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Hello world,
I've had my desire about six or seven months. When I started my contract I was living at home and the phone would work as expected (i.e. texts and calls coming through perfectly and mobile internet working fine). Around summer I had some issues with texts taking a while to come through but it was maybe two or three a week so I just ignored it. Now I've come to university and I live in a city (if that makes any difference). Say, if I send receive fifty texts a day then at least fifteen or so will come through late (I can count if needs be - but, it's a lot). I have joined up to Orange's 'share' (the t-mobile thing) about three weeks ago but the problem occurred before that. This weekend it has been very bad. Last night I had full signal (or so it said) when my friend tried to ring and I got a missed call alert fifteen minutes after. This morning, I've only had 2 texts (well only two have come through - put it like that) and one was four hours and one was three.
I'm running LeeDroid 2.2d with the latest orange radio (unrooted, did the orange update, rooted again just so I had their official radio). Before unrooting I tried almost every radio I could and it seemed to make no difference. I was wondering if this is something to do with my phone? Is it my meddling or is it orange's fault? I'm getting rather annoyed as it makes it impossible to actually have a text conversation these days. I've just put my phone onto 2g (instead of dual mode) as I read somewhere it could be 3g congestion so we'll see how that gets on.
Has anyone experienced any similar issues or know of anything I can do it try make the situation better? Thank you very much, Rowan.
Desire on Orange unrooted here (2.2). I notice a similar problem although not quite to the same degree.
As it happens I work in a place with sketchy connection to both T-mobile and Orange. The connection is unreliable, although it lets me call all the time data & sms are iffy. Note that it's not the reception, it more like the data network is overloaded.
I suspect you might spend lots of time in a similarly bad location.
It's definitely a location issue for me!
Well I'm normally at my accomodation which isn't in the but I guess it still could be congested. Do you think the 'share' thing could have made it worse?
I used to be on orange and had had that problem for years until i switched to tmob wiv my desire, now the problems vanished
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Well I'm normally at my accomodation which isn't in the but I guess it still could be congested. Do you think the 'share' thing could have made it worse?
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I joined the T-mobile thing as well and saw no difference. Sadly the phone doesn't switch over to 2G t-mobile if there is 3g available, congestion does not come into the decision to switch over
Good morning,
I have a Droid Incredible, along with quite a few other Android phones. I previously used this phone on Page Plus. About a year ago I moved it's phone number to an Eris to give it to my Dad and it's been in a drawer ever since. I decided last week to reactivate on Page Plus and can't get it reactivated. It only sends and receives TXT, impossible to place a phone call.
To determine if this was a phone issue, I tried to activate two other phones (Moto and LG feature phones) and they do the exact thing. I think it is a problem in this market. I even tried to activate a Seattle number. Every time I attempt to make a call, it rings in short rings then goes "beep, beep, beep" and hangs up. I have spent countless hours talking to Page Plus and they just end the conversation that "this is an unsupported phone". So Page Plus appears to not work for me.
Sooooo....... I am also on i-Wireless Home (a Sprint MVNO) with a Hero. Good phone, slow but it gets the job done. I would like to replace it with the Inc. Possible? I did some searches and found some old threads (like 6) people asking about running on Sprint. They are over a year old. Has anyone got any thoughts on what is going on with Page Plus, or suggestions of another Verizon MVNO I can use to get the Incredible operational? Right now, it's just a feature rich PDA. Would like to be able to at least make a phone call on it.
I bring this question here only because the PP community has no idea what's wrong.
Cheers,
thom
Being an ex-PPC rep I can tell you from experience that the reps hands truly are tied in these situations. I'd recommend ensuring the device's NAM is programmed correctly (MDN, MIN, AND SID). does dialing *22890 change any of those values to something incorrect? Are you hearing any authentication issues? Did the rep contact WTS (known now as ODTS)? Although PPC specifically may not support the device other MVNOs may meaning wholesale support may be able to look into it further. Try submitting a support ticket or speaking to a tier one rep
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I'm on PP+ with my D Inc and no problems at all. Go over to KittyWireless and shoot them an email and ask if they'd heard of this before and try to enlist their help.
(note: I am in no way affiliated with Kitty, I've been lurking for a few months now and registered last night to thank Jermaine with his Stock+ rom so that's why it's my first post )
I am SOOOO happy to report that my Incredible is finally on Page Plus. I have been working with Kitty, but they couldn't fix my problem.
Final solution was to call PPC for the 8th time and have them ESN swap to a device they had in house, activate, place the first call, then ESN swap back to me. I am now up and running, and couldn't be happier
Then again, I got upgraded with my company phone today to an AT&T Moto Atrix, so now I'm off to root that sucker
-Thom
tjdmobile said:
I am SOOOO happy to report that my Incredible is finally on Page Plus. I have been working with Kitty, but they couldn't fix my problem.
Final solution was to call PPC for the 8th time and have them ESN swap to a device they had in house, activate, place the first call, then ESN swap back to me. I am now up and running, and couldn't be happier
Then again, I got upgraded with my company phone today to an AT&T Moto Atrix, so now I'm off to root that sucker
-Thom
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Glad you got it worked out and too bad Kitty couldn't figure it out.....I love them.
I've had a problem where texts sent to me sometimes arrive an hour later. During the times when I'm having this problem anyone who calls me will go straight to voicemail. Outgoing call and texts are not affected. Basically it's as if the phone 'spaces out' from the network on occasion
Other members have reported similar issues.
What is known so far is that: It's not the SIM, it's not a network or provisioning issue.
Is it the phone? Is it the ROM? That remains to be seen.
I've gotten in touch with someone at ATT who is agressively pursuing the issue.
What you can do to help is, if you are having this problem too, please post here. Mention what ROM & kernel you are running, which state you are in and any other relevant details so we can see if it's a widespread problem. It is especially interesting to see if anyone running unrooted stock has it. Otherwise it could be blamed on the user
DEVS weigh in here - is there any way rooting can affect the GSM radios in this way?
I have problems sending texts sometimes and sometime I randomly lose service and the only way to get it back is put it in airplane mode or reboot i ve had this happen on all roms even stock I'm in tooele and data speeds suck there
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I've had issues with call quality and texts not being delivered to one person, however I have not had any noticeable difficulties with other people, so I assumed it was an issue on their end. Perhaps not. I'm running stock rooted Android.
(They are also on AT&T.)
I've had this issue with AT&T since the days of Cingular. Makes me ::GLEE:: that my contract will be up in October, going to T-Mobile, unlimited everything (oh noes, data throttling at 2GB) for $65/month? Yes.
Also thoroughly documented here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1615761
I've had this issue with stock, Inception, and now OsiMood. I'm in KY. It seems that it'll randomly chooses to ignore all calls and texts for an hour or more, and when it finally decides to start working again, all those messages will show up at the same time and calls will start to ring through. People who call me claims that it rings on their end, so it seems like I'm just not answering the call, rather than going to straight to voicemail as if the phone was off, or out of service area.
~Azrael's Kiss~
Not quite the same
I had this issue with a moto bravo a while back where it would "send" the text but it would never make it past the network, also texts from phones wouldn't go through but I could receive AT&T texts (data usage, minutes left, email to text). Ended up taking about 3 days of talking to AT&T reps that finally did a hard reset of some sort and refreshed all the provisioning. The last tech I had spoke to told me it was because my phone was appearing registered on 2 different AP's (micro-cell / main tower) and that it wasn't de-registering from the micro-cell. Not sure if it helps any but it might give you a talking point for the AT&T techs who can seem less then helpful at times.
I've had the problem with stock and osimood. The problem isn't persistent, and Sometimes I think rebooting fixes the problem.
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I've had the problem with stock and osimood. The problem isn't persistent, and Sometimes I think rebooting fixes the problem.
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Rebooting does tend to fix it. As does cycling through airplane mode for like 15 secs. But sometimes it'll go right back into that zombie state after a few minutes.
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I've called ATT and talked to them and they say powering down the phone once a day is the only way to fix it... with a cdma network I never had a problem with texts or calls not goin through... as as far as stock or rooted my wifes phone is the one that does it the worse and hers is solid stock. Mines not to bad but I do get the problem with texts not comin in that much but very annoying when I pay almost 200 a month and the **** works half the time. Tends to get really frustratin
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For a while I had the problem of my captivate glide not ringing at all, but then the call gets forwarded to google voice and I see a missed call. This was pretty common until two weeks ago when I upgraded to ICS. It has not happened since.
Text messages always come through quickly. Occasionally the email-to-SMS gateway messages were delayed for about 10 hours, but I think it's been about a year since that happened, so I think they improved the reliability of that system.
I kind of blame the modem firmware (the curse of proprietary software). It have happened to me a lot whenever I am using Internet, and sometimes I receive the text immediately when I am online. I usually send text to myself to wake the cellular modem up.
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I kind of blame the modem firmware (the curse of proprietary software). It have happened to me a lot whenever I am using Internet, and sometimes I receive the text immediately when I am online. I usually send text to myself to wake the cellular modem up.
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I have the problem once in a while but its also a cause from my network provider as they are known for it and others I know have this problem on other phones.
Samsung SGH-i927:
CWMR Touch v4.0.0.1
Keyboard fix
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Stock & Rooted (need kernel and update)
True. Unfortunately, there's way too much variables within the cellular networks, making it difficult to blame on who and what. Same with WiFi.
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I noticed this on my previous device (HTC Aria) and have noticed it on my Glide since I bought it last November. It happened long before I started rooting and putting on custom ROMs.
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I've had this problem on at&t when I had my Motorola back flip, and now also on my glide.
Also, the g/f has had the problem on her non smart phone.
It doesn't happen often, but it does happen.
It was happening a LOT during the time when at&t was upgrading their lines and equipment to deploy 4G in this area. (We've only had 4G a few months here)
In the past week, I've had it happen 3 times on my glide where I will get 8 - 14 copies of the same txt all at once, but the sender says they only sent it once.
This could just be bugs in the official ICS release from a couple weeks ago, idk.
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Really doubt it's the ICS. Either the modem firmware or the network systems. It bugs me a lot.
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Just had this happen to me again, for anyone keeping track. Sent a text message around noon sunday, target received at 10am today... still can't get ATT to let me out of my contract early without a $1xx fee, even tho my contract is up at the end of next month =(
L4T
O_O Seriously?
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FWIW, I'm on an MVNO that's on AT&T's network, but I'm using Google Voice for texting, and texts always arrive within seconds. I know that doesn't use the SMS system, but hell, I'm just trying to be helpful.
Isn't there a way to port your current number to a different carrier (i.e. Google) without breaking contract? I remember there being something like that, the stipulation being you had to pay some $$ in fees and get a new number (which you'd need for Voice forwarding anyway). Still a hell of a lot cheaper than an ETF.
I'm on straight talk which is mvno of att. It happens to me too.. stock, not rooted either
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Hello guys. I have some major issues with my S3. In general it has very weak reception compared to my S1. I've had two providers KPN HI and Tele 2, the latter uses t-mobile's network. With both providers and several different sim cards I encounter the same problems. Not only is reception in general weaker than my S1, it also drops calls very frequently. Mind you, I live in central Amsterdam, where I've never had reception problems with any provider at all. Sometimes when signal drops it comes back after 10 to 20 seconds. Sometimes it's completely gone and I have to reboot the phone to get service again. On average, I have to reboot the phone 6 to 8 times a day. The phone is on stock rom, latest firmware.
My s3 has been to samsung repair two times. The first time they checked for software issues. After a week they told me they couldn't find anything wrong, but they updated to the latest firmware. The problems were still there. They then took my phone for 3 weeks. When I got it back they couldn't say if they found the problem, but the phone went through general inspection (?) so it should be fine. Wrong. Literally one hour after having back my phone I tried calling someone. I was standing outside, had 4 bars of reception, but got dropped out of the conversation after 3 seconds. The no service symbol was showing. I rebooted and tried to call again. This time it worked. After an hour I checked my phone and surely, the no service symbol was showing again.
I'm getting very tired of this. I have a 550 euro phone that doesn't make me do phone calls 2 out of 3 times. People calling me have complained that they get voicemail instantly. I called Samsung and they told me they couldn't do anything but take the phone in for repair again. The shop where I purchased the phone says the same thing. I have no choice but to send it to repair, which means that I will lose my phone for at least 3 weeks again.
If someone can offer me advice, please, I would appreciate it very much. I wish I didn't gave away my s1...
Edit: Should've posted this in the general s3 sub.
Ask them for expedited repair and shipping, Samsung does a pretty good job and helping out when you're nice and friendly with them.
Let them know the situation, tell them you don't want to cause any problems, but that this is the third time you've sent the phone, if they can kindly either do a more thorough review of the phone and figure out what's wrong with it and fix it or give you a different new/refurbished phone. Or something.
I upgraded last June to the Samsung Galaxy S2 Epic 4G Touch, and 11 months later, after having it rooted, broken, replaced under Best Buy's Geek Squad Protection, only to have my new refurbished unit ruin a battery and refuse to stay connected to bluetooth, decided to sell it back to them with their buyback program they used to offer (got $280 for a phone I paid $100 for to begin with), and go back to my Evo 4G (I like Sense better than TouchWiz anyway).
The problem is that for whatever reason, my Evo, which worked fine at the time of my upgrade (aside from a cracked screen), will not actually activate. It's running CWM v4.0.1.4, with Android version 2.3.5. I replaced the screen on it, tried to activate it on Sprint's website with as much success as they can give me, however, the phone itself doesn't connect to any sort of satellite. The only way I have any form of connectivity with it is via WiFi. "No big deal, I'll just switch to my girlfriend's old Evo until I can figure out my phone's issue," I thought. Fast forward to getting hers activated, everything works just fine - calls, text, wifi, 3G, 4G, the whole nine yards. Hers is running the same CWM and the same Android as mine, but hers works.
I've tried flashing mine back to a stock ROM (I forget what is on it right now), I've tried updating the PRL a hundred times, but always get an error message about it not being able to complete. I've even tried letting it sit for 24 hours,as several sources on the internet have told me it can take up to 24 hours to provision completely.
The only thing I haven't tried is physically calling Sprint, because they're weird about rooted phones, from what I've found in my research. I've seen claims that Sprint won't do anything with rooted phones, or that they can't tell that they're rooted and still can't figure anything out.
Will Sprint be of any assistance if I call, or will it be wasting my time? I've seen so many people with similar issues which Sprint, for whatever reason, simply cannot figure out. Is there anything beyond calling Sprint I haven't tried yet?
What ROM are you on? Stock, AOSP, what?
If you're on a Sense ROM, just call Sprint & tell them what the problem is. They won't know the phone is rooted unless you tell them it is.
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