After booting my HTC One X, or after turning off airplane mode, the phone says "no service" for a good 20 seconds before the cellular radio is up and running. This occurs in a city with a good signal; i tried 2 other Android phones in the same area and carrier and both had their radio up and running instantly.
Is this normal on an HTC One X, or do I have a defective unit that I should return?
Well, if it runs good after the 20 seconds of no service, it's all good...
I mean does it really bother you that much ?
If it runs fine after is turns on there is no problems at all...
A problem would be if it took like 2 minutes to start
It works fine once it's up and running and does not bother me at all.
However, I'm trying to troubleshoot a battery issue that may or may not be related. Thus, I would like to know if the radio takes so long to turn on for anyone else.
For me it does... I didn't measure it, so i cant tell yo if it's 20 seconds or 10 or 30 but it is noticeable and i believe normal as well...
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Okay, heres my situation. Before I updated, I was running 2.1 stock, never rooted or made any mods. Then, I updated to the TmoUSA Defy 2.2 update (the one that was briefly released), and now I can no longer connect to 3g/ have EXTREMELY bad 3g reception.
Also, I can no longer boot into recovery mode (power button + volume down). When I see the Android figure with the "!", nothing happens when I touch the bottom left of the touch screen? To originally flash the 2.2 update, I simply went in to recovery, and flashed the update.zip. Im doing nothing differently now, and can no longer get into it.
My main issue I am having though, is with 3g reception. Im in the exact same spot of my house, and used to have 4 bars of 3g, and would get about 1.5mbps down, and now, Im forced onto Edge, which obviously is over 10 times slower -_-
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Okay, this is AWFUL. I did a full reset through the recovery, and cleared the cache. But that did not help at all. On top of that, my issues are worse.
My phone cannot connect to 3g, I went to my school, and there are several cell towers on campus, and I always had full bars of 3G service. And guess what? I didnt get a single bar, just 2g service.
New problems occurred, now the phone gets hot, with no programs running. I tried restarting, but that didn't work. Second, my phone died in about 2-3 hours with little to no use, 1 txt thats all. And it DOESNT CHARGE AT ALL. At first, it took a few hours to charge from 20% to full, and now, I tried charging after school, and its stuck at 0%?
Is there any way to downgrade to 2.1, including the baseband? Should I contact Motorola? I've never rooted it, just installed the official 2.2 update for the US, the one that was briefly released (deeply regretting it now :'( )
Try pressing both volume up and down at the same time when you see the android guy. They changed it from touching lower screen in the upgrade to froyo
Then once in recovery do a restore reset and see if that helps.
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Okay, this is AWFUL. I did a full reset through the recovery, and cleared the cache. But that did not help at all. On top of that, my issues are worse.
My phone cannot connect to 3g, I went to my school, and there are several cell towers on campus, and I always had full bars of 3G service. And guess what? I didnt get a single bar, just 2g service.
New problems occurred, now the phone gets hot, with no programs running. I tried restarting, but that didn't work. Second, my phone died in about 2-3 hours with little to no use, 1 txt thats all. And it DOESNT CHARGE AT ALL. At first, it took a few hours to charge from 20% to full, and now, I tried charging after school, and its stuck at 0%?
Is there any way to downgrade to 2.1, including the baseband? Should I contact Motorola? I've never rooted it, just installed the official 2.2 update for the US, the one that was briefly released (deeply regretting it now :'( )
I presume you are indeed on T-Mo US? I'd start by calling their tech support, just get elevated to upper tier. Then give Moto a shot. Have you done an Operator selection search? If you go into the INFO menu -- dialer > *#*#4636#*#* > Phone information, scroll down to Preferred network type, it should say GSM auto (prl) to get 3G reception. If not, try changing it.
Bump? Any help would be great, I just sent an email to Motorola, but probably wont get a reply for a day or two. I can't even use my phone, it dies within 2 hours, doesn't charge, and wont even connect to 3g.....
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I presume you are indeed on T-Mo US? I'd start by calling their tech support, just get elevated to upper tier. Then give Moto a shot. Have you done an Operator selection search? If you go into the INFO menu -- dialer > *#*#4636#*#* > Phone information, scroll down to Preferred network type, it should say GSM auto (prl) to get 3G reception. If not, try changing it.
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Thanks! I'll try that as soon as I can turn on my phone :'( Seriously though, thanks a lot. I am going to try that as soon as possible, but as of now, its been "charging" for 4 hours now, and it still just shows the picture of the battery @ 0%, and wont boot. I honestly have no idea, I tried a few different micro USB chargers, with no luck. When I used my Galaxy S charger, it showed a "?" instead of a %", as if it was not even recognizing the battery.
I assume you have tried the charger that came with the phone and have also tried it connected to USB on a computer?
Have you tried reformatting the SD card (or tried another) -- that may affect boot. And/or have you tried booting w/o SIM? I know you updated, but it could be a coincidental battery failure.
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I assume you have tried the charger that came with the phone and have also tried it connected to USB on a computer?
Have you tried reformatting the SD card (or tried another) -- that may affect boot. And/or have you tried booting w/o SIM? I know you updated, but it could be a coincidental battery failure.
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Yes, that could be. But then again, it hasn't connected once to 3g after the update? I'm going to guess I have a battery failure, I kinda had a feeling that it might be that. It was so sudden though, I got great battery life, that lasted at least a full day to 2 days. And then after the update, it would hardly last 2 hours. The phone was also constantly warmer than usual, but I didn't have anything running. Im just going to hope that it was coincidental, and that right after I updated it, my battery died, and I didn't have it on GSM Auto (prl).
Welcome to my world...... I finally got to the point where I could only get Edge... Phone got replaced under warranty.
I have an interesting problem, I couldn't find this issue on anywhere else therefore I wanted to share with you;
Sometimes after 3-4 days usage (in this time period sometimes I use wireless, sometimes 3g or sometimes turn off the connection), my phone gets stuck on edge connection and never goes to 3g unless I restart it.
I tried switching air plane mode on/off and several other things. Only restart fixes this. This is not a new issue, it is happening almost for 6-7 months (on 2.1 and 2.2). It doesn't matter much to restart in a few days but I wonder anyone else has the same problem.
Am I the only one ? surprised
I have owned this phone only for three days now, coming from a DHD.
Today I installed the 1.28 update and since then my cellular signal has been all over the place. I normally get a solid 5bar HSDPA signal where I live and since the update I have had nothing but issues.
My Sim card seems to be rejected (I am baseing this around the fact that when the radio seems to cycle I get a message saying "preparing sim") but aso it seems to just lock up entirely. Earlier I thought I had a signal only to make a call and have it fail, I tried to cycle the power to the radio by putting the phone into airplane mode but this didnt work so had to do a hard reset which then allowed me to make a call, but the call froze after 5 minutes, again with a seemingly locked up radio.
Any one else got these issues, as my phone is effectively a small but expensive tablet at the moment!
I have that issue BEFORE the 1.28 update. The other day my wife rang me at work and whilst we were talking we were cut off but my phone still showed as connected with signal. I figured she maybe lost signal herself. I tried to ring her back both on her mobile and the land line and my phone would not ring out (as far as I was concerned) I tried to put Airplane mode on but it didn't work so I had to reset the phone.
I haven't had it since but the strange thing is even though the phone didn't give me any indication that it was ringing out my wife said that both her mobile and the land line rang.
It seems strange that I couldn't toggle the radio/airplane mode or hear anything but the phone did actually ring out. Maybe the issue effected the radio and speaker? That's something to test if yours does it again. Ring a phone nearby to see if that does actually ring?
Update from yesterday, I currently have a signal as I am typing this, if however I make a call it will connect and I can listen for a second then it drops with the signal dieing. Followed right away by coming back up.
A reboot seemed to fix it for the moment, but not sure how long for. Next step is a factory reset for me and see how I get on from then.
AFAIK, the radio isn't updated?
I have taken it back and swapped it for another one now. Just waiting for it to charge then I am going to do the FOTA update and then install everything. So far though so good and the three calls I have made/recieved worked perfectly.
Seems to have beena faulty handset *fingers crossed"
I am on my second International HTC one X and both devices would lose the carrier signal quit often... I would either go to airplane mode, or turn the network off and on and it would grab it again. Sometimes it would be good for the day and other times, I would have to do it a few times....
I wanted to think it was my carrier having issues (MTS in Winnipeg MB Canada)... however, this has never happened on my many other devices. Now I wake up today and turn on the mobile data, after awhile... it does not connect, under settings it says disconnected because service is unavailable. I tried reboots, restart, airplane mode, checking apn settings.... on my last reboot, it says No signal/emergency calls only.
So now I am fearing a hardware issue (but I find it odd it happens on both my one xs).
I love this device and aside from this potentially huge issue.... I have no complaints, so I will ask here and see if you guys have any solid input.. before I contact htc!
I also popped my sim in and out, as of right now...
Thx in advance.
**update: it almost seems like putting wifi on, knocks out my carrier signal.... after an hour of doing the above things, I turned off wifi, went to airplane mode and now my signal and data is there (it makes no sense) and it is quite a hassle
The weirder part is, it seems to only be in the morning.... once I am up and running, I do not seem to have many issues through out the day, but If I put wifi on long enough... It goes to no signal/eventually....
If I do not put on wifi, it either does not drop.... or I am not noticing.
I've just begun having network problems but I'm not sure it's related to your situation. I'm in Australia on the Optus network.
It happened suddenly yesterday. Service completely cuts out for extended periods. It will occasionally come back on for a short while (long enough to download all my sms) but will then cut out again. When the signal does briefly come back in, the signal strength is decent: it's an all-or-nothing proposition.
Did you manage to resolve your situation? Would be interested to know what resolved it for you.
I've had this phone since early April when it was released here and the is the first issue I've had with it. I haven't done anything new to my phone in the past week so I'm finding this strange. I'm running Leedroid 4.0.0 but I've had that installed for weeks without issue. I'm worried it could be a hardware issue.
I'm going to try reflashing it tonight to see if it's a software issue.
I just got a Lumia 900 white and i have noticed the following issues.
The Lumia restarts on its own. It has restarted twice since i got it.
Weird purple screen in low light condition
Rattling sound when phone vibrates. Not like the usual vibrate
Would not connect to a specific router whereas all my other devices can. It can still connect to other routers though
I am running OS version: 7.10.8773.98 and firmware revision number: 2715.1601.8773.12141 which i assume is the latest (tango).
Should i be facing all these issues? I googled around a bit and i found that these issues were previously addressed with updates.
To note, it's an unlocked phone. I can use it with any carriers i want to.
Is there anyway i can re-install tango? I am assuming it's a software issue.
Help please?
Mine never restarted on its own.
I still have the purple screen problem pending a firmware update.
The vibration sound in this phone is like that. All models sound like this.
Never had trouble connecting to any wifi access point/router.
I am having rebooting issues. I think I've narrowed it down to low signal issues. My office is in the basement floor behind the elevators so I'm constantly in and out of signal. I fluctuate between 1-2 bars of 4G or LTE and no signal at all. If I have no signal, it will not reconnect unless I switch it to airplane mode and back. On a few occasions, it has rebooted on me only when I'm at my office. I have contacted Nokia customer support and they wanted me to send it in under warranty. I told them that was useless and that my replacement would have the same issue and told them to try to reproduce the issue with their QA/Dev teams. No response yet.
Mine has shut down twice now for no apparent reason, Always after using Nokia Drive, It was a real pain to start the phone back up too, Had to hold power button for a while, I did think it may be down to signal drops as when travelling the phone has to switch a fair bit I imagine, The phone did get a bit hot so maybe overheating as on both occasions the weather was very warm especially in the car.
no reboot, no purple screen, no ratteling sounds...
but WP7 have some issues with connecting to AP or routers set above chenel 10 (if you are not using automatic). my home router and AP were set at 11 and 12 and my HD 7 could never get connected... and when i changed to lower then 10 it was fine... so now my AP and routers are always set this way.
I have had my phone shut itself down three times now for no obvious reason. That's a bit of a worrying issue if you're on call for work and need people to be able to contact you at any time.
The phone restarting by itself is definitely a weird issue. I never had that happen to me before.
The only weird thing I encountered was the touch screen stopped responding. So I locked the phone and then unlocked it and it worked.
The issues you guys are bringing up here should definitely be covered by Nokia.
Only issue I have is the lumia not syncing contacts to my car's hu...
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I have had my Lumia 900 for one week, and also had a few a few problems:
1. Two restarts (phone is on, but asks for pin and lock code). Both of which are in a location with very poor/no reception. Both where during the morning (4am and 6am) (can see boot time using a program).
2. Complete discharge, wont initiate charge from computer (think it might have been because I skipped the "red low battery charge phase" (or what we should call it?). Does however charge from a computer if I let it charge with the red battery for a while, then boot it self and after a while it will start charing (with the charge icon blinking.
3. When using the radio in loudspeaker mode, and the screen is locked, after a while (5-10 seconds maybe), it (sometimes) stops, or (sometimes) starts to lag, as if the reception is poor (although the phone hasn't been moved.) pressing the power button, (at slide to unlock) the lag instantly stops. Anyone else wanna test this one? (try a bunch of times, doesn't always happened on mine.)
4. (Pure hardware problem): Rubber gasket between case and USB has been incorrectly paced, and "flaps" in the USB contact. (clearly visible if looking directly into the USB port).
Should I take it back and say I want a new one?
OS Version: 7.10.8773.98
Firmware revision number: 2175.1601.8773.12141
You guys need to exchange for a new phone. My first Lumia 900 had restart issues while idling. The new one doesn't have any reboot problem. My G2X before had reboot problem and screen bleed. I went and exchanged for a new G2X, and problem solved. I will send my Lumia 900 to Nokia for repair as I have another hardware issue. The capacitive buttons aren't very responsive when playing audio through speaker phone.