I'm new to tmo.. I've been dropping calls like crazy, even with full bars.. is this common on tmo?? What steps should I take to troubleshoot?
I've been with T-Mo for 14 years. Can't remember my last dropped call, either at home or travelling. I suggest call customer service and see if they/tech can help you.
It just depends on your location. Drop calls all the time in Denver.
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My wife got a Touch 3g about 2 months ago with orange and recently it has started dropping call. We can talk for about 2 mins and will just cut out. even if we are sitting down and not moving in a good reception area.
Any one got any ideas or know if there is an offical ROM update for this phone?
Thanks.
At first it would be helpful to try another SIM-card (different provider) for some days. This is important to decide if the reason is your handset or the radio cell. We here have one base station that tends to drop calls on different handsets.
We just switched from Verizon to Sprint. I got the Evo but I do not get a signal in my house. I am constantly roaming or have 1-2 bars. I have missed calls and just get voicemail hours later. Downloads and internet speed are incredibly slow. Could this be Evo related? My dad has Sprint and a Blackberry 8530 and has had never had an issue. I replaced the Evo once because I could not figure out what was going on, the rep to me to just replace it which I did. So both Evo's have done the same thing. I think I am going to try something else because I am missing calls, text arent sending. I just was wondering if it could be phone specific or if there was anything I could do because I really like the Evo.
sprints having major tower issues nation wide
You could also call customer service and complain. They'll send you an airave for free which is a microcell (like a mini cellphone tower). Most smart phones get less signal than feature phones or blackberries... I also second the sprint having nationwide issues ATM
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Sprints nationwide problem... that why I keep getting "error code 67, data call failure" constantly over the past 2 days?
And second the airwave, they sent me one and it works great.
yeah i keep getting an sms sending error majority of the time at my home, i am thinking i might call and get this airwave thing, and maybe it will help with my signal!
I have the same issues at home, along with my wife's Blackberry. Might have to make a call to Sprint. I am in the Detroit area.
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We just switched from Verizon to Sprint. I got the Evo but I do not get a signal in my house. I am constantly roaming or have 1-2 bars. I have missed calls and just get voicemail hours later. Downloads and internet speed are incredibly slow. Could this be Evo related? My dad has Sprint and a Blackberry 8530 and has had never had an issue. I replaced the Evo once because I could not figure out what was going on, the rep to me to just replace it which I did. So both Evo's have done the same thing. I think I am going to try something else because I am missing calls, text arent sending. I just was wondering if it could be phone specific or if there was anything I could do because I really like the Evo.
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It maybe the house it self that is creating the problem. In my house NO carriers gets more then one bar if that or is roaming. I step onto the porch and all is good with 4 or more bar.
My person cell service is Sprint and work cell is Verizon and I have friends with AT&T and it's the same across the board.
Thanks for the tip.....mine is on the way :-D
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Just got off the phone a few minutes ago. Airave will be here in 2-3 days. No charge of course.
Keep in mind they were fully aware of an outage in my zipcode since Feb. 8th.
Will they send me an airwave if I have a rooted phone?
Evo 4G
Cyanogenmod 7
They wont know.
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on Android OS. We now have CyanogenMod.
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It maybe the house it self that is creating the problem. In my house NO carriers gets more then one bar if that or is roaming. I step onto the porch and all is good with 4 or more bar.
My person cell service is Sprint and work cell is Verizon and I have friends with AT&T and it's the same across the board.
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I believe its the house. Like I said my dads blackberry is fine. They switched my Evo out for an Epic and same problem. The peoples plan on I'm on left Verizon and I had T-Mobile before that so I am just going to go with T-Mobile or AT&T no contract. I have had both of them before in my house and no problem. You guys had a lot of good info. Thanks. We cant do the airwave because we do not have internet at home.
Same issue in my house. Called and got the Airave, and that had it's own issues so I just sent it back. Airave would cause me to send 100's of the same text to people, and also receive multiples of the same text. Had to reboot it more than twice a day and it still acted up. I'm guessing my recent signal loss is a tower issue, but as usual Sprint can't tell and knows nothing about it...
I just picked up the Nexus 4 16GB unlocked from Google. Awesome phone and I have it on the TMobile $30 a month (100 min; unlimited data/text). I get pretty good reception everywhere except in my house. Now one window upstairs, if I hold the phone next to it I'm pulling 2 bars in and can make calls.
My question is, what's the best way to boost the signal and which ones are compatible with TMobile and the Nexus 4? I was looking at something like the zBoost SOHO but wasn't sure if it would work or if there were better options.
On regular tmobile phones they have WiFi calling butt he nexus 4 does not soooo my suggestion would be to try to get tmobile to send you a micro cell tower for your house. That way you can get full bars and good data speeds. If they don't want to send you one see if you can buy one on craigslist. That's what my friend did for his att phones. When I was in sprints network they sent me one right away because they knew that their network sucked in my area.
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Don't get the one from T-Mobile. It sucks bad. I have had horrible reception and dropped calls with previous phones in my house. T-Mobile must have known I was having dropped calls because I received a text message from them about it saying to call about a free in home booster.
You have to sign a 2 year contract for it again and the thing blows. Numerous times a week I have had to restart both pieces because I could not make or receive any calls in my house even though I had full bars. Once I got my Nexus 4 I unplugged the booster and have not needed it with my N4. I have learnt to switch to 2g at the house and use WiFi for data and have had no issues. Just my 2 cents.
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Use Vonage to make outgoing calls, I guess, that might help a bit. It uses your T-Mobile number and it's free, and it uses Wifi, but not sure what to do for the incoming calls and things like that.
So does anyone know which one is compatible or best? Will the zBoost YX545 work with the Nexus 4 on T-Mobile?
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Don't get the one from T-Mobile. It sucks bad. I have had horrible reception and dropped calls with previous phones in my house. T-Mobile must have known I was having dropped calls because I received a text message from them about it saying to call about a free in home booster.
You have to sign a 2 year contract for it again and the thing blows. Numerous times a week I have had to restart both pieces because I could not make or receive any calls in my house even though I had full bars.
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I've only had mine a few days, so I don't have a lot of experience with it, but I haven't seen anything like that so far. Voice calls are nice and solid, and I'm getting the same data rates inside the house that I get outside. Also, the effect on my battery life has been significant. I work at home, so I went from spending most of my time with 0-1 bars to spending most of my time with 4 bars. Whereas I was previously ending the day with about 10% battery left, now I'm averaging around 40% left when I plug in at bedtime. I'm quite happy with my signal booster so far.
Can i get a link to this cell booster! i need one bad
famoustito said:
Can i get a link to this cell booster! i need one bad
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http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-4683
http://support.t-mobile.com/community/phones_data_devices/t-mobile/signal_booster
http://cel-fi.com/
Dopamin3 said:
I just picked up the Nexus 4 16GB unlocked from Google. Awesome phone and I have it on the TMobile $30 a month (100 min; unlimited data/text). I get pretty good reception everywhere except in my house. Now one window upstairs, if I hold the phone next to it I'm pulling 2 bars in and can make calls.
My question is, what's the best way to boost the signal and which ones are compatible with TMobile and the Nexus 4? I was looking at something like the zBoost SOHO but wasn't sure if it would work or if there were better options.
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I too had the $30 TMo plan and was going to get a booster but after reading all the reviews I could find I decided to just go with ST AT&T instead and save myself the $200 for the booster. TMo had horrible reception inside every builbing I'd been in. As far as the boosters go the more you pay the better off you are, teh cheap ones don't seem to work. But If you read the reviews carefully it's still about a 50/50 ratio of people who actually got one to work and all of them had to install the antenna on the roof of their house and you need at least 2-3 bars to begin with. As far as the cell fi systems from TMo go they seem to work best but thet are only for 2 year subscribers and not pay as you go plans. You can find one on-line for aroung $500.
Monk4Life said:
Don't get the one from T-Mobile. It sucks bad. I have had horrible reception and dropped calls with previous phones in my house. T-Mobile must have known I was having dropped calls because I received a text message from them about it saying to call about a free in home booster.
You have to sign a 2 year contract for it again and the thing blows. Numerous times a week I have had to restart both pieces because I could not make or receive any calls in my house even though I had full bars. Once I got my Nexus 4 I unplugged the booster and have not needed it with my N4. I have learnt to switch to 2g at the house and use WiFi for data and have had no issues. Just my 2 cents.
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I have had the Cel-fi from Tmo since I got the Sensation a couple of years back. Just a FYI, you can buy the same setup on ebay as well if you don't want to be tied to a contract. I did it because I just got the Sensation as an upgrade in tmo and then within a week, got the tmo cel-fi system for free with the contract extension.
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Numerous times a week I have had to restart both pieces because I could not make or receive any calls in my house even though I had full bars.
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Just as a follow-up to my earlier reply to this: after another couple of weeks, I have still not had any problems like this with my booster. I haven't had to reboot either unit, and everything is working fine.
I hope yours doesn't but mine started having issues after a few months not few weeks of use. 2 of the same issues I have had with mine others are experiencing too. I am sending mine back but not wanting one returned. Good luck!
https://t-mobile.jive-mobile.com/#jive-discussion?content=/api/core/v1/discussions/21923
https://t-mobile.jive-mobile.com/#jive-discussion?content=/api/core/v1/discussions/35681
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Called T-Mobile about one of these a few days ago and was told they're out of stock until mid-summer.
Question, do you guys base your signal quality on the signal bars?
Supposedly tmo doesn't need to show as many bars or as high a signal to get call service and better voice quality than most other networks.
Straight Talk throttles, although AT&T service is pretty good.
I was hoping tmobile and it's refarming to 1900 had made some improvements.
Signal booster requires you to have wifi. It's an ok solution if you have wifi in your house, work or where ever you intend to apply the signal booster. But useless if you're moving around and getting crappy service/ signal.
If I'm within wifi access I'm probably not needing to use data on my phone anyways. But are you able to get cell service at least or is that lacking still would be my concern.
clockcycle said:
Question, do you guys base your signal quality on the signal bars?
Supposedly tmo doesn't need to show as many bars or as high a signal to get call service and better voice quality than most other networks.
Straight Talk throttles, although AT&T service is pretty good.
I was hoping tmobile and it's refarming to 1900 had made some improvements.
Signal booster requires you to have wifi. It's an ok solution if you have wifi in your house, work or where ever you intend to apply the signal booster. But useless if you're moving around and getting crappy service/ signal.
If I'm within wifi access I'm probably not needing to use data on my phone anyways. But are you able to get cell service at least or is that lacking still would be my concern.
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Who told you the signal booster requires WiFi? Mine doesn't and that was part of a requirement on my end to get it. T-Mobile told me that if I had WiFi at my house and my phone supported WiFi calling T-Mobile would not give me a booster.
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No need for Wi-Fi for the celfi to work. I got a celfi off eBay, to tide me over until some one gets Wi-Fi calling working.
The Cell fi works great with nexus 4.
Just adding my two cents as I have virtually no service in my house.
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Who told you the signal booster requires WiFi? Mine doesn't and that was part of a requirement on my end to get it. T-Mobile told me that if I had WiFi at my house and my phone supported WiFi calling T-Mobile would not give me a booster.
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Thanks for the "information". I see that it's not like Sprint's "signal booster" which requires a broadband connection.
https://t-mobile.jive-mobile.com/#jive-document?content=/api/core/v1/documents/4683
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arvonn said:
No need for Wi-Fi for the celfi to work. I got a celfi off eBay, to tide me over until some one gets Wi-Fi calling working.
The Cell fi works great with nexus 4.
Just adding my two cents as I have virtually no service in my house.
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Just curious what steps are required to get it set up after getting one from ebay or cl?
I've used a signal booster supplied free by T-Mobile for 2-3 years. Works fine, I never have to touch it or give it a thought.
https://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-4683?noredirect=true
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Just received my new RAZR M 2 days ago and initially it seems to have a much worse antenna then my cheap old Nokia C2 which is disappointing to say the least.
With my old C2 i could easily make and receive calls everytime with no problems if i walked out to the end of my driveway, and i could send and receive texts inside my house if i held it in the sweet spot (I live in rural area close to a city) but the RAZR wont get any signal at all except for maybe a couple of seconds, it cant even receive texts. Also i parked right beside a cell phone tower today with nothing but clear air in between me and the tower and made a call and the 15 minute call dropped once. I was calling an iphone with 5 bar signal so i think it was my RAZR that dropped the call. While parked here my signal was only 4 bars -57db. In this exact spot i always got full bars with my nokia and never dropped a call.
So does anyone know is this typical behaviour for the RAZR or should i return it and get a replacement? Or is there any ways to fix this prob? From some research i have done i hear that the radio gives trouble in this phone and a custom ROM will likely make it worse.
Any info/ opinions anyone has would be gratefully received...
I would definitely return it. I've always had good signal on my M. Motos are supposed to have pretty good radios, so it definitely seems like something is wrong with your phone.
I agree with RikRong. Or try a new Sim first. But no, that doesn't sound typical.
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Thanks guys.
When you say try a new sim do you mean a sim with a different provider or do you mean the actual sim card itself could be faulty?
New sim card from same provider.
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deffinelty sned it back, its only gonna get worse over time
In my area now we have Sprint LTE. very happy finally.
I am guessing LTE is for the DATA. But can't that be used for calls. Still have calling issue. Hardly any bars. I have so many drop calls and very poor reception. Vendors (Phone makers and service providers) are making phone big, slick, faster and more and more features but forgetting that it is stll a Phone and main function should be making phone calls. Pretty soon I will be able to microwave my food with it but wouldn't be able to make a decent call. Is there a hope to get good connection?
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In my area now we have Sprint LTE. very happy finally.
I am guessing LTE is for the DATA. But can't that be used for calls. Still have calling issue. Hardly any bars. I have so many drop calls and very poor reception. Vendors (Phone makers and service providers) are making phone big, slick, faster and more and more features but forgetting that it is stll a Phone and main function should be making phone calls. Pretty soon I will be able to microwave my food with it but wouldn't be able to make a decent call. Is there a hope to get good connection?
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Yes, as of now LTE is for data. If you're having dropped calls and reception issues, then have C.S look into it more technically.
LordLugard said:
Yes, as of now LTE is for data. If you're having dropped calls and reception issues, then have C.S look into it more technically.
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Thanks, I did. They went thru few routines. Update PRL, PROFILE and then they are sending something. I am not sure what? After all that they will notify engineers and someone will call me. Other thing I hear; may be we are still working on towers and updating and tweaking. That was more then 10 days ago. May be I will call again.
wath is tdis LTE???
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wath is tdis LTE???
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4G, known as 4th generation of mobile communications, and LTE (Long Term Evolution) are 3GPP specifications for mobile broadband networks.
Read more: http://www.differencebetween.com/difference-between-4g-and-vs-lte/#ixzz2qgyMnkxW
So I hear Sprint is going to start VOIP (WIFI phone calls) for two phones.Why not LG G2? OR Why not VoLTE?
Just happened to come by this thread, I have tmo. Not sprint
+ /Note 3 \/ nexus 5\/ nexus 7 LTE-and on ALL, no matter were I travel, as soon as LTE kicks in my signal drops to no bars and my calls drop, it seems to ping pong/ best response from tmo. Is Im between towers of cell and LTE towers, While there upgrading....
So that brings me to think that while Every cell phone company is upgrading there towers to FULL LTE,
"Well be stuck in PINg PonG LiMb0"
-Just a thought-
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