Problem:
1) Bill (TMobile) is past due. for about 3 weeks ive been using wifi only in my house to stay connected, working just fine.
2) for about 3 months, ive been USB tethering to my desktop since it doesnt have a wireless card. now it takes my home wifi signal to the phone, thru usb, to the computer. all drivers are full up-to-date.
3) two nights ago i installed the new 2.3 Gingerbread update from LG's site, went without a hitch.
4) ever since then, my data has been freezing at downloads, browser instantly jumps to page not available, "Data Error, Retry" popup, only when im NOT tethering though. normally id blame the update, but there are plentyyyy of people without this problem.
5) yes, you heard right. when my phone is plugged in usb, it wont connect, but when i enable usb tether, the data to the phone works. its almost as if its my COMPUTER giving signal to the PHONE. this is ridiculous. when i unplug, the data continues to work for about 1 minute, then nothing.
im completely stock 2.3 with not a single new app downloaded. so i factory reset and wiped everything, loaded back in as if it was out-of-the-box, same results.
ive tried switching my WiFi off policy to never go to data (shouldnt matter, i did this for weeks without changing that, so i set it back to the standard option) i also know in 2.3 if your screen goes off it switches to data, so i set my screen to stay awake while plugged in.
needless to say... HELP.
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My G1 has recently started playing up. The problems first started with cyanogen 4.1.9999 - it would loose signal, but a reboot sorted this out and it may only happen once every two or three days if that. It was an unstable ROM, no biggy.
But then one day, after rebooting, it got stuck at the android screen then just turned itself off. This repeated several times before it just wouldn't turn on. I left it for a while and tried again later, it turns on, boots but no signal. Rebooting did nothing.
I reflashed (without wiping) cyanogen 4.1.999. and everything seems okay. But then the phone started crashing and rebooting rather a lot, and rather unpredictably. So I wiped, flashed the ADP rom and then cyanogen 4.2.1 rom. This process was a massive brainache - plugging in the usb cable managed to crash the phone within 2-5 min guaranteed, it automatically rebooted.
So here I am. Cyanogen 4.2.1 - after a complete sdcard format, wipe, ext3 repair and flash. The problems still persist! But it's temperamental, a lot of the time I loose signal still, it often reboots itself and hates anything plugged in the usb when it's turned on - making charging the thing awkward.
I used the log collector app to get these logs
http://nopaste.info/17b5351296.html
http://nopaste.info/2e98b9d044.html
At some point during those logs, the signal is lost. The log collector doesn't seem to retrieve a very long backlist, these were taken minutes apart but don't overlap, so I haven't caught a crash. I'm not sure if there are better ways to view logs/debug?
But it's all very temperamental. Occasionally it boots up and life is fine. But more often than not it will loose signal and reboot itself somewhere along the line.
Has anyone come across anything like this before? When it looses reception if I manually try an connect to a network it will say
"This SIM does not allow a connection to that network"
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I've read that could perhaps be a problem with the sim... but the sim wouldn't cause reboots would it?
Any advise would be great. I bought the G1 off ebay just under a year ago, so no warranty.
My phone has been working great. Last night though, my phone just wouldn't connect to my wifi. I rebooted the phone a few times, along with the router, but it still would't connect.
I did a factory reset to see if that solved it. It didn't. My phone was plugged in on charge at the time, and when I tried to set it up, it just hung on the wifi part, when it was supposedly connecting. This happened again after a few more factory resets. About 1am this morning it managed to connect so I could set up my phone, though it took forever to connect. When I tried to sign into Gmail that took ages as well.
I lost all my MMS and data settings. I need to input them manually - cheap network provider - and to input them, I needed to get the settings online. Low and behold my internet died. It's working now, but I won't have time to input them - gotta head to work.
So at the moment I have a phone with no apps installed, no antivirus, no data settings, but I need to take it with me to stay in touch with people.
So my questions are these. Performing numerous factory resets in a row - whilst the phone is on charge - won't have damaged the phone at all right? I was just a bit hesitant performing so many resets, but needed to resolve the problem.
Second of all, taking my phone out with no antivirus - but having data turned off - shouldn't be a problem should it?
I'll have to set it all up when I get home, but for now I just need a phone.
antivirus ? :\
I've had the 4.4.2 OTA about 2-3 weeks now, and for the most part its worked fine but as things go on I am noticing it starting to go a bit buggy. I have had issues with my Wifi, like this morning turned the phone on and it would not connect to my wifi, sure it saw it and it had full strenght but it would not connect to it, I went in manually and selected it nope nothing, I forgot network and connected again, nope nothing, restarted the phone nope, after 5 restarts it connected. I've also had issues with wifi connecting when coming out of airplane mode, everything else turns on but I have to mess around with wifi to get it going again.
Also had issues with apps crashing randomly, also had periods of sluggishness for no apparent reasons.
Anyone any ideas?
About the Wifi, try the Wi-Fi fix in this forum, maybe that'll help. For me stock is going absolutely fine. I was on OmniROM, but the updates start becoming a little buggy for me, so I switched back to Stock.
Hi all,
Having a problem here.
Had my N9005 for about 18 months, never really had any problems with it - or rather, never really required anything of it which might manifest any problems.
I've always used Stock ROM's, soft-rooted.
Never triggered KNOX.
I'm currently running Stock Lollipop (latest Switzerland Open). Everything I'm about to elaborate is also the same using Stock Lollipop (latest UK Open).
I'm rooted on Lollipop using the method compiled by The TAMAS on XDADEV.
I root because my phone is work-critical, and so I use Titanium Backup to keep my data/calls/APN/SMS backed up and to make restoring easy, as well as to disable stock bloatware etc.
The problem may have pre-existed in pre-Lollipop ROM's, but the sequence of changes which caused it to be manifested included my need to update to Lollipop, about 5/6 months back.
THE PROBLEM - First and foremost, the damn phone reboots randomly. I become aware of it because it will vibrate for startup and play the Samsung startup tone and splash screen before booting to normal functionality. It can do this day or night, maybe 3-4 times a day. I have no error messages or warnings, it's done it while in my hand, while plugged in charging, while out and about, in the car, on wifi, on data. MOST times it reboots. SOME times it just shuts off and I don't realise it's off until I go to use it, or get a call on a second phone to ask why I'm not responding to calls or messages.
When it reboots itself, if I go to the Samsung Battery control panel pane and take a look at the battery chart it will show a gap which is longer than the time it took to reboot, and a shift in the battery meter level.
But, that's not the only possible symptom or problem with the phone.
I've noticed also that my WIFI does a lot of crapping out, or slowing to a crawl, even on my home AP. I've reset AP's, reset networks, reset the phone, forgotten and then reattached the AP in WiFi Settings. So I downloaded the Ookla Speedtest App, to see this issue in black and white, and sure enough, even though any other Android or iOS or Windows or OSX device in my place can connect via Wireless AP to my fibre connection and get great consistent throughput, the Note 3 can often appear crippled...
At it's best, it responds to ping quickly on the Speedtest app, and leaps up to the 30-40Mbps range with consistency for download, and up to 17-20Mbps for upload. This is the least I would expect it to do, my target standard.
At it's worst (which can be 'most of the time') it responds slowly to ping, and either struggles to get over 250Kbps download and maybe a crazy Meg or two for upload, consistently, a slow grind; or it may oscillate extremely wildly between slow and high speeds before eventually settling to unacceptably low transfer rates.
Up to press, I've been trying to chase these problems in isolation, believing them to be unconnected.
No success.
I've reflashed several times. I've Factory Reset. I've wiped data and cache. I've reinstalled and restored from Titanium. I've reinstalled and restored nothing but my SMS's and Call Logs. I've reduced my installed apps to bare minimums. I've tried it with a MicroSD installed, and without. I've bought another battery and replaced it. I've tried it in its case and without its case.
Then I started thinking that the problems were all the same thing, and stemming from the same root.
It suddenly occurred to me that my use of the phone changed significantly at the same time as I moved to Lollipop.
I need to be on Lollipop because apps and hardware that are critical to me are Lollipop dependent.
All at the same time, I began using a Moto360, a Bluetooth Receipt Printer and a Bluetooth Credit Card Reader, all of which are deficient in functionality or in some way hamstrung by not using Lollipop.
So I had gone from occasional BT user (maybe PlayerPro plus a BT link to headphones or my stereo occasionally; when needed, BT speakerphone in car) who usually turned BT off manually to preserve battery life, to a constantly connected BT user...
So I went back to Speedtest app, and tried to test the WIFI connection again. Sure enough, it was pitiful. Then I simply disabled BT on the N9005 and ran the test again, and had full 'through the roof' speed ratings.
I've tried this back and forth hundreds of times now, and it is predictable and established. BT is somehow crippling WIFI on my N9005.
I've tried running the phone on either wifi or data only, with BT off, and had a couple of days use at a time without any restarts. Put BT back on permanently, and the restarts resume within hours.
I'll be honest, I've even been cursing and swearing at my BT devices, because BT sometimes struggles to even maintain a continuous connection. I get vibrations all the time on my Moto360 indicating that the phone, which is on my person, has disconnected from the watch again, perhaps just for moments, sometimes for minutes, resulting in the watch eating battery life, trying to get reconnected.
I'm convinced now that all these things are related, and the problem lies somewhere in the interaction between BT and WIFI in my N9005.
It seems likely that I never noticed the problem before because I never required continuous BT connection before the point where I installed Lollipop.
Downgrading the ROM isn't an option. Leaving BT off isn't an option (nor should they have to be, on an 18 month old £600 smartphone).
Does anyone else have experience of this? Has anyone else had problems that they now suspect might be this same problem? Does anyone understand what's going on hardware/software wise, or have experience of a solution to these issues?
I'd appreciate your input urgently, even if only to affirm that I need to go to the inconvenience of temporarily buying another phone to replace this, while I send this away for a warranty repair.
Is this even a recognised hardware fault, or would I just get back an identical unit which is crippled from being able to perform as I expect it?
Please help.
Hi, im having this problem for a while, and some other phones are showing this problem also (here)
in summary, phone connect to WiFi, works great, turn screen off, put phone down, and after a while, phone is now unreachable. can't connect to it if i have a ftp server on it for example, can't connect on whatsapp on the PC cause it need the phone connected to work, messages won't arrive, or arrive after 15 minutes of delay.
if i pick up the phone, unlock, WiFi does not work, it keep showing only the "up" arrow and no "download" arrow. can't connect to internet, can't connect to local PC (VNC for example) nothing works. after 30 seconds or so, it comes back, and internet works. sometimes it does not. disabling WiFi and enabling again, everything works fine. if put to sleep, everything start again.
the weird thing is, usually after update to a new version of MIUI (for example, the last 12.0.5.0 a few weeks ago) the problem goes away for a few days. always works great, every time, no problems. a few days later, the problem appears again.
tried everything i could find, no option helped, tried even disabling magisk/xposed, etc, to make sure no "mod" was causing it, nothing.
my only options now are formatting and starting from 0 or try another ROM, like LineageOS, but i'm trying to avoid cause i have tons of customized apps, bunch of banking apps, and everything works fine, except for this one problem.
any help appreciated!
PS: during the whole time, the wifi do not get "disconnected", it remains connected but not working. also tried different routers, no change. using only 2.4ghz.
I installed Lineage OS, the problem didn't show up anymore.
installed all the apps previously installed, everything still working fine for over a week.
I guess was just software related...