Error: The answering modem has disconnected...help plz - Advantage X7500, MDA Ameo General

Over the past couple days I have noticed a problem with my connection on my advantage. Before I go any farther, this problem has only been happening in one spot..where i work. Everyday when i get to work its all fine and dandy full tmobile connection as well as "tmoible edge" when i click on my signal bar at the top of the advantage screen. Then sometime throughout the day I guess i am loseing my Tmobile data connection, and i cant seem to get it back. I try updating weather, rss feeds, and any of my 3 email accounts and get an error that says:
Cannot Connect
Dialed:
The answering modem has disconnected. To check your connection settings..blah blah, nothing has changed with my connection settings at all. Why would it work in the morning and then not half way through the day? Its usually dead until around the time i get home from work. Although some days I have kept the data connection the whole day. Its just strange to me because I have full bars of tmobile service with the edge icon at work...at home i get iffy 1-2 bars service and no trouble with the data connection....maybe this is beyond the forum, and i shoulda posted it over at Howards, but I wanted to try you guys first. Thanks for any tips or advice!

OK....now its connecting...and I didnt do anything. Is it weird that I have full bars, and trouble with the Tmobile Data(edge) connection? Its about time i bite the bullet and scrap my Tmobile contract for ATT to utilize the 3G

AT&T had many outages during that timeframe (including here in Indy). The problem has been corrected. There's a lot about this over at HoFo.
EDIT: Maybe I should learn to read. You had trouble on T-Mob, not AT&T!

yah, i do have tmobile not ATT yet, however according to engadget reports they werent having any outages from their office in las vegas, which is where im at.

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what's wrong with the service today

I don't know if this is happening to anybody else but today all day i had no service at random times, the onlyt way i'll have service for a couple of minutes is if I shut the phone off and turn it back on but it only last a couple of minutes and then no service again. I live in new york has this happened to anybody?
This happens to me occasionally, but I live in an area with crappy signal. I've found that my radio "Gives up" sometimes.
Solution: Use anycut to make a shortcut to "operator selection" you can select tmobile and you're right back on without restarting.
When this this start happening to you,cuz where I live the service was always great until today and I had my phone for about 2 weeks now with no problems until today.
T-Mobile is already aware that there is a problem with the network and working to fix it.
yeah i just read another guy's thread about the post,thanks
I didn't even read that it was your thread, my fault but is it a problem that only affects g1 right now cuz my girl and my mom are both on tmobile and they're phones were fine, my girl has my old wing and my mom has a blackberry
jkiller122 said:
I didn't even read that it was your thread, my fault but is it a problem that only affects g1 right now cuz my girl and my mom are both on tmobile and they're phones were fine, my girl has my old wing and my mom has a blackberry
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Nope t-mobile said it is affecting voice and data for all phones. Although this could be in certain areas. I can confirm the LA area is having voice problems on 2G phones as well.
oh, thanks for posting the info,if you find out more let us know.
Well now that I think about it it has happened more than usual today, maybe even yesterday? It's hard to tell. I sort of live in a black hole.
just noticed... I am now able to get my location using the 3G network only... weird... and service is back in full for now LOL
The g1 is only affected because it is the only device that t-mobile sells that has its own apn's
Data is cutting in and out in PHX for me... Making my poor GPS useless...
Interestingly, you can still use PING DOMAIN/IP in PTerminal even while your browser isn't working...
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Data is cutting in and out in PHX for me... Making my poor GPS useless...
Interestingly, you can still use PING DOMAIN/IP in PTerminal even while your browser isn't working...
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Yeah I'm on border of scottsdale and phx, get 3g here. Mine has done this ever since I got my g1. I'm gonna try the shortcut idea, I usually turn off and on and it works again. Not just today for me.
This is not a G1 issue or a 3G issue. This is a network issue with all of t-mobiles networks. They are working on the situation and it should be fixed.
all internet or just g1 data problems
Here it's just the g1 (utah) My G1 has been spotty. My friend has a wing. I was trying to troubleshoot. Wile I couldn't connect, he connected just fine. We tried this several times during the day. This has been going on the last 3 or 4 days. Love my G1!
I am in Detroit and my phone was fine all day long. A few minutes ago I just noticed that my 3g icon on the top bar is gone, I tried using 2 g networks only and still no data service. My phone works for regular phone calls and wi-fi but no data coming. I will re-star the phone to see what happens.. Anyone else having this issue???
Just did rebooted and 3G is back on and working...

T-Mobile UK problems

Is anybody else having connection problems with T-Mobile today? I've had no reception for hours and my friends are experiencing the same issue. We're all in Glasgow so I wonder if it's a local problem or not.
When i scan for networks i get "your sim card does not allow connections to this network" when i choose t-mobile.
My friends have their reception back and i have only had it back once in the past few hours until i started getting the error again.
Bill has been paid etc so im not banned or anything.
Got connected with the 'Use only 2G' option. Have read on other forums that T-Mobile's 3G servers are having trouble today.
This sucks!
This happens all the time mate.
I'm in Greenock near the T-Mobile building with the big 3G transmitter, makes no difference, sometimes it just goes tits-up and only way make communication is to switch to 2G.
pain in the arse.
Had the same sort of issues as well, thought it was localised to the transmitter closest to me as it happened a few months ago and took T-Mo around a month to fix. Seems to be working OK now, though
just as a tip, you may want to consider using Twitter to search for any outages with your network provider.
i'm on O2, and live in an area where i'll get a decent connection in one room while getting a bad connection in another (usually my bedroom!)
When I get connection issues, I use Twitter to see if it's a UK-wide issue, or if it's just problem in my local area. I find it to be more informative in this situation than any kind of forum, since it's about as real-time as you can get.
And the best thing is, you don't even need an account to use the search! http://search.twitter.com

TMob US - 3g service, but no internet

Ok, this is goofy.
Wifi works great
EVDO connects to internet and works great
3g shows 3 bars, but will not connect to internet
This is true even after a hard reset. Must be a settings issue? I did a hard reset, let it set up, and still same problem.
I got the same problem. Purchased the phone yesterday morning. I never had the data plan before. I called T-Mobile twice and they told me that it can take up to 48 hours for the data to kick in. If it doesn't work by tomorrow morning, I'll give them a call again.
i got the same thing too guys. it is fine now and i got a text message from tmo so it it cuts out again i will chime back in.
buy yeah, yesterday i lost connection twice for long periods of time, like a couple of hours.
Thanks for the info! Seems pretty weird that it works when I'm in an E area, but not on 3g. Maybe different towers or something. Friggin awesome phone though!
LOL, WTF
i just tried to go on yahoo on my hd2 just now after posting and guess what.... it's out again!
OK so I pulled the battery and popped it back in and my internet is back.
i hope this isn't a hardware issue!
Yeah, this is interesting. Popped my TMo sim into my Xperia, could only get E level of service for some reason but could connect to the internet. Put the sim back in my HD2, took it to the far corner of the basement where it drops to E service and it connects to the internet. Back in 3g zone and it won't connect at all. At least it seems to have a stronger antenna than the Xperia. I'll have to give them a call and see whats going on.
there was an issue with the settings...
you can try a couple of things first...
if you are familiar with windows (which sounds like you are), you need to go change the access point name (apn) to one of 2 options...
wap.voicestream.com
epc.tmobile.com
I called into customer service about same issue. I was told to power down, remove battery and start it again and check. It worked afterward.
Maybe it was due to them activating my new data plan, from Android data to Smart phone data. I don't know, just guessing.
I thought maybe I was having this same problem yesterday..
thought eh its all in my head.
Maybe it was due to them activating my new data plan, from Android data to Smart phone data. I don't know, just guessing/QUOTE]
What phone did you have?
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This is tmoUS, guys. They're notorious for having ****ty 3G service. No point in having HSPA+ when the majority of the people are still reliant on EDGE. Hopefully by summer you guys will get decent coverage.
hazard99 said:
I thought maybe I was having this same problem yesterday..
thought eh its all in my head.
Maybe it was due to them activating my new data plan, from Android data to Smart phone data. I don't know, just guessing/QUOTE]
What phone did you have?
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HTC Dream.
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lude219 said:
This is tmoUS, guys. They're notorious for having ****ty 3G service. No point in having HSPA+ when the majority of the people are still reliant on EDGE. Hopefully by summer you guys will get decent coverage.
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I'm in NYC. The 3G is good here. Rarely had problems. Probably only a day or something that I can remember.
spotty here in denver. got mine last night. can't get any gps satellites for google maps either.
-Tony
""there was an issue with the settings...
you can try a couple of things first...
if you are familiar with windows (which sounds like you are), you need to go change the access point name (apn) to one of 2 options...
wap.voicestream.com
epc.tmobile.com""
It was set to epc.tmobile.com
I tried to change it to wap.voicestream.com, but that setting errored out.
Then couldn't get the epc.tmobile.com setting to work which is strange. Soo, did a hard reset and let it set up again. Same thing. I can connect to internet with Edge, but 3g even though it shows the signal bars and everything seems great will not connect to internet, download email, update weather, etc.
I too am have this problem... Sometimes web works great, other times no web but strong 3G.... I thought I was going crazy...
My internet was working really slow yesterday when I first got the phone (5-60 kbit/s). Called up tmo to ask if maybe they had set me up with just tzones or something. The guy said "no everything looks fine here...oh wait I see there's something that needs to be reset; I'm surprised you were getting internet at all." When I asked him what it was he said he "couldn't really explain what it was", to which I replied "..."
Anyway, it seems to be working fine now. Don't know if this could be related to the problems you're having, but giving tmobile a call couldn't hurt, maybe they can flip the magic unexplainable switch for you.
Ok so I couldn't get internet for two days now, I called T-mobile twice and told me to wait 48 hours. After thinking something was fishy, I looked at my receipt from Wal-Mart where I purchased the phone and I noticed something peculiar: "REQ Android Web: 30:00". Knowing damn sure I did not purchase an android phone, I called T-Mobile for the third time, complaining, so the first guy transferred me to another operator. He checked out my account and it turned out that I didn't have any data plan at all. So he added the plan and within 20 minutes I was surfing. Everything works great. I'm getting about 850 kbps in northwest Indiana.
It's very interesting that the first two operators I called never even bothered to look at my account to see if I have a data plan.
Just discovered new regarding the no data issue.
I had the no data problem again today, even though it was working in the morning. I decided to reboot and check, but then I noticed the 'Terminate Data Connection' option when I hold down the power button. So I tried it. It killed the data connection and when I went into Google Maps, the data connection reactivated and everything was fine again.
So, it may be a bug!

Error Code 67 while roaming driving me nuts

First off, I have NOT made ANY attempt to use the phone as a WiFi hotspot, and I do NOT live in a 4G area, so don't tell me that's my problem and send me on my way
About 11am PDT today my phone started giving me Error Code 67 (Data Call Failure) whenever I try to access the internet or data services from my office (my office has an 850 MHz repeater so I roam in the office). When I am outside or not in my office and the phone picks up a Sprint signal, everything is fine. As soon as I come back inside and my phone switches to roaming, Error Code 67. I've had two calls with Sprint so far...They're updating the provisioning servers or some such thing at the moment and are going to call me back when that's completed.
Has anyone else experienced this today or recently and if so did you find a resolution? I can't easily take the phone back to where I bought it and have them fiddle with it in person as that's 100 mi away.
Thanks!
I've had the same issue too. See it mostly when traveling and the signal strength changes. Not to much when I'm in one spot.
It's quite annoying. I turn the display off and on hoping to pick the signal back up. Makes me think it is a Sprint network problem especially since I've now confirmed someone else has the problem too.
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Well, they've got me fixed up again. Also while I was on the phone the gentleman helping me out received an interoffice message stating a server responsible for doing profile updates (Device Configuration message) on the EVO had gone down, so they're failing right now.
I have been getting it as well. I thought it was the roaming hack but I don't believe that is the case. Think it's just something on Sprints network.
I have gotten it too on both of my EVO's....I guess it's not just me
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I have been getting it as well. I thought it was the roaming hack but I don't believe that is the case. Think it's just something on Sprints network.
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Yeah I read through that whole thread and it seems a fair amount of people have had this happen today. And as I wrote in that thread some service at Sprint related to sending out new PRLs and profiles to our phones went down as well.
I had the same problem yesterday my 3g suddenly went out with the 67 error but 4g still worked. I called sprint and they reset something on their end and after programming itself it w.ent away and my 3g data speed saw a nice speedbump
I've had this issue a few times with my Evo. Every time it has happened to me, I've had little or no signal.
What I think is happening is that the phone begins to authenticate itself with the data servers but then I lose reception, which causes the authentication to fail, hence the error message.
I _think_ I've had this happen on my Hero too.
yeah, (don't quote me on this, i may be wrong) i think error 67 is in regards to no data hookup, and if your phone is set to not get data during roaming, or to dilly dally about it (maybe roam guard?) (check settings > wireless and networks > mobile networks), it'll give you that error
I too had this issue for a while today. It was annoying the crap out of me.
same thing happened to me today, for some reason i wasn't able to get anything but a weak roaming signal at work all day. i called sprint, they wiped my phone and i still wasn't able to do the profile/prl update. i was able to do it once i left the building, of course i had to start with a blank slate on the phone. i'm hoping that after the updates i get a better signal in the building, otherwise i can't keep the phone and will have to return it for a (gag) iphone. after 3 days with a vastly superior OS that would be a tough thing to do.
Mine is def. not the Roam settings... That's the first thing I do is turn off Roam guard, call guard, special roam ring...etc. due to me having almost no signal at work.
I had this issue when I changed to the Alltel PRL. I rebooted, then ran the PRL update. It took a while to do, but once it got the Sprint PRL everything was fine.
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I had the same issue yesterday around the same time as the OP. Seems that maybe Sprint was having issues. Anyway, phone is back working and roaming today and even roaming 3G in the DC metro which is Verizon and was never Alltel AFAIK, so that's cool. Actually, some stations have Sprint in them, but others are Verizon and I had 3G Roaming in them today, so I was pleasently surprised, hope it sticks.

Data Connectivity

Is this normal?
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I'll try to make this as short as possible.
Connectivity issues everywhere but work.
I have been speaking with T-mobile for atleast 3 weeks about my ongoing data connectivity issues, I rarely had 3g except for at work, and edge worked most of the time except for random data outages that seemed to last about 30 min or until I rebooted the device.
So about a week ago I had 2 more Service requests opened, you need 3 in order to aquire a trouble ticket with t-mobile. About 1-2 days after having these service requests opened, I started receiving pop ups "unable to connect to epc.tmobile.com" I would then have to manually turn my data connect back on, upon trying to power it on, it would prompt me to manage my connections or create a new one, I would then have to edit the apn and resave it.
So I thought well lets try one of the other apn's same issue except no pop up, my data connection would just drop, and I would have to turn it on and off 3 or 4 times. So I wiped the device and restored back to orginal settings- same issue.
I called t-mobile yesterday to check the status of my tickets after not being called back as promised for like the 8th time, I ended up telling the story to about 7 different people, Eventually coming to the conclusion that they first want to send me a replacement. So ok no big deal $10 bucks for shipping and $10 bucks to replace my armor. Lo and behold today it works amazing not 1 3g drop, slacker has not stopped playing in the middle of a song and my data connection has not randomly turned off.
EXCEPT
When I send or receive data in the form of a text msg.
Data will totally drop, It will come back as soon as I try to browse the web or wait about 5-10 minutes.
Any ideas?
If it isn't full 3G, then the data connection will pause to receive the text message.
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If it isn't full 3G, then the data connection will pause to receive the text message.
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How can you tell if its full strength? I read that the bars do not mean that 3g is full strength, just that the cell service is.
Either way, I have full bars and it does this at any location I test from.
It's just strange that everytime I speak with T-mobile my phone symptoms totally change.
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How can you tell if its full strength? I read that the bars do not mean that 3g is full strength, just that the cell service is.
Either way, I have full bars and it does this at any location I test from.
It's just strange that everytime I speak with T-mobile my phone symptoms totally change.
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Sorry, I meant when it is EDGE or GPRS, rather than HSDPA/3G.
Sometimes mine pauses a 3G connection too, but not all the time.
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Sorry, I meant when it is EDGE or GPRS, rather than HSDPA/3G.
Sometimes mine pauses a 3G connection too, but not all the time.
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Ahh ok I see, good to know it shouldn't do it all the time , especially at places it did not happen prior.
Tested my gf's HD2 which is currently half way across Phoenix, Arizona. She now has the same disconnect from data problem after receiving a text with a picture.

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