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[Q] data and roaming issues

I hope this is in the right place if not I apologize. Anyways I was running AOSP v0.9 and this morning I turned off data to conserve battery life. After that my phone will only connect to 1x and it is always roaming. It seems to realize that it is supposed to be on USCC it even says USCC in the status bar. So I called customer service and they told me to do a *228 and from what I hear this is really bad for anyone running ASOP then I did it anyways and it connected me to verizon so I disconnected the call and am still stuck roaming and with no 3g. Then I decided to switch back to MIUI and I'm still having the same problems. Another weird note, if I set my network to automatic it kills my connection but if I put it on home only I am roaming. Any ideas guys.
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This is the same issue I posted earlier that I haven't resolved yet. I am getting the verizon thing when I dial *228 as well. It is really frustrating because the phone is virtually unusable for data now. Hopefully we get it figured out. I'll let you know if I come up with anything.
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OK so after doing some research, it looks like this issue can happen if you disable your data (using a toggle, such as the ones in the notification bars of some roms), and then flash a new rom or kernel or something with the data off. It looks like it wipes the APN? Anyone know if this sounds like what may be the issue or how we might go about fixing it?

Well I just got off an hour long call with tech support they think it is an issue with the radio and want me to do an exchange since I bought it less than thirty days ago. So I don't know maybe I should just cancel this and get a new phone with a new carrier. Maybe something with 4g. But I love this phone so I don't know what I'm going to do. Keep me updated if you find a fix.
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Check the Showcase AOSP thread. I managed to find a little trick that fixed our phones suffering from the same issue. Its worth a shot on yours.

add144 said:
Check the Showcase AOSP thread. I managed to find a little trick that fixed our phones suffering from the same issue. Its worth a shot on yours.
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Tried your method and nothing. Kind of running out of ideas here. Any radio/modem I should need would be in the ROM right? I have gone as far as to flash all the way back to DI14 and can't get this thing to work. Still can't figure out how it even happened in the first place.

Well I figured it out for me anyways. Call US cellular and they will give you a new phone under warranty. I'm on mine now. It is back to 2.1 and stock but it works!
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Well I figured it out for me anyways. Call US cellular and they will give you a new phone under warranty. I'm on mine now. It is back to 2.1 and stock but it works!
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Just got mine working about 10 minutes ago. Call USCC tech and they said that for some reason I was no longer "provisioned" for 3G service so they fixed it. I know our issues were a little different. Glad we're both up and running again. Now lets see if I can do something else to screw this up . . . . .

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Just got mine working about 10 minutes ago....Now lets see if I can do something else to screw this up . . . . .
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Amen to that I spent 4 hours on the phone with them yesterday and they couldn't fix it. So the actually brought me a new phone to my work. I couldn't believe they would do something like that.
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Wow now that's service. I have to say US Cellular has hands down the best customer service I have ever had to deal with. Store, tech support, billing. Everything.
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Now lets see if I can do something else to screw this up . . . . .
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Well it only took me about three hours I tried flashing a new kernel with an app I downloaded from the market can't remember the name but of course everything went to hell. Since I don't have a computer it took me 2 days to find one and get it flaked to stock in odin now my speaker doesn't work oh well maybe in another couple of days I can flag it again. Maybe I should just quit screwing worth it but it's just to much fun lol.
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No connection other than wifi, need help

Ok so first a little back ground... I have an at&t skyrocket, rooted and unlocked running gb on the t-mobile network. I have also flashed the blaze radio and it was working great. All of a sudden last night I have no Internet unless I am on wifi. I have good signal strength, batt is charged, tried several areas, wife's stock blaze phone is working perfectly so it's not the network. I noticed yesterday I started having issues after a spam email was open while I was trying to delete it. After that I had several missed texts,mms not working. I down loaded 2 anti viruses and neither came up with anything. I don't want to wipe the phone unless it's my last option, is there anyway to tell if my internet connection is being blocked? Maybe that spam email has hijacked my connection? When I check the widget I have for network, it's green and shows Tmobile 4g, is there anyway to tell if I do have network connectivity and it's just blocked?
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waxworkz said:
Ok so first a little back ground... I have an at&t skyrocket, rooted and unlocked running gb on the t-mobile network. I have also flashed the blaze radio and it was working great. All of a sudden last night I have no Internet unless I am on wifi. I have good signal strength, batt is charged, tried several areas, wife's stock blaze phone is working perfectly so it's not the network. I noticed yesterday I started having issues after a spam email was open while I was trying to delete it. After that I had several missed texts,mms not working. I down loaded 2 anti viruses and neither came up with anything. I don't want to wipe the phone unless it's my last option, is there anyway to tell if my internet connection is being blocked? Maybe that spam email has hijacked my connection? When I check the widget I have for network, it's green and shows Tmobile 4g, is there anyway to tell if I do have network connectivity and it's just blocked?
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I am assuming that you have already tried shutting the phone all the way down, letting it set for a minute then starting it back up?

Yes I have, pulled batt, let sit about 5 mins reassembled and nothing.
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Yes I have, pulled batt, let sit about 5 mins reassembled and nothing.
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You might want to take a look at your APN settings and make sure nothing malicious has messed around with them.
Mine quit working one time and I bout pulled my hair out trying to figure out what was going on. As it turns out, something had changed my APN to use a proxy server. Once I removed that one setting from the APN it started working again.

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You might want to take a look at your APN settings and make sure nothing malicious has messed around with them.
Mine quit working one time and I bout pulled my hair out trying to figure out what was going on. As it turns out, something had changed my APN to use a proxy server. Once I removed that one setting from the APN it started working again.
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Will do right now. Thank you
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Unfortunately that is not the case with me.
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waxworkz said:
Unfortunately that is not the case with me.
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You can always try an "in place" flash of the ROM that your are currently running. Simply flash it with only cache and dalvik cache wipes and see if that clears up the problem. If you have heavily modified your setup you will lose the mods, but that should fix the problem. I don't really think that the spam email you received, has anything to do with the problem you are experiencing. I am not a big believer in coincidence but this is an exception. I think it was just the luck of the draw that it started acting up after you received the spam email. I could be wrong, but in either case the in place flash should clear up the problem.

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You can always try an "in place" flash of the ROM that your are currently running. Simply flash it with only cache and dalvik cache wipes and see if that clears up the problem. If you have heavily modified your setup you will lose the mods, but that should fix the problem. I don't really think that the spam email you received, has anything to do with the problem you are experiencing. I am not a big believer in coincidence but this is an exception. I think it was just the luck of the draw that it started acting up after you received the spam email. I could be wrong, but in either case the in place flash should clear up the problem.
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Thank you for the direction. I didn't end up doing this, I re flashed the blaze radio and that seems to have done something. I don't know what the issue was but seems to be ok for now. Hopefully it doesn't start happening again.
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Samsung Support

Well, I'll start off by saying that I bought this phone new off of eBay and I've had it for like 4 months. Everything was great until I lost my IMEI a while back and then I manually injected it back. Ever since then, my phone has not been able to keep a connection with my 3G since the area I live in doesn't have 4G. Strange thing is that when I go to an area that has 4G, the connection is fine. So, I sent in my phone to Samsung a couple months ago...and they said they fixed it, so I was super happy! Then I saw that indeed...it wasn't fixed. Ever since I got it back from the "repair", the only way I have been able to have any sort of data is by changing the setting in my phone to CDMA only so that I can at least have 1X data. I have finally grown tired of this slow data and called Samsung again. All the guy said after a long conversation is that he could set me up with a other repair. I really don't think that'll do any good whatsoever, since it didn't do anything for me the first time. So, if anyone bothered to read through this whole thing, I thought I'd ask if anyone knows of anything I could do to try and solve my issue. I seriously would pay the person that helps me solve the issue. And if no one is able to help, then I have my shipping label and everything already to send my phone back to Samsung again. I hope it doesn't come down to that though! Anyways, thanks for reading!
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Bump for me!
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Bring it into sprint, and tell them that your invoking your samsung warranty. If they can't fix it you will get another phone. I had to do this after my phone, purchased from ebay, started to give me trouble with constant reboots for no reason, then it would freeze up.. It took one trip to the store, then a call to sprint to get it done..

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Bring it into sprint, and tell them that your invoking your samsung warranty. If they can't fix it you will get another phone. I had to do this after my phone, purchased from ebay, started to give me trouble with constant reboots for no reason, then it would freeze up.. It took one trip to the store, then a call to sprint to get it done..
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But I'm with Verizon
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I PM'd you so you could add me on gtalk to fix it. I had the same problem.
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[Q] Stumped. Please Help!

Alright, to begin. About a month ago I lost my GPS. Meaning, my phone could not locate itself. Move up to the end of last week...I was unable to send text messages, call out or receive calls. I WAS able to receive text messages. Also, I could use my mobile data (i.e. Internet). Then, I lost ALL capabilities and the phone went to asking me if I wanted to switch to GLOBAL ROAMING. Still, at this point I could ODIN flash to stock. However, I could not ROOT the phone. Even with flashing back to stock (unrooting), the phone would not call, or text, etc...Okay, still with me? So, yesterday, I took the phone to the local Verizon Corporate store to have them look at it. A new SIM card did not fix the problem. In fact, when he booted the phone, the boot and splash screen both came up with a picture of a big LOCK (that was unlocked) and the word "CUSTOM". He looked at us and said, "That's not supposed to be there.". It never was until that time (mind you, I had unrooted). The phone wouldn't even boot to the VZW stock recovery. He was awesome to work with and we did so for over an hour. He was going to replace the phone with a new one under insurance (even though I don't have insurance on the phone). But the phone was not in the system. They couldn't find it. "Like it doesn't exist". So, today I am still messing with it and have been all over the internet looking for a solution. I've ODIN'd the stupid thing so many times in the last two days. NOW, I DON'T have the big un-locked LOCK or the "CUSTOM" anymore, but I can't get past the setup screen because the phone is ROAMING! It will ask which language, then, at the next screen, it tells me to wait while it connects to Verizon Wireless and activates itself. At this point, the phone will make a phone call, ON ITS OWN, and I listen to people telling me that I may be eligible for a $100 gift card as well as other advertisements. I used to be able to pull down the notification bar and setup my wifi. Now, I can't do that.
I've tried every stock ROM available all the way back to 4.0.4. At first, that's what I would do and then, just apply the OTAs until i reached 4.1.2. Now, I can't even get that far.
I'm sure I've forgotten some things, but please ask away if that will help clear anything up. I've never had any problems with this device. Could it be a virus? Or is it doomed for the recycler? I have no idea what to do. Thanks.

Also, I remembered, when I was able to see my phone's info it showed I was connected to the network and everything looked as it should and would, normally. I still couldn't send texts, call, etc...on Verizon's customer representative end, they would also say that it would look like the phone was trying to do something but never would.
When I would request my IMEI#, it checked out fine. However, when I would use the dialer for the IMEI check, I would get the IMEI# followed by a /01 or /02. Not sure what that means, but thought I'd throw that out there, as well. Thanks

Now, when I'm in the aforementioned set up screen, my phone direct-calls Alltel. "Thank you for calling Alltel". WTH.
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just for a baseline where is the phone at now? As in what Rom, base(modem), bootloader locked/unlocked, kernel, prl, eri, imei still there not messed up?
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Your phone is shot. Same thing happened to my original s3. Started with gps, then started losing internet, and messages not working then making calls started to go. I tried everything I could. I had to call Verizon and get them to send me a replacement.
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bbolton_98 said:
just for a baseline where is the phone at now? As in what Rom, base(modem), bootloader locked/unlocked, kernel, prl, eri, imei still there not messed up?
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Hi. Unfortunately, I couldn't give the specifics because I don't really know. Other than, the last flash I did was Odin back to stock (un-root) and do all the OTA updates (up to 4.1.2). So, whatever all the stock, non-rooted S3s are running. Sorry I couldn't give more info. Thanks.
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Your phone is shot. Same thing happened to my original s3. Started with gps, then started losing internet, and messages not working then making calls started to go. I tried everything I could. I had to call Verizon and get them to send me a replacement.
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Thanks. Yeah, I was on the phone from 11pm last night until 1am this morning with Verizon and they couldn't get it working. Put in another "network fix" ticket but haven't heard back. Looks hopeless. My contract is up and I am really looking forward to the S4, but money is tight and I was going to wait a bit before that purchase. I was using an old Samsung SCH-U900 Flipshot as my backup. I don't have to tell anyone, but that sucked. Now, I can't even use that because they need the line clear for the work order. So, I'm helpless. How the heck did I survive before cell phones?!
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Welp, as a follow up, sent the phone off to Samsung. They sent it back with an updated PRL...and it WORKS!!! :good:

bbolton_98 said:
Thanks for the update, good to know to watch for prl. Glad you got it fixed.
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Hey, no problem and thanks. I was going crazy with the old Droid X. Anyway, because of the outcome, I thought it would be a good reason to post and maybe help others. ORIGINALLY, when we first called Verizon, that's the first thing I wanted them to try. Or at least let me try. I just couldn't get past the language set up screen and the phone making calls on its own. All they would do is a factory reset. Still not sure why the phone went berserk and changed up on me. Oh well, it's back now and I couldn't be happier.

Need help please. WiFi problems, can't find an answer anywhere...

Boy... I hope someone can help me out here. I have been searching for weeks with no luck. I have been having an issue with my stock 4.2.2 p5113 Tab 2 10.1 unrooted. I can't get it to find my home network. I can see my neighbors, even took it down to Arbys and was able to connect to their WiFi with no problems... Just can't connect or even see mine.
I have an Asus rt-n66r router. Have tried every channel and different frequencies. Changed every setting one at a time to see if it worked and nothing. Well... I take that back. Last night I turned off encryption and it popped up shortly... But went back away. When I go into advanced it shows the Mac address but IP says unavailable. I set up a static IP and that didn't help. I have reset the tab and router and even factory reset the router to no avail. It just doesn't make sense. Got this router back in March and its worked fine until now. Nothing has changed except me recently resetting the router to try and fix this. I have done everything I can think of but still can't see my own home WiFi. Everything else connects fine. Galaxy note 2, HP laptop on windows 8, smart TV, smart bluray, iPhone 5c, etc and everything else connects. Have even tried turning a few of them off to see if that helped but still nothing...
I really hope someone can help me. Had this thing for 2 years next month and it has always worked but at this point I feel like throwing it out the window LOL.
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Also use WPA2 encryption. Have tried just WPA and WEP push button but wouldn't find it still. And tried turning off encryption again and still not seeing my WiFi. Wanted to add that...
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Change wifi chanel,
Change password.
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Is this the only wifi device you own?
If you own another wifi device, does it see your wifi network?
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I tried every channel and none of them helped. Did reboot the router and changed everything and still not showing...
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No... Everything else works and shows the network. Have laptops, a windows tablet, an iPhone, a smart TV and blu ray and some galaxy note 2 phones and everything else works flawlessly. This galaxy tab 2 did and all the sudden can't see my home WiFi. Can see the neighbors, can see my TV sync and even worked when I took it to the local Arbys and used their WiFi. Only none it can't see is my router. I've only had the router since march. It cost about 150 bucks... Figured it would be decent... And it has except this one issue now...
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If a factory reset doesn't do it then your tablet is bonkers. If you scroll down to the bottom of list of networks is your network showing? Maybe it has (forgot ) your network?
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I went ahead and rooted and put on the slimbean ROM and still issue persists. So today I hooked up an old 15 dollar router I had from micro center and guess what? It showed up. So I factory reset my good Asus router and hook it all back up and still won't find it. I'm at a loss. Everything else in the house is connecting to that router no problem. Its some issue between this tab and this router... Only thing I dont get is why it worked before no problem and out of the blue it stopped connecting to the router without anything changing. I've been at this now for the past 24 hours pretty much non stop and I can't figure out what's wrong...
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Can you see your Asus router on the Tab WiFi networks at all? Is it at the very bottom saying "not in range" ?
Long press on it, if there you'll get option to "forget network" or "modify" / modify. If you don't see it them it's forgotten, try add new network,.
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No... It doesn't show up at all. I forgot it a long time ago. I do see my TV sync for the remote control and I see numerous neighbors wifi names come up... But not my Asus router LOL. Its just so frustrating especially after what I did today and could see the cheap Tenda WiFi router from micro center that I don't wish to use anymore because its old and out of date. I really am about to pull out my hair lol
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kalojado said:
No... It doesn't show up at all. I forgot it a long time ago. I do see my TV sync for the remote control and I see numerous neighbors wifi names come up... But not my Asus router LOL. Its just so frustrating especially after what I did today and could see the cheap Tenda WiFi router from micro center that I don't wish to use anymore because its old and out of date. I really am about to pull out my hair lol
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By "forgetting" a network you eliminate it from your list of networks, you then have to add it again as a new network. Could this be the case?
Images are examples of forgetting networks.
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No.. I understand what you mean. When I 'forget' a network, say on my phone, it will pop back up and I will have to click on it to connect to it. My home and guest WiFi names are no where on there. I scan and scan and they never show back up...
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That's weird! I think you should consider rooting and installing a custom ROM, maybe a stock rooted ROM. I have Android Andi's CM11 4.4.4 KK running on my P5113 and it runs great. I suggested custom rooted if want to use the TV remote app, if not you should try CM11.
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Do you have a link to that by any chance. I am new to this. I did root and use the slimbean ROM... And tried to use slimkat but I couldn't get it to work. I think it was my version of CWM I think... Thanks for all the help
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Here's the link for CM11 in case your intersted
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=48520321
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Thanks again for everything. I did try again and got Slimkat put on here... So I will be able to flash others now... But just checked and my WiFi is still missing. Oy. But thanks again for everything! If anyone else knows please let me
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Please let the forum community know if you find the answer to this wifi mystery. ???
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Different kernel?
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Different kernel?
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Op says stock /unrooted so only way to go to a different kernel would be to root and flash custom rom, and that will probably fix the issue. .
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Oh I did root and have flashed 2 Roms so far and neither have helped. Took the tablet down to McDonalds today and it was able to connect. But then went to a friend D's house, my phone connected to his WiFi but the tablet didn't see it. Seen his neighbors, but not his. So I am really lost at this point...
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