i have a bone stock att variant of the m9. a week ago the wifi got stuck, and would not turn on. it would get stuck at "turning on wifi". i tried a lot of things - battery draining, toggling data, bluetooth, airplane mode, etc.
i unlocked the bootloader, rooted the phone , s-off, supercid, tried a handful of roms. nothing. the wifi doesn't turn on.
i'm beginning to think it's hardware.
any suggestions, other than sending for repair? can i gently hit it in some angle to perhaps see if something's come loose?
out of ideas on my end.
thanks.
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A lot of times lately I'm losing my 3g Mobile Network, my signal strength will be a full 4 bars and I still get the issue. Usually if I reboot the phone it will come back. I'm starting to think it gets lost after it connects to WiFi and then when I disconnect WiFi. Anyone having this issue? If so, are there any tricks to getting this to stop?
My phone is completely stock 2.2, no root.
I'm not sure which of these events may have triggered my intermittent lack of 3G connectability but these are the only changes I've made since this started happening:
1) Upgraded to Froyo.
2) Performed the .dun trick to allow 3g Hotspot. (Although I never use it, I tested it a few times but this problem happens without the Hotspot turned on.)
Did you do a factory reset after the froyo update?
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Nope, I used the SD card method before I got the OTA. Have never done a factory reset.
I have this as well, be it im on a different carrier (Cricket) but it appears in all stock htc froyo builds.
My assumption is that is the radio being used. of how HTC's implementation of Froyo interacts with the radio.
I switched radio's and havent had it occur on me while in the OS yet, and it does occur sometimes on boot still, but if it loads on boot it seems to stay up and stable.
My trick is to turn airplane mode on for about 30 seconds (30 seconds after i see the airplane icon), then turn it off, i assume this reloads the radio, when the brings 3g back.
I can also read my nv settings with qpst and reflash them back to the phone with no changes, which causes the radio to reload as well, and 3g ALWAYS kicks back on.
Also updating the PRL (even if its the same PRL) seems to work as well (assuming this is due to the reboot, which reloaded the radio)
The radio i am using now is:
2.15.00.09.01 - Seems pretty stable, except the occasional one of at boot, which is fixed by airplane on/off.
From what i can gather this nothing to do with custom roms, as many offical Verizon customers on Official NON Rooted 100% completely stock phones have this as well.
Hopefully HTC/Verizon will fix this in a MR update.
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My trick is to turn airplane mode on for about 30 seconds (30 seconds after i see the airplane icon), then turn it off, i assume this reloads the radio, when the brings 3g back.
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I'm gonna try that next time it happens. Easier than rebooting, then it wont bother me too much.
I had that problem once, and never saw it again.
One problem that just happened for a second time today is I cannot send or recieve MMS. HTC had me reboot the phone and call VZW support, of course they yelled at me for not using a task killer -.-
The reset worked, but I'm going to get annoyed if this becomes a regular problem
I have same setup and same issue. As soon as I made the EPST changes for tethering and hotspot, I started having this issue where I'd lose my data connection completely after disconnecting from my wifi when I leave my house. A reboot of the phone fixes it but it's still kind of annoying. It happens I'd say about twice a week.
I am on my second International HTC one X and both devices would lose the carrier signal quit often... I would either go to airplane mode, or turn the network off and on and it would grab it again. Sometimes it would be good for the day and other times, I would have to do it a few times....
I wanted to think it was my carrier having issues (MTS in Winnipeg MB Canada)... however, this has never happened on my many other devices. Now I wake up today and turn on the mobile data, after awhile... it does not connect, under settings it says disconnected because service is unavailable. I tried reboots, restart, airplane mode, checking apn settings.... on my last reboot, it says No signal/emergency calls only.
So now I am fearing a hardware issue (but I find it odd it happens on both my one xs).
I love this device and aside from this potentially huge issue.... I have no complaints, so I will ask here and see if you guys have any solid input.. before I contact htc!
I also popped my sim in and out, as of right now...
Thx in advance.
**update: it almost seems like putting wifi on, knocks out my carrier signal.... after an hour of doing the above things, I turned off wifi, went to airplane mode and now my signal and data is there (it makes no sense) and it is quite a hassle
The weirder part is, it seems to only be in the morning.... once I am up and running, I do not seem to have many issues through out the day, but If I put wifi on long enough... It goes to no signal/eventually....
If I do not put on wifi, it either does not drop.... or I am not noticing.
I've just begun having network problems but I'm not sure it's related to your situation. I'm in Australia on the Optus network.
It happened suddenly yesterday. Service completely cuts out for extended periods. It will occasionally come back on for a short while (long enough to download all my sms) but will then cut out again. When the signal does briefly come back in, the signal strength is decent: it's an all-or-nothing proposition.
Did you manage to resolve your situation? Would be interested to know what resolved it for you.
I've had this phone since early April when it was released here and the is the first issue I've had with it. I haven't done anything new to my phone in the past week so I'm finding this strange. I'm running Leedroid 4.0.0 but I've had that installed for weeks without issue. I'm worried it could be a hardware issue.
I'm going to try reflashing it tonight to see if it's a software issue.
Hey guys, its been like 3 days since I lost completely the signal on my nexus device, the airplane mode keeps turning on and off on its own, looking at my status everything is "unkonwn" I mean, the baseband, IMEI, radio its off etc..
Ive tried rebooting the phone, pulling out the battery and sim card, doing factory reset, flashing new rom/kernel/radio, and nothing has worked.
Ive almost accepted that is hardware related and that I have to send it to the carrier service to get repaired.
I was just wondering if luckily someone out there had the same problem and figured out how to solve it
Cheers
For the longest time I've been using Scott's Clean ROM ACE on my Note 2. About a week ago, My WiFi started acting up. It would stop working (Stay connected, but not work) so I tried turning it off then back on (then Wireless) and it would just sorta freeze, Saying "Turning off Wifi" Only way I could get it back was to pull the battery, And when it turned back on... Id try to turn Wifi back on, and it would just say "Turning on Wifi" would continue saying that, And the button would go back to "off" but it would still say turning on Wifi, I tried completely resetting it, worked for the most part, but my phone would be really laggy and sometimes the Back and menu buttons or whatever would not work, Or they would lag really bad. So I ended up trying a new ROM, And it did the same thing with the Wifi... I cleared everything, Tried with my SD card, Tried without... same issue.
So, is this a hardware issue or a ROM / Driver issue? I tried the Team Asylum CM10 ROM, And even tried resetting my Clean ROM ACE.. Still no luck. What would be the issue here? My phone has never been dropped, Or got wet... Or been in extreme heat or cold.
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For the longest time I've been using Scott's Clean ROM ACE on my Note 2. About a week ago, My WiFi started acting up. It would stop working (Stay connected, but not work) so I tried turning it off then back on (then Wireless) and it would just sorta freeze, Saying "Turning off Wifi" Only way I could get it back was to pull the battery, And when it turned back on... Id try to turn Wifi back on, and it would just say "Turning on Wifi" would continue saying that, And the button would go back to "off" but it would still say turning on Wifi, I tried completely resetting it, worked for the most part, but my phone would be really laggy and sometimes the Back and menu buttons or whatever would not work, Or they would lag really bad. So I ended up trying a new ROM, And it did the same thing with the Wifi... I cleared everything, Tried with my SD card, Tried without... same issue.
So, is this a hardware issue or a ROM / Driver issue? I tried the Team Asylum CM10 ROM, And even tried resetting my Clean ROM ACE.. Still no luck. What would be the issue here? My phone has never been dropped, Or got wet... Or been in extreme heat or cold.
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Hmm it doesn't sound good but just to be sure I would do a complete flash back to stock with Odin to see if that solves your issue.
Otherwise it could be a motherboard issue, since all the things you're talking about are separate components on the board. It isn't like the Wi-Fi is somehow tied to the keys, so it could be something as simple as a bad resistor.
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Hmm it doesn't sound good but just to be sure I would do a complete flash back to stock with Odin to see if that solves your issue.
Otherwise it could be a motherboard issue, since all the things you're talking about are separate components on the board. It isn't like the Wi-Fi is somehow tied to the keys, so it could be something as simple as a bad resistor.
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So I tried resetting it back to AT&T and nothing, The WiFi still isn't working. It'll be off, I try turning it on... It'll say turning on wifi... For a while, Then the switch thing goes back to "off". Sometimes it'll be greyed out and I can't do anything. So I dunno what to do now.
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So I tried resetting it back to AT&T and nothing, The WiFi still isn't working. It'll be off, I try turning it on... It'll say turning on wifi... For a while, Then the switch thing goes back to "off". Sometimes it'll be greyed out and I can't do anything. So I dunno what to do now.
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Any warranty?
Check your flash counter to see if it is tripped. If you used odin and flashed back to stock and the issue persists, then it is hardware. Make sure the flash counter is not tripped and send it in for repair
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Any warranty?
Check your flash counter to see if it is tripped. If you used odin and flashed back to stock and the issue persists, then it is hardware. Make sure the flash counter is not tripped and send it in for repair
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Weird thing is, I can get the Wifi to work after a while. I did reset the flash counter. Should I try flashing a custom ROM again and seeing if it works?
EDIT: I flashed Scott's ROM 5.0 after doing a flash counter reset and everything is working fine now. I wonder if that is something Samsung does... Or if maybe something got corrupted.
My phone is rooted, im on stock 5.0.1 no custom recovery or anything like that. I haven't changed or done anything to the phone recently either.
If I hold the power button down and look at the airplane mode option it will flicker on and off and as I lose service. Every now and then I'll get service for 5-10 seconds but most of the time my phone signal and data connection are off. Wifi and bluetooth work.
Any suggestions?
Unrooted the phone and went over to Sprint. They did a factory reset but the issue still persists. If anyone know how to fix this or even has suggestions please let me know. Its an otherwise perfectly working phone.