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I surely can't be the only one having this issue. It doesn't seem to be related to any particular firmware, as its been an issue ever since I got the phone, and I've since had quite a few different FW on it. Someone I spoke to on another forum with an SGS said theirs did this as well...
Basically, I can be happily surfing away, and then randomly, a page will not load - "Web page could not be loaded" message. Refreshing does not work. At best, turning the APN off or switching to Airplane mode and then back on seems to fix it most of the time. At other times, a full restart of the phone is required.
Most of the time this will happen once or twice in the course of a day, but today it happened on several occasions and it's getting annoying. I had to switch to GSM today for several hours - though that could have been my network provider, but its strange how other Vodafone users in my office were having no issues at the same time I was having issues, even when using the same APN settings.
Any ideas? This is quite a frustrating bug at times.
Unfortunately I can only be here for you , cause this is also happening to me. It is extremely annoying. I did not try the Flight mode switch though, I always had to restart my phone to fix it.
Tried a new rom with updated modem file? Could help
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stick to only WiFi or only 3G
you will get those hic ups when the phone is changing between WiFi & 3G
it goes to either side depending which one has a stronger signal
it will have preferences for WiFi over 3G
WiFi is not as stable as 3G from personal experience, so i turn off WiFi and use 3G most of the time
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I surely can't be the only one having this issue. It doesn't seem to be related to any particular firmware, as its been an issue ever since I got the phone, and I've since had quite a few different FW on it. Someone I spoke to on another forum with an SGS said theirs did this as well...
Basically, I can be happily surfing away, and then randomly, a page will not load - "Web page could not be loaded" message. Refreshing does not work. At best, turning the APN off or switching to Airplane mode and then back on seems to fix it most of the time. At other times, a full restart of the phone is required.
Most of the time this will happen once or twice in the course of a day, but today it happened on several occasions and it's getting annoying. I had to switch to GSM today for several hours - though that could have been my network provider, but its strange how other Vodafone users in my office were having no issues at the same time I was having issues, even when using the same APN settings.
Any ideas? This is quite a frustrating bug at times.
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My Omnia 7 keeps loosing it's 3G connection. To restore it I have to restart the phone. T-Mobile say that this happens from time to time, but it's happening every day now. It's annoying as it stops my push email from being up to date, and of course prevents the use of any internet based services until the phone is restarted.
Has anyone else noticed their phone has switching to GSM?
Had mine for 6 days.Been fine up until today,then I had the same problem.Only the once so far.
Confirm loosing 3G
Confirm loosing 3G connection, and also have phone call failures.
Factory reset did not solve the problem.
Bring it back to shop
Blackstone is back now!
At first this was occasional with my phone, then more frequent, and it's all the time. If I want to use the Internet I have to restart the phone. My house is covered by full HSPA, but the only way to get it is to take the battery out while the phone is switched on. I can sometimes get 3G by a simple restart, which I lasts about 40 minutes.
I like the phone, so I'm going to hold out for a software update. All it needs to do is check available networks and I think that, if this is a wide spread issue, Samsung/Microsoft will fix it. Hope so.
Please post here if you have this issue too.
I have also been having this issue... sometimes it doesnt come back straight away when i restart it but after about 10mins its back.
When I activated it with orange I was told to expect a few txt msg's that would need deleting and the phone restarting... I only got 1 msg, maybe this has something to do with it, maybe the phone hasnt been sent enough updates.
I also have this issue and have done for weeks. Orange couldn't solve it either.
It only happens overnight at home. I either need to reset the phone / rescan available networks or turn flight mode off and on again for the connection to restore.
I was thinking it may be an issue with t-mobile since it only happens at my home where orange signal is poor and i roam over to t-mobile.
If i stay in an area with good Orange signal i don't get the problem.
Good to know i'm not the only one with this problem. It's very annoying!
Hi y'all.
I had the same problem: 3G was lost every time. I was fed up restarting the phone every time, so I looked for another way to get 3G back. I found out that disabling and enabling SIM security (phone > setttings) got me 3G again... for a short while.
But: after disabling SIM security permanently, 3G kept on going (in fact for over a week now).
I think that changing the PIN to some other number, might cause this. I haven't yet tried changing it to the default PIN again, to see if using that for SIM security solves it. For the moment I'm too happy it works again.
I have suffered from poor reception issues ever since I got my Omnia 7.
It seems like the reception comes and goes. I will receive e-mails, which proves that the phone has been connected, but as soon as I try to use data myself, by visiting a web page or refreshing an app like facebook, the reception disappears and the "no reception" symbol drops down from the status bar.
Also, often when I try to send an SMS, it will appear to have been sent, yet 10 minutes later I will receive a "Can't send...try again" message. Once I have received this, the SMS will never successfully send. However, in the meantime I can receive SMS messages, which shows that the phone has been getting a signal.
This is SO frustrating and is ruining my experience with the phone.
I have posted requests on the Microsoft Answers forum and the only suggestions have been to reset the phone or turn WiFi off. Neither of these have had any effect. I have never enabled SIM lock.
I have heard that there is a firmware update due soon which includes a new radio stack. I am desperately hoping that this will improve the situation, as at the moment I cannot rely on my Omnia 7 as my only phone.
Alex.
Hi Loco,
You are right in saying that social answers doesn't really help much .
Luckily there IS a new firmware from a couple of days ago! Check out the Omnia 7 Dev section. There are only a few posts.
And here is also a good link for you. You are right to assume that it comes with a new radio stack which improves on performance.
http://wmpoweruser.com/new-samsung-omnia-7-firmware-and-news-of-a-keyboarded-omnia-8-leaks/
Finally found a thread on this... I have been having a similar problem since I got my phone from Optus here in Australia. I took it back and they replaced it for me but the new phone is exactly the same. I don't lose the 3G icon but anything data related just ceases from loading. Right now I'm trying to refresh the Facebook app and it just comes up with 'Unable to connect', even though I have full 3G reception.
I flashed it to the newer leaked firmware and it hasn't changed anything, problem still persists unfortunately. This is a major problem that isn't getting enough attention! It seems quite widespread and Omnia 7 specific.
Had similar problems, but after I changed my provider ( O2-Germany), 3G is stable.
For the people having this problem, have you tried setting the phone to prefer 3g? Details of how to do this are here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=915813
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Finally found a thread on this... I have been having a similar problem since I got my phone from Optus here in Australia. I took it back and they replaced it for me but the new phone is exactly the same. I don't lose the 3G icon but anything data related just ceases from loading. Right now I'm trying to refresh the Facebook app and it just comes up with 'Unable to connect', even though I have full 3G reception.
I flashed it to the newer leaked firmware and it hasn't changed anything, problem still persists unfortunately. This is a major problem that isn't getting enough attention! It seems quite widespread and Omnia 7 specific.
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Same here man. On Optus and my reception sucks with this device. What the hell is samsung doing? FIX IT!
I have been having this problem with my Omnia 7. The frustrating thing is this is a replacement phone I had for an LG which I had replaced THREE TIMES due to random resets. So now I have a phone that I have to turn off and on EVERY MORNING in order for the data connection to start working again. Needless to say I am very frustrated. I am on Orange in the UK. I suspect it could be related to when being an a poor reception area and it tries to switch to tmobile. I am going to try turning roaming off. Please, if anyone finds a solution to this let me know.
Thanks
m4tthall said:
I have been having this problem with my Omnia 7. The frustrating thing is this is a replacement phone I had for an LG which I had replaced THREE TIMES due to random resets. So now I have a phone that I have to turn off and on EVERY MORNING in order for the data connection to start working again. Needless to say I am very frustrated. I am on Orange in the UK. I suspect it could be related to when being an a poor reception area and it tries to switch to tmobile. I am going to try turning roaming off. Please, if anyone finds a solution to this let me know.
Thanks
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My problem got worse with the Mango update. I'm now on my 2nd handset after having a replacement from Orange warranty. This one still loses it's connection but much less frequently.
TBH i don't think it will ever get fixed. I started an MS Answers thread months ago and lots of people had the same problem but we never got a response from MS.
Conisdering the age of the model now I doubt Samsung care, well they didn't seem to care a year ago so they won't now... For this reason I will not buy another Samsung phone. It's infuriating.
Looks like I am stuck with it until December then when I can upgrade to a Nokia lumia. A long wait :-(
i have this issue, too.. but for me i only have to set airplane mode on and off. sometimes i deactivate data connection, go to a random website, get the 'no connection' error, then activate data connection back and it works.
however, after installing the latest drivers & firmware, i get this issue A LOT less frequent. like once in 2-3 days.
i hope ms or samsung will fix this because it can get really annoying. especially when you need eg. a quick google-search..
Just flicking the flight mode wouldn't be so bad but that doesn't work for me, I have to restart the phone each time. I love WP7 but this and the other problems with the LG is driving me nuts. Almost wondering whether I should have just followed the crowd and gone for an iPhone.
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Just flicking the flight mode wouldn't be so bad but that doesn't work for me, I have to restart the phone each time. I love WP7 but this and the other problems with the LG is driving me nuts. Almost wondering whether I should have just followed the crowd and gone for an iPhone.
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Same as me - Flicking flight mode on-off doesn't solve it, needs a soft-reset.
Like I say, there are quite a few with Omnias on Orange with this problem.
I'm in the same boat, I've had this for months now so I guess I'll just deal with it until I can upgrade the start of April and get a Lumia (hopefully the EU 900/910 will be here by then!). There is no way on this earth Samsung are getting any more of my money. Nokia seem fully commited so they can take my cash next time!
I have the same problem with the data stopping working on o2 in the UK. But I also sometimes cant receive calls even though the phone has service, then there are the times where it site there going GPRS/3G/3G+/No Service and you cant do anything with it apart from pull the battery.
Currently I'm running CM7 stable and I'm having a few problems which are starting to annoy me.
1) The first is to do with making and receiving calls. I'm finding that all calls are dropped. Some are dropped straight away, others after a minute or two.
Does anyone know whats causing this, is it the ROM, kernel or radio? (or anything else ) Has it been fixed in the nightly's?.
2) Another problem is sometimes when I turn mobile data on, the phone doesn't connect to the mobile internet even when in a full signal area. Once this happens, no amount of turning on and off mobile data solves the problem. The only way I found to solve this, is to switch to 2G only and then back to 2/3G and then it'll work. Again is this a problem that anyone else has experienced and has it been solved in the nightly's?
Thanks for all help in advance
Since I updated to B29 I have noticed some serious cellular connectivity issues. While browsing the web I simply get no response. I have to toggle on/off the data switch in order to fix the connection, despite the phone showing 4G LTE and 3 or more bars on T-Mobile. Even accessing the Google Play Store I get a message the following message: "No Internet connection. Make sure Wi-Fi or cellular data is turned on, then try again", despite showing 4G LTE and 3 bars on my phone. Is anyone else experiencing the same bug? If so, has anyone found legit a fix? Or perhaps there is another bug you are experiencing. Please share with us in the forums.
Thank you for your time.
I haven't experienced any network issues since I updated. Granted, I didn't have problems with internet on B27 either. Which provider do you have? Did you fully wipe data when updating?
The only bug I've experienced is that sometimes apps don't stay in memory and have to be restarted everytime I switch back. A restart fixes the issue though
No issues on B29 with Verizon here.
No issues here on AT&T stock B29
Same here on att no issues.
I am on AT&T and wonder if others are having issue with going inside a building where the signal is weak and getting a "no signal" message? On the ZTE USA web site it has been pretty much nailed down to the radio hanging on to a weak LTE signal and dropping it instead of automatically switching over to 4G or 3G like it's supposed to do. I have had this issue from the day one, before B27 and B29. Hopefully ZTE will get the bug worked out soon.
My suggestion , before you blame the update is to call t-mobile and ask. They often have problems with towers, being hacked,etc and will not say anything unless asked.
I'm having issues with audio level dropping randomly. Happens when watching YouTube or listening to Apple music.
Some apps that could do background audio playback won't do it anymore in b29 for me, and the Facebook app closes when the screen goes off. Signal and all else seems to be the same for me.
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Since I updated to B29 I have noticed some serious cellular connectivity issues. While browsing the web I simply get no response. I have to toggle on/off the data switch in order to fix the connection, despite the phone showing 4G LTE and 3 or more bars on T-Mobile. Even accessing the Google Play Store I get a message the following message: "No Internet connection. Make sure Wi-Fi or cellular data is turned on, then try again", despite showing 4G LTE and 3 bars on my phone. Is anyone else experiencing the same bug? If so, has anyone found legit a fix? Or perhaps there is another bug you are experiencing. Please share with us in the forums.
Thank you for your time.
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I solved this issue with me a LONG time ago by turning off VoLTE. Did you try that?
I don't want to 'blame'the update, but ever since, whenever I minimize an app and then re-open it, it loads all over again. Webpage login again, games reload from beginning. I'm probably just missing something,...and it has nothing to do with update. Maybe I toggled something by accident,... Any ideas?
I got my new 2017u yesterday (iam german) and the first iam really impressed about the LTE/4G receiving but the 4G indicator seems to be buggy because it shows me allways 4G but in real i have only 3G/H. When i have real 4G/LTE it shows 4G and under that LTE.
I have my rooted so is it possible to change that, that it shows the real receiving instead of allways 4G?
tasar said:
I got my new 2017u yesterday (iam german) and the first iam really impressed about the LTE/4G receiving but the 4G indicator seems to be buggy because it shows me allways 4G but in real i have only 3G/H. When i have real 4G/LTE it shows 4G and under that LTE.
I have my rooted so is it possible to change that, that it shows the real receiving instead of allways 4G?
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Look here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/axon-7/help/axon-7-wrong-4g-icon-status-bar-t3461166
HSPA+ in US is marked as 4G. I don't know how to change it with root, if you find a way post it!
thanx for clearing, dont know the difference. Hope that someone find a way to change that, but iam not the person, have not enough know how for that
Horizontal notifications are still unusable. How does something this simple still not fixed? Granted I hardly ever hold my phone horizontal but when I do and pull down the notification bar, I'm reminded how shoddy this software can be.
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Horizontal notifications are still unusable. How does something this simple still not fixed? Granted I hardly ever hold my phone horizontal but when I do and pull down the notification bar, I'm reminded how shoddy this software can be.
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This is because ZTE chose a very high DPI setting for the phone making everything huge. I changed mine to 480 a while ago and everything is much smaller and landscape mode is a lot better. Granted there are still some graphical glitches here and there because of that change, but overall I'll take them. Hopefully when Nougat comes out they will ditch their in house quick toggles for stock ones and keep the new DPI slider so people can change it properly.
I'm experiencing issues with the network, I often have to go to plane mode then disable it to get my connection back (I always have the 4G logo on screen, but internet pages won't load, facebook either, well everything) I'm seeing posts about the WiFi issue, but nothing about this, am I the only one experiencing this ? It occurs every 5 minutes or so, pretty annoying when you are in the middle of a youtube video or so..)
Thank you in advance !
I could say I have the same issue.
I realize this post is 2 months old but I also have this exact same problem. Data on WiFi works perfectly fine. On actual mobile data though it works great for a long period of time (hours - days) then suddenly gets horrible. Disabling and re-enabling data seems to fix it most of the time, then it works great again for a good while.
Would this indicate a software glitch? I've been wondering if I should try some custom ROMs. Or would it be a problem with the physical antenna or data module in the phone?
I'm on the verge of sending it back under warranty but if it's software maybe something else can be done to fix.