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been using Fido 3G for 1 week, now hasn't worked for a day

I've had a new smart phone (HTC magic from rogers) on Fido for a week now and it's been working great. I got a data plan and i've been using the data for a week, no problem.
Today I go to turn my data on, and no matter how many times i turn the phone on and off, or turn the 3G toggle on and off, it won't connect. The little 3G symbol at the top of the phone won't appear and I can't get a connection.
I updated to the cyanogen 2.1 rom (the newest fully stable one) and I haven't had any problems, and it's still working great other than the 3G.
Any idea how to fix this? I'm using the APNdroid widget to toggle 3G on and off.
name: Fido internet
APN: internet.fido.ca
proxy: non set
Port: 8080
Username: fido
passworkd: fido
server: not set
mmsc: not set
mms proxy: not set
mms port: not set
mcc: 302
mnc: 370
authentication type: none
apn type: non set

It's what rogers does to people who dont update to their 911 update. They block unotherized devices. Call them and ask them to enable you data and ask them to remove you from the block list. Sometimes it takes a while for the system to find you and thats why you had your data for a week.

im having the exact same issue. did you ever figure it out. i just got the phone and everything was great then after a few days the 3g etc stopped working. i was messing with the apn settings and at the same time talking to fido. they reset it or something on there end and it started working. now a few days later and the same things happened again. its been off for a few days now. my radio version is 6.35.08.29 is that a problem with the 911 thing?

can anyone help. seems after fido reset it for me im ok again but after a few days i assume its gonna happen again. can anyone with rogers htc magics on fido chime in and let me know if they have any issues and what rom etc there using. thx

i havent expierenced this, ill think abt wut to do

its because i didnt have the 911 update. ****s up rogers and fido. updated and no more issues however i cannot root the phone anymore and am stuck on 1.5 now. **** you rogers

I think keeping your rooted ROM and signing the Waiver here www.rogers.com/htcwaiver would have worked just as well...

yea oviously however if you read the post above we are using fido and they have no such thing

Hi blazinlow,
Were you able to get your data back? I'm also Fido customer using a rooted HTC Magic and suddenly today lost internet connectivity (no 3G or EDGE) after a week. I called Rogers and the CSR doesn't seem to know what I'm talking about as he can't even find my number. He did, however know about the 911 bug and the mandatory update but insisted that I call Fido as they have control over the network?!! I wonder if I would have to get the issue escalated to their Tier 2.

well you can try with fido i had no luck. i updated my phone and now have no issues aside from no custom rom and being stuck on 1.5 meaning no navigation

I have FIDO as well and i have had my data connection dropped 3 times now. Im using a magic with 2.1. Every time that it happens I have to call in and get them to reset the connection on their end :/. Anyways they can't give me a straight answer on that either, its frusterating. What exactly is THE 911 update ? a radio update ? or firmware based.

Same issue - update?
Has anyone come up with a solution here. I've come across the same issue.
The phone worked fine on Rogers with no problem getting shut down, it is just now when I use a fido sim that we are getting the data shut down happening.
Unfortunately the 911 form provided above doesn't like my IEMI ("please enter a valid serial number") so I am left being not sure where to go next. A brief discussion with Fido tech support gave me the impression they don't have a clue how do anything other than a profile reset, which makes the problem go away for a few days.
A fall back to Android 1.5 is obviously not an option.
As I understand there may be a way to flash the base band and have an affect? Right now I am on base band 62.525.20.18H_3.22.20.17.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
Thanks.

paulheth said:
Has anyone come up with a solution here. I've come across the same issue.
The phone worked fine on Rogers with no problem getting shut down, it is just now when I use a fido sim that we are getting the data shut down happening.
Unfortunately the 911 form provided above doesn't like my IEMI ("please enter a valid serial number") so I am left being not sure where to go next. A brief discussion with Fido tech support gave me the impression they don't have a clue how do anything other than a profile reset, which makes the problem go away for a few days.
A fall back to Android 1.5 is obviously not an option.
As I understand there may be a way to flash the base band and have an affect? Right now I am on base band 62.525.20.18H_3.22.20.17.
Any assistance would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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So after a long conversation wit Fido I have confirmed that they have no way (or perhaps interest) in utilizing the 911 waiver from Rogers and put invoking a 'stop reset' function.
They eventually fall back to the party line of, not our phone can't help you.
Again, anyone know if anything other than a fall back to ancient unusable versions of Android as a fix here?
Any help much appreciated.

Major Legend Issues

Hi all, new member to the forums but have used the knowledge here before many times.
I bought an unlocked Bell HTC Legend and have successfully used it on AT&T until encountering major issues yesterday. The phone started to lose signal, flopping between gsm, edge, 3g, and nothing. Then it started randomly restarting over and over again. Then I lost signal completely and it was telling me to insert a sim card when i would go into check the APN settings. Wouldn't give the error on the main screen when there is actually no sim in the phone, would just say no service. I took the sim out of the phone and tried it in my Nokia and it worked perfectly fine.
Heard issues from others about using the Bell ROM with AT&T so I proceeded to try and flash the phone with the generic WWE ROM to try and fix it. Was able to create a gold card after multiple attempts but could never get the phone to stay connected to HTC sync and the computer as it would disconnect when running the ROM .exe file. Outside of running the ROM .exe it would connect to the PC fine. Tried to update the drivers on the phone because i'm running windows 7 x64 but it wouldn't let me load the vista x64 drivers, just kept telling me that the driver loaded was the latest and correct.
I factory reset the phone as a last attempt and that worked for a little bit but then the signal errors happened again and the phone would show full bars and the 'H' but no data would be uploading or downloading most of the time. It had detected and latched onto a signal i guess but wouldn't consistently transfer data. I messed around with the APN settings again and now its resarting itself again and showing no signal most of the time.
I'm really not sure what to do at this point. It seems like a phone issue not so much the network or the sim. Not sure if its a battery contact or sim contact issue? I'd like to try and get the phone to stay connected so I can flash the ROM and see if that works.
Any help or past experience would be helpful. I feel like i've tried everything and searched everywhere for answers.
Thanks.

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the signal errors happened again and the phone would show full bars and the 'H' but no data would be uploading or downloading most of the time.
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as far as i know the bars show signal strength of the GSM and not necessarily of the data quality. i hav the same issu ( showing bars but no data ) in some areas that are well covered by G2 but poor by G3 .
this brings me to the next question :
is data and pnone impaired by this problem? or only data ?
also it could be a fiscal problem, maybe the antenna is having trouble ?
good luck

The phone and data are affected.
I was finally able to flash it to the generic 1.31 WWE ROM by updating the windows device drivers while the program was trying to install the ROM. Found that info reading through all the comments in the downgrade thread.
The phone is still having issues keeping a connection though. It pulled the APN info off the sim but its not the same info I was using before when I manually entered the AT&T settings i've found searching the net. Its now reads this:
Name: MediaNet
APN: same
Proxy: same
Port: 80
Username: same
Password: *******
Server: Not Set
MMSC: same
MMS Proxy: 66.209.11.32
MMS Port: 8080
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
APN Type: *
The phone connected for a while but it was intermitent. I entered the other AT&T APN settings i've found on the web and those didn't work right either, connection kept dropping.
I don't know what is going on. I'm guessing its a bad phone or bad sim? Antenna or something?
Update: I'm using the default APN settings it pulled off the sim and it seems to be working ok for the moment. Freaking phone.

Update 2: Installed a version of Swype, had pinch to zoom and lag issues, restarted the phone, connnection became crap. Uninstalled swype, seemed to work but its still have connection issues. Shows connection and bars and data going up but nothing coming in. Goes in and out of connection.
Just for those following along.... I guess I should try and contact HTC.

Found this very interesting thread:
forum dot vodafone dot co dot uk/topic/58054-htc-legend-antenna-issue/
and this:
code dot google dot com/p/android/issues/detail?id=2845&q=auto%202g%203g%20switching&colspec=ID%20Type%20Status%20Owner%20Summary%20Stars
2g/3g switching issue w/ Andriod? Is there a better ROM out there that will avoid this? My wives Samsung Galaxy doesn't have this issue (knock on wood).

It is true the antenna is in the bottom cover of the phone
and now i remember t had some issues as well with the reception
i used WD40 to clean the contact points from the phone and the cover
i did not spray it directly but used a point of a cloth to put it on the right places and never had trouble again

k.mooijman said:
It is true the antenna is in the bottom cover of the phone
and now i remember t had some issues as well with the reception
i used WD40 to clean the contact points from the phone and the cover
i did not spray it directly but used a point of a cloth to put it on the right places and never had trouble again
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I wouldn't use WD40, it leaves a residue behind...
If you want to clean those contacts, a simple eraser works fine.

[GUIDE] Getting your unlocked Note fully functional on Straight Talk (including MMS)

Disclaimer at the bottom of the post... *
Updated for ICS / Ice Cream Sandwich - tentative settings, please confirm if these work for you. (Look for additional red text.)
Thank you to everyone who took the time to figure all this stuff out! All I did was take some pretty screenshots to make it easier for beginners.
OK, I want to make this short, simple, and thorough. I don't think those things are mutually exclusive.
First, you need an activated Straight Talk SIM card that can be transferred to other phones. **
Put the SIM into your Note, turn it on, and open the system settings. Then tap the following...
Wireless and network > Mobile networks > Access Point Names
The next screen should look something like the attached image #1: "APNs". Tap the Menu button and tap the New APN button. ***
You need to create two APNs. The name you enter in the Name field apparently doesn't matter. I just used "Internet" and "MMS" to avoid confusion. Copy the settings in the two attached image numbers 2: "APN_1" and image number 3: "APN_2". I drew a yellow check mark next to all the entries that I needed to change, I suppose some firmware versions/ROMs/phones may be different. When you're done entering in all the required addresses and stuff, tap the Menu button and tap the Save button.
APN 1...
Name: Internet
APN: att.mvno
The method for setting the "APN type" varies. Choose "internet" if you are given a list of choices, type "default" if you must type it in.
APN type: internet
APN type: default
Typing "default" seems to work on imilka's AOSP ICS v03 ROM for the internet at least, I haven't tried MMS yet. I suspect it will work with other ICS builds as well.
APN 2...
Name: MMS
APN: att.mvno
MMSC: http://mmsc.cingular.com
MMS proxy: proxy.mvno.tracfone.com
MMS port: 80
APN type: mms
When you save the second APN and you return to the APNs screen: select the radio button on the first APN (see attached image number 4: "Select_APN").
Tap the Back button to return to the Manage network settings screen. Put a check mark into the Use packet data option (see attached image number 5: "Check_use_packet_data"). Shortly after checking that box my phone connected to the network.
Yay you're done! This worked on my phone, I hope it works for y'all too.
* This is for informational purposes only. I am not an expert. Frankly, I don't even know what these settings really do. I simply copied them from other places on the internet (like this thread). There is an app, APN Backup & Restore, that can be used to (gasp!) backup and restore your APN settings, if you're nervous about doing this I suggest you backup your current APN settings before proceeding. It looks like there are other APN settings apps, it's possible one of them is better... I dunno. Personally, I did not use any APN-centric app, though I did have a backup of my whole phone made by Clockwork Mod ROM Manager
** I am no expert, but people on the internet say the only way to get a transferable SIM is to buy a Nokia E71 or a Nokia 6790 from Straight Talk. Check out straighttalk.com, they might be selling a refurbished E71 or 6790 (currently the refurbished 6790 is ~$50 with free overnight shipping). Personally, I left the SIM in my Nokia until the service was activated. I saw someone on the net say that you should switch the SIM back to the Straight Talk phone before calling tech support. I don't know if this is really something you have to do or not. Personally, I'm going to keep the phone around and use it whenever I have to call them.
*** If your screen shows some APNs already I'm afraid I don't know what you should do. I suggest you stop using my guide and see if you can get some expert advice elsewhere. I'm sorry about that!

Nice write-up! I am on ST as well.
A tip for getting a refurbished e71 to show up in the phone options is by starting the process with a zipcode nearish to where you live that is more densely populated, and then just changing the address when you are placing the order. Save some bucks that way.
Also, I believe that the E71 provided by ST is locked to the SIM included with it and will not work with other SIM cards. It is probably best to just hang onto the handset.
I have tried with Fast Dormancy (*#*#9900#*#*) both enabled and disabled and get the same speeds either way (2-3Mbps), so I just leave it disabled since it seems that it could drain the battery more if left enabled.

Thanks!
I forgot I'd seen Fast Dormancy mentioned on the other threads... I'm going to try it with it disabled for a while as well.
... later
Hmmm... disabling it seems to have started causing problems immediately. I connected to the Market and searched for a speed test app. It worked for a little bit, but by the time I had typed "speedtest" into the search bar my internet connection apparently got lost. I tried turning it back on and the internet connection seemed to return.

I am just curious, what sort of speed you getting with the Straight Talk.
I have the go-phone plan and getting these speed :
btw, i have the Fast Dormancy disabled and it work great!
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What data plan you have to get those speeds with go phone?
Thanks for the info OP.. I didn't know you needed a special phone for removeable sim card.

MrDSL said:
What data plan you have to get those speeds with go phone?
Thanks for the info OP.. I didn't know you needed a special phone for removeable sim card.
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I have the 500MB data package for $25 with monthly roll over. I guess any data plan can get my speed with go-phone.

Argh, I wrote out a response but then, being absent-minded, I decided to click a link and lost it. Here's a pic with five speed tests I did. The results are inconsistent, but it doesn't look like they're being throttled or anything to me.
Note the second one on the list. Extremes in both directions. It says 33 kbps upload speed, but I though it hung so I attempted to cancel the test early. I'm not sure if it actually finished, timed out, or if I successfully canceled it.

I'm also using my note with this setup. The only difference I did is that instead of making two separate APN types I just combined everything into one and set the APN type to Internet + MMS. Works fine for me.

Thank you thank you thank you for this.
Going to use my note on Straighttalk also.

Have been using my note on straight talk since day 1, have had a couple days of going 100+mbs of data in a day without any issues

Just like to let you guys know, don't think the grass is greener if you have a tiered data plan on ATT
I have a 2g data plan and out of 142 speed tests mostly at two different locations a mile apart I have had exactly 25 times where my speed was over 1mbps download and the majority of those were at 2am or later when there's nobody on the network. I even called them to ask if they had throttled me because my speeds were so low (I'm in the Melbourne area of Florida btw) and they said no....we just suck...ok they didn't say we just suck but after looking into it I was told yea well in the daytime there's a lot of people on the network which slows things down...Yea really? to below 1 mbps???
So if you're thinking you're missing out on something you're not...that is not until your area gets LTE theeeeeeen you'll be missing out on what is nothing short of phenomenal speed. In the meantime...save ur dough til it's in your area. I'll be going to ST or Go Phone until then myself. It's the principal of the thing too. Why should I pay top dollar for that kind of crappy speed when someone in the city is getting 49mbps dl speed on the same plan I got? While being restricted to 2Gb no less.

duowing said:
I'm also using my note with this setup. The only difference I did is that instead of making two separate APN types I just combined everything into one and set the APN type to Internet + MMS. Works fine for me.
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I have tested both the combined APN and seperate APN and get better speed with seperate APN.

Hirudin said:
Argh, I wrote out a response but then, being absent-minded, I decided to click a link and lost it. Here's a pic with five speed tests I did. The results are inconsistent, but it doesn't look like they're being throttled or anything to me.
Note the second one on the list. Extremes in both directions. It says 33 kbps upload speed, but I though it hung so I attempted to cancel the test early. I'm not sure if it actually finished, timed out, or if I successfully canceled it.
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wow this is on straight talk? I live in downtown seattle and was testing their network and it was like 1.5 down....
If their 3g (hspa+) speeds are the same as straight talk, there isn't any reason to get into an expensive contract.
Can anyone else post their straight talk speeds?

Straight Talk lets you buy just the sim card now so you can save $50 and skip the phone purchase.

great! is there any issues with using strait talk on the note aside from not having 4g speeds? and when do they start throttling your bandwidth? i really would rather transfer my number from tmobile and get a st sim than have to deal with edge speeds on tmobile.

So this is faster than t-mobile right? If so I'm getting it cause I'm on t-mobile now and might as well if its faster and same price
From the Beast : Galaxy Note

sounds like it is faster than normal AT&T HSPA+. From what i've seen, normal AT&T hspa+ speeds are around 1 to 1.5megs..
So if there is no LTE in your city, why have AT&T at all? Buy a phone off contract and pay only $45 a month in cell phone bills..

H+ in my area is around 2-3 during the weekday, and 5-6 meg in the evening.
Is yours not setup correctly to get only 1-2?

I got 4 Down and 2 Up using the settings they sent me with my SIM Only Straight Talk Account.
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how is straight talk data service?
i have a question about straight talk's data service. on the internet, it seems like straight talk imposes limitations as to how you can use the data?
are you able to use the internet normally like watching youtube videos etc?
can you tether?
are there things that you cannot do compared to what you can do with other 3g/4g providers?
i ask these questions because i just saw this thread a moment ago, and gave me some hopes to buying an internation version of galaxy note and not have to pay too much money getting a plan with att. (i don't want the att version because of the hardware difference)

Unlocked G900A on Verizon

Hey guys. I apologize if this has been addressed before. I did try searching, both XDA and the web in general, before posting this. I have a lot of experience with rooting, ROMing, bootloaders, kernels, Odin, etc. Basically anything associated with customizing a phone. Except for swapping between carriers, I've only done that a couple times and it only involved swapping the SIM and changing the APN. So I don't need kid gloves or a lot of explaining with potential solutions, like editing build.prop or flashing something either locally on the phone or through Odin. But anyways... here's my story, along with my thoughts on potential solutions to try (the only reason I haven't tried these solutions yet is because I don't wanna risk messing anything up):
I was given a Galaxy S5 for AT&T (model number G900A) about a week ago. I'm on Verizon and am currently using an S4 (coming from an S3 and Galaxy Nexus. So I've got a good deal of experience with Samsung devices. Although so much has changed between then and now, it's hardly relevant). So obviously the first thing I did was just throw my SIM from my S4 into the S5. Didn't work. SIM was locked (something I've never seen). Oh well, I didn't expect it to be so simple. The S5 was still on KK, so I figured I'd try a custom ROM to see if that affected the SIM lock. It didn't. So I ordered a SIM unlock code (a girl gave it to me who was given it by her ex boyfriend who didn't like the idea of her giving it to a different guy, so he wasn't exactly cooperative with unlocking it. No biggie, $24 was still well worth it). Since then, I've played with it a bit. I'm currently running TMS5 2.0. It's hard to form a complete opinion on a ROM when I don't have data/cell capacity and can only use WiFi. But with the small amount of experience, it's a nice ROM. I got my SIM unlock code this morning thanks to unlockunit.com. The SIM unlock I had purchased was estimated at 1-6 days and I received it in like 23 hours. I'd definitely use them again if anybody is looking for a place. Everything seemed to be going smoothly. Unlock was successful, added the APN settings, but the APN settings wont save. I've rebooted, cleared cache/dalvik, removed/reinstalled SIM, nothing worked. I figured I'd try a new ROM, but wanted to ask for some other opinions too. Also, when I had the thought to try a new ROM, I also thought that maybe a Verizon ROM would work on the Verizon network? But also figured it could not boot too, so I'd ask first.
Anybody have this experience with any solutions? Anybody else have any thoughts/ideas? I'd appreciate any input. Thank you

after hours upon hours of tinkering with it. I've made extremely slight "progress". Since I've been screwing with this all day, a lot of the time I'm doing something else at the same time. I noticed that when I had filled out the APN fields (listed below, so everyone can see what I'm using) and then turned the screen off and then back on, it would save and show on the APN list. But still didn't work. After looking closer, it was because when the screen turned off, the MCC and MNC changed from 310 and 012 into 311 and 480, respectively. I'm not sure why, but the APN editor automatically puts those numbers in every time I open the APN settings, but they obviously don't work. One time, in the grocery store, it actually saved correctly. The antenna bars showed correctly and the 4G icon showed for the first time. Then as soon as I left the APN screen to check the browser, they reverted, I went back into the APN list and it was gone again... this is incredibly frustrating
Name Verizon
APN: internet or vzwinternet
Proxy blank
Port blank
Username blank
Password blank
Server blank
MMSC http://mms.vtext.com/servlets/mms
MMS Proxy blank
MMS Port 80
MCC 310
MNC 012
Authentication type not set
APN Type internet + mms

So I switched from Twisted back to TMS5 2.0 to check the APN settings in it as well. And it has the same issue, MCC is 311 and MNC is 480 by default upon opening the APN editor. TMS5 also has "default,hipri" under APN Type by default.
Just for the hell of it. I decided to try changing those numbers 1 at a time and saving. The APN Type was the only one that allowed me to change it. As I expected. I'm going to give AllianceROM a shot now and hope it works, but I have a hunch that *IF* flashing a different ROM does work, it will be a KK ROM. But I'm giving it shot just because I can quickly flash with FF, rather than having to use Kies and SS. Fingers crossed...

as expected. AllianceROM didn't work. Next step, I'm going to try the stock rooted OC4. I *REALLY* hope this works. The idea of flashing back to KK from LP makes me uneasy. If anybody is reading this, and knows how to flash a G900A back to KK, or knows of a thread that explains it, I'd really appreciate it.
(I apologize to those of you who I'm sure are getting annoyed at what seems to be a solo conversation. I'm only trying to document each different step I've tried just in case there's someone out there going through the same thing that happens to stumble across this thread. In the off chance that it turns out that I can't discover something that *DOES* work, I'd at least like to document what *DOESN'T* work so they can save the time and effort. Considering that I've wasted 15 hours now on this **** already, I'd at least like to save anyone with this same problem that stumbles across this thread some of that time.
Anyways... time to flash OC4...

Dude, just unlock all the bands from the secret menu. Google it. Go to UE Settings/Settings/Protocol/NAS/Network Control/Band Selection and select LTE/WCMA.
To access the hidden menu, use the app Secret Codes.
Warning: The code to enter the menu varies from carrier.
APN isn't needed. The relevant apn info is already on your SIM.

jinosong said:
Dude, just unlock all the bands from the secret menu. Google it. Go to UE Settings/Settings/Protocol/NAS/Network Control/Band Selection and select LTE/WCMA.
To access the hidden menu, use the app Secret Codes.
Warning: The code to enter the menu varies from carrier.
APN isn't needed. The relevant apn info is already on your SIM.
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Wow. I wish I knew that. I even called VZW and they told me that it only had a gsm antenna and was impossible to use on VZW. Well I took that, and T-Mobile's sale as a sign. I had kicked around the idea of switching to T-Mobile and selling my VZW unlimited plan ever since T-Mobile came out with unlimited data plans. Especially with no contract. It just seemed like the ideal plan for $80. Then they had the sale for $100 for 2 lines unlimited talk/text/LTE. Which was what my Verizon plan was for one line and only 450 minutes. Turns out my friend and his girlfriend thought the same and just switched to that plan. So they added me as a 3rd line. Unlimited everything for only $40/month is incredible. So before I sold my VZW plan, I ran speedtest just to see what the difference was. Obviously expecting T-Mobile to be at a disadvantage there. Nope. T-Mobile was 35.37MB/s down, 11.65MB/s up. Verizon was 10.12 down and 2.57 up. But I live in Phoenix, so it's a big city with small buildings to get in the way and mountains scattered throughout to put radio towers on. I'm sure the results would be quite different in rural areas. But for my situation, I can't ask for more. Unlimited excellent service for less that half of what I used to pay. Plus I got to cash out decently on my old VZW unlimited plan before they either bring back unlimited data or do away with AOL, which I think one or the other will happen soon.
All-in-all, I couldn't be happier with a free S5 with a better plan on better service for a much better price. And I've rooted the S5 and put TMS5 2.0 on it which runs incredibly. I was very nervous making the jump but am so glad I did.
I just wish I checked this thread before so I could have been able to confirm if that would have worked to put this phone on Verizon, or if it was stuck as GSM only as was the conclusion I came to after trying everything I could possibly think of, and listed in this thread. I'm gonna see if I can find a friend with VZW that'll let me give it a shot with their SIM just to hopefully be able to help anyone else with the same issue

Wow man heads up more people may give your their $.02 if they didn't have to spend 5 minutes reading each post!
The reason your data didn't work is because you didn't update the modem when you updated the system (by using the different lollipop roms)... If you had updated the modem, data would have worked.
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Swimguy14 said:
Wow man heads up more people may give your their $.02 if they didn't have to spend 5 minutes reading each post!
The reason your data didn't work is because you didn't update the modem when you updated the system (by using the different lollipop roms)... If you had updated the modem, data would have worked.
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Oh well. Live and learn. It's not that I enjoy typing novels, I just wanted to be as detailed as possible with what I was trying. It all worked out though. T-Mobile has better service in my area and I cashed out well from my VZW data plan. So I have no complaints with how it turned out I guess
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Galaxy S5/Galaxy Note 3 Sprint help thread

The point of this thread is to have a general place for Sprint folks to help each other out.
I started it because I saw a lot of the same information getting repeated in the S5 thread.
I'll be keeping a list of a few tips and tricks to help get your Sprint S5/Note 3 working as best as it possibly can, and hopefully explain it in a straightforward matter.
If anyone has other suggestions of what should go here, please let me know.
Common problems:
1. LTE isn't working
Possible solutions:
1. Your network provisioning got weird somehow. Flash stock, update your PRL, update your Profile, and then flash Lineage again
2. Your sim card is very old, and we no longer have hacks to support it. Get a new one off eBay, and follow steps in solution 1 for provisioning. See list of working SIM cards below
2. Other network service isn't working
Possible solutions:
1. Your network provisioning got weird somehow. Flash stock, update your PRL, update your Profile, and then flash Lineage again
3. Phone is bouncing between network types
Possible solutions:
1. Try making a standard voice call, to force it to CDMA or EvDO, to help stabilize the connection
4. Voicemail notifications don't show
Disclaimer: Known bug, will not be fixed. This is because sometimes voicemail read signals don't get cleared properly in Sprint's system, so they show forever.
Possible workarounds:
1. Manually call voicemail whenever you get a missed call
2. Use Google Voice and forward calls and texts to a dummy number on your phone instead, or use Sprint's Google Voice integration
General Tips:
1. Don't mess with preferred network settings, I set them specifically to work properly on Sprint
Known working SIM cards:
SIMOLW216R
Known not working SIM cards:
SIMGLW206R

I have a G900P with Virgin Mobile. I wanted to provide some info on the bouncing between GSM-CDMA issue. Today I wiped three times and flashed three builds (LineageOS 10/25, 11/1, and crDroid 10/26 based on LOS 10/25). In all three times, after wiping and flashing roms, I would see the phone bouncing CDMA-GSM when switching between preferred network types. Then I would dirty flash the same ROM (only the rom, nothing else), it seemed like this issue goes away and the phone is VERY stable. I will wipe again to see if I can keep replicating this phenomenon. You guys can try to dirty flash to see if it also fixes the LTE connection issue (nothing to lose). I saw it a few times but I couldn't see a pattern, and now that I have been switching preferred network types several times over the last few hours, I have not seen it anymore. I will keep testing.

The G900P radio issue has been going on forever. its almost as bad as the timezone bug we have had forever.
install rand g900p cyanogenmond/lineage rom.... go through install..... deal with phone trying to escape into wrong carrier or frequency... pray it remains stable for work.... post logcat hoping for fix..... repeat for several years with no avail......

eurohunter said:
I have a G900P with Virgin Mobile. I wanted to provide some info on the bouncing between GSM-CDMA issue. Today I wiped three times and flashed three builds (LineageOS 10/25, 11/1, and crDroid 10/26 based on LOS 10/25). In all three times, after wiping and flashing roms, I would see the phone bouncing CDMA-GSM when switching between preferred network types. Then I would dirty flash the same ROM (only the rom, nothing else), it seemed like this issue goes away and the phone is VERY stable. I will wipe again to see if I can keep replicating this phenomenon. You guys can try to dirty flash to see if it also fixes the LTE connection issue (nothing to lose). I saw it a few times but I couldn't see a pattern, and now that I have been switching preferred network types several times over the last few hours, I have not seen it anymore. I will keep testing.
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I'll add the suggestion to not mess with preferred network types, I set the default to what is ideal for Sprint. Did you dirty flash the ROMs over themselves? or over an older version?
TomNeverwinter said:
The G900P radio issue has been going on forever. its almost as bad as the timezone bug we have had forever.
install rand g900p cyanogenmond/lineage rom.... go through install..... deal with phone trying to escape into wrong carrier or frequency... pray it remains stable for work.... post logcat hoping for fix..... repeat for several years with no avail......
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I aim to improve that, at least a little bit. The stability has improved, from the feedback I've been getting. The timezone bug was fixed a long time ago as well, in May iirc (and it wasn't just Sprint, T-Mobile US and AT&T had it too)

The network for sprint devices using; lineage-14.1-20171108-nightly-kltedv-signed is definitely better so far.

Sounds like you guys on sprint have some issues still ... I am running my g900p on att .... Works great i dont think i get full 4glte but i still average2-3 megs a second so its definitely not bad ... Fair trade off i guess.

pinheaD420 said:
Sounds like you guys on sprint have some issues still ... I am running my g900p on att .... Works great i dont think i get full 4glte but i still average2-3 megs a second so its definitely not bad ... Fair trade off i guess.
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I would imagine the LTE bands AT&T uses don't line up with Sprint's. I have similar issues on my G900F on T-Mobile, I frequently see H+/3G/E when I should have LTE.
As for Sprint issues, yeah, but it's a lot more manageable now. Most of the weird bugs/quirks are now just fixed by getting provisioning on stock, or a new sim card.
I always heard about what a PITA sprint was, and imagine it worked like crap then, but it's not too bad now. I still prefer T-Mobile, for various minor reasons,
but my hltespr on Tello (Sprint MVNO) makes a perfectly usable backup phone if anything goes wrong with my T-Mobile sim, and it wouldn't
really bother me to use it. That's pretty much my main goal: Make Sprint as usable as possible, so the user doesn't need to notice they're on Sprint.

javelinanddart said:
I would imagine the LTE bands AT&T uses don't line up with Sprint's. I have similar issues on my G900F on T-Mobile, I frequently see H+/3G/E when I should have LTE.
As for Sprint issues, yeah, but it's a lot more manageable now. Most of the weird bugs/quirks are now just fixed by getting provisioning on stock, or a new sim card.
I always heard about what a PITA sprint was, and imagine it worked like crap then, but it's not too bad now. I still prefer T-Mobile, for various minor reasons,
but my hltespr on Tello (Sprint MVNO) makes a perfectly usable backup phone if anything goes wrong with my T-Mobile sim, and it wouldn't
really bother me to use it. That's pretty much my main goal: Make Sprint as usable as possible, so the user doesn't need to notice they're on Sprint.
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Totally appreciate the efforts and this thread.
For me, you called it, by the way. Old-ass SIM card.

meatfest1974 said:
Totally appreciate the efforts and this thread.
For me, you called it, by the way. Old-ass SIM card.
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Just to update, everything worked out well!
Upon replacing the old SIM with a new one, I still couldn't get past 3G. I flashed to stock CQD1 in Odin, updated the PRL and profile, ##72786# to reset, and still nothing.
After a few Google searches, a few forums suggested to call into Virgin Mobile to update the SIM's ICCID number, because this is the reason I couldn't get LTE; the ICCID didn't match the SIM card they had on file. Once done and after a final reboot back into stock, LTE success!
Flashed TWRP in Odin and restored a recent lineageOS backup, and LTE success!
Again, this board was very helpful, thanks!

Just ordered a new SIM card from Sprint. The old one showed as incompatible according to OP. I could only get 3G if I changed to CDMA/EVDO.. Hopefully the new one will allow me to run LOS 14.1 with access to LTE on TING. Thanks for the info.

@javelinanddart Hi, would you mind taking a look at this radio log from 15.1? I can't get LTE working under any circumstances. I have the latest baseband for G900P and a good SIM card, and everything was working in 14.1. Log shows switching from "CDMA/EvDo" to "CDMA/EvDo + LTE" then setting the APN to FreedomPop LTE.

javelinanddart said:
General Tips:
1. Don't mess with preferred network settings, I set them specifically to work properly on Sprint
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hmmm
where are your files ?
don't say
https://github.com/javelinanddart/
because i just spent 15 min looking at everything there and could find nothing specific to G900P

a1yet said:
G900P
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I imagine its buried deep, around about here:- https://review.lineageos.org/#/q/status:merged+project:LineageOS/android_device_samsung_klte-common+branch:cm-14.1+topic:klte-oss-ril

fitittome said:
I imagine its buried deep, around about here
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thank you very much
Ohhh good Joke LOL .. had me going there, I really thought you were trying to help.. till I spent another 5-10 min looking around at gibberish
thanks a lot
PS: i'm not mad .. i can appreciate a good joke
i think i'll wait tile the OP tells me where i can download his ROM
OR
find one in the S5 sprint thread on this site

a1yet said:
i think i'll wait tile the OP tells me where i can download his ROM
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It's the official LineageOS kltedv.

fitittome said:
It's the official
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then i thank you again
i see the files now that i failed to find on my own
thank you

Couchy said:
@javelinanddart Hi, would you mind taking a look at this radio log from 15.1? I can't get LTE working under any circumstances. I have the latest baseband for G900P and a good SIM card, and everything was working in 14.1. Log shows switching from "CDMA/EvDo" to "CDMA/EvDo + LTE" then setting the APN to FreedomPop LTE.
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Well, If you come back to this, let me know if you need more logs. I'm going back to 14.1 for now, as the signal is really bad (Keeps switching between 1X and 3G).
Edit: 14.1 is now borked as well... Some relatively recent change must have killed it.

And here's a log from when 3G/EvDo craps out...

Sorry for the multi-post, but I just found my problem: The default APN settings for FreedomPop, the MVNO I use, are somehow wrong. So I deleted that APN and redid it with the following settings and was able to get LTE.
Name: FreedomPop LTE
APN: n.f6.ispsn
MMSC: http://mms.sprintpcs.com
MMS proxy: 68.28.31.7
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 120
APN type: default,mms,supl,hipri,fota,ims,cbs
APN (roaming) protocol: IPv4/IPv6
Bearer: Unspecified
MVNO type: None

Couchy said:
Sorry for the multi-post, but I just found my problem: The default APN settings for FreedomPop, the MVNO I use, are somehow wrong. So I deleted that APN and redid it with the following settings and was able to get LTE.
Name: FreedomPop LTE
APN: n.f6.ispsn
MMSC: http://mms.sprintpcs.com
MMS proxy: 68.28.31.7
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 120
APN type: default,mms,supl,hipri,fota,ims,cbs
APN (roaming) protocol: IPv4/IPv6
Bearer: Unspecified
MVNO type: None
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Sorry for the delay, I've been busy working on another device. I had the same issue (even though it worked fine before) on my hltespr. After a wipe, my LTE started working again too, which was really weird. I don't really want to investigate this, since it's working now.