Develop Bugs

Rooted Kernels and Loss of Service

We're trying to determine the "root" (pun intended) of the problem so if you wanna come in here and start a fight go find a local bar to do so. We need to try and locate the source of the problem so either post something useful or walk away.
There seems to be some confusion and I dont know if its being ignored or what but theres an issue with these kernels that needs to be looked into further before new ones continue to be released.
Theres an obvious problem for a good amount of people and everytime I look I see comments that there isnt a problem. So heres everything I could quickly find regarding it.
Now Im not trying to be a **** about this but I dont get how the issue is unheard of when its one of the biggest topics in this section. And so we're clear, this is happening in ALL kernels. Unfortunately its been more profound in Zedos because it seems more people went with his method.
All Im asking is before more and more kernels are released that someone at least acknowledge the problem and see if it can be addressed before more and more people root and start complaining because they were told there was no LO.S. bug
zedomax said:
data drop? dunno about that, this shizzle will not drop. It's ZEDOMAX!
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zedomax said:
jump and we will find out. no they should be worked out. there was no data loss kinks in da first place, where did u get that?
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joetemp75 said:
Man I was fine then I flashed v5 and got the no signal issue
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SupahDave said:
Everything seemed to be fine last night but today I've had 4 separate times now where my phone has lost signal all together and needed to be rebooted to get phone/data back. When this has happened I tried going into About-->Status to see if I could see anything odd and I kept getting a FC of com.android.phone
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jimbobtexas said:
I did. No love. I'm without a signal, period.
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MILH0U5E said:
Got the no signal issue here too. I put it in airplane mode overnight and upon waking this morning the no signal circle was there. I had to do a reboot to get 3g and cell signal back.
Looking forward to seeing this process develop.
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wbyrd said:
Yeah this just happened to me too, everything was fine this morning then I played a game of solitaire and after going back to my home screen I saw the circle. Rebooted phone and everything came back on. It's possible that the circle was there before I played the game of solitaire but I didn't notice until right after I quit playing.
Hopefully it gets straightened out soon. At least rebooting fixes the problem, I can handle rebooting for a little while if needed.
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plmiller0905 said:
I can't really deal with the issue of having no service. My daughter has a heart issue and can't afford to miss a call. It's not like I walk around all day literally looking at my phone's screen seeing if I have service or not.
I did reboot...so like your's my service is back up.
But I definitely hope this gets fixed soon. I'd rather have root with broken heptic feedback than the inability to receive calls.
But I'm sure the Op the get it fixed...
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volwrath said:
I've had a dead call issue and also tday my radios were just dead and there was a circle in the middle of the notification barr. A reboot fixed the issues each time, but I think it might be a problem. I thing newer kernels will also fix said issues. Still very satisfied
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JLine05 said:
I am having the issue of the phone (voice) and sms not working. Strange because everything else is working fine. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks.
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mcflargen said:
Still seems to have the data drop issue. Popped it on the second u dropped it, was great till a min ago. least a "restart" fixes it.
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joetemp75 said:
Man I just lost data again. This sucks
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kindaskimpy said:
I'm giving this one a try because with the zedomax kernel I kept losing 3G and CDMA calling and not even noticing it unless someone told me they'd been trying to reach me for hours. A quick reboot would solve the issue but then it would happen again.
I'll report back and let you guys know if this one is giving me the same issue.
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bbedward said:
I did this one because losing service on the other one, haven't lost it yet but its only been a couple hours
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fordmanck said:
I tried both, i'm back on this one. I lost service with zedos twice and haven't on this at all.
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Telling you right now someone is going to come in here and go "this belongs in General" then a mod will move your thread and deduct 5 points from something, not sure...but just a heads up

I also see a lot of people having issues, but I'm now on day 2 of flashing Zedo V1 and have yet to experience any of these issues. Not sure what I did different, but everything just works... The only thing I did was after rooting was getting my MSL from Sprint and erased the proxy servers in the ##3282 menu.
EDIT: Ok, I just lost service 1 1/2 day after rooting... Bug finally hit me..

I dont mind it being moved and I have no clue what the deduction in "points" does but I'll deal with it.
Now Im getting much better battery but I know people are still losing service on the new OC kernel. My roommate happens to be on e the unlucky ones.

Man...thanks for posting this. Hopefully the mod doesn't close this thread. This definitely is a concern and a serious matter. I don't care if these kernels are, "use at your own risk" these kernels should've been listed as betas, and/or the bugs should've been listed and further testing should have been. If those steps were taken, I bet a lot of people would've held back from flashing them. I know I would have.
Shabby posted this earlier in the other thread (post 160):
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267762&page=16
One thing that got to me was this morning I woke up, hoping to see a stock kernel and/or a way to return to stock. And instead, I see a new overclockable kernel. To me that's just not right. I think that you have to prioritize. That's like putting out a rom that has all data broke. Then instead of fixing it, you put out another rom...while disregarding the issues with the first rom. At least acknowledge the issue and let everyone know it's been worked on....don't just blow it off.
I know some of the devs over in the Evo forums was good about this....if something went haywire with one of their roms or mods...they were all on top of it to get the issue fixed and they also communicated with posting updates on the matter.
Like I said, hopefully the mods don't close this.
I'm definately gonna follow this thread...thanks Wingzfan

i rooted yesterday using zedomax method, did the OC kernel last night.. havent had any issues so far ..

plmiller0905 said:
Shabby posted this earlier in the other thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267762&page=16
post 160
I'm definately gonna follow this thread...thanks Wingzfan
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Bubby does have the stock kernel pulled. I was testing it till 1:30 in the morning but he's gotta recompile it. It was bootlooping so today thats his first order of business.
As for the kernels, I flashed it by choice. I dont blame the devs for ANYTHING, Im just saying acknowledge theres a bug and lets see how to resolve it.

I've been reading through the rooted kernel threads as well prior to jumping on the root wagon and have seen several people mention that they are not rooted and have experienced the loss of service so it seems that the issue may not be exclusive to the rooted kernels...possibly a Samsung bug?

Very possible which is why im hoping we can get an idea of how man people are rooted vs non rooted having it. Now the only thing is I cant find any complaints online about nonrooted phones doing it except a few here and youd think it'd be widely discussed
Sent from a Galaxy far far away...

OrygunGal said:
I've been reading through the rooted kernel threads as well prior to jumping on the root wagon and have seen several people mention that they are not rooted and have experienced the loss of service so it seems that the issue may not be exclusive to the rooted kernels...possibly a Samsung bug?
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Yeah...I read those too. However, I never lost any service at home with any android phone I've owned..Nexus S 4g, all Evo's, Epics etc. Then today I wake up and I have no service....maybe it is a samsung bug, but I'd rather return to stock myself to see if the issue was still there.

Stocks on its way i promise. Probly tonight actually. Bubby was really close last night. Once we get that Id be curious to see what happens.
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wingzfan said:
Stocks on its way i promise. Probly tonight actually. Bubby was really close last night. Once we get that Id be curious to see what happens.
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Sounds good...can't wait
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This is an issue that started with mine also yesterday. But not only did I lose data but gps also. A reboot fixed it but I would like to know whats going on. I just came from the evo 3d and there was an issue that had to do with the prl so I am going to give that a shot with the 11115 prl that fixed the evo. Will post back with the results later today.

On V5, Ive only had the loss of data once in about 12 hours, versus about 3 times on Zedo V1.
I also did http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=17703908&postcount=11 for the hell of it to see if that helped (even though I got it at a sprint store)

For the record:
A) People have reported this issue even on the stock kernel. It is not clear where the cause is.
B) For kicks (and because it cannot hurt) I did the whole profile/PRL update thing that someone suggested. Be it luck or real benefit, I have no had the issue since.

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Very possible which is why im hoping we can get an idea of how man people are rooted vs non rooted having it. Now the only thing is I cant find any complaints online about nonrooted phones doing it except a few here and youd think it'd be widely discussed
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I would think it would be widely discussed as well so that seems odd. I'm waiting to see what evolves or at least for stock kernel (an undo) before flashing a rooted one. I don't have TEP.

It's still a bit early for the issue to be too widely discussed.

dmarden said:
For the record:
A) People have reported this issue even on the stock kernel. It is not clear where the cause is.
B) For kicks (and because it cannot hurt) I did the whole profile/PRL update thing that someone suggested. Be it luck or real benefit, I have no had the issue since.
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Nice. I was told by a helpful Sprint cust. serv. rep. a while back that you should update your PRL & Profile when you go into a new area (tavel, move, or even long commute to work) regardless of which phone you have. I would think unboxing your phone would qualify as well. It sure couldn't hurt.
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It's still a bit early for the issue to be too widely discussed.
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Good point. Many people would not likely research on the web/forums, instead they'd likely address the issue directly with Sprint.

plmiller0905 said:
Yeah...I read those too. However, I never lost any service at home with any android phone I've owned..Nexus S 4g, all Evo's, Epics etc. Then today I wake up and I have no service....maybe it is a samsung bug, but I'd rather return to stock myself to see if the issue was still there.
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Ever owned a Samsung phone before?
This is my 3rd one and I swore after the last one Id never buy a Samsung phone again but I got sucked back in. Samsung is notorious for shipping phones with all kinds of bugs that should be considered showstoppers then pushing out fixes months later.
It would not surprise me at all if that was the case here. I am one of the ones having this issue and I am not rooted. Ive lost data several times after hanging up a call. The data never restores and I have to toggle 3G to get it come back.
I dont think this is a kernel issue. I think its something to do with the rest of the OS, either that or the kernel is a different problem thats just acting the same way.

Ok thats what i was hoping to find is nonrooted and rooted people who are having the issue. Now on my moment this issue was huge so i went to htc and maybe thats the case again. Maybe sammy dropped the ball again. Question is what can be done about it.
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Reporting Loss of Signal Issue Samsung Epic Touch Rally

If you are an Epic Touch user that is experiencing the LOS (Loss of Signal) issue please click on the link below and report in that thread with Sprint.
http://community.sprint.com/baw/message/339779
If you do end up posting on the Sprint site please do post in this thread as well...
Also it was just pointed out that there also is a Samsung support Twitter @ www.twitter.com/samsungsupport
(Please also contact there if you experience LOS)
If you would like to follow this up with a call to tech support, it will help. Try and get transferred to advanced tech support.
This needs to happen from as many people experiencing this as possible!
Don't be lazy!
Thx!

There is another thread 11 down from this one(and multiple other ones further in the forum). The search button works wonders if you use it :-D
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graffixnyc said:
There is another thread 11 down from this one(and multiple other ones further in the forum). The search button works wonders if you use it :-D
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I don't think those other threads were specifically aimed at getting people to do this

I have been told by a reliable source that sprint is aware there is an issue and their engineers are working diligently to find a fix.
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graffixnyc said:
There is another thread 11 down from this one(and multiple other ones further in the forum). The search button works wonders if you use it :-D
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Anything is better than "is our phone compatible with random tech blog rumor" threads.
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kingsway8605 said:
I have been told by a reliable source that sprint is aware there is an issue and their engineers are working diligently to find a fix.
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I hope your reliable source wasn't a Sprint CSR.
Those of us coming from the Moment were constantly being told that by Sprint regarding the radio lock up issue. They never did fix it. It wasn't until the devs at SDX got 2.2 onto the phone that the issue went away.

I have also found that tweeting complaints to www.twitter.com/samsungsupport during business hours will get a quick response, which results in escalation of real issues.

adma84 said:
I have also found that tweeting complaints to www.twitter.com/samsungsupport during business hours will get a quick response, which results in escalation of real issues.
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Nice find! Thx!

i just got off the phone with sprint and they told me that samsung pushed an update on friday to fix a delay in receiving text messages which has borked the internal antenna. that would explain why i only started having problems yesterday.... sprint will give you a ticket number and they will fix your phone for free at a store.
call up and get it fixed.
its only going to get worse!

dtr145r said:
i just got off the phone with sprint and they told me that samsung pushed an update on friday to fix a delay in receiving text messages which has borked the internal antenna. that would explain why i only started having problems yesterday.... sprint will give you a ticket number and they will fix your phone for free at a store.
call up and get it fixed.
its only going to get worse!
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This is false. The issue has been going long since before Friday.
It will be fixed in the first update though.

... and here I was thinking about exchanging my 3D for a GS2... it seems the signal problems are widespread to all phones. :/

Droga said:
... and here I was thinking about exchanging my 3D for a GS2... it seems the signal problems are widespread to all phones. :/
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Its not a showstopper and it doesnt happen on all devices. So if it happens when you get it use your 30 swap to get a new replacement. It hasnt happened on mine at all. Also there is going to be a fix... So, with all of that said I cannot think of a single thing that should cause anyone to decide not to get this and choose another phone. Thx

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Its not a showstopper and it doesnt happen on all devices. So if it happens when you get it use your 30 swap to get a new replacement.
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It is a 14-day swap unless you bought your device pre-launch.

This is a total show stopper, I have 2 of these and they both do it constantly. I cant even surf for more then 10 minutes without it happening to both units. I cant make calls, I cant receive calls, cant go online, cant use streaming music, cant use navigation. total waste at this point. I love the phone physically and its great when on WiFi but that's only 1/4 of the day. I am not taking a chance of getting stuck with a phone that I cant even make calls on. maybe I will try again once everything gets fixed but for now its not worth the trouble.

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This is a total show stopper, I have 2 of these and they both do it constantly. I cant even surf for more then 10 minutes without it happening to both units. I cant make calls, I cant receive calls, cant go online, cant use streaming music, cant use navigation. total waste at this point. I love the phone physically and its great when on WiFi but that's only 1/4 of the day. I am not taking a chance of getting stuck with a phone that I cant even make calls on. maybe I will try again once everything gets fixed but for now its not worth the trouble.
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You have something seriously wrong with yours then. I've had mine since launch and it's done it twice. You should exchange yours.

I rooted my phone and got this for the first time the next day. Hasn't happened before that. Didn't even know what you guys were seeing until it happened. I just got a zero with a line across the middle of it in my top bar and my signal bar and data icon were gone.
Is that what people are getting also that have not rooted their phone? When I say not rooted, not the people who rooted then installed the stock kernal back on. People who never rooted in the first place. That is what I would like to know.

Mine did it once before rooting, once after.
And yes, it happened just like you described. I thought rooting and flashing Zedo v3 fixed it, but it didn't.

clamknuckle said:
Mine did it once before rooting, once after.
And yes, it happened just like you described. I thought rooting and flashing Zedo v3 fixed it, but it didn't.
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Cool, I hope it is device problem and not just a rooting problem. This way we can get a fix for it from Samsung, hopefully.

I have it on good authority it will be fixed in the first software update from Sprint. No idea when that will be though. It's not a rooting problem.

[Q] New SGH T989 calling issues?

I bought this phone on sale at WalMart about 3 weeks ago to replace my HTC Mytouch 4G, which has been a great phone but I thought it was time for an upgrade. So far I'm not too impressed, and several times I've had an issue when I make a call that no one can hear anything. It shows it's dialing, then connected and I hear nothing. If I call back it usually will remedy itself, but not always. The other day I called my sister back after the first time of no audio, and I could hear her but she could not hear me.
This has happened about 5 to 7 times in the last 3 weeks, but it's unacceptable to me. I don't want to root the phone and run a custom ROM at this time since the phone still has a warranty, but I have a feeling it's the software, not a hardware problem. Is it a known problem with 4.04?
Also, the voice recognition on this thing is terrible! I drive a truck for a living and use my Plantronics Voyager Pro exclusively, and I have to use voice command or take my eyes off the road. I can't get this thing to recognize half of what I ask it to do. My HTC was pretty good at that, too!
I really had some expectations with this phone, and it is a nice one in many respects, but it's faults are driving me crazy!

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I bought this phone on sale at WalMart about 3 weeks ago to replace my HTC Mytouch 4G, which has been a great phone but I thought it was time for an upgrade. So far I'm not too impressed, and several times I've had an issue when I make a call that no one can hear anything. It shows it's dialing, then connected and I hear nothing. If I call back it usually will remedy itself, but not always. The other day I called my sister back after the first time of no audio, and I could hear her but she could not hear me.
This has happened about 5 to 7 times in the last 3 weeks, but it's unacceptable to me. I don't want to root the phone and run a custom ROM at this time since the phone still has a warranty, but I have a feeling it's the software, not a hardware problem. Is it a known problem with 4.04?
Also, the voice recognition on this thing is terrible! I drive a truck for a living and use my Plantronics Voyager Pro exclusively, and I have to use voice command or take my eyes off the road. I can't get this thing to recognize half of what I ask it to do. My HTC was pretty good at that, too!
I really had some expectations with this phone, and it is a nice one in many respects, but it's faults are driving me crazy!
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Why didn't u get the s3?
Anyways, there shouldn't be any calling issues. T989 is a pretty popular phone and wouldn't be if it did not successfully make calls imho. As for voice recognition... guess HTC is better for your voice? Again mine works fine. Idk... this phone is pretty baddass
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bzlik88 said:
Why didn't u get the s3?
Anyways, there shouldn't be any calling issues. T989 is a pretty popular phone and wouldn't be if it did not successfully make calls imho. As for voice recognition... guess HTC is better for your voice? Again mine works fine. Idk... this phone is pretty baddass
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The SII was $299 on sale, the SIII was about $699 without contract....

Having the same problem also with the call connected, but can't hear anything.

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Having the same problem also with the call connected, but can't hear anything.
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I knew I wasn't alone!

This happens to me sometimes actually, but it only happens when I am connected to WIFI calling. Does not happen when on the network.
Its possible that your losing a 4G connection or its a weak signal when you answer the call?
Either way, when it happens to me, I battery pull and then it works again.

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This happens to me sometimes actually, but it only happens when I am connected to WIFI calling. Does not happen when on the network.
Its possible that your losing a 4G connection or its a weak signal when you answer the call?
Either way, when it happens to me, I battery pull and then it works again.
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I was thinking of the WiFi calling may cause the connection issue before, so I only turn on WiFi connection at home, but didn't help. Also, it only happens after update to ICS. It happens randomly quite often and I have to use apps (i.e. Tango, Line, etc.) to make call instead. I was outdoor with full signal and 4G.
Too lazy to pull battery because of the protective case. Reboot wouldn't help either

My family has two galaxy s2 and blaze phones and all experience same issues. And that to with no WiFi and in DFW metroplex. It looks like Samsung and T-mobile issue to me because I don't see any ATT side complaint on this.
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My girlfriend and I both began having these issues with the 4.0.4 update, and never before that. It's awful, because it's so sporadic.
Edit: I never use wifi calling, and it happens both when connected to wifi and when far away from wifi, with it on and off.
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I've seen multiple people with this issue in some of the custom rom threads. This didn't happen to me on 4.03, but it does on 4.04 based roms. It seems to happen with or without wifi calling.
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ditto
I been having the same problems. stock or multiple custom ROMs. wifi-calling or no.
thought it was the wifi calling function at first, but verified that even on tmo signal and my family been having the same problems...
I've heard of people calling TMobile for support but leads to nowhere. I'ma try calling too and see what i can find out. will post with any news.

And here I was thinking it was a Rom issue. I have literally installed every Rom this morning and tested to see if the issue remained. It has happened with every one of the Roms which led me to think it was a HW issue. It seems to happen more often when my signal is weak. I have tried all the of the Radios too. Im not sure when the issue started but its very consistent with my phone. I have to try 7-8 times EVERY call to finally talk to the person. I normally just switch to my work phone or send a text.

Same problem, on both stock and custom. Must be a t-mobile thing.

So what do we do? Should we all call T-Mobile? Maybe if enough of us call, they will actually look into it.

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The SII was $299 on sale, the SIII was about $699 without contract....
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I also just made the identical decision (also choosing the SII over the Nexus 4 16GB—call me crazy). I seriously hope I don't have this problem... Setting up the phone now.

Most likely T-Mobile won't help. It's weird though that this only happened on the GS II. The GS I and GNex don't have this problem...

Me and my mom have this phone she is stock but we both have had this same issue lately and its been on 4.0.4 has anyone tried another radio to see if that's it? Maybe the new uvli1 will be better
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I sign in only to tell how I fix my problem with calling I root and flash Jedi Mind Trick ROM for T-Mobile Galaxy S2 SGH-T989! [X1] and RADIO SGH-T989 UVLE1 (T-Mobile) 4.0.3 . The problem is fix after a few nights no sleep and a lot flashing

style154 said:
Me and my mom have this phone she is stock but we both have had this same issue lately and its been on 4.0.4 has anyone tried another radio to see if that's it? Maybe the new uvli1 will be better
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I've tried all available radios except uvli1. I don't think it's a radio issue. I'm pretty sure it's 4.0.4. I've tried a few 4.0.3 roms and they seem fine so far.
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I've tried all available radios except uvli1. I don't think it's a radio issue. I'm pretty sure it's 4.0.4. I've tried a few 4.0.3 roms and they seem fine so far.
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Do you have a link to uvli1? I'd like to rule it out
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Hmm wonder what it could be no its not out yet. Rushaoz is extracting it from his phone maybe we should ask him if he has had issues because Tmobile said they won't release the uvli1 update it will only come on new phones I feel somewhat cheated
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sprint outage error 67 info

If you are unlucky enough to have the current data outage situation - open ticket IM1579732 - I have spoken to Cus Serv just now and find that many impacted users have had their accounts repaired and you may have the ability to reacquire the network via a profile update.
However the ticket is still open and for the rest of us we are currently awaiting full completion of the work which is estimated to be done by tomorrow evening at 6:30 pm central time.
If you have had this problem, are you a business/corporate customer? I am and my friends with Galaxy S3's on normal accounts are not affected..

That's surprising because I'm having the best service since well forever today
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I'm in 08054 in NJ. I've had crappy data all day. Google News only loads a fraction of the time. I did get a signal and did a Profile and PRL update around 2pm, but I'll try again. It didn't seem to do much or rather made it worse.

gtuansdiamm said:
That's surprising because I'm having the best service since well forever today
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Probably because nobody else can connect to data services in your area lol.
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My data and text is down. This is day 5.... you just dont know....sprint can kiss my @$$ as of right now

blackte4 said:
My data and text is down. This is day 5.... you just dont know....sprint can kiss my @$$ as of right now
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Wow. Yeah, that's just ridiculous. I might visit the store and get a pro-rate for something like that. At least pitch a *****.

I've been having Max bars all day in a place I would be lucky to have any bars
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No issues here at all any day
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I would like to thank QBKing77 for the unroot video and the binary reset. I got a 4100 credit plus a brand new GS3 pebble blue. Im in Washington,DC and seem to be the only one with this problem.

blackte4 said:
I would like to thank QBKing77 for the unroot video and the binary reset. I got a 4100 credit plus a brand new GS3 pebble blue. Im in Washington,DC and seem to be the only one with this problem.
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are you saying a new phone solved this for you?

Only issue I have is not being able to send mms over 3g
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I got a new s 3 out of it which is good considring my old one had a cracked screen they changed the radio still no go so they gave me a new one xD
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chrisWbush, glad you were able to get resolution! For me, I was told on Monday to take my phone to the service center - which I did - they ended up keeping my phone for 9 hours. They tried to put another S3 on my account to activate but that would not even work. So right now there appears to be a provisioning backlog where new activations are waiting. Maybe today..

As soon as my new s3 came the old one started to work. 20 texts messages popped up. I'm keeping my old one. I don't like refurbished phones. My old one is great and no drops.
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It was fun to root again. That binary count thing rest was great. My friend at sprint was shocked to see it at 0. He know I root every android device I get my hands.

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chrisWbush, glad you were able to get resolution! For me, I was told on Monday to take my phone to the service center - which I did - they ended up keeping my phone for 9 hours. They tried to put another S3 on my account to activate but that would not even work. So right now there appears to be a provisioning backlog where new activations are waiting. Maybe today..
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blackte4 said:
As soon as my new s3 came the old one started to work. 20 texts messages popped up. I'm keeping my old one. I don't like refurbished phones. My old one is great and no drops.
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It was fun to root again. That binary count thing rest was great. My friend at sprint was shocked to see it at 0. He know I root every android device I get my hands.
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Yeah my old one started working when my new one came in but in the end I switched only problem is power button sticks once every few hours annoying but I really don't want to go back to the store and deal with them again
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[Q] Noise coming from the back of the phone

Hi guys.
I own a G3 32GB International/Unlocked from about a week or so. At first I ran the 4.4.2 stock firmware, until two days ago I was prompted to install the v20e lolipop update, stock too. At first it seemed a bit laggy, especially in the home screen. Yesterday I performed a factory reset, and so far, with half of the apps I used to have, it seems to be working a bit better, hopefully. [That's a brief intro just in case, lol]
So, onto the matter. A couple of hours ago I noticed some static noise coming from the back of my phone, mainly around the power/volume buttons. I hear it when I bring the phone close to my ear, otherwise I don't. When the screen is off, it's either way too quiet, gone at all, or there's a slight repetative clicking sound(maybe from the camera but I kind of doubt that). But my main concerns are when the screen is on - that's when the noise is louder and constant(still have to bring my phone to the ear to hear it, though). Furthermore, whenever I do something on the screen - i.e. sliding, opening an app, etc. - I start hearing this "working mechanism" sound(I couldn't think of a better way to describe it atm), until I stop doing anything - then it just resumes to the constant static noise. My question is - is this harmful to the device? If so, what do I do? Should I worry about this? Has anyone else experienced this "working mechanism" sound when using the phone? What have they done to fix it, if they have?
P.S. - The last thing I remember doing before I noticed the noises is copying most of my old photos and music from my PC to the internal storage. Around 1-2 gigs.
P.P.S. - The sound sliiiiightly resembles a hard drive I think.

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Hardrive-type squeal/whir from back of G3
I'm having the same issues!
I have a very sensitive ear so my LG G3 is giving me a headache at the moment.
My phone is brand new--it has been out of the box for a few days, got a full charge, was activated/powered on Dec. 24th at around 11:30pm. So it's been in use less than 2 days. I have hardly any software/apps aside from stock installed at the moment.
I did install two apps this morning before the noise started, so they might be the main cause.
The sound is very much like a tiny hard drive, so I'm thinking maybe one or both of the new apps are running in the background and beating up the poor phone. Just not sure if this is normal for the G3 or not?
Right now I'm having trouble putting up with the sound while typing so I hope there is a way to quiet it down

Hope this helps. I owned my g3 for a few months now. When i first got it. Ive heard the noise. It dosent bother me tho. But that sounds like the cpu going. Then again coud be the ssd. So far i have not had any issues with the phone

LASERWOLF452 said:
Hope this helps. I owned my g3 for a few months now. When i first got it. Ive heard the noise. It dosent bother me tho. But that sounds like the cpu going. Then again coud be the ssd. So far i have not had any issues with the phone
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I really hope that there's nothing wrong with the phone and that this is sonething normal. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.

Atinon said:
I really hope that there's nothing wrong with the phone and that this is sonething normal. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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you are welcome, if something dose happen to my phone, i will come on here to let people know, like i said so far mine is running fine without problems

LASERWOLF452 said:
you are welcome, if something dose happen to my phone, i will come on here to let people know, like i said so far mine is running fine without problems
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thank god some else is having this i thought i was going insane. laserwolf452 sense it has been a few months have you noticed a change and is your phone still working fine
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Atinon said:
I really hope that there's nothing wrong with the phone and that this is sonething normal. Thanks for sharing your thoughts.
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have you had any issues?

phonegeek1998 said:
thank god some else is having this i thought i was going insane. laserwolf452 sense it has been a few months have you noticed a change and is your phone still working fine
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have you had any issues?
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Nope. All's running good so far, God bless. Guess the noise is just the processor working or something like that, it's still here.
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Highly unlikely it's the processor.
What it could be is a loose capacitor. If it became unsoldered or if it lost some of the soldering, it can vibrate under stress and create noise. See with other G3 phones, if you don't hear it on others - send yours in for warranty repairs.

phonegeek1998 said:
thank god some else is having this i thought i was going insane. laserwolf452 sense it has been a few months have you noticed a change and is your phone still working fine
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been meaning to update this. my g3 died lol but it was not the cpu. some reason my antenna went bad. phone still worked with wifi. i got a new g3 via worrenty replacement new phone has the noise.
as for your answer yes the phone was working fine. as for the antenna went bad i think i know what caused it. just keep your phone away from strong magnets. my laptop has a few of those cause itwas working an hour ago when i tried to use it