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how do i get rid of it, everytime i restart the phone, it comes back...its pissing me offfff LMAOOO HAHA....please anyone...help meeee
Did you ever figure this out?
I'm having this problem too since the latest rom upgrade. Seen a few others with the same problem after upgrading as well. I'm using ATT US X1a rom1.03.948.8.
I've tried a hard reset, swapping the sim out (as mentioned in another thread), using forwarding cancel codes (##62#), and obviously the normal call forwarding settings on the phone. It clears up the problem for a few soft resets, then it comes right back again.
call forwarding..
you seem to have call forwarding turned on.
Phone - Menu - Settings - services - call forwarding - get settings
there you will have all these type of settings like forward to number with no answer and also forward all calls.. just uncheck them all i guess.
Thanks
daniel
In NAM on AT&T, call forwarding is always turned on for something. Normally, it's turned on only for no answer and unreachable.
The phone should not show the call forwarding icon when these are the only services activated.
I don't understand how or why it happens, but I will occasionally get the call forward icon showing when I have nothing special turned on.
It will eventually go away, usually after I've had to power the device for some reason. Note, however, that it will not necessarily go away if I power the device to the specific purpose of removing the call forwarding icon.
I've never figured out what makes it show or why it goes away.
Lucky for me, I'm not too troubled by it.
Hmm
I think this problem is carrier related, (carriers have control over your call forwarding) because I have had this problem on many different phones from different manufacturers over the years. Not on my Xperia yet though.
Thanks for the replies. As stated in the earlier post, I have already tried unchecking, rechecking etc. As soon as it connects to the network it goes away. It seems to be an issue with the newest rom though as the previous rom does not have this issue at all (for me at least).
Call forwarding is definitely on the carrier side, but as soon as the phone connects to the network to pull call forward settings, it will always change the icon to the correct status (ie icon is there when forward all calls is on and not when it's not), which tells me that it's probably an issue with the rom, not the carrier. You're right about the settings George, but unfortunately I do use call forwarding from time to time and need to know when its truly on or off .
I've tried tweaking the cf values in the registry as well at hklm\software\htc\phone without any luck.
The call forwarding icon is also showing on my X1 I am on Orange UK.
I guess it can't be fixed.
Guys in US with AT&T.
I've got this issue that might be stupid but I suffer from it really bad. Everytime I get a new voice message, a text comes in with weired notes (which I know is for the phone to notify me) but I have to delete the sucker everytime. Or everytime I am in the voice box, it sends me another txt for deletion/
How can I get rid of this?
Do you guys have a good visual voice message system installed?
AT&T doesn't support any other phones except what they sell. AHhh
Thank you all.
Oddly enough my problem went away. I still think it's a ROM issue. I was playing with some other roms and eventually ended up flashing back to NAM R2AA008 (1.03.948.8). Restored my old config with full SPB backup and I haven't had the problem since.
I'm guessing that "if" it was a settings issue, the backup would've just recreated the issue. Plus hard resets didn't make the problem go away either. I even tried changing to a new sim as some people tried in other posts. But completely reflashing the rom seems to have done the trick for me at least.
The only difference that I can see is that I did the first update through SEUS. All the other flashes were done the old fashioned way. Not saying this would work for others, but it's been gone for weeks now for me.
Solution
Dial ##21# on the X1.
The "Call Forwarding" icon will disappear on the top bar of your X1. But, it won't affect your call fwd settings in the operator's mobile system.
P.S. I mean it won't change the call fwd settings defined by operator in the mobile system, e.g. no answer and the call will be directed to voice mail system.
##21# is the function code to cancel call fwd setup by your phone. If you did setup some call fwd scenarios on your phone, the call fwd icon will be displayed as an indicator for call forward is active.
For the purpose of just get rid of the icon right after power on or soft reset the phone, I think it is a simple solution.
minglee said:
Dial ##21# on the X1.
The "Call Forwarding" icon will disappear on the top bar of your X1. But, it won't affect your call fwd settings in the operator's mobile system.
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I think most of the people having this problem on the thread are referring to a strange bug that seems to be affecting a small percentage of users. I've seen the same problem posted on a few other sites/threads as well. It doesn't really have to do with call forwarding being on at all, it's just that the icon is there. Using the forward codes or forcing an update will make it go away temporarily, but for me it kept eventually coming back no matter what I did. When my phone had the problem, I tried 21, 69, 67, 61. None of them made the issue go away permanently.
My X1 has this kind of problem as well. It is the problem from X1 itself, maybe the X1 can not log into the 2G or 3G network very well.
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Guys in US with AT&T.
I've got this issue that might be stupid but I suffer from it really bad. Everytime I get a new voice message, a text comes in ....
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Whoa. LOL... I haven't seen this since the old Synergy Motorola days when we were all fascinated with foreign firmware.
I do not have this issue with the generic NAM or generic UK ROM in their latest iterations.
I guess the first thing anybody would normally suggest is to make sure you're on one of these ROM.
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how do i get rid of it, everytime i restart the phone, it comes back...its pissing me offfff LMAOOO HAHA....please anyone...help meeee
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This is a carrier related issues. Some carrier has 2G and 3G network that if the area is not covered by 3G network, Internal using forward to their own 2G network in order to let the phone work. It happen not just on the X1, It happen on all other WM base phone I have before. However, if your carrier has only a single network whether it is 2G or 3G. This forward logo will go away. Good example. the 3 mobile Network in Hong Kong has 2G and 3G separate and on my X1, which use the 3 mobile has the forward logo all the time but on my Touch HD, I use the Smartone network which have a combine 2G and 3G network and you never see the forward logo.
Just so you know, same problem here.
The solution? I heop someone makes a pretty version for the "Call forwarding" icon haha.
With the help of Bxsteez I have fixed this issue with the R2 rom always doing this...
WC
Since the last firmware update, I have the same icon showing up.
But there is a cure at least for US AT&T.........
Like it has been said before go to phone setting
Select Call Forwarding and hit the get setting button...
Once it retrieves the setting from AT&T net, the icon goes Bye-Bye!!
I have to do this every hard-reset or complete power down...
This what works for me...
Stuart
scl_electronics said:
Since the last firmware update, I have the same icon showing up.
But there is a cure at least for US AT&T.........
Like it has been said before go to phone setting
Select Call Forwarding and hit the get setting button...
Once it retrieves the setting from AT&T net, the icon goes Bye-Bye!!
I have to do this every hard-reset or complete power down...
This what works for me...
Stuart
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Same here for T-mobile
Same problem on my X1 and I am using HK 3 network..
I am part of a corporate group that just started using the Palm Treo Pro, through Bell. We have in excess of 30 phones across the company, and 90% of the users are unable to accept incoming calls. The calls show on the screen, the phone rings, but neither the accept soft button on the bottom of the screen or the send button on the phone will allow us to pick up the call. The call then goes to voicemail, then we get notifications that we missed a call.
The strange thing is that about 4 out of 6 calls have this happen. Then out of the blue, it will work, then the next call it will not accept it. I have done a hard reset on the phone, no third party apps running either.
Anybody else seeing this? I have yet to find any major problems with this phone through research, so are we the only ones to see this problem?
I have a Bell Treo Pro phone as well, I have never had any of these issues, I am sorry to hear.
Re: Unable to answer calls
I have had this happen multiple times. Each time I traced it down to whichever profile manager I had installed, whether it was Gprofile, PhoneAlarm, SPB Phone Suite and several others. Once I uninstalled the software no more problems answering calls. I wish that PhoneAlarm wouldn't cause this problem as the ability to automatically switch profiles based on time or appointment status was awesome - no more ringing phone when in a meeting because I forgot to mute the phone.
So the only time this issue has presented itself is with a profile manager? Nobody in our company has installed a profile manager of any kind, there may be some various third party apps, but these don't seem to make any difference. We are now thinking that we have a batch of defective phones.
Thanks for the responses!
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I am part of a corporate group that just started using the Palm Treo Pro, through Bell. We have in excess of 30 phones across the company, and 90% of the users are unable to accept incoming calls. The calls show on the screen, the phone rings, but neither the accept soft button on the bottom of the screen or the send button on the phone will allow us to pick up the call. The call then goes to voicemail, then we get notifications that we missed a call.
The strange thing is that about 4 out of 6 calls have this happen. Then out of the blue, it will work, then the next call it will not accept it. I have done a hard reset on the phone, no third party apps running either.
Anybody else seeing this? I have yet to find any major problems with this phone through research, so are we the only ones to see this problem?
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same prob here, very fustrating!!!
bell treo also
Possibility
AFAIK, Bell Canada runs on a CDMA network? I haven't seen the band settings for a CDMA version of the Treo Pro, but I was having a similar problem with my unlocked GSM Treo Pro on the US T-Mobile network. I would dial a number, and as soon as it connected it would hang up. This happened multiple times. After some searching around, I came across a post that theorized that since the phone band settings were set to auto, and the phone was capable of detecting the 2100MhZ 3G band (used by AT&T), it was "confused" and tried to connect to that 3G band. It suggeted going into the settings, go under phone, then go to the band tab & change the network type from "Auto" to "GSM". I changed this setting, did a soft-reboot, and things have been fine ever since. While this method is obviously for the unlocked version of the phone, maybe if you set it to the specific network band for your wireless provider it might help?
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AFAIK, Bell Canada runs on a CDMA network? I haven't seen the band settings for a CDMA version of the Treo Pro, but I was having a similar problem with my unlocked GSM Treo Pro on the US T-Mobile network. I would dial a number, and as soon as it connected it would hang up. This happened multiple times. After some searching around, I came across a post that theorized that since the phone band settings were set to auto, and the phone was capable of detecting the 2100MhZ 3G band (used by AT&T), it was "confused" and tried to connect to that 3G band. It suggeted going into the settings, go under phone, then go to the band tab & change the network type from "Auto" to "GSM". I changed this setting, did a soft-reboot, and things have been fine ever since. While this method is obviously for the unlocked version of the phone, maybe if you set it to the specific network band for your wireless provider it might help?
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Evidently the Palm Treo's that we are using do not have a Band tab in phone settings. Supposedly we have some replacement phones on the way from Palm, so now it will be a matter of seeing if they work or not. There's only about 25% of us that are having these problems, so there may be some hope for us yet.
Thanks for the response, though!!
I had similar probs due to a bad app install. hard reset fixed everything for me. there is also a palm support ringer update that just came out not too long ago. you can also change your cellular radio settings to check for calls more frequent.
Any way to accomplish this?
I need this BAD too! Reception at work is god awfull. Please help! SOS
What does your user name mean? Natural light or natty boh light?
Please someone make an app to turn on/off roaming; I'm willing to pay money for it (and I'm sure a lot of people are willing to do so too).......
LOL if it were this easy.......
Roaming is of no use to me but I always like to look in to issues that people are having. I grep'd what code we have available to us for our phones and the only two options I came across were:
ro.com.android.dataroaming = true
xml: name="sync_while_roaming">false
So all I can tell you is that I can control whether it roams or not (which can also be easily changed in our settings menu) but not to force it to roam. I googled if it was possible in android at all and couldn't find any results.
Do you know what towers are around you or what towers we can roam on? I wonder if it would be possible to hack in a verizon rom dump from eris and force it to roam on their towers. However that won't allow you to come back to Sprint. And Sprint has been known to cancel contracts of people who roam too much.
has anyone tried to update the PRL to a verizon PRL?? I tried it, but i'm not sure how successful it was, as both Sprint and Verizon signals are strong in my area.. Put the PRL on the SD card and use ##PRL# to update it..
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Roaming is of no use to me but I always like to look in to issues that people are having. I grep'd what code we have available to us for our phones and the only two options I came across were:
ro.com.android.dataroaming = true
xml: name="sync_while_roaming">false
So all I can tell you is that I can control whether it roams or not (which can also be easily changed in our settings menu) but not to force it to roam. I googled if it was possible in android at all and couldn't find any results.
Do you know what towers are around you or what towers we can roam on? I wonder if it would be possible to hack in a verizon rom dump from eris and force it to roam on their towers. However that won't allow you to come back to Sprint. And Sprint has been known to cancel contracts of people who roam too much.
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The towers around me are Verizon towers. Yeah, I undestand that (Sprint has been known to cancel contracts of people who roam too much) and I don't want to Roam all the time, just here at work. The phone is mostly on roaming while at work but is is continually searching for a Sprint tower and that drains the battery so fast! The only workaround for me is to set the phone to airplane mode until about the last three hours of work but then even when the phone is turned on it constantly tries to switch to a very weak sprint signal and I keep losing connection just about every 2 or 3 minutes, so using the phone in work is practically useless for me right now
@mroneeyedboh: Natural Light. My ode to cheap beer.
One area I frequent has a weak Sprint signal, and a "decent" Verizon signal. It would take "excessive" roaming, for 3 consecutive months for Sprint to flag you for abuse. So you have some breathing room. I remember my G1 had an option to manually select the network available. However, I'm not entirely sure that having a network option isn't just a customary feature of a GSM device, and not Android specifically, since its obviously compatible world wide.
I have the same exact situation at work where I get no signal on sprint but it tries to find it draining the battery and preventing it from using the very good verizon signal. I had to force it to EVDO only just to be able to check my gmail and confirm my XDA forum registration since webmail is blocked at work. This the kind of thing I bought this phone for to always have access to my email. Switching to EVDO Only mode is really cumbersome and annoying, and still gives a bad although slightly better signal. If I forget to switch it back to allow 1x Data, I can't use SMS and when I call sprint it hangs up immediately unless I switch it back on. I would use very minimal time data and voice roaming compared to my outside of building data and voice use as I'm sure is the case for most people with bad sprint coverage inside buildings.
Greefus said:
I have the same exact situation at work where I get no signal on sprint but it tries to find it draining the battery and preventing it from using the very good verizon signal. I had to force it to EVDO only just to be able to check my gmail and confirm my XDA forum registration since webmail is blocked at work. This the kind of thing I bought this phone for to always have access to my email. Switching to EVDO Only mode is really cumbersome and annoying, and still gives a bad although slightly better signal. If I forget to switch it back to allow 1x Data, I can't use SMS and when I call sprint it hangs up immediately unless I switch it back on. I would use very minimal time data and voice roaming compared to my outside of building data and voice use as I'm sure is the case for most people with bad sprint coverage inside buildings.
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There is a widget in the market to switch 3g on and off. can't remember the name.
Anyone who's more knowledgeable than me, can please tell me if by changing anything in the ## menus, (like ##diag# or ##data#), can we force the phone to roam? (I'm asking because I just got the MSL number out of my device and now can change any of those settings).
TIA.
daveli said:
Anyone who's more knowledgeable than me, can please tell me if by changing anything in the ## menus, (like ##diag# or ##data#), can we force the phone to roam? (I'm asking because I just got the MSL number out of my device and now can change any of those settings).
TIA.
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Sorry, can't help you. I interested in this thread, so I'm bumping it.
This sounds like something the CDMA radio manages. I'm not familiar with the lower level processes and configurations on Android, but this might be part of a closed source process. I don't know if Android is supposed to have such a thing?
You could try setting the Home SID/NID to the SID/NID of the tower where you work, and then set the phone to Sprint Only. This in theory should force the phone to stay on the roaming tower, but I'm not sure if this will override the PRL. Probably not.
Subscribing... I would give anything for this. I got this shiny new hero and can't use it at my house. It was so awesome that I kept it. A friend can sit next to me on verizon and get almost a full signal.
I have tried the GV + Sipsorcery + sipdroid thing to make and receive calls over wifi but it is so unreliable. If I could just switch to use the roaming verizon tower by my house I could justify keeping this thing.
I am new to android development, but not new to development, linux, or java. So I will probably investigate this more.
flexgrip said:
Subscribing... I would give anything for this. I got this shiny new hero and can't use it at my house. It was so awesome that I kept it. A friend can sit next to me on verizon and get almost a full signal.
I have tried the GV + Sipsorcery + sipdroid thing to make and receive calls over wifi but it is so unreliable. If I could just switch to use the roaming verizon tower by my house I could justify keeping this thing.
I am new to android development, but not new to development, linux, or java. So I will probably investigate this more.
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Anyone looking into what someone else found? That he was able to force roam the Hero?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=616405
I am hopefull
Apart from force roaming does anyone know of an app that would let you manually select your towers (or a built in way to do it).
I don't want to force roaming actually, I just want to switch to the verizon tower near my house so I can use my phone at home. I don't want to do it anywhere else. Just once instance.
I had a junk nokia a long time ago and it even had an app that let you manually select your tower and gave me all the serial/id info about it. What is the next closest think on android for this?
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I don't want to force roaming actually, I just want to switch to the verizon tower near my house so I can use my phone at home. I don't want to do it anywhere else. Just once instance.
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That is, by definition, force roaming.
Oh, you're right, but what I meant was that I don't want to be anywhere and kick myself off the sprint towers onto any other tower using an app or setting. I just meant in one location I would like to switch to a defined tower. There is a big difference between an app that lets you select your network towers and another that forces your phone off of sprint onto any roaming tower. But thanks for a helpful post.
As far as the CDMA hero goes, is there anything helpful in the radio updates that might lead to controlling the network selection? I am wrapping some projects up this week and I do not care to dig through the source to see if a quick app is possible.
I'm pretty sure you should NOT mess with the radio...
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Subscribing... I would give anything for this. I got this shiny new hero and can't use it at my house. It was so awesome that I kept it. A friend can sit next to me on verizon and get almost a full signal.
I have tried the GV + Sipsorcery + sipdroid thing to make and receive calls over wifi but it is so unreliable. If I could just switch to use the roaming verizon tower by my house I could justify keeping this thing.
I am new to android development, but not new to development, linux, or java. So I will probably investigate this more.
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Or, you could call customer care, and tell them that you get no service at home, and require an AIRAVE. They sent me one free, and waived the 4.99 month charge. Just explain to them, you need your phone, you have small kids or whatever, you need service in your home.
AIRAVE is the best thing ever. I went from no service in my house, to 5 bars at all times, who cares if its only 1X, I can still make and receive calls, and have WiFi for my data needs.
Hey everyone!
So I am a little new when it comes to the issue of WiMax 4G.. I'm in Orlando, which has 4G, and I am able to successfully able to connect with the 4G radio (though I do find myself dropping from 4G to 3G depending on the area I'm in).
When I am sitting at my desk at work, I can send myself an e-mail to my google account and not receive the push notification that it had arrived. I've been testing this over the past couple days and noticed that when I would pick up my phone (still connected to 4G, by the way, though there are no "bars") and load up some application that polls for data, such as Facebook, the sync would then occur and I would get the notification.
So my question is this: Is this the expected behavior of the 4G radio? Does it sit in an "idle" state when not being used, which would then restrict it from receiving push notifications? I did disable 4G at my office and the data connection seems more reliable (push notifications are immediate).
I've had this phone for only three days, so I'm giving it a couple weeks to see if I might need to exchange the phone, but I figured I'd see if anyone more knowledgeable than myself could shed some light on things.
Thanks!
- Andy
from what I know if you are bouncing back and forth from 4g to 3g then in that part of the area you have very weak 4g signal and better off just sticking to 3g in that part of the building. it could be that since its bouncng back and forth that its not pulling the data automatically like it should.
[UPDATE]
I'm resurrecting my own thread, because after another week of testing on multiple devices (total 2 Shifts and a 2 Epics), I'm ready to make the following statement:
Sprint Android 4G phones do not reliably push using their WiMax radios.
I've tested this in several different ways, with both my Shift and my buddy's (rooted 2.2) Epic. My actual test went something like this:
- Find a place with at least one "bar" of 4G (listed as fair, though this is repeatable outdoors as well, just easier to do next to the computer)
- With 4G OFF, send myself a message to my GMail account. The notification happens on the PC instantly, and anywhere from 1-20 seconds later on the shift.
- Turn on 4G radio. Send another e-mail to the GMail account. This time, no notification hits the phone (I waited at least a minute before continuing to the next step).
- Run Speed Test (I contacted the helpful HTC support desk, who actually told me that I might be on 3G even though I see the little 4G radio icon). This last run I register 3.6Mbps down and about 1Mpbs up. That's not 3G. At this point in the test, I received my e-mail notification once in the 10 or so times I tried this. The other nine times I STILL had not received my notification.
- At this point, if I wanted to see the message, I either switch off 4G or manually refresh the GMail application.
Note that this test was repeatable on my phone on GTalk, Voice, and the new Android Market (downloading apps from PC) as well. The Epic only did this test twice; once indoors with GMail and once outdoors with GMail, but I imagine the other push applications would behave exactly the same way.
I wanted to be ABSOLUTELY sure about this before bringing this thread back, but now that I am, here's the question: Anyone with 4G coverage, can you repeat these findings, and is this the intended functionality of the 4G radio?
Sprint tech support (who I also contacted) indicated to me that I should be able to push on 4G, as did HTC, so maybe I'm missing something here. In any case, I figured this was the best place to ask.
- Andy
Just did some testing for you. Disconnect 3G, wireless and only enabled 4G. Sent an email from my exchange server to myself and it pushed to the phone in a couple of seconds. I replied from the phone and it was in my outlook again in a few seconds.
So at least 4G and exchange work fine.
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Just did some testing for you. Disconnect 3G, wireless and only enabled 4G. Sent an email from my exchange server to myself and it pushed to the phone in a couple of seconds. I replied from the phone and it was in my outlook again in a few seconds.
So at least 4G and exchange work fine.
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I wish I had an exchange server I could have tested with as well. As I mentioned, I used only GMail, GTalk, Google Voice, and Market. Among the things I looked at was the field labeled "Standby Time" in the WiMax section in ##DATA#. I haven't messed with it (default 10 minutes), but if you're willing, can you set to 4G, wait this timeout interval, and attempt your test again? I'm trying to put the puzzle pieces together.
Also, I haven't entirely ruled out either my device or my area, yet I do think it strange I can repeat this with another device simultaneously, with both having 4G signal.
- Andy
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I wish I had an exchange server I could have tested with as well. As I mentioned, I used only GMail, GTalk, Google Voice, and Market. Among the things I looked at was the field labeled "Standby Time" in the WiMax section in ##DATA#. I haven't messed with it (default 10 minutes), but if you're willing, can you set to 4G, wait this timeout interval, and attempt your test again? I'm trying to put the puzzle pieces together.
Also, I haven't entirely ruled out either my device or my area, yet I do think it strange I can repeat this with another device simultaneously, with both having 4G signal.
- Andy
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Same result. Also GMail is notifying just fine though not as fast as exchange, but still less than a minute. Have you tried turning off mobile network (3G)? Then you'll know you're only on 4G for sure. You can add the widget under widgets >> settings >> mobile network.
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Same result. Also GMail is notifying just fine though not as fast as exchange, but still less than a minute. Have you tried turning off mobile network (3G)? Then you'll know you're only on 4G for sure. You can add the widget under widgets >> settings >> mobile network.
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Thanks for checking into that for me. I will try disabling 3G at work tomorrow (I would do it from home, but I typically don't get 4G where I live). Also just verifying, you were testing with 3G on as well, or only off? One of the things I was theorizing was that push notifications were being "handled" by the 3G radio, but since 4G was on, they weren't being processed until that radio was reactivated.
In either case, I have something else to test, so thanks again!
- Andy
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Thanks for checking into that for me. I will try disabling 3G at work tomorrow (I would do it from home, but I typically don't get 4G where I live). Also just verifying, you were testing with 3G on as well, or only off? One of the things I was theorizing was that push notifications were being "handled" by the 3G radio, but since 4G was on, they weren't being processed until that radio was reactivated.
In either case, I have something else to test, so thanks again!
- Andy
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the way I did it was to have only 3G on, do the tests, turn 4G on, do the tests, turn 3G off, do the tests, leave phone alone on 4G and let it be (items still notified).
Glad to help.
Hi!
I was working with my phone on the table (charging) and it start to shout me! I didn't understand it, but it was anything about the weather alert (I'm in Boston and tomorrow will be snowing hard), on the screen I just saw a kind of loudhailer icon with the same message as the mobile phone shout...
Can anyone let me know what is this??? I'm not sure if it was from my company (exchange mail) or any other app...
Thanks a lot!
Sounds like a Mobile Broadcast. These can be disabled in the Messaging app settings. They are a cellular feature what warns of extreme weather and child abductions in your area.
You were sent a Cell Broadcast - was kinda funny because i was at work too and my phone was on silent then it started yammering away. This is an option built into the network itself. It doesn't need to know your name/number - just your location. ALL phones connected to certain towers got this alert - even people visiting from Europe would get it as long as their phones were on and connected. This was implemented after 9/11 (i think) and futher pushed after Katrina. It was used with hurricane Sandy as well.
People in the office were all like WTF - their phones dind't do it apparently (iPhones and a Blackberry - iOS6 should have added that feature though but it's no in their Notification Settings area as it should. I looked for it and none of their phones had it).
I'm on CM10.1 but I pulled the CellBroadcastReceiver.apk and installed it too so I could get these alerts. Thought it wasn't working till today!