My wife and I both have Charges, mine is rooted and running GummyCharged, her Charge is just running stock. After setting her phone up, we noticed a 3G icon with a "d" under it. From doing some searching online, I found a post at another forum saying that the d means "dormant." Just means that the phone isn't sending or receiving any data so the connection is dormant. That part I understand I guess, my problem with that explanation is that when she would have the 3Gd icon, we couldn't even bring up anything on the browser. So it's like the connection went to sleep and nothing we did could wake it up except a reboot.
I guess my question is, does anyone know what this actually is and if there's a way to stop it? Should I just root her phone too and throw a ROM on it because I haven't seen that icon since back in the Razr days.
There is another thread in the general section about signal issues. Several different thoughts. You could always toggle the data connection from 4g to 3g then back or someone suggested to airplane mode then back. Its all a crazy mess but check out the other post. The other day it happened to my wifes phone and mine. She is stock and Im rooted. Actually had the problem last night I was downloading great and then all of a sudden boom.
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There is another thread in the general section about signal issues. Several different thoughts. You could always toggle the data connection from 4g to 3g then back or someone suggested to airplane mode then back. Its all a crazy mess but check out the other post. The other day it happened to my wifes phone and mine. She is stock and Im rooted. Actually had the problem last night I was downloading great and then all of a sudden boom.
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Thanks for the info! I may have looked at that post, not sure though. I looked at a lot of posts but none of them addressed my wifes exact issue. I'll check it out though, thanks again!
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Hi guys. I tried to search for related topics but didn't find anything.
Occasionaly I lose esge . Since that's what I'm using the most. And there is no icon next to the battery either. I can't open anything that needs internet. Then I try to switch to 3g and I use toggle settings. But nothing happens. No 3g no edge. I noticed that whenever that happens and I go to toggle setting to mark using 2g only . It doesn't stay green. I press it. I go to main menu. Go back and its not marked eventhough it shows green when I press it. After that my only fix is to restart the phone and then it all goes back to normal. Any ideas?
Happens to me, too. Usually after/while tethering. Haven't been able to reliably reproduce it, though.
O ic. The thing is that I have never used tethering..so I guess there is multiple problems..have you seen any other discusion regarding this issue?
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O ic. The thing is that I have never used tethering..so I guess there is multiple problems..have you seen any other discusion regarding this issue?
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i had that issue once .. i turned the phone off and on .. never came back for me
did you flash the radio??
i re flashed the radio and it seems to be working for me.. will keep you posted
you mean reflashing by applying the radio update that jf gave separately? i did it this morning. i hope it was right. if i want to reflash it. do i have to delete somethingor i can just go to home and power and apply the radio update again? do you think its going to help?
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you mean reflashing by applying the radio update that jf gave separately? i did it this morning. i hope it was right. if i want to reflash it. do i have to delete somethingor i can just go to home and power and apply the radio update again? do you think its going to help?
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yes that one, yeah just go in to recovery mode and update... it worked for me might just be a coincidence.. post if it worked for you
might be something with your location rather than the phone?
I have the same issue but i have pined it down to a certain time every day. I live in a 3G zone and i work in and Edge zone. It has never happened on 3G, but everyday that i am at work on Edge between 9am and 10am PST the icon disappears and all internet connections die.
If i restart the phone it comes right back with no more problems for that day, but the next day the same thing happens. Once and a while I'll go a day without it happening but i would say that happens maybe 2 or 3 times a month. Now some days i notice the moment it does it other times I'm not paying attention and realize I'm not connected anymore when i try to send a message.
I have let it go without restarting to see what happens and it was back on there before 11am PST so i would have to venture to say it has to do with that specific tower in that area. I could be wrong but i don't notice it on my day off at my house on 3G and i really haven't noticed it in any other area with Edge, but unless I'm at work i don't have as much time to stare at the phone all day
Wondering if someone could help with this. I odin the new EP1W update and it looked like everything went fine. For some reason I didn't like it so I went back to gummy 2.0. Everything went fine. No problems. Then I decided to Odin the new modem. Thought everything went fine. Now I don't have any 3g signal. My 4g will pop up some of the time. But usually I only see the bars, and no it does not have the 1x next to it. Just the bars. I did a factory wipe thinking that would help me out but it didn't. At the beginning I will get a 4g signal, I try and enter my gmail address and it doesn't go through because my signal is lost. I am able to receive calls, sms. But I am not able to get emails, go on the internet, use certain apps that require online access (XDA app in particular). I tried imnuts fix your phone process but it said it couldn't read the cm5 hash or something like that. Is there any suggestions out there? I am going to try and go back to complete stock and see if that works. I will keep you posted but would like your input. Thanks guys.
Never mind. Figured it out.
What did you do to resolve your issue? I have something very similar going on with my wife's phone. This morning, 3G data stopped working, and 4G will only stay locked for about 5 minutes. She had the EE4 modems, and flashing the EP1W modems didn't fix anything.
I went back completely to stock and started all over again. I stayed with froyo because of stability. But I am still losing my signal. Not as much though but still bugs the hell out of me. Thinking of calling big red and see if it is still under warranty. Hopefully they make me an offer I can't refuse ;-p Wish the Galaxy S 2 was going to come but not so much. Not sure about the bionic. Hearing bad things already about the battery. Now the prime sounds awesome.
Sorry got side tracked. Yeah, go back to stock and start anew. Any questions let me know.
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I had flashed every available modem, and that didn't work. I flashed back to ee4 stock. That didn't work at all. Still had no 3g and 4g would only stick for a short time. I even flashed back to ed1 and took the ota. That didn't work. Then when I woke up this morning, it was working fine. Who knows.
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I get this occasionally too, like data just drops out for whatever reason... it always comes back though and I just attribute it to what's gotta be the huge amount of 4G traffic where I live (L.A.), it just goes down sometimes due to server overload or maintenance I think and even the FiOS craps out for an hour or two here and there probably for the same reasons
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I have this issue when im at work where i get crap att coverage where eventually from being low for so long and staying on wifi my phone signal goes to zero and a grey x shoes up above them.
This wouldnt be so bad but it wont reconnect with a reboot or airplane mode reset which means if i dont check my phone i get no calls or info.
Is this normal? Is there a fix?
Thanks
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tevil said:
I have this issue when im at work where i get crap att coverage where eventually from being low for so long and staying on wifi my phone signal goes to zero and a grey x shoes up above them.
This wouldnt be so bad but it wont reconnect with a reboot or airplane mode reset which means if i dont check my phone i get no calls or info.
Is this normal? Is there a fix?
Thanks
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This is an old issue. I'm not sure when the fix happened or what ATT radio would fix it for you but there is a simple (ish) solution. Basically, whats happening is that when your phone loses signal for an extended period of time it shuts off the radio and then cannot restart it. Using NoBars will stop your phone's radio from dying like that and will just periodically poll for signal.
That will fix the issue but just to satisfy my own curiosity, on your SDcard are there a bunch of files called Radio Dump and then a bunch of numbers?
Sorry posted on my phone and didnt notice the grammar errors
Yes i have the radio dump files but havent checked since installing the F1 radio.
I will try that app since this issue has followed me on multiple roms and radios
If there was a fix i havent gotten it
Thanks man
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Just installed nobars but realized its a battery saver like juice defender
I will keep my hopes up tho
This ONLY happns when at my desk at work where att has no dark hold on me
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you could try manually resetting your radio if that is actually the problem. just dial *#*#4636#*#* next time you're at your desk and go to phone information. if you scroll down it should say either turn off radio or turn on radio. try turning it on if it's already off, or resetting it by turning it off and then on again. I don't think this would be a permanent fix though. just a temporary solution when the problem arises.
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Sorry posted on my phone and didnt notice the grammar errors
Yes i have the radio dump files but havent checked since installing the F1 radio.
I will try that app since this issue has followed me on multiple roms and radios
If there was a fix i havent gotten it
Thanks man
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Just installed nobars but realized its a battery saver like juice defender
I will keep my hopes up tho
This ONLY happns when at my desk at work where att has no dark hold on me
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Nobars will shut off your radio and stop it from dying. Trust me it works. My wife and I used it foe months waiting for the issue to be resolved. The radio dumps mean you're having the same issue.
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you could try manually resetting your radio if that is actually the problem. just dial *#*#4636#*#* next time you're at your desk and go to phone information. if you scroll down it should say either turn off radio or turn on radio. try turning it on if it's already off, or resetting it by turning it off and then on again. I don't think this would be a permanent fix though. just a temporary solution when the problem arises.
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I actually go into the carrier menu when i install a new radio anyway. Going in and out of airplane mode resets the radio but the problem is if I dont actually look at my phone (in my pocket) i wont know the radio shut off and can go through the day without getting any contact. I know its not the rom cause Im on stock. I know its not the radio cause I have tried about every one.
Its got to be a mix of crappy ATT service (which makes me wonder if resigning was worth this phone for free) and the nexus s hardware.
I am seeing if noBars will help. You would think this would be something google would fix ASAP tho as its happened since day one almost.
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I actually go into the carrier menu when i install a new radio anyway. Going in and out of airplane mode resets the radio but the problem is if I dont actually look at my phone (in my pocket) i wont know the radio shut off and can go through the day without getting any contact. I know its not the rom cause Im on stock. I know its not the radio cause I have tried about every one.
Its got to be a mix of crappy ATT service (which makes me wonder if resigning was worth this phone for free) and the nexus s hardware.
I am seeing if noBars will help. You would think this would be something google would fix ASAP tho as its happened since day one almost.
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It is odd since this was a massive issue from day one of the Nexus S but that was before any of the other variants and it was fixed before any of the other variants launched. Since that fix, I've not heard of anyone having the issue any more with any variant. Part of the issue for my wife and I was that we lived in an area where there was really no good cell coverage from any company, so we stayed with T-Mo in spite of that knowing that we were moving soon to an area with great T-mo coverage, but being out of service so much resulted in similar issues as you've had: we would be constantly restarting our phones to see if there was anything we were missing. I do believe this will work for you, and I hope you find a permanent solution soon.
Thanks for the tip but i guess i am the lucky guy who still has the issue lol
Maybe hardware related? I will see what ice cs brings me
For today nobars helped but i did notice some batt drain from it but very minimal so its a keeper for now
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Had it for about a little over a month now and rooted it with Doomlord's method about 2 weeks ago.
Experiencing the following two issues:
-Sim card notification pops up and says something along the lines of 'Sim card not inserted'. End up rebooting my phone and it works again. This has happened twice and I can't find any threads involving the Skyrocket and this.
-No data connection. Happened about three times now. Wifi works, but can't get packet connection (yes it is on). Again, have to reboot phone and then it will work. The weird thing is that when I first turn it on, everything is fine, but then I checked my phone a few hours later, and I found that my e-mail not reloading.
Anyone know what's going on? I don't have many apps installed either. Just Titanium Backup (not even Pro because I wanted to see what was up with my phone before I bought it), JuiceDefender, one game and GVoice. If this was a one time occurrence, I don't think I would mind, but the fact that it's happened two times is making me a little nervous.
Thanks for reading through all this!
If you are rooted try installing cmw and flashing a new rom see if you still have the issue mine has done what you are talking about. But just thought it was a bad flash of something. Haven't had it happen since I did stock recovery and flashed the rom i'm on now.
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CaptainAmerica247 said:
Had it for about a little over a month now and rooted it with Doomlord's method about 2 weeks ago.
Experiencing the following two issues:
-Sim card notification pops up and says something along the lines of 'Sim card not inserted'. End up rebooting my phone and it works again. This has happened twice and I can't find any threads involving the Skyrocket and this.
-No data connection. Happened about three times now. Wifi works, but can't get packet connection (yes it is on). Again, have to reboot phone and then it will work. The weird thing is that when I first turn it on, everything is fine, but then I checked my phone a few hours later, and I found that my e-mail not reloading.
Anyone know what's going on? I don't have many apps installed either. Just Titanium Backup (not even Pro because I wanted to see what was up with my phone before I bought it), JuiceDefender, one game and GVoice. If this was a one time occurrence, I don't think I would mind, but the fact that it's happened two times is making me a little nervous.
Thanks for reading through all this!
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Go back to stock. If you have the same problem, call in the warranty. If you don't have the same problems then get another ROM.
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Sounds like Sim card acting up. I had problems when I first got my phone with bad Sim card keep loosing data.
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Sounds like u either froze or removed sim toolkit. U need this apk. Also juice defender can cause a lot of problems if not configured exactly right. Try uninstalling it
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Sounds like u either froze or removed sim toolkit. U need this apk. Also juice defender can cause a lot of problems if not configured exactly right. Try uninstalling it
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I still have sim toolkit. At least it says I do. I haven't frozen or uninstalled anything since I took it outta the box to be honest. Just deleted some stuff from the widgets screen.
Also, what do you mean by Juice defender configuration? Should I uninstall and re-install?
As for the other replies, I've started to keep a record of the errors. Knock on wood that I won't have more...but we'll see. Only time I get a break is in March so I may have to wait it out.
One other thing: If I want to unroot, is using Doomlord's unrooting method safe? I noticed that under the list of phones that work, there's only one...
thanks again
i have the same problem right now, Just got the skyrocket couple days ago, I upgraded it, under our daughters line, But im using it. I need to activate it with the new sim, for her, then after its all done, can take the new sim out and put it back into her phone, and put mine back into the skyrocket.
Its rooted and thats it.
I froze Sim toolkit and haven't noticed any problems...
what state or area are you in?
i have this same problem, on 2 different phones and 2 different sims. voice will work fine but no data will flow. no email, no browsing, no apps, nothing. it started the day i got the 1st phone (in the at&t store parking lot). eventually it will start working again - browser goes thru, emails deliver, etc.
i rooted and did sky rom on that phone and the problem followed. talked to support, no help. returned to stock and exchanged for a new skyrocket and sim, the problem still exists.
i think there is an issue with either the skyrocket or somewhere on at&ts network. if i pull my phone out at 10 random times during the day and attempt a data connection, it will fail 2 of those 10 times.
very frustrating with no obvious answer in front of me. i don't have lte in my area, and i am in my 30 day window with att, so im thinking of returning skyrocket and going with plan s2.
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-No data connection. Happened about three times now. Wifi works, but can't get packet connection (yes it is on). Again, have to reboot phone and then it will work. The weird thing is that when I first turn it on, everything is fine, but then I checked my phone a few hours later, and I found that my e-mail not reloading.
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i just found my problem, the skyrocket dont support the 200mb plan have to have atleast the 300mb. oh well lol.
Just rooted and installed the latest MIUI Rom (6.1) for the first time and I have not been able to connect to data. I know you have to toggle data and tried the GSM only and back to GSM/CDMA auto, however, no luck. I would post in the specific thread, but as a new user I am not allowed to. Any help would be appreciated and thanks in advance!
Edit: Wow for anyone still having this problem I turned on USB debugging on it worked. Not sure if that helped, but I think it worked for me.
Edit 2: Haha nevermind it was only a short fix. Still no data
Wow thats a weird fix. I would have opened the "download" app and switch between download via wifi and mobile data that fixed mine. Anyway glad u figured it out.
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Well you are right haha because it only lasted about an hour. Very odd. Tried to replicate it but couldn't.
Anyway, I tried what you said. It was already on mobile network, but I toggled it anyway. No difference. When I first change the phone settings it will show 3g and 1x, however, no data and then it goes straight to cell signal only. Love the rom, but no data is a killer. Seems like everyone is able to eventually get it.
Alright for anyone else having this problem I left it on CDMA only instead of auto and the 3g is working. Not sure if 4g will work, but I can edit later and let everyone know.
If anyone knows a 4g fix let me know.
Edit: Just got 4g randomly haha I have no idea what is going on.