I don't know if this is just my phone or what, but lately I've been having trouble staying connected to data. Been needing to constantly toggle data on/off to reconnect.
I'm currently on TW 4.1.2 and I've tried everything from "hands free activation" to flashing different modems and PRLs. Nothing seems to work. Trying to figure out if this is a problem with my phone or if anybody else has been dealing with this problem.
Driving nutz. About to switch over T-mo if this doesn't rectify itself. Dah!
It might be that Sprint is upgrading the towers in your area. Horrible service is one of the signs that this may be going on, especially if its only shown up recently. I would suggest to contact Sprint and inquire
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It might be that Sprint is upgrading the towers in your area. Horrible service is one of the signs that this may be going on, especially if its only shown up recently. I would suggest to contact Sprint and inquire
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Yes where do you live? Also check out s4gru.com
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Yes where do you live? Also check out s4gru.com
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I'm in the southern part of Arizona, between Phoenix and Tucson. I've only started experiencing this problem about a week ago. It's so annoying.
But yeah, i checked s4gru. And it would appear other peeps are having this problem as well. This is driving me crazy tho. Need data for work. I'm about to move on from CDMA.
T-mo is offering Nexus 4 for $50. No contract. Might just switch. I dunno.
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drewmonge said:
I'm in the southern part of Arizona, between Phoenix and Tucson. I've only started experiencing this problem about a week ago. It's so annoying.
But yeah, i checked s4gru. And it would appear other peeps are having this problem as well. This is driving me crazy tho. Need data for work. I'm about to move on from CDMA.
T-mo is offering Nexus 4 for $50. No contract. Might just switch. I dunno.
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This last week my phone started instantly switching back from 4g to 3g. I used to be able to toggle airplane mode and toggle it off and it would just reload the 4g when it reconnected but now it wont even do that. I was reading a suggestion to toggle LTE only mode from the ##data# menu but before doing that I noticed my phone was set to "hybrid mode" I changed it over to cdma/evdo/lte and after I did that it connected to 4g and stayed connected. Hopefully this helps you out... I was getting just as frustrated as you are to be stuck on 3g when I KNOW it is in the area.
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I don't know if this is just my phone or what, but lately I've been having trouble staying connected to data. Been needing to constantly toggle data on/off to reconnect.
I'm currently on TW 4.1.2 and I've tried everything from "hands free activation" to flashing different modems and PRLs. Nothing seems to work. Trying to figure out if this is a problem with my phone or if anybody else has been dealing with this problem.
Driving nutz. About to switch over T-mo if this doesn't rectify itself. Dah!
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Might need to change your modem that you are running. Some modems will not work with some roms. I had the same issues before and changing the modem fixed that issue.
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Is it me or do I seem to always have an issue with data and my phone. There are many times when I go to pick it up to use and the data, either 3G or 4G, is greyed out.
I've noticed it even if I switch my phone to CDMA only.
Any suggestions on how to fix it other than the obvious reboot or airplane mode?
Unfortunately, this might just be reception issues in your area. I have no LTE problems where I live.
That's what I'm thinking. The phone may just not know what mode to chose cause I'm in between the two.
I have to bump this thread. I'm sick of this. I can hardly ever send MMS messages when I'm on WiFi.
I'm not in a 4G area, that I know. I was successful in updating my PRL which I thought fixed my issue, but didn't.
It's not like I have no signal, 1 bar, -90dBm in my house. Even switching the phone to 3G only doesn't fix this. Rebooting is my only option, as turning on airplane mode doesn't help.
Does anyone else have issues connecting to data? I'm tempted to root, just to flash a new(er) radio, but I don't feel like restoring my phone.
Have you tried updating to the new radio?
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No. That isn't the solution. Thus is s documented and serious problem. Its on google code and tickets have been opened with Verizon
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No. That isn't the solution. Thus is s documented and serious problem. Its on google code and tickets have been opened with Verizon
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Whoops! That's what I get for opening up threads in multiple tabs. I replied to the wrong thread.
Haven't tried a new radio, still would have to root it.
As for the wifi sleep policy, it's set to always. I dunno...
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Haven't tried a new radio, still would have to root it.
As for the wifi sleep policy, it's set to always. I dunno...
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As for the wifi sleep policy, it's set to always. I dunno...
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Yeah, that was my bad. I had multiple tabs open with different threads and posted in the wrong one.
I live in a spotty 4g area so its constantly switching from 3g to 4g and before it locks onto one signal it always does the stupid grey bar deal and sometimes it won't lock on at all even though I'm in a strong (3g) area. Restarting the phone works sometimes. All I know is that it better be fixed soon or this phone will be going back.
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I live in a spotty 4g area so its constantly switching from 3g to 4g and before it locks onto one signal it always does the stupid grey bar deal and sometimes it won't lock on at all even though I'm in a strong (3g) area. Restarting the phone works sometimes. All I know is that it better be fixed soon or this phone will be going back.
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Yup, this is the issue I have. I can have strong 3G signal (all bars grey) but it just won't connect. Airplane mode sometimes fixes it, but I usually have to reboot the damn thing.
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I have to bump this thread. I'm sick of this. I can hardly ever send MMS messages when I'm on WiFi.
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Turn wifi off for it to send/receive mms messages better
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Turn wifi off for it to send/receive mms messages better
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Except the issue is... the data won't connect after I disable wifi lol. Hence why it won't even send with wifi on...
Do you live in a4g area?
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Do you live in a4g area?
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We have 4G here in town, but I live on the outer city limits. When I get closer to town I get 4G.
I know where I live sometimes I need to reboot my phone for it to change successfully from 3g to 4g... Another thing people suggest is toggling airplane mode on and off to make it pick up signal
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wayneb02 said:
I know where I live sometimes I need to reboot my phone for it to change successfully from 3g to 4g... Another thing people suggest is toggling airplane mode on and off to make it pick up signal
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Yeah, I don't know why airplane doesn't work like rebooting usually does.
You might possibly have an actual defective phone
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You might possibly have an actual defective phone
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I thought about taking it in and replacing it.... I don't have any reception issues, just this issue with the phone not wanting to get on data about 50% of the time.
Anyone else having issues with their device being stuck in 2g (EDGE)?
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Anyone else having issues with their device being stuck in 2g (EDGE)?
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Im fine here in Houston. Do you have another phone you can test with?
Might also be helpful if the mention what rom you are on to help identify the cause
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I think it's T-Mobile.
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I think it's T-Mobile.
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Working normally up here in Tennessee.
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Anyone else having issues with their device being stuck in 2g (EDGE)?
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I had similar issue turn off/on your mobile data and airplane mode.
Worked for me
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Im fine here in Houston. Do you have another phone you can test with?
Might also be helpful if the mention what rom you are on to help identify the cause
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Ive had really crappy service in houston over the last couple days. Been having to just keep wifi on because nothing wants to load properly on regular data.
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Ive had really crappy service in houston over the last couple days. Been having to just keep wifi on because nothing wants to load properly on regular data.
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Same here, Houston coverage has been bad for the past week or so. In my house where I used to get like three bars on 4g, now I only get edge. Don't know what's happening here, could it be the refarming thing they got going on?
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I hope thats what it is. My download speed hasnt been too bad, 8-10 usually but the upload has been horrible, .3-.5 typically. But compared to the 15+ download and 2-3 upload I got the first couple weeks with the phone its noticable. The biggest problem though is that it seems to randomly just not be connected or want to connect to the net.
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i have absolutely abysmal 4g speed around where i live (south san francisco, says its on 4g, geting about 30 kbps down). If i turn on pandora in my car it'll sometimes refuse to play and when I drive to an area where I know there's good 4g speeds, it still doesnt play. The phone says its on 4g but the down/up stream lights never blink, so I have to switch off and on my mobile data to get it working again.
Another incident was a similar issue, but instead it didnt have the 4g icon at all, it wasnt even on edge! All I had in the notifications bar was my battery and the t-mo signal. In this case I had to restart the phone.
just curious of people use it or not? On the EVO LTE you wanted to keep wi-fi off as it tended to cause problems when switching from wi-fi to 4g (the problem being you would not get any 4g signal.)
Nope. Annoying having that crap pop up constantly
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mine is checked (which I believe means it is on) but I never have anything pop-up to suggest a different network etc. It does automatically switch to wi-fi given the chance.
God no.
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God no.
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lol yeah no.. i'm smart enough to know when to connect to a network
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just curious of people use it or not? On the EVO LTE you wanted to keep wi-fi off as it tended to cause problems when switching from wi-fi to 4g (the problem being you would not get any 4g signal.)
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Wait.. we have a Sprint Connection Optimizer??? Since when???
Optimizer
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just curious of people use it or not? On the EVO LTE you wanted to keep wi-fi off as it tended to cause problems when switching from wi-fi to 4g (the problem being you would not get any 4g signal.)
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That is one of the 109 items that are frozen.
Deleted from my phone, long time ago.
That's the Sprint "don't use your unlimited data".
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I can't stand it. I have to disable it then remove the apk to actually turn it off. Very frustrating. My girlfriends Zte Flash won't allow you to disable either. Kind of a crappy "feature".
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I drive around doing property maintenance all day and have lots of hotspots so leave mine on. I am surprised at how many times I pull out my phone and am on a wifi network, and no pop-up for me either. There is a setting to disable that somewhere.
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I drive around doing property maintenance all day and have lots of hotspots so leave mine on. I am surprised at how many times I pull out my phone and am on a wifi network, and no pop-up for me either. There is a setting to disable that somewhere.
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Settings>Wifi>Menu Soft Key>Advanced
There's a few hidden goodies in that menu.
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It seems to me that you need it to get 4g. Am I wrong in this observation? Is it just coincidence that I don't pick up 4g when its off?
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It seems to me that you need it to get 4g. Am I wrong in this observation? Is it just coincidence that I don't pick up 4g when its off?
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You don't need it at all to get 4G.
I hate the thing. First thing to go when I flashed.
Heck no.
The optimizer did not seem to optimize anything for me.
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Absolutely not! As soon as QBKing77 showed how to stop it, it was gone!
Freeze that bbbbyyyyyyaaaaattttcccchhhh!!!
Freeze it every time. Seems pretty pointless to me.
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The optimizer did not seem to optimize anything for me.
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The only thing it did for me was to optimally drain my battery.
has anyone had the issue where their phone won't connect back to 3g data?
when I reboot my phone 3g will work until wifi kicks in. after I turn wifi off 3g comes back, I can call and text but will not download any data.
I have tried Odin back to stock. wiped everything including recovery. I have tried flashing every combination of modems and kernels. all same.
however one thing I will note. I have not been able to get a successful modem flashed in Odin. it keeps failing. so I flash in twrp.
I also wiped the activation data via ##732# or something like that. had sprint reactivate my phone too..
perhaps someone could shed some light on this?
-Wizzle
I just got my Note 2 like 5 days ago and mine does the same thing. Its very annoying and its gonna be exchanged today for that and other reasons.
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hmm. I wonder if it's network related..
is your phone stock?
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Okay here is the skinny. It is network related. My wife's stock s3 does the same thing. If you are in an area without lte and your phone under mobile settings is selected to lte/evdo/cdma it will connect to ephrd13. Which is enhanced 3g. When you come off wifi or a phone call sometime it will not reconnect. You can toggle data a few times and it will reconnect.
To solve this issue, under mobile settings I select evdo only setting being that I do not have lte in my area. There is no change in speed between the 2 3g networks.
This info is from self diagnosing the rooted note 2, a stock photon, and a stock s3.
I have had sprint reset the phones as well as the ##data# trick.
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I had this problem as well.. Very annoying..
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Okay here is the skinny. It is network related. My wife's stock s3 does the same thing. If you are in an area without lte and your phone under mobile settings is selected to lte/evdo/cdma it will connect to ephrd13. Which is enhanced 3g. When you come off wifi or a phone call sometime it will not reconnect. You can toggle data a few times and it will reconnect.
To solve this issue, under mobile settings I select evdo only setting being that I do not have lte in my area. There is no change in speed between the 2 3g networks.
This info is from self diagnosing the rooted note 2, a stock photon, and a stock s3.
I have had sprint reset the phones as well as the ##data# trick.
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yeah I did the ## thing. however it came back. so someone from sprint called me to see if Iwas happy with the support and I told them I was still having data issues. He told me that he would put my ticket in priority and after an hour everything has been working better so far...
but we'll see
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Yes changing to evdo so far has helped alot. I really appreciate the info. Thank you.
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Yes changing to evdo so far has helped alot. I really appreciate the info. Thank you.
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I will try this as well. Thank you.
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When I say evdo only I meant cdma only. Ehrpd13 is the handshaking 3g for lte. Some areas have lte in the towers but no ehrpd13 so the lte is not turned on yet. Basically ehrpd13 and lte are like cookies and cream lol.
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When I say evdo only I meant cdma only. Ehrpd13 is the handshaking 3g for lte. Some areas have lte in the towers but no ehrpd13 so the lte is not turned on yet. Basically ehrpd13 and lte are like cookies and cream lol.
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yeah I figured cdma. it works much better so far. but then I'll need to turn on lte eventually when you area gets it.
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wizzlewizzle said:
yeah I figured cdma. it works much better so far. but then I'll need to turn on lte eventually when you area gets it.
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The problem is my area does have it but at my house its very weak. My ohone wikl display 4g but it wont download anything untio it switches to 3g.
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When the 4g network matures as it will the 4g will get better as the 3g.
You can always go to I think s4gru.com. That site shows when and where lte will become available. Plus they will be able to help you better there than xda.
As for sprint customer service, they are laughable at best. 4 people I spoke with didn't know what ehrpd13 was lol.
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The problem is my area does have it but at my house its very weak. My ohone wikl display 4g but it wont download anything untio it switches to 3g.
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I hear ya. it's basically like not even having 4g.
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So my mom has this phone, and me and my sister have HTC ones. Our phones work fine at home, and we just got Lte coverage a few days ago, so that's been nice. However, my mom's phone recently has been dropping basically every call no matter where she is or how much service it says she has. The signal bars show a red x, and usually given time the service will come back, but sometimes it takes a restart. I've tried updating profile and prl, and the best the people at the sprint store could do was tell me that there is supposed to be a software update coming to fix it. The phone is completely stock. It doesn't seem like the network cause the other phones work fine. Has anyone else had this issue? Any ideas on what we could try?
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So my mom has this phone, and me and my sister have HTC ones. Our phones work fine at home, and we just got Lte coverage a few days ago, so that's been nice. However, my mom's phone recently has been dropping basically every call no matter where she is or how much service it says she has. The signal bars show a red x, and usually given time the service will come back, but sometimes it takes a restart. I've tried updating profile and prl, and the best the people at the sprint store could do was tell me that there is supposed to be a software update coming to fix it. The phone is completely stock. It doesn't seem like the network cause the other phones work fine. Has anyone else had this issue? Any ideas on what we could try?
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You must have weak LTE signal. Go to Settings>More>Mobile Networks and tick it to CDMA. If she wants LTE she'll have to do this manually.
Sorry but it's just the way this phone is.
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engine95 said:
You must have weak LTE signal. Go to Settings>More>Mobile Networks and tick it to CDMA. If she wants LTE she'll have to do this manually.
Sorry but it's just the way this phone is.
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I'll give that a try and see how it works. Why does this phone have an issue with it and the others don't seem to?
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I'll give that a try and see how it works. Why does this phone have an issue with it and the others don't seem to?
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It's just the way some phones are. My wife has the HTC One also, and she has to change hers too.
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Well, I changed the mode to CDMA only, but no dice. It doesn't make a difference. Any other suggestions?
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Well, I changed the mode to CDMA only, but no dice. It doesn't make a difference. Any other suggestions?
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You can try to flash the ZVC radio from here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2230106 but you'd have to root/unlock.
Other option is to LGNPST in the same thread under "Additional info". That's about all I got.
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