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T-Mobile Network Issues

Hey, anyone else have network issues with the N1 today? Seems like none of my calls or texts are going through, but I have signal and everything. I went outside to use 3g, worked for a little and then stopped.. So I did a airplane off/on and now the data wont connect. Went back inside it connected again but text and calls wouldnt work.
Anyone else having any issues?
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You need to provide more info like your general location. It might be a local issue or trouble with your phone.
I was on my phone all day in calls and data with no problems. I'm in the Chicago area.

Hi.. I have troubles with T-Mobile on 3G... but supposedly there is an issue with my mast in NR1.. I agree...where are you?
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Have you tried turning the phone off then back on? I run into this problem every once in a while. So have others:
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In Orlando, Fl ever since Hsdpa rolled out here If been getting little to no 3g here, spoke to a tmob rep and he saying something about no longer connecting to at&t's frequencies so data loss is possible, idk but it needs to get resolved its been a couple of weeks.

i had the same problem yesterday. It only happened to me at home when i left running around town i was able to connect for data. Also it was raining here so maybe that contributed to it

InfamousI said:
In Orlando, Fl ever since Hsdpa rolled out here If been getting little to no 3g here, spoke to a tmob rep and he saying something about no longer connecting to at&t's frequencies so data loss is possible, idk but it needs to get resolved its been a couple of weeks.
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tell me about it man, I was in Orlando this weekend and 3G connection su*ks, since I was using my phone as GPS it was very frustrating. I started messing around with build.prop like crazy but nothing worked.

Happens to me all the time. Especially around evening times. 3-6pm. This is in seattle btw.
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profresh said:
Happens to me all the time. Especially around evening times. 3-6pm. This is in seattle btw.
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Same in Eastern Washington
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I've only had issues in my house, but that's because my house is a service-killer. No bars anywhere downstairs, but almost full 3G bars in my room. lol
Have you tried the new 5.XX series radios yet? I'm running 5.08 and notice little to no data loss or other data issues. There are moments of weirdness, but a quick disable/enable of mobile data does the trick in the most severe of situations.
Gonna upgrade to 5.12 now and see what's different (apparently touchscreen ****ty-ness is fixed). Worth a shot. Use fastboot though, never flash a radio in recovery, leaves too much up to chance.

I feel ya.. I was in universal last night and I had 4-5 bars of 3g and no internet, or at least really slooooow internet when it did work. T mobile needs to ramp up Orlando's and others servers/towers. When too many people use the internet at the same time it kills the towers bandwidth. While at Universal's Horror nights I figure everyone in the 45min-2Hr lines for the houses are using it. So that is bad. But once I left Orlando it worked fine.
Had Froyo Radio... Flashed new 5.12 today one and seems better. At least Agps is working much better.

Glad to know it's not just me. I had been searching on the Internet for people with the same issues and decided to come here. I'm in stl and my data connection will either work or not. Ive tried turning off the phone and then back on, airplane, etc.
Right now it works but it's nowhere near the 4 megs i was pulling last night, its hovering around 500 Kbps when it decides to work. Im sure tmobile is just upgrading some stuff.

Looks like its just Orlando where problem exists.
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Its very frustrating, 3g used to fly here in orlando for, but now im surviving on edge...

melmotion said:
Looks like its just Orlando where problem exists.
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YEEEEEAAAH BOYEEE! I tried to get tickets for Thursday, but that didn't go well lol. Might just take my kayak out to the cove
Lol wayyyyyy off topic, sorry OP

Does anyone else use the free T-Mobile signal booster

OK well I got it and it made all the difference in the world. I went from 1 bar that came and went to solid 4g with 3 too 5 bars always in my house.
Here's a speed test with the booster on.
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Here's a speed test with the booster off.
I'd say that's one hell of a difference. I always get great signal outside my house, but the minute I walk in the house I got almost no signal.
I was wondering what other peoples T-Mobile free signal booster.

Never heard of it. What is it and how does it work?

I got in on it back in beta. Definite difference.
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can it still be acquired for free?

As Far as I know. I got mine 3--4 months ago. All I can tell you is that it was free, no monthly charge but you do have to renew your contract, witch I just did when I bought my Sensation 2 months before so i didn't really care. So the criteria you have to meet is that. 1. must spend over 70 a month on your bill. 2. must have a 3-4G Phone. 3. Must be in a house that you or your parents own. or atleast be in a house you rent. Point is you can't live in a place that has any other units..apartments.. or duplex,, something to do with the signal ****ing up their phone. 4.Must have a land line for 911 purposes, something about the booster messes up your ability to call 911 from your cell when your in the range of your booster. I don't know why or how just that these are the things you have to meet in order to get one. I had a thread about it when I first heard about it. Some guy called 3 times and they said it didn't exist and me and a few other people told him that they most definitely do, call and if you get the runaround raise hell,, ask for a supervisor . whatever.. He did and a month later he got one.. I don't know if that thread is still up but search Free Tmobile signal boosters on xda and see if that thread is still up. Me and everyone else I talked to said it made a big difference. I mean. I was unable to make any calls or get anything above a slow edge data signal. now I get 3-5 bars and 4G at all times in my house. I posted the speed tests with and without the booster on my first post.. that speaks for itself...

How I found out about it was when I was at the Tmobile store paying my bill and looking around I was bullshitting with one of the reps and I was *****ing that I get great signal until the minute I walk in my house, He told me to get a signal booster. I asked if it was expensive. He said, no, they are free, just call Tmo customer service and I did and I got one. I really had no problem. I don't know why they don't advertise it but you can get one.

can someone post a pic of one?

@donsh00tmesanta , Sure man, here's how it works. It comes in 2 parts. Part #1 goes in the spot in your house where you get the best signal or at least 1 bar. (Most people put it on a window Ledge, that's where I keep mine. Part #2 goes anywhere in your house just must be 25 or more feet away from the part #1. Bye the way. All you need is a plug outlet to plug the boxes into. No need for wifi or any connection to your phone or computer internet, just electricity.
Part #1
Part #2

Thank you man!!!!
I am very interested into TMO when the GN arrives (LTE doesnt interest me, just a battery hog, 7-42mbps is good enough)
Hopefully I can score a booster
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@donsh00tmesanta , Sure man, here's how it works. It comes in 2 parts. Part #1 goes in the spot in your house where you get the best signal or at least 1 bar. (Most people put it on a window Ledge, that's where I keep mine. Part #2 goes anywhere in your house just must be 25 or more feet away from the part #1. Bye the way. All you need is a plug outlet to plug the boxes into. No need for wifi or any connection to your phone or computer internet, just electricity.
Part #1
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Phone signal in basement

Hey, I'm currently working with a HTC HD2 with a Froyo Android on it and having difficulties in the basement.
I've recently moved into a new rental house (am a University student) and was given a room in the basement (not much choice there since I signed up late for housing). Anyways I've noticed I get 1-2 bars in the basement which is fine (so I thought) but I'm not receiving any text or phone calls! Whenever I walk outside with my phone there's multiple texts waiting for me and whenever I meet my parents they question why I never pick up the phone (I dont even have missed calls showing).
Now with my closest friends I have whatsapp/fb chat/google talk which is fine but for employers who I give my resume to, or friends I occasionally meet up with they have no way to contact me :S so was wondering if there's any way to boost my signal in the basement?
I've read about a few signal boosters and repeaters but they are costing hundreds of dollars which is out of my price range but really do need to fix something or my social life is going down the drain next semester :S
Thanks in advance

forgot to mention, it wont even send texts as well at two bars... so sad T__T

aerok5 said:
am a University student
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really do need to fix something or my social life is going down the drain next semester
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Go outside. Solves both your social life problem and signal problem.

Maybe AT&T will have better signal and you can just switch to like Straight Talk.
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Hey just downloaded a signal booster app last nite (Fresh Network) and it doesn't fix the problem completely... but if i hold the phone exactly above my mini-fridge and send texts they usually go through after 3-4 attempts which is nice but sad to see there's no better solutions

aerok5 said:
Hey just downloaded a signal booster app last nite (Fresh Network) and it doesn't fix the problem completely... but if i hold the phone exactly above my mini-fridge and send texts they usually go through after 3-4 attempts which is nice but sad to see there's no better solutions
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Signal booster apps are a scam. I hope you didn't pay for it.
You should connect it to a strong wifi network and use wifi calling.

Mr.Mischief said:
Signal booster apps are a scam. I hope you didn't pay for it.
You should connect it to a strong wifi network and use wifi calling.
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Hey, no didn't pay for it but I personally disagree. It feels like it does help (although the difference isn't very much)
And yea was debating on going pure WiFi but seems like a lot of hassle to have two different numbers, or is there a way to keep same number?? Sorry not very sure how WiFi networks work, if you could recommend a good one that'd be great

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Hey, no didn't pay for it but I personally disagree. It feels like it does help (although the difference isn't very much)
And yea was debating on going pure WiFi but seems like a lot of hassle to have two different numbers, or is there a way to keep same number?? Sorry not very sure how WiFi networks work, if you could recommend a good one that'd be great
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Most T-Mobile smartphones have built in wifi calling. No porting or different numbers. You just connect to a wifi network and enable it in the settings.
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checked under settings and no luck thanks anyways mite get roomies to chip in for a used network extender (cheapest i found was around $60 which isn't all that bad)
thanks again

aerok5 said:
checked under settings and no luck thanks anyways mite get roomies to chip in for a used network extender (cheapest i found was around $60 which isn't all that bad)
thanks again
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The HTC HD2 is a Windows phone, right? I believe only T-Mobile Blackberry and Android phones support UMA.
Read: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=843433&page=6

Found setting for 3G to help battery life..

Some of you are going to say 'that's old news', but for the benefit of people like myself who maybe missed it at the time, I'm going to reiterate from something which was brought up a long time ago in the xda forums, found by accident in posts from a year or two ago.
There's this thing called fast dormancy. It's like a network power saving feature, which some networks don't support, and I found a lot of people saying that when disabled, can actually help battery life on 3G. I'm not going to go into that now, if you want more info Google it..
So it was as simple as adding a line into your build prop. "ro.ril.fast.dormancy.rule" with a value of "0" and rebooting.
I wasn't expecting much, but did it just for the hell of it. I've not really used my 3G data much since I did this about 4 hours ago, but I left my data switched on, which is usually enough to drain the battery a bit anyway, I'd expect to lose 7 or 8 percent normally just being connected to data. Just checked battery drain. Hasn't moved 1%??!?! UPDATE: It is still using a bit, but definitely seems better.
Also..... I've speed tested my data many times before. Usually in my house, from sitting in the same chair, in the same room, I always get say 2Mb plus or minus 0.5 Mb. Well guess what. I ran a speed test and got 5.5Mb!!! So I ran a few more and it never went below 4Mb.
Can someone please shed some light on wtf is going on here? lol
Edit: just ran another speed test. 5.26 down, 1.25 up. Something has changed here, I'm telling you. Maybe o2 have switched on a new mast right outside my window ( just kidding, there's no new masts, because there's a mast fairly close to me, I know where it is)... I've ran loads of these tests with the same phone, same network, same room, and same ROM before, and never got half of the speeds that I'm consistently hitting now. Maybe the network has been upgraded or something and its just coincidental, that wouldn't explain why my battery life on 3G does seem to be improved though..
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Anybody else fancy running a speed test, adding the line into your build prop, then rebooting, trying another speed test, and checking out your 3G battery life as well?
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Tried it but unfortunately no noticeable difference in my case (on KPN network in NL). Thanks for the suggestion tho!

No problem. Maybe there has been some kind of improvement made to my network then. After having a think about it, if I am now getting a much better signal than I was it would actually explain the increase in speed (obviously), but also it may explain the battery life increase too due to my phone not hunting for a signal as much.
That's why I was wanting someone else to try, so thanks. I didn't realise it was possible in the real world to get 5.5 megabits from HSDPA. I wonder what the theoretical maximum is from it, and the real world maximum..
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L0kiii said:
Tried it but unfortunately no noticeable difference in my case (on KPN network in NL). Thanks for the suggestion tho!
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[Q] Repalcement

First of all I'm from the UK
So I have had my phone since January 21st and its been fine.
Past few days its been getting really, really HOT! I know some people exaggerate about over heating problems but I couldn't even hold the phone. I was scared that it was going to explode. It took about 15 minutes to cool down once i had turned it off and it has happened about 4 times in the past two days.
I have looked on Googles return/ replacement policies but i'm a little confused. I don't know if its changed within the last day but i looked it up on my phone and it said they have a 24/7 help line that i can call. I have now looked it up on my desktop and the options have changed and it tells me i have to go through LG.
Does anyone have that number? I cant seem to find it anywhere.
Is there a chance i can get a brand new replacement from Google or LG? or would it just be a repair?
Thank you.

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First of all I'm from the UK
So I have had my phone since January 21st and its been fine.
Past few days its been getting really, really HOT! I know some people exaggerate about over heating problems but I couldn't even hold the phone. I was scared that it was going to explode. It took about 15 minutes to cool down once i had turned it off and it has happened about 4 times in the past two days.
I have looked on Googles return/ replacement policies but i'm a little confused. I don't know if its changed within the last day but i looked it up on my phone and it said they have a 24/7 help line that i can call. I have now looked it up on my desktop and the options have changed and it tells me i have to go through LG.
Does anyone have that number? I cant seem to find it anywhere.
Is there a chance i can get a brand new replacement from Google or LG? or would it just be a repair?
Thank you.
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If you bought it from the Play store, you go through google. If you bought it somewhere else, you need to speak with your provider or LG directly. Phone numbers can be found on their websites.

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If you bought it from the Play store, you go through google. If you bought it somewhere else, you need to speak with your provider or LG directly. Phone numbers can be found on their websites.
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This is what i get when i try and go through the play store
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Return policy just says within 15days.
Iv already contacted LG customer service and waiting for the reply.
Iv just sent Google the same message basically but its under the 15day return policy I clicked on "contact our support team"
Just gonna wait and see what they both say and go from there =(

RedBlueGreen said:
This is what i get when i try and go through the play store
Return policy just says within 15days.
Iv already contacted LG customer service and waiting for the reply.
Iv just sent Google the same message basically but its under the 15day return policy I clicked on "contact our support team"
Just gonna wait and see what they both say and go from there =(
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Ah, sorry mate. Good luck to ya. For me I sprung for the 10 dollar a month warranty from T-Mobile in the US. Just had mine replaced for charging issues and the buzzing in the speaker got worse.

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Ah, sorry mate. Good luck to ya. For me I sprung for the 10 dollar a month warranty from T-Mobile in the US. Just had mine replaced for charging issues and the buzzing in the speaker got worse.
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Got a reply from Google within 10minutes..
They said I have to go through the trouble shooting stage basically. factory reset etc and if it still happens they will send me a replacement!
Should I just lie and say iv already done it when it first happened and it continued to over heat a couple more times or should i just wait it out a few days do what they say and contact them then?

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Got a reply from Google within 10minutes..
They said I have to go through the trouble shooting stage basically. factory reset etc and if it still happens they will send me a replacement!
Should I just lie and say iv already done it when it first happened and it continued to over heat a couple more times or should i just wait it out a few days do what they say and contact them then?
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That's your call. Only you know how your device has been acting :/ (First hand I mean)

Just got my new one. Its a 304k. Screen is a little dimmer which I don't care about.. But the gyroscope isn't working within apps. Like the camera, chrome, messaging etc.
I've downloaded an actual gyroscope and that works. Also factory reset the phone still the same.
Just sent Google an email about it.. Waiting for reply.
Why me ?
Edit... I fixed it by putting my sim card in lol.