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[Q] quick 3g question.

Having an issue with my 3g service not working. didn't do anything special with anything on my phone, it just stopped at some point this morning. I was running mikg v3 b1 with aggressive freedom, v6 scripts (options 7 and 20 selected) and the 3g tweak from zeppelinrox (fastest setting). I tried reflashing the kernel, flashing more freedom kernel, putting the phone into airplane mode and back, and now I am restoring a backup in which 3g was working to see if that fixes the problem. Aside from the usual answer of try reflashing the rom or reflash the kernel could anyone offer any advice as to what I could possibly try next if this nandroid restore doesn't work? Thanks so much in advance for helping me to solve this problem.

Have you tried updating through the ROM's setting?
Try to update your prl and profile and maybe that'll do it.
Report back and if it doesn't work we'll try some other things ...
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a senile fungus said:
Have you tried updating through the ROM's setting?
Try to update your prl and profile and maybe that'll do it.
Report back and if it doesn't work we'll try some other things ...
~ I'm a fungi
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No dice on the updates. Sprint says everything is hunkey dorey but I smell a rat. What other options are there. Btw, my nandroid restored to mikg 2.61, aggressive freedom.
Edit: 4G seems to work fine fyi. For some reason 3g will not come on.
Sent from my modded mikG Evo... It's easier this way.

First go into your settings, wireless and networks and check and see if your mobile connection is checked on. I kno it sounds simple but check anyway.
If that's not it, get msl reader off the market its free, you need to be rooted, copy your msl code down. If your not rooted you need to call Sprint and they'll give it to you.
If youGo to the dialer and press ##3283# edit mode, profile, hit the menu button, and press restore when it pops up. Your phone should restart, if it doesn't turn it off. Turn it back on if it didn't shut down automatically. Let it do its thing, when the prl update pops up cancel it. See if your 3g comes back. You can update profile and prl if you'd like after this process. I hope this helps
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twiztidvandal417 said:
First go into your settings, wireless and networks and check and see if your mobile connection is checked on. I kno it sounds simple but check anyway.
If that's not it, get msl reader off the market its free, you need to be rooted, copy your msl code down. If your not rooted you need to call Sprint and they'll give it to you.
If youGo to the dialer and press ##3283# edit mode, profile, hit the menu button, and press restore when it pops up. Your phone should restart, if it doesn't turn it off. Turn it back on if it didn't shut down automatically. Let it do its thing, when the prl update pops up cancel it. See if your 3g comes back. You can update profile and prl if you'd like after this process. I hope this helps
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Thanks. Did all of that with Sprint on the phone. They put out an outage ticket because the tech felt that service may be down in my area. A few others with Sprint at my job have also reported problems today. I'll have to wait and see when u get off of work and out of the area to see if its sprint's problem or my phone. I'll update as soon as I find out. Thanks guys for being so willing to help! Much appreciated.
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Edit: SPRINT SERVICE SUCKS. Don't even know when they have an outage. Thanks for all of the direction though. Mucho gracias!

[Q] How to manually program

Does anyone have a good link or how-to for manually programming the Incredible? My phone won't call/text/connect to mobile network, but everything else (wi-fi, GPS, all apps) work fine. I think manually programming could fix it, but it seems like some murky territory if you're not absolutely sure what you're doing

Set up only involves you dialing *228 and follow the prompts to either activate a phone or update your roaming. I believe the only other activation method involves Verizon doing this in store.

It depends on what Rom you are using and what EPST but I can type ##000000# and able to change MSN and MSID(MIN). Then I can also type ##PRL#, 000000, which allows to update the PRL. With this Voice and Text should work. Only other thing that might need updating is SID which I found after typing ##DATA#, edit, 000000, in Advanced.
Again, it depends on the version of EPST you have on the phone.
The other way to manually program would be using QPST on your computer and typing ##DIAG# on the phone.
Finally some roms require to press Call after the # codes.
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SlimSnoopOS said:
Set up only involves you dialing *228 and follow the prompts to either activate a phone or update your roaming. I believe the only other activation method involves Verizon doing this in store.
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I tried to program it with *228 but my phone couldn't even connect to the network to do that. It can't connect a call at all.
Flagmax said:
It depends on what Rom you are using and what EPST but I can type ##000000# and able to change MSN and MSID(MIN). Then I can also type ##PRL#, 000000, which allows to update the PRL. With this Voice and Text should work. Only other thing that might need updating is SID which I found after typing ##DATA#, edit, 000000, in Advanced.
Again, it depends on the version of EPST you have on the phone.
The other way to manually program would be using QPST on your computer and typing ##DIAG# on the phone.
Finally some roms require to press Call after the # codes.
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I'm on MIUI, but I could definitely flash back to the stock RUU before attempting

JohnSmith1818 said:
I tried to program it with *228 but my phone couldn't even connect to the network to do that. It can't connect a call at all.
I'm on MIUI, but I could definitely flash back to the stock RUU before attempting
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Gotcha. To add, you must perform *228 while on a Sense ROM then revert back to AOSP. I'm not sure if you did that or if that would help in this case. That said, FlagMax's magic is way more in depth.
You mind my asking, when and how did this issue arise?

SlimSnoopOS said:
Gotcha. To add, you must perform *228 while on a Sense ROM then revert back to AOSP. I'm not sure if you did that or if that would help in this case. That said, FlagMax's magic is way more in depth.
You mind my asking, when and how did this issue arise?
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I had unrooted and flashed back to stock RUU when I tried the *228. Still didn't work.
Was a very strange situation. Phone was workign fine Saturday night when I went to bed. When I woke up Christmas morning, the screen wouldn't turn on and there was no LED indicator when I plugged it into a charger. I pulled the battery a couple times, but it wouldn't turn back on until I had pulled the battery and wiped the contacts off. After it booted back up, I wasn't able to call/text, but could still connect to mobile internet and wi-fi. I figured it was just terrible reception at my parents' house, but on the drive back the next day I lost mobile internet too and wasn't able to do anything with it since.
No clue what happened... but it all started with that battery problem. Go figure.

that's exactly the same as my problem.
I experienced a few reboots on the past week and suddenly it disconnected from network.

Roaming bug

I don't believe this has been posted for the e4gt but came across this error after flashing AOCP ROM and it stuck on everything I flashed afterwards. Roaming would not work, at all. I spent 3 days without signal at work for 10 hours a day.
I tried clean installs of roms I knew worked, I tried to Odin back to stock, I tried to nand back, nothing seemed to work, until the guys over in the SGS3 forums found the answer.
Go to settings, and toggle roaming on and off. Not roaming guard, but roaming itself.
So simple it was laughable, but it works.
Again, I didn't see this posted anywhere in our forums, but if it has been please don't flame, I only wanted to share the fix. I don't remember who it was that found it but they definitely deserve huge thanks!:beer::thumbup:
Edit- I am in no way bad mouthing or otherwise ripping on AOCP, I think it is a stellar rom and would be running it as a dd if not for this bug. Just wanted to make that clear!

Unfortunately this isn't limited to AOKP, found this out the hard way on an int'l trip last month. Also replied to this on Sprint Communities earlier today.

What Prl do you have? Mine is 60690 and roaming works fine. I also use roam control to force roam in some areas where I know signal is bad.

someguyatx said:
What Prl do you have? Mine is 60690 and roaming works fine. I also use roam control to force roam in some areas where I know signal is bad.
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My prl is also 60690. So you can roam on AOCP's rom? Tried 3 different flashes, all clean, and same results every time.
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someguyatx said:
What Prl do you have? Mine is 60690 and roaming works fine. I also use roam control to force roam in some areas where I know signal is bad.
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Roaming does work fine - if you have the boxes checked. If not it won't even turn on - as I learned the hard way. (Had to wonder why it worked fine for the missus and not me until I realized I uncheck the boxes out of habit.)

Sorry, I guess there was a miscommunication, or rather an omission on my part. The issue I ran into originated after flashing http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1942162 this ROM. The options to roam are there, but do not work, it always goes back to home only network. Then after wiping data, and both caches and flashing to other roms the issue persisted. My phone refused to roam. The fix in the op corrected the problem.
Sorry about any confusion :beer:
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[Q] Rogers Galaxy S3 4G/LTE but I'm stuck on Edge?

Hey guys, I'm using the Galaxy S3 and my current carrier is Rogers. I've always been on 4G in the area that I'm in, and with the countless roms I've installed I've never come across any problems. Today I was trying out some new roms, but when I flashed them, I noticed that it swapped from 4G to E(aka Edge). Even if I flash back to my nandroid backup or even a fresh install if the previous rom I was using, I'm still stuck on Edge. Now even though it says I'm connected to Edge, never mind reduced speed, my internet just doesn't even work at all. For some reason even if I'm connected to wi-fi, no matter what I do it says there's no connection. I've read about flashing modems, which I have tried and it seems I'm doing it wrong? I put it on to my sd, boot in to recovery and flash it, but whenever I do I just go in to an endless boot loop. I've spent the past six hours pulling out my hair and trying to get this fixed but no solution yet, so now I've put my hope in to you guys! Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks!
P.S. I'm sorry if I can't reply back right away, I'm currently doing night shifts at work and even though it's 9:45am here, it's technically my bed time, so I will get back to you as soon as I can!
Some extra information if it may help - The rom I was using that worked properly was Triune 2, I've played around with a few roms since, but the one that originally swapped my 4g to Edge was Mark of the Dragon 3.0.

I can think of two possibilities:
1) Some ROMs will reset your phone's internal network settings to only use specific types of networks (e.g. when I first got my phone, the CM10 build I flashed at the time disabled LTE). You can check this by dialing *#*#4636#*#*, going into "Phone information", and scrolling down to "Set preferred network type"; you'll want one of the LTE settings.
2) Reportedly, your phone's IMEI will sometimes be erased during a ROM update (check this in the Settings -> About phone -> Status menu, or in the same "Phone information" menu as above). Check here if that happened.

Hey, I gave number 1 a shot and everything was fine, so I took a look at option 2 and my IMEI isn't gone, but it's showing "0". I searched online and it seems like "0" means it's been deleted, so I'm about to give it a go and see if I can get it up and running. Anyways, thanks for the reply! I'll post and update on how everything works out.
*UPDATE* Alright, problem fixed! I'm back at 4G, everything is running smooth and fast! Took a little bit but everything is working fine, and now I know how to fix this problem if it should arise again, thanks again for the help, I appreciate it!

Hey, I'm back again. Well, I thought the problem was fixed, I was back on 4G all day until a little after I started work at around 10:30pm when my network swapped back to Edge and it's been there since(now 6:57am). My IMEI is still intact as well. I've tried flashing back to stock with odin and injecting the file to see what happens but no luck. Unfortunately I haven't reached the 10 post marker which means I can't ask for help on that part of the forum yet, so here I am in your hands once again, any help from you guys would be greatly appreciated!

Serephral said:
Hey, I'm back again. Well, I thought the problem was fixed, I was back on 4G all day until a little after I started work at around 10:30pm when my network swapped back to Edge and it's been there since(now 6:57am). My IMEI is still intact as well. I've tried flashing back to stock with odin and injecting the file to see what happens but no luck. Unfortunately I haven't reached the 10 post marker which means I can't ask for help on that part of the forum yet, so here I am in your hands once again, any help from you guys would be greatly appreciated!
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Out of curiosity, have you checked the "set preferred network type" setting again?
I've also heard recently that there may be some problems with Rogers APNs in non-standard ROMs, so it might be worth checking your APN settings.
Or, it could be an LTE network outage, unlikely as that seems...

Yes I have and everything is fine. However, I was looking around at a few things some other people have done, not with the exact problem I have, but similar, I tried something out and it worked. Dial *#197328640#>UMTS>DEBUG SCREEN>PHONE CONTROL>NETWORK CONTROL>BAND SELECTION>LTE BAND PREFERENCE>LTE ALL, let it sit there for about 30 seconds and then reset the phone. Do it again, go in to BAND SELECTION and then choose AUTOMATIC, wait 30 seconds and reboot your phone again. I'm back to 4g and actually, it seems faster than when I originally had 4G, but I think I'm just used to how slow Edge is now . Although the other fix got me back to 4G as well, but then it swapped back to Edge so I'll wait for at least 24 hours before I can confirm it completely fixed. Once again thanks for the response! Most helpful forums I've been on!

It hasn't been 24 hours but I thought I'd report back while I'm on my break. I'm still at 4G so things seems to be going well, hopefully it won't go back as it seems like it will stay at 4G. So, unless I'm having troubles again, rather than waiting the 24 hours and posting an update, think of it as a good thing that I don't report anything(or at least I will, since it's my phone ) Thanks again for the help, I appreciate it!

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Yes I have and everything is fine. However, I was looking around at a few things some other people have done, not with the exact problem I have, but similar, I tried something out and it worked. Dial *#197328640#>UMTS>DEBUG SCREEN>PHONE CONTROL>NETWORK CONTROL>BAND SELECTION>LTE BAND PREFERENCE>LTE ALL, let it sit there for about 30 seconds and then reset the phone. Do it again, go in to BAND SELECTION and then choose AUTOMATIC, wait 30 seconds and reboot your phone again. I'm back to 4g and actually, it seems faster than when I originally had 4G, but I think I'm just used to how slow Edge is now . Although the other fix got me back to 4G as well, but then it swapped back to Edge so I'll wait for at least 24 hours before I can confirm it completely fixed. Once again thanks for the response! Most helpful forums I've been on!
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I just switched to Fido (uses the same towers as Rogers) and this advice is what got my LTE working.
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Thanks do much for this, I had the exact same problem after flashing MiuiAndroid and Wicked Sensations. Don't know which one effed it up but it was definitely one of those two. Also, I Don't think it is a placebo effect on the speed increase, cause mine is blazing fast after implementing this fix. You should maybe re-title the thread so others in this situation can find this fix, good find and thanks again!

Just want to confirm that this particular code can only be entered from a stock dialer? I I tried entering it from cm10's dialer and it doesn't do anything.
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nevetsgtI9100 said:
Just want to confirm that this particular code can only be entered from a stock dialer? I I tried entering it from cm10's dialer and it doesn't do anything.
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Correct.

Is there an equivalent code to enter from non stock key pad?
Thx
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Having this issue
IMEI is at 0 after flash to CM10
Link that the person who was assisting OP is not valid anymore on these forums.
Can anyone still help?

Serephral said:
Yes I have and everything is fine. However, I was looking around at a few things some other people have done, not with the exact problem I have, but similar, I tried something out and it worked. Dial *#197328640#>UMTS>DEBUG SCREEN>PHONE CONTROL>NETWORK CONTROL>BAND SELECTION>LTE BAND PREFERENCE>LTE ALL, let it sit there for about 30 seconds and then reset the phone. Do it again, go in to BAND SELECTION and then choose AUTOMATIC, wait 30 seconds and reboot your phone again. I'm back to 4g and actually, it seems faster than when I originally had 4G, but I think I'm just used to how slow Edge is now . Although the other fix got me back to 4G as well, but then it swapped back to Edge so I'll wait for at least 24 hours before I can confirm it completely fixed. Once again thanks for the response! Most helpful forums I've been on!
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I am having the same issue, my IMEI is back in place. When I get to the BAND SELECTION it says, "RAT Selection option [next line] is restricted" I have been searching all day to get off EDGE but cant. Any advice with this?

Me stuck with edge it's crazy pls someone help us out even got imei back but same issue s edge only and after band section it go's to rat
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ebubbastew said:
Me stuck with edge it's crazy pls someone help us out even got imei back but same issue s edge only and after band section it go's to rat
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There used to be a different method on the forums but all posts involving how to inject imei and then restore data were removed.

Hey guys, I'm having the same issue here..at first when I flashed it was fine had 4G but today I noticed all I've been getting is edge. This is driving me nutsss

ebubbastew said:
Me stuck with edge it's crazy pls someone help us out even got imei back but same issue s edge only and after band section it go's to rat
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2 things that i can think of...
1)Make sure you have the LTE option selected in your Mobile Networks.
2)Take a look at your APN settings for you carrier. Flashing roms sometimes erases these settings.
That's where i would look first...
Cheers

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I am having the same issue, my IMEI is back in place. When I get to the BAND SELECTION it says, "RAT Selection option [next line] is restricted" I have been searching all day to get off EDGE but cant. Any advice with this?
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Please let me know if you fix this. I'm having the same problem, and playing with LTE band selection doesn't work. When I force the band selection, the phone won't even go into service. The same thing happens with WCDMA.
Apparently, the nvbackup stores more than the IMEI. Even when you replace the IMEI, nobody seems to get data back. Unless, of course, you had a backup. Which, unfortunately, I was not smart enough to do....

Hey guys, I have the exact same issue as this:
-I flashed CM10.2 from a CM10.1 nightly which wiped my IMEI. I injected the IMEI using NV-items reader/writer.
-Reloaded stock ICS rom, IMEI returned but couldn't get up from EDGE
-Tried using the peoplesarmy's removed IMEI restore tool, didn't do anything
The phone still works, only its on EDGE all the time.
Literally the only solution for me was using my warranty and getting a new phone.
REPEAT: BACKUP YOUR **** OR YOU GOTTA GET A NEW PHONE!

Exclamation mark on wifi and cell signal

So after rooting and installing latest Cataclysm (Jan 6th update) with ElementalX I get this exclamation mark on my cell signal and wifi.
When that happens, I can use Facebook, Whatsapp, Youtube and I am able to make calls, texts, etc. What I can't do is load any page that isn't a google page on my browser. Also, I can't load anything on my Reddit app that isn't a text thread. Images, videos and anything external in general, won't load.
When I restart my phone, everything works fine. As soon as I lose signal or turn airplane mode on/off, it appears and I can't get rid of it.
I tried:
Resetting my APN settings.
Reinserting my SIM.
Changing preffered network to 2G/3G/LTE.
Resetting network settings.
Flashing ROM again.
Flashing original EFS again.
Wiping cache/dalvik.
I have no idea what to do or what is causing this issue.
Please help.

Go back to stock ROM and see if it happens there, if it does it's a carrier issue if it doesn't it's likely a bug with the ROM/Kernel you are using.

What carrier are you on? Have you check and/or re-verify those APN settings ? Next time this happen, turn on Airplane mode for 15 or 30 seconds, then turn it off again - do you have a decent cellular signal ?
I'm running PureNexus with EX rom and it's fine, solid (and stronger) signal on T-Mobile vs. N5 used by spouse.

metpage said:
Go back to stock ROM and see if it happens there, if it does it's a carrier issue if it doesn't it's likely a bug with the ROM/Kernel you are using.
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No issue on stock.
Letitride said:
What carrier are you on? Have you check and/or re-verify those APN settings ? Next time this happen, turn on Airplane mode for 15 or 30 seconds, then turn it off again - do you have a decent cellular signal ?
I'm running PureNexus with EX rom and it's fine, solid (and stronger) signal on T-Mobile vs. N5 used by spouse.
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Im not from the US or something popular but trust me I verified my APN settings.

ideaman924 said:
I saw it sometimes on my custom ROMs, nothing to worry about though.
If you enabled data and you don't get the LTE sign, then try going into the Hidden menu and setting LTE to automatic. I forgot the hidden code though, can somebody else supply it? Alternatively, you can go inside settings>others>network>apn and check the apn, then go out and change the option to LTE (recommended) or something
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I already did that man, I also wrote it.

Bei60 said:
I already did that man, I also wrote it.
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Is this occurring with the MMB29P radio and vendor installed?
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Do you use Adblock Plus? I had the same problem. Switching Adblock off and on solved the Problem. Apparrantly they have a problem with Https connections or something

comentator said:
Do you use Adblock Plus? I had the same problem. Switching Adblock off and on solved the Problem. Apparrantly they have a problem with Https connections or something
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Removing Adblock plus seems to fix the issue, thanks.