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I have an HTC Desire. The first one, not HD or Z etc. I rooted using Unrevoked3 and since then tried, with no success, to flash various different ROMs.
The problem I'm having is that right after first loading the ROM, an unending barrage of force close messages flood me (the process com.android.phone has stopped unexpectedly. Please try again), and there's no signal. By struggling my way through all of these FC's, I manage to get to the wireless and network settings and I notice that the Airplane mode switch is being turned on and off repeatedly. The bottom option for the network settings also appears to be going in and out of "greyed out" mode. The only way to stop the FC's is by somehow managing to press the Airplane mode button at just the right time so that it stays on. Once Airplane mode is on, there are no FC's but, also, still there's no signal since it's airplane mode. I can, however, turn on my wifi and internet works perfectly.
So obviously the phones inability to connect to my network is what causes all of these FC's. The question is why?
I have tried several different ROM's, among them a few versions of Cyanogen including the latest one and the latest CM6, Oxygen, DevNull... All had the same issue.
I am wiping my Data, cache and Dalvik Cache before every flash. I tried running Fix Permissions from ROM Manager. I even tried flashing several different Radios. Nothing works!
After restoring my official rooted Sense ROM, everything works perfectly. What the hell is in (or missing from) these custom ROM's that prevents the phone from connecting to my network??
Please, Please help! It's driving me crazy...
Finally got it sorted. The solution seems a bit weird.
It seems that that the cause of the problem was the USIM card that the network provided me when I signed up. It worked perfectly fine with the stock Sense ROM, but once I tried any other ROM, the phone just couldn't connect to the network. After replacing the card with an older version, it suddenly works fine with Cyanogen. It doesn't seem like my card was defective because the same thing happened to a lot of other people with that same USIM model.
Any idea on how is it that a certain SIM card just wouldn't work on custom ROM's, but would only work on the stock one?
ToastMan12 said:
Finally got it sorted. The solution seems a bit weird.
It seems that that the cause of the problem was the USIM card that the network provided me when I signed up. It worked perfectly fine with the stock Sense ROM, but once I tried any other ROM, the phone just couldn't connect to the network. After replacing the card with an older version, it suddenly works fine with Cyanogen. It doesn't seem like my card was defective because the same thing happened to a lot of other people with that same USIM model.
Any idea on how is it that a certain SIM card just wouldn't work on custom ROM's, but would only work on the stock one?
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Hi ToastMan,
- from which provider is your SIM card? Tmobile, eplus, ...?
- is your Desire SIM-locked (probably not, but how knows ...)?
- from which provider was the working SIM card?
I also have the original Desire and all of the yet installed ROM's (a lot!) worked.
I'm on German Tmobile, last year on Vodafone, never had any problems.
My phone is unlocked. I'm from Israel, so I'm using an israeli provider called Cellcom. Both the problematic and working sim cards are from them. Its just that the one I replaced the bad one with is an older version.
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My phone is unlocked. I'm from Israel, so I'm using an israeli provider called Cellcom. Both the problematic and working sim cards are from them. Its just that the one I replaced the bad one with is an older version.
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I'm getting old, thought you are from Germany. Maybe I need new glasses Sorry for useless provider questions/info from my first post.
I searched a little bit around in XDA but couldn't find anything which could help. And my knowledge with errors related to SIM cards is very poor.
On ROM side:
You wrote it happend on every custom ROM. Where they all AOSP (=without Sense) ones? I never read that anybody had SIM problems installing different ROM.
Or do you have a CDMA decice and not a GSM model? Than there will be a big problem if you flash a CDMA ROM on a GSM device and vice versa.
They were all AOSP. I never tried Sense based ones. And yes, I paid attention to what ROM version I was downloading. I have a GSM device so I downloaded GSM versions.
I followed method 2 in this thread to unlock my new HTC Sensation. I can't reply to that thread because I don't have ten posts on these forums.
After unlocking my phone, it accepts my SIM but I constantly have "No Service". The SIM works perfectly in other phones. I tried another SIM in my Sensation and got the same problem. I've checked my APN settings and there are no problems there. I've tried restoring my oldest Nandroid backup, restoring factory settings, etc. but with no luck. When I search for network operators, my phone tells me, "Error while searching for networks." I haven't tried restoring with an RUU (where can I get one?) but other users who seem to have the same problem have tried that with no luck.
At one point last night my phone did suddenly have signal and start working properly. I can't imagine what caused this; my phone was sitting on my desk untouched at the time. (I only noticed because it beeped to indicate it had received an SMS.) I tried sending and receiving calls and both worked just fine.
However, some time later I needed to put my SIM back in my old phone to check something. When I put the SIM and battery back in my Sensation, I was back to No Service. After waiting several hours the situation still hasn't resolved itself like it did before.
Does anyone know what's going on here, or better yet, how I can fix it? Is there any way I can reverse whatever the PG58DIAG file did to my phone? I actually have my phone's real unlock code now, so would be very happy if I could set it back how it was and unlock it legitimately. (I resorted to this method because I was impatient last night and am kicking myself now.)
Edit: In the interest of providing as much information as possible, I'm 90% sure I shut my phone down and restarted it at least once after it started working last night. It was only after taking the battery out that it went back to No Service.
I seem to be having more or less the exact same issue. I have an unlocked HTC Sensation and am using a ROGERS SIM card with it. Works perfectly well in my other phone, Curve 9360, and in a couple other phones as well, but the Sensation will have signal for a second then lose it immediately. For example, an SMS came in just like it did for the OP, then the signal was gone again right away.
Funny thing is this just started today, literally a couple hours ago. It was working fine up until then. Battery pulls or soft restarts don't seem to help.
Thanks to all with any ideas.
To clarify, when my phone found a network it wasn't just a brief flash of reception - it stayed connected and fully functional until I took out the battery. I haven't seen it connect to anything since.
But yeah, would be incredibly grateful if anyone could help out.
Hi, I am having the same issue.
I have unbranded a Vodafone Sensation and applied a stock HTC RUU as per the guides at XDA developers (linked to in post above).
All was fine on Thursday - got a T-mobile signal and a text message from them etc. Turned on today to update my phone properly, and I can't get any service from the phone no matter what SIM card I put in it.
What should I do???
Many thanks in advance.
My phone seems to be working now but I'm not sure why.
After my last post, I put my SIM in my Sensation and left it overnight on my desk to see if it would find a signal. No luck; I woke up and it was still saying No Service. I put it in my pocket and cycled to work, and when I got there my phone had signal and was working perfectly. I considered the possibility that my bedroom might have been some kind of no-service-bubble, but my phone is currently sitting on my desk with full signal strength, and as I said earlier, the SIM worked fine in an older phone in the same place.
Last night I installed a custom ROM (Android Revolution HD) and after installing it my phone froze at the startup screen. With no other option I took my battery out, fearing the worst. But when I turned my Sensation back on the new ROM was working fine and so was my SIM card. Just in case, I haven't dared take my battery out since.
Sorry, this probably isn't much help to the other people experiencing similar problems
A quick update to this issue...
I tried reflashing the RUU again, and initially had no luck. 'No Service' at all.
In desperation I entered the boot menu, and noticed that when it came up it said something like:
PG58IMG not found!
I then decided to click the option - 'reboot bootloader' and the phone reset again. When it came back on, lo and behold it had a signal, and has done ever since. Weird.
The signal seems quite flaky, but it all seems to work at the moment apart from the weather app (location wrong) and a weird screenshot capturing bug.
Quite disappointed how buggy the stock HTC software seems to be, nice phone currently being let down by the software methinks.
I had the same problem also. Try flashing the latest radio (10.58.9035.00P_10.15.9035.02_2)
Don't forget the matching RIL! (IMPORTANT!) HTC-RIL 2.2.0173HMQ
I've never lost my signal again!
As for rowlarry, don't worry, HBOOT just checks if you have pushed a new radio.img
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So if any of you need help with flashing a new radio, let me know! Glad to help..
I know how frustrating a non functional sensation can be!
Did everything and still have no signal
boardking_zero thanks for helping but i tried to flash the new radio with the ril file after i installed the rom and it still doesnt work
i bought the phone from a guy on ebay he used it with tmobile and use it as orange
is there anything else i should try to do?
thanks!
i feel so dumb, i did the whole thing without the back cover which is also the antenna of the phone so thats why i had no signal and a weak wifi signal!
Seems that the problem resolves after some reboots... or what?
How did you flash the radio? Did you use recovery or adb? Because is you used recovery it won't work. The RIL you can flash with recovery.
So in case you used recovery, here is the method I use:
1: Download adb
2: Create new folder on pc's local drive and install adb there. Make sure that adb doesn't create a folder in your new folder
3: Extract the radio.zip on your pc and copy the radio.img to the adb folder.
4: Open cmd ( Start-Run-cmd-enter )
5: type cd c:\adb (If adb is located in C:\)
6: Make sure your phone is connected to pc, powered on(homescreen) and debug on
7: in cmd type, adb devices ( this wil start deamon and id your phone )
8: type, adb reboot-bootloader ( phone will reboot in fastboot USB )
9: Now type, fastboot flash radio radio.img
10: When it's done copying you type, fastboot reboot
Done! Radio flashed the 'safer' way..
Now you can reboot phone in recovery and use it to flash the RIL.zip
Make sure they match!
To check your phone's RIL: Use terminal emulator (market) and use this command:
getprop "gsm.version.ril-impl" This will show current ril
Another trick to reboot your antenna, on dial pad, dial *#*#4636#*#* then choose phone settings. If your default setting is WCDMA Preferred, try gsm/cdma auto (prl)
toggle radio off, then on. Make sure you exit using the Home button, this will save your settings.
Let me know how it works out!
PLEASE HELP ME
i have HTC sensation for Tmobile USE, it has been rooted and using method 1 to find the unlock code... after i enter the unlock code, it said "unlock successful" but i still don't get any signal for AT&T. Also everytime i reboot the phone it asks for the unlock code
hi friend i have the same problem in 2 htc sensation tmobile
i have htc unlocked by revolutionary succes PG58DIAG.nbh clean sc58 ok
but says no serviceee with all sim card
i flash with rom and repeat process of unlock but no signalll
please help me
best regards
Firstly Hi to all!!! I'm Yors from Valencia, Spain.
I'm noob but I have something to share with you.
I had the same problem with my HTC Sensation with Vodafone Operator when I tried to unlock it. I flashed it with SC58 cleaning system and then I tested my sensation with Movistar and Orange SIMs, result -> No signal.
I have solved it changing flight mode into normal mode sometimes (Restarting Signal activation) and waiting for two or three minutes in normal mode, after third change I got signal!!
Be patient and please search a place with good signal. Is very important search signal with rear cover mounted (GSM/3G Antenna is integrated on it).
I wish this help you!
Regards,
I received my HTC Sensation yesterday, and have been having terrible reception issues around my house. Mostly just getting "No Service", but then if I leave the phone sat for a few minutes, when I turn it on, there's 4 bars of signal, and without touching the phone, I sit and watch it disappear down to "No Service". WTF.
I was going to send it back after reading ALL the complaints about this issue with the sensation, but I had an epiphany... If the back cover is the Aerial (Antenna for you yanks ;-) what if it's just not connecting correctly?
In the back of the phone there's several gold contacts that connect to the back cover, I decided to just prise them up a little bit so they made better contact. After very carefully lifting each one by just a fraction of a millimetre the result was astounding! I now get about 3 bars CONSTANT signal (even when making a call) where before I would get "No Service".
I'll see how it goes for the rest of the day, but if this has fixed the poor signal problem I'll be so happy. I wasn't at all happy about having to send back my shiny new phone just before Christmas.
Hope this helps someone with similar issues.
Hi there
I have tried using the s58 unlock method. My phone is no longer rejecting the sim, but it will not make calls or send texts using my "Virgin UK" sim. it will, however, access the HSDPA data stream.
Points about the phone:
It was originally locked to "3UK" (H3G)
S/N: SH16JV802292
it is s-off, rooted and CWM is installed.
I am trying to use it on "Virgin UK". I have also tried an o2 sim, to no avail.
It will acces the Virgin network, shows signal strength and everything.
but only the internet is working.
I have tried Cyanogenmod7, BlackIce, XE stock, and original stock with the latest radio installed.
I have only bought this phone as a toy, and am willing to use it for any "guinea pig" tests or procedures which you might be able to offer.
Thanks for your time guys.
Gomez
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PLEASE HELP ME
i have HTC sensation for Tmobile USE, it has been rooted and using method 1 to find the unlock code... after i enter the unlock code, it said "unlock successful" but i still don't get any signal for AT&T. Also everytime i reboot the phone it asks for the unlock code
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Hi - I have the same issue. Have you found a solution for this.
Hi
I would like to add my experience of this...
I bought my sensation (unloacked) about 7 or 8 months ago and immediately rooted it and loaded the Revolution HD 6.7 ROM, etc. and upgraded thebattery to an Anker.
My phone worked perfectly from that point. Now suddenly about 2 weeks ago I started getting problems with 'No service' and 'No SIM installed'. I tried all the tricks like the piece of tape on the back of the sim to hold it more securely, I wiped all the contacts on the reverse of the phone and inside cover and prised the contact up a little to make sure.
But what i found was that if I was playing a game on phone it started to get very hot and all the heat is around where the sim and sd card are held. The the signal would be lost and rebooting would not cure it and sometimes the reboot made it go from 'no service' to 'no sim iunstalled'. In fact last night the same thing happened. My phone had just been chaged to 100%, I play a game for about 10 minutes and the signal was lost. I rebooted a few times and the phone is really hot. The battery went from 100% to 70%. almost instantly. I switched it off and left it over night. This morning I switched it on and the signal was back and the phone at normal temperature and the battery was now at 50%.
So it seems the phone is overheating and this is causing problems with battery draining or something.
I am wondering if I should flash a new radio but I am using recovery and I think it is not s-off (I think that is because of recovery) even though it is permanently rooted.
Anyway, I think this weekend I might upgrade to Revolution hd 7.2 and along the war flash a new radio (if this is possible).
Does anyone think the overheating is down to a fault or certain apps/games or down to the radio?
It's very frustrating when it happens. I am considering buying a Galaxy SIII for peace of mind as I can't have my phone playing up like this as my wife is pregnant and I need to be contactable.
Any thoughts?
Just after writing that post I went to check the phone using the #*#*4636#*#* code and my phone lost signal again. I went to aircraft mode on and the off and then the phone is saying 'no sim installed'.
I switched if off and left it for a while and when I switched it on it was fine. I went to check my gmail and it lost signal again.
I think this phone is now faulty. Any suggestions as to what I can try before I bin it? If I factory-reset it will I lose my custom ROM? Are there any benefits to doing the factory-reset?
FYI, I'm all sorted. It was the SIM.
Sent from my HTC Sensation XE with Beats Audio using Tapatalk
Hi everybody. Hopefully I am posting this in the right section. I have a Tmobile G2x running CM7 nightly 201. I purchased the phone new (ebay) a couple of months ago. The phone has run relatively smoothly since CM7 installation, until yesterday.
Then, suddenly stopped connecting to the voice, data networks. It will connect via wifi, but would not connect/register for data or voice. It is driving me crazy and is now essentially useless. I have tried to reinstall CM7, I performed system restore to stock rom but the problem persists. It must be an issue with phone since my sim card would work in a different phone, and other sim cards will not work on my G2x.
I have tried to use GetRIl to change baseband. I am now running M6600A-SCAUNTZ-2.0.9720T 1 and I am back to stock rom.
Not sure if there is any way to solve this issue. Should I just resign to buy a new phone? Any solution/setting that I am missing? Can I send back to LG/tmobile a phone which has ClockworkMod Recovery on it? Sorry for the many questions.
You said you went back to stock rom, but did you do a complete restore??
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italdream said:
Hi everybody. Hopefully I am posting this in the right section. I have a Tmobile G2x running CM7 nightly 201. I purchased the phone new (ebay) a couple of months ago. The phone has run relatively smoothly since CM7 installation, until yesterday.
Then, suddenly stopped connecting to the voice, data networks. It will connect via wifi, but would not connect/register for data or voice. It is driving me crazy and is now essentially useless. I have tried to reinstall CM7, I performed system restore to stock rom but the problem persists. It must be an issue with phone since my sim card would work in a different phone, and other sim cards will not work on my G2x.
I have tried to use GetRIl to change baseband. I am now running M6600A-SCAUNTZ-2.0.9720T 1 and I am back to stock rom.
Not sure if there is any way to solve this issue. Should I just resign to buy a new phone? Any solution/setting that I am missing? Can I send back to LG/tmobile a phone which has ClockworkMod Recovery on it? Sorry for the many questions.
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Have you tried a full wipe?
Sent from my LG-P999 using xda premium
did you pay your phone bill?
Thanks for the quick reply. I tried restoring to original stock, then erasing all user data. I also tried several times wipe data/factory reset from ClockworkMod Recovery menu. Unfortunately no solution.
Wow, have you tried working as a comedian for a living?
May not be what you want to hear, but it is possible the seller sold you a stolen phone and it has be blocked. You may want to go to T-Moble and have it checked out.
GTWalling said:
May not be what you want to hear, but it is possible the seller sold you a stolen phone and it has be blocked. You may want to go to T-Moble and have it checked out.
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Thank you. That would at least make sense and I would report it to seller/ebay.
GTWalling said:
May not be what you want to hear, but it is possible the seller sold you a stolen phone and it has be blocked. You may want to go to T-Moble and have it checked out.
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This, maybe. Also try getting a new SIM card from tmo.
Also, check the IMEI before buying used phones. Even if your phone doesn't happen to be stolen, this is still a good idea.
Thanks. The phone was new from a 100%, long-time Ebay seller. Is there any official website to check for validity of IMEI?
I am going to check with T-mobile but there is also a thread showing other people with similar issue. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=17660686
Unfortunately, no solution posted. If anybody else has comments/alternative solutions, they will be greatly appreciated.
1st post so Hello to everybody
Phone: HTC Sensation (not rooted)
Provider: 02
Platform: 4.0.3
HTC Sense ver: 3.6
Shoe size: 9 (UK)
Updated to ICS recently and started to notice I was receiving texts late, usually 10 mins after they were sent to me. This is intermittent and there seems no reason as to why that I can find.
Uninstalled Handcent and installed Go SMS Pro and seemed to do the trick for a few days but then it happened again.
Uninstalled Go and used stock SMS and again worked OK but I noticed it again a couple of days ago.
Rang O2 and did Sim wipe, reentered SMS centre no and still got delay. Also tested SIM in another phone and works fine, no delay. They said it is a phone fault then.
Called HTC and they advised that I had a corrupted update and that I needed to factory reset, which I have done. Unfortunately the problem still persists.
Spent the afternoon sending myself texts and some go through and some do not.
I do have poor service at home, 1-2 bars, but this was never a problem before the update.
Other than that I had the "Android is Updating, Optimising Applications" issue but his has now cleared.
Sometimes I do not receive messages at all and have to restart phone, once or more, to get messages.
HTC want me to send the phone in for repair but thought i'd see if can get any help from you lovely people first!
HELP PLEASE!!!
To update: Got a new SIM yesterday and thought/hoped it had sorted it but no joy.
Anyone got any tips? I'm wondering if it could be an app clashing with ICS?
Had the same problem, went into the Of store thinking it was a sim problem, replaced my sim card with a new one. But still had the problem. I switched from ICS rom to rom, radio to radio, but no luck. So I gave up and called HTC, they told me to do a factory reset which was just a waste of time and eventually sent it off for repairs.
Got it back, upgraded to the OTA ICS and all is well.
So to sum up, just call HTC and tell them your problem, tell that you've done a factory reset and they should schedule a repair for it.
Sent from my HTC Sensation Z710e using XDA
Well mate, I don't think it's an app clashing with ICS. If that's the case it should have worked when you installed GO SMS..
So my suggestion would be that as you are on stock ROM, the most astute option for you will be to send the phone to HTC, and they will figure out the problem for you!
Interestingly I popped Wifes T-Mobile SIM in and factory reset and factory reset and updated.
So far with her SIM in all is good, Texts going through in seconds.
Gonna keep it in there for a bit and then put mine back and see what happens.
PJBXDA said:
Interestingly I popped Wifes T-Mobile SIM in and factory reset and factory reset and updated.
So far with her SIM in all is good, Texts going through in seconds.
Gonna keep it in there for a bit and then put mine back and see what happens.
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Why don't you try your SIM in another phone and see how it goes?
Put the O2 SIM back in and back to late messages so definitely something to do with O2.
Looks like gonna have to send it in Mon/Tues and revert back to me Wildfire which i've just unlocked. Over to the Wildfire forum to see if there are any decent ROMs available and for an idiots guide to rooting it!
Good luck!
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It seems that it is a fault at O2s end after all.
I'm fuming, spoke to them twice last week and they fobbed it off and sent me to HTC so had to do factory reset etc, taking hours and causing untold grief. Where if the she'd of done her job and looked at he fault properly the test message report she sent me would of told her that the fault was with the network. Not to mention the work i've lost out on!
Had to switch phone to 2g and messages come through fine and they've raised a fault for an engineer to check at local mast(s) and get back to me in 5 days.
Hello there,
Guys really need your help. This is for my friend's phone;
Since last evening, his One has lost complete mobile connectivity. He says he didn't do anything out of the ordinary, nor did he drop the phone or anything.
Absolutely no network even after countless reboots. Once or twice the phone caught some network but only for a few minutes. Tried different SIM cards too. He had been using this phone flawlessly for 3 months, until yesterday.
He is an amateur at playing around with the phone, so I rooted the phone and installed a Lollipop based custom ROM hoping that would solve the issue, but no luck. Even reverted completely back to CM11 (44S) and then did a factory reset, still no coverage.
The phone is connecting to WiFi and seems to have no other issue at all. Only connecting to mobile network is the problem.
What do you guys think? What should I try to do now? Has anyone else encountered this issue, how did you fix it? I read a lot of posts here and on OnePlus Forums but haven't found an answer to this specific problem yet.
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I did try setting the correct APN, no luck
I have the same problem! I have tried everything: other modems, full wipes, back to 100% stock. The customer service keeps telling me to look at my APN settings...
Sometimes the phone is also stuck in airplane mode after rebooting.
AndrewNL said:
I have the same problem! I have tried everything: other modems, full wipes, back to 100% stock. The customer service keeps telling me to look at my APN settings...
Sometimes the phone is also stuck in airplane mode after rebooting.
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Same here, I tried flashing a modem as well.
You can dial *#06# and see if your IMEI is visible, few users have suddenly lost it and hence no signal. For me the IMEI is present, still no signal
I had a similar issue yesterday after flashing CM12.1. Mobile data would completely cut out with no signal. I found if it toggled mobile data off and back on in settings it fixed it for the time being.
remove sim
AndrewNL said:
I have the same problem! I have tried everything: other modems, full wipes, back to 100% stock. The customer service keeps telling me to look at my APN settings...
Sometimes the phone is also stuck in airplane mode after rebooting.
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Power off the phone, take your sim out and restart the phone without it, then power off the phone, insert the sim, and restart it with the sim in.
Or see if you can't borrow a friend's sim from another carrier.
Worth a shot.
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Power off the phone, take your sim out and restart the phone without it, then power off the phone, insert the sim, and restart it with the sim in.
Or see if you can't borrow a friend's sim from another carrier.
Worth a shot.
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I tried this multiple times, just tried it again but no luck. All other SIM cards don't work, even from different carriers (tried 3).
Also my APN settings sometimes show and sometimes they don't. When I try to save new ones, they don't show up.
My IMEI and baseband are visible and have not changed.
you've been trying
AndrewNL said:
I tried this multiple times, just tried it again but no luck. All other SIM cards don't work, even from different carriers (tried 3).
Also my APN settings sometimes show and sometimes they don't. When I try to save new ones, they don't show up.
My IMEI and baseband are visible and have not changed.
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It might be worth it to wipe all the partitions individually from recovery, however first browse the forums to make sure you can do some sort of unbrick or restore the phone if it blows.
There may be data that is not being erased with lesser formats or factory reset. There were things stuck with my phone and it didn't resolve until I formatted all the partitions--except system, I think--after which it worked properly.
Do not just leap blindly in though, so you can be sure to get back out if stuck.
See #9 and #10 here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/oneplus-one/general/guides-bacon-timmaaas-how-to-guides-t2839471
Good luck.
You guys would be glad to know that the phone sprang back to life on it's own
Hadn't used it for about 2 days and was ready to take it to the service centre, thought I'd give it one last try, inserted SIM and voila. Full network and working smoothly since.