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[Q] Sound Whenever Connecting to a Cell Network

Hey guys, can't find the answer anywhere but, whenever I connect to a cell network 3g/4g or lose the connection whatever I am doing on the phone sound wise is interrupted by an alert. Any idea how to turn this off?

You're right, there doesn't seem to be a setting for that - unfortunately
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It's driving me nuts while on the subway..
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Driving me nuts too. Hope someone figures this out
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I agree on this one. I tried browsing system files in hopes of locating and replacing the file but didn't have any luck. Pretty embarrassing when I'm at work and my pocket starts twinkling repeatedly as my phone tries reconnecting to network.

Well back to Verizon and the fascinate on Thursday. Don't have 4g in MN yet anyhow
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Its definitely Touchwiz related, never happened on my Nexus.
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3G not working ( intermitten )

Phone shows 3-4 bars of 3G and I get nothing but errors like , Page unavailable...this app needs data connection....etc. Sometimes if I disable mobile network and re-enable it it will work for a few minutes but then gone. Am I the only one ? I searched briefly . Nothing informative . Help please .

Call att and tell them to connect you to the specialist, i had the same problem and i was literally on the phone with him for 10 seconds and he fixed it
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Thanks I'll try.

Seems to be working since the call to ATT.
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You're holding it wrong!
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NO !
I'm not retarded.
It was an issue on at&t side . Since the call its been a okay.

It was iCrap 4 joke!
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Sometimes it does similar to me. It will sit there and go from 3g to edge to 3g to edge. I've taken to just using 2g when I have wifi, then 3g when I want mobile data. Although now that I had the phone for a while, I kind of know where 3g is strong.
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jbizz said:
It was iCrap 4 joke!
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I was joking too I am mildly retarded lol .
ominously said:
Sometimes it does similar to me. It will sit there and go from 3g to edge to 3g to edge. I've taken to just using 2g when I have wifi, then 3g when I want mobile data. Although now that I had the phone for a while, I kind of know where 3g is strong.
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I am lucky 3G all over my area . Also I think it's actually a little better than ever since the call.

Youre welcome xD
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Roaming

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.

diego1985 said:
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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Time Stamp Wrong

Has anybody had issues with their epic showing the wrong time or having the wrong time stamp on texts? If so, is there a way to fix this?
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noreboy said:
Has anybody had issues with their epic showing the wrong time or having the wrong time stamp on texts? If so, is there a way to fix this?
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Typically a network error. Update Profile and PRL.
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I find whenever that happens, it happens to the lady's phone too. I usually chalk it up to maintenance on a tower near my house. It usually lasts for a day or two.
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This is a fix,
noreboy said:
Has anybody had issues with their epic showing the wrong time or having the wrong time stamp on texts? If so, is there a way to fix this?
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If it's consistent, it can be fixed, if it's not a forever issue, then it'll go away.
In my case:
My # starts with 214, (Dallas,TX) area code. But I live in Oregon, and roaming 24/7 with 1x.
SO
My timestamps have *always* been wrong. lol
I used the app, SMS time fix. I just selected the option to fix my timestamp according to my phone's time (which is correctly sync'd to Pacific-Time Zone) and tada! my problem's solved.
Permanently
Also, it's not a resource hog either, like 2.7mb of ram?

The gingerbread update seems to have actually fixed the "wrong timestamp while roaming" issue, so no need for that app any more.
I've been roaming nonstop for about a week now and all timestamps have been spot on.
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wsigo said:
The gingerbread update seems to have actually fixed the "wrong timestamp while roaming" issue, so no need for that app any more.
I've been roaming nonstop for about a week now and all timestamps have been spot on.
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If you take a look at my Carrier, it isn't sprint, so it may be fixed for Native Sprint users, but not my carrier.

Not getting text messages

For some reason it seems I can't get text messages. I could make calls, send text messages, go on 3g and 4g lte and I could even send SMS. But whenever someone texts me I can't receive it.
I have tried updating my prl and profile even that won't fix it. I could really use some advice....
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Other than what you stated that you have already tried...I dont have a clue. Sprint could be in the process of upgrading towers in your area which typically does wreck all kinds of havoc. Call customer care and check if that should be the case. If not, try clearing cache for messaging.
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troyboytn said:
Other than what you stated that you have already tried...I dont have a clue. Sprint could be in the process of upgrading towers in your area which typically does wreck all kinds of havoc. Call customer care and check if that should be the case. If not, try clearing cache for messaging.
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This has been happening for more than two weeks. And my HTC one on the same network can receive texts just fine. Since i'm rooted i've been switching to different roms to see if I could finally relieve texts. I went from Sacs custom rom to CM 10.2 and I just flashed stock rooted MF9 but I still cant receive texts. I'm thinking about restoring back to stock to check if text's work. Any suggestions?

88exp88 said:
For some reason it seems I can't get text messages. I could make calls, send text messages, go on 3g and 4g lte and I could even send SMS. But whenever someone texts me I can't receive it.
I have tried updating my prl and profile even that won't fix it. I could really use some advice....
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Call Sprint and ask them to re-provision/activate your phone. This resets the recognition of your phone to the neighbouring Sprint towers.
You might want to flash back to a stock ROM before doing so.. Just in case they ask you to do something on your end.
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Deslo33 said:
Call Sprint and ask them to re-provision/activate your phone. This resets the recognition of your phone to the neighbouring Sprint towers.
You might want to flash back to a stock ROM before doing so.. Just in case they ask you to do something on your end.
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Ok I will call later, thanks for the help.
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