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If you have spotty GPS in the Southeast for the next month, don't blame your ROM

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/20/faa-warns-of-ongoing-gps-issues-in-southeastern-us-due-to-defens/
Don't panic, but anyone planning on using GPS in the southeastern US for the next month or so will likely want to make sure they have a fallback option. That's according to a flight advisory just issued by the FAA, which warns pilots that their GPS signal "may be unreliable or unavailable" due to "GPS tests" that the Department of Defense will be conducting between January 20th and February 22nd. Details are fairly light beyond that, but the FAA does note that when the "tests" occur they will be active for 45 minutes, and be followed by 15 minutes of off time -- additional notices to pilots will apparently be issued at least 24 hours prior to any test. Of course, while this particular advisory is directed at pilots, it will presumably will also affect all other GPS devices, as the FAA doesn't mention any GPS issues specific to aviation. The real question, however, is just what those mysterious "GPS tests" are -- if they're, in fact, GPS tests at all...

More like Bermuda Triangle scanning for lost ships with precious cargo! Queue X-Files theme!
Thanks for the info!

Whats funny is, this day in age, I wonder how many people will honestly not know what fall back options they have.
A friend of mine brought her daughter to the grandparents house, who has all wireless house lines. The one phone the little girl was using got bad reception, and mom explained "because it's wireless". The little girl then says "You know, they should make house phones that have cords attached to the handset and base". I'm like "Wow, I better get rid of my VHS tapes laying around here before I have kids.

USA still looking for Obama...um I mean Osama..lol

I have a friend who is 30 who never realized that you could get free TV with just an antenna...in HD...with the magic of "over the air"
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Ouch, lol.
But you know, all these kids born today are gonna be missing out on a lot of stuff!
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2009/07/100-things-your-kids-may-never-know-about/
Some of these date back a little farther than myself, BUT I atleast knew about them.

Thanks for the heads up, guess I won't be using turn by turn for the next week.

and we'll never know what the government is testing during this....just hope for no more dead birds or fish :-/

[Vote]about random rebooting

hey all
as we know the SNS has a random reboot bug, my phone also has rebooted many times.
but after I turned on the "Use ONLY 2G network" option for power saving, i found it run for more than 200 hours, haven't rebooted.
so I think it maybe has relationship between mobile network and phone rebooting.
and here is the poll, please vote your situation, thanks.

3G only, and not rebooted (yet)

I leave min on auto 3G/2G, i have had this issue on 3 calls today, i have made 3 calls in total (today).
They best hurry and prove it's software or my no quibble return will be in danger!
Looking forward to a fix.

Your intention is to address both the random reboots in general issue AND the random reboots during a call issue?
I've had a few reboots during calls, but never (that I am aware of) when not making a call.

i've never had the reboot during a call, but had the general reboot probably once every couple of days.

To clarify as per Distorted Loop's comment above:
My issue has been during calls only. I have never had a reboot whilst not in a call (that i have noticed).

According to an article on engagdet yesterday a fix is coming.
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And the same news was on XDA here two weeks ago.
Seems to take some time from the source release to the OTA for sure... I am waiting to use this phone properly here!
My first android phone ever, and i cannot call on it without a reboot. Such nice kit and poor execution.

I had my nexus reboot and freeze while listening to androids stock music player. non rooted had for a total of ten days returning this to best buy today.
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WCDMA only, no reboot during phone calls, on Bionix 1.3

i never had any random reboots in my entire almost 2 months using this..

I've not had any random reboots..

No Reboots on 2 or 3g, My Nexus S has performed flawlessly since purchase, 23rd December , in fact most reliable phone I have ever owned!

sporran said:
No Reboots on 2 or 3g, My Nexus S has performed flawlessly since purchase, 23rd December , in fact most reliable phone I have ever owned!
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agree!
this phone has been rock solid since day one
... can't say the same for the SGS

dont have data plan eventhough our network works on 3G and I had 4 reboot while talking, one was a long call and the others dont, always with wifi and sync on...
I have the nexus since 20ths of december...

I use only 3G....although about 97% of the time I'm actually on wifi. I've not had any reboots during a phonecall, although I honestly only use about 5-15minutes of call time a month so I'm not a very good representative.
The only issue that I've had since owning this stellar device was a bootloop issue that occurred on around the 3rd night I had the device (bought it the day it came out). After that, I unlocked and rooted it - no issues since.

Forced wcdmaand had 3 reboots so far today but never during a call. Usually right after a force close.
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I did not insert a SIM Card ever, the phone has not rebooted ...
I've been using it for a month, with Cyanogenmod Nightlies since first day.

my recent experience.
it has something to do with the networks.
when i was in the UK, running on o2 network, i never experienced any random on call reboot.
my recent holiday trip back to malaysia, when i was using DIGI in malaysia, almost immediate i have experience a few random reboots.

Crippled 4G Internet Speeds

I rooted my phone months ago and I think ever since I did, my 4G internet speeds have been very low - like .30 mbps download and .10 mbps upload according to the Speednet test.
I've tried every radio in the radio thread and even went back to the stock ROM ( rooted ) and it remained the same. Does anyone have any suggestions ?
Everything else works 100%.

Sound like you got throttled-tmo has a 5 gig cap per month before you get throttled-Check your data usage for the month. Think if you switch to 2g its a little faster, otherwise you have to wait till your next billing cycle starts

While it may sound like I'm throttled, that isn't what's goin' on cause I've talked to T-Mobile and I'm well below my 2 GB limit. I appreciate your reply anyway.

I haven't been here in a while since I got the Samsung galaxy s2.. I have to agree with you.. You are not throttled. I have been experiencing the same problem even with both phones.. I changed sim cards like three times already. So what I did was called t-mobile they filed a report to the tech engineers to check the towers and their systems will take about 72hrs. So ill be calling back tomorrow (1/16/2012)to find out if they fixed the towers like I was told..the towers might be affecting my speed.. So call them and explain to them and see if they can do the same for you...
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That's funny cause I actually went through that with T-Mobile as well. Eventually they told me it's a problem with my phone. **** this.
Do you live in New Jersey ?

MFZ22 said:
That's funny cause I actually went through that with T-Mobile as well. Eventually they told me it's a problem with my phone. **** this.
Do you live in New Jersey ?
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No, close, am in nyc, close to Manhattan/Brooklyn...Just tell them a customer/friend has also called and complained about this same situation. i took off work on friday, after dr. appointment, i went to t mobile retail store and we did a test, troubleshooting etc, and nothing...so if they tell you it's your phone what do they expect you to do, exchange your phone, it's ridiculous.. i have both mt4g and samsung galaxy s2, both experiencing the same problems, i told them, actually had a small argument with them, but i'm just waiting for tomorrow and hear what BullSh*t they going to tell me...just make sure if you end up going to tmobile retail store to unroot your phone.. if they ask you to go to a tmobile store..
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Ill be the first to hit your thanks

Yea, I've been through all that. Let me know what they say

Spoke to them and they still working on it. So we might get a text or check with them later...
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Well they called me today telling me the engineers are still working on it...
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Can you try someone else's SIM in your phone and vice-versa? That narrows it down to the phone or the account.
Last time I went to the States when the prepaid $1.49 day pass still existed, I was being throttled from the moment I entered the country despite not even having a chance to accrue 30 MB of usage. On the second day I bought a new pass and was still throttled. I went to a T-Mobile store and they had nothing to suggest other than that they could try to reset the data (?) on my account. I wanted to try the store's SIMs in my phone or vice versa but they told me all the sample phones had their battery covers glued on so customers couldn't walk away with the SIMs due to a high-theft area.
Anyway, on that second day I used a lot despite the throttling, and in the evening I got a text that I just hit 30 MB and would be throttled. Finally on the third day, when I bought a new pass I had full speed.

No.. T-mobile has acknowledged that they have the problem.. My girlfriend also have the same problem..I will wait till its fixed..I've changed my simply card 3x already..lol
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I called 'em today and just pressed the issue further. I can only think it's their network or towers around here cause when I speed test it now, it could download at 6 Mbps or 0.25 Mbps, so I'm taking that as a sign of them working on it.
I got 'em to take $80 off my bill a couple weeks ago because this is bull****. IT's a been a long time, but I never noticed cause I usually use WiFi and I just downloaded the speedtest.net app like a month ago.
I told them I don't care if they fix it tomorrow, I'm still gonna move on and do business with a different company as soon as I can. Every time I see that silly long armed ***** on their commercial boasting about their 4G speeds, I wanna close my account.

USA Central Time Zone Wrong

The USA Central Time Zone on my Acer A500 say GMT -5:00 Central Daylight Time. This is wrong, Central time zone is suppose to be -6:00. Does anyone have the same problem? Is there a solution/fix for this? Thank you.

Have you set the clock to the "wrong". Central time zone? Does the time display correctly?
I believe in my tablet and phone CST is showing as - 5 right now because of daylight savings time, and when the time changes soon it will automatically switch back to displaying as - 6
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Low signal on new note 3

Hello I'm new to this thread as I've been a HTC user forever.
I just got my note 3 last night and it seems that I have low signal every where in Los Angeles. I only have 1 or 2 bars. I didn't have this issue with my HTC Evo which always had 5 bars..
I don't think it's Verizon network but the phone. Does any one else experience this issue? Is there a fix to get better signal?
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I haven't had signal issues with my note, but from all the reading on these forums. If you are having signal issues and your on the latest radios it's probably a hardware issue. Seems like there are some phones made in China and some from Korea with quality differences between them. Wait for others to chime in, but you might want to contact Verizon and get another phone sent.
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mjh68 said:
I haven't had signal issues with my note, but from all the reading on these forums. If you are having signal issues and your on the latest radios it's probably a hardware issue. Seems like there are some phones made in China and some from Korea with quality differences between them. Wait for others to chime in, but you might want to contact Verizon and get another phone sent.
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How can you check if yours was made in China or Korea?
I have the same problem, as do many. And it got way worse after the most recent update. See if you can get a replacement.
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After spending an hour on the phone with tech support they suggested I go in and exchange my sim card so I did. Well that didn't change the low signal. Does anyone know a fix for this?
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Just to add my $0.02.. I had the exact same problem and I purchased original my phone close to release day. It didn't matter what I did, but I would drop signal or always have terrible signal even though I was close to a tower. I also had a wiggling home key as well. Eventually my proximity sensor died on the phone, which at that point I had enough with it. I went in and returned it under warranty after having it for a month and a half. The new phone I got now actually has an earlier build then my original (under battery it's dated), but I have no issues with it at all. It was factory re-certified, but it runs like a champ and has none of the signal problems my original did. So I think there is definitely some truth to the idea that some have better builds than others based on where they were manufactured. I would return yours without a hesitation under the manufactures warranty. Hope that helps!

Thanks for helping at this point I've returned it 3 times in 10 days. I've got two different build dates and all of them still have low signal issue and calls dropping.