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I have the problem where if I leave my phone in one place for about 5-10 minutes I can't make a call. The phone has gone up to 6 hours without a problem while I did my daily business. I've taken hour long drives from one town to another without a problem.
Most folks have a problem where they can't get a signal or signal drop. My problem is the signal bars tell me i have a signal 3 to 4 bars. No matter what though i can't receive or make a call. Doesn't matter where I move the signal bars stay "stuck". Something jams up or whatever manages the phone signal crashes. Airplane mode doesn't have an effect, if i restart the phone it comes on with airplane mode activated.
I've install WajkIUI 1.9.16 with similiar results. I'm running Jboogies3 mod. It solved my reboot issue oddly enough so I've stuck to it. I'm a 2G area only. I use baseband swticher. Even without the baseband the signal gets stuck.
Any advise would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
i have the same problem!
I've tried different combinations of roms and nothing has hit yet. I was told it was a software issue. What app controls the signal?
When i force quit the Dialer app it also shuts down the radio.
Bad sim?
Maybe try flashing an SBF, like the new nordic or 2.2.2 3.4.2-179 CEE Deblur
I've been around the world with defy roms. I feel at this point its a complete lost. Also If I have data on when the phone jams up and try a web program. The data icon seem to act like its trying to send something out.
I do have a question about the baseband switcher. When you change the baseband. Is the info in "About phone" under baseband suppose to change?
I was using an iPhone 3G on the Fido network and switched to Bell on Thursday to get the Galaxy Nexus. This is my first Android phone, already own a Xoom.
Since buying the phone I have noticed a reoccurring issue with my signal. I leave my phone next to me when I go to bed and when I wake up I notice that I have zero bars and when I try to make an outgoing call the phone says I am in airplane mode (but I am not). Also none of my apps say they have data and my e-mail hasn't been updating.
I haven't figured out the best way to get a signal working again, but so far it appears to regain signal when I start using it for a few min or if I restart the phone.
While I am awake the phone sits next to me with full bars only 5 feet from where it rests overnight.
Anyone else encounter this issue? Is Android trying to save battery by weakening my signal and therefore cutting it off entirely? Possible defective device? Issue with Bell's signal although I seem to have full bars otherwise?
thx guys
I have the same issue. Flashed different radios and roms but still the same thing.
I've read similar issues with other people on Bell Canada.
Wonder if it's a problem with Bell.
Same Here
just finally noticed this here too in NYC on T-Mobile phone bought unlocked from UK. I remember having similar problem with my nexus one thou it was eventually fixed but as it was then now I can fix it with a restart.
NewMossie said:
I have the same issue. Flashed different radios and roms but still the same thing.
I've read similar issues with other people on Bell Canada.
Wonder if it's a problem with Bell.
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Well with this only being released on Bell/Virgin in Canada it is hard to tell if the issue is network or device related
This is usually a SIM issue. Try someone else's to test, or just ask your Carrier for a new one.
In the meantime you can toggle Airplane Mode to bring your signal back.
Here are some example screenshots. In these cases my signal drops & returns very quickly without me doing anything.
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I gotta run some more tests on my phone after an extended period of inactivity, but trying airplane mode last time freaked it out. It already thought it was in airplane mode when I tried to make a call. I had no signal, it said please turn off airplane mode, went to the setting, it was off, so I turned it on. I then tried turning it off, but while the check box responded the airplane logo would not go away in the statusbar. I had to reboot the device.
Hey Guys,
same problem here in germany. Signal drops when i leave the phone alone. But not every time. Over night the signal stays all the time.
sometimes even a reboot does not solve the problem... it drives me insane!
I'm also on Bell and on my second GNex. The first one had that issue as well, along with horizontal streaking on the screen so I returned it. I'll keep you posted if this handset also drops signal.
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I was using an iPhone 3G on the Fido network and switched to Bell on Thursday to get the Galaxy Nexus. This is my first Android phone, already own a Xoom.
Since buying the phone I have noticed a reoccurring issue with my signal. I leave my phone next to me when I go to bed and when I wake up I notice that I have zero bars and when I try to make an outgoing call the phone says I am in airplane mode (but I am not). Also none of my apps say they have data and my e-mail hasn't been updating.
I haven't figured out the best way to get a signal working again, but so far it appears to regain signal when I start using it for a few min or if I restart the phone.
While I am awake the phone sits next to me with full bars only 5 feet from where it rests overnight.
Anyone else encounter this issue? Is Android trying to save battery by weakening my signal and therefore cutting it off entirely? Possible defective device? Issue with Bell's signal although I seem to have full bars otherwise?
thx guys
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As a heads up to this topic, there is a similar issue with Airplane mode turning itself on. The low signal/no signal issue and airplane mode might be related. The thread is here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1387943. There is also an "issue" opened with Google about it.
To throw in my two cents, I've also noticed this issue occuring infrequently in nyc with tmo. Usually during the day at work the signal will drop down even though the phone hasn't moved. Usually it comes back but I have had fairly longer delays going from no signal areas to signal areas, sometimes 60-120 secs before the device recognizes the signal. I'm wondering if this is a result of the device polling for signal less often to conserve battery power.
Keep the information coming! This is how we work out the real bugs!
this is driving me insane. I want to throw my GN right against the next wall. Signal drops and does not come back. I have to switch to 2G to regain my connectivity.
flight mode doesn't help, reboot doesn't help, switching all data off doesn't work.
What the f* is going on here? is it a provider based problem? or is it due to a conflict with ICS or anything? if it lasts i'll switch back to my good old desire ...
forgot to say: switched radio today, doesnt bring any improvement. Tried the xxkk6 and the newest UGKK7. Back to xxkk6 now.
J0uns said:
this is driving me insane. I want to throw my GN right against the next wall. Signal drops and does not come back. I have to switch to 2G to regain my connectivity.
flight mode doesn't help, reboot doesn't help, switching all data off doesn't work.
What the f* is going on here? is it a provider based problem? or is it due to a conflict with ICS or anything? if it lasts i'll switch back to my good old desire ...
forgot to say: switched radio today, doesnt bring any improvement. Tried the xxkk6 and the newest UGKK7. Back to xxkk6 now.
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UGKK7 isn't the newest. UGKL1 is.
Ive had the same exact issues as well. Have had a thread open for quite some time too.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1365389
I tried UGKL1 last night and finally thought I had it working but still doing it.
I flashed Modaco lr6 this morning and haven't seen the issue since.
Before the flash, it would lose signal everytime it went to sleep
Is anyone here still having issues with the Galaxy going into Airplane mode after the phone is left in idle mode for hours? If my phone is left idle for a long time it goes into airphone mode and I have to restart the device to be able to make and receive calls. It's strange because I transferred my T-Mo account onto a new SIM card when I purchased my GNex.
I seriously hope this isn't a hardware related issue because I would be without a phone again...
This thread is a better resource to go to for the airplane issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1387943
My issue was also connection drops. I since replaced my SIM card & Nexus. No more frequent connection issues. I can confirm that I still get the airplane issue, but because I am not losing my connection frequently, the airplane issue only happened once since mid December.
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This thread is a better resource to go to for the airplane issue:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1387943
My issue was also connection drops. I since replaced my SIM card & Nexus. No more frequent connection issues. I can confirm that I still get the airplane issue, but because I am not losing my connection frequently, the airplane issue only happened once since mid December.
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I'm seeing weirdness as well - when I come out from under the subway, I can't get back a signal. Going to have to revert to stock (uuuuugggggggggh) and see if it persists.
I have the same issue and it happens nearly every night. I wake up in the morning with no signal and once I reboot I receive all of my messages etc. I am not sure if it started happening since I rooted and flashed Revolution HD but either way it is extremely irritating.
I have had this problem since I got my phone mid December. Over the past week it has become worse. I was anxiously awaiting the 4.0.2 upgrade.
I just upgraded to 4.0.2 yesterday, but unfortunately my signal dropped a few minutes ago. Grrrrrr, I had hoped that 4.0.2 would solve the issue, but apparently it doesn't. Maybe 4.0.3 will do the trick, but I don't expect this to be released very soon as they are rolling out 4.0.2 just now.
Android version 4.0.2
Baseband Version: I9250XXKK6
Kernel Version: 3.0.8-gaaa2611
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Build Number: ICL53F
ICS stock; non-rooted
Hi,
First post, feels like I'm a little late to the party. I have a gio which initially had gingerbread 2.3.3. The phone is unlocked, and rooted, and has the clock work mod recovery patch on it. I have tried a couple of different versions of gingerbread, and am now running ice cream sandwich: kernel 2.6.35-7-galaxyics, CyanogenMod version build 9-20120610-UNOFFICIAL-gio, build number IMM76L.
Firmware-wise, it's mostly good, but I'm having a couple of weird issues:
1. The screen goes black on me periodically, and won't come back without pushing the on/off button. This is happening every 30 to 60 seconds of use.
2. The wifi crashes, a lot. With the older gingerbread I would get the word "error" under wifi in settings, and couldn't turn it back on. I would enter *#*#526#*#* to bring it back, but every 5 minutes seems a little excessive.
With the newer ICS, I've noticed I can play on a wifi link all day long without issue, but as soon as I set the phone down for a couple of minutes, wifi stops working. If I go into settings, wifi is on, but there's no connection. If I turn wifi off and back on, it comes back to life.
I guess, I'm wondering if these indicate more of a hardware issue than a software issue. It's hard to ask for support from my carrier, given I'm using an unlocked phone bought from a 3rd party, and have no contract.
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With the newer ICS, I've noticed I can play on a wifi link all day long without issue, but as soon as I set the phone down for a couple of minutes, wifi stops working. If I go into settings, wifi is on, but there's no connection. If I turn wifi off and back on, it's comes back to life
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I got that problem to sometime ,
And welcome !
send from my galaxy gio with paranoidAndroid Rom
Errors that you describe has a lot of people
The team is now working on ICS AOSP so be patient wait a little meringue as soon
And yet you propose to install something else that any CM
In total there is this quite a bit
update
A couple of things I've noticed:
1. The resetting wifi problem does not happen when the phone is plugged into USB.
2. The screen turning off happens frequently, but about 1/2 of the time, the screen will turn off for 1-2 seconds, then come back on at full brightness; the rest of the time, it will not come back on at all, but still responds to being tapped. The only way to get it back is to push the on/off button on the side twice, but then the screen is locked, and has to be swiped to unlock.
I have picked up a second phone, a 5660M running stock gingerbread 2.3.4, unlocked and rooted; not experiencing either of the two above issues (and the camera preview works). If I could take the 5660 back to stock at this point, I would prefer that, as the phone is not usable with these problems. Is there a stock rom available for this phone somewhere?
update part II
Hmm, after the phone showed up with 2.3.3 claiming to be a gt-s5660, and was sold as such, I finally put 1 & 1 together. I checked under the battery, it's a gt-s5660m. That explains probably all of the problems I've been having. Pity there's no ICS build for the M version of the phone.
You can use cm9 ics on your M model, it only changes your device id to gt-s5660, just dont flash roms with ODIN except roms for the M model.
Flashing from recovery wont install a baseband, with ODIN it mostly does, so the only roms you cant flash are old roms that still need odin like gioprio.
Flashable .zips are fine, all of them
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The wifi problem might be hardware, m8
I don't know, as my gio has some strange problems as well and I've had ICS, Adrenaline ROMs, everything, and the problems still persist. At least they're not really bad to handle in everyday use but still, they're annoying.
Go to wifi settings - advanced - sleep policy- never
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update part III
Since going back to GINGERBREAD.MUGKG3 / 2.3.4 for the GT-S5660M, the wifi crashing and screen blanking behaviours have completely stopped. After two days of running, wifi has not shut-off unexpectedly even once, and the screen does not blank any more at all.
The gps works now; it was not before. It used to sit for up to an hour under a clear open sky, day or night, and never acquire a single satellite. Now it picks them up within 30-60 seconds, though a full lock does take a couple of minutes.
The phone previously always indicated it was roaming, and would frequently refuse to send texts or make calls. I would get full bars for signal strength, but no connectivity.
I even got hold of the fm radio app, which was not included with the M version of the 5660, and manually installed it (phone must be rooted, and file system must be mounted read/write). It works too; a nice bonus.
The camera works, but is a bit flaky, requiring an occasional restart to get it going.
Probably the biggest headache, after flashing back to the 5660M version, was that the phone locked itself again, and wouldn't work on my network. I dumped bml5 page and searched out the unlock code. I had some trouble with this. The search string to get close to the code is supposed to be a sequence of twenty 0x00 bytes, one 0x05 byte, and fourteen 0xff bytes. The 0xff bytes weren't there, and it took a while for me to clue in that if I searched on the twenty 0x00, and single 0x05 byte sequence, I could still pull it out. I got it, and wrote it down in case this happens again.
sms issue
Still ticking along with the GT-S5660M; mostly it's all working nicely. I have one question though: I recently ran out of memory for storing SMS messages. It looks like the texting app in the phone wants to put everything on the SIM card rather than on the SD card, but there's no option for moving the default storage location for messages. Is there a simple way to do this? The phone is unlocked & rooted, but does not have the ext2 file system on it.
What's the IC? I checked under the battery to confirm mine is a Canada model, and it is.
But my IC is GT-S5660L
Model: GT-S5660M
IC: GT-S5660L
buremily You
Peteragent5 said:
What's the IC? I checked under the battery to confirm mine is a Canada model, and it is.
But my IC is GT-S5660L
Model: GT-S5660M
IC: GT-S5660L
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Same, GTS5660L ... why do you ask?
I ran a couple of searches on Google( and in this forum) to try and find the original thread about this issue, however I didn't find it so I'm posting here in case anyone else can be saved by this fix.
First, some background:
I have been running CM10 Nightlies for almost a month now, also using the leaked Jelly Bean radio version T999UVLI2 with absolutely no problems. Everything was working great, data, ROM, etc. (Prior to that I was on Stock ICS, rooted. Had not run any custom ROMs whatsoever).
I noticed after flashing the latest CM10 Nightly (Oct. 14) that my phone had started acting a little weird - nothing drastic mind you, just a few glitches here and there. The weird thing was, all of the previous nightlies I had flashed pretty much worked flawlessly for me, minus a volume issue when in-call which was a known bug. I had done a clean flash as I always do, so I attributed the glitches to a possible bug or two in the latest Nightly and figured it would probably be resolved in the next release. No big deal.
Yesterday afternoon, after reading a thread that is tracking all available T-Mobile radios by region (to see what works best in your area) I saw someone who posted that the T999UVLI3 radio gave them the best speeds, and they happened to live in the same exact city as I do here in Southern California. So I decided to flash the new radio using Team Sonic's Modem flasher, which I used in the past to flash the LI2 radio that I was currently on. I flashed the T999UVLI3 radio and found that it did indeed provide better data speeds than the LI2 radio, so I was pretty happy about that. Used my phone all day/all night with no problems, everything was great.
I always leave my phone plugged in at night so that I have a fresh charge in the morning - this morning I turned off my phone while it was still plugged in as I leave it off during the drive to work to save a little battery before I start my day. Typically I unplug it first and then turn it off, but not always. So nothing really out of the ordinary there.
I get to work and turn on my phone, and all of the sudden I notice that I have no bars - at all. It doesn't say "T-Mobile" at the bottom of my lock screen. I figured it was just taking it's time booting up, which would be very weird as it never does that, but I waited. And waited. Nothing. Now I'm starting to get a little worried.
Went into settings and checked "About Phone" and it said my Baseband version was "unknown". Oh crap. IMEI, unknown. Serial number, unknown. GREAAAAT
For the life of my I couldn't imagine how this could happen when I didn't even do anything from last night to this morning. I started going over everything I had done recently to my phone.. the power off while plugged in, the nightly update to the Oct 14 build, then it hit me.. the new radio version. Maybe that was it
In a desperate attempt I booted into recovery and ran Team Sonic's Modem Flasher and flashed back to T999UVLI2. Rebooted the phone and... BAM! Back to normal. W...T...F..?
If anyone loses their IMEI, before going through the entire injection fix process, try reflashing a radio. Worked for me!
Any theories on why this happened? Many people have been using the T999UVLI3 radio, I believe without any issues.. but I could be wrong. Anyone flashed that radio and lost their IMEI?
Hi, i have a problem with my arc S. Over a year i've tried many roms, some i used for a long time, however lately i have a big issue with almost any rom so i am wondering what might be the problem. Mostly started happening with new roms, JBs.
What happens is that not long after instalation of any rom i lose signal completely. When i am in my home all day signal stays, however when i exit the house i lose signal and network ofc. Usually airplane mode on/off works for 2g, sometimes takes about 30 sec, but 3g doesn't, and automatic switch also doesn't work because at a moment i maybe don't have both 3g and 2g. I hate that this happens because i go walking or driving and unless i look at my phone every 5 minutes I'll be unavailable. This hasn't happened up untill 2 months ago. I tried basebands 77, 85. As i am currently SJB latest, bb 77. BB 85 makes things even worse. Can someone help i don't want to have to press airplane mode on/off 10 times a day...
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Mili7 said:
Hi, i have a problem with my arc S. Over a year i've tried many roms, some i used for a long time, however lately i have a big issue with almost any rom so i am wondering what might be the problem. Mostly started happening with new roms, JBs.
What happens is that not long after instalation of any rom i lose signal completely. When i am in my home all day signal stays, however when i exit the house i lose signal and network ofc. Usually airplane mode on/off works for 2g, sometimes takes about 30 sec, but 3g doesn't, and automatic switch also doesn't work because at a moment i maybe don't have both 3g and 2g. I hate that this happens because i go walking or driving and unless i look at my phone every 5 minutes I'll be unavailable. This hasn't happened up untill 2 months ago. I tried basebands 77, 85. As i am currently SJB latest, bb 77. BB 85 makes things even worse. Can someone help i don't want to have to press airplane mode on/off 10 times a day...
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whick kernel u use
Fusion 5.4
I dont known what happend with your device or your network.
But i never got this problem.
I use sjb 6 with fusion5.4 and then 5.5.
I let 3g ON alltime of my day and use 3g data very intensive.
Since i flashed this ROM, i never lost my signal. I have only sometimes problem by reconncect to my wifi network, that all.
I use O2 and T Mobile network in Germany.
My baseband is 77.
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Yeah that's the problem cause i have rarely seen this problem on arc s. Googling it i found that many nexus and galaxies s2, s3 with JB sometimes have the issue, however for the arc s i can't find any1 who had this and then solved it somehow. That's the reason i am suspecting two things, maybe somebody know something about this. Could it be:
1. my SIM card problem, that is got somehow partialy damaged during many different ROM flashes and kernel flashes ( this really is just an idea, and i can't see how that would happen) - I can ask for a new SIM card from my operator at any moment though?
2. my phone got damaged during proceses, but i am not really an amateur user, i know all the basic stuff, phone is normally unlocked BL, ftf is the latest .587, SJB is latest, fusion 5.4, tried other kernels 5.4 is the best because with it I encounter the least network signal drops.
3. I dropped my arc s many times during these 2 years. Could it be because of that? Also i don't think any service in which i can take it would consider fixing it after they see unlocked BL, custom kernel, custom ROM :S
P.S. This issue started happening when i went to another country, after which i've been only flashing JBs on the phone. If all else fails, and no1 knows what could be the issue, in the next days i will be probably try going to ICS or some other and see what will happen. The reason i haven't done that is that i am highscoring benchmarks with SJB and the rest of the phone feels pretty good.