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Navigation crashing

As if the poorly engineered radio and antenna weren't enough, my Nexus has crashed and rebooted multiple times during navigation. By the time it rebooted and finally grabbed a weak 3G signal, I had already missed my turns.
Fvck you Samsung. Stick with making toasters. Leave the engineering to Motorola and HTC.

shizat63 said:
As if the poorly engineered radio and antenna weren't enough, my Nexus has crashed and rebooted multiple times during navigation. By the time it rebooted and finally grabbed a weak 3G signal, I had already missed my turns.
Fvck you Samsung. Stick with making toasters. Leave the engineering to Motorola and HTC.
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OK. First, you should relax a bit. It's not that a big of a deal. It's a first gen ICS device so you shouldn't be too surprised by teething pains. I just used Google Nav to drive cross-country and let me tell you, it worked pretty darn well. It did freeze up solid once which required not only a battery pull but a "time out" before I could get the device to reboot. All was good after 5 minutes. Other times, I had to use the task manager to kill previous instances to get it to work. Not bad for 3,000 miles of travel. Didn't miss a turn. Had good signal. Only a little GPS drift a couple of times which makes me wonder if the GN GPS supports WAAS. Doubt it. Either way, it is miles better than my Galaxy S which frankly, isn't saying much, but still it was miles better.
On my trip, Google maps pulled in 1.10Gb of images and I got three warning messages from AT&T. One told me I should use WiFi because I was close to being in the top 5%. Another told me I shouldn't be tethering (which I wasn't... this week). And finally, I got a message from AT&T that said they were suckers!!! Going down to AT&T today to rough them up a bit.

Never noticed any crashing here in the UK whilst navigating either. Maybe its linked to a poor signal?
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no crashing here in Canada... used it for about 2 hours in city driving

better radio for t-mobile us?

my baseband right now is i9250xxkk1 and i'm getting absolutely horrendous service in my home. i'm constantly on 1 bar of edge and even worse than that, almost everytime i'm on a call it'll just randomly lose service for 30 seconds and come back.
Never had any issues like this on my nexus one, i always had to shut 3G off so it didn't get stuck trying to switch to edge, but once it was on edge it worked just fine. this phone is just getting to the point where i can't make phone calls in my own room.
it's not always though. it had been good for like 4 days, but today now i've tried to make 3 calls and eventually i just gave up and used the house phone. i can even leave it in the same spot with 4 bars of edge, and as soon i pick it up and move it drops to 1 bar or loses service. and i mean move it by only a couple inches. or hell, i can just leave it there and it'll fluctuate between no service and 1,2,3,4 bars.
really hoping someone can give me some help here cause this is getting really annoying.

Have you tried the radio UGLK1 ? It is optimized for North America.
You can donwload it here :
http://db.tt/d4qMSr57

heo_con184 said:
Have you tried the radio UGLK1 ? It is optimized for North America.
You can donwload it here :
http://db.tt/d4qMSr57
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thanks. i'll give this one a shot. i don't mind being stuck on edge, i just want to be stuck on edge, not losing service every few seconds.

There's no perfect radio for a specific carrier. It depends on your location as well.
I'm personally using xxkk6 on T-Mobile US and getting great service and speeds.

i'm not asking for perfect, just to actually have stable edge service in my home.
so far the radio posted above has worked good. was on a 30 minute phone call with my phone in all the locations it used to drop and it stayed at 2-3 bars. only dropped to 1 a couple times and quickly went back up.
looking forward to seeing if it improves my 3g speeds at all later today.

I'm on T-Mobile and prefer XXKK6.

neok44 said:
my baseband right now is i9250xxkk1 and i'm getting absolutely horrendous service in my home. i'm constantly on 1 bar of edge and even worse than that, almost everytime i'm on a call it'll just randomly lose service for 30 seconds and come back.
Never had any issues like this on my nexus one, i always had to shut 3G off so it didn't get stuck trying to switch to edge, but once it was on edge it worked just fine. this phone is just getting to the point where i can't make phone calls in my own room.
it's not always though. it had been good for like 4 days, but today now i've tried to make 3 calls and eventually i just gave up and used the house phone. i can even leave it in the same spot with 4 bars of edge, and as soon i pick it up and move it drops to 1 bar or loses service. and i mean move it by only a couple inches. or hell, i can just leave it there and it'll fluctuate between no service and 1,2,3,4 bars.
really hoping someone can give me some help here cause this is getting really annoying.
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Sounds like you are experiencing the "bug" that me and many othgers have been experiencing after flashing 4.0.3+ AOSP ROMS... I have a thread dedicated to it with some solutions.
Take a look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1487239 and read through. You will see that there are certain Radio / ROM / Kernel combos that fix this issue. The issue is NOT all RADIO related.
Hope this helps...

yiannisthegreek said:
Sounds like you are experiencing the "bug" that me and many othgers have been experiencing after flashing 4.0.3+ AOSP ROMS... I have a thread dedicated to it with some solutions.
Take a look here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1487239 and read through. You will see that there are certain Radio / ROM / Kernel combos that fix this issue. The issue is NOT all RADIO related.
Hope this helps...
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don't think that bug is what was happening to me because i was having the issue on ARHD on 4.02 as well. but it did get a lot worse on the 4.03 rom.
for now, this new radio seems to have fixed it for me. i've gone down to 1 bar a few times but i'm not constantly losing service like i was before.

Sorry I really new in the forun and I don't know how "instal" de radio.
i have the same problem but with de GSM version
thax

Novizxc said:
Sorry I really new in the forun and I don't know how "instal" de radio.
i have the same problem but with de GSM version
thax
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Take a look at my thread here http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1487239 and READ through it. Are you rooted? Unlocked fastboot? etc? If not then you have to start reading in the forums on those items first...

Galaxy Nexus Worse After 4.0.4

I have a Galaxy Nexus on Sprint. I got it a couple days before the 4.0.4 update, and for those couple days, it worked great. Calls were coming and going, no browser issues, even the GPS sync'd up in seconds (I heard about the issues so I put it through some testing).
Fast forward a couple days and I get 4.0.4. First thing I notice is my web browsing slowing to a crawl, then eventually, just stops. I would click anything or go anywhere, and the progress bar will barely move and just stay put. This did not happen connected to WiFi, only 3G. I reboot my phone, and all is well for another few hours. I don't always use my phone at all times, so I don't know what causes it. I've had to reboot my phone twice yesterday because of this issue.
The next issue was the GPS. I was going somewhere with my wife and figured GPS'ing an address wouldn't be a problem. Well, after about 3 minutes I figured it was like the browsing issue and rebooted the phone hoping it would work again. Nope. We loaded the address up in my wife's Samsung Replenish and were on our way. The whole time my phone was trying to get a GPS lock after a fresh reboot. I even threw my phone on the dashboard so it had a clear view of the sky. The GPS never did sync after the 15 minutes or so it took to get there.
Today, I just discovered ANOTHER issue! I was talking on the phone to my doctor's office, when I heard a few clicks, then it hung up. I thought it was my doctor's office that tried to transfer me and goofed up. I try to call back and after a few rings, I get call cannot be completed as dialed. Still, I thought it was their end. I call again and the recording comes up and plays for about 5 seconds, then cuts out again. So I finally call on a landline and all was well. After I was off the phone, another call came in to my phone and I answered it after the second ring, and it cut out immediately. My wife tried calling later after that, with the same results. After calling again, I was able to hear her after about 5 seconds (I waited longer than that last time).
I'm coming from an EVO 3D (EVO 4G before that) and it had it's quirks, but at least I could hold a conversation and use the web browser reliably. Being basically a vanilla Google Android handset, I had high hopes that all my worries and woes would go away. Now? After being pro-Android since my Samsung Moment, I'm starting to think if I should get a damn iPhone. As much as I dislike Apple and what it stands for, at least their phones "just work".
Anybody have anything I can or should try? Should I just toss this phone on the shelf until Google figures out what they're doing with this handset?

sounds like sprint in your area is having problems.
i doubt it would matter if you had a iphone or not.

My wife isn't having ANY problems with her old PoS Replenish. A lot of friends of mine have Sprint and nobody is having problems that I've heard. As soon as I reboot it when I have browser problems, it works great again, until later.

Flash a custom rom.
Or if you don't want to have a custom rom then flash the factory image.
Maybe something went a bit arse-ways with the ota.
that shouldn't be happening, its not normal, 4.0.4 made the gnex better than it already was!

I did a factory reset and the first call I made was dropped. Guess I'll put a custom rom on it... I shouldn't have to though

might something with the radio if everyone else around is not having problems with sprint. factory reset is not the same as reflashing the 4.0.4 images. try and reflash the stock 4.0.4 images.

I'm on my second device, sprint swapped mine out because my data was just crawling, and I came from T-Mobile and they don't have fast 3G and it felt like I just switched to Dial-Up. They updated the device in-store to 4.0.4 and it was fine yesterday and this morning Pandora kept stopping and buffering. When I got to work I rebooted and ran a speed test and I was getting 1400-1700kbps and sub 400ms ping, which IMHO good considering I don't get great reception in our datacenter. Now 4 hours later I'm down to 100-330kbps and ping of 1000ms plus... even after reboot...

Probably Sprint-version-specific problem or hardware problem of your phone.
I use a GSM Nexus on tmobile and I know people that have the Verizon version. Everyone noticed significant improvement after going to 4.0.4.

[Q]WiFi calling, issues every night

OK so I've searched this a lot and really didn't want to make a thread but it's driving me crazy. My WiFi calling is rock solid all day and then from 6, 7, or 8pm till around midnight it constantly drops and comes back. I've gotten the red invalid certificate thing and reg99 (or 09). Whichever one IS NOT the 911 one, my address is up to date.
Is it network traffic at night or what?? My house has 0 cell coverage so WiFi calling is important. It's getting really frustrating having it drop and come back every few minutes.
I'm on frostyjb, but I think that's probably irrelevant. From the tmo forums it sounds like these issues have been around for a year or so. Does anyone have any advice, or tips or tricks?
Thanks.

Most likely its due to increased traffic on your isp. They probably don't have a very good uplink making it easier to run into these type problems.
That's my best guess seeing as it always happens at the times known for heaviest traffic.
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I've been using Wi-Fi calling since it was first released on Blackberry, haven't noticed a specific time when it fails, seems to be random.
I will say each phone has had its own "quirks". the HTC Sensation wouldn't like to re-register to Wi-Fi Calling until it established a mobile network connection, pretty annoying
but I will say without a doubt this is the worst phone for Wi-Fi calling I've had to date. Samsung really needs to fix it. generally my issues include:
- One way audio (10% of the time, or more)
- "Digitized" voice calls
- Red certificate error
- WiFi calling just shuts down, in the menus it says "enabling calling", typically takes 3 - 4 minutes to come back up
- Dropped calls, typically due to above
- Wi-Fi signal drops, I have my router on my desk and I can watch the Wi-Fi connection bar randomly drop to 1 / 2 bars for a few mins then go back up, why? no idea. Doesn't happen on my Tab 10.1 or other devices
OVerall its an awesome phone if you have signal, but the wi-fi calling is trash

psykhotic said:
OK so I've searched this a lot and really didn't want to make a thread but it's driving me crazy. My WiFi calling is rock solid all day and then from 6, 7, or 8pm till around midnight it constantly drops and comes back. I've gotten the red invalid certificate thing and reg99 (or 09). Whichever one IS NOT the 911 one, my address is up to date.
Is it network traffic at night or what?? My house has 0 cell coverage so WiFi calling is important. It's getting really frustrating having it drop and come back every few minutes.
I'm on frostyjb, but I think that's probably irrelevant. From the tmo forums it sounds like these issues have been around for a year or so. Does anyone have any advice, or tips or tricks?
Thanks.
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I am in the same situation and I assumed it was just my phone losing wifi coverage at least now I know im not crazy. I would assume its just something to do with the date turnover because it seems to happen at around 9pm for me which is midnight on the east coast.

I had the same problem, So first i would try updating the firmware for your router. If that doesnt work, Check to see if your router is a single or dual band. I had a single band Linksys,which gave me terrible reception, so I upgraded to a dual band and the problem is much better now.

I have a dual band router but I don't use 5g because its range is pretty bad. It has drop outs when I go in the bathroom and that's a big time use for me lol.
When wifi calling drops I still have full wifi signal and the Internet works. It really sucks because I have 0 bars in my house. I've seen 2 bars but as soon as I touch the phone I get the do not enter circle.
I'll try updating the fw to see if it helps tonight. I've read something about the security used can mess with it? I just think it's weird that its usually at a specific time. Ie the security settings is a cop out.

Yeah, I read that having mac filtering enabled or a hidden ssid can cause issues too. Check that out while youre updating your firmware. Edit: I also tried a factory reset, which you might want to look into. Also, try testing other kernals/modems!. Thats all I got for ya though. Best of luck
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I blame tmo...
I ran a speedtest immediately to see if anything was suspicious. I still need to play with the router

psykhotic said:
I blame tmo...
I ran a speedtest immediately to see if anything was suspicious. I still need to play with the router
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I plan on flashing FrostyJB and Xquizit tomorrow. I'll let you know if I can replicate the issue on either rom.

Is it possible that having Comcast voice is somehow screwing up the internet? Like if tmo and Comcast are sending similar packets??

Not Only Me
Its nice to know I'm not the only one with this problem.
I updated the firmware on the phone, bought a new router; still have the problem... The little blue phone icon comes and goes, turns red. Seems to do what ever it feels like doing.
Will follow the thread for a solution.
Thanks to all for the effort.:good:

The last few nights have been a little better. With it usually coming back after leaving the phone on for a minute or so but it's still dropping every night. It really sucks for me because my house has 0 bars.

Im also having same problem where I live. I have no bars. I use Grove ip to make calls when wifi calling dosent work but I need wifi calling to send and receive mms thats the only down fall to grove ip
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I have been having the same issues too. Not necesarilly at specific times, pretty much all times of the day. Specifically random disconnects in the wifi calling (losing the symbol all together, then it comes back spontaniously whenever it wants). Probably the most irriating is the one way audio which has occured EVERY PHONE CALL RECIEVED OR PLACED for the 1st time after about 10 minutes of inactivity (meaning everytime I make or recieve a call the one way audio happens and I have to call back or the other party must blah blah blah). And digitized calling is almost a guarantee on every call. All is well with router and wifi settings, no data/cell service inside the building at all.
This is my second GSIII (this is a refurb POS they sent me after my new one had a screen crack). After 2 week back and fourth they are replacing it Ill have a new one tomorrow (prob another dumb refurb) and Ill let you all know if the issue is resolved. My first GSIII (the brand new one I purchased when they came out) had no issues like this at all. Hopefully they replacement will shed light.

No one can hear me when I use it (8 of 10 times). I also never hear a ring. People are just on the line all the sudden. Sooooo frustrating.
Does everyone have this problem? If not maybe it's a router setting? Would be interesting to know.

jjlean said:
No one can hear me when I use it (8 of 10 times). I also never hear a ring. People are just on the line all the sudden. Sooooo frustrating.
Does everyone have this problem? If not maybe it's a router setting? Would be interesting to know.
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I've had this. I was calling someone on Verizon and after some silence they picked up. Also if I call my phone from my Comcast landline there's no indication it's going through on the landline but my phone rings. I think these issues have been around awhile and tmo hasn't done anything. I wonder how we can get them to actually look into it...

Flood the support forums maybe?
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Yeah I think we need to bring this to t-mobile attention because most of all that i've read on here, i'm experiencing the same. I've tried different router settings as well but, nothing has worked.
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I tried dmz and opening ports that tmo has on their forums. Nothing worked.
Sent from my SGS3 Stock Rooted & Odexed
I love this thing!

I've been troubleshooting as well. Looking into my router settings, I had my channel set to 11. I changed it to 1 and so far so good. I'll update as I go.
I'm just sayin!

Where to go next with the LG G2 and why?

I could use some advice as to what to do next with my LG G2…
Battery life on the G2 was always exceptional since day one, and I could count on some pretty decent 4G LTE coverage. When KitKat came down, it seems to get even better. I could run ALL my radios (voice, data, WiFi, BlueTooth, and Location ) simultaneously, never have to check my power settings, and easily get 18-26 hours at the low end, and up to 37 hours on a single charge, at the high end. Even with my Pebble Smartwatch receiving updates all day.
Then Sprint visited the Spark update upon us, and it has been downhill ever since. In my home area alone, there are 3 totally different towers. One 3G, one 4g LTE and one Spark tower, and none talk to each other. My entire city has gone from some notable 4g LTE coverage to VERY sparse LTE coverage (mostly 3g or nothing). My battery life is only good if I turn all my radios off, and any time I am actively using my device, I am burning power at a seemingly exponential rate. Now my battery life is down to 13-15 hours on a single charge. Maybe 16 at the high end.
And, to add insult to injury, mine is one of the devices that has lost the knock on function as a result of the Spark update.
So, my questions are this…
I have heard I can use my MSL to turn off two of the frequencies and restore my OLD LTE capability, to maybe improve my service. Is this true?
What is the current way to get the MSL? Sprint has flat out refused to give it to me.
Since a key LG function (knock on) is gone, I’m not sure I care if I keep the rest. Are there other ROMS worth considering?
Do any of them improve battery life, voice and data connectivity or both?
Do any of them allow for a “Roam Only” option, as used to exist with Sprint phones, moons ago? I could at least count on better voice if I roamed on Verizon. And, frankly, if they dumped me for it, that would be no big deal.
I am currently running stock, unrooted. Is there REALLY a built in root counter that tells LG how many times I have rooted, so my warranty gets voided?
If it’s safe to root, what are the best, easiest methods? And, again, what ROMs work best with the G2?
Thanks to all for your time and patience.

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I am stock unrooted latest update with spark and easily get 30+ bat life. Today I got my longest at 50 hours with 5 hour screen time.
And there are other ways to get msl something like http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2521276
But yea I hear disabling the two frequencies have helped some people so I would say try it.
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I guess I'm one of the lucky ones. I am stock unrooted latest update with spark and easily get 30+ bat life. Today I got my longest at 50 hours with 5 hour screen time.
And there are other ways to get msl something like http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2521276
But yea I hear disabling the two frequencies have helped some people so I would say try it.
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Thanks for your reply, and I really wish I was still in that boat. Unfortunately, the standard "## whatever#" option doesn't work at all with the Sprint G2 running KitKat and Spark. I will have to try the tethered option, but I have to wait to use my wife's work laptop because I have a Mac.
VERY frustrating that there isn't just a new code I could just key in.
Will keep trying,

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wish i had an answer for you, i am updated to latest radio rooted and my average speed tests are good 25-30 whenever i run it. i have heard a lot of people saying the spark update ruined there phone

just so you know, you can be on a voice call and use your data at the same time UNLESS your connected to wifi also. This has always been the case since day 1 for ANY TRIBAND phone with sprint.

I am not sure about a root counter. I will say it was deliciously easy to root my stock ZVC phone. The method I used took all of 2 minutes literally.
First I downloaded towelroot ( https://towelroot.com/ ) to my phone. Installed and ran.
Boom. Now I had root. Installed SuperSU from the play store to manage root permissions. Then got autoprime's autorec from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2715496 installed that to phone and boom had twrp recovery. Made a backup of my stock rooted system did an advanced wipe of everything but internal storage...installed the ZV8 radio and then CM11. knock on even works, and mine WAS broken as well
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As far as getting your MSL is concerned, if you have an old phone kicking around (or even just an old MEID) head over to sprint.com/activate and switch the line to that MEID, then activate your G2 again. When you go through their online activation procedure, they automatically give you your MSL, Phone #, ICCID, MEID, etc. on the confirmation page and on the email they send you. If you need an MEID I have one off my old Google Nexus S that drowned last month.

Did you disabling the other radios? Can you provide an update and let me know if it did improve the battery life?