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.
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I've had my wizard (cingular 8125) for just a little but over a year, but this past month I've had some abnormal issues with it.
I've dropped this phone a few times, but randomly this past month I have noticed a severe amount of service dropping in different forms.
Sometimes I'll be on the phone and it will randomly drop and start searching for a signal, in a well serviced area. Sometimes I'll be texting, and it will have service(2-6bars, enough for texting) but it will refuse to send the message, and when I try to call, it says invalid sim, and I have to reboot.
Sometimes If I am lucky, when the service drops it will pick it up within 20 seconds, it can take up to 5min, and sometimes I have to restart it.
This phone has been stock up untill this problem started (no rom flashing/anything) I tried unlocking it and trying different roms on it recently as a last ditch effort to fix this annoying problem. If anyone knows of a solution to this problem, I'd be really appreciative of it, otherwise im getting a new phone
While my first instinct is to convince you to sell me your otherwise functioning phone on the cheap, I must resort to being the good guy (or else get spanked by the mods...)
There is a registry fix for the kind of signal dropping you're describing. I'm surprised you went for so long without experiencing the problem. I did almost right away when I got mine last year. You should try it first, if you haven't already...
I think this is the one I used:
http://www.pocketpctweaks.com/pocketpc_tweaks/fix_drop_calls
i don't think its a Rom problem,as signal reception is not depended on the Rom,its an OS,rather its more depended on the Radio Rom (GSM) of the phone.Usually,by upgrading the Radio Rom improves the signal reception quality.Instead of flashing different roms,try to flash different Radio Roms and check if it improves the signal quality.
But,here,I think,perhaps,the problem lies more on the hardware part then the Radio Rom. as you say,it has been dropped a couple of times,it may be the the External Antenna cover has lost proper connection with the Internal antenna connection.Check the fastening clips which snap in to secure the External antenna cover to the internal are properly secured in and have not come off, are not loose or broken,which might be causing it to not having proper connection.
Cheers!
Well i tweaked those settings and tore this baby apart, and honestly the service was dramatically improved for this entire week, untill thursday, when service began dropping and it began to start telling me my sim was invalid. So I'm kinda lost here, it seems no one else has had this type of issue....
And on a sidenote I am unable to connect to gprs or edge to send pictures via mms. I noticed this after I started flashing different roms, so I think its software related. I did however download that .cab package floating around that has all the cingular media net settings. But when I try to send a picture my phone just seems kinda lost lol
bump!
I reflashed the rom to the official htc cingular rom, and that fixed the edge/gprs issue, but service is still bad.... Id like to try some different radio roms before totally giving up hope on this thing, but this site has seem to take down its ftp.... anyone have any wizard radio roms uploaded? preferably ones that work well with cingular/ at&t here in the US.... thanks
bump... guess no one has any ideas=(..... but since the ftp is back up ill try some radio roms
Anyone else having bad service? I currently have the latest radio, js 1.5 build. Its been going on for like a week. I'm debating on switching back to the previous radio to see if that will fix the problem. I'm also guessing maybe it has to do with the lx just being released.
My G1 is going nuts switching to Edge and GPRS back and forth for the last 2 days.
i just reflashed the latest radio, and everything seems fine again
I've had network disconnection issues with the 2.22.19.26I radio so I flashed back to the 2.22.19.23 & all has been well so far.
FYI: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=515624
Although I am not 100% sure on how this works, I called T-Mobile and had them "reset my connection". Had to turn the phone off for 5 minutes and when I booted up, I have had zero issues since.
She said sometimes the phone will find a tower and get "locked" to it. If you go outside of it's range, you lose your signal. Not sure exactly what the real truth behind this is but whatever she did fixed the problems...
Running 26I
I'm using 2.22.19.26I radio on JDv1.5 and haven't had any problems. I reboot frequently, though, not sure if there's anything there.
Ok my phone just recently started having signal issues no matter what rom i flash or where i am it will have signal for a little bit then it will say no signal. I cant figure out what the problem is. I googled it but most people have this problem with their phone brand new where as mine just started and i have had the phone for 6 months
most likely its your radio, radio is what determines your signal strength and quality, try using another radio version and see if that improves it.
thats what i thought it was to but i have tried all the radios and the problem just doesnt go away. I have tried soft resets hard resets but no luck im guessing the phones just messed up now though i have never even dropped the darn thing.
ruffrider5956 said:
thats what i thought it was to but i have tried all the radios and the problem just doesnt go away. I have tried soft resets hard resets but no luck im guessing the phones just messed up now though i have never even dropped the darn thing.
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What rom, and other information are you using?
What about other factors? Like your environment. Did you recently get a new case or change anything physically about the phone? Maybe opened it up or something. Maybe your phone has a case of iPhone disease or something...just grasping at straws here.
Does it occur in the same location or every location? Does it seem like its attempting to "hunt" for a signal or do you just have something like 1 bar then it drops out and eventually comes back. Or does it drop out never to reappear only when you do a hard reset (turn off and on)?
I had a radio issue with my older TYTN (I) and it drops in a really strong area starts hunting then finds the signal and its very strong. Eventually it stops finding the signal unless you turn it on multiple times. Even this would not work and it wouldn't get the radio version when the phone was turned on. Had to replace the motherboard and it was fine since. Also trying to reflash a rom/radio with a bad radio in the phone can be pretty difficult - like it won't flash. Remember mine would freeze at 15% and never go any further.
If its the radio you probably wouldn't see the radio ver code when the phone first turns on. This is if the radio chip is really dying. Try the legimate original stock radio (use TMOBILE's ROM if you are in the US) for a while otherwise the phone should still be under warranty.
Well im using elegencia rom the newest one and i have tried all the radios and the problem doesnt seem to go away. The problem happens no matter where i am even in the towns were i would never lose reception i get no bars there once in awhile every 5 mins i get no bars then it comes back then it goes away. The phone is still under warranty im going to keep searching for another fix for the next week if not im going to send back i wish they would just give me a different phone.
if you have not done so try another sim card. when the sim card gets corrupted, they have a tendency to act just like you are describing.
anhyeuemmaimai said:
if you have not done so try another sim card. when the sim card gets corrupted, they have a tendency to act just like you are describing.
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thats the one thing i havent tried im going to try that i hope thats the problem.
Hey guys, I'm using the Chucky ROM on my HD2 and running the Froyo (no sense i think) version of android.
I have had the phone for several months. When I first got it, the reception was great in WinMo. I flashed the ROM (Elegencia at the time) and reception was still fine. A few weeks later, I couldn't get any service to speak of at my house (in Elegencia or Android). I tried a different radio - no luck. I flashed the ROM again to Chucky...no luck. I've tried tinkering with the settings for selecting a network...no luck again.
I switched my SIM card to my old blackberry, and I get 1-2 steady bars at my house. However, on my HD2, I can barely get one bar, and if so, it's gone within a few seconds. The reception is often very sporadic elsewhere - one minute I might have 5 3G bars, the next I have no service. It's so bad my calls constantly drop due to the dropped service.
A friend of mine has the same phone, also running Android (with the same Radio last I checked), and he will have a steady 5 bars while I have no service - sitting just feet apart.
Is there anything else I can try before I move on to a different phone? I love running android, but I need to be able to make calls from my house!
Thanks in advance!
My phone suddenly started having trouble with network reception yesterday. I have relatively poor reception in my area, but I still used to have 2-3/5 bars. Now I have no reception at all. And in other areas it does have reception but I never see it go up to 5 bars. The network bar icon keeps rotating for a while and then just ends with a cross. Today even the mobile networks settings menu option was grayed out until I restarted the phone.
I havent changed anything on the phone. No problems with water or any other hardware damage happened as far as I know. The only recent things that changed were that I got a 4200mah battery (which kinda makes the back cover bulge a bit or pop open easily) and I changed the phone from whatever stock based nougat rom I had been running for the last 1.5 years to a stock based oreo rom. But both these changes happened about a week ago, and everything worked fine until yesterday.
Anyone else had a problem like this or know what this could be? I'm gonna try reinstalling the rom and restoring the previous battery but if these things don't solve it I might have to move on to something else, which I really dont want to do as nothing out there really appeals to me.
Who is your carrier? Which specific model phone do you have?
I also have problems with calling the function on my f800l. At some places, I cant make a phone call but mobile data works just fine. And if i try and keep on calling the network resets.