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Has anyone had a problem today where your phone just cannot connect to ATT's 3G or HSPA network? For some reason, my phone is getting little-to-no signal, and if I do, it is only on GPRS... I CWM'd to my stable nandroid, but no dice, leading me to think that this problem is with the network.
What's XDA's thought on this? Possible dev issue?
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Att network just sucks.....I get good service everywhere but the places im at the most....my house and my job....go figure
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Their network is just pretty terrible right now. However, by summer we'll probably be singing a different tune about ATT's coverage when the iPhone user population will even out a bit. Also, I believe ATT threw down a few billion for network upgrades this year. It seems like they really took that Consumer Reports article to heart, so I actually see good things in the future.

i haven't had 3G in 24+ hours in NJ. stock, non-rooted.

Must be location specific; -51 dB and HSDPA in Dallas

It happens every now and then in las vegas usually right after a flash. I start to change modems and other stuff then realize "dammit I bet the network is screwed up" sure enough next day things are working again. Damn phone companys lol
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i haven't had 3G in 24+ hours in NJ. stock, non-rooted.
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You're quite close to where I am, it's probably regional then, but my old crappy phones' 3G is working fine though...
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funny thing metro pcs is working better than ATT in south florida. metro is known for bad bad reception

No problems with 3G at the places I frequent in the Tampa Bay area.
I've not had any problems with 3G connections this year.

Aus_Azn said:
You're quite close to where I am, it's probably regional then, but my old crappy phones' 3G is working fine though...
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interesting.. i spent a few hours yesterday with my phone going in and out with GPRS and no network connection at all. i've had fairly consistent EDGE ever since. i normally see 5 bars of 3G at my current location (newark, NJ).
reboots and battery pulls seem to have no effect.

-99db & HSDPA here in Tampa Bay area.
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No AT&T 3G here...but I use edge network, get mostly 3 to 5 bars mostly indoors or outdoors depending on location. At my work, it's pretty good signal and get around 150-180kbps speed but at home is slower which is around 100-125kbps or slower, probably. I usually use wifi at my home with my own internet.

Out of Davenport, IA and I have great HSDPA signal running Perception 10.1 with the included 2.6.32.9 Firebird Kernel. I have flashed a bunch of DGs ROMs and never had issues with connectivity (voice or data).

I also get that the sim card.has been removed and its pissing me off.... btw, im on phoenix 3.5 with a setiron 1.5.6

matt868686 said:
interesting.. i spent a few hours yesterday with my phone going in and out with GPRS and no network connection at all. i've had fairly consistent EDGE ever since. i normally see 5 bars of 3G at my current location (newark, NJ).
reboots and battery pulls seem to have no effect.
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I have 3G again, but regardless of HSPA or UMTS, I am getting .06Mbps down and about .4Mbps up. I have absolutely no idea why. I'm in Bridgewater, NJ.
I am in much the same predicament as you, reboots and pulls don't help. I've gone a step further and flashed 5 different ROMs today, no luck.
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actually my 3G just came back a few hours ago too. 2-4 Mbps down and about 0.3 Mbps up, which are normal 3G speeds for me. and i didn't do anything to my phone, 3G just magically reappeared after at least a full 24 hours of only EDGE. strange.
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I have 3G again, but regardless of HSPA or UMTS, I am getting .06Mbps down and about .4Mbps up. I have absolutely no idea why. I'm in Bridgewater, NJ.
I am in much the same predicament as you, reboots and pulls don't help. I've gone a step further and flashed 5 different ROMs today, no luck.
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Kizzmiazz said:
It happens every now and then in las vegas usually right after a flash. I start to change modems and other stuff then realize "dammit I bet the network is screwed up" sure enough next day things are working again. Damn phone companys lol
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Las Vegas + ATT = terrible.
I just went on a 2 say trip there, took me 2 hours to download a 37kb attachment with full bars. I'd get 30 text messages at once an hour late, with full bars.
If I had to work on the strip I'd drop att in a heartbeat... that is totally unfunctional!!
I've been fine elsewhere... and maybe that's just a bad day /spot... but damn!
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matt868686 said:
actually my 3G just came back a few hours ago too. 2-4 Mbps down and about 0.3 Mbps up, which are normal 3G speeds for me. and i didn't do anything to my phone, 3G just magically reappeared after at least a full 24 hours of only EDGE. strange.
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My definition of normal is >3Mbps down, >1.5Mbps up... How is yours so different when you are so near? I get these speeds regardless if I'm on HSUPA or UMTS. I tend to use the latter to save battery.
The more I look, the more I think that ATT just capped my speeds 2 nights ago. This is crap. No modem change, nothing fixes it.
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We finally got 3G here and its expanding rapidly in this state which is a good thing. I would like to see new coverage plans after March 31st.
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So Pretty Much Everytime Verizon Opens New 4g LTE Areas, Current 4g Users Go Without?

I've noticed that everytime new service areas are activated, the current users go WITHOUT service for hours. Like today.. I havent had 3g, 4g, but been able to get texts for the better part of an hour...
What's the deal?

ipawd1 said:
I've noticed that everytime new service areas are activated, the current users go WITHOUT service for hours. Like today.. I havent had 3g, 4g, but been able to get texts for the better part of an hour...
What's the deal?
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There's going to be growing pains with their 4G network. If they decided not to expand until it was 100% operational, we'd still be stuck with 1X nationwide. I still have problems with 3G in certain areas where I lose data consistently. I am sure Verizon has tolerance levels where say 99% uptime is considered "good enough".

No 4G for me in DFW area of Texas. Had it two hours ago but just goes to 1x when I go LTE mode. 3G working fine.

evolutioncsr said:
No 4G for me in DFW area of Texas. Had it two hours ago but just goes to 1x when I go LTE mode. 3G working fine.
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I'm in Washington DC and I had to get on Wifi just to check emails. NO 3g, no 1x, just four bars

I have 4g in Chicago and have all day..
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I live in Huntsville, AL, and we are supposed to get 4G on July 21st. I wish they would turn it on early!

ipawd1 said:
I'm in Washington DC and I had to get on Wifi just to check emails. NO 3g, no 1x, just four bars
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From DC also. Same deal.

robsonline said:
I live in Huntsville, AL, and we are supposed to get 4G on July 21st. I wish they would turn it on early!
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This! I can't wait

in NYC only prob had was that 4G outage a few months back

I'm in DFW. I get 4G fine. If I go to 3G setting I get nothing. Been happening for 2 days and I'm getting frustrated. I even tried flashing radio and rom thinking it was just me because I recently went to CM7.

jiayi345 said:
I'm in DFW. I get 4G fine. If I go to 3G setting I get nothing. Been happening for 2 days and I'm getting frustrated. I even tried flashing radio and rom thinking it was just me because I recently went to CM7.
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not even going lie that has happend to me a couple of times and I am on stock...really annoying

Are other users of other 4g phones having issues to does anyone know?
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robsonline said:
I live in Huntsville, AL, and we are supposed to get 4G on July 21st. I wish they would turn it on early!
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Me too, i live in cullman an travel to decatur alot, an can't wait for them to light it up all the way to hartselle

had a drop of 4g last night, but didn't seem to have any problems today. Living in San Antonio.
but now that I say that, I am getting no signal at all... Just an x on the signal bar, guess I'll reboot.

I lost data the other night for about an hour at around 2am. When it came back on I had 4g for about 30 minutes. Guess they were testing. It's supposed to go live on the 21st in my area, and after that 30 minutes I can't wait. I usually get around 300-600 k down at my house since its down on a hole but I was getting almost 20m down and 16 up when it was working. I can live with the rare outage if the end product is going to be that good.
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3 days and not a single 3G signal in areas I always get a signal AKA home and work. Maybe my radio is busted?

That sounds bad. Are you rooted?

devsql said:
That sounds bad. Are you rooted?
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It literally just started working again. I'm rooted, CM7, MR2 radio.

I've been experiencing data issues for past 2-3 days now. I'll put my screen on and will notice lack of data icon. I'll get it back by turning radio off/on. I'm still running on original root and radio and till now data has been a non-issue. Maybe newest VZ update made some radio changes and old radios now have issues?
If I were to stay with original rooted rom, which radio should I try? I want to jump on CM7 but people still report 4G issues.

sprint ns4g/ has your data speed and uptime improved today?

I noticed yesterday and today that the network hasn't been flaky and I haven't had to reboot or cycle airplane mode. My speeds have been good since the late Thursday afternoon 4+ hour data outage. What are your experiences? Better, worse, same?

Mine are actually worse. Lots of 1x
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Uptime and responsiveness for two days in a row now have been flawless for me. No webpage timeouts, always get data throughput immediately. 3G and 4G seem to be back to `normal'. I too was part of that awful 4+hr outage on Thursday (and the random short and long outages for the past month which seemed like daily outages).
/south jersey area near philly.

No, connection sucks balls
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Mine has shown improvement but not great. Overall signal is better though. Don't understand why it would before update but I'm loving it. I'm on the latest prl and have been for several days now and sucked before.
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I usto never go into 1x but as off late I have and I need to toggle airplane mode to get 3g again
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steviee7 said:
I usto never go into 1x but as off late I have and I need to toggle airplane mode to get 3g again
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No improvement whatsoever. In fact I think it is worse. I will sit in a normally 3 bar area, and eventually my phone will lose all data (no notification bar symbol, similar to when I receive a call) even though I still have 3 bars. Airplane on and off doesn't bring back data. Only a power cycle will bring back data.

I was about ready to update to the new radio and 2.3.5 but it seems like its not really better...seems hit or miss for people. Plus I'm on boost and if its not going to help my signal I'm not going to take a chance and have to redo my data settings for boost because its been running super for the last few months.

My update was from OTA not manually like most here did. I must say that my speeds here at home increased DRAMATICALLY. Using speedtest (only for 3G) I used to average 240-400kbps. Now I'm getting around 1300-1900kbps.

For the first time I've seen no 1x for a day
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Awful data connectivity for the last week (Houston area) - Updt "Desperation sets in"

Awful data connectivity for the last week (Houston area) - Updt "Desperation sets in"
Anyone else getting horrid data connectivity on their TB? I usually never have data connectivity issues. In fact I was running just fine on the same ROM as recently as last week. But about 4 or 5 days ago, it went to total ****.
It has gotten so bad that I can't use 4g for more than 60 seconds. 3g is somewhat more reliable, but seems to drop down to 1x regularly.
I'm in the houston area and running BAMF Forever 1.09.
Do I need to get a sim replacement or something?

Try a new rom... I was using BAMF and noticed the same issue. Switched over to SHIFTAO5P with a Imoseyan kernel and haven't had any issues. Much snappier than the phone was previously and I haven't had any trouble with 4g. No trouble with data at all actually.

I am having issues too. Especially in buildings where I had a 3 bar 4g signal before, I am now not even picking up a 4g signal. Also, the 3g signal only reaches a bar at best. Almost like an antennae problem or something. But again, it just started within the last week. Co-inky-dink? (Detroit btw)

Running SOAB 1.3 in North Houston area, data has been spotty for awhile now, but not awful.
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i completely lost data this morning. dont know what happened. i switched to a rom i know was working and i am still having issues. i am at a lost on what to do, it must be a network issue
in south west PA

Yes, so, desperation sets in rather quickly when your phone internet is garbage, I suppose I must be an addict.
I tried many things today:
-Flashed old radios
-ReFlashed new radios
-Flashed new rom
-Flashed old rom
-Pulling/Replacing the battery (don't laugh, I told you I was desperate)
-Drove around the city testing various areas for connection quality
-Went into the verizon store and demanded a SIM card replacement
Perhaps the most painful of the steps I took was the last one. While they were replacing my SIM and giving me odd looks for having a rooted system, I meandered over to the Rezound station. Big mistake. I downloaded speedtest and android terminal, and repeatedly ran the bandwidth test and pinged google from terminal.
Consistent 75ms ping to google, consistent 27mbps down 11mbps up.
I tried the same thing outside the store with my TB, so I could take advantage of any network smoke and mirrors they may be using
My TB: Consistent 220ms ping to google, inconsistent 4mbps down 0.5mbps up
How depressing that was. Nothing has worked. 4g has been unusable for over a week now and 3g is slow as a snail, and only slightly more reliable. I am convinced I have a marginally defective handset and there is nothing I can do to get my 4G back except pay for a new phone.
I might buy my ticket to the TB haters' ball while I'm at it.

Just curious, but why didn't you unroot and turn s-on before going to the store?

Good question, I did think about doing that but ultimately my laziness prevailed. First of all, I am not a serial flasher by nature so I find it somewhat inconvenient to be constantly re-setting-up my accounts/contacts/apps/lookandfeel.
I justified going into the store because I knew if I played dumb and insisted walking out of the store with my handset in hand, that there was likely nothing that would happen. Never underestimate the complacence of an employee on commission who is doing something for you that does not involve earning a commission.

Swabodda said:
Try a new rom... I was using BAMF and noticed the same issue. Switched over to SHIFTAO5P with a Imoseyan kernel and haven't had any issues. Much snappier than the phone was previously and I haven't had any trouble with 4g. No trouble with data at all actually.
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What radio are you using and does SHIFTAO5P have permission revocation as well as an uncrippled bluetooth stack (keyboard, wiimote, ps3 support).

So , I got my refurb on Saturday and I confirmed that the issue was hardware related. I did one final test to make sure. My setup was:
Both phones:
no SD card
stock GB MR (unrooted)
same sim card
Fresh wipe/update install
same battery
I installed Speedtest.net (Houston, TX comcast test server) and terminal emulator on both phones and sat in the same chair in my house for testing both phones (had to do 1 at a time due to sim card and battery, obviously).
My first phone (defective):
Speedtest server ping: ~220ms
Speedtest down speed: 500kbps
speedtest up speed: 400kbps
google.com ping: ~180ms, 5% packets dropped.
note: 4g connection indicator (in status bar) would drop randomly during speedtest, also about 2 of the speedtest attempts failed with "connection error"
Refurb:
Speedtest server ping: ~80ms
Speedtest down speed: 26000kbps
speedtest up speed: 9000kbps
google.com ping: ~80ms, 0% packets dropped.
no errors
Ran the test 5 times on each phone in a row, results were clear as day, my original unit somehow got ****ed up 4g hardware.

mthe0ry said:
Anyone else getting horrid data connectivity on their TB? I usually never have data connectivity issues. In fact I was running just fine on the same ROM as recently as last week. But about 4 or 5 days ago, it went to total ****.
It has gotten so bad that I can't use 4g for more than 60 seconds. 3g is somewhat more reliable, but seems to drop down to 1x regularly.
I'm in the houston area and running BAMF Forever 1.09.
Do I need to get a sim replacement or something?
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I have a similar issue as the OP. I was going to start a thread. My issues are a little more of the data connection on/off every 10 seconds. I'm actually flashing the newest shift AOSP now. If this doesn't go away... I will kill...

I'm having the same issues as both op and the poster in post #11. I may try for another refurb, but I'm not sure. I tried that route once before and all three were junk. I think this phone has turned into a major fail by htc.

1454 said:
I'm having the same issues as both op and the poster in post #11. I may try for another refurb, but I'm not sure. I tried that route once before and all three were junk. I think this phone has turned into a major fail by htc.
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I unrooted a couple weeks ago as I was rooted from launch date, started at mr1 and took the otas and the connection seems to be more stable for whatever reason. Even though I had run just a basic rooted 2.11.605.5 ROM with the ota radios.
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I'm over in the NY area and ever since I woke up from work this morning I have been unable to keep a cellular data lock for more than 30 seconds (3g or 4g). I am rooted and am using a custom ROM, but I haven't changed it in nearly 4 months (haven't even updated it).
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Explain this signal issue please (in Chicago)

Traveled to downstate IL today. We had a few storms through out the state so it could be outages. With that said, I live two blocks from the tower here in the city of Chicago on the north side.
I am always in strong 4G at home full bars. Right now I'm at 1 bar of 4G w/ D/L speeds for 1.3Mbps and 0 upload. My signal strength is -67dBm and 23asu.
I was in 3G areas the majority of the day but noticed when I got back into my living areas 4G was acting as it is now.
Currently running Synergy r68 build with Ziggy's kernel.
I've tried everything. Powered down, pulled sim, powered on, waiting for no sim display, then powered down, re-inserted sim, powered on. Tried factory reset. Tried going back to stock. Tried airplane mode. Tried airplane mode, power down, then power on, then turn off airplane mode....
Nothing.
So what do you all think? Tower issues?
ETA: I also tried flashing all three radios....those didn't help either.

got556 said:
Traveled to downstate IL today. We had a few storms through out the state so it could be outages. With that said, I live two blocks from the tower here in the city of Chicago on the north side.
I am always in strong 4G at home full bars. Right now I'm at 1 bar of 4G w/ D/L speeds for 1.3Mbps and 0 upload. My signal strength is -67dBm and 23asu.
I was in 3G areas the majority of the day but noticed when I got back into my living areas 4G was acting as it is now.
Currently running Synergy r68 build with Ziggy's kernel.
I've tried everything. Powered down, pulled sim, powered on, waiting for no sim display, then powered down, re-inserted sim, powered on. Tried factory reset. Tried going back to stock. Tried airplane mode. Tried airplane mode, power down, then power on, then turn off airplane mode....
Nothing.
So what do you all think? Tower issues?
ETA: I also tried flashing all three radios....those didn't help either.
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You have multiple phones right? Pop your sim in a different phone. Sounds like a tower/network issue.

toy028 said:
You have multiple phones right? Pop your sim in a different phone. Sounds like a tower/network issue.
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Just sold off all my Nexii (including both VZW Gnex's)
Was hoping some of the other Chi town people would chime in. I'm thinking tower issue also. But only on the 4G side of things. 3G is strong as always when switching to CDMA in phone info.

Just to update I'm in the south loop of Chicago right now in the middle of a hospital with strong 4g...tower must be down around where I live.
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Probably this happen else where as well. http://www.milfordlive.com/2012/09/04/verizon-outages-caused-by-roof-leak/

galchristian said:
Probably this happen else where as well. http://www.milfordlive.com/2012/09/04/verizon-outages-caused-by-roof-leak/
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Who knows....here's a screen for ya'll. Last night on the north side...today on the south side of the city. And on a separate note my speeds are never this good on the north side.
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How were your speeds before changing your ROM & kernel? I haven't formally tested but I suspect I'm a little slower now on CM10 nightlies than I was on stock. I'm willing to accept that for now, I enjoy the flashing and I know it'll eventually get fixed. Lots of comments about speed issues over on that thread (in the development section). I suppose a good test would be to go back to stock and run some tests.

I'm in the south loop with strong signal too. Thought I'd chime in.

Im on the Northside and as you can see no issues.
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Im on the Northside and as you can see no issues.
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I just ran a speed test. 5845kbps down and 399kbps up. I know it's not my phone as evidenced the other day in the south loop with a very quick D/L and U/L speeds tested numerous times over the course of 8 hours.
I'm guessing the tower that my phone deems necessary to connect to is overloaded. I'm between belmont and diversey around the Masonic Hospital.
ETA: Just ran a few more tests. Averaging out to about 18 down and 4 up....much better than the 5 down I saw a few minutes ago. Latency averages are around 45 to 50 ms.

got556 said:
I just ran a speed test. 5845kbps down and 399kbps up. I know it's not my phone as evidenced the other day in the south loop with a very quick D/L and U/L speeds tested numerous times over the course of 8 hours.
I'm guessing the tower that my phone deems necessary to connect to is overloaded. I'm between belmont and diversey around the Masonic Hospital.
ETA: Just ran a few more tests. Averaging out to about 18 down and 4 up....much better than the 5 down I saw a few minutes ago. Latency averages are around 45 to 50 ms.
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Id say its the tower your cell modem is connecting too
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