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I thought that if the phone can't get a sprint signal it'll roam?
I get absolutely 0 sprint service in the part of florida I'm in, but it doesn't even roam to verizon (which gets all bars here). It just shuts the radio off.
My friend with an lg rumor(I think that's what itscalled...its a sprint lg texting phone) gets no servicebut roams off verizon while over here...
What's wrong with the epics radio -_- I've been using google voie to text over wifi,but I need to make calls too. I keep getting "MISSED CALL FROM 555-5555" messages but my phone doesn't even ring -_-
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You can force roam using Roam Control.
http://market.android.com/details?id=com.vuvuzela.roamcontrol
It works perfectly for me.
I can't buy it. Also, I shouldn't have to pay extra to roam for free...the phone should automatically switch instead of cutting the radio off. I can understan using roam control in areas where the phone hangs onto weak sprint signals and contantly switches back and forth, but there is absolutely no service here from sprint
The hero roamed full bars last time I was in a strictly no-sprint zone.
I hope cyanogen mod gets the mms bug fixed soon, ebecause I know thres a "roam" option in the cm menus. Atleast it was on the hero
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dos anyone elses phone roam when there's 0 signal from sprint? Or does your radio cut off too?
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Mine roams fine. Have you checked the settings in Mobile Networks?
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Yeah and I thought that the roam guard mightve been aproblem but I turned it off and still a nogo
It'll stay with the "no smoking" symbol until I hit a sprint tower (which I lock onto five minutesfrom the house -_- so its not like ima be roaming alllllll the time sprint!!)
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I highly recommend Roam Control.
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.vuvuzela.roamcontrol
I would love roam control
I've wanted it since the developer came out with it in the epic forums, but I can't buy it.
Which is why I hope that now that froyo sauce was released, cm will move over to rc1 territory and it'll be a simple toggle in the settings...
Pure aosp with speed and force roam built in.... :drool:
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Try updating the PRL? When I roam it cuts off my 3g which is annoying but I still have cell signal.
I updated prl as soon as I updated to eb13
It wasn't bothring me that I wasn't getting roam, but I was on dk28 so I affiliated it with that modem since there were other bugs....but this is official froyo now so I figured a prl and profile update in sprint territory would've fixed it, but it didn't.
Unless its a hardware problem....... D:
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Get a new phone, yours is toast.
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Is it me or anyone else havingtrouble with Roam Control now?
I hate "Top Flight Security Mods"
diego1985 said:
Is it me or anyone else havingtrouble with Roam Control now?
I hate "Top Flight Security Mods"
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It still works fine here.
Isira said:
It still works fine here.
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I can fix it once I flash to a custom rom that's finish probably.
I hate "Top Flight Security Mods"
Top Nurse said:
Get a new phone, yours is toast.
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Do you really think so or ar you being sarcastic? Its hard to tell over the interwebs. I wanna avoid gtting a new one but fro the sounds of it, I might have to (((((
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A_Flying_Fox said:
I thought that if the phone can't get a sprint signal it'll roam?
I get absolutely 0 sprint service in the part of florida I'm in, but it doesn't even roam to verizon (which gets all bars here). It just shuts the radio off.
My friend with an lg rumor(I think that's what itscalled...its a sprint lg texting phone) gets no servicebut roams off verizon while over here...
What's wrong with the epics radio -_- I've been using google voie to text over wifi,but I need to make calls too. I keep getting "MISSED CALL FROM 555-5555" messages but my phone doesn't even ring -_-
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dumb question.....did you make sure you phone was set to allow roaming?
Settings>Wireless and Networks>Mobile Network Settings>system Settings>Automatic.
btw, I use roam control because it allows you to force Roam Only so it doesn't keep switching in low signal areas.
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Is it me or anyone else having trouble with Roam Control now?
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I get "unable to parse text" whenever anything is tried with Roam Control.
Tried fresh install, reboots, etc. No change.
Edit to add, i'm rooted of course.
Yeah roaming is set to automatic
Is there a dialer code that might help with signal searching?
I remember when I first got the epic, ther was something about dialing *#*#something and there was a menu where you would tell it to check CDMA only becauseit would search for gsm....would that help?
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Roam control requires root...just an fyi.
It works great here on the new 2.2 update. The phone also roams by itself and connects to data via 1x with a normal prl. Or with a fixed prl it connects to 3g
Do you mean you never have a signal, ever? During your day to day life at home and work...? Cuz if so, dude, srsly: get off of Sprint. If you just roam 24/7, they'll drop your account anyway.
You sound like you have really unique, mysterious circumstances keeping you both attached to Sprint and unable to make purchases on the market (which is even more weird).
Call me a skeptic, but I'm having trouble buying into your story. :/ If you want to play this game, you can flash a Verizon PRL (do we know how to do this on Epic...?), but if/when Sprint cancels your account, do us a favor and don't waste XDA's bandwidth on a "WTF SPRINT" thread.
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Recently when I restarted my phone, the 3G symbol doesn't show. Switched to edge and it appeared then switched to 3G again but now can't even connect. Just shows the 4 bars with no edge/3g symbol.
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Flashed anything recently? Maybe you're just in a dead zone. What rom and modem are you running?
I haven't rooted my phone yet. My reception is great but it has just acted like this lately.
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In that case I'd say its either local interference or perhaps a malfunction with the nearest cell tower. Either way if you haven't rooted yet and it persists, I'd call T-Mobile.
I can now go to edge but still can't to 3g. Thanks. I'll call them.
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Also, make sure you're in a 3G area.
http://www.t-mobile.com/coverage/pcc.aspx
Must be the area as aloneinshadow suggested, unless you have changed settings, such as: use only ........ network, intended for battery save. Sorry I can't be more specific but my current rom does not have that option. I just know that 2.1 has it, if you are on Eclair.
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I bought my ns4g about a week and a half ago coming from a tbolt on Verizon. I got it at 8pm and had it rooted by 9. I immediately installed cm7 and have been using every nightly. My signal was horrible. I had nothing at work and barely one at home. It also would barely hold a wifi signal even when laying the phone right next to my router. I've updated my profile and manually put prl 60679 on the phone and nothing improved. The only time I could get 3g was using the Verizon hybrid prl ( I don't have 4g here). I called sprint and updated the msi? And the lady said I was in great coverage at work and good at home. The signal was so bad in 4 ours of the phone sitting in my pocket doing nothing I lost 50% battery everyday. So this morning I unrooted to take the phone back to sprint for an exchange. I've been using it stock for about an hour and now wifi is good even outside my house and I get 2-3 bars most of the time. Is there any reason why this would be? I have owned about 90% of Verizon's android phones so I'm not new to this, I've just never seen this kind of difference between stock and rooted. I think I will wait and see if it stays like this or gets worse now and switch to the 3d if it is still bad. I switched to the nexus s because I love plain android, butit was so bad before I couldn't even make phone calls or send text unless I got lucky and it would connect.
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the only thing i know on the subject is i left my phone unrooted for a couple of days. never noticed a difference after rooting. seems to be many conflicting reports on signal issues when it comes to the nexus. i have generally lower signal (3g 4g wifi) than my evo. really hope its software related so i can get a fix.
Rooting doesn't affect the phone's radio.
Maybe the ROM was bad?
ive been watching my signal strength for a day and its usually around -86. my evo was always -90 or more
It could be the rom I just don't get it. I've never had a problem with cm7. I'm going to root and fund it stock rooted and see then maybe go with something else
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ive been watching my signal strength for a day and its usually around -86. my evo was always -90 or more
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-86 dbm is a *better* signal than -90 dbm.
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I sat at 101 before now I have 2 bars and I am at 86 now, best it has ever been
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Better look at the second number. Anything below 3 is bad reception.
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-86 dbm is a *better* signal than -90 dbm.
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i know. and now mt deactivated evo is at -57
My experience is the same. I get better service stock also. Your wasting your breath here though man. To many sprint engineers here
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Better look at the second number. Anything below 3 is bad reception.
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so -86 0 asu is bad? but im not having any issues
mikeyinid said:
My experience is the same. I get better service stock also. Your wasting your breath here though man. To many sprint engineers here
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stock as in rom? or unrooted?
Stock rooted. GRJ22 odexed. I use netarchy kernel but stock otherwise.
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stock as in rom? or unrooted?
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mikeyinid said:
Stock rooted. GRJ22 odexed. I use netarchy kernel but stock otherwise.
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damn i like soju 2.6 too. oh well stocks not bad either. i see theres 4 kernels to chose from and 2 are experimental
ok so i flashed my "out_of_the_box" back up and updated prl and profile and my status numbers are the same. i did notice tho that with soju 2.6 i was on evdo rev 0, and now back to stock im on rev A
now wtf? after i flashed a netarchy kernal (stable bfs 2.3.4) im on rev 0 again. what going on here?
Here's what I'm gauging my claim on. I live in a basement apartment so I get awful service anyway. But, on CM7 I can't make a call without it dropping, and mms is out of the question. On stock, I can almost always get through a call and mms sends no problem. I have an airave and its the same story on that. CM7 the mms just sits there with the icon spinning forever. Stock it sends almost instantly. I keep a backup of both and just switch between depending on what I'm doing.
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mikeyinid said:
My experience is the same. I get better service stock also. Your wasting your breath here though man. To many sprint engineers here
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My favorite quote "Engineers are educated beyond their intelligence." Ironically, I am in school for engineering
Now I have a problem. I rooted again and right now I am stock rooted. My signal is back to being bad again. So I can either remain stock or switch back to Verizon or go with 3vo. I came to sprint just for this phone so I can root and play. I don't know what to do. I have 18 days left until my 30 is up...
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I rooted a couple days ago, haven't noticed much of a difference in signal strength practically... BUT my time without signal went from 1% to about 8% . Obviously battery life suffered somewhat.
Currently I'm on EvDO rev. A.
Will continue to post updates.
So I have switched to the hybrid 00001 prl for now and I get decent signal, eve get some at work. I figure if I'm going to switch tithe 3vo in a week I won't go over the 300mb roam limit. Its a shame too I like this phone, I just want something j can play with.
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EVDO rev 0 to rev A switches depending on signal quality.
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Anyone all's with random Google signal this start like 2 weeks ago for me I just want to make sure the it's not the phone and it's Google.
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I don't understand.
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Anyone all's with random Google signal this start like 2 weeks ago for me I just want to make sure the it's not the phone and it's Google.
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what are you referring to. Might it be your cell signal, if it is I too have been having more issues with sprints coverage in past month
I'm talking about wen the bars get green
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Well I do have bars they are all gray almost all the time. And when they green it's when Google go's in and it's faster
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chikilin1389 said:
Anyone all's with random Google signal this start like 2 weeks ago for me I just want to make sure the it's not the phone and it's Google.
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Too much to ask for you to post in one of the other two threads on this subject?
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may I ask if your wifi policy is set to "when screen off" might be getting the hand off between cell radio and wifi when reconnecting the mothership
How you check that
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I'm experiencing the same thing. For the past month or so, my signal bars go from Green to Gray and as a result I lose any connection to Google's services. Such as Gmail, Gtalk, Gvoice etc. Every time I see this, I have to login to Gtalk and the bars go green again. But this fix only lasts from a few minutes to a few hours if I'm lucky. I've been on the Google forum reading about this issue since April on T-Mobile and other carriers, and now since a month ago on Sprint.
Yes that's the problem that I have
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same here! t-mobile germany...
I had that problem with my HTC Desire. The problem only appears when there's very little space left in RAM or internal memory...
No this sounds like Google having server issues. I'm seeing the same on my phone.
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Do you see this happening with 3G, or wifi as well?
See it more on 3g. You thing it can be the gaaps cuz I get it back every time I go to gtalk
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Please refer to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17373413#post17373413
and also http://goo.gl/0NXZi for the official google issue report
its disheartening to see this issue has been going on for months without a fix from google. ive been having this issue for the past week or two now...
Looks like it is fixed. Has been solid so far today.
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Same here, phone seems ok today.
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Finally fix. Thanks Google
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JB is out now. Is the signal strength issues for 4Gs fixed?
I don't really know I got it with JB installed already, I have noticed wifi and 4G drop out every now and then for a few seconds and then kick back on.
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I don't really know I got it with JB installed already, I have noticed wifi and 4G drop out every now and then for a few seconds and then kick back on.
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M first came with ICS install and there are many posts about it dropping 4G to 3G and have signal strength issues. I'm just checking to see if it was fix with JB. I have a upgrade coming up and thinking about getting the M or the HD.