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[Q] Suddenly no signal

Hey
I am experiencing the following problem with my new Sensation (EU, unbranded, ROM 1.28.401.1, radio 10.42.9007):
From time to time it suddenly loses its signal and the only way to fix it is to disable and enable the radio (flight mode or testing-menu).
Any ideas how to fix/debug this?
I could get a new SIM card or flash the leaked RUU with the newer radio or get a new unit. How should I continue?

draexler said:
Hey
I am experiencing the following problem with my new Sensation (EU, unbranded, ROM 1.28.401.1, radio 10.42.9007):
From time to time it suddenly loses its signal and the only way to fix it is to disable and enable the radio (flight mode or testing-menu).
Any ideas how to fix/debug this?
I could get a new SIM card or flash the leaked RUU with the newer radio or get a new unit. How should I continue?
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Search "Death Grip" and learn how to hold your phone to avoid this problem.
Stinks, but you can get around it.
P.

PaulGiz said:
Search "Death Grip" and learn how to hold your phone to avoid this problem.
Stinks, but you can get around it.
P.
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It's certainly not the death grip problem I meant! I flashed the leaked RUU yesterday evening, until no the problem did not occur again.

Check the networks.. i select GSM only and it works better...

prateekgujral said:
Check the networks.. i select GSM only and it works better...
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I will definitely try this later, because I been having this problem for a while now, and it only happens when at home!!! and nowhere else!!!
I'll let you know guys!!! wish me luck guyz, cuz if this dosn't work .. ama take to them chines around the corner, and pray they bring back safe!!! ...

I also have this problem and nothing seems to resolve it.
Its certainly not the death grip issue as it happens when the device is sat on a table and not moved, can change from 3 bars to no signal and back again.
I however dont have to disable the radios though as it just comes back on its own.
I always have mine set to GSM only due to the intermittant 3G in my area so its alos not that either.
This never used to happen to either my magic, Desire or Desire S, or any other phone ive had recently for that matter, very, very annoying.

Upgrade your RUU.
1.35.401.1 has fixed this for me - no sleep problems, WiFi connects a HELL of a lot faster, and temproot still works
(I have (and have had) no touchscreen issues)

I have exactly the same problem as dndxn
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Same problem here.
t-mobile US.
Also, it has happend on 2G and 4G.
Hoping for a update soon.

So far flashing the newest leaked RUU fixed it for me. But flashing also included a full wipe, so doing one might also help.

Yes, Yes, Yes, Yes, .... it worked!!!!!!!!
I changed the Network setting to GSM only and now I have my network signal back ...!!!! full bars!!!
is there anyway to guide others having the same problem to this thread???
Thanks guys ....

[Q] new HTC desire S sms delay

i just about to ask anyone of u experienced sms delay to received..
its happen after i updated my phone from HTC auto update..
model : HTC DESIRE S S510E
baseband : 20.28I.30.085AU_3805.06.02.03_M
android version :2.3.3
kernel version : 2.6.35.10-G2EE27F5
BUILD NUMBER : 1.48.707.1 CL85460 RELEASE KEY
im from malaysia with DIGI provider..
any help will be thankful in advanced!

it happened to me in 1 day.. but i thought that is from the provider.. cause it happened just that day... now i don't have any delays..

mariuck said:
it happened to me in 1 day.. but i thought that is from the provider.. cause it happened just that day... now i don't have any delays..
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its still happen to me :/

Stupid question but have you restarted the phone?
you could try to re register your device on your network
Settings...wireless & networks....mobile networks.....network operator.......search network
And select your network
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ben_pyett said:
Stupid question but have you restarted the phone?
you could try to re register your device on your network
Settings...wireless & networks....mobile networks.....network operator.......search network
And select your network
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yeah seem stupid for me too dude..
i restarted the phone countless time until now..so how many time u want me to do so?
check the network a few times..and trying both setting..manual and auto..
still no luck..
so as a "GURU" like u..any help for me?

Hanakie said:
yeah seem stupid for me too dude..
i restarted the phone countless time until now..so how many time u want me to do so?
check the network a few times..and trying both setting..manual and auto..
still no luck..
so as a "GURU" like u..any help for me?
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I'm certainly no guru
I'm afraid no ideas...although I'd be tempted to say it's probably an operator issue and not related to the update
Swyped from HTC Desire S using XDA Premium

ben_pyett said:
I'm certainly no guru
I'm afraid no ideas...although I'd be tempted to say it's probably an operator issue and not related to the update
Swyped from HTC Desire S using XDA Premium
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i also tried with a different sim card from another provider..but still same.. :/

What about your phone's timezone, is it set to the correct one?
Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA App

monkey21stc said:
What about your phone's timezone, is it set to the correct one?
Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA App
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yeah, that still on track..lolz

did you solve the problem mrs been having the same problem on her desire s on tmobile and a friend also using the desire s on tmobile wonder if its network or phone problem

I have had this problem since an OTA update from my provider (O2).
I have put it down to the known issues which are outlined in this thread...
Ah I can't post threads...google android forums signal drops completely htc desire s
(androidforums.com/htc-desire-s/396171-signal-drops-completely-htc-desire-s.html)
I have put my phone on GSM only and no problems at all, as soon as I switch to GSM/WCDMA Auto. I get lots of issues, delayed txts, calls to me go straight to answer phone etc.
Running 2.3.3..........hoping to update soon, which, fingers crossed with help the issue

roidroid said:
I have had this problem since an OTA update from my provider (O2).
I have put it down to the known issues which are outlined in this thread...
Ah I can't post threads...google android forums signal drops completely htc desire s
(androidforums.com/htc-desire-s/396171-signal-drops-completely-htc-desire-s.html)
I have put my phone on GSM only and no problems at all, as soon as I switch to GSM/WCDMA Auto. I get lots of issues, delayed txts, calls to me go straight to answer phone etc.
Running 2.3.3..........hoping to update soon, which, fingers crossed with help the issue
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i have exactly the same problem without the answer phone.. just the delay sms.. and i was using it on gsm only also... but i sent it to service.. and i will tell you if the problem is solved

I has also that problems when I bought my Desire S, a lot of them, but, after install Saga3D rom and after that Endymion 2.1 I don't have that problems...

I have the same problem, Desire S in the UK (with CM7). Phone calls also go through to answer phone without ever being notified as well.
This really sucks.. A phone that doesn't work as a phone.
The only temp fix I've found is to dial *#*#4636#*#* and go to phone information and change the mode to GSM only. Unfortunately, this means no 3G data connection. So really slow internet.

Dude check if the calls are going to voice mail directly....cause our customers come with the same issue and we give them the steps to turn off and on the voicemail and it works fine....
Sent from my HTC Desire S using XDA App

Yea, they are going straight to voicemail. I've reflashed Cyanogenmod today, and so far it's been working ok...
Judging by this forum, it doesn't affect everyone, but a significant amount of people do suffer from it.

HTC sensation wifi switching off and on after newfirmware 4.0.3

I updated my HTC sensation Z710e to andriod 4.0.3, HTC sense version 3.6
Soon after the update my wifi sometimes will detect the Router and then disappear. Cannot use my wifi at all.
Tried all changes in the settings. just wont remain on for even 5secs.
Tried pulling the battery out, restarting factory reset. Nothing works!
Please help!!!

aaijax said:
I updated my HTC sensation Z710e to andriod 4.0.3, HTC sense version 3.6
Soon after the update my wifi sometimes will detect the Router and then disappear. Cannot use my wifi at all.
Tried all changes in the settings. just wont remain on for even 5secs.
Tried pulling the battery out, restarting factory reset. Nothing works!
Please help!!!
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Are you using a stock, or custom ROM?

same here
Yes, I have the same problem, occurred exactly right after the Android version upgrade of my Sensation.
I'm in touch with HTC support, but of course like all support channels, it's very hard for the guys to understand what the symptoms are. I keep telling them that I can't see any networks to try to connect and the guys keep telling me to disable mac filtering on my access point...
Anyway, I'm on it. If I can reach a solution, I'll let you know.

update
OK, here we go...
I have removed the SIM card.
I left the microSD inside.
I did a factory reset.
WiFi works perfect... After one hour it is still OK.
I shut down and insert the SIM card.
The auto-config for APN starts and triggers the 3G connection.
3G is fine.
But WiFi is dead.
Again, it detects the APs nearby but then it shuts down in one second...
Then can't detect any APs, of course...
I shut it down and remove the SIM card.
No luck, WiFi is still dead.
I have updated the guys in HTC support...
Let's see what they'll come back with.

Here in Andorra, we´ve the same problem After Update.The same problem. Its something about the Country Of the SIM. Here, if you put an Spanish or French SIM, WIFI OK. BUT if you use an Andorran´s SIM: WIFI DEAD...

I have the exact problem.......
I expect it solve in a week or two by HTC otherwise.... No more HTC after the XE

I have the same problem. The problem appeared after upgrading from GB to ICS. When I returned to the RUU - the problem still occurred. In general, helps clear the Dalvik cache - but after a while the problem comes back.

Wifi Dead
ReeF666 said:
Are you using a stock, or custom ROM?
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Sorry was travelling and did not see the posts. It was such a major problem not
having wifi while travelling. Lots of the airports had free wifi and i had to keep
pulling out my PC to tether
I am on stock ROM.
Any solutions yet??

Same problem here. Wifi stays stuck on "turning on" and will never turn on. Sometimes it says error. Also, bluetooth exhibits the same symptoms, except it gives up after a while and just goes back to off.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Yeah I have the same problem.
Hboot:1.27.1111
Unlocked HTC Dev Bootloader
S-Off

Wifi on and off
Same problem here:
Sensation
ROM: CM10 by Bruce 2728
Firmware 3.33
S-Off
Did Revolution method
Hboot 1.27.11
I've tried many different roms, wifi works sometimes. Then it will turn on and off continuously, getting my hopes up then leaving me frustrated. I can't believe I'm considering getting another phone because of this stupid wifi issue.

Do you also have problems with getting notifications when wifi is on? For example whatsapp or gmail?
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Notarzt23 said:
Do you also have problems with getting notifications when wifi is on? For example whatsapp or gmail?
Sent from my HTC Sensation using xda premium
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It's like it will work for a few days perfectly, then this intermittent behavior happens. My EDGE connection kicks in and I get notifications alright but my plan only has 150MB per month. (please don't laugh as I live in China, and don't laugh that my 4G phone is running EDGE). So I need WiFi to work all the time.

same problem i try manny roms but cant get the wifi to work did u guys find any solution?

I found a solution and you're not going to like it, I sold my Sensation and bought a Samsung Galaxy S3. Sorry HTC, byebye to you.

shiggins9 said:
I found a solution and you're not going to like it, I sold my Sensation and bought a Samsung Galaxy S3. Sorry HTC, byebye to you.
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I am also going to do that and buy a note 2
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[Q]3g is popping on and off like it wants to start up but doesnt and no connection??

i have no clue what going on here.. but i dont have any data... but voice works fine.. ive done multiple reboots.. running opensensation..
anyone knows whats happening?
im running the 30.00 prepaid 5 gigs of data plan

You can change your data connection . Example my device always wants to go to edge, which is really slow so I lock on to wcma only which is 4 g. You can try the different connections by going to #*#*4636*#*# it will bring you to a menu you press phone information, then press your current connection and another menu will come up with available connections, pick the one you want and scroll down to refresh . I'm not sure this will do the trick but if you have any available connections you can hook up this way. It depends what's available in your area .I was going crazy with my device always going to edge so Iocked onto 4 g this way. It works for me. I do hope it helps. Are you rooted and running custom Rom? If you are and this method does not work perhaps try a different radio? Best of luck hope this helps some
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realsis said:
You can change your data connection . Example my device always wants to go to edge, which is really slow so I lock on to wcma only which is 4 g. You can try the different connections by going to #*#*4636*#*# it will bring you to a menu you press phone information, then press your current connection and another menu will come up with available connections, pick the one you want and scroll down to refresh . I'm not sure this will do the trick but if you have any available connections you can hook up this way. It depends what's available in your area .I was going crazy with my device always going to edge so Iocked onto 4 g this way. It works for me. I do hope it helps. Are you rooted and running custom Rom? If you are and this method does not work perhaps try a different radio? Best of luck hope this helps some
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im rooted running open sensation running the latest firmware so i shouldnt have to flash a radio its been working before.. for the past month i had my phone.. this is the first time its doing this..
ok im gonna update and wipe my dalvik.. see if that works
EDIT: nope.. still no data..

It's *#*#4636#*#* sorry I had that wrong in my first post
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yeah that still didnt work.. and this is really troubling me.. i posted in the opensensation thread..

I had the same problem with roms based of CM9. The only solution is to back up everything (titanium backup helps with backing up apps), wipe and re-flash.

No need for wipe.
Just re-flash the current ROM. You will have to apply all your Mods again, but the rest of the data will remain fine.
(I had the same problem about two days ago)

Sounds like a RADIO Problem to Me.. : /

sssurfer said:
Sounds like a RADIO Problem to Me.. : /
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Radio problems do not come up all of a sudden.

Yeah i fixed it.. I had to backup and then restore my tmobile stock rom.. Then restore my cm9 backup.. Seemed to fix it but wow that was weird..

Its happend to me after i flashed somthing. All i did was put it in Airplane mode and rebooted. After reboot turn off airplane mode. Got everything back.

HTC One S (Helicopter SOLVED)

Hi there!
I just figured out that in "WCDMA Preffered" mode, in call time signal strength reach 16-17 asu makeing screen go crazy, than I simply set "WCDMA Only" and signal strength has stabilized with 12-13 asu or less in call time. The issue dissapear..
You can set it up eighter entering "Test menu" (*#*#3424#*#*) or in "Settings - Mobile Data - Network Mode - (WCDMA Only)
NOTE: The setting persist after reset so you don't need to reapply it every time.
Later edit: My test was made in a high signal area from my carrier. Now I'm testing in a lower signal strenght area (neutral zone) and my asu is 6-7 and this is great.
Enjoy your HTC One S

Soo far the issue gone. Keep this up (vote and say thx)

Hi again, after 3 days testing my theory the issue seems to completely gone. I reactivate long press home button eveything is normal.
Ohh.. just a little thing forgot to mention that doing this you lost 2 lines of signal. No more helicopter but -2 lines cover and probably this ain't so helpfull those with allready low cover in some areas. BUT this seems to be the only way to get rid of this issue.
My final decision!
Edit: Please pin my topic!
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I have tried that but it resets to the default setting when you restart the phone.
EDIT: Seems to stay at that setting now. Will see how it goes.

scorpionatthepc said:
I have tried that but it resets to the default setting when you restart the phone.
EDIT: Seems to stay at that setting now. Will see how it goes.
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This issue manifest most often durring calls when gsm signal interact with capacitive sensor. So you can test it very simple by makeing a call even to your free carrier number, put on speaker and tri to browse the web durring call or just play with the menu.. open / close apps..

Up topic

Its 9 days for me since the issue gives no signs comming back.
UP topic , Please pin my topic!
Thx

HTCExplorerPico said:
Hi there!
I just figured out that in "WCDMA Preffered" mode, in call time signal strength reach 16-17 asu makeing screen go crazy, than I simply set "WCDMA Only" and signal strength has stabilized with 12-13 asu or less in call time. The issue dissapear..
You can set it up eighter entering "Test menu" (*#*#3424#*#*) or in "Settings - Mobile Data - Network Mode - (WCDMA Only)
NOTE: The setting persist after reset so you don't need to reapply it every time.
Later edit: My test was made in a high signal area from my carrier. Now I'm testing in a lower signal strenght area (neutral zone) and my asu is 6-7 and this is great.
Enjoy your HTC One S
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The problem is only repressed... when you are in an area without WCDMA/UMTS your phone is dead...

Indeed... I sayd before..on 31 jan but at last is an improvement when no one comes with any solutions, I did..

Since I've updated to official update 3.19.401.102 the problem seems to of gone.
I have switched back to gsm/wcdma auto with no problems so far.

scorpionatthepc said:
Since I've updated to official update 3.19.401.102 the problem seems to of gone.
I have switched back to gsm/wcdma auto with no problems so far.
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My One S is not rooted yet and as every one knows HTC didn't update nothing for us. Before knowing about this issue i though my phone have some problems and i need to go to a service or something.. after i heard about the issue.. i was thinking.. mabe HTC will develop some update, but now that i realize that HTC will never do such a thing i was looking for something to stop the issue without doing any sofware changes.
Please keep me up to date about your ROM and if the issue is not comming back, i'll think about a software change..
As a fact you can give us some fresh links with your ROM
Best regards,
Andrew

HTCExplorerPico said:
My One S is not rooted yet and as every one knows HTC didn't update nothing for us. Before knowing about this issue i though my phone have some problems and i need to go to a service or something.. after i heard about the issue.. i was thinking.. mabe HTC will develop some update, but now that i realize that HTC will never do such a thing i was looking for something to stop the issue without doing any sofware changes.
Please keep me up to date about your ROM and if the issue is not comming back, i'll think about a software change..
As a fact you can give us some fresh links with your ROM
Best regards,
Andrew
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I'm not rooted but phone is s-off. I only updated software yesterday but will let you know how I get on.

scorpionatthepc said:
I'm not rooted but phone is s-off. I only updated software yesterday but will let you know how I get on.
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Ok than.. i'm S-OFF my phone now! Give me some minutes..
Later edit: for s-off you need unlock bootloader and rooted phone.. i don't know how the hell in the world you s-off without root.. anyway i unlock my phone but unable to root coz i'm not able to find ClockworkMod Recovery .. i lost all of my apps for nothing. s-off didn't work just with phone unlocked .

HTCExplorerPico said:
Ok than.. i'm S-OFF my phone now! Give me some minutes..
Later edit: for s-off you need unlock bootloader and rooted phone.. i don't know how the hell in the world you s-off without root.. anyway i unlock my phone but unable to root coz i'm not able to find ClockworkMod Recovery .. i lost all of my apps for nothing. s-off didn't work just with phone unlocked .
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Helicopter still happens with the update but not as much.

Hi every one!
I did managed to Unlock / Root / S-OFF my HTC One S, i had some issues with the CWM untill i got a good recovery openrecovery-twrp-2.6.3.0-villec2.img but i still not receive any update from HTC..
Finally the issue is continue to manifest so.. the only thing we can do at this moment is switching to "WCDMA Only" as i sayd before.
This is a hardware issue that i read about .. there are 2 HTC One S models (probably motherboard series) and one of them has this issue.. so do what i did and stop searching for answers, this is the only way without risking of bricking your device or void your warranty searching for a better solution.
Enjoy it as it is or.. buy a new one if you can't live with it the setting !

Could a software update not solve the problem? I thought htc knew about the issue.

If you look at this link it seems htc know about the issue
http://community.o2online.ie/t5/HTC/HTC-ONE-S-Home-Button-Problem/td-p/547346

Yea HTC know about it but it doesen't do nothing .. coz they don't have nothing to do.. you think will HTC knock on your dor .. and say "hi, this is your new phone" or "helo, please let me change your phone board" this will never happend.. probably they want you to walk over this and buy the new brand. its commercial s**t

HTCExplorerPico said:
Yea HTC know about it but it doesen't do nothing .. coz they don't have nothing to do.. you think will HTC knock on your dor .. and say "hi, this is your new phone" or "helo, please let me change your phone board" this will never happend.. probably they want you to walk over this and buy the new brand. its commercial s**t
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Been on the phone to HTC and they said it wasn't an issue with this phone and to do a factory reset.
Not very helpful.

scorpionatthepc said:
Been on the phone to HTC and they said it wasn't an issue with this phone and to do a factory reset.
Not very helpful.
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I know that.. you'r not the only one going to htc .. they give us the same answer. My solution is the only and best one, we tot nothing to do ..