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Problem with Airave

I just got the Airave Acess Point yesterday.
The broadband light is solid green, the GPS light is solid green, and the mobile light is kinda weird, it's solid green for one minute or so and starts blinking (~one cycle per sec)for a couple of seconds and turns back to solid green again.
The problem is that my phone is not able to connect to the Airave. The signal is still low about 1-2 bars. I dialed *99 and heard "The feature code you entered is not valid." No just my phone, my wife's phone has the same problem.
Don't know what's the problem and I've tried updating my profile, PRL, removing the battery and putting it back on. Still not working~
Any help or idea?? Thanks a lot!

Stock, rom, root, etc?
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I have an airave works fine on rooted with custom rom. Silly question but did you call and have them activate it after you set it up?
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I have been having issue with the thing as well. It will randomly connect when it feels like it. Doesn't matter what rom. It will also randomly disconnect. I have called sprint and they reset it a couple of times, but hasn't been any help.

Did you call sprint to have them activate the airave?
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difrent7 said:
I have an airave works fine on rooted with custom rom. Silly question but did you call and have them activate it after you set it up?
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According to the user guide, if the Airave is not activated, the mobile light will be OFF, which is not my case.

I know when I got mine I spent 2 days fighting with the stupid thing before I called sprint. They told me that it doesn't come out of the box activated. They activated over the phone and I was talking away in an hour. Also it only works for phone #s you ad.
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Top Nurse said:
Stock, rom, root, etc?
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I'm on bonsai, but i don't think that's the problem. My wife's samsung seek is in stock but has the same issue.

slayer450 said:
I know when I got mine I spent 2 days fighting with the stupid thing before I called sprint. They told me that it doesn't come out of the box activated. They activated over the phone and I was talking away in an hour. Also it only works for phone #s you ad.
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Actually I did call them, and they asked me to take the battery off and put it back on and do some power cycles on both the phone and the Airave. No help though...

mcdader said:
I have been having issue with the thing as well. It will randomly connect when it feels like it. Doesn't matter what rom. It will also randomly disconnect. I have called sprint and they reset it a couple of times, but hasn't been any help.
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It seems exactly what I'm having right now. How did you deal with it eventually ? Is it working right now?

Log on to your Sprint.com account...if you do not see it under your devices then it is not activated. Sometimes some airaves take quite a while to kick on when they are first plugged in.

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Log on to your Sprint.com account...if you do not see it under your devices then it is not activated. Sometimes some airaves take quite a while to kick on when they are first plugged in.
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I can see it under my account. No usage information and I check there's no restriction of the access to the Airave.

You say all the lights are solid green? When I first got mine I had an issue with my router, one other thing is you might want to change the port it is connect to
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socos25 said:
You say all the lights are solid green? When I first got mine I had an issue with my router, one other thing is you might want to change the port it is connect to
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The GPS and broadband are solid green. The mobile repeats from solid green for a while and slow blinking for a couple of secs and back to solid green.

My GPS light was blinking. I rebooted and now my System light is blinking. Been like this for at least a couple of days.

Sorry, it is my GPS light blinking.

Out Of Service Problem

hello, im new to the xda community and android and i was hoping i could get help if possible so i bought this atrix off a friend for $60 just to start getting into android, so the problem is that when i insert a sim card and the bars are crossed out. i tried reflashing the baseband/radio to newer ones but the problem persists and keeps saying out of service under settings-> about phone-> status. also under network type says unknows, so i was hoping it has a fix which for the price i payed for i like it as a media player but im also looking to use the hspa+ speeds. yesterday i did get 1 bar and carrier name but for only 1-2 seconds.
edit: im trying to use it on at&t (forgot to mention the carrier)
this is what i get...

What network are you trying to use it on?
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im using at&t

go to settings-wireless-mobile-networks
access point names push the four squares button on the bottom left reset to default and choose hspa+
this is a flashable apn.ziphttp://db.tt/C0OdFBWr reset apns to default afterward and try to reinsert sim and power up

I'll try this tomorrow since im not near a computer right now and i'll post the results.
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I'll try this tomorrow since im not near a computer right now and i'll post the results.
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oh cause ok ok i couldnt figure out what u needed a pc for its a smaill download
not like 100 mb or anything
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Ok so I tried the apn method but the problem still the same, im thinking its a hardware issue but like I said im not that much into android.
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I have a very week signal at home, and I see the same screen like yours
so make sure you have a strong signal before you determine it's a h/w issue

thanks for all your guy's help, i ended up giving the phone to my brother so he can use as a media player. i really liked the phone so im probably going to get a working one
do you guys suggest another phone other than the atrix (looking for a 4g/hspa+ one)

Airrave

Took about 5 minutes, and i will be getting my air rave, free in about 3 days. Anyone have any experiences to share??
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Yes, overall its very handy. If it ever starts to mess up, unplug it for 60 seconds, then plug it back in.
I am Z.

Expect text messages to keept repeating themselves (generally outgoing) and call drops when starting a call on the Airrave then moving out of it's range.
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I have no text probs as mentioned, but I do have trouble with latentcy. When I'm torrenting, even though I have my airave attached as an arm of the network rather than running all the traffic through it, I get a hard 3 second delay both hearing voice and them hearing m only while torrenting.
If I have any weird trouble with the phone, like delay, not getting calls, or not hearing the other end of the line, I do unplug my airave.
I've been to the sprint store twice. For weird voice clarity issues that turned out to be the airave.
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adamdelozier said:
Took about 5 minutes, and i will be getting my air rave, free in about 3 days. Anyone have any experiences to share??
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Yea, prepare to be thoroughly annoyed. Get ready for random times where you cannot call land lines but can call mobile phones. Sometimes text messaging will be all messed up. You will probably notice weird problems if you flash roms a lot that no one else is reporting. It has to do with the airrave. Also you will lose calls/data if you move out of airrave coverage.
Overall, its a neat gadget but RIDICULOUSLY annoying sometimes.

just forget about the air rave and enable Google voice integration and turn on airplane mode and then you can call and text over wifi using the Google voice app.
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They can be a bit of a pain if you have slow internet. Just don't use it as a router like they say in the manual. Hang it off of your network. I love mine as I had no reception in my bedroom of my apartment. Saved my ass and I didn't have to pay for it.
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marcusant said:
just forget about the air rave and enable Google voice integration and turn on airplane mode and then you can call and text over wifi using the Google voice app.
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Thanks everyone foe the replies. I always appreciate everyone's feedback out here. I use Google voice now to eliminate the whole sprint vvm issues on CM, but I guess I didn't realize I could make my calls over wifi, although it makes sense that I would be able too?! How would I set that up? I couldn't find any options for it...
Edit: additional question...is it a fairly easy transition going in and out of wifi, to receive calls on normal service when I leave my wifi area?
I am in a great sprint reception area, but my house is like a giant signal shield!
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Eins7ein said:
They can be a bit of a pain if you have slow internet. Just don't use it as a router like they say in the manual. Hang it off of your network. I love mine as I had no reception in my bedroom of my apartment. Saved my ass and I didn't have to pay for it.
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This ^^^^^^^^^^^^. It does work pretty well but it seems whenever they update the software they neglect to send a reset signal nor inform you o the update. So there may be random times when you will not get calls because they go diret to voicemail or you won't be able to dial out without resetting the Airave. This has been only 4 times in 2 years so that is not bad. Your 3G speeds will be awesome though...about 1.5Mbs consistently.

I haven't had any of the reported problems with ours. We have it connected to our ATT uverse wireless router.

kennyglass123 said:
Your 3G speeds will be awesome though...about 1.5Mbs consistently.
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Thats because it's using your Internet to get out... Just bottlenecks your connection really - better off staying on WiFi.
Personally, for all the issues mentioned in this thread I sent mine back. It did more harm than good. Wound up ditching Sprint altogether at the end of the day anyway.
To the guy thats torrenting (sorry forgot who said that) the Airrave is opening an IPSEC tunnel back to a Sprint server. If you QoS the IPSEC traffic (UDP 500 and/or 4500 depending on how your set up) and rate limit your torrent traffic to about 90% of your max bandwidth you'll probably clean up the voice a bit. Might be worth checking the CPU utilization in your router too to make sure that's not causing some of the latency.
In general, for people that can't get it working at all behind their existing networks, make sure you have IPSEC passthrough enabled (some routers may call it NAT-T or something like that). Some older/cheaper routers won't support IPSEC passthrough at all, but those are few and far between these days.

marcusant said:
just forget about the air rave and enable Google voice integration and turn on airplane mode and then you can call and text over wifi using the Google voice app.
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I can text but it doesn't give me options for calling, weird.
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Mine works flawlessly
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xjayman said:
Mine works flawlessly
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If you're on a voice call via the airrave and leave your house, does it hand the call off to the real cell network?

insanity213 said:
If you're on a voice call via the airrave and leave your house, does it hand the call off to the real cell network?
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No it disconnects
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vampyrex13 said:
Expect text messages to keept repeating themselves (generally outgoing) and call drops when starting a call on the Airrave then moving out of it's range.
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muyoso said:
Yea, prepare to be thoroughly annoyed. Get ready for random times where you cannot call land lines but can call mobile phones. Sometimes text messaging will be all messed up. You will probably notice weird problems if you flash roms a lot that no one else is reporting. It has to do with the airrave. Also you will lose calls/data if you move out of airrave coverage.
Overall, its a neat gadget but RIDICULOUSLY annoying sometimes.
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Eins7ein said:
They can be a bit of a pain if you have slow internet. Just don't use it as a router like they say in the manual. Hang it off of your network. I love mine as I had no reception in my bedroom of my apartment. Saved my ass and I didn't have to pay for it.
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All of the above! Especially with the text message issue. When I first got it I was texting the wife she was home it repeated everything I said over 30 times each LOL. I think it was Kenny that mentioned to unplug the airrave then plug it back in. The worst part is having NO signal and your battery dies.

xjayman said:
No it disconnects
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Mine hands off rather well. Didn't used to be the case though.
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I've liked having mine. I put it on the 2d floor and get 5-6 bars on each floor and about 4-5 in the basement. No issues except, every once in a while it goes off line (maybe an update IDK), and you have to unplug and replug it back to reset it. I notice this when I start getting only 2-3 bars upstairs and 2 downstairs.

I hate my Airave.....
I am on the second one. It is hooked up to 10MB internet service & still cuts out during phone calls & has a noticable delay between the two halves of the coversation. My Vonage phone works great plugged into the same router as the Airave. Now I just leave it unplugged full time, I really need to send it back I guess. It's not costing anything so no harm done.
Also more than half the time it does not connect to my wife's stock Evo Shift.
For me this unit is a waste of space.

monke30butt said:
I hate my Airave.....
I am on the second one. It is hooked up to 10MB internet service & still cuts out during phone calls & has a noticable delay between the two halves of the coversation. My Vonage phone works great plugged into the same router as the Airave. Now I just leave it unplugged full time, I really need to send it back I guess. It's not costing anything so no harm done.
Also more than half the time it does not connect to my wife's stock Evo Shift.
For me this unit is a waste of space.
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Pretty sure you pay slightly higher tax or fees due to the airave.
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4.3 keeps dropping internet connection?

Hi, I've had my nexus 4 for about a month now, when I got the phone I automatically updated to 4.3.
Since the very first day I've had it, it has kept dropping internet connection randomly multiple times everyday? The signal bars will go from blue to grey and stay like that until I either reboot the phone or turn on airplane mode then turn back off again.
Its becoming a constant hassle trying to use the internet because it keeps hanging.
Has anyone else come across this problem? If so what did you do to fix it?
Thanks alot
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Do you mean WiFi or carrier data? And how good is your carrier signal? You can try flashing a different baseband.
For WiFi, try turning off Wifi Optimization.

Its the carrier data that keeps dropping, I also get full bars most of the time.
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dazza_84 said:
Its the carrier data that keeps dropping, I also get full bars most of the time.
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Its surely a baseband problem..nothing to worry..
Just try different basebands and test them and see what works for you,but for that you need to be rooted..
Before you asking or creating a new thread refer to efrants thread for unlocking and rooting.:good:

Samsung customer service..(rant!)

Samsungs customer service is a joke, wrote the voice of the customer (samsung website) a lengthy email and I get back a canned response that doesn't even address my concerns. In this day and age you would believe a company would actually want to keep customers
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What was the problem I'm curious. I did a chat with Samsung and they told me a bunch of things to do that you tell clueless people, like restart your phone or factory reset. The worst part is he told he never heard pf anyone complaining about the issue I was describing. Yet there are threads all over the internet about it. It's pathetic.
One thing I absolutely loved about Apple is that you walk into their store, you show them a legitimate problem and you walk out with another phone. No BS no runaround no nothing. That's the only thing I miss and I miss it a lot.

I'm with you techweed, I'm having the dreaded wifi is unstable message, the first tech support rep admitted it's a software issue and to deal with it. The last samsung rep said to send it in and be without a phone for five days. I tried to tell them they can't fix this since it's a software issue but they said the same thing to me about not having ever heard about this issue. I'm so close to going back to apple it's not even funny
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astang99 said:
I'm with you techweed, I'm having the dreaded wifi is unstable message, the first tech support rep admitted it's a software issue and to deal with it. The last samsung rep said to send it in and be without a phone for five days. I tried to tell them they can't fix this since it's a software issue but they said the same thing to me about not having ever heard about this issue. I'm so close to going back to apple it's not even funny
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If they made a phablet I would seriously consider going back barring some incredible device being released by one of the Android manufacturers.

I hear you, it's crazy I've had all the notes, I love this phone when it works but it seems the note 2 was much more refined
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astang99 said:
I'm having the dreaded wifi is unstable message,
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Have you tried ensuring that Auto Network Switch is unchecked in the WiFi|Advanced settings?

I have it still pops up your wifi connection is unstable extremely random
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astang99 said:
I have it still pops up your wifi connection is unstable extremely random
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Turn Wi-Fi power saving off!!
Step 1. Bring up your dial pad and press *#0011#
Step 2. Hit the menu button and select Wi-Fi
Step 3.Turn the button to off!
Now back to y'alls rants.
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I've already did that still pops up
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Maybe your WiFi really IS unstable.

inmotion said:
Turn Wi-Fi power saving off!!
Step 1. Bring up your dial pad and press *#0011#
Step 2. Hit the menu button and select Wi-Fi
Step 3.Turn the button to off!
Now back to y'alls rants.
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I thought we established that this method does not work for everyone?

The funny thing is that the unstable wifi issue started occurring after a few days, not right away. Can someone provide a technical explanation why it's happening? I've never had this issue in any Samsung phone.
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incisivekeith said:
The funny thing is that the unstable wifi issue started occurring after a few days, not right away. Can someone provide a technical explanation why it's happening? I've never had this issue in any Samsung phone.
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Are you still stock or rooted? I am seeing reports of certain root/flashing combinations causing wifi issues.

inmotion said:
Turn Wi-Fi power saving off!!
Step 1. Bring up your dial pad and press *#0011#
Step 2. Hit the menu button and select Wi-Fi
Step 3.Turn the button to off!
Now back to y'alls rants.
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I cant get this code to bring up service mode I get connection problem or invalid mmi code
help

I'm stock and I believe my connection is extremely stable, don't you think I would have checked that before thinking it was my phone?
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astang99 said:
I'm stock and I believe my connection is extremely stable, don't you think I would have checked that before thinking it was my phone?
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What kind of router are you connecting to?
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Asus n65 rtu dual band, happens at my work router also
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worst customer service
the galaxy note 3 is wonderful machine
BUT THE CUSTOMER SERVICE IS THE WORST EVER
AND NEED DECADES TO REACH THE LEVEL OF APPLE CARE
since i bought my galaxy note 3, i have the problem of overheat... which is very known
i visited so many times reparation center in my city
and send it to the main reparation center in Paris
and after one month waiting ... they return the phone fter resetting it only... WTF
and when i saw my wife iphone who had the same problem and being replaced after one call only and within 3 days... i'm really wanna throw this phone to nearest garbage...
more than 3 months have been passed and over 15 times call to customer service
and 9 times went to reparation center including once to main one...
to end by defected phone and can't be use more than 2 - 3 minutes...

Guess what? ALL "Customer Service" is a joke. In fact, customer service no longer exists. Welcome to 2014.

theorioles33 said:
Maybe your WiFi really IS unstable.
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Exactly. I had this message and it turned out, my router was d/cing the modem.