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Ok i'm having an ANNOYING issue here...

Up until yesterday ive always drawn 3-4 bars at the least inside of my house. All of a sudden out of nowhere I cant get any bars. Its like theyll pop on and then just disappear really quick. Its made my data painfully slow and I cant figure out what the issue is. I've reflashed the radio and that didnt help. Made sure the network was set to CDMA... that didnt help. Im a little clueless here. And periodically itll pull up two or three bars and then almost instantly the service will die out altogether and an X will pop up where the bars normally are....then the process starts all over. WTF? Is this a network issue or is it my phone? I hadnt made any changes before I started experiencing the problems.
Odd thing is im at work right now and im getting stable bars just fine.

So 66 views and no comments... i guess im the only one to ever have this issue then.

Sprint has been having network issues for a few weeks now in different markets and I'm sure you're being affected by it. Just give it a little bit and if it is still there in a week or two contact customer service. Hell, maybe even try now to see if they're actually having issues in your area so at least you'll know.

I love how people come here and post that they are having signal issues and data issues and they haven't called Sprint to see if there is an outage or issues in their area. The first thing I would do it restart my phone and call Sprint. Not flash a radio, try a different ROM...blah blah blah.

Or... maybe it didnt occur to you that calling to see if there were network issues was the first thing I did. You think id actually go through the trouble of doing all that over again without calling first? I guess I should've said that but c'mon lol...

tgruendler has a valid point. we can't assume anything. we get enough "noobs" here that unless you tell us what you've done, we assume you jumped straight to XDA without doing your due diligence. Perhaps those 66 views all thought the same, "this guy hasn't even contacted sprint. pass!" now that we've ruled sprints network out, now we can do something constructive.
what radio version are you running?

I mean I hear you and all but look at my join date lol... im far from a noob I just dont post much. The really odd thing is I switched back to an older radio and the problem went away. I flashed the newer radio and it came back so im seriously wondering just wtf...
Im using the 1.34 radio and the problem is gone. Im just curious as to why the newer radio frizzed out on me all of a sudden since i've been using that one for like a month. I dunno but it seems like the issue is fixed for now.

i noticed this same exact issue when I installed fresh ROM. I know I installed the new radio back then as well. see my post:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=8886052&postcount=5919

[Q] Emails not pushing with exchange on CM7

I've been experiencing issues with my work email not pushing to my phone running CM7. When I was on stock it was pretty quirky and I noticed the same quirky behavior on Iced Glacier, but, it's actually the closest to working now that I have CM7, other than the fact that it won't push.
So, here's what's happening, periodically (or should I say inevitably, since it happens regularly), exchange will stop pushing emails to my phone. At first, when I boot my phone, everything is working fine and I receive any emails which had not been previously pushed to my phone. After awhile, usually about 3 hours or so, push just stops working. It feels like something is getting hung up, because when I try and open mail and refresh the emails nothing happens. During this time, I also can't pull any contacts off the global contacts when I try and compose an email. On that note, I'm not sure if anything I try and send is actually going out during this time. I have tried disabling and re enabling sync, but that didn't do anything. Actually, it looks like it get stuck during exchange sync, which confuses me just as much.
However, the kicker is that if I reboot the phone, it starts working just fine... until the problem appears again. I'm currently running CM 7.0 but I had this problem in CM7 RC2 as well (my last ROM).
Any ideas guys?

Your best bet is to ask this in the correct thread. I would suggest posting this in the CM7 thread where you got the ROM. There is where other users and the developer can assist with questions such as yours.

I was originally going to ask over there, but I realized I didn't have enough posts to do so. I guess I'll live with my issue until I get enough posts to post in the developer forums (which may be awhile, because I'm a hardcore lurker).

greatwithtoast said:
I've been experiencing issues with my work email not pushing to my phone running CM7. When I was on stock it was pretty quirky and I noticed the same quirky behavior on Iced Glacier, but, it's actually the closest to working now that I have CM7, other than the fact that it won't push.
So, here's what's happening, periodically (or should I say inevitably, since it happens regularly), exchange will stop pushing emails to my phone. At first, when I boot my phone, everything is working fine and I receive any emails which had not been previously pushed to my phone. After awhile, usually about 3 hours or so, push just stops working. It feels like something is getting hung up, because when I try and open mail and refresh the emails nothing happens. During this time, I also can't pull any contacts off the global contacts when I try and compose an email. On that note, I'm not sure if anything I try and send is actually going out during this time. I have tried disabling and re enabling sync, but that didn't do anything. Actually, it looks like it get stuck during exchange sync, which confuses me just as much.
However, the kicker is that if I reboot the phone, it starts working just fine... until the problem appears again. I'm currently running CM 7.0 but I had this problem in CM7 RC2 as well (my last ROM).
Any ideas guys?
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Hey toast, I use work exchange as well and I have actually had better results with CM7 versus stock. ONly thought I have is did you do a full wipe before you upgraded/installed? That seems to fix most of my issues.
**Side Note** I know you didn't post this in the dev forum cause as a noob like me, we're not allowed.

Tylormde said:
Hey toast, I use work exchange as well and I have actually had better results with CM7 versus stock. ONly thought I have is did you do a full wipe before you upgraded/installed? That seems to fix most of my issues.
**Side Note** I know you didn't post this in the dev forum cause as a noob like me, we're not allowed.
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I did do a full wipe. I make sure to always do a full wipe when installing a new ROM. I will say that CM7 works better than stock, but that's only when it works. I mean, one thing that may be causing problems is that in my area, we only have GPRS, we don't have EDGE, 3G, or Pseudo-4g. I have to roam to get EDGE, which, only provides a decent connection about half of the time. Do you think it might be possible that it's getting hung up when I leave wifi?

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I did do a full wipe. I make sure to always do a full wipe when installing a new ROM. I will say that CM7 works better than stock, but that's only when it works. I mean, one thing that may be causing problems is that in my area, we only have GPRS, we don't have EDGE, 3G, or Pseudo-4g. I have to roam to get EDGE, which, only provides a decent connection about half of the time. Do you think it might be possible that it's getting hung up when I leave wifi?
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I think there's a good chance that is your problem. If its working good on Wifi and not on cell connection, especially GPRS, then the exchange server probably can't push data fast enough to refresh and times out.

Tylormde said:
I think there's a good chance that is your problem. If its working good on Wifi and not on cell connection, especially GPRS, then the exchange server probably can't push data fast enough to refresh and times out.
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I agree, that seems like a fairly logical reason. Especially when you consider it's also too slow to actually download MMS messages without a time-out. I guess I'm just going to have to live with this until T-mobile finally gets their network here upgraded (they were supposed to have it up and running 2 months ago, but failed to do so due to government agencies failing to get off the damn spectrum).
Either way, do you think there might be any chance of any sort of work around?

greatwithtoast said:
I agree, that seems like a fairly logical reason. Especially when you consider it's also too slow to actually download MMS messages without a time-out. I guess I'm just going to have to live with this until T-mobile finally gets their network here upgraded (they were supposed to have it up and running 2 months ago, but failed to do so due to government agencies failing to get off the damn spectrum).
Either way, do you think there might be any chance of any sort of work around?
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I'm curious what general area your in? I'm not gonna say who I work for but lets call it a US carrier that isn't looking forward to a possible merger with AT&T
I know the build out is supposed to aggressive this year, so there is hope your coverage gets better. Sadly, if turning off push mail and using a manual sync mode doesn't work either, I think your out of luck when not on Wifi.

I live in San Angelo, Texas. Apparently, our fiber lines have been laid and they're just waiting to flip the switch.

Screen timeout options in new firmware

Updated to the latest firmware and noticed that they dropped the Never option for screen timeout. I'm kinda pissed because I have been using that for the past week or so and my Live Tiles were doing a much better job with it set to never turn off.
I'm one of the few people around here lucky enough to have a problem free phone. I've never had any of the problems that this new firmware is supposed to fix, so I really don't need it. I am seriously considering rolling back to the old firmware to get the Never setting back. Before I go through all the trouble with that, I just wanted to double check that the the Never setting is gone for everyone with the new firmware.
Does anyone out there with the new firmware still have Never as an option for the screen time out?

Nope, gone for me too. But, I kept mine set to 1 minute anyway.

Oops I posted a new thread before I noticed this. I'm pissed too. I used it with my car stereo and Zune. I used to be able to control music easily at a glance while driving (using cradle). Now it's too much of a process and dangerous. I also liked keeping it on while charging (why do I need a locked phone at home, sitting right next to me, not drawing power from battery?) What genius made this decision!

I have yet to find a single benefit for the new firmware on my phone. Seems exactly the same to me but with the Never option removed. I think I may try rolling it back with the Zune backup.

The Dell tech I spoke with in India actually told me to re-sync the phone, factory reset it and sync it again (at least that's what I think he said, I had to ask him to repeat himself several times as I don't think our English dialects were compatible). I'm afraid to try this. He also offered to send me my third replacement phone if this was unsuccessful. I think I'll just live with it. I'm so tired of dealing with Dell. According to my logs I've clocked in well over 7 hours of phone time with them. I try to remain loyal to Microsoft, but I think it's Android time. I feel so embarrassed when my buddy uses his Evo in my presence.

Ginger Break broke 3G

Ok I fear I have a very isolated problem since I have not found any other posts over multiple sites on the same issue.
I bought my VM optimus V 3 days ago and wanted to root it. I had used gingerbreak to root my optimus M just 1-2 weeks ago without problem. Well unfortunately I did not see that it basically doesnt work anymore (I did PLENTY of research but you guys have the only post), and installed and attempted a root.
It failed after a few restarts and tries, so I moved on, but soon I noticed 3G and GPS (I guess data as a whole) was not working.
Since then (2 days) I have rooted using <yuck> windows-superoneclick and flashed multiple ROMS including stock with success. BUT no matter what I do the data is still not working.
VM couldnt figure anything out, and has escalated the issue internally, and I could go down to BEST BUY and exchange it as broken, but I'd rather figure it out, and I hope its something stupid easy.
Can any serious developers, or even funny ones help me out here? Thanks in advance!

Update
Wow, no one up for a challenge?
Latest: Its been escalated again to like lvl3 VM support now, since 3G shows up and up and down arrows flash but it doesnt actually work. Also the virgin activate app completes but identified my phone as a Nexus S!!???
Any takers?

Same thing happened to me I freaked out.
I saw this thread and used Gingerbreak to unroot my phone in hopes the problem would go away. It didn't seem to. Then I tried to turn on some sync things like gmail and google reader. Googled for a bit and the 3g came back on I received the email notice for signing up to xda and just thought I would let you know it wasn't permanent. If you backed up your original rom with the gingerbreak try flashing to it and unrooting. Then wait a while for the 3g to come back.

Wifi issues - any advice

Hoping someone may have some advice, myself and two friends managed to bag an amazingly good deal for a Tab A 10.1 with o2 UK (£52 in total), problem being we're all having wifi issues.
One friend requested a replacement and the replacement has the same issue too, so thats 4 tablets in total.
The issue is wifi just seems to randomly stop working, it shows a full signal but you can't access any sites or play store or stream anything etc. You then have to either wait until it decides to work again or manually turn wifi off and back on at which point it carries on as normal for however long it decides to work for. Rinse and repeat.
I bought it basiclly as a streaming device and I can't use it because eveeything buffers constantly due to the wifi issue so I'm back using my old iPad.
I spoke to samsung support yesterday and they said it's a known softeare issue but no idea when the update to fix it will be released, I'm two days out of my 14 day return window so I can't return it.
There's a samsung store not far so will take it in tomorrow to be checked over but I thought I'd ask here as I'm new to android, so imagine there's people here far more knowledgable than me and may have some ideas I could try. I've already tried a factory reset and rebooting my router, I have virgin media so have tried both 2ghz and 5ghz network types. Non of which has helped. My friends have different ISP's to me so can't be a VM issue either.
Any advice is appreciated
Thanks

Have you updated your the latest firmware?
Incidentally this happens on the Tab A 7 too. No idea when Samsung will/if fix it either.
Might be worth trying a static ip address.

ashyx said:
Have you updated your the latest firmware?
Incidentally this happens on the Tab A 7 too. No idea when Samsung will/if fix it either.
Might be worth trying a static ip address.
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Thanks for the reply,
I took it to the samsung service centre today they did a software rebuild and have set a static IP address, so will see how it goes over the next few days.

Jerri1240 said:
Thanks for the reply,
I took it to the samsung service centre today they did a software rebuild and have set a static IP address, so will see how it goes over the next few days.
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Let us know how it goes.

Well it's improved some, b ut still not what I'd call stable. And I'm not sure if the improvement has come from the software reflash or the static ip address.

Take that back, still just as crap.

Jerri1240 said:
Take that back, still just as crap.
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I don't know if it's the driver module or the actual wifi hardware that's causing the issue, but it is annoying.
I haven't bothered tracing the issue because I don't use my Tab A enough to let it bother me.
If you could pull the logcat when it happens, it might give an idea what's going on.
I recommend the syslog app.

ashyx said:
I don't know if it's the driver module or the actual wifi hardware that's causing the issue, but it is annoying.
I haven't bothered tracing the issue because I don't use my Tab A enough to let it bother me.
If you could pull the logcat when it happens, it might give an idea what's going on.
I recommend the syslog app.
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Apologies I'm not familiar with that app, so have no idea if I've done this correctly.
I installed syslog and tried to stream something on BBC iPlayer, the issue occured immediately so I went into syslog and saved the log. Have attached the logcat.
Again, apologies if I've not done it correctly I've never used the app before, if it's not right please just let me know how to correctly capture the log and i'll do it again.
Thanks.

Well I give up. I can't think of anything else to do.
I requested a replacment in the end because the wifi issue is so bad, the replacement has the exact same issue. So that's 5 out of 5 with the same issue.
Samsung support are utterly useless, they say it's a software issue and will be fixed with an update but have no idea when or if that update will be released. I had hoped the update the tablet received yesterday would have helped but nope.
So far I've restored to factory, cleared the cache, reset my router, taken to the service centre for a software rebuild - non of that helped, so I requested a replacement, which has the exact same issues.
Can't say I'm impressed with samsung. Will be avoiding in future!

i'm having the same issue. have to return it - can't use it for work if the vpn is dropping every two minutes. there are a number of posts here and elsewhere on this - like this one.
i'm sure that there are lots of frustrated customers and lots of soon-to-be refurbished devices. i'm returning mine (sadly).
btw, i also had this issue on my old 2014 tablet (SM-P600) and it cleared up once i moved to a custom ROM. i'm assuming samsung fixed it eventually but new devices have same issue. samsung is doing something weird and wrong to be shipping so many devices with flawed wifi.
my note 8 does not have this issue at all. happily connects and stays connected anywhere, anytime.

Jerri1240 said:
Hoping someone may have some advice, myself and two friends managed to bag an amazingly good deal for a Tab A 10.1 with o2 UK (£52 in total), problem being we're all having wifi issues.
One friend requested a replacement and the replacement has the same issue too, so thats 4 tablets in total.
The issue is wifi just seems to randomly stop working, it shows a full signal but you can't access any sites or play store or stream anything etc. You then have to either wait until it decides to work again or manually turn wifi off and back on at which point it carries on as normal for however long it decides to work for. Rinse and repeat.
I bought it basiclly as a streaming device and I can't use it because eveeything buffers constantly due to the wifi issue so I'm back using my old iPad.
I spoke to samsung support yesterday and they said it's a known softeare issue but no idea when the update to fix it will be released, I'm two days out of my 14 day return window so I can't return it.
There's a samsung store not far so will take it in tomorrow to be checked over but I thought I'd ask here as I'm new to android, so imagine there's people here far more knowledgable than me and may have some ideas I could try. I've already tried a factory reset and rebooting my router, I have virgin media so have tried both 2ghz and 5ghz network types. Non of which has helped. My friends have different ISP's to me so can't be a VM issue either.
Any advice is appreciated
Thanks
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Having 5 tablets with the exact same symptoms says to me that it isn't a hardware problem. If each tablet has the same OS version, it only makes sense to try another version. I'd go to the Sammobile site and download the latest firmware from a couple of different regions and install them with Odin.

There is an app on Play called WIFI Fixer by Zanshin-g1.
It completely fixed the wifi connection issues on my Tab A.