio. It's been a good 2 months and I have not had any issues. I've also upgraded my wireless router to a Netgear 300N. Hope this can be a bit of help.
Yep, just unplug the damn thing. I used mine for 2 days and had way too many problems. It now sits in a box in my closet.
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Has anyone else experienced problems with text messaging and the Airvana? When I send a text it tells me that message is not going through and to try again. The recipient actually receives the message and gets spammed 5+ times with the same message.
Also, if I received text messages during this period I get all the responses together within a few seconds.
This only occurs, randomly, while connected to the Airvana. I know this is isolated to the Airvana unit because when I switch back to my old Airave it doesn't happen.
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I have the same problem every now and then. Whenever I send a text and it seems to be taking too long to send, I delete it. the recipient still gets it several times but not the 20+ times they would normally get it if I weren't to delete it. Only hapens every once in a while, it is quite annoying though.
Yea there's a thread over on Sprintusers where people are having identical problems. Someone posted that Sprint is aware of the issue and working on fixing it. (This was like Oct 2010).
Still broken
Working on it my a** I have had this problem since last year.
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Working on it my a** I have had this problem since last year.
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You want them to work on your ass?
I just got mine and it wont even connect to mobile sprint says there having issues with all airaves. So you send me an airave to help my signal yet its having its own issues...im wearing thin here lately.
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iceman99393 said:
I just got mine and it wont even connect to mobile sprint says there having issues with all airaves. So you send me an airave to help my signal yet its having its own issues...im wearing thin here lately.
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Where as other carriers would look at you and laugh that your contract isn't up and send you nothing...
An issue like that doesn't last very long.
I called Airave tech support and they are telling me I need to update my PRL and it'll fix all my problems. BS.
He says they have some tool that is supposed to show 5 green dots for my phone but I have 2 black X's.
yeah.. you get to choose between working texts all the time or good signal.
So im not the only one. He seem like it only happens when texting back and forth with someone quickly. If your airave mobile light wont turn green and only blinks amber. You need the higher up sprint airave tech to do a firmware reset. Fixed my issue
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My airvana stops working rondomly all the time, they keep telling me its my ISP because it fails the quallity of service test they want to to do. but yet every other Qos test I run I pass. And last night my nexus would not sent mms, but my wifes phone worked just fine.
I thought this was fixed with a hard reset. Problem is happening again. I'm going to try to switch back from Airvana to my Airave unit.
Tech support is telling me it'll take up to 4 hours to provision my unit? Sounds like an awfully long time!
I plugged in Airvana unit back in last night after maybe 3 months. Of course, after one day my text messaging problem returns.
I call Sprint and this time the tech support says it is a known issue whereas before they said "no reported problems." It is apparently just a problem with Airvana and EVOs/Epics. They said that the manufacturer of the Airvana units are aware of the problem and there is not current fix available. They essentially told me to disconnect the unit to text message or to wait until I'm out of Airvana range. That's pretty ridiculous if you ask me!
Ya I have this exact same issue, so effing annoying, and if I disconnect my airvana I get no service at all and texts don't send anyway :/
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Mine situation is even weirder. The first day or two after I install a new ROM, I'll have the issue where the person I'm sending the text to will get it 10 times, and I'll get replies 10 times, and then the problem will suddenly disappear. Happened on every ROM I've ever used since I got my Airave, both AOSP and Sense.
It has been confirmed as phone and Airvana related by Sprint. Won't matter if you're stock or on any special ROM.
Hey guys,
Ok I'm having a issue here. I'm running cm9 beta0, with el30 modem. And all of the sudden today, I can't place calls, they get stuck on dialing, and texts will not send. I can however send and receive texts through google voice application. But calls will still not work. I tried re-booting/re-installing the rom, anything that I could think of to do without a computer, I think I've done.
Its been this way for 3 hours now. Could it be the local tower or something? Or is my modem just crapped out? 3g works just fine. I'm so confused.
Anyone have any ideas?
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For the life of me I can't get picture messages sent through 3g. They won't go through unless I put WiFi on. Anyone experience this or know a fix?
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For the life of me I can't get picture messages sent through 3g. They won't go through unless I put WiFi on. Anyone experience this or know a fix?
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I will say that I was unable to receive them without WiFi. I haven't gone through the diagnostic steps yet to make a good report to the devs because I rarely get them and haven't remembered to do so.
This is on the 9-20120331-SNAPSHOT-epic4gtouch-alpha2 version if that matters using darchstar's FD02 kernel he posted a couple days ago.
If you have time, can you run a logcat with and without your WiFi on so the devs (or even the rest of us) can see what is happening?
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For the life of me I can't get picture messages sent through 3g. They won't go through unless I put WiFi on. Anyone experience this or know a fix?
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I haven't flashed to alpha 2 yet but I've had several problems regarding SMS/MMS on alpha 1
Sometimes I can't send messages at all if they are more than a few words long, sometimes it works fine, I can't receive MMS at all most of the time regardless of the connection.. Other times every msg I receive will come in as an MMS that I have to d-load.. even if it's just a couple words... But I barely have time to flash to another ROM with work and school much less actually track down a problem.. good luck
I am having a weird radio issue with my E4GT. I am running a FI27 ICS build, with the FI27 modem and everytime I send an SMS, it starts to send, the signal meter drops to 0 bars (from usually 4 or 5) and it takes a very long time to send the text (about 15 seconds or longer), either that or it just says it "failed" but I check google voice inbox or ask the recipient and they usually get them fine. I updated my profile and prl the other day, and I think that may be the culprit, can anyone please provide some insight? is there a way to roll back PRL or something? Should I try a new modem? I receive SMS just fine btw.
This may or may not be related, but within the same time frame, I have also been experiencing clock sync issues, my time zone is Eastern, so now it is GMT -4 hours, but every so often, before I changed my clock setting to from automatic network time to manual, my phone clock would jump 4 hours ahead. So I am guessing it is part of the same radio issues. any and all help is much appreciated.
I have that since I got this phone back on gingerbread. Also on my previous phones like the Evo4G and OG Epic. I think that's just Sprint network for you. Doesn't happen much when you're on 4G and Wifi. Sending messages steals from your reception since they both are ran by the 2G network. At least that's how I always saw it.
Edit: Also take into consideration that Sprint is upgrading their towers. Might be the reason you're experiencing it more often. And yes even though sometimes it says failed they do go through. I always hit resend and get a complain about double texting from the other person lol
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I've been having a problem with receiving texts sometimes and I recently noticed that it happens with call apparently. The issue is that I'm texting people back and forth and then all of a sudden I wont receive messages for a long time (couple hours). At some point, someone's text message will push through all of the other ones all at the same time. Sometimes when I assume i'm having this issue, I will send a text to myself and it will push the other ones through as well. Recently though I was made aware that during this "outage", I also was not able to receive phone calls at all. The signal is strong at all times (3-4 bars). Also happens when I'm home all day and not changing locations when it will suddenly stop getting texts and calls. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? I restarted the phone and changed cell towers with the Airplane mode many times and the issue continues to happen at random times. It is really inconvenient. Suggestions?
Technical details: I use the stock 4.1.1 Rom that comes with AT&T S3. I do have LTE in my area.
And now it has happened 3 days in a row but at different times of day. This is a huge problem for me as I use my phone a lot. Any help would be appreciated
You still have your IMEI number via settings -> about phone -> status?
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TRy making sure yiur not in airplane mode. i was stuck in airplane for a week ._____________.:cyclops:
That's weird. Re-seat your SIM card, if that doesn't do anything then take a trip to your nearest AT&T store/dealer and have them swap out your SIM card and see if it still occurs after that.
I had a similar problem a while back and it happened to be a network problem with my carrier. Gave them a call and all is fine now.
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I've been having a problem with receiving texts sometimes and I recently noticed that it happens with call apparently. The issue is that I'm texting people back and forth and then all of a sudden I wont receive messages for a long time (couple hours). At some point, someone's text message will push through all of the other ones all at the same time. Sometimes when I assume i'm having this issue, I will send a text to myself and it will push the other ones through as well. Recently though I was made aware that during this "outage", I also was not able to receive phone calls at all. The signal is strong at all times (3-4 bars). Also happens when I'm home all day and not changing locations when it will suddenly stop getting texts and calls. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? I restarted the phone and changed cell towers with the Airplane mode many times and the issue continues to happen at random times. It is really inconvenient. Suggestions?
Technical details: I use the stock 4.1.1 Rom that comes with AT&T S3. I do have LTE in my area.
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It happend to me too. I went to att store and get new sim. No problem for last 15-20 days. Looks like i got stronger signal too.
Just to give anyone interested in this an update:
I went to the AT&T store today and told them my issue so they told me to go to the nearest AT&T device support center (which was really far away). People over there told me they heard about this issue many times over the past couple of months. The guy working there had a S3 and said he has the same problem. They received an email from the higher-ups this morning specifically talking about this random outage thing I have and that they are currently working on it. They were told to not exchange phones or sim cards because of this since it wont help. The issue involves a combination of Network and Jelly Bean software problems and happens on all new LTE devices that have Jelly Bean from AT&T. They told me to check periodically if there is a solution.
I guess I just gotta wait. Unless someone recommends a ROM that is not based on the latest AT&T jelly bean?
Bumping it up, both me and my wife have had this happen. From what im read its a pretty widespread deal.
Anyone know of a work around at least until they fix it?
Keep us updated
Same problem here - switched from Verizon to AT&T last month and started noticing this problem a few weeks ago. Back then a Google search didn't find much on it, but this thread looks promising.
Just to add my two cents: I'm on a rooted S3 with task650's AOKP (4.2.1) build 12.23.2012 (link). Made sure to flash the modem for my phone (I747UCLI5 from here). Problem: phone randomly won't receive calls or texts. Sometimes calling someone will fix it.
I read somewhere that on AT&T, calls and texts are received over 3G and sometimes phones have difficulty switching from 4G. Anyone know if this is true?
Do a full wipe /system, /data, /cache, /dalvik cache. And your problems should be gone 9 times out of 10 that's usually everybodys problem
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fafik90 said:
I've been having a problem with receiving texts sometimes and I recently noticed that it happens with call apparently. The issue is that I'm texting people back and forth and then all of a sudden I wont receive messages for a long time (couple hours). At some point, someone's text message will push through all of the other ones all at the same time. Sometimes when I assume i'm having this issue, I will send a text to myself and it will push the other ones through as well. Recently though I was made aware that during this "outage", I also was not able to receive phone calls at all. The signal is strong at all times (3-4 bars). Also happens when I'm home all day and not changing locations when it will suddenly stop getting texts and calls. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? I restarted the phone and changed cell towers with the Airplane mode many times and the issue continues to happen at random times. It is really inconvenient. Suggestions?
Technical details: I use the stock 4.1.1 Rom that comes with AT&T S3. I do have LTE in my area.
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I had this same problem except it would only happen on WiFi.
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Do a full wipe /system, /data, /cache, /dalvik cache. And your problems should be gone 9 times out of 10 that's usually everybodys problem
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Tried that no go, plus its on 2 different phones.
Found some more info and ended up adding anothe APN and chaning some info in it seems good now.
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Tried that no go, plus its on 2 different phones.
Found some more info and ended up adding anothe APN and chaning some info in it seems good now.
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Care to share what you did that fixed it?
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Care to share what you did that fixed it?
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Yeah more info here.
http://forums.att.com/t5/Android-Di...ing-Calls-Phone-issue-or-Android/m-p/3404809#
Seems to still be working fine.
I started a thread on this also and just yesterday received some info from AT&T tech.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2123974
guys,
it is an ATT issue,
here is a temp solution for a fix:
1) With phone on, take off back cover and press your SIM card so it releases from the spring. It won't come all the way out as it's blocked by the battery. This seems fine - I didn't bother trying to force it out as I didn't want to break anything...
2) Once you see the message that the SIM card is removed, go to the dialer and dial *#2263#
3) You should see a menu with band selections. The current setting is "Automatic". If you switch to "GSM All", you will be EDGE (2G). If you switch to "WCDMA All", you will be on HSPA+ (3G, though AT&T and others call it 4G).
4) Press the SIM card back into place until it clicks. For whatever reason the phone will not recognize it until you reboot. Upon reboot you should see your new setting in effect
please see, post, comment here:
http://forums.att.com/t5/Android-Di...ls-Phone-issue-or-Android/td-p/3270741/page/3