Hi,
I have a Siemens SX56 which i bought from the US. I have only been able to use the PDA function of it, but NOT the phone function. it had no signal, instead it had "!" sign. So, i thought that it was locked to the AT&T. Therefore, i installed the latest ROM from xda-developers. After i installed it, the "!" sign is gone. However, it still don't have any signal. Do you know what's wrong with it? if, yes, could you please let me know on what should i do to get the phone function working?
Looking forward to your reply.
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Hi everyone,
I love this site, and it has been very helpful with all the information.
I'm stuck in a dilemma at the moment.
I had managed to un-lock my T-mobile MDA Compact. and had been using it on O2 for more than 2 years.
Just the other day,it came up with a message saying "No Service", where it shows the network coverage.
I tried my T-mobile sim card, and that works fine.
I tried the O2 Sim in my mates phone, and thats working fine too.
I tried an Orange Sim in the MDA, and still no coverage.
Could it be that it has managed to SIM-Lock itself again?
I have downloaded the un-locking program again, and tried to un-lock it. It comes up with a message saying "phone un-locked", but still doesn't work with my O2 sim.
I need help to make it work again on O2.
Any information on this will be most appreciated.
Thanks again guys, and keep up the good work.
Cheers,
Jas
Looks like something is wrong with your simcard rather than your phone
Hi Moos,
I have tried the SIM in an un-locked Nokia, and it works perfectly.
I have dropped myself in more problems :-((
I downloaded the ROM update program from xda-developers, and tried to flash it.
It got to 3% and came up with an error message.
After that, the phone says "NO GSM" when you start it up, and won't recognize any sim at all.
I tried to update it with t-mobile's ROM from their site, and now it keeps coming up with a COUNTRY ID ERROR.
I love this phone and don't want to throw it away.
I know there's someone out there that can help me out.
Please, anyone, if you have any info, and any software I can use to flash it, help meeee!
Thanks in advance,
Jas
jassy29 said:
Hi Moos,
I have tried the SIM in an un-locked Nokia, and it works perfectly.
I have dropped myself in more problems :-((
I downloaded the ROM update program from xda-developers, and tried to flash it.
It got to 3% and came up with an error message.
After that, the phone says "NO GSM" when you start it up, and won't recognize any sim at all.
I tried to update it with t-mobile's ROM from their site, and now it keeps coming up with a COUNTRY ID ERROR.
I love this phone and don't want to throw it away.
I know there's someone out there that can help me out.
Please, anyone, if you have any info, and any software I can use to flash it, help meeee!
Thanks in advance,
Jas
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After spending time on the site last night, I figured out a way of flashing my ROM with the current software.
I managed to do this, and now I'm back at square 1. My phone will recognize a t-mobile SIM, but will not recognize any other SIM cards.
I have ran both versions of xdadev_all_unlock, and they both come up with a message saying that the phone has been unlocked.
But still, no joy with any other SIM cards.
I have also noticed that the IMEI number shown under phone identity is different to the number printed at the back.
As mentioned, I have been using this phone (after un-locking it on xda-developers) for more than 3 years. It has never given me any problems until now.
I contacted T-moble about this IMEI number, and they said that its the number printed on the phone that matters. DOn't worry about the number shown on the screen.
Is this true?
Please please help me out on this one.
Thanks,
Jas
Hi guys,
I'm new to the forum. I've tried searching for some answers but can't seem to find how to resolve the problem. I'm quite new to using PPCs so let me know if there's any information that you guys need.
So my phone works fine in Canada using Rogers... but everytime I go to US, I cannot detect a network for my phone and there's a "!" at the top. I tried searching for a network and it says "no network found" or sometimes it tries to register and then it fails in the end. In US, my phone automatically shuts off... I have no idea how this happens but everytime I go to look at my phone after leaving Canada, it's off. So when I go to turn it back on, there's no phone signal. I have no idea what to do as I'm not very familiar with PPCs.
Thanks for the help!
Which phone are you trying to use? Guessing Touch Pro?
Is international roaming or data roaming added to your account with Rogers?
Hey I have the HTC Touch Pro... yeah I've used this sim with my eten m700 before and it works fine. It just always seem to be searching for a network then it can't find any.
Thanks!!!
are you a prepaid customer? if so, Rogers doesnt allow roaming outside of canada.
Hey there... Just figured I'd pipe in here...
I am still using a TyTN (shopping for a Touch Pro today), and although I was able to always use my phone in the states, since my last firmware upgrade (WM6.1, new radio stack)....
....I can't get any service when I cross the border.
SOMETIMES I'll get 10 minutes of service over the course of an entire day. Very strange.
It is obviously firmware-related... Good luck with your phone...!
Thanks for all the help guys...
Nope I'm not a prepaid customer... should I be upgrading something on my phone to see if it works? Sorry... really don't know much about PPCs here!
just out of curiousty, have you called Rogers to ask for an updated OTA to be pushed to your SIM?
I've contacted Rogers and they said it has nothing to do with them... it's my phone! Should I contact them for the OTA? I'm sorry to be so noobie but... what does OTA do?
Thanks again!
Anyone help please!!!
Im hoping someone can shed some light on a problem that is driving me insane! I've looked/searched the forums but cant find an answer so am hoping someone will answer this thread.
I am on an orange contract so have an orange sim. Ive just been given a new 02 xda serra by my brother. (he bought it for his girlfriend but then she dumped him - her loss; my gain bless him ).
Here's the problem:
Anyway, I unpacked it, switched it on and it ran through the whole set up process and loaded 02 customisation on it. Then i put my orange sim in and is says NO SERVICE. I just get the signal icon with an x. The orange sim works in other unlocked phones. Both PAYG and contract. Other network sims also register in this XDA Serra. Ive tried Virgin, O2, Tesco and T-Mobile - all fine, connect and work fine for calls/texts. It seems that the only sim that doesnt work is Orange!!!!
Here's what Ive done to try and resolve it:
Ive been through phone settings and manually selected the orange network. I get a message saying that it is 'REGISTERING ON THE NETWORK' then after a few minutes get another message that says 'UNABLE TO REGISTER ON THE NETWORK, TRY ANOTHER PROVIDER OR SWITCH OF DATA CONNECTION AND TRY AGAIN'. Ive checked in comms and data connection is off. A message tells me that
THERE ARE NO DATA SESSIONS ACTIVE.
Ive hard reset with my orange sim in - I still got 02 setup and no service with orange. I also noticed that after hard reset it prompts for a network as part of the reconfig/setup process but all the options are O2 and appear to be PAYG. I dont know if that makes any difference. It also has an option to remove all settings, I tried this too but still get no service.
Can you help?
I want to know, if this is a setting problem that can be easily fixed? Have I got something turned on/off somewhere that if I adjust, will fix this problem? Do I need to unlock the handset? [Im a complete novice]. Or is it broken?
Failing that, is there someone around the Portsmouth/Havant/Waterlooville/Hampshire area that has experience of 'cooking' these phones and is willing to help me make it work/set it up with whatever it needs?
If it helps, when I switch it on I can see that:
R: 1.02.25.19
G: 52.33.25.17H
D: 1.90.00.00
If you need any more info please ask.
Here's hoping someone smarter than me can figure this out before I pull all my hair out and end up looking like my dad
Absolutely nothing springs to mind but to stop the O2 customisation happening after a hard reset, perform a soft reset in the three second window when it says "custom configuration" or some similar message. I used to do this on my Alpine and it left me with a working Alpine without the O2 garbage.
It's just possible that stopping the O2 stuff installing, and i am guessing that will also include network settings, may enable your orange SIM to get it's feet in the door and let it all work.
Another suggestion would be to flash it with a network neutral ROM from here. It looks as though the Serra is actually Raphael, aka Touch Pro, so go and search in there.
Good luck and persevere, you will get there.
thank you for replying to my question. I tried the hard + soft reset you suggested and it did get rid of the O2 customIsation but unfortunately I still cant get connection using my orange sim. Network still not registering. Screen shows device unlocked.
Since my original post Ive tried an orange PAYG sim rather than my contract one but still no different. So my problem remains.
Im nervous about flashing a new ROM on my own in case I screw my phone up which is why Im asking if theres anyone experienced nearby who can guide me.
Thank you for your encouragement, I will keep trying.
Hey there--longtime lurker, first-time poster. I've learned much from these forums. (perhaps too much, we'll see... heh)
I got a new Droid 2 Global (D2G) from Verizon Wireless this week, and wanted to see if I could get better battery time. I found a post on another forum with some settings in the testing screen -- *#*#4636#*#* . When I went in, I went to Phone information --> Select radio band. A screen pops up with "Set GSM/UMTS band" and "USA Band" only as a selection, and without knowing really, I clicked on USA Band.
This caused my signal to go away altogether. (as in, little red circle and slash through the radio bars.) No matter what I select in "Set preferred network type" on the main Phone Information screen, no signal comes up. (Tho it does think it's connected to AT&T or T-Mobile sometimes, but with no actual connectivity.) In network settings, selecting Global, CDMA, or GSM/UMTS doesn't work, either.
Resigned to my fate, I wiped the data & cache, and then flashed the stock SBF (v2.4.29) using Ubuntu and sbf_flash successfully. But this hasn't fixed the radio problem and now (get this), the Wifi is busted-- it just keeps showing "Error" as a status message. I suspect I needed the slightly newer SBF (2.4.33) but couldn't find a verified stable version, so I didn't go there.
Without any connectivity at all, I can't (or don't know how) to get the phone back to a bootloader screen, and can't get to any Market apps. Blargh.
Any advice is much appreciated.
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UPDATE:
I've figured out (duh) that I can load apk's onto the phone via USB, so I'm doing that now to get root and Droid 2 Bootstrap back.
Looking elsewhere this morning, I've found the recommendation in other threads to flash the radio image. Anyone know where I can find this file?
[edit] And, in the light of day, I found how to go directly to the bootloader screen. (In case anyone else landed here looking for that: Power down the phone; plug it into the USB port. Open the keyboard and hold down the up arrow. Turn the power on, continuing to hold the up arrow.
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UPDATE #2: Went to Verizon after removing all traces of root, CW, etc. Confessed to using 4636; guy scolded me, walked away, and came back with a working radio. Wifi wasn't working still; but when I did the OTA update to 4.2.33, it came back fully functional.
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coulda redid the test page and reselected gsm/evdo auto thats the default setting for global and enabled the wifi also.
Yeah, tried that. Nothing I selected worked. In the radio band, there was only "USA Band," and in "Preferred network," none of the options worked. There were no other options to mess around with. I'd love to know what the dude did to reset it; I was too worried about him figuring out all the warranty-breaking stuff I'd already done to ask.
You should've just said "My phone service stopped working". Most of the time, the Verizon drones are stupid, and have no idea what half of the lingo means.
Same problem here
New to this post and maybe a bit late to the thread. Dunno.
In any case, any help on this issue would be awesome. I did exactly as the poster said and now my phone is not connecting to any network. Reading through your lines gave me a spooky feeling of déjà-vu. Anyone knows here what this clerk did to that phone to make it running again? I live in Spain and can Not go to a Verizon or Sprint (in my case) shop.
I was/am using the Motorola Photon 4g with a Spanish carrier. The phone worked ok with GSM and data 3g was awesome. The only problem I had was that it said that it was always roaming although it wasn’t; that’s why I went to that 4636 testing screen. If I now go to Select radio band, I get USA band only.
Please help.
See http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202666 for the SBF image. You'll need to flash it to your phone.
Might help; usually helped people with their D2Gs.
I dont have a Sprint account and I doubt they will be willing to give me my MSL code. I bought this phone to work in EU as it is unlocked outside the USA, but it should be locked in the USA.
And reading to the thread you've given me, seems like I would need the MSL code.
To flash the SBF, you need RSDLite and the SBF image.
I'm not sure why would you need that MSL code, whatever it is.
Ok. I think I've seen that in you referred post, but I may be wrong.
In that case, that's great news. I'm downloading the file from your referred post and I will look into it.
Although I'm not sure of what an RSDLite and the SBF image are, but I will follow the steps mention on your referred post. Thanks a lot.
RSDLite is a program that lets you flash the SBF into your phone.
An SBF is a System Boot File, a factory image of the phone's firmware. It restores the phone's state to “brand new, straight from the factory” state (sometimes excluding /data).
Thanks again for ur answers. Just in case u know this one, does my pc needs to be a 64 bits or thats for the phone? Because my hp is 32 and that post says 64. I have read 30 pages of the 79 pages of ir referred post but didnt get that answer so far. In any case, thanks so much, its all downloaded and will quite sure end up flashing tomorrow.
Phone Fixed!
Yes M8! Thank U, THANK U, THANK U SO MUCH!
AFTER FLASHING PHONE WITH YOUR LINK, MY PHONE IS BACK TO LIVE!
I had contacted my carrier, Motorola USA, Motorola Spain, Motorola USA again, Motorola Spain Again, Mi carrier again, Motorola Forums, Mi carrier again... Nothing worked. Now!, thanks to you, it's working again.
So Have a great day in Japan and let me know if you need any help from Spain!
Hi, so, i rooteed my phone because i wanted to install some apps to improve it, the thing is that after a while, i finally got my phone rooted, but my phone didn't receive any signal, it detects my SIM card, and my IMEI is fine, but in the information about my sim, phone number, network and that stuff appears like unkown, idk if the firmware that i installed erased some stuff about my country network, or something like that, but if someone know how to fix this, pleaaase help me, i´ve been reading a lot of forums for help, but most of them are for samsung, and they dont work for my Blu, so, if someone had the same issue and fixed it or knows about this, please help me, i really want my signal back