After many hours of reading and trouble shooting I'm ready to throw my note 3 out a window. I (like a dumb ass) purchased my note 3 from Craigslist. Three months to the day the device was blacklisted do to non payment. After arguing with the police and tmobile I decided to pay to have the imei remotely fixed. Now the phone works but will not automatically connect to 4g or lte. The guy that fixed the imei sweres up and down that his fix has never effected data in this way. If I force lte in the service mode it connects some of the time. Once it's connected if I get a phone call the data drops to G and will not go back to lte. I've checked apns, had metro pcs reset my account, tried different roms, kernels, and modems. If anyone has any advice I would be forever greatful.
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So I dropped AT&T for the Incredible and my number successfully ported over, but I cannot connect to the Internet. I can make/receive calls and SMS, but no Internet besides wifi. I've been on with vzw support and went through reactivating the phone (*228) and a couple hard reset to no avail. They said it could have something to do with porting from AT&T, but I'm not understanding that connection. I don't have too much faith in support figuring out so I'm trying the forums. Does anyone have a clue how to resolve this or is it a defect with the phone.
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there is no 3G symbol near the signal status bars.
Settings/Wireless & networks: shows "Mobile Network" with a green check, buts its grayed out so no action can be taken on it. Directly underneath "Mobile Network" it says "Turning on..." and it seems to flash that status every once in a while.
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I would go into a Verizon store and hold someones hand while they fix it. Almost seems like it's not correctly provisioned.
Is the phone....on? Ha sorry I couldnt resist.
Ha!! Of course. Actually my internet connection just started working on its own about an hour ago. I now get 3g connectivity so life is good. Sounds like it was a VZN issue with them provisioning data plans for new customers or existing VZN customers that made a change to their data plan.
mine did the same thing today...went back to best buy and asked my brother what was up and he said probably Verizon taking forever because of so many activations today.
While I was in there getting my phone, 3 others got it, and thats not including the 5 my brother got earlier in the day and the 7-8 i saw at verizon store (would have been 2 more but the couple didnt want to pay a $400 deposit per line).
That doesnt include regular daily activity they do.
my activation only took me less than a minute.
Me Epic Touch that is using Verizon Towers is constantly dropping signal, I have tried every modem from EK - FD but nothing has seem to help. I tried with Page Plus original Prl which shows roaming and didn't help and also loaded other Prl's that doesn't show roaming all the time that Straight Talk uses, but it does the same thing. I have had many Sprint Phones activated on Verizon side and never had any problems like I am having now and My Cousin has The same phone also which is on Page Plus and his phone behaves the same way. Was wondering if any of you that have this phone and flashed it to Verizon are experiencing the same thing? If anyone has any opinions or could weigh in on what I might be able to try or maybe tweak on this phone that might help I would greatly appreciate thanks. Forgot to mention that I have tried both stock and Ics roms and when signal drops it will have a circle with lone threw it but I don't have to reboot phone signal always come back seconds later but trying to hold a conversation on this phone is bout impossible without 2 dropped calls in a 30 minute period.
Is the phone activated on Verizon or are you just using their towers for some particular reason? Keep in mind there are issues outside of the phone that may affect connectivity - I just had this happen with our local Sprint tower last week. Took a week for Sprint to confirm the problem was the tower and fix it.
If you made a nandroid backup before you changed the prl (witch is what you should do before messing around with anything to do with your phone) flash back to it, see if that helps at all.
HTC Hero -> Epic 4G -> Epic 4G Touch
It is activated on Verizon unlimited plan. I also have a nanroid back up of the stock rom behaved the same way. At first I though it was Page Plus being I never used them and gave them a try instead of always worying about data issues with ST. I let my time run out on Page Plus and and switched to Verizon new 50 unlimited pre-pay but still acts the same way.
I picked up an unlocked att galaxy note 2 to replace a broken phone. I use straight talk (att) as my service provider. I had to change my sim cards from a regular to a mini for the note. It took a couple minutes and my service was great. I tested the speeds and they were decent. I was able to send/receive mms,sms and phone calls. It was great all day. Later that evening, I went to the movies. They must have a cell blocker or something because it killed my service (same thing happened to me the week before with my old working phone). I had to go into airplane mode and back out to get service back. It was kind of weak after that. This morning I woke up with no cell or data service. I would look at the bars go up to full 4g then drop to 1 bar at edge and then lose all service. Just random spikes that happened all day. I tried various apn setting w/ no difference. I rooted my phone with cleanroom. I had solid 2-4 bars for a few hours. Then again, I started to lose service. I tried my fiancee's T-mobile pay as you go card and same thing. little to no bars of edge or nothing at all. I did the hack to enable aws, the Tmobile card had a solid 4 bars of cell but no data. I put my straight talk sim back in and I seem to be holding 3+ bars of 4g with decent speeds but The trend has been to wait til I get my hopes up then crush them with 0 service. I have looked into the interwebs, but haven't seen anything with a problem quite like this. I'm wondering if I just got a bum phone or if my mini sim is poop. Any help would be great. Thanks.
Going through more settings, I'm getting "Network Not Found" under the status list in About phone. Pretty much anything that has to do with a carrier isn't there. I then went under mobile network settings and looked at "Network Operators". It was set to automatic so I clicked manual. The only option was AT&T. The phone is supposed to be unlocked. I then clicked back to automatic and it's not able to find my provider info.
I'm sorry if this was covered somewhere else but I've been unable to verify which (if any) ROM allows you to force roaming. I'm on Sprint and go to the San Bernardino (CA) mountains every weekend where there's almost no coverage. My sons on Verizon and his phone not only works but also has data coverage up there. I have another 1.5 years left on contract (5 lines) so don't suggest I change to Verizon. That will come at the end of my contract.
I purchased Roam Control but the developer is not supporting the app and the program won't register to allow me to use it. I'm not the only one with this problem.
Does any of the ROMS developed for the Epic 4G Touch on Sprint have the ability to force roaming on Verizons network? My phone is stock but rooted. I have flashed different business PRl's to see if any of them would enable the phone to roam with no luck. Tried going where there's no signal, turn off phone then turn on to see if the phone would automatically connect to the Verizon signal once it see's that there's no Sprint signal but no luck.
We have no internet or phone service so wifi's not an option. I can walk around and eventually get a signal to make a call but have no data at all.
Walking around to find a signal is not always an option.
I've been a lurker on here for years and figured if you guy's don't know, then nobody will know.
antilamr said:
I'm sorry if this was covered somewhere else but I've been unable to verify which (if any) ROM allows you to force roaming. I'm on Sprint and go to the San Bernardino (CA) mountains every weekend where there's almost no coverage. My sons on Verizon and his phone not only works but also has data coverage up there. I have another 1.5 years left on contract (5 lines) so don't suggest I change to Verizon. That will come at the end of my contract.
I purchased Roam Control but the developer is not supporting the app and the program won't register to allow me to use it. I'm not the only one with this problem.
Does any of the ROMS developed for the Epic 4G Touch on Sprint have the ability to force roaming on Verizons network? My phone is stock but rooted. I have flashed different business PRl's to see if any of them would enable the phone to roam with no luck. Tried going where there's no signal, turn off phone then turn on to see if the phone would automatically connect to the Verizon signal once it see's that there's no Sprint signal but no luck.
We have no internet or phone service so wifi's not an option. I can walk around and eventually get a signal to make a call but have no data at all.
Walking around to find a signal is not always an option.
I've been a lurker on here for years and figured if you guy's don't know, then nobody will know.
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I sent you an email at your hotmail account...let me know if Roam Control version 2.10.0 is working for you. Thanks
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I sent you an email at your hotmail account...let me know if Roam Control version 2.10.0 is working for you. Thanks
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Thank you. Roam Control now works. I'll try it out next weekend and report back so anyone who is following will know the results. Thanks again.
So I upgraded from my damaged 6x to a new 7x I purchased on Amazon. I've had the phone for 1 day now and am having strange issues with my 4G LTE not working, essentially timing out. It happens almost a third of the time while using data. The rest of the time I have no issues and am getting fast speeds. My MVNO is Simple Mobile on the $50 Unlimited plan.
I've checked my APN, taken the SIM In/Out even called 611 to which they could not find a problem. Do I need to return the phone or does anyone have some advice. Also have tried different locations to see if it was just a tower to no avail.