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I live in an area where I have great fun with the X1 and it's low signal strength. I have 2 bars of standard connection (GPRS/GSM) until I pick the phone up, and then I have no signal at all. The thing is, what really drives me nuts is getting a SMS, picking the phone up and writing the reply, then putting the phone down for about 15 seconds whilst waiting for a signal, then pressing "Send" without picking it up again! It is sooo annoying! My Nokia 6500 Classic kept its signal all the time! Anyways, this wouldn't be so bad if the phone held the message until it got a signal then sent it instead of displaying that stupid ***** "Message couldn't be sent. Retry?" red message. The Palm Threaded SMS App is almost a perfect work around but has various issues and doesn't like MMS very much. Is there a good SMS/MMS program out there to get round my woes? How difficult can it be to hold a message in "Outbox" till you have a signal!
And no, changing operator is not an option. It's O2 by the way.
Thanks in advance.
mate, this annoys me so much. i have gotten in so much trouble with the missus for not texting her back when in reality the phone has not sent the message and i havent looked for the confirmation cos i turned them off with xperia tweak...
This is a windows mobile problem and it doesn't seem anyone has an answer.
crabby
Hey all, to keep a long story short, I had to RMA my first Hero (for non functionality issues) and now have my current Hero. I had no problems with the first phone.
On my current Hero, I'm constantly losing the data connection, and it seems to take a few tries to get it to reconnect. For instance, on gtalk, whenever the screen turns off for a minute or 2 and I turn it back on to send a new message, the bottom of the chat displays "lost connection to server, message will be resent once online" And I either have to turn the screen on and off again, or tap the status icon to get it to reconnect.
This also appears to happen in the market, I'm getting a lot of connection problems, and have to retry a couple times to get the connection to pick up again. This occurs whether I'm searching, or trying to download an app.
Any thoughts? I couldn't find any setting differences between the two phones.
Thanks,
- JustPyro
justpyro said:
On my current Hero, I'm constantly losing the data connection, and it seems to take a few tries to get it to reconnect. For instance, on gtalk, whenever the screen turns off for a minute or 2 and I turn it back on to send a new message, the bottom of the chat displays "lost connection to server, message will be resent once online"
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Uhhh... yeah. The phone sleeps, the data connection drops, and you're surprised?
posguy99 said:
Uhhh... yeah. The phone sleeps, the data connection drops, and you're surprised?
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I agree with him while I get the connection drops but I've experienced it too where I've had to reboot my phone to get my data conn back up. But thanks for the feedback posguy...really helpful
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Uhhh... yeah. The phone sleeps, the data connection drops, and you're surprised?
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No, that doesn't surprise me. What does surprise me is how long it takes to reactivate the data connection. Particularly when on my first hero, it didn't seem to have the same lag time to reconnect. =P
This thread maybe of some help. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=601049
I have been reading stuff on other sites saying that this issue could be an Android 1.5 and below thing. Not sure about 1.6, and a few Droid owners said 2.0 is the same way but also read the 2.0.1 update may have fixed that issue for them.
Thanks baker. I saw that thread, and thought that my issue might be related. But It's not that I don't get a 3g connection in the area, just that it takes a long time to pick up again, particularly in the market or gtalk.
I guess we'll see if 2.1 solves all of our collective woes.
That is part of the issue I am having.
Okay guys, so my phone is great!!! IM IN LOVE!! But here's the deal: Many times i wont receive 3G signal in places where 3G flourishes on other T-Mobile phones. I pull down my status bar and it says 3G T-Mobile, but the little bars show 5 bars and the little triangle antenna, not a 3G next to the bars. So, i go to my wireless settings. The button that turns Data Connection on/off is turned off. So i press the button, takes me to my settings add/remove/edit data connections. VERY FRUSTRATING. Then it randomly decides to work.
Also, whenever i try to view pictures, it gets slow and locks up the phone. Might this be cause by me having pictures from my G1 on my SD card? Idk different size, struggling to load them, etc.
Thanks in advance
Patrick
Hi,
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S about a month ago, and have been having odd problems with it since the off. Has anyone else had these sort of symptoms:
1. I occasionally lose my data connection - the icon disappears from the top of the screen and whilst I can still make and recieve calls and text messages, I cannot download anything in any app. The only way I've found to get my data connection back is to reset the phone. This happens maybe a couple of times a week.
2. My WiFi seems to suffer from a similar problem. I can be browsing the web on Wifi, then suddenly I'll not be able to download anything anymore. The wifi icon is still visible, but I'll basically be unable to download anything until I switch the wifi off and back on again. Then, it starts working as normal again.
In both these above scenarios, I think I've narrowed it down to primarily happening after I use the Android Market, but it's difficult to tell as it's very intermittent.
3. A couple of times since getting the phone, I've been unable to make or receive any calls. Even switching the phone off and back on didn't help - my signal bar was showing I had a signal and my data connection was still active. Couldn't tell if this was a network problem or not though as there weren't any people nearby on the same network as me. After a while, it started working normally again.
4. The email client randomly lost all of my email settings. One day I was receiving all my emails, the next day I had no email accounts set up at all.
5. I installed Sensor Dump and Phone Explorer to see what data was coming in from the sensors, and have noticed that the light sensor never sends any data. Is this normal?
I also have the usual slow-down issues, etc, but the above have got me stumped as I can't find anyone else reporting the same issues. When I first got the phone, I went crazy installing a load of Android apps, so initially I blamed the software I'd installed. After a reset and being a bit more selective with the apps I install and use, I'm still getting the same issues. I just can't pin down whether this is a faulty phone that I should return, or if there are software issues either relating to the way I'm using the phone or just with bugs in the firmware.
Has anyone else had anything like the above happen with their Galaxy S?
Thanks,
Chris.
I've experienced no.2 several times, wifi just stopping all data traffic. Not found out what causes it though.
As for the other problems, I haven't experienced any of those. Do you use automatic brightness on the display? If not, problem no. 5 might be caused by the sensor being turned off.
thanks for the reply - at least I'm not completely alone!
I have the automatic brightness turned on - which is why it seems odd. To be honest, I've never actually see the auto brightness do anything. It always seems to be the same brightness to me.
Cheers,
Chris.
Strange Problem
Hi,
I've experienced no.4 some times. My inbox did not show some older mails.
ProfWolfMan said:
Hi,
I've experienced no.4 some times. My inbox did not show some older mails.
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I think it might be normal that older mails disappear from the inbox after some time? My problem was that everything went. I had three email accounts set up, all downloading emails every hour. Then, one day I went into the email app and there were no accounts at all! I had to set it all up from scratch again.
I hear there are better email apps available for Android, so I'll probably switch to one of those soon.
lordwaym said:
1. I occasionally lose my data connection - the icon disappears from the top of the screen and whilst I can still make and recieve calls and text messages, I cannot download anything in any app. The only way I've found to get my data connection back is to reset the phone. This happens maybe a couple of times a week.
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i got this problem, i used to connecct my phone to IM client 24/7.
and it seems that after my sgs lost its connection, it won't tell me, my msntalk just displaying the entire contact list just as it is. and i need to turn airplane mode on off to return it back
anyone have the solution for this?
Hi,
I bought a Galaxy S on Orange UK in July. I'm having the same problem as 1. quite consistenly now.
I thought it might be related to the green power battery saver app I had installed, but i've removed this and still having the problem.
I'm using the phone in several central London locations so I think it's unlikely to be a problem with the data network.
Any suggestion would be welcome since I'm often without data.
Thanks
Nik
ive 1 and 3 but very rarely so far
rebooting fixes it for me
running froyo jp3
for email i use K9, it's almost the same as the integrated mail, only much better (PUSH imap)
Nik_B! said:
I bought a Galaxy S on Orange UK in July. I'm having the same problem as 1. quite consistenly now.
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I'm actually getting this happen a lot now. It seems to be getting worse, which makes me think it might be a hardware fault. I generally lose my data connection once or twice a day minimum, but some days the phone is virtually unusable.
I have found that it's more likely to happen after using Wi-Fi, so my other thought is that when coming out of Wireless mode, the phone may not switch the normal 3G/HSDPA data connection back on. Most of the time I can fix this by putting the phone into flight mode and then back out, but sometimes it needs a complete reset.
The other problem I've noted with the data connection is that sometimes it seems to rapidly switch between HSDPA and 3G - the data icon at the top of the screen keeps going from '3G' to 'H' then back again. I guess it has something to do with signal quality but it only seems to happen when the phone is showing a good signal strength (four bars). The problem I've found when this happens is that it virtually locks up any ongoing data transfers, making it impossible to download a webpage or check my emails. Strangely the only way I've really found to stop this happening is to move somewhere where my signal strength is weaker, such as indoors, which then seems to make the phone stop attempting to use HSDPA. I can't find a way to switch off HSDPA from within the phone's settings while leaving 3G on.
I really am now finding that using this phone is an increasingly frustrating experience. I've found even more weird faults, such as sometimes my text conversations show the wrong people's names up against them, and then my replies go to the wrong people. It's like an insane, shiny mess of a phone!
Chris.
lordwaym said:
Hi,
I bought a Samsung Galaxy S about a month ago, and have been having odd problems with it since the off. Has anyone else had these sort of symptoms:
1. I occasionally lose my data connection - the icon disappears from the top of the screen and whilst I can still make and recieve calls and text messages, I cannot download anything in any app. The only way I've found to get my data connection back is to reset the phone. This happens maybe a couple of times a week.
2. My WiFi seems to suffer from a similar problem. I can be browsing the web on Wifi, then suddenly I'll not be able to download anything anymore. The wifi icon is still visible, but I'll basically be unable to download anything until I switch the wifi off and back on again. Then, it starts working as normal again.
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I am indeed experiencing same problems above..it just drive me crazy with a need of complete reset everyday..
turning on n off flight mode won't change anything..
I really hope someone can bring a miracle to solve this problem..
I'm on XXJPC
setting the APN parameter(Setting-->Wireless and network-->Mobile Networks-->Access Point Names-->New APN) to 2G only seems to solve the 'lost data connection' problem..
I am connected 24/7 now..
Give a try guys!
i have full bars on 3g but when i go to like internet or lets say whays app and send a message the 3g bar wont load any data så i have to go to homescreen and go to the app again, or refresh the app, its really annoying and the phone is a pain to use outside wifi area, dont happend evertime but atleast 70% of all the times im using the phone on 3g
anyone? Its like data delay, it takes maybe 20 seconds for the data to start load info. Its really annoying! Anyone with the same problems?
Well, I have a similar? issue maybe. Sometimes I send a message thru whatsapp and clock shows and won't send, until a few seconds.. Or I check phone and no messages received, but as soon as I open the app I get all the messages with minutes of delay..
This has only happened with my N4, on stock rom and now on CM..