Hello everyone,
Since 2 days now, my 4G/LTE/EDGE symbols have been constantly appearing and dissapearing. I am in the NF1 firmware and rooted. It was working great but now it is like goin on/off like every 5 seconds. I think my data got blocked by T-Mobile but I'm really not sure.
You can see the video I recorded about the issue here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vy0A4LQD_E
Anyone had this happened to them before?
moisesmcardona said:
Hello everyone,
Since 2 days now, my 4G/LTE/EDGE symbols have been constantly appearing and dissapearing. I am in the NF1 firmware and rooted. It was working great but now it is like goin on/off like every 5 seconds. I think my data got blocked by T-Mobile but I'm really not sure.
You can see the video I recorded about the issue here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Vy0A4LQD_E
Anyone had this happened to them before?
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That's not normal, Never ran nf1 myself went straight to nf4. NF4 is basically a fix for issues that occurred with NF1, maybe update
louforgiveno said:
That's not normal, Never ran nf1 myself went straight to nf4. NF4 is basically a fix for issues that occurred with NF1, maybe update
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It was working fine for one week, but I think they blocked my access to it. I'm trying to communicate and check what is the problem.
Phone calls and messages works great however, is only the data that is not working.
moisesmcardona said:
It was working fine for one week, but I think they blocked my access to it. I'm trying to communicate and check what is the problem.
Phone calls and messages works great however, is only the data that is not working.
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You think you went over your allotted data limit? If that was so then the symbol would switch to 4G instead of 4Glte, Maybe you are right that you've passed your limit and maybe you should check settings/more networks/mobile networks and ensure that network mode is set to LTE/WCDMA/GSM and check that mobile data is enabled.........and my last guess could be that maybe your sim is loose or failing?
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You think you went over your allotted data limit? If that was so then the symbol would switch to 4G instead of 4Glte, Maybe you are right that you've passed your limit and maybe you should check settings/more networks/mobile networks and ensure that network mode is set to LTE/WCDMA/GSM and check that mobile data is enabled.........and my last guess could be that maybe your sim is loose or failing?
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I think it is a bug in the system. I used 2056.47GB according to the My T-Mobile website (tethering non stop), but on the use tab it tells me I used 2048GB of Unlimited. Maybe that stopped my data. I guess on the 17th it will reset and I'll have internet again since calls and messages works correctly. Also, there's no alert on my account and neither a message sent, so my guess is their system just limit the data to 2048GB somehow.
2 terabyte wow. I use net10 on att towers and have massive data connection issues as of the past 2 days and i just put a new monthly on it.
note 3 4.4.2 stock rooted N900T
macgyver40 said:
2 terabyte wow. I use net10 on att towers and have massive data connection issues as of the past 2 days and i just put a new monthly on it.
note 3 4.4.2 stock rooted N900T
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I called them and they said the data was not blocked and that it was not possible to block because it is unlimited, which I think is clearly a system bug or a hard or soft limit of 2048GB
I find it really hard to believe that you managed to use 2TB of data, even if you're tethering. I'm not saying you're lieing, but I think there's something wrong on the backend here that's not reporting appropriately.
There's obviously some kind of issue occuring when you authenticate on the T-Mobile network. My suggestion is either ODIN the phone back to stock and try again, or go into a Store and see if they can tell you anything about your account that's throwing flags at them.
I hope they did block you.
http://www.engadget.com/2014/08/13/t-mobile-cracks-down-on-data-abusers/?ncid=rss_truncated
Yeah I think they did that throttling thing because of me
Well, I'm hoping the 17th I get the internet again, of course more carefully. I was just looking at the "how much unlimited data means" limit and I seem to have found it.
If not, the reps said it could be the SIM Card and I have to go to the store then.
moisesmcardona said:
Yeah I think they did that throttling thing because of me
Well, I'm hoping the 17th I get the internet again, of course more carefully. I was just looking at the "how much unlimited data means" limit and I seem to have found it.
If not, the reps said it could be the SIM Card and I have to go to the store then.
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How can you even call TMO with a straight face? 2 TB is abusing it, dude.
Can you try a few things?
1) Turn the phone off then back on see how long you have data for.
2) Force the data band of the phone and see how long data works for.
3) Put your SIM into a different device and see how long you have data for.
And of course if you can try all these things on a few different towers just to be sure.
Also can you try cooking an egg on your phone? That thing must be running pretty HOT.
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Can you try a few things?
1) Turn the phone off then back on see how long you have data for.
2) Force the data band of the phone and see how long data works for.
3) Put your SIM into a different device and see how long you have data for.
And of course if you can try all these things on a few different towers just to be sure.
Also can you try cooking an egg on your phone? That thing must be running pretty HOT.
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All of that was what the reps said me to do, but data doesn't work.
Here is the bug I suspect, which makes me believe data is turned off at 2048GB:
In this image, the data reported 2048GB, but it let me use a little more. It just stayed at 2048GB
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Here you can see that it is reporting what I really used before data was turned off:
I know I may have abused but still they didn't really said nothing about it, and they said blocking can't be done on the phone call. They said to visit the store for a phone/SIM checkup.
You can try to reset your NV values and modem. Below is a link to the thread with instructions.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52735067
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I have just confirmed myself that this is indeed a system limitation by T-Mobile. Today my cycle reset and I got my data back.
So, in conclusion, T-Mobile unlimited plan indeed have the 2048GB limit.
I hope people aren't complaining about a 2 terabytes limit. I felt like I was abusing when going through 10 gigs a month.
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moisesmcardona said:
I have just confirmed myself that this is indeed a system limitation by T-Mobile. Today my cycle reset and I got my data back.
So, in conclusion, T-Mobile unlimited plan indeed have the 2048GB limit.
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OMG...2TB of mobile data, that's insane!! Even I have The 105Mbps Comcast plan and I can only manage to use 170GB a month(streaming Netflix and downloading torrents everyday)
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So this is something i have tested working myself. I DO NOT recommend this for everyone simply because you can severely mess up your phone and it's wireless connections.
In a nut shell what this allows you to do is utilize your phones built in 3g mobile hot spot and tethering application without paying the extra $20 a month. The legality of this is questionable so use it at your own risk.
What you need:
Samsung drivers(you can find these)
QPST software download it here
1. Install the samsung driver for our phone, as well as the QPST software
2. Place your phone in modem mode(settings, wireless, enable dial up)
3. Plug in your phone and allow all drivers and everything to install.
4. Load up QPST configuration
5. Navigate to the tab that says ports and select "Add New Port"(if all is well you should have one that says something about usb, or anything about your phone)
6. Once the device is added go to the top menu bar, select "Start Clients" and then "Service Programming"
7. Next select "OK" to the device in the box.
Now for the tricky things where you MUST be careful!
8. at the bottom of this box select "Read from Phone"
9. If the password in the box is not "000000"(six zeros) type it in and click OK.
10. You now want to tab over on the top until you see the tab that says "M. IP" select this.
11. Select Profile 0(it will be the very first one on the top) and select "Edit..."
12. You now should Have two input boxes the first one labled "NAI" and the second "Tethered NAI"
13. Under "Tethered NAI" it should say something similar to "[email protected]" (the X's refer to your personal number)
14. You need to edit this so that it no longer has "dun" in it,
"[email protected]"
15. You should now have NAI and Tethered NAI as the same thing. Now click OK and finally "Write to phone"(located in the bottom left). Your phone will reboot its self.
16. Upon first boot you need to go back into settings, wireless, and disable dial up networking. (first time i did this i got a force close with gapps, but did not cause any issues)
If you followed this exactly, you should now have 3g mobile hotspot
I must warn you however, if you reprogram your phone via *228 this will go away! so it will have to be performed again.
Enjoy!
Is this continuum specific? I've guy a buddy with a Samsung showcase that is very interested.
it should be able to work on most phones. I modified this from a samsung fascinate guide and wrote more detailed instructions, however it should work for most android devices.
ah not to rain on your parade but wouldnt it be easier to just use googles wireles tether 3.0 above and select samsung facinate softap mode pretty much anything will pick that up.
Perhaps it would be easier, but it adds extra bloat and just isn't as good as using the original..
Imagine, you want to tether via wireless or wired.. well you simply go into your drawer and select 3g mobile hotspot... So much easier than downloading an app that you are either limited to non secure sights via a wired connection(pda net) or you have to use a tethering app that may or may not work properly, supports only an adhoc connection, has connectivity issues or is just a PITA to setup...
So why not use the app that is already in your app drawer that you can't get away.
Give it time and i'll have a patch for exactly this where you won't even need to perform these steps...
Oh, did i mention i can alter the amount of devices you can have connected at once via 3g wireless hotspot, and my speeds over 3g with my rom are coming in between 0.5MB-3MB per second (as of the tests i've done as of now. I just pulled 1.71mb/sec upload sucks, but i'm not uploading things using it. lol)
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man i miss unlimited data lol thats what got me into trouble with sprint i pretty much forced my hero to roam of off verizon because theres a tower literaly half a mile from my house and apparantly using over 500mb of data roaming a day is a big no no lol. long story short they sent a letter and i got da boot. now i just have a dsl connection and the 2gig data plan so my bill is only about 10$ more than on sprint.
the moral of this story is becarefull with this because verizon does know what your doing
Bierce22 said:
man i miss unlimited data lol thats what got me into trouble with sprint i pretty much forced my hero to roam of off verizon because theres a tower literaly half a mile from my house and apparantly using over 500mb of data roaming a day is a big no no lol. long story short they sent a letter and i got da boot. now i just have a dsl connection and the 2gig data plan so my bill is only about 10$ more than on sprint.
the moral of this story is becarefull with this because verizon does know what your doing
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The beauty of this modification is that the regular 3g uses the connection of [email protected]... When you connect up the 3g wireless hotspot it sets the connection to [email protected].. This is how they know you have tethering because verizon sets this connection as active. SOOO what this is actually doing is setting the tethering app to utulize the normal 3g connection. SOOO it looks as if you are simply using the normal 3g connection..
Another way to do this is to run the 3g hotspot and have a widget to turn on and off 3g. When you toggle the connection it sets the connection back to the normal 3g even though you have open 3ghotspot Thus allowing tethering.
I am testing this now and i just performed option 2 after *228 and it did not break tethering. In fact i am on it now. Time for option 1 test
The new wireless tether allows regular connections, not just ADHOC
I've done this before, not gonna lie... But I deemed it.... Eh... Not worth it also, a lot of people have issues with dropped signal after doing it But, it is nifty, no doubt I was messing around with qdxm and such since my original enV
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trailblazer101 said:
The new wireless tether allows regular connections, not just ADHOC
I've done this before, not gonna lie... But I deemed it.... Eh... Not worth it also, a lot of people have issues with dropped signal after doing it But, it is nifty, no doubt I was messing around with qdxm and such since my original enV
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I tried downloading google's Wireless Tether from the android market and it said my device is not supported, did you have this problem? i am running Miunia Rom beta 4
I am running the same rom and downloaded Google wireless tether straight from the Google website, no problem at all.
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
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gk438 said:
I am running the same rom and downloaded Google wireless tether straight from the Google website, no problem at all.
http://code.google.com/p/android-wifi-tether/downloads/list
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Thanks for the link
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No problem, hope it works for you.
Happy holidays..
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anybody knows how to unlock hotspot for sprint?
dony71 said:
anybody knows how to unlock hotspot for sprint?
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Why are you asking this on a forum for a phone that isn't on sprint, and doesn't even have an equivalent? I would suggest checking your phones forum.
Does it matter what ROM you're on (odex/deodexed)?
no it does not.
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no it does not.
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I figured as much. Thanks for the speedy reply.
Well I tried this
But for some weird reason every time I trie to mod and restart the phone the parameters return to their original setting, Like I didn't do anything to change it.
Is there something wrong?
I used QPST and if I change the vrzw3g something to anything and restart the phone everything goes back to default...
Thanks for any help.....
If you can't get it working, I honestly wouldn't struggle with it anymore like I said, this is morally grey/illegal, has caused dropped signal for some fascinate users, can be tracked, and has a lot of good alternatives... Wifi tether is my favorite
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I was told to do a *22899. It made my PRL change to 52xxx and signal was alright but then I heard they were only 3G. So the only way i can get back to the 15xxx PRL was to get a New SIM from VZW. It was free and I just wanted to do a Signal Test to report back here.
These 2 screen shots were taken from the same location outside of the VZW Store-
52686 PRL
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New SIM PRL 15119
Im running the OTA 4.0.4 Radios.
The only way the new SIM will accept is to start fresh.
-If running a Custom ROM, Wipe Data, Wipe Dalvik Cache, Flash Rom, Flash GApps, reboot and sign in-
-if running Stock, Factory data reset.
No More dialing *22899, it wont update the 4G while on a 52xxx PRL-
Bummer. Yeah, don't do 2289. Went through this a few months ago.
tell me bout it, got the wrong info from VZW and online. oh well, i got a signal boost out of it-
You should blur out your phone number.
painter_ said:
You should blur out your phone number.
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You should have texted them that.
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El Daddy said:
You should have texted them that.
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That would have been epic lol.
fixed
alphanu22 said:
No More dialing *22899, it wont update the 4G while on a 52xxx PRL-
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My PRL is 52686 and both my CDMA and LTE are fine.
Coulro DeSouth said:
My PRL is 52686 and both my CDMA and LTE are fine.
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For now.
how do you update to 15119? I'm on 15109
mistermojorizin said:
how do you update to 15119? I'm on 15109
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PRL's are different # across the US
The 22899 trick works on devices like this if you assign the number to a saved contact (mine is called "vzw") and initiate a call to the contact (nothing new in this)... A VzW customer care rep had me do this, not knowing that it's not intended to refresh the PRL on LTE devices.
Anyway - I must have played with this about a dozen times. Works just fine, no issues, no "fried SIM" - my understanding is that this isn't an issue any longer. HOWEVER... updating your PRL this way DOES seem to load the 5*... PRL rather than the 1*... that is associated with best roaming towers for LTE devices. Every time I did this, I wound up with a 5*... series PRL as we're seeing in this thread with other folks' experience.
HOWEVER -- I had no reason at all to suspect the SIM was somehow "damaged" and "stuck" with this PRL. The "proper" way to update an LTE SIM with a new PRL is to allow the phone to do it automatically on boot, or way to have it pushed to the phone by the carrier. After "calling" my "vzw" entry I wound up with a 5*... PRL -- so pulled the battery, popped the SIM out for a moment and replaced both it and the battery. Then, before turning it on again, I entertained a bit of superstition and took the phone to a place with a known very strong 4G signal and powered it up there. Within a minute or so after boot, the PRL had changed and now read (and still reads) 15109.
Note: this is AFTER I had called the 22899 number many times and had the 5*... PRL assigned to the phone (SIM?) each time. No damage -- just needed to encourage the phone to reset the PRL properly by itself.
jonstrong said:
The 22899 trick works on devices like this if you assign the number to a saved contact (mine is called "vzw") and initiate a call to the contact (nothing new in this)... A VzW customer care rep had me do this, not knowing that it's not intended to refresh the PRL on LTE devices.
Anyway - I must have played with this about a dozen times. Works just fine, no issues, no "fried SIM" - my understanding is that this isn't an issue any longer. HOWEVER... updating your PRL this way DOES seem to load the 5*... PRL rather than the 1*... that is associated with best roaming towers for LTE devices. Every time I did this, I wound up with a 5*... series PRL as we're seeing in this thread with other folks' experience.
HOWEVER -- I had no reason at all to suspect the SIM was somehow "damaged" and "stuck" with this PRL. The "proper" way to update an LTE SIM with a new PRL is to allow the phone to do it automatically on boot, or way to have it pushed to the phone by the carrier. After "calling" my "vzw" entry I wound up with a 5*... PRL -- so pulled the battery, popped the SIM out for a moment and replaced both it and the battery. Then, before turning it on again, I entertained a bit of superstition and took the phone to a place with a known very strong 4G signal and powered it up there. Within a minute or so after boot, the PRL had changed and now read (and still reads) 15109.
Note: this is AFTER I had called the 22899 number many times and had the 5*... PRL assigned to the phone (SIM?) each time. No damage -- just needed to encourage the phone to reset the PRL properly by itself.
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Any improvement with the signal since the change back
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Any improvement with the signal since the change back
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No noticeable difference in signal with either one, although I haven't experimented in any particularly scientific fashion. In general, I get great reception with this phone -- and this didn't seem different when on the 5* PRL...
When I first got my phone, my phone auto dialed *22899. My PRL changed, but it reverted back to the original 15119 after a reboot. Not sure if I should get a new sim card or not. Signal is fine, but I live within view of a tower.
when i got my gnex, the verizon rep told me to never do a *228 on a 4g phone. didn't really explain why though. guess this is why.
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when i got my gnex, the verizon rep told me to never do a *228 on a 4g phone. didn't really explain why though. guess this is why.
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At this point I think it's just CSR urban legend. From all we've read and heard, this should no longer be something to worry about.
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it is a csr legend im an x employee and still have a gazillian friends there....and i can confirm it, he whole story how it surfaced is long and boring, just dont do *228 because it is worthless
Help me out here, you say the only way back to the old PRL is with a new sim card and factory reset? Why would the new sim not "take" with out restoring the phone?
I have done the manual prl update a few times and gotten a 5xxxx prl. I saw this thread and checked my prl again and it went back to 15xxx on its own? Do I need a new sim card???
I hadn't checked it in a while, but my phone has reverted back to the 15 PRL after using *22899 many times.
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Hi guys
Having trouble using hot spot. Running skynote 8.2 worked before now the computer connects but cant load the page.when I troubleshoot it it says its a dns problem. I reflashed and even flashed clean rom and jedi rom on but still no luck.anyone got any free time to help please.desperately need this feature for work.
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anyone can help? I tried to search for the solution, wiped my phone, flashed it with the same rom, flashed it with another rom, used wired, wireless and bluetooth tether.
it all ends the same. the connection drops data after a while and i can't connect to any internet.
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Hi guys
Having trouble using hot spot. Running skynote 8.2 worked before now the computer connects but cant load the page.when I troubleshoot it it says its a dns problem. I reflashed and even flashed clean rom and jedi rom on but still no luck.anyone got any free time to help please.desperately need this feature for work.
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anyone can help? I tried to search for the solution, wiped my phone, flashed it with the same rom, flashed it with another rom, used wired, wireless and bluetooth tether.
it all ends the same. the connection drops data after a while and i can't connect to any internet.
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Mine does that too, not just my phone but my Wireless hotspot too, (a AT&T Unite) I can keep the connection up by doing a "ping www.google.com -t" in the command line.
Yes, this will kill your battery, consider using bluetooth or USB tether.
Furthermore AT&Ts DNS servers suck use these
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Just put them in to your DNS settings in Windows.
This isn't an issue with your devices, its a AT&T issue from the looks of it. (I called AT&T and they tell me that the local tower is having issues so unless I continuously ping google I can't tether or use my hotspot for more than 20 minutes without getting DNS errors, Does it with any ROM I try, even my PlayStation Vita does it)
Sorry but my note 2 is bell variant and i'm on bell network in Canada. The only reason I'm using this forum is because AT&T has the same model unlike the other verizon and such.
So any other idea???
i also tried to set the hotspot auto turn off to always on and it seems to help a little. however every now and then i still get disconnection.
Neoistheone2000 said:
Mine does that too, not just my phone but my Wireless hotspot too, (a AT&T Unite) I can keep the connection up by doing a "ping www.google.com -t" in the command line.
Yes, this will kill your battery, consider using bluetooth or USB tether.
Furthermore AT&Ts DNS servers suck use these
8.8.8.8
8.8.4.4
208.67.222.222
208.67.220.220
Just put them in to your DNS settings in Windows.
This isn't an issue with your devices, its a AT&T issue from the looks of it. (I called AT&T and they tell me that the local tower is having issues so unless I continuously ping google I can't tether or use my hotspot for more than 20 minutes without getting DNS errors, Does it with any ROM I try, even my PlayStation Vita does it)
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iniquity0411 said:
Sorry but my note 2 is bell variant and i'm on bell network in Canada. The only reason I'm using this forum is because AT&T has the same model unlike the other verizon and such.
So any other idea???
i also tried to set the hotspot auto turn off to always on and it seems to help a little. however every now and then i still get disconnection.
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Did anything change when you continuously pinged Google?
I keep refreshing the page, enter new common websites such as MSN or yahoo and they all show nothing except DNS failed look up. I changed the bell apn to some tether apn bell offered but that didn't work. So now I reset the apn to have it look up the settings itself. Still having the issue..
I never had this issue until recengly like last two weeks. Iunno what could be the Cuz and I can't figure out is it my phone, rom, or laptop...
I seriously will pay someone if they can't help me fix this!
Thanks in advance to this wonderful community.
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heres what i get when i "ping" google using your command in the 'command prompt'
i still have internet but i guess when i go stream some videos it goes into DNS look up error...
i'll upload the screen pics.
when i ping it just keeps going... iunno if that's suppose to happen.
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Disable your app and use ES File Explorer to hotspot. This can help to see if it is wifi app specific issue, or a common (phone setting, DNS...) problem.
Mine works this way on Stock and no root.
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Just as the topic specifies, how far can I safely flash back, build wise? I have a t889 running 4.1.2 uvbmd1.
Long story short at some point about a couple months back their was a leak for an ota it was apparently posted in a wrong thread, supposed to be for the t889 and I later that day discovered it was a different model, same phone. I discovered this when I attended to use triangle away and the app attempted to verify my phone model and it came back with 7100 or something like that. I'm sorry I can't recall exactly. It was then I flashed the correct update. Anyhow here I am today with a couple things that leave me wondering what's going on with my phone.
Battery is apparently taking way to long to charge. Never used to take this long.
And the most important sign that's raised my index of suspicion is the fact that my airplane mode shortcut is no longer an option to be used or applied on my phone. It's still on my wife's phone (same phone) but no longer on mine. See picture....
So in attempt to undo and possibly fix what flashing recent build won't and didn't do I'm curious how far back I can flash without bricking it completely???
Thank you for any assistance.
Why is the right door always locked?
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If you look you'll see no airplane mode switch when there should be. Plus now there's some mobile data switch... where did this come from? ....no it's not supposed to be there. My wife has the same model phone I do and she has the airplane mode switch and also no mobile data switch.
No ideas eh? I understand it's not a normal issue.
Why is the right door always locked?
How far can you flash back? Any rom posted checks teshxx sticked post in Android dev.
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Thanks, saw that but couldn't seem to find an answer regarding how far back I can go build wise until there is risk of bricking.
For example
Verizon and moto would constantly lock or change bootloaders so much in New builds that if you flashed back farther than you should have build wise it would completely brick the device.
Want sure if there was a risk of this with Samsung.
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Have you tried Odining the current build?
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I Odin'd this build and the previous and its still there. That's kinda why I thought going back farther might help. Just don't know if it's safe.
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hasbrobot said:
I Odin'd this build and the previous and its still there. That's kinda why I thought going back farther might help. Just don't know if it's safe.
Why is the right door always locked?
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Did you wipe /data right before/after odining?
Actually I didn't do it before, but here's where it gets weird. I did a factory reset from recovery yesterday and I kept root, status was normal afterwords.here's the weird part. The mobile data switch was gone, no ware to be found and airplane mode switch returned.
So my happy self decided too use titanium to restore user apps only. When I opened titanium it said my android user id had changed likely due to the reset. It asked me if I wanted to restore the previous so I said yes. It rebooted than I restored user apps only, I checked the box that said exclude system apps. Everything went smoothly.
Sometime after this, it was than that I noticed the stupid mobile data switch was back, airplane mode switch was gone, and the long charging was back as well. Sigh..... so here I am as frustrated as ever....
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hasbrobot said:
Actually I didn't do it before, but here's where it gets weird. I did a factory reset from recovery yesterday and I kept root, status was normal afterwords.here's the weird part. The mobile data switch was gone, no ware to be found and airplane mode switch returned.
So my happy self decided too use titanium to restore user apps only. When I opened titanium it said my android user id had changed likely due to the reset. It asked me if I wanted to restore the previous so I said yes. It rebooted than I restored user apps only, I checked the box that said exclude system apps. Everything went smoothly.
Sometime after this, it was than that I noticed the stupid mobile data switch was back, airplane mode switch was gone, and the long charging was back as well. Sigh..... so here I am as frustrated as ever....
Why is the right door always locked?
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Have you tried going to Settings, display, notification panel and just changing you toggles to get your airplane mode back?
See here
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Yup,
It's not in the options. Check out the above picture of my notification panel options. You don't have the mobile data switch either? Check out your picture and then mine.
It's quite strange.
Almost forgot, I tried the mobile data switch and it does not put the phone into airplane mode. It brings more to the mobile network options when I long pres it.
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Yup,
It's not in the options. Check out the above picture of my notification panel options. You don't have the mobile data switch either? Check out your picture and then mine.
It's quite strange.
Almost forgot, I tried the mobile data switch and it does not put the phone into airplane mode. It brings more to the mobile network options when I long pres it.
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Interesting, what firmware is she. I'm on the latest tmo official.
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And to answer your question. You can go all the way back on tmo. Non of that locked boot loader bs here
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I'm on the latest firmware as well.rooted, stock, and normal status.
Thanks for the info, I wonder if it might be prudent for me to flash a number of builds back and see if that would restore it. It's nice to know it can be done without risk of completely bricking.
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Having my Mate 20x for 3 months now and being generally happy with it, I recently encountered an annoying bug.
It seems that whenever I connect to a WiFi, that doesn't have Internet capability currently, the phone uses my mobile data to connect, download or sync. Like as if Wifi+ was enable (which isn't the case).
As I'm a permanent traveler, currently in Africa, connecting to WiFi that temporarily don't work, happens quite often, especially after a blackout or something.
Anyway, my Wifi+ is switched off, I restarted and switched it also a few times, but my mobile data is still being used when WiFi doesn't work properly.
I have the EVR-L29 still on the 9.0.0.208 version. The 9.0.0.300 update has popped, but I'm afraid to download it, due to newly introduced crashed and since I basically don't have any other problem with the phone and awesome battery life. Having had Mate 8 and Mate 10 before, I had a few times, that updating too early made it less than worthwhile and since I'm not rooted and despite using Android since Froyo, I'm meanwhile beyond the flashing and downgrading days of old.
What would you guys recommend to remedy the problem?
Thanks!
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Having my Mate 20x for 3 months now and being generally happy with it, I recently encountered an annoying bug.
It seems that whenever I connect to a WiFi, that doesn't have Internet capability currently, the phone uses my mobile data to connect, download or sync. Like as if Wifi+ was enable (which isn't the case).
As I'm a permanent traveler, currently in Africa, connecting to WiFi that temporarily don't work, happens quite often, especially after a blackout or something.
Anyway, my Wifi+ is switched off, I restarted and switched it also a few times, but my mobile data is still being used when WiFi doesn't work properly.
I have the EVR-L29 still on the 9.0.0.208 version. The 9.0.0.300 update has popped, but I'm afraid to download it, due to newly introduced crashed and since I basically don't have any other problem with the phone and awesome battery life. Having had Mate 8 and Mate 10 before, I had a few times, that updating too early made it less than worthwhile and since I'm not rooted and despite using Android since Froyo, I'm meanwhile beyond the flashing and downgrading days of old.
What would you guys recommend to remedy the problem?
Thanks!
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I think this is an unfortunate feature if emui on this device. I recently asked the question of why is 4G still showing on my status bar when I'm connected to WiFi. On other devices that I've owned connecting to WiFi would visibly remove the mobile data connection. It would be appear that in your case connecting to WiFi truly doesn't disable mobile data.
How about if you turn WiFi+ off, and try connecting to the dead access point, what happens then? Does it still use mobile data ? I just looked at WiFi + and it states that it connects automatically to mobile data and or WiFi to stay online. So perhaps it's doing as intended?
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Yes, my Wifi+ is always off. I never used that feature. But I noticed also as you mentioned, that the mobile data counter is still on, even when connected to WiFi. And when the WiFi status has that 'exlamation mark' meaning it's not connected to the Internet, that counter is still running, thus taking data from mobile data.
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Yes, my Wifi+ is always off. I never used that feature. But I noticed also as you mentioned, that the mobile data counter is still on, even when connected to WiFi. And when the WiFi status has that 'exlamation mark' meaning it's not connected to the Internet, that counter is still running, thus taking data from mobile data.
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On the attached screenshot it shows mobile data field as present with WiFi on with my device. On other devices that field Mobile Data would show "disconnected". I wish I could help further , I'm new to emui.
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nomad4ever said:
Having my Mate 20x for 3 months now and being generally happy with it, I recently encountered an annoying bug.
It seems that whenever I connect to a WiFi, that doesn't have Internet capability currently, the phone uses my mobile data to connect, download or sync. Like as if Wifi+ was enable (which isn't the case).
As I'm a permanent traveler, currently in Africa, connecting to WiFi that temporarily don't work, happens quite often, especially after a blackout or something.
Anyway, my Wifi+ is switched off, I restarted and switched it also a few times, but my mobile data is still being used when WiFi doesn't work properly.
I have the EVR-L29 still on the 9.0.0.208 version. The 9.0.0.300 update has popped, but I'm afraid to download it, due to newly introduced crashed and since I basically don't have any other problem with the phone and awesome battery life. Having had Mate 8 and Mate 10 before, I had a few times, that updating too early made it less than worthwhile and since I'm not rooted and despite using Android since Froyo, I'm meanwhile beyond the flashing and downgrading days of old.
What would you guys recommend to remedy the problem?
Thanks!
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You can manual Update to 320,no crashes or reboot,but manual Update delete all data
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You can manual Update to 320,no crashes or reboot,but manual Update delete all data
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I knowwwww... But I'm reluctant to set up everything manually again... Might probably go through all those updates once I have a stable and fast WiFi again somewhere.
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On the attached screenshot it shows mobile data field as present with WiFi on with my device. On other devices that field Mobile Data would show "disconnected". I wish I could help further , I'm new to emui.View attachment 4816023
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I don't understand? Is it possible to switch on or off something in those settings? I can't seem to find it on my phone?
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I don't understand? Is it possible to switch on or off something in those settings? I can't seem to find it on my phone?
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I don't think there is. It seems an emui feature.
Like I mentioned earlier, other Android devices I've used in the past automatically shut down/ disable mobile data when WiFi is connected. Seems like with this device you don't truly know if you're on mobile data or wifi.?
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I don't understand? Is it possible to switch on or off something in those settings? I can't seem to find it on my phone?
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Interesting tid bit I just came across and thought I'd share with you. So for the first time on this device I ran optimize battery under the battery settings menu.
It suggested I turn off mobile data :silly: very confusing if you ask me.
Seems like Emui has a major status bar flaw in it in this respect. When I turn mobile data off via the pull down quick toggle and also turn WiFi off. It still shows 4G LTE on status bar. I guess this is the issue!
Aida64 app shows that mobile data is disconnected when on WiFi. Still doesn't answer why 4G icon persists when mobile data and wifi is off though.
In Developer Options>~Networking~Mobile data always on~toggle
Tried that?