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I have tried 3 different versions of the Cyanogen mod on my Hero over the last few days and I can't get my data to stay on 3g. I'm staying in the same areas I've always used my phone and I never had problems before. Luckily I can stay on wireless most of the day, but 1x is driving me nuts.
Radio version is 2.42.01.04.27
Any suggestions? My last thoughts are to go back to stock and hope I get my 3g back...
zeropants said:
I have tried 3 different versions of the Cyanogen mod on my Hero over the last few days and I can't get my data to stay on 3g. I'm staying in the same areas I've always used my phone and I never had problems before. Luckily I can stay on wireless most of the day, but 1x is driving me nuts.
Radio version is 2.42.01.04.27
Any suggestions? My last thoughts are to go back to stock and hope I get my 3g back...
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Maybe you need to update your PRL?
As far as I know, the only way to do that is to flash a Sense ROM, go in to the settings (Under phone info, I believe), and do a PRL update. Then you can flash back to CM6.1 and see if it worked?
You can also try flashing different radios to see which gives the best signal for your area, but that has a slight chance of bricking your phone, so... Be careful?
xDragod said:
Maybe you need to update your PRL?
As far as I know, the only way to do that is to flash a Sense ROM, go in to the settings (Under phone info, I believe), and do a PRL update. Then you can flash back to CM6.1 and see if it worked?
You can also try flashing different radios to see which gives the best signal for your area, but that has a slight chance of bricking your phone, so... Be careful?
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PRL might be it. I doubt a different radio would help. I've not had any problems with the newest radio and I've been running on it for a while. I'm beginning to wonder if it's a problem with turning off wifi. If I restart the phone I can start and stay on 3g. But, if I change to wifi then switch back 3g doesn't return probably 90% of the time. Disabling and re-enabling data doesn't help either.
zeropants said:
PRL might be it. I doubt a different radio would help. I've not had any problems with the newest radio and I've been running on it for a while. I'm beginning to wonder if it's a problem with turning off wifi. If I restart the phone I can start and stay on 3g. But, if I change to wifi then switch back 3g doesn't return probably 90% of the time. Disabling and re-enabling data doesn't help either.
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Have you tried switching airplane mode on/off?
davec1234 said:
Have you tried switching airplane mode on/off?
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Isn't that basically disabling and re-enabling data?
Why not post in the correct. Section=Q&A.
Or in the cm6 thread?
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I don't really look at the data notification in the status bar but there have been instances where I have noticed that reads 1x. Mine seems to switch and like the OP said I am in all the same areas prior to the 6.1 update. I am using the same radio and PRL list as prior to the 6.1 update. I also have my wife turned off and never really turn it on. So this leads me to think that 1 either in some cases there is a problem with the data maintaining its 3G connection or 3G was busted prior to 6.1 and is now reading accurately...though I do not think that is the case since my sister has the same phone and is running sense and she is not losing 3G
Just out of curiosity, could this explain my poor batter life, I am only getting maybe 5hrs and that is with little to no use.
I had the same problem going to the Nov2 build of the blackmod, 3G dead, nothing worked to fix it short of flashing over to a stock build and do the re-provisioning via the #*# code. After that I totally wiped the phone and installed the new CM6.1 build and all is well.
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I had the same problem going to the Nov2 build of the blackmod, 3G dead, nothing worked to fix it short of flashing over to a stock build and do the re-provisioning via the #*# code. After that I totally wiped the phone and installed the new CM6.1 build and all is well.
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Yeah, I went back to stock and it was normal for me. The last rom I did was the blackmod so it might be something there.
Lol "wife turned off" haha
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Cyanogen 6.1 no 3G, After Using Wireless
I also noticed no 3G on 6.1. If I used wireless (802.11 to router), the 3G connection would be dropped, as expected and desired. Upon turning off wireless, the 3G connection would not be reconnected. This was not a problem with ADW not updating. All network apps reported no connection. After a reboot, the 3G connection was restored, until wireless was enabled.
I'm unable to get a data connection with any 2.2 Rom no matter what I try. I have this problem not only with CM 6 and 6.1 but also with AOSP which till the problem started I'd been running everyday since I rooted my phone in September.
Been running Liquid for about four days and haven't had any problems.
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And I thought I was going crazy! The last week I have been having TERRIBLE luck with my 3G connection with the latest builds, Tried the newest RC,,,,Themed froyos, AOSP, ETC, and kept having issues so finally said screw it and I'm back to 2.1 for a while, Atleast for a week or so till some more bugs are worked out! Anyone know any reason why this all of a sudden popped up after three months of builds???
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And I thought I was going crazy! The last week I have been having TERRIBLE luck with my 3G connection with the latest builds, Tried the newest RC,,,,Themed froyos, AOSP, ETC, and kept having issues so finally said screw it and I'm back to 2.1 for a while, Atleast for a week or so till some more bugs are worked out! Anyone know any reason why this all of a sudden popped up after three months of builds???
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It's google/sprint server issues
theimpaler747 said:
It's google/sprint server issues
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Where can I find out more about this? That might explain the issues my wifes having with her Evo. Thanks bro!
CyanogenMod-6.0.0-Heroc Works
Just to be clear, it was the 6.1 RC1 that gave me the problem with returning to 3G after using wireless.
6.0.0-Heroc works fine.
I have I think a kind of strange problem. I've had my V or a few months now and all of a sudden it doesn't get move than 2 bars on the reception scale where as before it used to get 3-5 sitting in my rec room. Don't know what changed other than adding and removing some apps that I wanted to try out. Don't know which are still there that weren't before but wouldn't think that apps would cause the reception to be poorer.
Thought about an antenna booster/adapter/extension but thought I'd ask others first.
Also, anyone added any antennas to theirs? I noticed there isn't an external connection for one and everything I've read so far talks about add one with the external connection.
Any help would be appreciated.
Try updating your PRL
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991668
My optimus had problems like that too, but after upgrading my by rom, baseband stuff is quite better.
Which one are you using ?
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Try updating your PRL
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=991668
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Agreed, Updating the PRL is highly recommended.
Sent from my VM670
Have you really noticed a difference by upgrading your PRL?
Don't know what PRL is
In reading all the responses I was afraid since I don't know what the PRL is. Several places warned against changing things in the PRL if you don't know what the PRL is.
I have rooted my phone and have changed the rom a couple times including bricking it a couple times but had a backup so I recovered but don't know what the PRL is so didn't try that avenue.
Jim
I flashed my PRL today and could only get data to work. SMS and Phone stopped working so I flashed back to my original PRL. I think it was trying to connect to the tower closests to where I was, but told me to call customer service If I wanted to use it.
ROM issue on signal reception
JimReid said:
I have I think a kind of strange problem. I've had my V or a few months now and all of a sudden it doesn't get move than 2 bars on the reception scale where as before it used to get 3-5 sitting in my rec room. Don't know what changed other than adding and removing some apps that I wanted to try out. Don't know which are still there that weren't before but wouldn't think that apps would cause the reception to be poorer.
Thought about an antenna booster/adapter/extension but thought I'd ask others first.
Also, anyone added any antennas to theirs? I noticed there isn't an external connection for one and everything I've read so far talks about add one with the external connection.
Any help would be appreciated.
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Recently I upgrade my ROM to cyagenmod 10.1. It shows the signal is very poor, but I did not face the issues on call receiving/making. This is the known issue ( fail to refresh the signal strength in status).
Also faced some other issues ( phone hang while call is coming in 'phone locked' condition'.
Finally changed the OS to Android 4.2.1 & PAC-MAN 19.9.0. Except the battery drain issue, no more issues now.
I'm experiencing intermittent connectivity while tethering my thunderbolt through either wifi or a usb cable. I usually have to restart the app or the phone to get it back. Anyone else experiencing this?
i used to have this happen to me alll the time. now i rarely see it. was using bamf rom at the time and nothing but grief. now i'm on synergy rom and using wireless tether 2.07 and no problems. which rom/kernel/radio are you using?
sg1dan said:
i used to have this happen to me alll the time. now i rarely see it. was using bamf rom at the time and nothing but grief. now i'm on synergy rom and using wireless tether 2.07 and no problems. which rom/kernel/radio are you using?
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funny you should mention that as i'm using bamf 3.0 haha. Guess I know what I need to do now.
btw, the latest wireless tether app, the 3.01 or something, doesn't work. try either the 207 or 205 version. whichever will give you better stability. the stock tethering app that comes with the rom and anyother rom, doesnt give me good results. i wasn't able to download even a 350mb rom without loosing the 4g, no its not a problem. i also noticed that the 4g disappears whenever i opened too many tabs at the same time on tethered computer. guess too many pages loading at the same time somehow overloads something. i have no explanation.
I use BAMF and have same problem and i noticed connectivety dropped when display went to sleep so when tethering i turn it to not cut off and i have no problems now
carycooke said:
I use BAMF and have same problem and i noticed connectivety dropped when display went to sleep so when tethering i turn it to not cut off and i have no problems now
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this is a different problem. i think that he's talking about the 4g connection disappearing for a second, then reappearing, but being unable to tether anymore. happens at random. ur talking about he wifi sleep policy thing.
i have an issue. i cant get any signal or data whenever i flash either an ics rom or jb rom, but works perfectly fine with gb roms. back when LC's v4 of his rom was out, i was using it with no problem. after that thats when it started giving me problems. ive tried typing in the apns manually and everything, it doesnt stick. sometimes messing with the phone, like turning it on/off or switching airplane mode on/off, would some times cause it to get reception or doing the network operators thing in the mobile setting will give me reception but no data. im currently on cm7, and ive tried every ics and jb rom that we have out and its the same thing. ive checked the leads and sim card and doesnt seem to be anything wrong. id unroot the phone and start from scratch but i dont have a working vol+ button. and dont know if the carrier matters but im running on simple mobile. if anyone knows and/or can help, id really appreciate it. thanks
I've heard people have similar issues on simple mobile. Probably a problem on their end. Also if your volume button is fail then who knows what else could be going out. Bad devices usually develop more than one issue when they start to go.
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I've heard people have similar issues on simple mobile. Probably a problem on their end. Also if your volume button is fail then who knows what else could be going out. Bad devices usually develop more than one issue when they start to go.
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Oh okay thanks. Guess I'm gonna stick with gb till I change phones.
But the for the reason my volume up button doesn't work is because it got some water in it when putting on my screen protector. Just wanted to throw that out there
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bluizzo said:
Oh okay thanks. Guess I'm gonna stick with gb till I change phones.
But the for the reason my volume up button doesn't work is because it got some water in it when putting on my screen protector. Just wanted to throw that out there
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Maybe too much water got into it and fried another circuit related to data and wifi? ics roms are pretty new and still a bit buggy... which ones have you tried? I'm using xgs-series 2.3.9 with no problems as of right now.
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Maybe too much water got into it and fried another circuit related to data and wifi? ics roms are pretty new and still a bit buggy... which ones have you tried? I'm using xgs-series 2.3.9 with no problems as of right now.
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The button problem happened before. I've tried all of them and it's the same thing. Haven't have issue with wifi or on gb, and I've been able to use ics up until LC's ics 4. something. The only thing that works is the network operater thing in the mobile settings. I can run on tmobile with no data, but once I shut off the phone it'll either have no service or randomly say to insert sim. I'd try a att sim, but I don't know anyone with att.
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When you say you've "typed in the APN manually and it doesn't stick", do you mean the phone isn't saving the information, or that it only gets reception for a short time?
The phone isn't saving it.
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5/19/2013 Update: The bug might be dead! Like for real this time. See this post, post number 14 in this thread with an explanation of what to do.
10/25/2012 Update: TRY THE LATEST BUILDS OF BRUCE'S CM10 STARTING WITH THE 10/25 VERSION!
Bruce has made a change that helps differentiate between the regular data stream and the MMS data stream in an attempt to see if that was what was causing the instability issue. This is only on Bruce's CM10 Kang as of 10/25. If you are only another CM ROM, flash Bruce's (even if just for a minute or two) and see if the data bug goes away. Please report back if it did!
If this does cure it, I'm sure Bruce will share the sollution to all other devs and your favorite other AOSP ROm will have the cure shortly.
Updated 10/24/2012
This is a detailed description of the 6 million or so things that various people have attempted to do in order to rectify the blinking data connection problem plaguing T Mobile USA users on AOSP ROMs for the Sensation. This issue is non existant in Sense based ROMs.
The problem has something to do with how the Sensation authenticates itself with the T Mobile Data Network. It's not based on the cell towers as voice calling is unaffected. The theory is that the AOSP framework lacks the proper authentication certificates for part of the data network and when the phone is routed to that part of the network, it gets kicked off teh network, then continually retries to connect.
This was and issue on the Sense Gingerbread Stock ROM in 2011 but T Mobile and HTC patched it. All Sense ROMs are free from this bug. But no one knows what exactly the patch was so AOSP ROM's have not been able to be cured yet.
Short version....
Problem started for me on Bruce's CM10 rom. But it's reported on all CM10 variants and most CM9 ROM's as well.
One day I noticed that data wasn't connecting well. It would blink on and off. Sometimes it would stay on, but if I turn it off then right back on, it might go back to blinking.
The problem exists on all AOSP roms (AOKP, CM9, all versions of CM10) even after full wipes and restores of known working nandroids.
Cell signal for voice calls works perfectly. No problems whatsoever. So the phone is connecting to T Mobile. It just won't get data.
Long version....
To fix this I've tried the following...and how each does or doesn't work.
Switch to 2G networks only and switch back. Problem remains, and still blinks E on the EDGE networks rather than being solid on them.
Updated the radio. Problem remains.
Updated the entire firmware package. Problem remains.
Superwipe and flashed Sense, verify data works well. Then regular wipe and flash a fresh install of CM10. Problem remains.
Flashed clean version of CM10 and fixed permissions. Problem remains.
Made calls from the phone. Some people have reported that this helps temporarily.
Sent myself a text message. Some people have reported that this helps temporaliy.
Turn on airplane mode for a minute then go back to normal. Some people have reported that this helps temporarily.
It's not related to Wifi at all because I've created the error on fresh installs of CM10 before ever turning Wifi on.
Formatted SD card. Problem remains (and just to be sure I got the error while the blank formatted SD was removed from the device)
Checked the APN's 100 times. They are correct.
Spent an hour on the phone with T Mobile. Their tech said everything looked good on their end. He cleared the SIM and reactivated it. Problem remained.
Other people have gotten new SIM cards and found that while they helped right away, the problem eventually came back.
The only things that have shown any help to multiple users are in bold above. There are various reports of 100 other 'fixes' that people swear fixed the problem for them. But all of them involved the phone disconnecting from the network and reconnecting. That appears to be the key to get data working again temporarily. Making calls and sending yourself text messages also forces authentication on the T Mobile network without breaking the original connection.
If you want more details or want to review the logs to see if you can figure it out, logcats of the problem are located in this post! Click here for logcatty goodness!
Here is the real kicker....
Everyone once in a while...it connects. And once it's connected it'll stay connected until I turn the connection off or reboot the phone. Then it'll go back to blinking in and out when I try to turn it back on.
Just another note, the data is finicky on my old LG G2x also on TMobile with AOSP based ROMs, talk works, but cell data won't come back after going into airplane mode and out, until a reboot. It works fine on official TMobile ROMs. I suspect there may be some proprietary cell data negotiation between handset and Tmobile towers that AOSP code doesn't have.
Whyzor said:
Just another note, the data is finicky on my old LG G2x also on TMobile with AOSP based ROMs, talk works, but cell data won't come back after going into airplane mode and out, until a reboot. It works fine on official TMobile ROMs. I suspect there may be some proprietary cell data negotiation between handset and Tmobile towers that AOSP code doesn't have.
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Okay here's an update on this for anyone who finds this thread through a search or Google or something....I'll try to describe this using the simplest terms possible so those of us who aren't cell tower engineers can understand it. (And I assume that's most of us, including me!)
The latest running theory is that the issue occurs due to the way the phone is handed off from 1 tower to another.
As you move your phone is handed off from one tower to the next. You get unregistered with tower 1 and reregistered with tower 2. That's normal.
However if you are within range of 2 towers you can't be on both. You have to be registered with 1, and that's supposed to be the stronger one. But AOSP ROMs lack a T Mobile certificate that authenticates which tower is supposed to have priority. So when the data is blinking you are getting bounced between 2 towers because the phone is trying to register with both.
The latest version of Bruce's CM10 ROM (Dated 10/10/12 and with TMOUS DATA in the rom name on the download page) supposedly includes patches that fix how this authentication works. And I only say 'supposedly' because the patches have only been up for about 12 hours so the jury is still out on how well it works. Personally I've been on it all day today and haven't had the data issue yet. But it can be days in between seeing it. So it'll take a while to know for sure that it's fixed.
If this turns out not to be the exact cause of the problem, it's something similar and a final sollution should be found soon.
Update: This have never been substantiated, and several users with the bug have reported knowing for a fact that they experience the problem when in range of only 1 tower.
Hi,
I have noticed with JB ROMS that you get 7 or 8 APN's,most of which do not apply to me.
Have you tried (making a note of your one first) and deleting all the APN's
Reboot,and just install yours.
malybru said:
Hi,
I have noticed with JB ROMS that you get 7 or 8 APN's,most of which do not apply to me.
Have you tried (making a note of your one first) and deleting all the APN's
Reboot,and just install yours.
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That's one of the 1000 things that's been tried, to no effect. If he APN is set to the correct one the extra APN's are ignored.
Nothing that you do within the phone can cure the problem. At most, forcing the phone to re-register with the tower is the only thing that can help, and that will be temporary if it works at all.
The best bet now is to hope that Bruce fixed it with his latest additions to CM10 now that we understand what the actual problem is (or at least that we think we do)
Update....
T Mobile data is still broken. It has not been fixed yet. The latest theory may just be one more in a long line of theories that turned out to be wrong.
There are days when I really hate this phone.
Thanks for the update. I've been monitoring that thread occasionally, but it has way too much traffic for me to keep up. I was close to switching to it, but I need good battery life and reliable cell service over any smoothness benefits of JB, which is why I'm sticking with HyperNonSense ICS for now.
been experiencing this issue for a couple months myself. currently stuck in a no data bout as we speak. i'm wondering if it has anything to do with the amount of data we've used. i noticed this last bout started right around the time i passed 5gb. should also be noted i'm on the unlimited 4g plan and tether like crazy. i guess i'll know if the problem persists until my next billing cycle. for now i'm stuck with a sense nandroid and crack flashing aosp daily to see if it's fixed.
cpittman said:
been experiencing this issue for a couple months myself. currently stuck in a no data bout as we speak. i'm wondering if it has anything to do with the amount of data we've used. i noticed this last bout started right around the time i passed 5gb. should also be noted i'm on the unlimited 4g plan and tether like crazy. i guess i'll know if the problem persists until my next billing cycle. for now i'm stuck with a sense nandroid and crack flashing aosp daily to see if it's fixed.
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I have tried the SIM swap fix. And that has apparently worked. I've been using in good for about the last 6ish hours without any problems. :good:
So i'd give that a shot if your willing.
I've been using CM10 KANG since it was available for HTC sensation. Never had the data blink issue. Recently, my phone started to have this issue. Data would simply not connect with CM10 or CM10.1 with any radio/firmware combination. I also noticed that when I travel to work, i get data say after 10 miles away from my home and it continues to work after coming back home. However, after restarting the phone, i hit the blink problem again. Wondering if its because of some cell tower maintenance/upgrade near my area.
So I was on bruce's ROM until a week ago and this never happened while on his ROM. Just upgraded to albinoman's ROM and this started happening. I have to send myself a MMS picture to get it back again. Hope this helps
Fix
Ive had this problem on and the only thing that seems to help is flashing a new ROM but then a few weeks later it returns... I realized that this only happens when I try to send an MMS message or attempt to receive them. I don't know how to stop receiving an MMS but just delete the picture message you're trying to send and your data should stop blinking on and off. Can't guarantee it'll work for you but it worked for me! GL!!
It appears as though this stupid annoying silly obnoxious bug has finally been squished, sprayed with 3 cans of Raid, and its' mangled corpse then burned to a crisp...I hope.
3 weeks ago W1ldFl0wer brought this fix to Albinoman's attention...
In the build.prop under phone>system was the following line....
ro.telephony.ril.v3=datacallapn,signalstrength
This line appeared like this on all AOSP roms for the sensation.
The fix was to add skipbrokendatacall to the line so it looked like this....
ro.telephony.ril.v3=datacallapn,signalstrength,skipbrokendatacall
Save the file, reboot, and data should spine right up and work fine. So far the peopl ewho have run into the data bug have implimented this change and BOOM, data fixed.
So if you use any AOSP ROM 4.0, 4.1, or 4.2 other than Albino's CM10.1 Kang just add skipbrokendatacall to that line and see if it fixes it. Only do this if you on in the US on T Mobile's network. If you are in parts of Europre making this change will screw up your data.
If you are using Albinoman's CM10.1 Kang ROM, he has already included this line in the build.prop for you. You just have to activate it. About 30 lines into the build.prop is the new line that reads...
#ro.telephony.ril.v3=datacallapn,signalstrength,skipbrokendatacall
Just delete the # in front of that line. (The # makes the ROM skip the line when loading everything, but lets it stay in the file so you can read it. Deleting the # means that the phone will read that line when it reboots.) Then go up to the line that says the same thing without skipbrokendatacall and delete that line entirely. Save the file and reboot. If you don't delete the original line without skipbrokendatacall, your phone will go haywire, data might not work at all, and you might inadvertantly trigger Z Day. So if you're not ready to fight in the zombie apocolypse, only leave one of those lines in the build.prop.
Hope this cures it for everyone! Again, don't make this change if you live outside the USA or are not on T Mobile's network! Doing so on other networks in other parts of the world could make things worse for your phone!
Here is the link to the post where W1ldFl0wer informed Albinoman of this fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=40755845&postcount=9003
I don't think W1ldFl0wer invented the fix, but he certainly is the one who made it public to Sensation users so go to that post and thank him/her bcause I might finally be able to stop obsessing over this stupid bug because of this user!!! :good: