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T-Mobile UK problems

Is anybody else having connection problems with T-Mobile today? I've had no reception for hours and my friends are experiencing the same issue. We're all in Glasgow so I wonder if it's a local problem or not.

When i scan for networks i get "your sim card does not allow connections to this network" when i choose t-mobile.
My friends have their reception back and i have only had it back once in the past few hours until i started getting the error again.
Bill has been paid etc so im not banned or anything.

Got connected with the 'Use only 2G' option. Have read on other forums that T-Mobile's 3G servers are having trouble today.
This sucks!

This happens all the time mate.
I'm in Greenock near the T-Mobile building with the big 3G transmitter, makes no difference, sometimes it just goes tits-up and only way make communication is to switch to 2G.
pain in the arse.

Had the same sort of issues as well, thought it was localised to the transmitter closest to me as it happened a few months ago and took T-Mo around a month to fix. Seems to be working OK now, though

just as a tip, you may want to consider using Twitter to search for any outages with your network provider.
i'm on O2, and live in an area where i'll get a decent connection in one room while getting a bad connection in another (usually my bedroom!)
When I get connection issues, I use Twitter to see if it's a UK-wide issue, or if it's just problem in my local area. I find it to be more informative in this situation than any kind of forum, since it's about as real-time as you can get.
And the best thing is, you don't even need an account to use the search! http://search.twitter.com

The Answering modem has disconnected.

I just got my HTC HD2 on T-Mobile UK.
I keep getting spammed with a message when in low to no coverage areas:
Cannot Connect
Dialed:
The answering modem has disconnected. To check your connection settings ect...
Now, I understand that when I get no coverage I can't use the phone, but the spam is bloody annoying, it makes the phone unusable.
I was on the way yo me family's pub using SatNav on the phone but the picture kept gettign obscured by this stupid message every 100 yards or so making it impossible for me to see the sat nav. When I'm at the pub, we get no coverage at all as it's in a village, but I'd like to at least connect to the wireless and/or access other areas of the phone, but I can't due to this stupid message popping up as soon as I hit dismiss.
Is there a way to stop the message coming up?
I know when I have no coverage, the signal bars are good at telling me that.
If there's no way to getting around this then I'm sending the silly thing back and getting a G2 instead.
Thanks.

hi,
the messages are generated from programs that try to connect to the internet like weatherapplication etc. they try to connect and get an error in fact of your low to none coverage. i would say that the best way to fix the issue was to use a programm that block all dataconnection and so prevent the messages.
regards mad

Error Code 67 while roaming driving me nuts

First off, I have NOT made ANY attempt to use the phone as a WiFi hotspot, and I do NOT live in a 4G area, so don't tell me that's my problem and send me on my way
About 11am PDT today my phone started giving me Error Code 67 (Data Call Failure) whenever I try to access the internet or data services from my office (my office has an 850 MHz repeater so I roam in the office). When I am outside or not in my office and the phone picks up a Sprint signal, everything is fine. As soon as I come back inside and my phone switches to roaming, Error Code 67. I've had two calls with Sprint so far...They're updating the provisioning servers or some such thing at the moment and are going to call me back when that's completed.
Has anyone else experienced this today or recently and if so did you find a resolution? I can't easily take the phone back to where I bought it and have them fiddle with it in person as that's 100 mi away.
Thanks!

I've had the same issue too. See it mostly when traveling and the signal strength changes. Not to much when I'm in one spot.
It's quite annoying. I turn the display off and on hoping to pick the signal back up. Makes me think it is a Sprint network problem especially since I've now confirmed someone else has the problem too.
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Well, they've got me fixed up again. Also while I was on the phone the gentleman helping me out received an interoffice message stating a server responsible for doing profile updates (Device Configuration message) on the EVO had gone down, so they're failing right now.

I have been getting it as well. I thought it was the roaming hack but I don't believe that is the case. Think it's just something on Sprints network.

I have gotten it too on both of my EVO's....I guess it's not just me

engagedtosmile said:
I have been getting it as well. I thought it was the roaming hack but I don't believe that is the case. Think it's just something on Sprints network.
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Yeah I read through that whole thread and it seems a fair amount of people have had this happen today. And as I wrote in that thread some service at Sprint related to sending out new PRLs and profiles to our phones went down as well.

I had the same problem yesterday my 3g suddenly went out with the 67 error but 4g still worked. I called sprint and they reset something on their end and after programming itself it w.ent away and my 3g data speed saw a nice speedbump

I've had this issue a few times with my Evo. Every time it has happened to me, I've had little or no signal.
What I think is happening is that the phone begins to authenticate itself with the data servers but then I lose reception, which causes the authentication to fail, hence the error message.
I _think_ I've had this happen on my Hero too.

yeah, (don't quote me on this, i may be wrong) i think error 67 is in regards to no data hookup, and if your phone is set to not get data during roaming, or to dilly dally about it (maybe roam guard?) (check settings > wireless and networks > mobile networks), it'll give you that error

I too had this issue for a while today. It was annoying the crap out of me.

same thing happened to me today, for some reason i wasn't able to get anything but a weak roaming signal at work all day. i called sprint, they wiped my phone and i still wasn't able to do the profile/prl update. i was able to do it once i left the building, of course i had to start with a blank slate on the phone. i'm hoping that after the updates i get a better signal in the building, otherwise i can't keep the phone and will have to return it for a (gag) iphone. after 3 days with a vastly superior OS that would be a tough thing to do.

Mine is def. not the Roam settings... That's the first thing I do is turn off Roam guard, call guard, special roam ring...etc. due to me having almost no signal at work.

I had this issue when I changed to the Alltel PRL. I rebooted, then ran the PRL update. It took a while to do, but once it got the Sprint PRL everything was fine.
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I had the same issue yesterday around the same time as the OP. Seems that maybe Sprint was having issues. Anyway, phone is back working and roaming today and even roaming 3G in the DC metro which is Verizon and was never Alltel AFAIK, so that's cool. Actually, some stations have Sprint in them, but others are Verizon and I had 3G Roaming in them today, so I was pleasently surprised, hope it sticks.

Iconia WIFI but this one is different

I connect fine and can surf the net and connect to the market, connect and send and recieve e-mails.
BUT when I go to try and look for software update I get this message "Network coverage is currently poor. Please move to a location with better coverage to continue." Also when I try to see my apps in the market I get this message "A network error has occured. Retry, or cancel and return to previous screen."
I am sitting like 2 feet from the router with a perfect signal.
Any thoughts?
Non rooted on 3.2

+1
my friend just bought an iconia and is experiencing this issue as well. and asking me what the problem is???

Billyvnilly said:
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my friend just bought an iconia and is experiencing this issue as well. and asking me what the problem is???
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I did a complete factory reset and everything is back to normal.....well after I set the tablet back to my custom settings.

I have the same issue :-(

google pushed this update to too many people all at once, problem is not with the tablets but at the server end, just wait

it's normal, simply check for update during late night should get yours update fine. acer's server is overwhelmed with everybody tried to get into acer..

same problem here, only happens when trying for update every thing else accessing wifi ok, been happening now for 3 days, s/w and hardware reset with no results, anybody have an answer yet.

Anyone in the Uk got the OTA ICS update?

as anyone in the uk managed to get the ics update on there a500 over the air?
or is every on still getting the poor network coverage error still?

I received it about ten pm on the 25th. No issues to date.

It's not geographically specific. I'm in Canada and have been getting that message since last night.
I wonder if anyone has tried contacting Acer?
EDIT: Well I tried contacting Acer... not sure why I ever bother trying to contact any customer service centre... they're hopeless. At least they didn't drag it out... All I got was to call their "2nd level support" mon-fri 8am-7pm Central Time.

moochermick said:
I received it about ten pm on the 25th. No issues to date.
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Where are you in the uk ? am in the manchester area and still no update was getting your device is uptodate message up untill yesterday now am getting network covarage message as has alot of other people

It's nothing to do with your geographical location in the UK but rather to do with your devices serial number as to when you get the update.

crazymanc said:
Where are you in the uk ? am in the manchester area and still no update was getting your device is uptodate message up untill yesterday now am getting network covarage message as has alot of other people
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I'm in east Yorkshire but as others have said it doesn't appear to be a matter of where you live.

Got sick and tired of that stupid " Network Is Poor, Move To America to get the update" message, ok, it didnt say that, but you know what I mean, so I ran this OTA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1624908 and it works a treat, nice one OldGaf. Next stop, ROOT!

chickin2000 said:
"Move To America to get the update" message, ok, it didnt say that, but you know what I mean,
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Considering that people in every country were getting the same message, no. I don't know what you meant.
Acer had some form of system issue, it wasn't in regards to any country.
That said, I took the same route you did and just downloaded the update myself.

chickin2000 said:
Got sick and tired of that stupid " Network Is Poor, Move To America to get the update" message, ok, it didnt say that, but you know what I mean, so I ran this OTA http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1624908 and it works a treat, nice one OldGaf. Next stop, ROOT!
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Problem with that is you now can't access any wifi channels above 11.

if you use the ww_gen1 update then all channels are available as this is the one that's being pushed out to UK tabs.