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Hello guys,
I am very annoyed with my device the last two days. For some reason the signal goes away and I can be hours without getting any.
I have not installed or modified anything on the device the past two days, even thoughI now recall changing the name of the USB, from the tweaking tool HTweakC2.0. Neither I had any accidents like dropping the device or anything.
Any suggestions why this is happening and how I can fix it?
If you have 3g, its more likely a network problem. Try switching it down to GSM from auto and see if that works.
If so, try switching back to 3g in a few days or in a different location,
And how do I do that my friend? Because I tried the way I thought I would, from phone settings but I couldn't see where you specify not to use 3G.
Thanks
Did you do this:
Start\Settings\Phone\Band
GSM/UMTS band drop down menu
Select one of the 2 GSM options. (UMTS is the 3G setting)
evolish said:
And how do I do that my friend? Because I tried the way I thought I would, from phone settings but I couldn't see where you specify not to use 3G.
Thanks
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This sounds like an either network issue or a settings issue.
Now, I am assuming, since you did not mention that your phone did in fact work but not the data. Correct?
If that is the case, please, please follow what Ach2 recommended. If not then go back to your manual or check the wiki for instructions.
If you had no reception whatsoever. Then either the radio is off, or something that you did is turning it off. Have you checked if the phone tried to make a connection? That would be the antenna icon with either an exclamation mark or a three dots. Or do you just get an "X" with an exclamation mark along side that.
If you had no access to anything unless you rebooted it is still probably your phone, but what has your carrier said when you called them? Any problems?
Well, my phone was working just fine, but then something happened and no signal. (I didn't drop it or anything.. out of the blue that happened).
I hadn't tried that 3G thing, because I was actually looking for something named 3G, so I will try it if that problem persists (I did a hard reset and it seems that it's okay now).
And it must be the device, because I tried my Nokia 7610 and it had signal on that.
I hope I won't have to try it and the hard reset worked, but if it happens to me again, I will try it.
Thank you all!
doesnt get signal again.. searching and searching..
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Signal full: can't call or someone to call me!
The whole thing is ****ed up. Before i guess that it said that it had full signal but it didn't because it acted just like it would if it didn't. Now it's just searching and searching for network without finding any.
How could that happen, and how can i fix it. thanks.
try a hard reset to see if that solves it.. if that doesnt work try a complete provider rom.. if that doesnt work then you could try just flashing a new radio.. if none of those suggestions work then maybe take a look at this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=286755 and do some heavy reading.. and alas, if that doesnt work then your device is probably toast...
Thank you. I have tried the hard reset but no it didn't work. As for the others, i prefer to take it back and ask for the guarantee since i have guarantee for two years. thanks anyway.
Alright. But keep in mind that you never gave us any specifics really. Made it hard to try to troubleshoot.
If you can get it replaced then go right ahead. It might be easier.
So yeah... I flashed the new MoDaCo 2.0, and then decided I liked Fresh 1.1 better. So, I booted the recovery, and did a nandroid restore to right before I flashed to MoDaCo. Now, my phone is stuck in roaming where I had Sprint signal before... Yeah can someone help?
i forget what thread...
but....
there are some individuals.. that would like to do this !!!
do you still get 3g speeds when on roam only? If so I would love to do this. I only get 1x in my area
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do you still get 3g speeds when on roam only? If so I would love to do this. I only get 1x in my area
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I don't think Verizon allows 3g roaming.
Thats a very nice start!! it states then that it's possible to force ROAM our Hero!!! Now we just need to find out how to turn it on and off as desired. Roaming too much will flag your phone and Sprint might cancel your account. But for people with poor reception and good roaming reception in a place like work, its Golden. Nice discovery!!!
The thread about Force Roaming is:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=593249&highlight=force+roam
Ok, I have good news, and bad news. We'll start with the good
So if you want to try and replicate what I did to get force roaming, here's what you do (atleast what I did).
Be running Fresh ROM 1.1. Without wiping data, flash to MoDaCo 2.0. Now, if you look in the About Phone menu, it will say Needs Reboot. Reboot the phone. Now, remove "Dropbear". The phone will reboot again. At this point, I installed WaveSecure by using the .zip MoDaCo posted. A few minutes later, I decided I didn't like the MoDaCo ROM, so I did a nandroid restore back to RIGHT BEFORE I flashed to MoDaCo. After the restore was complete, I was back in Recovery Mode. I pressed Reboot System Now, and then once the phone booted, it was in forced roaming. Sadly, I only had 1xEV But hey, atleast it force roamed
Bad news: I rebooted my phone again (because I actually needed to use it), and it was once again using Sprint.
Maybe some dev can look into file changes between Fresh->Modaco-nandroid restore->Fresh? I'm not experienced enough with Android hacking to know how to mess with this stuff
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Ok, I have good news, and bad news. We'll start with the good
So if you want to try and replicate what I did to get force roaming, here's what you do (atleast what I did).
Be running Fresh ROM 1.1. Without wiping data, flash to MoDaCo 2.0. Now, if you look in the About Phone menu, it will say Needs Reboot. Reboot the phone. Now, remove "Dropbear". The phone will reboot again. At this point, I installed WaveSecure by using the .zip MoDaCo posted. A few minutes later, I decided I didn't like the MoDaCo ROM, so I did a nandroid restore back to RIGHT BEFORE I flashed to MoDaCo. After the restore was complete, I was back in Recovery Mode. I pressed Reboot System Now, and then once the phone booted, it was in forced roaming. Sadly, I only had 1xEV But hey, atleast it force roamed
Bad news: I rebooted my phone again (because I actually needed to use it), and it was once again using Sprint.
Maybe some dev can look into file changes between Fresh->Modaco-nandroid restore->Fresh? I'm not experienced enough with Android hacking to know how to mess with this stuff
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LOL nice explanation . Yeah, while you are roaming, you are limited to 1X, no EVDO. But it's a great start and thanks for sharing! Whomever is knowledgeable please try working on this. I sadly have no clue .
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Ok, I have good news, and bad news. We'll start with the good
So if you want to try and replicate what I did to get force roaming, here's what you do (atleast what I did).
Be running Fresh ROM 1.1. Without wiping data, flash to MoDaCo 2.0. Now, if you look in the About Phone menu, it will say Needs Reboot. Reboot the phone. Now, remove "Dropbear". The phone will reboot again. At this point, I installed WaveSecure by using the .zip MoDaCo posted. A few minutes later, I decided I didn't like the MoDaCo ROM, so I did a nandroid restore back to RIGHT BEFORE I flashed to MoDaCo. After the restore was complete, I was back in Recovery Mode. I pressed Reboot System Now, and then once the phone booted, it was in forced roaming. Sadly, I only had 1xEV But hey, atleast it force roamed
Bad news: I rebooted my phone again (because I actually needed to use it), and it was once again using Sprint.
Maybe some dev can look into file changes between Fresh->Modaco-nandroid restore->Fresh? I'm not experienced enough with Android hacking to know how to mess with this stuff
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Has anyone been able to replicate this?
I don't get a good sprint signal in my house and sometimes, in the right situation, it will switch to roaming. It then takes a few minutes to get off of the roaming tower and get back on sprint.
I am not saying you didn't force it to roam and don't take any offense, but it sounds like to me you booted your phone and it glitched or something caused it to not pickup the sprint tower (maybe there was a problem with the tower). Once you rebooted it tried again and was able to grab the sprint tower.
I don't see how flashing a rom would force it to roam. That just doesn't seem very likely. Considering a quick grep only brings up a few options for enabling and disabling the ability to roam, I doubt it was a problem with the flashing.
Hopefully, someone figures out how to force roaming soon. And I really hope I am wrong and this leads to a solution.
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I don't get a good sprint signal in my house and sometimes, in the right situation, it will switch to roaming. It then takes a few minutes to get off of the roaming tower and get back on sprint.
I am not saying you didn't force it to roam and don't take any offense, but it sounds like to me you booted your phone and it glitched or something caused it to not pickup the sprint tower (maybe there was a problem with the tower). Once you rebooted it tried again and was able to grab the sprint tower.
I don't see how flashing a rom would force it to roam. That just doesn't seem very likely. Considering a quick grep only brings up a few options for enabling and disabling the ability to roam, I doubt it was a problem with the flashing.
Hopefully, someone figures out how to force roaming soon. And I really hope I am wrong and this leads to a solution.
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Nah, it's ok. No offense taken Yeah, it's likely that it was just a glitch... I only posted what I did before the glitch happened, in the case that someone may be able to find it useful (mix match of files from ROM's or whatever).
Hey all,
I got the July 27 leaked Froyo and went ahead and rooted to 2.2.
I have noticed a pretty serious buggy issue regarding the phone not detecting a 3G network so when I'm away from my wireless router, it only shows bars, no 1X or 3G.
I have two options at this point, one of which has done me no good. Perhaps someone can help me.
Option 1: Downgrade back to Android 2.1. (More on this later)
Option 2: Try and find a way to keep this version and get back on 3G.
Lemme explain: I tried placing the PB31IMG.zip on the SD card and going through recovery to return the phone to stock. Each time I attempted this, it told me the version was old and it failed. Is there a workaround on this or do I need to find a different stock ROM?
I used unrEVOked to root the phone and have not been trying to do any frivolous additions or subtractions. I just wanna be back on my 3G. Any and all help would be HIGHLY appreciated.
Thanks!
Did you try *228 and update your PRL?
Yes. It did not help.
Always have 3G coverage where I'm at too. So more than likely phone is issue unless a tower around here is down (which I highly doubt).
Toggle Airplane Mode on, then off.
JC
Sadly, toggling airplane mode has done nothing to help either.
Upgrade to the 8/1 version...see if that helps.
JC
Try shutting the phone off, then powering back on. Or possibly that combined with an airplane mode toggle. Also make sure your mobile network is on in the settings for wireless networks. This problem was common with the first leak. I have not had it happen since switching to the second leak of 2.2.
Considering the missing apps and media in the 8/1 Leak would it be ok to do Sky Raider or should I just try the 8/1 Leak done by aiccucs?
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Considering the missing apps and media in the 8/1 Leak would it be ok to do Sky Raider or should I just try the 8/1 Leak done by aiccucs?
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I believe mrozzeh also gave a link to the full version of the 8/1 leak, if you are concerned about missing apps/media...
Doing that update has not helped me.
I guess I'll have to go down to 2.1 again. However, as I said, it won't load the PB31IMG.zip. It says the file is old. Any ideas?
Stupid question....you did upgrade the radio right?
Yes. Radio is the 2.x baseband.
I would be VERY finicky to update that again as I do NOT want to brick my phone.
Ok, it seems I have found a bit of the issue that is causing it. My phone number and IMSI are not detected as my current phone number. Is there a way to program this or is it an issue where I'll have to have it reprogrammed by the local Verizon rep?
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Ok, it seems I have found a bit of the issue that is causing it. My phone number and IMSI are not detected as my current phone number. Is there a way to program this or is it an issue where I'll have to have it reprogrammed by the local Verizon rep?
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try a *228 and option 1 so the phone is reprogrammed. then do a test call to your vm(*86) and make sure it connects, you should not see the 3G symbol, when you end the call, the 3G should be displayed...give it a whirl
This did not work. There has to be a way to program the phone number into the phone. Any ideas?
i've been having this same issue... messing with airplane mode and rebooting a few times got it to fix... *228 and option 2 worked sometimes. just loaded up Adryns new evo hybrid rom, working fine so far (the problem was rare, maybe twice a day tops) and did *228 1, we shall see!
To no avail on these. I think I'm going to have to see a rep tomorrow and see if we can get the phone number (my actual phone number) programmed back into the phone. I think that's a VZW thing as I'm sure they won't run me through the methods to program a phone number.
I hate that I have to go back to Big Red over this, but it is important for me to have this phone up and running. Besides internet, I have NO other form of contact.
3g issue
I had the same problem and so have many others, I flashed Skyraider Rom and problem is gone so we know its not a buggy radio, I don't think there is a fix right now, but I've never seen a Rom so stable as the new Skyraider, so you might wanna think about flashing that Rom.
Coincidence. I've heard the same with my roms, from both ends of the spectrum. Its for sure a buggy radio, and how it interacts with Froyo. Once we get a 100% Froyo ready radio, I doubt we will ever hear about the issue again.
This is the first I've heard of someone not being able to get the 3G connection back at all. Is that what you are describing? I had it not turn on, then come back after a *228/2 or power cycle - but it always came back on. Just curious but are you on an Alltel plan by chance?
Can you make calls Contra? Did you pay your phone bill?? Are you wiping all data before flashing? Try the full second leak that they added to that post. I've been using it and haven't had the 3G drop in two days now. I just took that rom and removed a handful of apps I would never use. It's working quite well.
I keep getting an error that pops up on my phone occasionally : Error code 107 - data call failure.
Anyone know anything about this or how to fix it? My Mom gets it on her shift too. It's annoying, but doesn't seem to affect anything on the phone.
tatonka_hero said:
I keep getting an error that pops up on my phone occasionally : Error code 107 - data call failure.
Anyone know anything about this or how to fix it? My Mom gets it on her shift too. It's annoying, but doesn't seem to affect anything on the phone.
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I got it a lot on my hero, and when I first got my Shift. I called and complained, told them I'd already been through factory resets, ## dialer codes, everything.
Eventually after a couple girls finished reading an apparent universal HTC tech support guide to me they passed me along to a nice fellow. He said he'd seen that problem a lot, changed my user name, I reset my data profile again and VOILA! Over a month, no data call failure!
Sent from my MikShift.
In settings, wouldn't update profile fix this? Even though errors might pop up during the process, just ignore them and let the update do it's thing. That is if it is what I think it is.
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In settings, wouldn't update profile fix this? Even though errors might pop up during the process, just ignore them and let the update do it's thing. That is if it is what I think it is.
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yep your right... i think ...
amehdi43 said:
yep your right... i think ...
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Not every time. For me update/reset/complete device wipe didn't do it. Even ruu'd and did factory reset that way (since factory reset in our current bootloader boots to clockwork, wanted everything back stock.)
Sent from my MikShift.
I get this once in a while also, but it happens when I go from roaming to Sprint. Or at least that seems to me when it happens.
Sent from my HTC EVO Shift 4G using XDA App
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In settings, wouldn't update profile fix this? Even though errors might pop up during the process, just ignore them and let the update do it's thing. That is if it is what I think it is.
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I get this once in a while also, but it happens when I go from roaming to Sprint. Or at least that seems to me when it happens.
Sent from my HTC EVO Shift 4G using XDA App
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Updating the profile didn't fix it. I updated it Tuesday afternoon with no errors popping up, and still got the error code 107 this morning.
I think Wardfan220 is at least partially correct. More often than not, it happens at home, where I'm roaming about 90% of the time. It happens at work occasionally though, but that's on a repeater, so I could see that being the cause. I never got the error on my Hero though, that's why I was thinking it was an issue with just this phone.
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Updating the profile didn't fix it. I updated it Tuesday afternoon with no errors popping up, and still got the error code 107 this morning.
I think Wardfan220 is at least partially correct. More often than not, it happens at home, where I'm roaming about 90% of the time. It happens at work occasionally though, but that's on a repeater, so I could see that being the cause. I never got the error on my Hero though, that's why I was thinking it was an issue with just this phone.
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Yeah, I never got it on my Hero also, but it seems to be, for me at least, when switching from roaming back to Sprint's network and vise versa, I was also getting a 107 erroe with my data at one point, but that was jsut a billing issue (wife didn't pay, lol).
So my girlfriend's Nexus S has been losing the entire voice and data network and going into no service mode, no biggie at first, just cycle airplane mode, then it went on to rebooting because you would select airplane mode from the power off menu but it would not check the box in the wireless settings menu.
After the reboot the box would show checked and airplane mode could be disabled and the service would resume. The the phone started getting stuck in airplane mode and not even rebooting it would bring it out the first few times, then it got to the point of resetting the phone, a wipe cache/data reset didn't fixed it. So off to T-Mobile for a new sim card. Rebooted the network immediately. And as of last night its back in full force and now not even a new sim will resurrect the network.
Have tried wiping, reflashing stock 2.3.3, new sim again, multiple resets, had to get an toggle widget to get it out of airplane mode and still a dead network, all this time the network in the *#*#4636#*#* menu showing unknown and is not able to be changed and reverts back to unknown immediately, OEM specifics settings button is greyed out and you are not able to disable the radio either.
While I'm going to call Samsung on Monday and I guess send the phone off, I worry about mine because it too does it but only once a month or so, but I do constantly have issues resurrecting the phone from airplane mode at times because the box will not be checked in the wireless settings menu but I can see the airplane instead of network bars, problem persists with reboots sometimes.
I also would like to add that even when the box is not checked in the wireless settings menu for airplane mode, if you click it it just hangs forever and will try to select but never will and stays grey like its turning everything off, but if the scren goes off its like you never tried.
Has anyone else seen this? I have seen a lot of people with data network issues or having to reboot to get voice network back but nothing as bad as I'm experiencing.
Both our phones are and have been completely stock and unmodified.
Thankfully we still have her Vibrant and in case I need to send mine in my Nexus One.
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Have you tried restoring from another persons' pre-made nandroid backup?
This over-writes the radio firmware, you should give it a go!
I also found that I had problems on 2.3.3, however reverting to 2.3.2 gave me no problems!
Just contact me if you need any help restoring from a nandroid backup or finding the 2.3.2 backup files
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Have you tried restoring from another persons' pre-made nandroid backup?
This over-writes the radio firmware, you should give it a go!
I also found that I had problems on 2.3.3, however reverting to 2.3.2 gave me no problems!
Just contact me if you need any help restoring from a nandroid backup or finding the 2.3.2 backup files
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Is that true? I am just on the verge of calling samsung. My phone won't connect to or display any available networks, and is pretty much now dumbed down to a small tablet. I've tried everything except another persons nandroid backup. I've been told to stay away from flashing another persons... but I'm really desperate.
If you could provide me with a backup, that would be awesome.
I'm having identical problem.
It was working fine yesterday, look back to it and now it's got no mobile network, nothing. Just the no bars and cross symbol. I've tried wiping dalvik cache, reflashing the radio, wiping data/factory reset, reflashing the rom, restoring with a backup (Backup of when I first rooted the phone) and still no signal. Nothing has worked..
Anyone got ideas on how to fix this issue?
Gawthorne said:
I'm having identical problem.
It was working fine yesterday, look back to it and now it's got no mobile network, nothing. Just the no bars and cross symbol. I've tried wiping dalvik cache, reflashing the radio, wiping data/factory reset, reflashing the rom, restoring with a backup (Backup of when I first rooted the phone) and still no signal. Nothing has worked..
Anyone got ideas on how to fix this issue?
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Can you search for and view available networks?
This sounds like the CM7 powerwidget problem (3g/2g) I used it and I loss all network, phone process will crash every second, however if your phones are stock I can't think in anything causing it.
For CM7 you'll have to reflash and delete userdata or edit the sql database for the providers and change a value to 0, but you need root.
When I went to *#*4636.... my preferred service was "unknown" too, but now it is OK.
Try to dail:
*#*#4636#*#*
and find your network information.
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Can you search for and view available networks?
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Nope. Sits their 'searching' but nothing shows up.
In, *#*#4636#*#*, it gives little to no information. Just says nothing for current network and for GSM disconnects it has,
Sate: DvInactiveState
disconnected with last try
at 9:59AM
fail because No Error
And that time never changes, stays at 9:59AM.
As my above post suggested, I've tried doing a factory reset and reflashing. I don't think I use CM.. I flashed with Oxygen 2.1.6 (using it's kernel) but I restored to Oxygen rom and trinity kernel after it didn't work.
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Nope. Sits their 'searching' but nothing shows up.
In, *#*#4636#*#*, it gives little to no information. Just says nothing for current network and for GSM disconnects it has,
Sate: DvInactiveState
disconnected with last try
at 9:59AM
fail because No Error
And that time never changes, stays at 9:59AM.
As my above post suggested, I've tried doing a factory reset and reflashing. I don't think I use CM.. I flashed with Oxygen 2.1.6 (using it's kernel) but I restored to Oxygen rom and trinity kernel after it didn't work.
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That is the EXACT same problem I have. I too was using Oxygen 2.1.6 and lost all connectivity. I've just locked my bootloader and flashed back to stock ready to send for repairs. That rom must be doing something >.>
Oh no
I didn't want to send it back D:
Anyone got some suggestions that I haven't tried?
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Oh no
I didn't want to send it back D:
Anyone got some suggestions that I haven't tried?
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I've been trying *everything* for last past few days. Nothing is working. That shouldn't stop you from trying though. Just stay well away from ODIN and those i9023 files, I've seen bad things.
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I've been trying *everything* for last past few days. Nothing is working. That shouldn't stop you from trying though. Just stay well away from ODIN and those i9023 files, I've seen bad things.
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Cheers, going to a mates place soon to see if he has anything up his sleeves to try and fix this annoying issue..
If we somehow fix it, I'll be sure to post how we did here.
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Cheers, going to a mates place soon to see if he has anything up his sleeves to try and fix this annoying issue..
If we somehow fix it, I'll be sure to post how we did here.
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Ok, it'd be great if you worked something out. I'm so glad i'm not the only person with this issue!
Anyone had any breakthroughs? *hopeful*
I wouldn't call it a breakthrough but I got somewhere!
Ended up putting a extremely thin piece of wire into the external antenna port at the back of the phone. Wasn't too keen on doing this, but my phone now has reception isn't stuck at the dreaded -113dbm.
The reception isn't good, but it's enough to send texts and have calls.
Although the area needs quite good reception for me to receive anything, and it's extremely sensitive. To get 3 bars in a place where I usually get full bars, I have to be outside. While inside it's reduced to none or 1 bar, which is enough to send/receive texts and a sort of lagging phone call (did a few tests). As mentioned before extremely sensitive. The phone seems to like it better when it's up-right. In the middle of the CBD at Brisbane I get full reception and 3G, which is fine but in the places where you usually get 2 bars, you get no signal at all, unless you're outside.
So this is hardly a fix. I will most likely be sending it to Samsung to get it actually fixed. Either that or get it fixed the same day and pay probably close to $100 so I don't have to wait 2 months waiting for Samsung to twiddle their thumbs.
Thats awesome! But I'm going to post mine off to Samsung USA tomorrow, which will take forever considering international shipping. Where could you get it fixed same-day? I'm going to try this wire thing
So it can't be a software issue, but maybe the rom overloaded the antenna and fried it or something? I'm glad we've got that far.
I've seen that nexus s has a problem like the iphone, the antenna gate. Try take the phone with the left hand looking to no touch the rear of the softkeys
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I've seen that nexus s has a problem like the iphone, the antenna gate. Try take the phone with the left hand looking to no touch the rear of the softkeys
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Its more serious than that my friend! Thanks anyway
I got a quote from a place in Brissy called "FixMyMobile" and they said if they can fix it, it will cost $99. Although I'll get quotes from different places (if I find them) and see what they charge however I don't think I will be able to get cheaper, most likely around the same price..
So I may do that to not wait the ridiculous time it will take to get it back from Samsung.. Not sure on places in NZ though.
Yeah it seems like a hardware issue definitely. I eventually reverted the phone back to stock everything and it still happened, so that there shouts hardware issue.