My phone wont recieve any sms for ages. Then as soon as i make a call, i recieve loads and also missed call alerts. As far as i am aware i have reception (its at work and i have always has it).
Anyone else get this?
I also get this occasionaly, used to be worse but has got better...
i had this too - i think it's somehow related to what Band your phone is set to recieve.. i have a very weak 3G signal at home, which means the phone is hopping between HSDPA, 3G, and G the whole time, and the missed calls / data occur when the phone is auto changing the bands.
so, i changed my settings from Automatic to GMS band, and this appears to have resolved the problem.
perhaps this might be the same for you.
does this GMS thing affect 3g, RSS updates etc?
grr dont get me started on orange just had to get my trading standards friend to sort orange out for me, while connected to 3g in my local area i miss calls and its hard to make calls but 2g and 3g away from my area is fine, so i got my last 6 months of data bundle refunded and the data bundle cancled at £7.90 for 250 mb a month ( which is a total ripp off ) as i was given 3 options, 1 keep your phone switched to 2g networks only ( no because the internet speed is a joke on 2g ) send us your phone back and well cancle your contract with no buyout fee ( ummm no ) or continue as you are ( ummm no ) so the out come was a full refund on the data pack, data pack cancled as orange is a joke for internet access anyway, 250 mb max tarrif huu i can chew that up in a day and now i keep my phone on the 2g network, i will ride my contract out then cancel orange sim unlock my phone and move to another provider with a much better internet package
Orange are a complete joke at the moment - I really used to like them out of all the carriers but their standards and quality of service is disintegrating on a daily basis it seems.
Current issue with them: I had my phone cut off for non-payment of bill last week - that's despite providing them with my bank details TWICE and them saying they would put a note on the account that would stop any disconnection notice going through while they sort it out.
Hey! and guess what - they have no record of any bank details for me, no notes on my account and they actually said that it was my fault because I hadn't told my bank to set up the direct debit!!!
Needless to say I will be leaving Orange ASAP.
Orange let me down badly a couple of years ago but they persuaded me to stay. I now have a touch HD with unlimited data (and I do mean the 3gb per month business data package) totally free. With 1200 mins, 400 texts, unlimited landline calls all for £40 a month I am not complaining.
My diamond had rubbish signal on 3g but the hd is fine.
am on orange too!
weak signal at my work and home! (even though the website says i should)
never had an issue wit text messages but often get missed calls!
has anyone on orange updated to the new ROM? I know its not officially released for us but through xda software
Same problem with Orange
My Touch HD rarely gets a good signal from Orange. Their nearest mast is 7 mins walk away but because of a tall building I connect to a mast on a hill 1.8Kms away. But then when I park next to their mast I still get a weak signal. I get a 500mb data package plus unlimited txts and 10 hours of calls for £30 per month. To be honest the poor signal that i constantly experience with Orange despite the messing around means that it might be my last contract with them unless they buck up
I too am on Orange with my Touch HD and often get missed calls and a bantle of SMS messages and voice mails coming through at once even though I seem to have a fairly OK signal.
Signal is pretty much OK when I'm at work or out and about, but signal at home is wildly variable, switching constantly between nothing, slight, GPRS, Edge and 3G (never get HSDPA at home) so this backs up what 'orangewarrior' said in an earlier reply.
My missus uses an Orange branded HTC Touch Dual (Nike) which is even worse - she can hardly ever use it when within about 2 miles of our house.
By contrast, I never had such problems wih my old Orange SPV M700 (HTC P3600/Trinity). Signal was generally stable (stock Orange ROM, no Radio upgrades or anything).
I've also noticed that I get more dropped calls when the Touch HD is cradled up and ActiveSync'd. People calling me report that it goes straight to voicemail. Has anyone else noticed this?
I'm using the stock Orange issue with no cooked anything.
just updated to the latest rom
signal seems better! always on H, no moving from H to G then to E (network operator is now 3G orange and not just orange)
had a few calls and seemed fine, text messages are fine (never had an issue with them before)
will give it a try at work tomorrow and home again and let yous know how I get on.
LenMackin said:
My Touch HD rarely gets a good signal from Orange. Their nearest mast is 7 mins walk away but because of a tall building I connect to a mast on a hill 1.8Kms away. But then when I park next to their mast I still get a weak signal. I get a 500mb data package plus unlimited txts and 10 hours of calls for £30 per month. To be honest the poor signal that i constantly experience with Orange despite the messing around means that it might be my last contract with them unless they buck up
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same contract as mine, i get decent reception like 2bars in out of reach area where reception is suppose to be bad, but if your on 02, u will get max reception, this is in comparison to a work coleague of mine, who is on 02 and me orange same room, i have 2 bars he has full, i'm still able to use net, send/receive msgs, email the usual, but guys are right orange a bag of shiit at the moment very poor coverage compared to 02. i was a previously on 02
well i have duttys ROm , the latest , im at work on Thursday. Thats where it happens for some reason, so i guess ill find out there.
My signal is also pants on any motorway!!
i am on orange and always have good 3g signal never get any problems and just pay £10 for 200mins unlimited texts with my htc touch hd , cudnt b happier
I just picked up a Vibrant today from craigslist (sold my HD2 a couple of hours before ) and internet was working fine for a few hours. I went to the marketplace and downloaded about 30-40 apps then i went to try some of them out and i would get error messages saying i dont have internet but at the top bar there is a 3G symbol. I tried doing a battery pull 3 times to see if that would help but nothing. I even tried switching to only 2G but that didnt help either. Any tips? Im thinking of doing a hard reset just to reset everything incase something odd happened but id rather not because i already started setting up the phone how i like it.
I'm guessing it's because you need to switch your internet data plan to the Android plan, assuming you are on T-Mobile. If you had anything else it would likely work for a few and then stop.
Try go to a different location. I was having problems with 3G at work, would only show uplink but no downlink on my mytouch. Called t-mobile up and opened a trouble ticket and it was fixed today. 3G worked everywhere else but where my work is.
This is likely due to a problem with T-Mobile's data network tonight. For the last few hours data (EDGE and 3G) has not worked not only in my area, but around the entire United States (NY, Vegas, Illinois, Florida, etc).
People have been tweeting about it all night so far: http://search.twitter.com/search?q=tmobile
Some of the latest tweets as of this posts have a few people saying 3G is working for them but no EDGE. If true at all. This is not the case for me, still down here.
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I'm guessing it's because you need to switch your internet data plan to the Android plan, assuming you are on T-Mobile. If you had anything else it would likely work for a few and then stop.
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Log on to your tmobile account online and see your device, might need to be switched to vibrant from hd2 and you should then get android data instead of what you had with hd2
im retarded i had to call tmo CS and have them switch me to an android plan.
I am with Vodafone UK and work in a building with thick concrete walls.
I can only get a "G" signal with my data connection and sometimes drops completely.
I "lived with it" for the last couple of months.
Recently my friend bought an HTC Sensation with Orange UK and he gets "H" high speed broadband connection ALL THE TIME.
It's very frustrating to wait 3 minutes for a single web page to load while he streams HD videos without even so much as hiccuping.
Is there anything i can do to boost my data signal? Or do i just have to accept that Vodafone suck and wait for my contract to run out so i can go with Orange?
Just a heads up for those in Florida. Apparently for a few hours now data has been down. Sprint supervisor "Patrick" told me the whole state was affected. Should be back up by morning. He advises to turn off/on the device every hour to check for service.
Don't panic!
Service in SFL sucks on the regular anyway.
I never lost service and I'm just east of bradenton FL had service all night long voice and data and I had killer speeds around 230am I was pulling 2.6mbps cuz my netflix never had to buffer once so i checked speedtest when I tethered to send out a large file for work(700mb) and it sent in ~20 mins so I was like damn whys that so fast and decided to check
Edit: I was watching blackhawk down on netflix while I was sending the email too
Well that is pretty good i must say. I never really use speed tests but o can tell you here in miramar (hood) it takes forever to buffer anything on 3g, loading webpages is a pain, downloading podcasts is hit or miss, phone calls may only ring twice because it took forever for the caller to get connected, and other hiccups. I was contemplating going to verizon but Sprint is rolling out lte and i figure if spring does do away with unlimited data them i may be able to get grandfathered in to unlimited when that happens.
I got grandfathered in on unlimited tether when they switched to 5gb cap, I seem to be one of the few on sprint getting true 3g speeds but I live in a sparsely populated area with uncongested towers
So, I have been on AT&T Straight Talk for the past few months and I have only used data a couple times in that time frame (I almost always use wifi). So I decided to run a speedtest on my data connection (I turned off wifi) and I notice that I never see speeds greater than 1 Mpbs no matter where I drive to and test it (even right next to or passing cell towers). This is my first smartphone.....Is this typical for a smartphone? My wifi speeds average 20 Mbps, so that sounds reasonable for wifi anyways. If that does not sound correct, how do I test whether the problem is with the phone or the service provider?