So I grabbed the latest update from HTC to my buddy's 6800 a couple days ago. I ran the RUU and the flash went down without a hitch, problem is that the thing is stuck in roaming mode and when I hit 611 I will get verizon customer service instead of sprint, I flash it again and I get alltell customer service.
Anyone got any ideas why something like this would happen?
I thought that I could install the sprint carrier cab that I found here but that didn't phase it at all. Everything on the unit is still sprint branded, but the GPS isn't working and I pretty much stopped using it till I can fix it... Don't need a high bill in this economy. I've tried flashing it many times now, treating it like a game of roulette but I only get one of those two providers but not mine.
"I've tried nothing and I'm all out of ideas"
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I have an unlocked and rooted Samsung Galaxy phone.
Everything was working fine for a year.
Randomly, I lost connection today, and it says that it is not registered on the Network anymore. I tried taking the battery out and re starting the phone and taking out the Sim card, but no luck.
Any suggestions? If I were to install a new rom or the old one, do you think that would fix it?
I was thinking maybe its a problem with Fido, which is my provider, over a unpaid bill or something. I am not sure. Everything was working fine until like 9pm tonight, and then I lost connection.
Or do you think I have to use Odin to put it back to the original factory rom?
If I put it back to the original factory rom, would it become locked again?
This phone was very complicated to unlock, as when I tried the normal method to unlock it, it just gave me zeros.
I bought my phone originally off ebay about 8 months ago.
Everything worked fine pretty much up until tonight.
Do you think this means my phone is black listed? And I will have to change IMEI?
I am going to call my service provider here, but is unlocked, its a T-Mobile phone, but I am using Fido as a provider.
I got a vibrant t959 but some one updated it on i9000 rome by odin and unlocked as i9000. it unlocked but signal up and down always. now i updated it again on t959 original rom and rooted it, recovery and download mode came back again now its normal. but still signal problem. when check status typing *#7465625# it show all locks off position, but still have signal problem. pls any body help me if can.
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I was just wondering if I reset everything back to stock/original, will I have to unlock the phone again?
Or will it stay unlocked?
Check your APN settings first try googling your carriers proper APN and make sure its set properly. If thats not it, try reflashing your rom make a backup first.. I'm not sure about having to reunlock your phone you'll have to search XDA. That is a curious problem. Hopefully its not a stolen phone if so they may have blocked the IMEI number the only way to tell is to call the carrier if your paying your bill hey should be willing to answer your question. I recommend buying phones from someone you know and not online.
The phone actually worked today.
I am living in a basement, and I guess one of the towers went down or the reception is just gone bad.
When I went outside 30 minutes later I was getting full signal and everything worked.
Then I went back in the basement, it went back to searching for signal and provider.
Very strange, as I always use to receive signal in the past.
This same thing happened to me last night. I bought my phone a year ago outright. I downloaded sgs unlock app and unlocked the phone. It has worked fine until last night. I have tried entering the unlock code again and it says network unlock sim unsuccessful. I went to the att store and got a new sim thinking maybe the sim card quit working and this did not help. Seems like this has happened to a few people last night. Can anyone help?
I was running tx_dbs_tx Hybrid X 3.0 up until this morning when my phone suddenly kept popping up the Data Roaming Guard. Whenever I would attempt to make a call, it would alert me to a Verizon error to reboot my phone -I am on Sprint. I flashed with Odin the stock OK1 software, and besides having Knox and ItsOn back on my phone and battery life being horrible once again, I am still receiving the Data Roaming Guard splash screen and still receiving the Verizon error when making calls. I was able to make a single call after using the Activate Device self-service, but it didn't even last 20 minutes.
Again, back on stock OK1 ROM from Sammobile, re-rooted with Freeza's OK1 stock kernel, SuperSU Beta 2.52, any help would be greatly appreciated.
BGray210 said:
I was running tx_dbs_tx Hybrid X 3.0 up until this morning when my phone suddenly kept popping up the Data Roaming Guard. Whenever I would attempt to make a call, it would alert me to a Verizon error to reboot my phone -I am on Sprint. I flashed with Odin the stock OK1 software, and besides having Knox and ItsOn back on my phone and battery life being horrible once again, I am still receiving the Data Roaming Guard splash screen and still receiving the Verizon error when making calls. I was able to make a single call after using the Activate Device self-service, but it didn't even last 20 minutes.
Again, back on stock OK1 ROM from Sammobile, re-rooted with Freeza's OK1 stock kernel, SuperSU Beta 2.52, any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Do you live in a 4G Sprint area? If not this EXACT same thing happened to me and my wife right before they started 4G in our area. Even service calls went to Verizon first. Evidently even the Sprint reps had no idea that 4G was getting turned on in my area, they had me do all the #* dialer codes and both our phones said we were in roaming for like a day or two.
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Do you live in a 4G Sprint area? If not this EXACT same thing happened to me and my wife right before they started 4G in our area. Even service calls went to Verizon first. Evidently even the Sprint reps had no idea that 4G was getting turned on in my area, they had me do all the #* dialer codes and both our phones said we were in roaming for like a day or two.
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Yes, San Antonio was one of the first markets with Sprint to have 4G WiMax and then 4G LTE. It had been running just fine for months, but suddenly stopped working. Even after flashing stock back on without root or any added apps besides Sprint's auto-downloads, it still had the problem. Took it to the store yesterday and baffled them all for 2 hours before they ordered me a replacement. They even tried a new sim card because I told them that I've had problems intermittently in the past with the Roaming Guard popping up and forums stated it could be a bad sim card. The Sprint # codes wouldn't even work. Anyways, they ordered me a replacement- won't have it until Tuesday but thanks for the response. I had never heard of anything like this happening before and it struck me as odd. I even checked the settings for the network and they all checked out fine, Sprint store reps did the same and were just as perplexed as I was.
Mine was doing almost the same. Seemed like it had to go to verizon when it would go between towers. Then back to sprint. So I did the ##72786# that is suppose to launch the hands free activation. Although it didnt launch it(due to custom rom), it did run the provisioning stuff and fixed mine. Hasn't went to roaming yet.
No promise it will work. But hopfully it will fix yours. Assuming you are on a note 4.
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Mine was doing almost the same. Seemed like it had to go to verizon when it would go between towers. Then back to sprint. So I did the ##72786# that is suppose to launch the hands free activation. Although it didnt launch it(due to custom rom), it did run the provisioning stuff and fixed mine. Hasn't went to roaming yet.
No promise it will work. But hopfully it will fix yours. Assuming you are on a note 4.
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Yes, I am on Sprint Note 4, but the pound codes wouldn't even work. As soon as I put in the last # sign it just cleared out the dialer. I found a complete list of # codes on sammobile or samfirmware site, can't remember which, and even Sprint attempted them. I had flashed back to stock available on Sammobile prior to going to Sprint, but it still didn't work. You don't think different flashes or ROMs or kernels could have caused this do you?
Anyways, I have the insurance through Sprint and have a new one on the way Tuesday. I just hate not being able to figure out a software related problem. I was also trying to find a way to do it manually while rooted, but couldn't find the right edits because I cannot even remember how to get into the correct settings at the moment-mind cluttered with too many projects.
I appreciate all of the responses though and really enjoy learning about my device on xda and hope to either create my own apps or even cook a ROM in the near future.
Hello, First time poster, and quite frankly a noob at a lot of this. Here's my issue, i have a at&t Samsung Galaxy S4 that i recieved from a family member that was stuck in a serious boot loop. Only way i could get it to come back was to flash the stock firmware, which worked excellent....now my issue, it seems like about 98% of the time i have the "No Service" icon up top. I got the phone locked through at&t but have since unlocked it to use on Straight talk, as thats what i was originally advised to do by an at&t member (turns out I didnt even need to do this in the first place as ST is just using the at&t towers as a reseller). Unlocked phone, still no service. I had ST previously in a Galaxy S2 in my current location and service was superb, so i know its not a carrier issue. Is it possible that when i flashed stock rom, that i missed something? I checked around and it seems like my modem is updated to the latest setting. When i switched it to ST after about 30 minutes the signal popped up and it seems like as soon as it showed up, it was gone again. Since that point i've been able to make 1 call (I activated ST about 4 days ago) and that call was today, with only 1 bar of reception. Shortly after that call the signal dropped completely again. I am at a complete loss as to why it refuses to get any reception. I was thinking maybe the modem needs to be updated, but the wifi works perfect, and the reception seems to show up (just as 1 little bar) rarely. Anyone have any ideas?
Also, as a little side note, i have done a hard reset a few times and to no avail at fixing the issue. I assume since at certain times i do get the little "1 bar" connection that its not a hardware issue but a software issue thats withholding the phone from reaching potential reception. Any help would work wonders as i've paid the $60 for the BYOP Straight talk.
Which firmware did you flash as the latest firmware is 5.01 and there is no stock rom from att for this version.
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Hello, First time poster, and quite frankly a noob at a lot of this. Here's my issue, i have a at&t Samsung Galaxy S4 that i recieved from a family member that was stuck in a serious boot loop. Only way i could get it to come back was to flash the stock firmware, which worked excellent....now my issue, it seems like about 98% of the time i have the "No Service" icon up top. I got the phone locked through at&t but have since unlocked it to use on Straight talk, as thats what i was originally advised to do by an at&t member (turns out I didnt even need to do this in the first place as ST is just using the at&t towers as a reseller). Unlocked phone, still no service. I had ST previously in a Galaxy S2 in my current location and service was superb, so i know its not a carrier issue. Is it possible that when i flashed stock rom, that i missed something? I checked around and it seems like my modem is updated to the latest setting. When i switched it to ST after about 30 minutes the signal popped up and it seems like as soon as it showed up, it was gone again. Since that point i've been able to make 1 call (I activated ST about 4 days ago) and that call was today, with only 1 bar of reception. Shortly after that call the signal dropped completely again. I am at a complete loss as to why it refuses to get any reception. I was thinking maybe the modem needs to be updated, but the wifi works perfect, and the reception seems to show up (just as 1 little bar) rarely. Anyone have any ideas?
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If your wifi is working perfect, then modem is not your problem. I have never used Straighttalk but you mentioned that ST is using the AT&T towers so there might be a problem in your simcard registration. Call the ST customer service, tell them your problem and ask them to reprogram your simcard with your phone IMEI. See that would solve your problem.
I've tried everything to get my phone to get network working again. I've re-flashed old and newer images, got a new sim, messed with the APN settings and I just can't get it to work since yesterday.
When it started, my phone was sitting on charge. It was working just fine before I had put it down for 30 minutes. Upon checking for any messages I saw it wasn't getting any service so I restarted the device and was greeted with the 7.1.2 july update installer. Waited for it to finish and once fully back onto the home screen for a few minutes service still never came back. Turned it off and on a few times and turned airplane mode on and off few times still never came back. Turned it off for the night till today when I started playing with it more, factory reset, flashed 6.0, 7.1.2 june, 7.1.2 july, O beta 3 and none of it was getting the network to work.
Went and got a new sim, guy at the store also tried a floor sim and none of them were working but both my old and new sim do work just fine in a backup phone. The 6P reads there is a sim in and it knows its AT&T, but it won't pick up signal at all.
Any help with this? There really isn't much on this topic, but I do see a sim card no installed issue which my phone knows there is a sim card in it.
that happened to a nexus 6p i bought from a guy off craigslist. at first it worked with tmobile and metro pcs then after a few weeks it stopped working but i had switched to cricket anyway and it worked on cricket but not on tmobile or metro, so then i checked imei and it was black listed,.... being that it was a BYOD it wasnt bound to any network so i was like why would it be blacklisted... didnt make sense but i stayed with cricket and to this day it works..
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that happened to a nexus 6p i bought from a guy off craigslist. at first it worked with tmobile and metro pcs then after a few weeks it stopped working but i had switched to cricket anyway and it worked on cricket but not on tmobile or metro, so then i checked imei and it was black listed,.... being that it was a BYOD it wasnt bound to any network so i was like why would it be blacklisted... didnt make sense but i stayed with cricket and to this day it works..
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I just checked to see if it was blacklisted and its good. Google & Huawei won't service it due to it being out of warranty so rn its pretty much a dead phone for me. Is there is any tests I can run to see if the network radios are working or even turned on?
I had this exact same problem a few months ago with my other 6P. Thankfully it was right before my warranty ran out so i was able to get a replacement, but as far as I know, there isn't much you can do with it network wise.
@MadBullBunny could it maybe be the antenna inside? If you've tried other carrier Sims and flashed different radios what else I wonder. Since it's not working maybe worth a peak if your comfortable opening her up.
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@MadBullBunny could it maybe be the antenna inside? If you've tried other carrier Sims and flashed different radios what else I wonder. Since it's not working maybe worth a peak if your comfortable opening her up.
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I really didn't want to go that far and I rather just dump it on craigslist for $250 if its just an issue with at&t. is there some sort of test to see if the antennas are working?
have you try resetting your network settings? this has happen to me right after a update and resetting the network settings fixed it for me. i'm on project fi.
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have you try resetting your network settings? this has happen to me right after a update and resetting the network settings fixed it for me. i'm on project fi.
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Dude... Not trying to be rude, but really?
Anyway I've been waiting for a response back from google. Huawei pretty much told me tough luck since I didn't have warranty left on it. Told google that I was pretty much shoved out by them and argued that a phone not even 2 years old can't get serviced by a multi billion dollar company is pretty embarrassing. Supposedly its being routed up but I was told that a couple days ago when it was going to take 24-48 hours to get back. Right now I'm trying last ditch effort to drain the battery completely and stick it in some rice to possibly suck any possible moisture out that maybe my butt sweat caused. If this doesn't work I'm going to go to other service's stores and ask to try their sims in the phone out.
Fun tip: My phone is been running in boot mode for almost an hour after it turning off from android os for battery being dead. I've been doing random stuff in boot mode trying to make it die completely and it doesn't want too.
So being back and fourth with google for almost a week I was pretty much told tough luck buddy. It fathoms me that a company who created the android OS doesn't even have a service center or require its manufacturers to provide a service center for phones that aren't even more than 2 years old.
My nexus 6p is posted on craigslist and I've bought myself a s8+. so word of warning to you all who buy any google product or from them, just don't. If you have any issues you'll just get a run around. I've had to tell my issue to google at least 20 times and they still didn't care and kept trying to push me to hauwei when neither of them wanted to help.
So ive had sprint as a carrier and my same number and plan for goin on like 15 years almost. i had the oneplus 7 5g pro on sprint for a good while. Some dum things occurred and i ended up losing that phone. So a buddy gave my an sprint iphone 6 to use til i figured out what i was going to do next. [i cant stand iphone lol] well i surfed around and found the essential ph-1 on sale for less than a $100 from multiple sources. So i go ahead and purchase one. Phone gets here and i take my sim out of my iphone and put it into this essential phone and thats where stuff gets wierd for me. if i can even make it to the menu to try to do an profile update or anything the phone will start like flashing a few times crash to the homescreen and then restart. it loads up cannot load android system your data may be currupt. try again or factory data reset. if i press try again the phone boots up fine get to the homescreen and it starts it all again. crash, restart. when i have gotten to the menu i notice my sim is saying boost mobile. but that cant be right cus when i use it in my iphone or any other sprint phone for that matter sprint locks in fine and good service and all. also if i dp a factory data reset and have the sim in it will show that its trying to register the carrier and it will just crash sayung somethign about a sprint app force closing. and then states the sim card has locked
so i have no idea what is happening. ive tried downgrading and taking all the otas and everything and im still having no luck
let me kno what you all think
update.
i went into sprint thinking maybe it was because im on an iphone or something and the sim didnt want to play nice transferring to and android. but they tell me that my new essential is a boost mobile phone and they cant activate my sprint account on it. asked them could they just relock it to sprint n they said id have to call the hotline.
so if its just because the phone has been unlocked to work on boost mobile. what would i have to do to lock it back to sprint.]
any help would be awesome
thx