Hello XDA,
I've been having problems with my Nexus S and I've tried everything I can think of to fix the problem but failed. Just wondering if someone would be able to help me.
Background:
I was using ICS Brainmaster's Koush version. I've been following the ICS builds since Drew Garen's SDK port. Then onto Kwiboos then I was flashing which ever ones I could get my hands on. Never a problem with installing on top after clearing cache. I had tried full wipes when I had problems but I installed v4-6 on top of the previous build.
The Problem:
So on the latest Brainmaster's build, one day I was low on battery so I turned on 2G networks only (not the first time I've done this on this rom) and proceeded with using it. When I was able to get a charger I tried to switch my 3G back on. At this point I could not get onto 3G anymore. Only edge. I tried toggling airplane mode, reboots, and playing around with the *#*#4636#*#* settings. Doesn't work.
So I gave up trying to fix my ICS rom and was thinking a full wipe would help. So I did a full wipe and installed the latest Brainmaster's rom (Koush ver). My memory fails me a little bit now but from what I remembered, on reboot I only had EDGE still. I tried Kwiboos ICS rom same thing. I tried Koush's b11 version same thing. I even tried a regular CM 7.1 rom and still no 3G.
At this point my phone isn't even connecting to EDGE anymore as well. I wasn't sure what was making it worse or what was fixing it. I even tried switching radios to the newest radio for i9020a and also reverted back to my stock radio for i9020a. I even tried the XX radios like the KD1 (the one I was on before all the problems) and the newest one as well.
In the "About Phone" section it shows that I don't have a network at all. When I try to search for networks I cannot see Rogers anymore but instead only one weird network 302490 (it stands for the Wind Carrier network).
I give up and hope that XDA has some ideas for me.
TL;DR
what I have tried
-Wiping does not help
-using different APNs (Rogers has two APNs)
-using different radios
-using different roms
-I even switched my sim card to my sister's NS and confirmed my 3G still works. I also tested my 3G on an Atrix and it works.
-restoring to an old nandroid didn't work
-playing around with the *#*#4636#*#* didn't help (like switching to GSM (auto) WCDMA etc, AND changing radio bands to USA)
xqz said:
Hello XDA,
I've been having problems with my Nexus S and I've tried everything I can think of to fix the problem but failed. Just wondering if someone would be able to help me.
Background:
I was using ICS Brainmaster's Koush version. I've been following the ICS builds since Drew Garen's SDK port. Then onto Kwiboos then I was flashing which ever ones I could get my hands on. Never a problem with installing on top after clearing cache. I had tried full wipes when I had problems but I installed v4-6 on top of the previous build.
The Problem:
So on the latest Brainmaster's build, one day I was low on battery so I turned on 2G networks only (not the first time I've done this on this rom) and proceeded with using it. When I was able to get a charger I tried to switch my 3G back on. At this point I could not get onto 3G anymore. Only edge. I tried toggling airplane mode, reboots, and playing around with the *#*#4636#*#* settings. Doesn't work.
So I gave up trying to fix my ICS rom and was thinking a full wipe would help. So I did a full wipe and installed the latest Brainmaster's rom (Koush ver). My memory fails me a little bit now but from what I remembered, on reboot I only had EDGE still. I tried Kwiboos ICS rom same thing. I tried Koush's b11 version same thing. I even tried a regular CM 7.1 rom and still no 3G.
At this point my phone isn't even connecting to EDGE anymore as well. I wasn't sure what was making it worse or what was fixing it. I even tried switching radios to the newest radio for i9020a and also reverted back to my stock radio for i9020a. I even tried the XX radios like the KD1 (the one I was on before all the problems) and the newest one as well.
In the "About Phone" section it shows that I don't have a network at all. When I try to search for networks I cannot see Rogers anymore but instead only one weird network 302490 (it stands for the Wind Carrier network).
I give up and hope that XDA has some ideas for me.
TL;DR
what I have tried
-using different APNs (Rogers has two APNs)
-using different radios
-using different roms
-I even switched my sim card to my sister's NS and confirmed my 3G still works. I also tested my 3G on an Atrix and it works.
-restoring to an old nandroid didn't work
-playing around with the *#*#4636#*#* didn't help (like switching to GSM (auto) WCDMA etc, AND changing radio bands to USA)
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isnt the KD1 radio for the 9020t not the 9020a? thats my favorite radio to use with my 9020t on tmobiles network.
there is a KD1 for all versions I'm pretty sure. I was using it for the last few weeks with no problems anyways. I switched back to the ones specific for i9020a as well but it didn't help me
Edit: The radio used from this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116884
"Radio for I9020a/I9020t/I9023
Radio JK1/Radio JK8
Radio KB1
Radio KB3
Radio KD1
Radio KF1"
No one has any idea? Simms22?
If not I think I'm going to restore, lock, and try to get a warranty from Rogers..
First make sure you have setup your gmail over wifi. Pull the sim out. Keep rebooting your phone(this can take a while) until it says no sim card at the lock screen. Pull your cover and slide your sim in while its on. The put it in airplane mode and turn airplane mode off and it should connect.
You may also want to try toggling airplane mode on and off between reboots. Sometimes the airplane won't go away when you do this until you reboot, don't worry about that. I've also had better luck getting this to work while connected to Wi-Fi.
I'd also try to minimize kernel flashing after you get it working, it usually causes total network loss again when you wipe dalvik. Putting you back at square one. Also be patient this can take a while. I'd also minimize reboots as they can force total network loss as well.
Also I've already sent my phone in for this issue and Samsung rejected the claim stating there was corrosion due to water damage. But magically all of my water indicators are still white.
Sent from my Nexus S using xda premium
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I decided to root my i9020a cuz I wanted to try the goodies. So I installed the CM7, but didn't quite like it, so then I decided to install this rom that is a kinda inbetween the stock and the CM7, but all of a sudden it died on me after a reboot I did after several days using the rom without problems.
So, I decided to install the stock rom from here and so I did. Ever since my phone doesn't connect to the 3G network and I checked with my carrier and I didn't go over my limit or anything, so I'm thinking maybe I screwed up the baseband or something.
So I tried this, but that didn't work. Tried directly doing to 2.3.4 and also first to 2.3.3. and then updating, still no 3G.
Currently my baseband reads: NO DGSXXKB3, but I remember that when I got my phone it used to read: I9020AUCKD1
How can I get back to I9020AUCKD1? Any ideas? Am I way off and it's not the baseband? Help? I'm really desperate now after hours of lurking around google and here
For 3G I need HSDPA 850 / 1900. I'm aware the phone supports 2100, but my country doesn't.
Thanks in advance
*#*#info#*#*
Phone information
Make sure "GSM/CDMA auto (RPL)" is selected for prefered network type
hit Menu
Select Radio Band
Choose "USA Band"
Should fix you up.
Edit:
Find your modem files here, it's a sticky in the development forum
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116884
Dude - you are a life saver!!
I don't know why, but this morning I woke up with no cell reception - no phone calls, no data - on a day my son was sick and I had to call his school - I have no landline! lol. All it would say is "Rogers" in the available networks.
Got it figured out though, wiped the thing, stock 2.3.4 image, then with the settings you had above, bam, worked like a charm. Back on koodo.
Phew! Thanks again
I've completely lost 3G ability on my NS, and I'm not sure what happened.
Here's my order of tweaks:
CM7 nightly (with 3G)
MIUI (with 3G)
ICS rom from SDK (no more 3G!)
ICS from kwiboo (no 3G)
ICS from koush (no 3G)
CM7 stable (no 3G)
I guess sometime during my playtime with the ICS from SDK build, something messed something up and subsequently I cannot get 3G anymore, regardless of ROM.
I'm not sure where even to begin troubleshooting.
- Yes, "use only 2G networks" is unchecked
- My APN should be correct, as they are the ones that loaded automatically from the ROMs. That has always worked before
Anyone have any ideas? I'm desperate for help. I haven't had 3G for what feels like a month!
Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19424857 in this post there is a link to the radios try flashing one of those to see if that fixes things. If not try flashing a stock unrooted rom and start over
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You know what? A new radio worked! I don't know why I didn't think of it before. Seems so easy in hindsight.
This brings up another interesting thing. Seems like a lot of the radios that used to give me 3g don't give it to me anymore, including the most popular ones people are using. That's weird...
edit: Actually, no radio issues anymore. My old radio gets 3g again, as well as others. I just needed to rotate the radio versions a few times and reboot a few more times and it fixed itself. Totally weird, but no more problems!
I had the same issue on AT&T 2 nights ago. It turned out that it was an AT&T network issue which was confirmed by tech. support.
For some reason I cannot connect to 3G. I can only get 4G or 1x. I've been running cm10 for awhile and I've switched back and forth between different ROMs including back to stock and other TouchWiz ROMs. I've not really sure when this happened because I didn't really notice at first, seeing as how I'm in a strong LTE area. I've tried using phone info and using the settings in cm10 under mobile networks. The strangest part of it is that in phone info, if I set it to EvDo only, my bars go empty.
I've updated to the latest modem, and like I said, I've tried different ROMs and even different kernels. I've used Odin to get all the way back to stock unrooted and everything. I can't figure out what could be causing this.
I lost my IMEI weeks ago but got it back so I don't think that's the issue.
Any help that I get can get would be really appreciated.
Thanks
Hi,
I have an HTC One XL from AT&T.
It is SIM UNLOCKED and BOOTLOADER UNLOCKED. It is running CleanROM.
The problem is that my phone looses 3G connectivity and the only way to recover it it's rebooting the phone. The 3G still shows but there is no activity and the apps try to connect until they say "network problem".
I don't use it on AT&T as I live overseas. I do not have LTE so my phone is set to "WCDMA preferred"
I tried with other roms (CyanogenMOD 10, MIUI, etc.) and with almost every RADIO (flashing them with TRWP Recovery and wiping cache/dalvik after).
When 3G/HDSPA works, internet works really fast... but then it "disconnects" and everything sucks.
What do you recommend?
Best Regards.
Not a fix, but have you tried turning airplane mode on/off rather than restarting your phone?
I used to get this problem constantly with stock. Once I installed Viper, I haven't had a problem since. Don't know enough about radios to tell you if a new rom flashes a different radio though.
Try going into recovery, and wiping cache and Dalvik. Similar to area51avenger, I've had this same problem on a couple ROMs, and wiping cache and Dalvik fixed it. Might not work for everyone, but it can't hurt.
My friend i aleady tried that without any good result.
Sent from my Nexus 7 using Tapatalk 2
do you have the right APN? if you dont have the correct apn for the LTE network then it will drop connection whenever it searches for one. Maybe just run on WCDMA/gsm instead of WCDMA/GSM/LTE. It solved the problem for me on rogers here in Canada on cleanROM
I have the right APN.
Here we dont have LTE so I run the phone in WCDMA/GSM only... no LTE
Problem persist.
Also replace the phone IS NOT AN OPTION
Sent from my One X using Tapatalk 2
Is there something like fast dormacy?
Please, need help.
I've had the same experience on both rooted and non-rooted HOX's with various ROMs. I have concluded that it has nothing to do with the ROMs and more to do with the HOX itself but only when not on LTE. Before LTE was turned on in metro Detroit I had this problem constantly. I use the Airplane mode trick to resolve the issue in most cases. Now when I'm in an LTE coverage area my data is very reliable but as soon as I'm somewhere that doesn't have it (rural areas or inside with a poor signal) that ugly problem returns. It sucks because it's clearly a widespread issue that may never get resolved and I don't know who to hate at this point.
So, I got a AT&T Skyrocket s2 i727 from amazon. its already unlocked and i noticed it was stuck on edge speeds when i put in my sim card. I researched why it was on google and came across this site, which i have to say is amazing!. i have read every topic there is about how to root/unroot, flash roms, radios, kernels, etc. over the last i dunno, week or so. So i decided to give it a try since everything is step by step, which im not illierate towards, i understood what it all meant. first thing i started out with is odim and flashed the cwm touch for the skyrocket, which was easy. i then researched some more and seen i wanted to make this phone on tmoblies 4g service, which here in iowa is called IWireless, anything tmoblie works with this since they are an affiliate of tmoblie. I started out downloading all the radios, which i have:
cwm-tmob-kl1-radio
Telus_SGH-T989D_Kj3_radio
Tmo_SGH-T989_KID_radio
Tmo_SGH-T879-UVLG3_radio
Tmo_SGH-T989_VK1_radio
Tmo_SGH-T989_UVLE1_radio
Blaze_4G_LB7_ICS_Radio_MOD
so as u can see ive got pretty much all of them. then i found which rom i wanted to use, i downloaded CM9 and CM10. for the CM9 build i seen the best kernel for it: InstigatorX-CM9-Kernel3-v6.0.3. also downloaded the gapps for each cm build.
then i followed the instructions the CM team left, backup, factory reset, format, install the radio, then cm os and finally the gapps.
I did all this with each radio and each cm, everything. no i did not brick my phone im alot smarter than that lol. whenever i try a radio, usually im just stuck on the edge speeds. i go into my settings on the phone and it wont save me selecting the lte/gsm/wcdma, just stays on the wcdma preferred....when i did each radio i started from fresh, cleaned everything out, even tried the davlik wipe in the advanced settings in cwmtouch.
so i read in other forums that ppl tried to flash over radios. that didnt work, i was left with no signal at all.
i still have the imei number on my phone when i dial *#06#, so i havent lost that, but every radio i use my baseband version says unknown.
also when i enter the service code in for cm10 and cm9, it wont save my selction of what bands id like to use....
so any help here would be appreciated...im losing my mind over this and it sucks...thanks for anyones help, i need it.
Edit:
switched back to stock ics from my recovery, installed the blaze radio, showed i had 4g, but had no bars. i called someone and after i called them it went back to edge. went to search for networks and all i can get is E again. under settings it shows im on edge 2....so im close but obvisously not close enough. i live in a major city here in iowa and i live a few blocks from a wireless tower...any ideas?
dragonkev_ia said:
So, I got a AT&T Skyrocket s2 i727 from amazon. its already unlocked and i noticed it was stuck on edge speeds when i put in my sim card. I researched why it was on google and came across this site, which i have to say is amazing!. i have read every topic there is about how to root/unroot, flash roms, radios, kernels, etc. over the last i dunno, week or so. So i decided to give it a try since everything is step by step, which im not illierate towards, i understood what it all meant. first thing i started out with is odim and flashed the cwm touch for the skyrocket, which was easy. i then researched some more and seen i wanted to make this phone on tmoblies 4g service, which here in iowa is called IWireless, anything tmoblie works with this since they are an affiliate of tmoblie. I started out downloading all the radios, which i have:
cwm-tmob-kl1-radio
Telus_SGH-T989D_Kj3_radio
Tmo_SGH-T989_KID_radio
Tmo_SGH-T879-UVLG3_radio
Tmo_SGH-T989_VK1_radio
Tmo_SGH-T989_UVLE1_radio
Blaze_4G_LB7_ICS_Radio_MOD
so as u can see ive got pretty much all of them. then i found which rom i wanted to use, i downloaded CM9 and CM10. for the CM9 build i seen the best kernel for it: InstigatorX-CM9-Kernel3-v6.0.3. also downloaded the gapps for each cm build.
then i followed the instructions the CM team left, backup, factory reset, format, install the radio, then cm os and finally the gapps.
I did all this with each radio and each cm, everything. no i did not brick my phone im alot smarter than that lol. whenever i try a radio, usually im just stuck on the edge speeds. i go into my settings on the phone and it wont save me selecting the lte/gsm/wcdma, just stays on the wcdma preferred....when i did each radio i started from fresh, cleaned everything out, even tried the davlik wipe in the advanced settings in cwmtouch.
so i read in other forums that ppl tried to flash over radios. that didnt work, i was left with no signal at all.
i still have the imei number on my phone when i dial *#06#, so i havent lost that, but every radio i use my baseband version says unknown.
also when i enter the service code in for cm10 and cm9, it wont save my selction of what bands id like to use....
so any help here would be appreciated...im losing my mind over this and it sucks...thanks for anyones help, i need it.
Edit:
switched back to stock ics from my recovery, installed the blaze radio, showed i had 4g, but had no bars. i called someone and after i called them it went back to edge. went to search for networks and all i can get is E again. under settings it shows im on edge 2....so im close but obvisously not close enough. i live in a major city here in iowa and i live a few blocks from a wireless tower...any ideas?
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Flash a T-mo radio that gets you on the network, then look around and find the proper APN settings for your provider. You will have to go into the APN settings on your phone and create a new APN with those specific settings for it to work properly. I am not sure what those settings are for T-mo but you should be able to find them with the search feature.
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Flash a T-mo radio that gets you on the network, then look around and find the proper APN settings for your provider. You will have to go into the APN settings on your phone and create a new APN with those specific settings for it to work properly. I am not sure what those settings are for T-mo but you should be able to find them with the search feature.
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so ive went back to the recovery, which the phone was set at before everything, flashed the radios of blaze and the uvle1 and it shows i have 4g but it bareley even runs. also each time i flash a new radio my apn settings are there, iwireless automatically downloads them to ur phone when u turn it on, and i verified the apn settings with another iwireless phone, an alcatel 995(4g phone). and now i can send a text message, the other phone receives it but the other phone doesnt receive mine. any other ideas? im going to try flahsing all the tmo radios to the phone and see what i can do. also is the radio and the modem the same thing? do i need to find a tmo modem and flash it on there and then a radio?
EDIT: nvm radio and modem same thing it seems like...lol. anyways ive tried the other radios, i completely lost signal with them as to they wont work. does anyone have any other radios that might work? i dont care if it gets 4g just at least 3g lol. im just geting tired of working on this and about to give up this really blows.
dragonkev_ia said:
so ive went back to the recovery, which the phone was set at before everything, flashed the radios of blaze and the uvle1 and it shows i have 4g but it bareley even runs. also each time i flash a new radio my apn settings are there, iwireless automatically downloads them to ur phone when u turn it on, and i verified the apn settings with another iwireless phone, an alcatel 995(4g phone). and now i can send a text message, the other phone receives it but the other phone doesnt receive mine. any other ideas? im going to try flahsing all the tmo radios to the phone and see what i can do. also is the radio and the modem the same thing? do i need to find a tmo modem and flash it on there and then a radio?
EDIT: nvm radio and modem same thing it seems like...lol. anyways ive tried the other radios, i completely lost signal with them as to they wont work. does anyone have any other radios that might work? i dont care if it gets 4g just at least 3g lol. im just geting tired of working on this and about to give up this really blows.
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Modem and radio are same thing. Other than an APN issue I know of nothing else other than a #*number combination to enable lte settings. I am not sure what that combination is though as I live in a not-lte area and have not needed it. You may want to search the SkyJB thread as I think it was discussed at length in there. And I would try each and every one of the t-mo radios/modems as you might actually find one that works to enable 3g/4g in your particular area.