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Hi there,
My E4GT is going into roam for no good reason. Has anyone else experienced this?
I am in Metro Detroit, and this is what happened.
I rooted my first phone, and had the loss of service issue with it.
One night, while I was sleeping with the phone charging on my nightstand, it beeped a couple times. I thought it was a text message. When I looked at the phone, it had a message on the screen that said that I am now going into Roaming mode, and may be charged more for this, do I accept or cancel.
I thought it was because I had rooted my phone so I just rebooted my phone.
After I rebooted my phone, it did it again, two more times!
I returned that phone, and got a brand new one. I have NOT rooted the new one.
Today I was in Livonia Michigan (city area, plenty of towers) and I was stationary at an office. The phone went into roam again, and asked if I want to accept this or not?!? I rebooted, and it did it again. This all on a stock virgin phone.
Has this happened to anyone else? Any idea as to what I should do?
Thanks -Aaron
Mr Global said:
Hi there,
My E4GT is going into roam for no good reason. Has anyone else experienced this?
I am in Metro Detroit, and this is what happened.
I rooted my first phone, and had the loss of service issue with it.
One night, while I was sleeping with the phone charging on my nightstand, it beeped a couple times. I thought it was a text message. When I looked at the phone, it had a message on the screen that said that I am now going into Roaming mode, and may be charged more for this, do I accept or cancel.
I thought it was because I had rooted my phone so I just rebooted my phone.
After I rebooted my phone, it did it again, two more times!
I returned that phone, and got a brand new one. I have NOT rooted the new one.
Today I was in Livonia Michigan (city area, plenty of towers) and I was stationary at an office. The phone went into roam again, and asked if I want to accept this or not?!? I rebooted, and it did it again. This all on a stock virgin phone.
Has this happened to anyone else? Any idea as to what I should do?
Thanks -Aaron
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mines been doing the same thing for the last couple days even when connected to my airvanna which makes no sense
Getting it too but in a couple specific places which are my basement at home and at the office. This hasn't happened with any of my previous sprint phones.
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Settings/Wireless & Networks/Roaming/Roaming Mode -> sprint only
happens to me on 3 diff phones
network upgrades perhaps..towers comign up and down would kick your over to romaing
Same thing happening to me often.
happens to me too
Maybe Sprint is upgrading their towers so the iPhone congestion doesn't screw **** up.
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I got the answer from a sprint tech support guy, that knew what he was talking about!
go to settings-> wireless and networks-> Roaming-> Roaming settings
Then make sure that "Data" is checked off, along with "voice".
The phone comes without the 'Data" choice selected, and that causes this roaming condition.
-Aaron
Several people on the OG epic noticed this also, its gotten better, but still happens to me when it never did in these areas before...
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Settings/Wireless & Networks/Roaming/Roaming Mode -> sprint only
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Exactly...
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I had the same issue all day yesterday in Chicago. But I also noticed coworkers had signal issues as well. I think there were tower issues in the area.
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They are preparing for the beast!!
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malcolmXman said:
Several people on the OG epic noticed this also, its gotten better, but still happens to me when it never did in these areas before...
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Yeah, it's happening to me, and another person in my home that owns an OG Epic... and we have an Airave hooked up in the house, so it shouldn't be roaming at all using an Airave.
Happened to me on day 1 in Troy, Mi. It's one of the reasons I ultimately returned it, the signal seemed quite a bit weaker than my Evo. I hope the upcoming Samsung ultra-phone doesn't share radios with the SGSII.
This is really becoming frustrating. I switched to Verizon a week ago and had 3g/4g service for a couple days and now NOTHING. I called support (12/23/11) and after an hour on the phone, visited the store. Then after 2 hours at the store where they switched over the SIM card, gave me a brand new phone, and still having problems with the phone. So I had to open a trouble ticket to look in to my problems with my data connection on my Galaxy Nexus. According to the store, support said I am the first to call about the problem.
Store rep was on a 4g HTC phone...his data was fine. My mom is on a LG 3g phone, her data is fine. All in the same areas of town as well. Why isnt mine? Tried CDMA only and nothing as well. For about 10 minutes, I had a 1x data connection that was slow but it worked. No nothing, again.
If I got a new phone, new SIM....then the problem is with Verizon somewhere and needs to be fixed. I am paying money for something I do not have and its a waste. I understand there will be problems from time to time, but don't release comments saying the problems are fixed when there are clearly still issues.
Anyone else still experiencing data issues specifically with the Galaxy Nexus?
techbeck said:
This is really becoming frustrating. I switched to Verizon a week ago and had 3g/4g service for a couple days and now NOTHING. I called support (12/23/11) and after an hour on the phone, visited the store. Then after 2 hours at the store where they switched over the SIM card, gave me a brand new phone, and still having problems with the phone. So I had to open a trouble ticket to look in to my problems with my data connection on my Galaxy Nexus. According to the store, support said I am the first to call about the problem.
Store rep was on a 4g HTC phone...his data was fine. My mom is on a LG 3g phone, her data is fine. All in the same areas of town as well. Why isnt mine? Tried CDMA only and nothing as well. For about 10 minutes, I had a 1x data connection that was slow but it worked. No nothing, again.
If I got a new phone, new SIM....then the problem is with Verizon somewhere and needs to be fixed. I am paying money for something I do not have and its a waste. I understand there will be problems from time to time, but don't release comments saying the problems are fixed when there are clearly still issues.
Anyone else still experiencing data issues specifically with the Galaxy Nexus?
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Everyone is. The fix via software update isn't out yet.
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Everyone is. The fix via software update isn't out yet.
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Was a nationwide outtage Verizon said was resolved a couple days ago. Was working fine on Monday/Tuesday. This isnt related to the fix to resolve the reception problems. I can text and make calls just fine.
Try disabing vzw backup amd google +. Stopped my phone from doing exactly what you describe.
I've been having the issue where the hand-off from wireless to 3g tends to cause me to have no data connection at all (wifi shows up, but can't 'do' anything like browse to a website and such, and 3g never makes a 'connection', but I know I'm in an area where I should have plenty). A simple restart of the phone fixed the problem, but in the long term, I shouldn't need to do this in order to get a data connection. Just my experience.
techbeck said:
This is really becoming frustrating. I switched to Verizon a week ago and had 3g/4g service for a couple days and now NOTHING. I called support (12/23/11) and after an hour on the phone, visited the store. Then after 2 hours at the store where they switched over the SIM card, gave me a brand new phone, and still having problems with the phone. So I had to open a trouble ticket to look in to my problems with my data connection on my Galaxy Nexus. According to the store, support said I am the first to call about the problem.
Store rep was on a 4g HTC phone...his data was fine. My mom is on a LG 3g phone, her data is fine. All in the same areas of town as well. Why isnt mine? Tried CDMA only and nothing as well. For about 10 minutes, I had a 1x data connection that was slow but it worked. No nothing, again.
If I got a new phone, new SIM....then the problem is with Verizon somewhere and needs to be fixed. I am paying money for something I do not have and its a waste. I understand there will be problems from time to time, but don't release comments saying the problems are fixed when there are clearly still issues.
Anyone else still experiencing data issues specifically with the Galaxy Nexus?
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I had the exact same problems. I returned it & reactivated my Thunderbolt. I hope Verizon actually fixes the radio instead of just changing the number of bars that get displayed. My lack of faith in this is why I returned it before my 14 days ended. I hope they will actually fix it & I'l try again in a few weeks. You might consider the same strategy.
Also, I had bad data & signal before Google+ was even on my phone.
schizrade said:
Try disabing vzw backup amd google +. Stopped my phone from doing exactly what you describe.
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I dont use either of those.
Everyone isn't having problems. Verizon's fix is just going to change how the bars are shown.
If you are having this many problems, just exchange the device until you get a new one.
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kangxi said:
Everyone isn't having problems. Verizon's fix is just going to change how the bars are shown.
If you are having this many problems, just exchange the device until you get a new one.
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Already got a brand new device and SIM card. Having the exact same problems.
I meant exchange it until you get a working one.
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I meant exchange it until you get a working one.
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I kinda doubt they are going to keep swapping out my phone over and over again until I find a working one. My original phone worked fine fora few days and probably is still messed up from the recent nation wide outages they had. They were hesitant on replacing my phone the first time.
Going to call support in a little while and follow up on my trouble ticket I logged yesterday. They better have a solution for me.
You paid $XXX for this device and you're afraid they aren't going to give you a new one because this one is defective? This issue may seem widespread because of all the complaints on this forum, but trust me, not everyone is having issues. Check my other thread.
Verizon already came out and said there isn't a performance issue with the device and their patch is just going to change the bars. So it's now or never.
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Are people having slower 3G speeds on their CDMA devices? This is my issue as well. My sister's iPhone is consistently getting 1mbps> whereas I'm only getting ~100kbps down. Upload is worse at 47kbps.
kangxi said:
You paid $XXX for this device and you're afraid they aren't going to give you a new one because this one is defective? This issue may seem widespread because of all the complaints on this forum, but trust me, not everyone is having issues. Check my other thread.
Verizon already came out and said there isn't a performance issue with the device and their patch is just going to change the bars. So it's now or never.
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I already got one new phone replacement yesterday. Going to call support yet again here in an hour or so and see if they have an update on my trouble ticket. But I would think it if was a defect in the phone, that this issue would be well known by now and posted everywhere on the internet. I understand what you are saying....just hope they get it fixed.
I'm having this problem too. I'll be on wifi at home, both wifi and cell bars will be blue. Everything is dandy. Then when I leave and turn off wifi the 3G icon appears and I have a few bars, but they are grey and websites don't work. I thought blue/grey just meant you are/are not logged in to google services, not whether or not you have data connected in general. A restart solves the problem, but it shouldn't come to that. This was a problem before the outage as when they were setting up the phone on release day in the store it took awhile to connect to 3G. Is this also why when I switch in to airplane mode I can't come out of it without a restart?
schizrade said:
Try disabing vzw backup amd google +. Stopped my phone from doing exactly what you describe.
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What would they have to do with the problem?
thanks
thirtynation said:
I'm having this problem too. I'll be on wifi at home, both wifi and cell bars will be blue. Everything is dandy. Then when I leave and turn off wifi the 3G icon appears and I have a few bars, but they are grey and websites don't work. I thought blue/grey just meant you are/are not logged in to google services, not whether or not you have data connected in general. A restart solves the problem, but it shouldn't come to that. This was a problem before the outage as when they were setting up the phone on release day in the store it took awhile to connect to 3G. Is this also why when I switch in to airplane mode I can't come out of it without a restart?
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The leaked new radios solve the problem with the hand off between wifi/3G/4G.
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techbeck said:
I dont use either of those.
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Neither do i, but they run in the bg regardless. Disabling vzw backup let my phone jump from 3g to 4g without losing signal. Worked for two of my coworkers as well.
Hey, just trying to help.
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What would they have to do with the problem?
thanks
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Dunno, but it fixed the issue for me. It now switches between all radios perfectly.
Like i said, just trying to help instead of adding to the ***** pile.
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Neither do i, but they run in the bg regardless. Disabling vzw backup let my phone jump from 3g to 4g without losing signal. Worked for two of my coworkers as well.
Hey, just trying to help.
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Tried it anyway, no luck
Phone was on 1x a few min ago and data was working, tho slow. Few seconds later, it switched to 3g and even tho it said 3g, no data. Rebooted and now it doesnt say anything...again.
Sooooo...here's the deal:
I'm in the Houston area. There is a constant LTE signal here, that I rely on for my tablet and my pc (paying overages doesn't matter). However, after every phone call, I lose LTE, and just the 4G signal is there, but its slower than 3G. After a reboot, the LTE comes back and my speeds are restored...
I tried chatting with an ATT rep, they of course tried to blame it on "spotty coverage and tower malfunction in your area". Yeah, sure. She said the reboot is re-registering my phone and picking up a new tower. After questioning this, she then put the blame on a rogue application. After that, she then started saying that if I travel I might not have the same signal. After telling her that this happens anywhere, even when I'm at home, she said started explaining the data that I've used this month, and that I have data left to use.
EDIT: She asked me to factory reset, and give it a try. I reset my phone, went through setup, and placed a call. After the call, no internet. I rebooted, LTE service came up. When I told her what happened after she specifically requested I perform those actions, she then told me that a factory reset phone may not work for up to 15 minutes. I'm officially done.
How about you guys? Anything remotely useful to add since apparently this isn't a common issue?
Swap your device?
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Call att. Go through their spiel. Then get mad cause they can't help you. Threaten to cancel your service. They well either cave immediately or transfer you to the dept that will give you what you want, which is a replacement phone. Btw, its called the customer retention department (for a reason).
composi said:
Sooooo...here's the deal:
I'm in the Houston area. There is a constant LTE signal here, that I rely on for my tablet and my pc (paying overages doesn't matter). However, after every phone call, I lose LTE, and just the 4G signal is there, but its slower than 3G. After a reboot, the LTE comes back and my speeds are restored...
I tried chatting with an ATT rep, they of course tried to blame it on "spotty coverage and tower malfunction in your area". Yeah, sure. She said the reboot is re-registering my phone and picking up a new tower. After questioning this, she then put the blame on a rogue application. After that, she then started saying that if I travel I might not have the same signal. After telling her that this happens anywhere, even when I'm at home, she said started explaining the data that I've used this month, and that I have data left to use.
EDIT: She asked me to factory reset, and give it a try. I reset my phone, went through setup, and placed a call. After the call, no internet. I rebooted, LTE service came up. When I told her what happened after she specifically requested I perform those actions, she then told me that a factory reset phone may not work for up to 15 minutes. I'm officially done.
How about you guys? Anything remotely useful to add since apparently this isn't a common issue?
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Never heard of this issue, go to the att store and ask for a new sim card see if this helps.
Andrew149 said:
Never heard of this issue, go to the att store and ask for a new sim card see if this helps.
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that's what she ended up suggesting, so I'm going to the store tomorrow since I'm sure that because she suggested it, it might be one of the generic answers the customer service reps are going to give me elsewhere...if that's not working, then its probably a malfunction of the device...
thank you for the suggestions, i'm going to try changing sims first and if that doesn't work then i'll have to follow ur suggestions
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that's what she ended up suggesting, so I'm going to the store tomorrow since I'm sure that because she suggested it, it might be one of the generic answers the customer service reps are going to give me elsewhere...if that's not working, then its probably a malfunction of the device...
thank you for the suggestions, i'm going to try changing sims first and if that doesn't work then i'll have to follow ur suggestions
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Also... its normal for our phones to go from 4glte to 4g. But as soon as you hang up(within a minute or two), it should go back up to 4glte...
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Artimus009 said:
Also... its normal for our phones to go from 4glte to 4g. But as soon as you hang up(within a minute or two), it should go back up to 4glte...
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it could just be a corrupted radio on his phone, i wonder if he just needs to change radios or odin the phone back to 100% stock
I knew it was normal because my other phone (GNex) does that as well...but LTE never comes back on my SGS3. I went back to stock a long time ago because although I hate the TouchWiz interface, i use the 'motions' ALOT (especially the direct call from messaging and the swipe to message/call), and even after going back to stock AND doing a factory reset it wouldn't work. Of course, I'm sure that as soon as I get into the store tomorrow its going to work like its supposed to, as always, but even though it doesn't seem like a huge deal because our phones boot up quickly, its still an inconvenience to have to reboot the phone after every phone call just to get my LTE back
Artimus009 said:
Also... its normal for our phones to go from 4glte to 4g. But as soon as you hang up(within a minute or two), it should go back up to 4glte...
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What he said... At&t doesn't offer voice over LTE or VoLTE yet. It will also wait until any open data sessions have stopped before bumping back up to LTE.
PS... Don't be a **** to customer service because they can't get 30,000 people smarter than you. We all know that would be impossible.
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Happens to me too. I usually put it on airplane mode and then it comes back. Not a big deal since my Internet still works. Just not lte
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I like that you fell for the factory reset; it really pisses me off when they tell me to do that. If it work yesterday and the day before and suddenly it doesn't work then guess what is not going to fix it, that's right, a factory reset. I know there are a lot of legitimate reasons to factory reset but they throw that out like it's nothing, as if I didn't just spend 10 hours setting up the phone just the way I wanted it. If the software is so easily corrupted then just give me my money back and I will go down the road.
That said I believe this phone is a wonderful machine but if you have a factory producing hundreds of units every hour they are bound to eventually have a defect. But every person who purchased in atrix 2 should have been given a refund and an apology.
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What was so bad about the Atrix2?
This sounds like Samsung fault, hardly at&t.
It had issues addressing the SD card . It would often lose applications that you had installed, you also would not be able to access your music, pics, or videos on the SD card at random times. Everybody and their brother had a different solution for it. The biggest consensus is that it was class 6 and above causing the problem. But if that is true then motorola should have done their own beta testing and reported that. All in all the phone was a nightmare and there are forums filled to its failure. I purchase the atrix HD and it did the exact same thing.
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"factory reset may take up to 15 minutes" = "please leave me alone already, can i hang up on you yet?"
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"factory reset may take up to 15 minutes" = "please leave me alone already, can i hang up on you yet?"
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15 minutes would be nice. It takes me weeks to get all my settings put back in all my apps; my email accounts set back up; used to have to remake my grocery list but the app I've been using for years finally got a sync capability; and I have to re-beat all the levels on angry birds (very important etc. etc...
Hi all,
For the passed week or 2 I have been getting duplicate text messages. It can be anywhere from 2 or sometimes as many as 8-10 messages that show up in my inbox when somebody just sends me one SMS. Its driving me crazy. I'm rooted so I'm hesitant to contact sprint. I havent found an answer by searching google or the forums. Can anyone offer any tips I can try?
Sprint GS3 rooted running stock jb 4.1.1 no airave, no third party SMS apps.
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bmwguy said:
Hi all,
For the passed week or 2 I have been getting duplicate text messages. It can be anywhere from 2 or sometimes as many as 8-10 messages that show up in my inbox when somebody just sends me one SMS. Its driving me crazy. I'm rooted so I'm hesitant to contact sprint. I havent found an answer by searching google or the forums. Can anyone offer any tips I can try?
Sprint GS3 rooted running stock jb 4.1.1 no airave, no third party SMS apps.
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that happens to me at times where i live because of the horrible sprint service what is yours like? if not i can suggest do a complete clean reinstall of your rom
This is a known sprint issue,its been happening to me since the hero days.
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My service is so so ... Nothing has really changed as far as the service is concerned. Also it seems to happen regardless of my location (work/home) this is my forth android phone with sprint. Over the years I've had a few times where I would get duplicate texts here and there on various phones but never anything like this. I fear that a factory reset may be in my future
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Can you guys set your roaming options to sprint only? I can on here and i dont really get them unless im roaming,setting it to sprint only seems to help.
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You have an airave? That might be part of the problem..from how I understand, has to do with delivery protocols...airave will double them at times. Power off airave, then reboot it. Might help, might not
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Thanks for the replies. In don't have an airrave. I'm going to try and set my roaming options to sprint only and see if that helps. Thanks again.
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You have an airave? That might be part of the problem..from how I understand, has to do with delivery protocols...airave will double them at times. Power off airave, then reboot it. Might help, might not
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Iv'e had an Airave since they came out, txt doubling has only happened a handful of times for me. I still think Sprint's network is to blame.
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I set my roaming options to sprint only. It didn't fix the problem.
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Its definitly sprint,i got a text 6times(from sprint) . I usually refresh my service through tje sprint app also
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Almost a month later..still have the problem. If somebody texts me once I may get that text 10 times over a day or 2...sometimes even more. I called sprint. They did a soft reset of my phone and advised me if it happens again to try a factory reset. I did a factory reset, wiped cache, dalvik cache. The second my phone booted up after the reset (not a single app installed) I got two duplicate texts from earlier that day. I guess my last hope is to wipe my rom and do a clean install of the rom. It's just the sprint factory rom for 4.1.1 with root. If that doesn't fix it then I guess I need a new phone
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Wiped ROM. Installed a new stock touch wiz ROM android 4.1.2. Same issue remains. I think its time for a replacement phone
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Im telling you its not the phone,its sprint and their crappy network. Ive gotten duplicate texts since i had a hero.:beer:
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I had this problem for 1 day and then it went away.
Try a reactivation. Dial ##72786#.
It's not the device (phone) its usually a carrier error happens when you have a weak signal and your phone is switching from 1x to 3g or 4G or between wifi and regular data. The others here are correct it is not the phone, unless the antenna is messed up. Have you also checked to see if the duplicate texts are always from the same individuals? It could weak signal on their part, their carrier or device is actually sending it out twice. I had something similar with texts coming in from att once.
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I have been with Sprint since the beginning - about 14 years? I have also have had the original non data Airave and the latest Airave with data.
It is not your phone, maybe sometimes the Airave?, but the problem is with Sprint. Most of the time everything is normal, but then are times when I will get the same text an extra two and sometimes up to four times for a few days straight, then it goes away.
So save yourself the anguish of a hard reset or flash, it is not your phone and most assuredly Sprints network. Also note, it happens to me more frequently and of course randomly in the last 3 or 4 years.
I hate hard resets and re-flashing!
I had this exact issue on AT&T and it turned out to be an app that had permissions to intercept text messages to display an unread number on a widget. The app was blocking the phone from sending a text received signal to the tower.
I very much appreciate the responses. I realize what everyone is saying about it not being the phone and most likely being a sprint issue. I totally have been in agreement up until recently I started suspecting the phone. Like others here I have been with sprint for several years. I have also lived in the same area for all of those years. My phone doesnt roam, doesnt switch between 3 and 4g in my area. This is also my fifth android phone (first was the hero) and my 8th smart phone. I have over the past several years OCCASIONALLY received duplicate texts from one or more of my android phones. What I have experienced with my gs3 is far from occasional. It is constant. We are talking the same text repeated 18 times. It happens every day. Not once or a few times a week but literally multiple times every day. It isn't with one or 2 specific contacts but with multiple contacts included automated texts such as texts from twitter updates. It happened on a clean install. Flashed modem, kernel and ROM. All stock touch wiz sprint stuff. Not a single third party app installed. Previously I did the service reactivation and it helped slightly. I tried it again 2 days ago, roughly a week after flashing the clean ROM and I will say that it has helped a lot. Over the past 2 days I have only received one duplicate text and it only came through twice. If this was the norm then I would be more than happy. Time will tell if it is fixed or not and I will definitely update this thread.
The reason I suspect the phone is because of the immense frequency of the problem. My theory is that if the radio or antenna is weak or failing then this could be why the frequency is so high. Also, I have been experimenting with using the phone with and without the case on and it seems to be worse when the. Case is on. So, in theory if the antenna is weak then the case makes it even harder for the signal to get through. I could be off base but that's my theory.
Also, my daughter has my hand me down galaxy s2. She has zero duplicate texts. We live in the same house and go to the same places. Her phone has never had the issue. I dunno. Maybe the gs3 in general has a weak radio or maybe its my specific phone. Either way its totally frustrating and I doing want to deal with it any longer.
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I very much appreciate the responses. I realize what everyone is saying about it not being the phone and most likely being a sprint issue. I totally have been in agreement up until recently I started suspecting the phone. Like others here I have been with sprint for several years. I have also lived in the same area for all of those years. My phone doesnt roam, doesnt switch between 3 and 4g in my area. This is also my fifth android phone (first was the hero) and my 8th smart phone. I have over the past several years OCCASIONALLY received duplicate texts from one or more of my android phones. What I have experienced with my gs3 is far from occasional. It is constant. We are talking the same text repeated 18 times. It happens every day. Not once or a few times a week but literally multiple times every day. It isn't with one or 2 specific contacts but with multiple contacts included automated texts such as texts from twitter updates. It happened on a clean install. Flashed modem, kernel and ROM. All stock touch wiz sprint stuff. Not a single third party app installed. Previously I did the service reactivation and it helped slightly. I tried it again 2 days ago, roughly a week after flashing the clean ROM and I will say that it has helped a lot. Over the past 2 days I have only received one duplicate text and it only came through twice. If this was the norm then I would be more than happy. Time will tell if it is fixed or not and I will definitely update this thread.
The reason I suspect the phone is because of the immense frequency of the problem. My theory is that if the radio or antenna is weak or failing then this could be why the frequency is so high. Also, I have been experimenting with using the phone with and without the case on and it seems to be worse when the. Case is on. So, in theory if the antenna is weak then the case makes it even harder for the signal to get through. I could be off base but that's my theory.
Also, my daughter has my hand me down galaxy s2. She has zero duplicate texts. We live in the same house and go to the same places. Her phone has never had the issue. I dunno. Maybe the gs3 in general has a weak radio or maybe its my specific phone. Either way its totally frustrating and I doing want to deal with it any longer.
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One note to your theory - your daughter has an S2 which although is 4G, it is WiMax 4G and your S3 is LTE 4G - your daughter's S2 will not have the same trouble as your S3 because the 4G WiMax towers have been up and running for a while, while Sprint is still working on the LTE 4G, so that could be one of your problems.
With that being said, I am sort of in the same situation, my wife doesn't have the text problem as often or severe as mine as she has an original Epic WiMax 4G and I have a S3 LTE 4G, although my worst case has been repeating text maybe 3 or 4 in a row and then sometimes the same text come to me like an hour to two hours later, but this only happens in spurts every once in a while, as the spurts of duplicate texts happen maybe every other couple of months and only last for like a day, then everything is fine again. I also have been in the same location for the 14 or so years that I have been with Sprint. Anyways, just a thought.
That's a good point. Maybe it has something to do with it. I thought that SMS used the phones voice network though rather than data? I thought only MMS used data. BTW I have never received a duplicate MMS. Also there is no 4g lte in my area yet.
Thanks for your thoughts.
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I've searched around but i can't seem to find a solution. My note 3 is missing calls, and not notifying me. When someone calls it rings on their end but my note 3 doesn't seem to be getting the signal, but i get their voice-mail a few seconds later. This is just ridiculous, how can a $700 phone fail to complete the most basic function of a phone.
Now, let me just say that I have excellent coverage in my area, and my previous phone did not have this issue, i'v also tried factory resetting and even exchanged the phone! if anyone else is having this issue, please share.
Again, this is my second note 3! i exchanged the first one for the same issue, but its happening again after the exchange! This is really frustrating.
Yup. I get delayed and duplicate texts (at times) from the sender. Also, 1/4 of my texts don't go through. This is also my second device and I don't see a solution. Sucks when you rely on your cell phone for work.
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Even though you have good signal, it still might be a service issue. For about a month, I was having the same issue with my s4. It went away on its own, so I'm assuming it was service related. It also wouldn't hurt to try a new sim card.
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I read that some people resolve the issue by changing to WCDMA from the defaulted LTE
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I'm with Towle in that it's probably a service issue. For the last three weeks, I've been going back and forth with T-Mobile because suddenly two of my kids can't send texts or get caller ID on their S3s. And when I first received my Note 3, I didn't receive any mobile data for a week. They've had me swap SIMs, rebooted countless times, had the engineers 'reset the rate plan' a few times, and we're still having problems. I'm in the NE Illinois region, if that's any help.
I haven't rooted my SM-N900T yet but I have noticed that (in my case) wifi seems to be related to this issue. When I activate wifi calling or turn wifi off completely I'll get a stream of messages.
I have been having the same problem. Glad to see its not just me but hope we find a fix. I also have a issue keeping LTE although im less than 1/2 mile from a tower. If I toggle wifi I get it back but loose it within a couple of hours and then repeat the process.
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DROID76 said:
I have been having the same problem. Glad to see its not just me but hope we find a fix. I also have a issue keeping LTE although im less than 1/2 mile from a tower. If I toggle wifi I get it back but loose it within a couple of hours and then repeat the process.
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Try going into settings, wifi, hit menu, advanced, and uncheck Auto network switch. This will keep it locked to your signal rather than switching back and forth needlessly. This resolved my similar issue. I also unchecked Always allow scanning.
I understand what your saying about the network itself affecting the signal, but this just happened when i switched to the note 3. Everything was fine on my previous phone.
It seems like its happening less frequently now, but i do still miss calls and i have to constantly check my voice mail to check.
I've had the issue with missed calls, but it has mostly happened at my office where it's spotty coverage. Also, the duplicate text issue is super annoying. However the issues are very minimal now on second phone with the new ISIS SIM (comes with phone).
I actually posted about this last week... I thought I was the only one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2547762
Here's a copy and paste of that post along with update:
So I switched from Sprint to T-Mobile about 2 months ago...
Ever since I switched, I have been having massive issues.
The first issue happened while on the stock ROM 3 weeks in. For 2 hours, my phone didnt ring or receive any texts. When I made a phone call after those 2 hours, I got a dozen texts in and a few voicemails all in the span of 1 minute. My friends had been trying to call and SMS me for those 2 hours and my phone only received them when I "woke" it up with that phone call.
Then last Friday, I had 3 different people tell me they had SMS'd me and I hadn't received those texts.
Then today, I sent a simple MMS text to about 20 people wishing them happy Thanksgiving. Everyone on T-Mobile got them. On AT&T and Verizon phones, most of my friends got blank texts. I tried to resend it, but they either received a tiny version of the image or another blank text.
On top of ALL this, I am getting duplicate texts from people randomly.
It can't be the phone, as I had to replace it under insurance a week ago (when i accidentally cracked the screen). And it can't be the ROM, as this has happened to me under stock ROM, DarthStalker, and Wicked.
I called T-Mobile and entered a ticket last night about this. This is a HUGE issue. While I love my phone and the fast data speeds, missing SMS (and phone calls) is a game ender.. On the first night I had this happen, I had a date waiting in my lobby for over an hour thinking I stood her up when I didnt respond to her texts. I've gotten in similar trouble with other missing texts.
Update:
So on Friday, I called T-Mobile to tell them about further issues. They told me my ticket had been closed. I immediately told them to re-open the ticket as they hadn't actually fixed anything. On Monday, three of my incoming calls were randomly dropped (with full signal showing on my phone).
Today, I got a call from T-Mobile. He said there had been an issue on Thanksgiving with the network, which is why my MMS didnt go out. But for the dropped calls and missing SMS, after telling him these problems are happening even with WiFi off, he said I should go to the T-Mobile store and have my SIM chip replaced.
This is REALLY frustrating.
EvanWasHere said:
I actually posted about this last week... I thought I was the only one http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2547762
Here's a copy and paste of that post along with update:
So I switched from Sprint to T-Mobile about 2 months ago...
Ever since I switched, I have been having massive issues.
The first issue happened while on the stock ROM 3 weeks in. For 2 hours, my phone didnt ring or receive any texts. When I made a phone call after those 2 hours, I got a dozen texts in and a few voicemails all in the span of 1 minute. My friends had been trying to call and SMS me for those 2 hours and my phone only received them when I "woke" it up with that phone call.
Then last Friday, I had 3 different people tell me they had SMS'd me and I hadn't received those texts.
Then today, I sent a simple MMS text to about 20 people wishing them happy Thanksgiving. Everyone on T-Mobile got them. On AT&T and Verizon phones, most of my friends got blank texts. I tried to resend it, but they either received a tiny version of the image or another blank text.
On top of ALL this, I am getting duplicate texts from people randomly.
It can't be the phone, as I had to replace it under insurance a week ago (when i accidentally cracked the screen). And it can't be the ROM, as this has happened to me under stock ROM, DarthStalker, and Wicked.
I called T-Mobile and entered a ticket last night about this. This is a HUGE issue. While I love my phone and the fast data speeds, missing SMS (and phone calls) is a game ender.. On the first night I had this happen, I had a date waiting in my lobby for over an hour thinking I stood her up when I didnt respond to her texts. I've gotten in similar trouble with other missing texts.
Update:
So on Friday, I called T-Mobile to tell them about further issues. They told me my ticket had been closed. I immediately told them to re-open the ticket as they hadn't actually fixed anything. On Monday, three of my incoming calls were randomly dropped (with full signal showing on my phone).
Today, I got a call from T-Mobile. He said there had been an issue on Thanksgiving with the network, which is why my MMS didnt go out. But for the dropped calls and missing SMS, after telling him these problems are happening even with WiFi off, he said I should go to the T-Mobile store and have my SIM chip replaced.
This is REALLY frustrating.
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The wife and I are having the exact same issue. We both got the note 3 last week. Interesting enough it only happens when wifi is on. I tried with and without wifi calling.
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jeffakajeff said:
The wife and I are having the exact same issue. We both got the note 3 last week. Interesting enough it only happens when wifi is on. I tried with and without wifi calling.
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I took off Wifi calling because it seemed like it was causing issues for me with calls/texts. I haven't gotten a duplicate text in a few days now. But I definitely had similar issues to everyone on thread. We definitely are not crazy.
I know right, I called tmobile, they said the usual...but then the issues stoped? Wierd
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