Ok, I've had an 8525 unlocked for about 3 months now... Unlocked and used on t-mobile's network...
Until recently, I've had 0 issues with my phone from what I can remember(now running PDAs v20 windows 6.1 rom)
My problem is, during the day, in my room I recieve any and every phone call that comes in, calls never drop or hang up, BUT the call seems to cut out for about 5-15 seconds and then cut back in.. even though it says I have 4 bars.. in my kitchen with 4 bars, I get all my phone calls, but can't hear people (nor can they hear me at all)... I get emails, and browse the web fine.. but can't use google maps app (can't find my location until I leave lol)
I don't know what's up... at night, when I'm in my room, my phone works fine with no cutting out and in during calls, but during the day, that's when it wants to act all crazy... other t-mobile phones work perfectly fine in my room... my old sidekick also worked fine..
when I'm anywhere else in my city, my phone works fine (even with 2 bars)
I know nothing about how cell phones work when communicating with cell towers so any help someone can give me will be very helpful as I do not want to catch an aneurism calling T-Mobile themselves for help (though I doubt they'll help me since I'm using an unlocked ATT phone on their service lol)
Also... sometimes txt messages come and give me a time like it's in another time-zone... usually this happens when I'm out of state roaming on a different network (Immix in central PA for the most part) but now it seems to be popping up even while I'm home in NY...
any ideas?
seems like some kind of interference near your home...could be a carrier tower or even your TV? You could check with tmob if others in the hood are having day issues...
not sure what radio version u have, but u could try flashing a different one...
I've tried numerous radio's but having the same issues... it's some kind of interference in my house I guess.. I just can't figure out what it is... I called up t-mobile and was embarassed when he said "oh u have an ATT phone" lol he told me to switch sim cards with someone else on t-mobile in my home to see what happened... but.. no progress... I unplugged my wifi router to see if that would help but it didn't
I just find it completely odd that my service craps out on me in my room ONLY during the day... and it never did this when I first got the phone.. I'm completely lost... good news is, it only happens in my house...
Could be someone close by has just invested in a piece of equipment that is causing interference.. Might not be just in your place...
yeah, another thing that MIGHT be causing the interference is that they have been doing a lot of road work in my area... that could also be why it happens during the day but not at night... my kitchen is a different story, but different radio's have gave me different reception... with some radio's... it fades out completely and with others it'll fade out for maybe a second or 2
or it could be my neighbor who recently had a stroke, I guess there might be some machines in there.. who knows
I tried the latest radio and it yielded the best results in my kitchen so far but man oh man does it burn battery when I'm on the phone
I'm having the same problem...well as far as the text msgs go so i called tmobile last night and they took me off the network and placed me back on and since then I havent had any problems
Update: I put my GF's att sim card in my phone and went to all my "dead spots"... even when the signal bars were down to almost 0, the quality of the call was still clear and it wouldn't fade in and out during a call... Does anyone know if there's anything T-Mobile can do? Because I tried my moms sim card in my phone (t-mobile) and gave me the same crappy results (calls fading in and out at full 4 bar signal)
My htc touch was working fine had it set up perfect no problems. Then it started losing signal I didnt have a good signal anywhere. Finally took it into the guy at cricket who flashed it. They tell me that it has been exposed to moisture. There is a moister indicator under the back cover. ( A small white patch that turns pink when it gets wet.) Ok fine I am going on a trip soon and need my phone to work so I bought another one. He flashed it it worked great he set it up so it would work on roam everything was fine. Then after coming home I transferred my contacts shut the phone off and left it charging over night. The next day it either is searching for signal or when it finds a signal it is in roam. I have searched the forums reading for the last 3 days and cant really find what I need to do. Also the new phone has os 5.2 1620 my old one had 6.1 I am computer literate but this is all fairly new to me. I actually have more questions after reading than I did before. Can someone help me or point me in the right direction. I have to have the phone working as I am leaving on my trip tomorrow.
I am on Cricket service in Kansas City Mo.
OS 5.2.1620 says windows mobile 6 pro
Rom Version-1.12.651.1
Rom Date-09/18/07
Radio Version-2.13.00
Prl Version -05044
Pri Version-1.33_003
Hey,
Has anyone else had problems with their HD suddenly cutting of calls even though there is good network coverage? I can have 5 bars of network on the phone, receive a phonecall, talk for a while, then suddenly have the bars drop to 0 and the call being ended. It's getting really annoying at this point.
Also I think the speed of the surfing through network (gprs/edge/hsdpa) has slowed down; it feels as if it doesn't really establish a great connection with the network.
Please tell me you've had this problem and that it's a software issue that is fixable!
Its your 3g network that is dropping calls. I have same problem.
Go to settings, phone and then choose the band tab. Change network from Auto to GSM.
Solves all problems.
I have poor 3g in my home. At home I use gsm mode and when i go back out i switch to auto - 3g mode.
Or it might be because of an old SIM card. If you had yours for a couple of years for example, it might be time to ask for a new one.
i've actually had my sim card for ages, gonna try to order a new one and see if that solves it, thanks for the tip
Let us know!
got the HD and it droped calls all the time. My SIM-card was 5 years old. after changing it worked a lot better but not 100%. Solved that after disabling 3g (bad 3g rec at home), now it works as it should no more dropped calls.
You know.. it would be ideal to have an app that could be assigned to a button press that switches the 3g on and off without needing to go into settings all the time.
I don't use the 3g stuff all that often (mostly wifi) and gsm is fine for sending texts and making calls. Not so sire about mms though.
To be alle to switch it on and off would be ideal and could be used in conjunction with other software to schedule locations or times that would auto switch.
Anyone know of any thing?
i have got the same problem. I have sent my hd to manufacture on warranty. I still waiting on my phone, i let you know what is going on when it will be back to me.
P.S.
sorry about my english
Desperate
Hello to all,
I am having completly same issue with my touch hd.
Expierincing line drops, other side hear me badly or not at all. I tried to update radio roms to 1.09.25.35 and 1.10.25.25 , but ittis the same. Also tried updating ROM to DUTTY HD 1.7.,but it was the same. My network is MTS in Serbia.
Than, I changed finding netwotk to manual, and type of band to GSM (900+1800) UMTS (2100), same result . It looks that this helps a litlle, since I expierence less drops, but I am still unavliable sometimes. Also since my gsm card is 7 years old, I was adviced to change it what I did as well.
This brought even more results, but today, after 5 days of good work in one place (with good reception of 3G) I travell to another city, and you may guess, It started happen again.
All the way phone was loosing signal, calls were droping or even I was unable to make any calls as well.
I am so desperate, and will have to return it to a dealer, although it was my last option...
My was the same problem but it was fix
After I installed couples of upgrade my HD from HTC website and I recieved too many drop call so I uninstalled all the Hot fix . Now every work back to the normal way
Tried that as well, made 2 times hard reset, but no help.
Anyway I had only ine hotfix installed the one for keyboard lag.
I had imprssion in the begining that my problems started with new connection manager database (hotfix that was automaticly installed), but after hard reset everything repeated, so that was not the case....
Same problem here! Total nightmare, is there any possible fix for this or is it just poor quality gsm bits in the phone? Mine picks up such lower signal than any other phone ive had
Ryanmt said:
Same problem here! Total nightmare, is there any possible fix for this or is it just poor quality gsm bits in the phone? Mine picks up such lower signal than any other phone ive had
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Ryanmt, It looks that GSM module sucks...Everything else is superb, but, after all this is a phone, isn't it?
I reversed to original ROM (403 WWE), and RADIO ROM (1.09.25.14), removed HardSPL, and now waiting for asome bright idea to try...
I give myself 7 days before waranty claim...
CORRECTION: I left mine HD for warantty today (11.02.), will report on...
Mine went back for warrenty also. Mine went back due to a faulty screen but i noted down it had major signal issues too.
Have you had any update?
I am still waiting for mine. Don't know how long usually takes. Any expiriences?
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I am still waiting for mine. Don't know how long usually takes. Any expiriences?
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Im still waiting now is 24th day, but i had sent by carphonewarehouse next time i will send straitgh to htc because cpw is not good.
24 days !? OMG, I hope I won't be that luck. I gave mysef my HD directly to official distributor (same place wher I have bought it) here in Serbia, this is 5th day since I have left it...
HTC told me 5 days from when they receive it.
Sent mine away also
I was experiencing the same problems, even when I had signal it was impossible to call someone(not always but it happends sometimes) and for some reason my FM Radio wasn't working.. I'll try to keep you all informed, if it helped to sent it back to htc..
sounds like htc might be collecting a nice pile of phones with the same symptoms. I wonder if that will prompt them to release a fix of some sort
I've been using my Vogue flashed with NFSFAN's WM6.5 ROM for a year and a half now. Everything was peachy. A few days ago I suddenly started getting no signal where before I had no problem (including but not limited to my bedroom and downtown Toronto lol).
At first there was absolutely no signal wherever I went. The phone would look and look (and drain its battery), but nothing. I tried soft resetting, and taking the battery out. It doesn't work. The phone apparently got a signal when it felt like it, and dropped it when it didn't.
Then I tried a hard reset, and even flashed my phone again, this time to Myn's Warm Donut. It started to work a bit better, but still depends on the phone's temperament it seemed.
With Android's phone status screen though, I noticed that, in my room, the dBm is around -90 to -100, regardless of whether the phone thinks it's got signal or not. However, the asu is normally around 6 but drops to 0 when the phone doesn't think it has signal.
I'm wondering what kind of problem this is...
The radio is 3.42.50 like NFSFAN had suggested, although it shows up as "unknown" in Android.
My mom has the same phone+network but doesn't have the problem. Besides, my own phone with the same radio had worked perfectly in the same areas before, so it's not the network.
The network is Bell, btw.
I'm starting to think it can only be a hardware problem, but can you guys suggest anything I might try? My warranty has been voided by flashing anyways.
Seems reasonable to me... 3.42.50 is the last radio for that phone, I think. The vogues are getting so old now, we'll probably see more and more random failures.
I have been using android 2.2 (Mattc Leo + Froyo w/Sense 1.8) on my HD2 for a while now. Recently I've been having serious issues with my signal and the ability to successfully send text messages. Place where I used to get 3-5 bars of signal are now giving me 0-2 bars and often no signal at all. text messages are constantly erroring on send even when I do have 4-5 bars of signal. This has been tested at 4 different locations where I spend time regularly so I am not thinking this is a tower issue just yet.
Any ideas?
Radio version 2.15.50.14
pending on where you are located it could be a tower issue for instance im bout 45mins from where that huge tornado hit Joplin, Mo and we have been having troubles from all the storms this week.. i ran that rom from my sd for a very long time and loved it but decided to go NAND because it was just easier to deal with. when i had those issues with that rom i used Titanium Backup and did a fresh load on it and usually solved it. Also make sure that you have a newer updated Kernal on the phone because that always helps.