I've noticed that I've never gotten my radio or signal indicator to turn "blue" (or whatever color) - it's always been gray on the Skyrocket. I was under the impression that, starting with 2.3, a colored indicator signified a valid connection to Google services, whereas gray meant you had data connectivity, but that GTalk was essentially not marshalling all your Google syncing. I thought it may have been because the Skyrocket is the first device that I've used my Google Apps account as my initial account, but then I noticed over in the screenshots thread that everyone else had gray indicators as well. I'm also seeing a bunch of warnings in logcat about "RADIO TECHNOLOGY CHANGED."
I'm especially interested in anyone that can shed light on this because I'm not getting any background syncing, other than GMail. Latitude, Facebook, and all other "syncish" services appear to only update when they have focus.
I'm fully stock at this point, using the PTA APN in a non-LTE market, though I have tried the WAP APN as well, without success. My SIM has also (allegedly) been provisioned for LTE. I did call AT&T about this, but ended the call once the girl had to Google what the Latitude service does.
Its always grey and make sure you have background data enabled and auto sync
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Its always grey and make sure you have background data enabled and auto sync
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Thank you, yes. They are always gray, and I do definitely have background data and auto-sync enabled. My questions probably weren't very clearly stated:
1) Does anyone else think it's odd that the indicators are always gray? I've had several 2.3 devices, including two others with Samsung TW on AT&T, that all colored signal indicators when connected to Google services. I thought this was one of the artifacts of 2.3.
2) Is anyone else having issues with Google services not auto-syncing, such as Latitude?
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EDIT: Seems when the data services setting is on the phone behaves differently. - Thanks for the input.
Hello all, I am new to this group. Ive learned a lot, and I'm able to get around pretty good as a result of what I've learned here so thanks to you all.
I use SRINT - I have an HTC touch pro2. I've never had a good signal in my home as it's in one of those area's where there is no coverage accoridng to their map. However, I usually have a good enough signal to do most everthing I need to do but still low end..
Yesteray I noticed my 'EV" icon for the first time. Then it went into roaming mode w/ 1xrtt. Never saw this icon either. Today, same thing - except I'm not going into roam mode to often. I don't see any new sattelites up in my area. I have no "signal" icon so there aren't any bars. I'm recieving calls and the reception is incredibly good. However since all I have is the EV, I can't tell what my signal strength is. Can anyone explain this behavior?. I thought I might of hit some buttons accidently and changed some setting unkowingly. thanks
What does satellite have anything to do with cellular coverage. Why don't you have a signal icon? Did you install some weird taskbar? Sounds to me you re just on the edge of 3g so you see ev or 1x. Also 1x isn't roaming it just not 3g data speeds
I don't know. that's why I was asking. I haven't installed anything but Bing and Google maps. When I go into settings->turn on data services, the signal goes out and EV lights up with data transfer showing. Shut off data services, I get my icon back with one bar, EV icon on no data transfer showing. Have no clue what it's doing yet, exc;ept I see no difference in e,ail, internet , messaging, regardless if "data services" are on or off. If I go into "roam" i.e. the roam ICON lights up, then 1x icon is on instead of EV. NOW.. I turned data services off, I got my signal icon. I update the local weather, and the signal icon goes out EV lights up showing data exchange, I look at my seetings and data services is on. Probabaly turned on when I forced the weather to update.
This is so confusing but it sounds like everything is working fine to me. Screen captures of these changes would help because your descriptions are confusing to me.
Hello,
my service provider displays the roaming triangle always on the top of the screen. Even if I am not connected to the 3G/Data.
When I checked it with another provider, using a different sim card, it dissapeared.
Does anyone have any idea or a solution? I selected the "don't roam" also, it is always there and in front of tiles and programs its really annoying.
I don't mind if it's always hidden. Thank you!
maybe a registry tweak?
I had a similar problem with the call forwarding icon. all i did was enable call forwarding and then disabling it and restart. the icon went away.
Thanks but is not my solution... I guess a registry edit will give the trick
Dumb question -- Did you try a battery pull?
Also, maybe in your area you're always on an alternate provider's network. Some cellular companies sign agreements to carry each others traffic. I'm not sure if the phone can be programmed to still use these alternates in "Don't Roam" mode.
I think my company works like this. So i thought of a registry tweak
My phone gets the triangle allot, when I hazy evo I wouldn't . What gives? I think its a bug....
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that means evo is buggy...
Whenever I'm on my company's Wi-Fi network, many notifications and refreshes (e.g., Gmail updates, SMS) are delayed. They often flood in at the same time more than an hour after the fact (unless I go into each app and manually refresh/sync). Also, it seems like my location is never accurate while on my enterprise Wi-Fi, particularly when I look for weather at my location. None of these issues exist when I'm off of Wi-Fi at work or when I'm on my home Wi-Fi. (BTW, I didn't have these issues when I had my iPhone 5.)
Is this simply an issue with the way the enterprise Wi-FI is set up? Is there anything I can do in my settings to fix this?
My work WiFi ( in England ) makes my phone think it's in Germany. I guess that's where the main server is. Location services might be better with GPS only. SMS shouldn't be delayed through the WiFi though. Maybe it's a problem with your phone?
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Yeah it all depends on where your server is routing traffic before it goes on the internet. There could some branch office to main office links setup which sends your traffic there first, that's for the location stuff.
Firewalls could be blocking pings though which is needed for push GMAIL and such. No way to really know unless we know your network setup.
As was mentioned, SMS shouldn't be a difference unless you are talking about Hangouts or other Messinging apps (those use DATA, not the WCDMA Air interface that SMS does).
I think it is some kind of corporate firewall or av scanner. Not sure what to tell you.
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Hi there.
I have been recently working outside my home country and I disable my mobile data as soon as I reach the airport.
My Nexus 5, now with 4.4.3 reports 0 bytes of data when I am in roaming and I never got a notification or any sort of activity that may point to a data access being made, yet my service provider sent a big bill with many 10KB accesses during the time I was in roaming.
The same problem might exist while at my home country, but since I have a few hundreds of MB to use each month, I can't really tell.
Anyone else is facing the same problem?
I will temporarily ask my service provider to block my data access while in roaming, but I would like to understand if that is some sort of Android bug or a service provider charging what it shouldn't.
I've looked a bit more into this issue and I suspect that it was the Google Location Services that try to obtain the positioning from the cellular mobile network.
I've installed the Network Monitor Mini and it showed me a few times that process has a residual network usage.
Since I'm on Wifi most of the time, I assumed that network usage was on the WiFi but now I understand that being connected to the WiFi doesn't mean that the phone cannot use cellular data.
Can anyone that uses little Mobile Data (disabled in the Settings most of the time) confirm that the eventually you get some cellular data charged if you have the Location Settings set to use the mobile networks?
Sorry for the monologue, but this might be useful for someone that may face this problem in the feature.
After being more attentive to the network usage pointed by Network Monitor Mini, I think I found the culprit.
I've spent the last weeks with mobile data completely off, using only WiFi, yet on a couple of occasions I noticed Network Monitor Mini reporting minimal network usage being made when no know network WiFi was around.
As the screenshot shows, the WiFi is not connected to any known access point, yet some data was being uploaded by one of those processes.
I think the phone is trying to ping the cellular antenna for a location, thus accounting for mobile data access.
I've disabled the location and I will keep monitoring the data usage to see if that is the real culprit. Also noticed that Network Monitor Mini has a traffic breakdown mode per interface. I'll use that to distinguish wifi and cellular data.
why not just disable data complete, a data signal wont even appear because it wont be connected to data? go to main settings, more, mobile networks, data enabled.. now uncheck it and your data connection will disappear, but your phone connection will stay.
edit.. and if you have root, you can install the disable service app, then you can disable the 5 differing types of location services that your phone uses.
Hi simms22.
Like I said on the first post, that was the first thing I did in the airport. I'm not saying simply disabling roaming data, I disabled data completely.
The point I'm trying to show is that even with mobile data disabled, in roaming I still got several tiny chunks of data registered by my operator and I occasionally noticed Network Monitor Mini showing 0.1KB upload, as shown in the screenshot.
Regards.
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Hi simms22.
Like I said on the first post, that was the first thing I did in the airport. I'm not saying simply disabling roaming data, I disabled data completely.
The point I'm trying to show is that even with mobile data disabled, in roaming I still got several tiny chunks of data registered by my operator and I occasionally noticed Network Monitor Mini showing 0.1KB upload, as shown in the screenshot.
Regards.
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well, a little bit of data can be transferred through the phone signal(sms). do you have disabled in wifi settings, bottom right three dots, advanced, scanning always available? that uses the wifi to scan for location even when wifi is off, maybe they do that with the mobile signal as well. anyways, about a month ago, google location services kept waking my device non stop, so i completely disabled them in the google play services using the disable service app(i have root). now google never checks for my location unless i let it.
Hey.
I disabled the Location services in Settings, restricted the background data and so far it has been three days with no data accesses registered by my provider.
I don't think the background data is responsible for the traffic so I will wait a couple more days and then re-enable it.
I think the Location services are useful and I do like those small things it offers like weather prediction for where you are, where you parked the car, time to go home/work and movie times near you. The only problem is that it doesn't seem to respect the Mobile data status.
Just raised an issue in the AOSP tracker
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=72332&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
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VuDuCuRSe said:
Just raised an issue in the AOSP tracker
https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=72332&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
If you share the concern on this problem, please star it to give visibility.
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It also happens with me but I have a Galaxy S4. It's a huge defect to alow location to consume mobile data even with the data roaming and mobile data disabled.
So I was trying a trick that user greatlands posted on the Oneplus forums about being able to boost your LTE speeds by changing what the radio searches for. This was through the *#*#4636#*#* phone info area and selecting the radio bands. Good news is i've never seen speeds like this before. the bad news is that i fiddled with it some more and now i dont have roaming data. I didnt have MMS either though LTE anymore but that was fixed by using hangouts sadly. I switched from davlik to ART runtime then back to Davlik, but nothing seems to work with the Roaming Data.
I've included some screens of the pertinent settings and maybe you can help me.
In the screenshots Andriod tuner says that i'm connected to roaming but have no data connection.
I included the Speed test pic to show there is external IP, but no internal IP. is that normal?
Also included my APNs. Should there be that many? it seems excessive.
The reason why roaming data is important to me is that i work on a riverboat and am in the boonies most of the time, or some small city with roaming. i can do wifi on the boat but to do picture messages i need roaming. Please help.
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So I was trying a trick that user greatlands posted on the Oneplus forums about being able to boost your LTE speeds by changing what the radio searches for. This was through the *#*#4636#*#* phone info area and selecting the radio bands. Good news is i've never seen speeds like this before. the bad news is that i fiddled with it some more and now i dont have roaming data. I didnt have MMS either though LTE anymore but that was fixed by using hangouts sadly. I switched from davlik to ART runtime then back to Davlik, but nothing seems to work with the Roaming Data.
I've included some screens of the pertinent settings and maybe you can help me.
In the screenshots Andriod tuner says that i'm connected to roaming but have no data connection.
I included the Speed test pic to show there is external IP, but no internal IP. is that normal?
Also included my APNs. Should there be that many? it seems excessive.
The reason why roaming data is important to me is that i work on a riverboat and am in the boonies most of the time, or some small city with roaming. i can do wifi on the boat but to do picture messages i need roaming. Please help.
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Holy balls. I fixed it. Not a bug. I dont know if these settings i switched it to are pertinent, but i fiddled around and fixed it.
cellinfolistrat=0
(it should SAY this after)
Turn ON IMS registration
Turn ON sms
Turn ON lte Ram dumb
Toggle dns Check not allowed.
then hit top right and enable data. data comes through now. False alarm