A few days ago I did an OTA update from Sprint (using stock ROM and bootloader). One thing I noticed big-time about the update was that it wreaked havoc on my wi-fi settings. Wifi was turned off by default, and when I tried to enable it, it would immediately turn itself off without connecting.
This was a really big hassle for me since I was doing this at home, where I have the luxury and speed of my RoadRunner internet connection. But now I was forced to use mobile data to download and update all of my apps (slower and, of course, eats up data that I didn't want to do).
The only solution I was able to find thus far was to revert back to a stock ROM and bootloader, which I obtained from this site. But it took me the better part of Friday night and Saturday morning to get it done, and I was NOT a happy camper when all was said and done.
Good news though... after flashing and re-flashing and re-flashing and re-re-flashing with Odin, I finally got the phone back to where it will connect to the internet and I can download apps, etc. at the faster speeds again.
From what I've heard, this seems to be a Sprint-specific issue. Has anyone else had this problem? And while I'm at it, has anyone else had issues with the latest Sprint OTA update?
Its been mentioned in of the threads.
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I have now for the second time the problem that I have many little data roaming connections while abroad, despite data roaming is deactivated in Android. They are so small (always exactly 30 kB, which seems to be the smallest quantity my provider is billing) that it's virtually impossible to produce them with normal traffic. I always have much larger data connections, even without using my phone (at least 100kB up to 1MB and even more if I use it, of course). In this case I had 9 of those connections while little more than 24h. Last time when I had this problem half a year ago, I had those connections for an entire week with the same frequency (~10 per day).
In both incidents there was an OTA update available for the Nexus 4. This time I received the update notification at some point during my stay abroad. I had wifi connection most of the time, so I assume the update was downloaded using the wifi connection (the roaming traffic is too small for the update by far). I did not install the update until I returned back home. Last time my phone wasn't able to download the OTA update, since I had a custom rom installed at that time. It is possible that it tried downloading the OTA update for the entire stay back then (and even before and after - I noticed increased traffic over normal mobile internet at home). I switched back to the stock rom a while ago and thus was now able again to receive official OTA updates.
This time I was staying for 8 days in Chile, last time was around one week of Italy. My provider is Orange Switzerland.
What can be the cause of this? I am absolutely certain that data roaming was disabled in Android both times. Could it be that Android somehow bypasses the disabled roaming when checking for OTA updates? But it would have to do it when already knowing there is an update, so what's the point of doing this? Or could it be a provider initiated connection to notify the phone of the update? What can I do to prevent this from happening in future?
Thanks for any input!
Martin
Are you disabling mobile data and roaming or just roaming?
You could also try deleting or changing your default apn to prevent this from happening.
When I travel outside of Canada, I do not incurr any roaming charges when I turn off mobile data and roaming,
Thanks for the reply. I just disabled data roaming. I am abroad quite a lot, apart from these two incidents I never had any unexpected roaming charges. It must be somehow connected to the OTA update.
I will try disabling mobile data next time, maybe also disabling updates. But I also would like to understand how this can happen. Would it actually be possible that my provider initiates data connections to push the update notification? On the other hand my phone doesn't make those connections all the time, so it cannot just be the regular checking for updates. If it just received the notification via wifi, it would have downloaded the update via wifi immediately. So there must be some kind of mechanism I do not understand.
I also noticed that some of those roaming data connections occurred during the night, when I actually had wifi in the hotel for sure. This doesn't make any sense to me at all...
I don't want to take a chance so I disable all data connections, including roaming, as well as sync, software and app updates, and anything else I can think of that might try to access the data network.
Disabling sync etc. is not an option, since I want to use it via wifi. Besides, this must be either a bug in the Android update mechanism (which is persistent over some versions apparently) or my provider is doing something stupid. In the first case I would like to inform the devs, in the second case I won't pay for the data roaming, since I wouldn't be responsible for it.
Any ideas how to find out which one is true? Is here by chance anyone who either
a) has received a bill with many very small data roaming connections despite roaming was disabled while an OTA update was rolled out, or
b) was on the contrary abroad while the OTA update was rolled out and received the update notification via wifi, and has not seen any such roaming connections on the bill?
Thank you very much!
Wow, I can't even imagine worrying about overages and roaming charges... T-Mobile FTW!
Which custom ROM are you running? If it's not stock, there shouldn't be anything that has to do with an OTA, unless that functionality is not removed for some odd reason. Does the data usage utility show any useful information?
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korockinout13 said:
Which custom ROM are you running?
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I am on stock right now. During the first incident I ran some stock ROM, but I no longer remember which one. The data usage shows me Android OS would have transferred a 15.65 KB.
Edit: T-Mobile has no roaming charges if you are outside the US?
Have the same problem. Just one week ago I was on holiday. They also charged me twice for a 30 KB connection on different days (Orange Swizerland). I first thought it's maybe because I installed a custom rom but it also happened to my brother whose phone is 100% stock.
Did you found a solution?
Regards
Interesting. So it is an Orange problem after all...
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Did you found a solution?
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Not really. I now disabled the OTA update service (using the disable service app), so this cannot happen any more (I believe). Also I will switch to another provider at the end of this month, so if Orange is doing something strange, I will no longer be affected.
Same thing happened to me this month on my Nexus 6P on android 7.1
It used between 0.00mb and 0.04 mb (according to my data usage logs from the telephone company) (Telus)
Any other person figured out how this could happen and what's the solution?
had this last month. On Oreo 8.1 Stock + root Essential Phone (see here for details) https://forum.xda-developers.com/essential-phone/help/data-roaming-charges-despite-disabled-t3796715
Anybody has an idea?
Just installed the August security update last night after hesitating for a long time, checking forums etc., because I'm always worried the update will bring unwanted changes or bugs. Well what do you know! Haha cannot connect to my carrier at all, tried restarting etc. Anyone got any ideas?
Fixed it. Under settings➡ cellular networks➡ preferred network type it had been resting to 2G or something. Setting it back to 4G allowed the carrier connection to come back online.
Where did you get the update and how did you flash?
Hi, I have Verizon and after updating to Android 10 today (official Verizon OTA update), when I check the SIM status it will sometimes say "Sprint". It'll also sometimes say "Sprint" when I swipe down from top and look in upper right hand corner. Has anyone seen this? Any idea why? SIM card came from Verizon when I switched over from Sprint to VzW a number of months ago.
Thanks.
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Hi, I have Verizon and after updating to Android 10 today (official Verizon OTA update), when I check the SIM status it will sometimes say "Sprint". It'll also sometimes say "Sprint" when I swipe down from top and look in upper right hand corner. Has anyone seen this? Any idea why? SIM card came from Verizon when I switched over from Sprint to VzW a number of months ago.
Thanks.
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When you switched to Verizon, were you still just accepting OTAs? It kinda sounds like you still getting Sprint OTAs.
I bought a used Sprint phone, then fastboot flashed the Essential image, which prompts for the Essential OTA.
Same. When I look up Mobile network in settings it shows Verizon, but when I look from pulldown notification, it says Sprint. Tried network reset and no change.
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When you switched to Verizon, were you still just accepting OTAs? It kinda sounds like you still getting Sprint OTAs.
I bought a used Sprint phone, then fastboot flashed the Essential image, which prompts for the Essential OTA.
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I was just accepting OTAs. But the SIM is a Verizon SIM? Also, it seems like I have data and can make calls... how is that possible? I've gotten OTAs before (Android Pie) and didn't have this issue.
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Same. When I look up Mobile network in settings it shows Verizon, but when I look from pulldown notification, it says Sprint. Tried network reset and no change.
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Do you feel that you're actually using the Sprint network? I can't see hotspot toggle anymore in Settings, I can't see a way to navigate there.
I'm the same but I feel I'm on Verizon network and not Sprint. APN says Sprint though. As long as I use Verizon Messages app, MMS/SMS work fine though. 4G and calls work fine.
If you (y'all) go to the APN settings (settings -> Network & Internet -> Mobile Network -> Advanced -> Access Point Names), are they Verizon? Have you looked up the Verizon APNs and compared to what you have?
I'm having the same exact issue. Before update, all APNs were Verizon. Post update, they'll be Verizon at first then randomly change to being all of Sprint's... How weird.
Mobile Network says Verizon, APNs say Sprint, SIM status says Sprint, and Sprint's OMADM updates setting appears under about phone as well. For some reason, the phone states its brand as Sprint too, even though the device is unlocked.
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I'm having the same exact issue. Before update, all APNs were Verizon. Post update, they'll be Verizon at first then randomly change to being all of Sprint's... How weird.
Mobile Network says Verizon, APNs say Sprint, SIM status says Sprint, and Sprint's OMADM updates setting appears under about phone as well.
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When the phone was switched off of Sprint's network into Verizon's, was the firmware switched from the Sprint dedicated releases to the Essential generic release? Basically you'd have to fastboot flashed a factory image downloaded from Essential's developer page.
I'm not saying this definitely fixes the problem, but the Sprint phones have firmware specific to them.
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When the phone was switched off of Sprint's network into Verizon's, was the firmware switched from the Sprint dedicated releases to the Essential generic release? Basically you'd have to fastboot flashed a factory image downloaded from Essential's developer page.
I'm not saying this definitely fixes the problem, but the Sprint phones have firmware specific to them.
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This one was never on Sprint's network. Maybe mine just got the wrong Android 10 OTA pushed to it then? I'm assuming a factory reset will probably be my only hope then.
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This one was never on Sprint's network. Maybe mine just got the wrong Android 10 OTA pushed to it then? I'm assuming a factory reset will probably be my only hope then.
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No, I doubt that the wrong releases got pushed. It dawns on me that I haven't been seeing separate images on Essential for the Sprint, and everyone else for at least a year. Maybe they merged the releases and something in the build prop is whacked.
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No, I doubt that the wrong releases got pushed. It dawns on me that I haven't been seeing separate images on Essential for the Sprint, and everyone else for at least a year. Maybe they merged the releases and something in the build prop is whacked.
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So I guess I'll have to wait for the October OTA. Fun times.
Are you using the latest version too?
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So I guess I'll have to wait for the October OTA. Fun times.
Are you using the latest version too?
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No [emoji854] it's my daily driver, rooted with a few mods. I typically wait until the release after a major version upgrade to do the upgrade. That gives me time to see if there are problems that will affect my use case.
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No [emoji854] it's my daily driver, rooted with a few mods. I typically wait until the release after a major version upgrade to do the upgrade. That gives me time to see if there are problems that will affect my use case.
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That's what I typically do too. I saw that this was the second one for 10 put out, so I figured I was all good. Especially since the subreddit had been positive all of yesterday about it. I'm now wishing I could revert back without losing my settings, non-play store apps, and data.
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That's what I typically do too. I saw that this was the second one for 10 put out, so I figured I was all good. Especially since the subreddit had been positive all of yesterday about it. I'm now wishing I could revert back without losing my settings, non-play store apps, and data.
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It's the first of the "stable" releases. Everything else has been beta releases.
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It's the first of the "stable" releases. Everything else has been beta releases.
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It is? I could've sworn I had one pop-up before this one and this one was being billed as a "hotfix" for service issues from the first "stable" release. Oh well, guess I get Sprint service speeds for a month.
Also having same issue
Hi, all. I'm so happy I found this thread. I have an Essential that was purchased from Sprint and unlocked immediately in November of 2017. It has worked almost flawlessly since on Verizon (lousy battery life some months and some odd camera stuff going on here and there).
I have always taken the OTA updates and never had an issues. I took the Android 10 update as soon as it showed available in September. A few days later my phone was showing "roaming". I reset it a few times, pulled the SIM, etc. and got it working again but the SIM continued to show Sprint. A few more restarts and it showed Verizon.
This kept happening every few days. A few restarts and it was back on Verizon. I even had the Verizon store put a new SIM in when restarts weren't fixing it.
Now I am stuck in Sprint mode for several weeks and cannot get it back on Verizon.
The issue is you cannot send/receive MMS when in Sprint mode AND I cannot receive voicemails.
I am no longer up for flashing firmware, etc. I got that out of my system years ago and just want phones that work and don't cost a fortune. I'm hoping I can recover this thing without major surgery, because my old Moto G4 is a really bad phone at this stage in its life. I finally switched last week when my wife got mad that I wasn't responding to her MMS messages. First time I plugged the Moto into my car, Android Auto nearly killed it! LOL
Is there a fix for this? I can't live without MMS (or rather, my colleagues and family can't) so I may have to buy a Pixel soon.
Thanks!
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Hi, all. I'm so happy I found this thread. I have an Essential that was purchased from Sprint and unlocked immediately in November of 2017. It has worked almost flawlessly since on Verizon (lousy battery life some months and some odd camera stuff going on here and there).
I have always taken the OTA updates and never had an issues. I took the Android 10 update as soon as it showed available in September. A few days later my phone was showing "roaming". I reset it a few times, pulled the SIM, etc. and got it working again but the SIM continued to show Sprint. A few more restarts and it showed Verizon.
This kept happening every few days. A few restarts and it was back on Verizon. I even had the Verizon store put a new SIM in when restarts weren't fixing it.
Now I am stuck in Sprint mode for several weeks and cannot get it back on Verizon.
The issue is you cannot send/receive MMS when in Sprint mode AND I cannot receive voicemails.
I am no longer up for flashing firmware, etc. I got that out of my system years ago and just want phones that work and don't cost a fortune. I'm hoping I can recover this thing without major surgery, because my old Moto G4 is a really bad phone at this stage in its life. I finally switched last week when my wife got mad that I wasn't responding to her MMS messages. First time I plugged the Moto into my car, Android Auto nearly killed it! LOL
Is there a fix for this? I can't live without MMS (or rather, my colleagues and family can't) so I may have to buy a Pixel soon.
Thanks!
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Have you looked at the APN that is being used? Settings -> network & internet -> mobile network -> advanced -> all the way down
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Have you looked at the APN that is being used? Settings -> network & internet -> mobile network -> advanced -> all the way down
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Thanks for the quick reply.
"Mobile Network" in the primary menu shows Verizon, but the APNs look like Sprint names.
OTA
otasn
SPCS Global
cinet.spcs
Sprint
sprint
Sprint MMS
n.ispsn
mkempton said:
Thanks for the quick reply.
"Mobile Network" in the primary menu shows Verizon, but the APNs look like Sprint names.
OTA
otasn
SPCS Global
cinet.spcs
Sprint
sprint
Sprint MMS
n.ispsn
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Look up the correct APNs for Verizon and create the correct ones. Once they work, delete the sprint ones.
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I know you said your over the days of flashing, but I think I would sideload the first A10 OTA from Essential's Developer's site. You can do that in stock recovery, just using ADB.
Hopefully that will get you off the Sprint software. It's what I did back when I got a sprint version (used). I always start with the first release of the current version on the device. Often the first major release has specific stuff that doesn't get passed on in future updates. Or, that may just show how old school I am [emoji4]
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Did anyone have a problem with the firmware update? The Mobile Data option in Settings -> Connections is missing on my phone. Because of this, I can no longer switch between 5G and 4G LTE. I've also noticed that my 5G icon is no longer there. Can anyone confirm this?
I did reflash the DUE4 firmware just to see if the setting came back, but, nope. Next attempt will be to flash the previous firmware, DUE1, and see if it comes back.