It pretty much just says 'searching' on the pull down menu where it is supposed to say the service provider. I've never rooted this phone or done anything else to it. It's worked fine for two months. Any help be would be appreciated.
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I've been having serious problems with my phone for a few weeks now. It is very hard to make phone calls, send text messages or connect to the Internet, it takes quite a few tries every time I want to connect. It seems like the phone doesn't want to connect to 3G or any signal for that matter, when other people call me it usually they speak to my voicemail because they cannot get through. It is very frustrating. I have never had a phone or a computer with so many bugs in my life. If it wasn't for this forum I would have returned by now. I'm not even sure if it is HTC or Windows to blame either.
Does anyone else have such a problem. I think it may be the radio cab I downloaded although I never used. What is the best way to delete it, to make sure there aren't any files left? Or if I download the New Windows 6.5 tomorrow is that going to delete and reset the phone, how does it work. Any piece of advice would be highly appreciated. Thanks.
So I just did gfree earlier today and everything went fine, at least at the time.
I did ./gfree -f so I got s-off, sim unlock, and supercid
In the past couple of hours, my connection has been really sporadic. I go from full bars, to no service for no reason. I'm at my house, and I have never had these problems before.
I'm assuming something went wrong in the gfree process. Maybe the sim unlock? Is there anyway to revert the unlock to see if that fixes my problem?
I read the wiki and I saw how you can reset the supercid and the s-off to s-on, but I don't see anything about the simunlock.
Any help or insight on this problem is greatly, greatly appreciated.
Well, it seems that my problem has fixed itself, sorta. I switched out sims with my brother's phone to see if maybe my sim was bad, and low and behold the phone got a signal again. So, I put my sim back in my phone, and for some reason, I started getting a signal again. Don't really know how to explain that one, but I'm glad it is working again.
Could this be a precursor that my sim is going bad? I kinda had an idea that it was already going south a while back when I had it on my old android phone and in the settings>about phone>status it said that my phone number was unknown and this causes my picture in the contacts and messenging app to be a gray box.
I don't really know what went on with it, but I haven't had a problem since. Maybe it was a glitch in the matrix?
What do you guys think?
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Actually cleaning the SIM contacts with something like a pencil eraser usually works wonders.
I don't think it's anything to do with gfree. Could be the SIM. Or even the way you are holding the phone. Sometimes the way you hold the bottom part of the phone can affect the signal, since that's where the antenna is.
You could also try upgrading the radio - see the radio thread on that.
I took a look at the thread and I have 26.03.02.26, the 26.04.02.17 radio being the only one that supersedes it. I got to thinking though. My reception was fine before and I had no signal even when I was not even holding the phone. I see no need in updating the radio since it seems to have fixed itself and has not happened since.
Only problem that I would like to fix now is the phone not recognizing my number in the settings, causing my contact picture to be grayed out.
It's strange though, because, my phone will pick up another sims number if I install it, and even weirder is that if I install my sim into another phone, that phone picks up my number.
Not really sure what I need to do to fix this.
Managed to get a HTC Desire for an absolute steal of a price as the seller had managed to forget his lock pattern and hadn't set up a google mail account to bypass the lock pattern. Having used Android phones before I knew that if I could just figure out the correct combination of buttons on startup I'd be able to reset the phones to factory settings and have a working phone.
So, I quickly bought the phone, figured out the "Power+Vol Down" combination and ran a factory reset from within that menu.
The phone restarted and I went through the setup and everything seemed fine, until I tried to send a text/make a call.
When I send a text message, I get the message sending failed error and it retrys various times before the phone finally gives up and stops trying.
When I try and make a call the phone just hangs for a couple of seconds on the dialing screen, beeps and cuts off (as though I have no signal).
I assumed that the phone had been blocked, hence the seller was selling it so cheap and he had come up with this story of locking it out, but after having a play I realised the internet was working perfectly and I had full HSDPA signal. Now correct me if I'm wrong but I'd have no sort of connection if the phone had been blocked by the carrier?
I assumed this was a software issue and have updated from 2.2 to 2.3 but still the same issue. After updating, I've also realised that I am unable to change network carriers (I'm on TMobile and they now share networks with orange).
My sim works perfectly in other phones and if I put another sim in the Desire, it still has the same issues. The phone is locked to TMobile (not that I think that would matter), running the official HTC 2.3 Gingerbread release and as far as I'm aware my APN settins are all okay.
If anyone could shed any light onto what is going on here, and hopefully to a fix then it would be greatly appreciated
Thanks in adavnce
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my apologies, thanks for moving me to the correct forum
I am having problems with a Samsung Note 2 that I found. I thought it was my lucky day, but when I put my SIM card into the phone, the phone works and has service and I can receive and make calls. However, for some reason, when I lock the phone, the service just dies out and I have to unlock the phone and wait a few seconds to a few minutes before I get service back and can use the phone again. Please let me know if anyone has experienced these kinds of problems before and/or have any solutions that might work.
P.S. I'm not much of a phone techie but I spent a whole day rooting the phone, adding CWM, and adding the Jedimaster-X ROM on the phone, hoping that this would fix the problem but it did not. Any advice or help is wanted! Thank you in advance!
NiiSanShi said:
I am having problems with a Samsung Note 2 that I found. I thought it was my lucky day, but when I put my SIM card into the phone, the phone works and has service and I can receive and make calls. However, for some reason, when I lock the phone, the service just dies out and I have to unlock the phone and wait a few seconds to a few minutes before I get service back and can use the phone again. Please let me know if anyone has experienced these kinds of problems before and/or have any solutions that might work.
P.S. I'm not much of a phone techie but I spent a whole day rooting the phone, adding CWM, and adding the Jedimaster-X ROM on the phone, hoping that this would fix the problem but it did not. Any advice or help is wanted! Thank you in advance!
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would have to know if you lose the connection to wifi or data if so in settings / wifi / advanced / wifi keep forever.
rimgoru said:
would have to know if you lose the connection to wifi or data if so in settings / wifi / advanced / wifi keep forever.
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I haven't tried it with wifi. I just know that the service bar goes from having 4 bars to a crossed out O right after I lock my screen. I can see the crossed out O when I re-light the screen by pressing the power or home buttons. I have tried various SIM cards and still no change. I also tried changing the ROM, no change.
Something really weird is going on with my At&t galaxy s3. I'm new to this forum so I'll just explain what I'm experiencing and do my best to work through it will all of you. This phone got rooted by someone else and when I got it, the rooted program was in chinese and was acting all weird and wasn't getting good reception, although it was before it was rooted. I flashed it back to normal and it's acting very curious. It will receive an At&t simcard but the service bars will go from 1 bar to 4g to Edge to 1 bar all in a matter of 20 seconds or so and doesn't seem to work. It will occasionally work to send messages, make calls, but it seems like it can't ever receive calls. I checked and the IMEI number is still the same. Also, I had originally tried to unlock it to another carrier and when I put in different simcards (From other carriers such as verizon) the service bars don't show up, instead, all it shows is a cancel sign and doesn't ask for an activation code or anything. I'm honestly not sure what to do here, I thought I had broken the simcard reader and replaced that, but that made no difference. I'd greatly appreciate any help. Thanks!
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Something really weird is going on with my At&t galaxy s3. I'm new to this forum so I'll just explain what I'm experiencing and do my best to work through it will all of you. This phone got rooted by someone else and when I got it, the rooted program was in chinese and was acting all weird and wasn't getting good reception, although it was before it was rooted. I flashed it back to normal and it's acting very curious. It will receive an At&t simcard but the service bars will go from 1 bar to 4g to Edge to 1 bar all in a matter of 20 seconds or so and doesn't seem to work. It will occasionally work to send messages, make calls, but it seems like it can't ever receive calls. I checked and the IMEI number is still the same. Also, I had originally tried to unlock it to another carrier and when I put in different simcards (From other carriers such as verizon) the service bars don't show up, instead, all it shows is a cancel sign and doesn't ask for an activation code or anything. I'm honestly not sure what to do here, I thought I had broken the simcard reader and replaced that, but that made no difference. I'd greatly appreciate any help. Thanks!
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Unlock is supposed to be permanent so it's odd that you lost it.
Now as for your problem, a lot of people are getting this issue lately, where unlocking damages their nv file. The solution can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43842387
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Unlock is supposed to be permanent so it's odd that you lost it.
Now as for your problem, a lot of people are getting this issue lately, where unlocking damages their nv file. The solution can be found here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=43842387
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Thanks for your quick response I have been looking for a long time and never saw this issue before. I'm not sure where I'll be able to find a replacement nv file...but i'll see if anyone I know has a galaxy s3 from at&t. Maybe once I do this the unlock issue won't be messed up anymore.