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I've been having a problem with receiving texts sometimes and I recently noticed that it happens with call apparently. The issue is that I'm texting people back and forth and then all of a sudden I wont receive messages for a long time (couple hours). At some point, someone's text message will push through all of the other ones all at the same time. Sometimes when I assume i'm having this issue, I will send a text to myself and it will push the other ones through as well. Recently though I was made aware that during this "outage", I also was not able to receive phone calls at all. The signal is strong at all times (3-4 bars). Also happens when I'm home all day and not changing locations when it will suddenly stop getting texts and calls. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? I restarted the phone and changed cell towers with the Airplane mode many times and the issue continues to happen at random times. It is really inconvenient. Suggestions?
Technical details: I use the stock 4.1.1 Rom that comes with AT&T S3. I do have LTE in my area.
And now it has happened 3 days in a row but at different times of day. This is a huge problem for me as I use my phone a lot. Any help would be appreciated
You still have your IMEI number via settings -> about phone -> status?
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TRy making sure yiur not in airplane mode. i was stuck in airplane for a week ._____________.:cyclops:
That's weird. Re-seat your SIM card, if that doesn't do anything then take a trip to your nearest AT&T store/dealer and have them swap out your SIM card and see if it still occurs after that.
I had a similar problem a while back and it happened to be a network problem with my carrier. Gave them a call and all is fine now.
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fafik90 said:
I've been having a problem with receiving texts sometimes and I recently noticed that it happens with call apparently. The issue is that I'm texting people back and forth and then all of a sudden I wont receive messages for a long time (couple hours). At some point, someone's text message will push through all of the other ones all at the same time. Sometimes when I assume i'm having this issue, I will send a text to myself and it will push the other ones through as well. Recently though I was made aware that during this "outage", I also was not able to receive phone calls at all. The signal is strong at all times (3-4 bars). Also happens when I'm home all day and not changing locations when it will suddenly stop getting texts and calls. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? I restarted the phone and changed cell towers with the Airplane mode many times and the issue continues to happen at random times. It is really inconvenient. Suggestions?
Technical details: I use the stock 4.1.1 Rom that comes with AT&T S3. I do have LTE in my area.
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It happend to me too. I went to att store and get new sim. No problem for last 15-20 days. Looks like i got stronger signal too.
Just to give anyone interested in this an update:
I went to the AT&T store today and told them my issue so they told me to go to the nearest AT&T device support center (which was really far away). People over there told me they heard about this issue many times over the past couple of months. The guy working there had a S3 and said he has the same problem. They received an email from the higher-ups this morning specifically talking about this random outage thing I have and that they are currently working on it. They were told to not exchange phones or sim cards because of this since it wont help. The issue involves a combination of Network and Jelly Bean software problems and happens on all new LTE devices that have Jelly Bean from AT&T. They told me to check periodically if there is a solution.
I guess I just gotta wait. Unless someone recommends a ROM that is not based on the latest AT&T jelly bean?
Bumping it up, both me and my wife have had this happen. From what im read its a pretty widespread deal.
Anyone know of a work around at least until they fix it?
Keep us updated
Same problem here - switched from Verizon to AT&T last month and started noticing this problem a few weeks ago. Back then a Google search didn't find much on it, but this thread looks promising.
Just to add my two cents: I'm on a rooted S3 with task650's AOKP (4.2.1) build 12.23.2012 (link). Made sure to flash the modem for my phone (I747UCLI5 from here). Problem: phone randomly won't receive calls or texts. Sometimes calling someone will fix it.
I read somewhere that on AT&T, calls and texts are received over 3G and sometimes phones have difficulty switching from 4G. Anyone know if this is true?
Do a full wipe /system, /data, /cache, /dalvik cache. And your problems should be gone 9 times out of 10 that's usually everybodys problem
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fafik90 said:
I've been having a problem with receiving texts sometimes and I recently noticed that it happens with call apparently. The issue is that I'm texting people back and forth and then all of a sudden I wont receive messages for a long time (couple hours). At some point, someone's text message will push through all of the other ones all at the same time. Sometimes when I assume i'm having this issue, I will send a text to myself and it will push the other ones through as well. Recently though I was made aware that during this "outage", I also was not able to receive phone calls at all. The signal is strong at all times (3-4 bars). Also happens when I'm home all day and not changing locations when it will suddenly stop getting texts and calls. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? I restarted the phone and changed cell towers with the Airplane mode many times and the issue continues to happen at random times. It is really inconvenient. Suggestions?
Technical details: I use the stock 4.1.1 Rom that comes with AT&T S3. I do have LTE in my area.
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I had this same problem except it would only happen on WiFi.
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Do a full wipe /system, /data, /cache, /dalvik cache. And your problems should be gone 9 times out of 10 that's usually everybodys problem
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Tried that no go, plus its on 2 different phones.
Found some more info and ended up adding anothe APN and chaning some info in it seems good now.
mrmooney said:
Tried that no go, plus its on 2 different phones.
Found some more info and ended up adding anothe APN and chaning some info in it seems good now.
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Care to share what you did that fixed it?
fafik90 said:
Care to share what you did that fixed it?
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Yeah more info here.
http://forums.att.com/t5/Android-Di...ing-Calls-Phone-issue-or-Android/m-p/3404809#
Seems to still be working fine.
I started a thread on this also and just yesterday received some info from AT&T tech.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2123974
guys,
it is an ATT issue,
here is a temp solution for a fix:
1) With phone on, take off back cover and press your SIM card so it releases from the spring. It won't come all the way out as it's blocked by the battery. This seems fine - I didn't bother trying to force it out as I didn't want to break anything...
2) Once you see the message that the SIM card is removed, go to the dialer and dial *#2263#
3) You should see a menu with band selections. The current setting is "Automatic". If you switch to "GSM All", you will be EDGE (2G). If you switch to "WCDMA All", you will be on HSPA+ (3G, though AT&T and others call it 4G).
4) Press the SIM card back into place until it clicks. For whatever reason the phone will not recognize it until you reboot. Upon reboot you should see your new setting in effect
please see, post, comment here:
http://forums.att.com/t5/Android-Di...ls-Phone-issue-or-Android/td-p/3270741/page/3
I have searched for over 2 weeks now online for a fix, I am on phone number 3 and sim card number 3. My phone, at least once a day, send all phone calls to straight to voicemail (showing no missed calls), texts do not come in etc. When this is happening, I show full bars and 4G. My wife is using my old Galaxy S and her works fine (not the network being down). If I restart my phone, I will get my missed texts and voicemails and I will receive calls as normal for a little time.
I have factory reset several times, as above, I am on my 3rd phone (2nd refurb that was probably sent back for this issue), 3rd sim card, I make sure I'm not in airplane mode, auto block calls are off, call forwarding is off, not connected to WiFi calling.
I am at my whits end, I'm about to send this great Galaxy S3 back and switch to maybe a Nexus 4 (granted I've seen all JB phones with this same issue) to see if I can just get a phone that works...like a phone.
Has anyone figured out yet why this occurs? Alot of people said it started with the upgrade to JB. Has anyone found a fix for this thing?
Also, would rooting and tossing on a custom rom fix this?
Please help, thanks in advance!
Geisty said:
I have searched for over 2 weeks now online for a fix, I am on phone number 3 and sim card number 3. My phone, at least once a day, send all phone calls to straight to voicemail (showing no missed calls), texts do not come in etc. When this is happening, I show full bars and 4G. My wife is using my old Galaxy S and her works fine (not the network being down). If I restart my phone, I will get my missed texts and voicemails and I will receive calls as normal for a little time.
I have factory reset several times, as above, I am on my 3rd phone (2nd refurb that was probably sent back for this issue), 3rd sim card, I make sure I'm not in airplane mode, auto block calls are off, call forwarding is off, not connected to WiFi calling.
I am at my whits end, I'm about to send this great Galaxy S3 back and switch to maybe a Nexus 4 (granted I've seen all JB phones with this same issue) to see if I can just get a phone that works...like a phone.
Has anyone figured out yet why this occurs? Alot of people said it started with the upgrade to JB. Has anyone found a fix for this thing?
Also, would rooting and tossing on a custom rom fix this?
Please help, thanks in advance!
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I would trying odin with the latest stock ICS image. See if that helps first! Its UVALJ4....heres the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687
mattedwards2686 said:
I would trying odin with the latest stock ICS image. See if that helps first! Its UVALJ4....heres the link
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1949687
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I could give that a try, but I really don't want to go back in versions, I love JB and don't see the point in wasting money on a new phone when I could have gotten one for free or cheaper that uses ICS.
Thanks
I was having the same issue. However, mine was just blocking one person. I check under the persons contact info, you can hit menu and select reject calls. I then checked under Call Settings (press menu while on the dialer), first option is Call rejection. You can turn this option on or off and add or remove numbers here. Hope this helps someone.
Hi, so I decided to root/unlock my phone to see if I could fix my cell signal problem, it just randomly started to drop signal every time I made a call and I could not send 100% of my texts and would receive a text once in a blue moon. My 3g for data works fine... I changed roms, still couldn't acquire a signal other than data and the same issue would happen after flashing to different ROMs.
So I reflashed RUU to revert back to stock and I still cannot make a call or send a text. What am I doing wrong? I have searched far and wide and lots of stuff, I don't understand about radio files but maybe those would help? I need some pretty noob proof advice/guides to be honest as I've been having trouble with all of this, and I like my phone, so it'd be nice if I could make calls and text again.
LiquidRainbowX said:
Hi, so I decided to root/unlock my phone to see if I could fix my cell signal problem, it just randomly started to drop signal every time I made a call and I could not send 100% of my texts and would receive a text once in a blue moon. My 3g for data works fine... I changed roms, still couldn't acquire a signal other than data and the same issue would happen after flashing to different ROMs.
So I reflashed RUU to revert back to stock and I still cannot make a call or send a text. What am I doing wrong? I have searched far and wide and lots of stuff, I don't understand about radio files but maybe those would help? I need some pretty noob proof advice/guides to be honest as I've been having trouble with all of this, and I like my phone, so it'd be nice if I could make calls and text again.
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try to reactivate the device. i am on cricket, so i have no idea how you do it for virgin. if that does not work... call customer support, it may be the phone
I have this weird reception problem. Every once in a while, my phone would enter this weird state. It looks normal as I see my phone has reception. However, people would complain that they try calling or texting me and I would receive nothing. During this same state, if I try calling others with my phone, the phone call application would freeze and no outgoing calls can be made. Also if I were to send a text, I would see a "sending" message and I know for sure the text won't be sent. The only fix is to reboot the phone to get proper reception and I would be able to receive incoming signal and make outgoing calls/texts. Is there a fix or explanation for this problem?
This problem existed on my phone for a while, for stock, AOKP (all stables) and CM (10.1 stable). I don't know if its a radio issue as I tried different radios.
I'm having a similar issue where I randomly can't send or receive calls even though it shows that the signal is just fine. A reboot fixes it.
At first I thought that it was the latest update to the ROM (Slim 7.5 weekly) and so I reverted back to 7 Official. It then happened again so I tried out the Carbon ROM...and it happened again so I went back to Slim but changed radios...and it just happened again so I'm trying a different kernel but I'm doubtful as they've had different kernels anyhow.
My guess is that it either has to do with hercules and 4.2.2 or just whatever commonalities which exist between the various non-TouchWiz ROMS. (if it keeps up though I'm going back to Embryo as it's TW-based and never had this problem)
Oh well, wish I could've offered a solution instead of the above but hopefully someone smart will come along and help.:laugh:
Where are you located and are you on T-Mobile? It could be tower work in your areas. I experience similar situations when they did the refarm and again during the LTE upgrades. Either way if you report signal problems they can have the towers checked where you are.
fsured said:
Where are you located and are you on T-Mobile? It could be tower work in your areas. I experience similar situations when they did the refarm and again during the LTE upgrades. Either way if you report signal problems they can have the towers checked where you are.
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On T-Mobile in Houston.
Aahz Pervect said:
On T-Mobile in Houston.
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It could be the work to tweak and expand the LTE in Houston. I know on my phone I get sending errors when I don't delete message threads that are huge. I'm talking about 1000+ txt to the same person with pictures etc. It's just more memory that the phone uses up to display all of that information. You could try deleting some old messages, after backing up anything you want to keep, and see if that helps.
I'm OCD about deleting messages but thank you for the tip.
There are two others in my household on my family plan who aren't experiencing the issues but they are both on completely stock ROMs.
if still having connectivity issues try this -Download terminal emulator and type the following command (or copy and paste)
cat /sys/devices/platform/msm_rpm/fw_version
If your output is 2.0.67419 then you don't need to Odin anything...if it isn't...then you need to update your firmware via Odin. 4.1.2 stock
I am in houston and I am experiencing the same problem. I think it could be related to the tower work.
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Here is usually what happened to me. I got into an area where there is low or no service, I tried to send a MMS and it would just stuck at Sending. Once I got back into the full bar area, the MMS is still stuck even though I can send text and get online. I have to delete the MMS, reboot and then I can send MMS fine. I don't make calls that often so I don't know if I can make a call when this happened (I am on a $30/mo walmart plan).
So it could be something in 4.2.2 and got hang up when there is no signal and never timeout so you would lose that functionally until you reboot. Who knows? I can't go back to 4.1.2 ROMs tho so I just reboot...
It's definitely nice to hear that it is happening to others as I've been tearing my hair out trying to figure out which component was messing up (ROM, radio, or kernel). I'd much rather it be them (T-Mobile) than me.
I went back to Embryo, which is TW-based and 4.1.2, just to give it one last go in case it is something with 4.2.2 but if it happens again I'll be back on either Slim or Carbon.
@fsured I sent you a PM back but it didn't look like it sent. Either way thank you for your help as well as everyone else.:highfive:
Hi there, this is my first post here.
I recently got a SGH-i747 phone, I believe it's AT&T from the US, I am in New Zealand and using it here with Spark NZ(Telecom), when I first boot the phone, I have full reception, the internet works fine, I can text, make calls, browse the web, but about 30 seconds to a minute later the connection drops to 0 and doesn't load anything.
When I do have signal, it looks as it should and has a 4G symbol.
Running stock 4.4.2, no custom recovery either. It was doing it with 4.3 too, so that's when I decided to update.
I'm at the point where I'll just list this thing for sale and buy a different phone, it's frustrating me a whole lot.
Thanks,
Sam
Edit: The home-screen image is when the internet works
DrowsySam said:
Hi there, this is my first post here.
I recently got a SGH-i747 phone, I believe it's AT&T from the US, I am in New Zealand and using it here with Spark NZ(Telecom), when I first boot the phone, I have full reception, the internet works fine, I can text, make calls, browse the web, but about 30 seconds to a minute later the connection drops to 0 and doesn't load anything.
When I do have signal, it looks as it should and has a 4G symbol.
Running stock 4.4.2, no custom recovery either. It was doing it with 4.3 too, so that's when I decided to update.
I'm at the point where I'll just list this thing for sale and buy a different phone, it's frustrating me a whole lot.
Thanks,
Sam
Edit: The home-screen image is when the internet works
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I am in same boat. When I get signal, everything is fine. Every 15-20minutes or so, for about 30 seconds, it is absolutely no signal (black triangle). And from battery screen, it appears, exactly at same interval. Did you get ur problem resolved? IF so, how
It's a known but not so known issue. It has to do with the radio interface layer, and our device maintainer at CM is looking into it.
What works for me is switching to 3G for a while (a few hours and a few reboots or so) then switching back to LTE. The problem should be fixed until you wipe /system for a new ROM.
I have a thread on the Q&A board detailing my frustrations.