Stock/no root Tmo Note 3, with latest nk3 firmware update (ota) , WiFi won't turn on. In notification panel you tap WiFi button and it hangs partially green but not fully bright green, doesn't connect. In settings slide button is grayish but no connection, won't slide to off just sits there not connecting. A restart will put switch back to off, mobile network works fine just can't get WiFi to start.
Sometimes it works after phone sits for a while. Basic apps installed no facebook app or weird games.
This condition started recently out of nowhere, no problems after ota back in November, phone has same case since new back in Oct/2013 , phone has not been dropped or dunked in toilet.
No flashing or root attempts, download mode and stock recovery can be accessed. Not looking to flash custom ROM, rooting is a possible option if needed to solve issue.
Pp.
same here bro
PanchoPlanet said:
Stock/no root Tmo Note 3, with latest nk3 firmware update (ota) , WiFi won't turn on. In notification panel you tap WiFi button and it hangs partially green but not fully bright green, doesn't connect. In settings slide button is grayish but no connection, won't slide to off just sits there not connecting. A restart will put switch back to off, mobile network works fine just can't get WiFi to start.
Sometimes it works after phone sits for a while. Basic apps installed no facebook app or weird games.
This condition started recently out of nowhere, no problems after ota back in November, phone has same case since new back in Oct/2013 , phone has not been dropped or dunked in toilet.
No flashing or root attempts, download mode and stock recovery can be accessed. Not looking to flash custom ROM, rooting is a possible option if needed to solve issue.
Pp.
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hey bro i have exactly the same problem , but my case is slightly different i am having this problem since i have rooted my phone now i just cant find any way to solve it , i just think its a hardware problem. if u come to find any solution plz dont forget to post it here. i am waiting for ur reply.
Will do that, been looking around but nothing yet, have read a bunch of stuff in Google, similar but not the same issue.
I'm suspecting the modem but have not attempted to flash or look for modem file yet.
Not sure if I'm going to find it here anyway, this Note 3 thread is the lamest thread here, I see a lot of questions asked here that go unanswered, I have asked questions in the past that got no response, and simply ones too.
I also follow the T-Mobile S4 thread and there you get a ton of activity but here, it's like pulling teeth.
Anyway I will post back for your sake if I figure out something.
Pp.
Tried reseting modem with this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=52735067
but still acting up now and then .
But toggling "airplane mode" on/off un-greys wifi button and it works smoothly.
Pp.
So, the device has always been stock, never been rooted or anything, never had any custom firmware on it? I am understanding this correctly? And that being the case, this means the device has also never had the data partition scrubbed?
Honestly, I would strongly recommend wiping the device and installing the NK3 firmware via odin. I'm not sure you are going to find a solution.
One thing you can do first, is root the device, and download the app "LogcatX".. open the app, run a logcat, then hit that wifi toggle. Save the logcat and post it here.
I highly doubt this is fixable without a re-install of the OS, however.
Good luck
I had considered root just for debloating purposes and re-flashin the firmware but with an update around the corner I can toggle airplane mode for a bit longer.
I like stock touchwiz and also need reliability from the phone so won't be considering a custom rom.
Pp.
Use Tweaked ROM. It's more reliable than stock.
Kind of funny, you mention you need reliability and because of that you won't root and install custom firmware. Yet, your device is bone stock and your WiFi is broken. Lol.
Think about it.
Wifi is just an extra, I rely more on my unlimited data plan and living in the metropolitan area LTE is always strong and plentiful. Wifi comes in handy when downloading huge files, pdf's and some large images (work related )
and using download boost. Wifi calling is handy also to have but haven't really needed it.
So it's nice to have working. But not the end of the world.
Pp.
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Hi,
First post, feels like I'm a little late to the party. I have a gio which initially had gingerbread 2.3.3. The phone is unlocked, and rooted, and has the clock work mod recovery patch on it. I have tried a couple of different versions of gingerbread, and am now running ice cream sandwich: kernel 2.6.35-7-galaxyics, CyanogenMod version build 9-20120610-UNOFFICIAL-gio, build number IMM76L.
Firmware-wise, it's mostly good, but I'm having a couple of weird issues:
1. The screen goes black on me periodically, and won't come back without pushing the on/off button. This is happening every 30 to 60 seconds of use.
2. The wifi crashes, a lot. With the older gingerbread I would get the word "error" under wifi in settings, and couldn't turn it back on. I would enter *#*#526#*#* to bring it back, but every 5 minutes seems a little excessive.
With the newer ICS, I've noticed I can play on a wifi link all day long without issue, but as soon as I set the phone down for a couple of minutes, wifi stops working. If I go into settings, wifi is on, but there's no connection. If I turn wifi off and back on, it comes back to life.
I guess, I'm wondering if these indicate more of a hardware issue than a software issue. It's hard to ask for support from my carrier, given I'm using an unlocked phone bought from a 3rd party, and have no contract.
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With the newer ICS, I've noticed I can play on a wifi link all day long without issue, but as soon as I set the phone down for a couple of minutes, wifi stops working. If I go into settings, wifi is on, but there's no connection. If I turn wifi off and back on, it's comes back to life
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I got that problem to sometime ,
And welcome !
send from my galaxy gio with paranoidAndroid Rom
Errors that you describe has a lot of people
The team is now working on ICS AOSP so be patient wait a little meringue as soon
And yet you propose to install something else that any CM
In total there is this quite a bit
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A couple of things I've noticed:
1. The resetting wifi problem does not happen when the phone is plugged into USB.
2. The screen turning off happens frequently, but about 1/2 of the time, the screen will turn off for 1-2 seconds, then come back on at full brightness; the rest of the time, it will not come back on at all, but still responds to being tapped. The only way to get it back is to push the on/off button on the side twice, but then the screen is locked, and has to be swiped to unlock.
I have picked up a second phone, a 5660M running stock gingerbread 2.3.4, unlocked and rooted; not experiencing either of the two above issues (and the camera preview works). If I could take the 5660 back to stock at this point, I would prefer that, as the phone is not usable with these problems. Is there a stock rom available for this phone somewhere?
update part II
Hmm, after the phone showed up with 2.3.3 claiming to be a gt-s5660, and was sold as such, I finally put 1 & 1 together. I checked under the battery, it's a gt-s5660m. That explains probably all of the problems I've been having. Pity there's no ICS build for the M version of the phone.
You can use cm9 ics on your M model, it only changes your device id to gt-s5660, just dont flash roms with ODIN except roms for the M model.
Flashing from recovery wont install a baseband, with ODIN it mostly does, so the only roms you cant flash are old roms that still need odin like gioprio.
Flashable .zips are fine, all of them
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The wifi problem might be hardware, m8
I don't know, as my gio has some strange problems as well and I've had ICS, Adrenaline ROMs, everything, and the problems still persist. At least they're not really bad to handle in everyday use but still, they're annoying.
Go to wifi settings - advanced - sleep policy- never
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update part III
Since going back to GINGERBREAD.MUGKG3 / 2.3.4 for the GT-S5660M, the wifi crashing and screen blanking behaviours have completely stopped. After two days of running, wifi has not shut-off unexpectedly even once, and the screen does not blank any more at all.
The gps works now; it was not before. It used to sit for up to an hour under a clear open sky, day or night, and never acquire a single satellite. Now it picks them up within 30-60 seconds, though a full lock does take a couple of minutes.
The phone previously always indicated it was roaming, and would frequently refuse to send texts or make calls. I would get full bars for signal strength, but no connectivity.
I even got hold of the fm radio app, which was not included with the M version of the 5660, and manually installed it (phone must be rooted, and file system must be mounted read/write). It works too; a nice bonus.
The camera works, but is a bit flaky, requiring an occasional restart to get it going.
Probably the biggest headache, after flashing back to the 5660M version, was that the phone locked itself again, and wouldn't work on my network. I dumped bml5 page and searched out the unlock code. I had some trouble with this. The search string to get close to the code is supposed to be a sequence of twenty 0x00 bytes, one 0x05 byte, and fourteen 0xff bytes. The 0xff bytes weren't there, and it took a while for me to clue in that if I searched on the twenty 0x00, and single 0x05 byte sequence, I could still pull it out. I got it, and wrote it down in case this happens again.
sms issue
Still ticking along with the GT-S5660M; mostly it's all working nicely. I have one question though: I recently ran out of memory for storing SMS messages. It looks like the texting app in the phone wants to put everything on the SIM card rather than on the SD card, but there's no option for moving the default storage location for messages. Is there a simple way to do this? The phone is unlocked & rooted, but does not have the ext2 file system on it.
What's the IC? I checked under the battery to confirm mine is a Canada model, and it is.
But my IC is GT-S5660L
Model: GT-S5660M
IC: GT-S5660L
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Peteragent5 said:
What's the IC? I checked under the battery to confirm mine is a Canada model, and it is.
But my IC is GT-S5660L
Model: GT-S5660M
IC: GT-S5660L
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Same, GTS5660L ... why do you ask?
I know that Verizon has been getting some flak for the 2.3.4 update having a push notifications bug, but it seems the problem might be extending a bit further.
I'm running Android 2.3.3 on my rooted R800x from Verizon, and it too is having push notification problems.
I've had the problem off and on for the past week or two, where my wifi and data connection bars will turn from green to white, and I'll stop receiving notifications for things like facebook, twitter, and email. Every few days it will turn back on, and I'll get tons of notifications all at once.
I can't even update the OS either OTA, or with the PC Companion tool (it keeps telling me it needs to be updated, but can't find the update, even though I downloaded it fresh from the Sony site) and my bootloader isn't unlocked, so I'm not sure if flashtool would work.
I have CWM installed using X-Parts from the market, so I was working a bit with it, and found out that if I clear the cache, and Dalvik cache, that the connection bars will turn green briefly when it boots up, but after a few minutes, will go back to white.
I really love this phone, and I'd rather not have to buy a new one. I'd also like to keep my data, but if it comes down to it, I'll do a factory reset.
sethfoxen said:
I know that Verizon has been getting some flak for the 2.3.4 update having a push notifications bug, but it seems the problem might be extending a bit further.
I'm running Android 2.3.3 on my rooted R800x from Verizon, and it too is having push notification problems.
I've had the problem off and on for the past week or two, where my wifi and data connection bars will turn from green to white, and I'll stop receiving notifications for things like facebook, twitter, and email. Every few days it will turn back on, and I'll get tons of notifications all at once.
I can't even update the OS either OTA, or with the PC Companion tool (it keeps telling me it needs to be updated, but can't find the update, even though I downloaded it fresh from the Sony site) and my bootloader isn't unlocked, so I'm not sure if flashtool would work.
I have CWM installed using X-Parts from the market, so I was working a bit with it, and found out that if I clear the cache, and Dalvik cache, that the connection bars will turn green briefly when it boots up, but after a few minutes, will go back to white.
I really love this phone, and I'd rather not have to buy a new one. I'd also like to keep my data, but if it comes down to it, I'll do a factory reset.
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White 3G/WiFi/Signal Bars indicates google services have been interrupted. If you have really bad service in your area that may be the cause. 2.3.4 broke Gtalk so all push notifications will no longer work. I would occasionally come across this problem on 2.3.3 from time to time, usually in not so good areas, I fixed it by turning air plane mode on and then off. But that is just a temporary fix. I've been using Cola rom for quiet some time now and I've yet to get white 3G/WiFi/Signal, the only time these are white is when I'm completely out of service (areas @ work) so this leads me to believe that 2.3.3 Verizon Stock ROM is flawed.
I'd suggest Cola.
Xperia Player said:
White 3G/WiFi/Signal Bars indicates google services have been interrupted. If you have really bad service in your area that may be the cause. 2.3.4 broke Gtalk so all push notifications will no longer work. I would occasionally come across this problem on 2.3.3 from time to time, usually in not so good areas, I fixed it by turning air plane mode on and then off. But that is just a temporary fix. I've been using Cola rom for quiet some time now and I've yet to get white 3G/WiFi/Signal, the only time these are white is when I'm completely out of service (areas @ work) so this leads me to believe that 2.3.3 Verizon Stock ROM is flawed.
I'd suggest Cola.
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The problem is that I've been having this problem even at home, on wifi. Getting full bars on both wifi and data, and they're still white.
I'd LOVE to use a different rom, like Cola, or Cyanogen, but how would I do that with a locked bootloaded? Or is there some way to unlock it now? I haven't really been up to date, but the last time I searched, I found a solution that you needed to pay for to unlock it.
sethfoxen said:
The problem is that I've been having this problem even at home, on wifi. Getting full bars on both wifi and data, and they're still white.
I'd LOVE to use a different rom, like Cola, or Cyanogen, but how would I do that with a locked bootloaded? Or is there some way to unlock it now? I haven't really been up to date, but the last time I searched, I found a solution that you needed to pay for to unlock it.
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The unlocking method just became free, don't ask me how to do it because I payed to get mine unlocked, cola does not require you to have an unlocked bootloader that is (one of the reasons) why I recommend it.
Xperia Player said:
The unlocking method just became free, don't ask me how to do it because I payed to get mine unlocked, cola does not require you to have an unlocked bootloader that is (one of the reasons) why I recommend it.
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Ah, thank you so much, I'll look into unlocking soon.
Though, I WOULD like to point out that I think I fixed the problem.
I've been getting the "Low Storage" notification ever since this problem started, so I moved a few apps to the SD card, uninstalled some, and now it's back up, connected, and syncing my emails and stuff now.
Don't really know why storage would matter...but I guess it does.
sethfoxen said:
Ah, thank you so much, I'll look into unlocking soon.
Though, I WOULD like to point out that I think I fixed the problem.
I've been getting the "Low Storage" notification ever since this problem started, so I moved a few apps to the SD card, uninstalled some, and now it's back up, connected, and syncing my emails and stuff now.
Don't really know why storage would matter...but I guess it does.
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I've never got that notification before...
I have tried to find the older 4.1.1 firmware on sammobile for my phone to revert back but so far no luck. Have these been pulled? Search only brings up the latest firmware under the "firmware" section. EDIT: Found the download, you have to manually pick your device from the list. This thread is only a rant at this point.
Problems with 4.1.2 on my phone include:
Battery life decreased by 20%
Touch screen is less sensitive
After going into sleep, wifi doesn't transmit data properly.
The wifi issue is especially annoying. After the phone wakes up and I pull up a browser it is stuck trying to load. I need to wait one minute until it times out, then it starts working again. Wifi is set to always stay awake. Didn't have this problem on 4.1.1. I'd almost rather risk sudden death than having to deal with these issues. I use(d) my Note 2 for work and now it has become a major nuisance to mess with the wifi every time I close the screen and wake up again. Really disappointed, factory reset did nothing to resolve any of the issues and on top of that I lost all my user data..
Ever since I use the Llama app (Location Aware Mobile Application)on my i9195 (Carbon ROM 4.4.2) I have the problem that Llama doesn't receive cell tower information when the screen is turned off. This is a major feature of the app, which doesn't work. I activated the active cell polling, wake up during sleep etc, but the only thing working is to activate the screen during every poll, which is not favorable of course.
The thing is, that with my previous Huawei Y300, with stock ROM 4.1.2 it worked flawlessly without having to enable all the extra (battery consuming) settings. Unfortunately I don't know if the stock Samsung ROM didn't have this bad behavior since I booted the original ROM only once to enable root, in order to instal CWM recovery
Would this be a ROM issue or device issue? Too bad this is my first post here and therefore I can't post in the dev. section of Carbon ROM on this website :crying:
Has nobody issues with Llama on this device/ROM? The location awareness is really adding something to the use of the phone. Really too bad that I have to turn the screen on, before Llama realizes that I am at another location.
I love Llama, it's a great app which allows me to set it and forget it. I love not having to remember to turn radios on/off, muting phone at college or work.
I had to uninstall it because I switched carriers, and with the new one I keep getting "1-1-1-1 No signal" on the Recent towers tab. It's intermittent (once every detected tower) and it had my profiles going nuts.
I also was experiencing issues where my phone would freeze until it forced a reboot almost every time I got back home.
Sounds like your current ROM might be to blame. I suggest you try Llama with the stock rom. I for one prefer stock with Action Launcher. You might lose the added features of the custom ROM, but at least Samsung's camera interface is way better than AOSP, at least to my taste and needs.
JoeCastellon said:
I love Llama, it's a great app which allows me to set it and forget it. I love not having to remember to turn radios on/off, muting phone at college or work.
I had to uninstall it because I switched carriers, and with the new one I keep getting "1-1-1-1 No signal" on the Recent towers tab. It's intermittent (once every detected tower) and it had my profiles going nuts.
I also was experiencing issues where my phone would freeze until it forced a reboot almost every time I got back home.
Sounds like your current ROM might be to blame. I suggest you try Llama with the stock rom. I for one prefer stock with Action Launcher. You might lose the added features of the custom ROM, but at least Samsung's camera interface is way better than AOSP, at least to my taste and needs.
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Thanks, luckily I don't have any of your issues so far, only the cell tower updates being delayed until the screen turns on. A few posts away from now I can ask the question in the specific ROM forum and see if they can fix it.I love the ROM and don't like the Samsung layer of the original stock ROM.
In the meantime the cell tower option has been added to the Carbon rom!
TF-101 & S4-mini i9195
If this has already been addressed in a separate thread I apologize. I am having a few issues with my Galaxy S6 Edge. A bit of history: I had version 5.01 when I got the phone and the memory management was unbearable. I rooted it using Pingpong root until version 5.1.1. came out. I then used Odin to put a stock image back on and upgraded via the OTA. I now realize that was a terrible idea because PingPong root no longer works.
1) After updating to version 5.1.1. the memory management problem is gone. It no longer slows to a crawl if I have more than one application open. Great! But the new problem is when I am at home or work and on Wifi everything works fine. However, when I leave the building and go outside it SHOULD switch to mobile data but it doesn't. It just sits there searching. I have to reboot the phone and then, magically, it gets a signal. Then it's fine until I connect to Wifi again and then leave. Airplane mode doesn't work. Only rebooting. Note - I have a T-mobile supplied signal booster at home since I have no signal there. So unfortunately turning off Wifi calling isn't an option.
2) and 3) The other two issues aren't a glitch but a feature that I can't stand. The first is everytime the phone is rebooted the bluetooth volume goes back to the middle and gives me a warning that loud music will damage my ears. Normally I would just increase the volume on my car stereo and leave it alone but then everything else (i.e. The radio) is then way too loud. I wouldn't care so much except I have to keep rebooting my phone because of issue #1.
The other thing is Samsung Music. Everytime I connect via bluetooth Samsung music starts automatically. I don't want to use Samsung music. But there is no way to disable it. When I had root I turned it off that way. But now that I'm non-rooted I'm stuck.
I would be more than happy to root again except I can't find a root that will work with the newer 5.1.1.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.