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[Q] lost data connection

First, I'm not too familiar with how ODIN works, so I'm a n00b to Samsung Galaxy S stuff. I'm used to HTC and LG. This is my fiancee's phone.
She has lost data connection. Rebooting, reregistering, turning airplane mode on/off doesn't make it come back. WIFI turns on and all that good stuff.
Here's what's currently running on her phone:
Firmware version: 2.2.1
Baseband version: T959VUVKB5
Kernel version: 2.6.32.9
Build number: FROYO.VUVKB5
Yes she has root. What would I need to do to get this back? If it involves flashing another ROM (been thinking about getting her on Gingerbread) than that's ok I'll just need pointed to a good guide for Galaxy S n00bs.
Thanks in advance for the help.
I'm also not sure if she has clockwork flashed or not. The phone was purchased used and was already rooted.

First go into settings > wireless and networks >mobile networks > and make sure packet data is on, if it is, go into access point names hit the menu key and click reset to default.
Make sure network mode is set to gsm/wcdma (auto mode) if not try switching between the other two options and see if that helps.
If none of that works:
You can try to Odin different modems.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1192436
Try the KD1 modem first and see if she can connect.

I tried the settings already. No luck with those. I will read up on ODIN and try flashing those modems. Thanks.
Might just take the plunge and flash Gingerbread for her, but she hates restoring apps and stuff. lol

I tried that modem. Same issue. Any other suggestions? I'm open for any other ideas. Nothing has changed on the phone. No new ROM, no weird apps. Same geographic area.
I'm at a loss right now. I've never had this problem on any of my phones so I've never had to troublshoot/repair something like this before.

iamlilysdad said:
I tried that modem. Same issue. Any other suggestions? I'm open for any other ideas. Nothing has changed on the phone. No new ROM, no weird apps. Same geographic area.
I'm at a loss right now. I've never had this problem on any of my phones so I've never had to troublshoot/repair something like this before.
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Go to settings about phone does your imei number show up or is is garbled?
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Yeah cnote I think your right..lets hope not it happen to me..idk how I got it cause,it usually happens when you unlock the phone I didnt... he said he bought it used,im thinking that person messed up those numbers and sold it..
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Hey about your issue go to settings,about phone..check if your emeI number is showing garbage characters like a bunch of question marks etcc..because its suppose to show about 15 numbers or so..give me that info
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Sorry about the late reply. The IMEI shows up normal. It worked perfectly for a few months, and has only been acting up for the past week or so.

iamlilysdad said:
Sorry about the late reply. The IMEI shows up normal. It worked perfectly for a few months, and has only been acting up for the past week or so.
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hmm thats good..try take out the sim card and leave it out for a few minutes,put it back on..if its not working try the sim card on another phone to see the root of the issue..bring back your findings!..if it works with another phone means the galaxy is not working..we can odin the kc1 cleanup after that to keep trying.
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daxecutioner24 said:
hmm thats good..try take out the sim card and leave it out for a few minutes,put it back on..if its not working try the sim card on another phone to see the root of the issue..bring back your findings!..if it works with another phone means the galaxy is not working..we can odin the kc1 cleanup after that to keep trying.
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Tried her sim in my phone and it worked just fine. Didn't try my sim in her phone, though. She works midnights so that'll have to wait til tomorrow.
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Are you sure your APN settings are correct? for some odd reason, I had to manually set the APN's for my carrier.
Try disabling wifi, as it won't get data connection otherwise. Then go to settings, wireless and network, mobile networks and then Access Points Names.
See if the carriers APN are all set correctly. Should be t-mobile's unless it's an unlocked phone with another carrier.

are you sure that the imei's fine? or is it a generic imei?
i know this situation all to well, my efs folder got f***** and i had a back up on my sd card but as luck would have it my sd card was wiped. and ever since then i could never get a signal on the phone.
so make sure its not that issue because honeslty if it is theres not a thing that you can do about it.

jdubb1106 said:
are you sure that the imei's fine? or is it a generic imei?
i know this situation all to well, my efs folder got f***** and i had a back up on my sd card but as luck would have it my sd card was wiped. and ever since then i could never get a signal on the phone.
so make sure its not that issue because honeslty if it is theres not a thing that you can do about it.
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The IMEI is correct. It matches up perfectly. Sorry for the really late reply.
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So IMEI is correct and data packets are enable?
Do you have a data plan on the phone? Check my.tmobile.com. If you do call tmobile and *****!

Yeah data packets are enabled.
Gotta check those APN's, though. Been looking for what the settings should be.

APN it was!
Thanks! Problem is solved and her phone works fine.

iamlilysdad said:
APN it was!
Thanks! Problem is solved and her phone works fine.
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I'm glad MY suggestion helped you
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I "lost" my data connection last week and spent hours on odin... N It turns out that I just forgot to pay my bill... I felt like such an idiot =P

Problem with MMS

I've had a lot of problems with receiving and sending MMS lately.
As always, T-Mobile has been no help and has said everything is working fine on their end.
When i try to send it just says "sending and never does anything" and i usually don't get people's pictures.
I've even tried to change ROMS and still have the same problem. I'm currently on the ICS AOSP one.
Any help?

Nickcu13 said:
I've had a lot of problems with receiving and sending MMS lately.
As always, T-Mobile has been no help and has said everything is working fine on their end.
When i try to send it just says "sending and never does anything" and i usually don't get people's pictures.
I've even tried to change ROMS and still have the same problem. I'm currently on the ICS AOSP one.
Any help?
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Did you lose your imei when flashing? That is typically the only reason to not be able to send texts if you have service otherwise.

Are you sure that you have your data turned on? MMS won't send or receive without it
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my normal texts work.
and yes my data is on. When i try to send it says "sending..." and never does anything (has said it for over 12 hours now) in the mean time ive done other things using data such as web browsing and using apps. So i know my data works.

Same problem here
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Was having this problem last week, and now it's degraded to the point that my data is gone too. GVoice is working sporadically only. I still have SMS and calling though. Only 2G gives me any data.

hwchan said:
Was having this problem last week, and now it's degraded to the point that my data is gone too. GVoice is working sporadically only. I still have SMS and calling though. Only 2G gives me any data.
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Was it because of the imei
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hwchan said:
Was having this problem last week, and now it's degraded to the point that my data is gone too. GVoice is working sporadically only. I still have SMS and calling though. Only 2G gives me any data.
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Factory reset/data wipe. It sucks to have to set the phone back up but Im sure it will help.

Whenever that happens I send an mms to myself. Somebody from t mobile said that would fix it, maybe in the my touch 4g forum, had no idea why though. Something worth trying at any rate
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eollie said:
Factory reset/data wipe. It sucks to have to set the phone back up but Im sure it will help.
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I actually just did that yesterday. Didn't solve the problem. I also reflashed AOKP. That didn't work. I restored to a backup of Milestone 6-1. That didn't work. I reflashed KJ6 modem. That didn't work. I flashed KG4 modem. That also didn't work. So far the only thing that seems to give me some data is running it on 2G only. I think on Monday, I'm going in to get the phone exchanged for a new one, and I'll just do a fresh flash right out of the box to ICS from stock GB. (Of course, following all the directions.)

hwchan said:
I actually just did that yesterday. Didn't solve the problem. I also reflashed AOKP. That didn't work. I restored to a backup of Milestone 6-1. That didn't work. I reflashed KJ6 modem. That didn't work. I flashed KG4 modem. That also didn't work. So far the only thing that seems to give me some data is running it on 2G only. I think on Monday, I'm going in to get the phone exchanged for a new one, and I'll just do a fresh flash right out of the box to ICS from stock GB. (Of course, following all the directions.)
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Using the heimdall one click to stock kj6 flash back to stock. Then use the antonx one click, it sounds like you just have dust bunnies that needs sweeping up.

eollie said:
Using the heimdall one click to stock kj6 flash back to stock. Then use the antonx one click, it sounds like you just have dust bunnies that needs sweeping up.
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I'd thought about doing that, I guess I'll try it right now, since I've got time. Would I be able to just install SGS Kernel Flasher and flash AntonX's kernel from that after using Heimdall to stock rooted?
EDIT: Sorry I'm kind of hijacking this thread, but I Heimdalled back to stock, but I'm still having the connectivity issues. I have full 4G signal, but data is crawling to the point where the connection times out before I can even load anything. When I set it to GSM only (EDGE), I can get data, but not the 4G speeds I'm paying for. Reverting to Plan A and getting it replaced on Monday. (I hear it's possible it's a SIM card problem too...) Thanks for the help though.

Cant Recieve Text unless on Wifi Calling

I have a G2x that updated to the new baseband and when i am on any other rom other than stock i cannot recieve and SMS unless i am on wifi calling. I tried every other rom i could, changing ril didnt help and flashing the new baseband zip didnt help either. Any ideas why this is happening? i really want to use ICS.
Thanks!!!

Anyone? I can't seem to use any other rom I'm stuck on 2.3.3
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Did you ever check to see if you had the correct APN listed, or had any APNs listed at all? Do you have an H, 4, or anything else by the signal bars?

Got full data can download from play store everything works fine calling has no clicks just can't receive texts unless wifi calling is turned on I've looked through the forums tried many things and no luck
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i know its an old issue but im gettin the same thing, everything works except for recieveing text, have done the same set up on many g2x's and on this one after flashing to ics, it wont recieve texts unless on wifi calling.
the phone is a replacement
the ril and baseband match
have tried with and with out kernel
doooont understand why
running hellfire 1.99

madrrio said:
i know its an old issue but im gettin the same thing, everything works except for recieveing text, have done the same set up on many g2x's and on this one after flashing to ics, it wont recieve texts unless on wifi calling.
the phone is a replacement
the ril and baseband match
have tried with and with out kernel
doooont understand why
running hellfire 1.99
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Does it work on a stock ROM? Do you format system and data when you flash new ROMs?

I would like to jump in here and say I have had the same issues with both ICS and CM 10 PA ROMS I have wiped, and formatted till I am blue in the face. No change. Everything works fine with GB 2.34 BB21y but if I flash any of the above can't receive texts at all WIFI or not..Hope we can figure this out before the official release of CM10 as I would love me some Jellybean.
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Need help

I was on Liquidsmooth ROM. Every thing was working fine until I crossed the border to Canada that is when I tried to make a call n I noticed that I had no signal no data. Went into wireless settings and under network mode it was on -home only- tried to change it but it wouldn't stick. Since then I flashed a couple other ROMs no change then I ODINed back to stock factory but still no change. When I'm in USA everything works fine when I cross into Canada I loose signal n data. I think I'm stuck in -home only- mode cause my phone is not switching into roaming. When in mobile networks settings under Roaming it says Not roaming. In Phone Status under Mobile network type it says unknown Service state -out of service-.
I have my phone #
My ERI Verizon is 5
My. IMEI is fine ( the usual #s)
My IMEISV. is 00
Can anyone help please . I cross the border 2-3 Times a week for a day or 2 n I need it to work in Canada for business n personal use. So please Help
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I also tried reflashing the radios but that didn't help either. I upgraded through OTA after Odin to stock factory still no change. Everything works fine when I'm in USA but no data and no cel signal in Canada.
And yes I'm talking about my S3. The Charge is my backup phone.
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I guess no-one has any ideas how to unfreez from -home only- wireless network and get the phone roaming.
Anyway at least some of you took the time to look at my thread thanks.
I'll be checking back once a day maybe someone figures this out b4 me thanks.
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To clarify, Everything was working fine until you flashed LiquidSmooth?
And then when you flashed other ROMs, and back to the stock ROM, you couldn't get services back to normal, which you had prior to flashing other than your stock ROM?
If the above is accurate, after you experienced your issues, did you flash back to the Nandroid you made prior to installing LiquidSmooth?
Or did you Always have issues when going into Canada?
I found this for now:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060804184552AALctoB

The only thing I can think of is try repro visioning your phone with the dialer code. I can't remember it right now, but you can find it with Google. It may not help at ask, but it's worth a shot. I've heard it does reset your phone so have a backup of any data you want to keep.
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kintwofan said:
The only thing I can think of is try repro visioning your phone with the dialer code. I can't remember it right now, but you can find it with Google. It may not help at ask, but it's worth a shot. I've heard it does reset your phone so have a backup of any data you want to keep.
Sent from my SGS3 running Eclipse 2.1
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I don't know if that's the answer to the op's issues, but if it is, you'll find the reprovisioning code here:
https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/777932?start=310&tstart=0

Biker1 said:
I don't know if that's the answer to the op's issues, but if it is, you'll find the reprovisioning code here:
https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/777932?start=310&tstart=0
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Code will reprovision but must be on TW ICS for it to work.

Biker1 said:
I don't know if that's the answer to the op's issues, but if it is, you'll find the reprovisioning code here:
https://community.verizonwireless.com/thread/777932?start=310&tstart=0
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I didn't see the code in there.... that's a lot of reading so dial this. *2767*3855#
I'm not sure if it will fix his problem either, probably won't, but seems the op has tried everything else so it's worth a shot.
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Thank you guys . I might have to do the dialer codes cause I did try everything else
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kintwofan said:
I didn't see the code in there.... that's a lot of reading so dial this. *2767*3855#
I'm not sure if it will fix his problem either, probably won't, but seems the op has tried everything else so it's worth a shot.
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It's in 311, 2nd post down.

Biker1 said:
It's in 311, 2nd post down.
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Oh, well pulled up from my phone it gave me the mobile site which started at the first post. So that's why I didn't see it, I read a lot but not 311 posts.
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kintwofan said:
Oh, well pulled up from my phone it gave me the mobile site which started at the first post. So that's why I didn't see it, I read a lot but not 311 posts.
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Lol!
Nah, 300 posts is a bit much
When I went to the link via my S3, the exact page showed up with 311 on it.

Issues with my skyrocket (used)

Guess i should start from the top here..
i purchased the phone used from a friend, the phone was having issues with crashing and locking up,
as well as constant signal loss/and wifi was also causing crashing (gingerbread 2.3.5)
so i flashed CM10.1.3 stable it's no longer random crashing, Wifi is still causing reboots(but no more locking up after booting)
tried flashing a radio for it to fix the signal problems, and no dice.
could this be in the hardware since the radio didn't seem to do crap
On Monday I'm going to try and beat a refund out of my friend for selling me a faulty phone
so if i can't get it fixed by then it's not my problem any more
update: I flashed "AT&T 2.3.6 OTA Update Radio I727ATTKK1" it actually fixed my wifi, but now i'm getting no signal at all, attempted to make a phone call and it just says "Mobile network not available"

shadowlogic said:
Guess i should start from the top here..
i purchased the phone used from a friend, the phone was having issues with crashing and locking up,
as well as constant signal loss/and wifi was also causing crashing (gingerbread 2.3.5)
so i flashed CM10.1.3 stable it's no longer random crashing, Wifi is still causing reboots(but no more locking up after booting)
tried flashing a radio for it to fix the signal problems, and no dice.
could this be in the hardware since the radio didn't seem to do crap
On Monday I'm going to try and beat a refund out of my friend for selling me a faulty phone
so if i can't get it fixed by then it's not my problem any more
update: I flashed "AT&T 2.3.6 OTA Update Radio I727ATTKK1" it actually fixed my wifi, but now i'm getting no signal at all, attempted to make a phone call and it just says "Mobile network not available"
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Odin the stock firmware and see if you still have problems. If you do then it's probably hardware. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26056924

jd1639 said:
Odin the stock firmware and see if you still have problems. If you do then it's probably hardware. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=26056924
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my power went out mid-download of the stock firmware, and thanks to some retard they're uploaded on hotfile, which allows downloads every hour thirty.
so i'm gonna go GTA5 it up for a bit and then come back and try again.

First off you need a jellybean radio for using cm 10.1.3 that's why signal was dropping
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shadowlogic said:
my power went out mid-download of the stock firmware, and thanks to some retard they're uploaded on hotfile, which allows downloads every hour thirty.
so i'm gonna go GTA5 it up for a bit and then come back and try again.
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Hope the power doesn't go out when you try Odin or you're going to have a bigger problem.

holeindalip said:
First off you need a jellybean radio for using cm 10.1.3 that's why signal was dropping
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This. Either RUXUMA7, UCMC1 or any of the JB radios from the Note and those other phones..

lingowistico said:
This. Either RUXUMA7, UCMC1 or any of the JB radios from the Note and those other phones..
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Flashed i727ucmc1 that's what was on the phone from stock atleast the way i recieved it, it would get signal, then it would drop signal, rinse repeat, would allow an occasional phone call, other times it would just lose signal the second i hit the call button after dialing a number.

holeindalip said:
First off you need a jellybean radio for using cm 10.1.3 that's why signal was dropping
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both of the JB radios i used didn't, atleast neither allowed for cell service to be maintained.

shadowlogic said:
both of the JB radios i used didn't, atleast neither allowed for cell service to be maintained.
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Odin stock jb and if it still doesn't work, beat the refund out of your friend.

i didnt know since nothing in the op said anything about a jb radios, they were all gb

Might as well check your APN while your at it. Is it set to wap.cingular or pta? Settings>Wireless & Networks More>Mobile Networks>Access Point Names. Which ever one it's set to change it to the other and see if the issue persists.

Took it to another friend, says it's water damaged, and the GSM antenna is fried, just gonna get a refund, and go buy a retail one, screw buying used.

theesotericone said:
Might as well check your APN while your at it. Is it set to wap.cingular or pta? Settings>Wireless & Networks More>Mobile Networks>Access Point Names. Which ever one it's set to change it to the other and see if the issue persists.
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APN settings were as follows,
but soon to not be my problem any more.
Name
straight talk
APN
tfdata
Port
80
MMSC
http://mms-tf.net
MMS Proxy
mms3.tracfone.com
MMS Port
80
Rest blank/notset.

shadowlogic said:
Guess i should start from the top here..
i purchased the phone used from a friend, the phone was having issues with crashing and locking up,
as well as constant signal loss/and wifi was also causing crashing (gingerbread 2.3.5)
so i flashed CM10.1.3 stable it's no longer random crashing, Wifi is still causing reboots(but no more locking up after booting)
tried flashing a radio for it to fix the signal problems, and no dice.
could this be in the hardware since the radio didn't seem to do crap
On Monday I'm going to try and beat a refund out of my friend for selling me a faulty phone
so if i can't get it fixed by then it's not my problem any more
update: I flashed "AT&T 2.3.6 OTA Update Radio I727ATTKK1" it actually fixed my wifi, but now i'm getting no signal at all, attempted to make a phone call and it just says "Mobile network not available"
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I had problems with my phone until I flashed CM 10.2. You might want to give it a try. It is really smooth and less buggy than other ROMS imho

shadowlogic said:
Took it to another friend, says it's water damaged, and the GSM antenna is fried, just gonna get a refund, and go buy a retail one, screw buying used.
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Had a water damaged phone that did exactly this, so it's surely possible.

raymonko said:
I had problems with my phone until I flashed CM 10.2. You might want to give it a try. It is really smooth and less buggy than other ROMS imho
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I was running the 10.1.3 stable on it it seemed run 100x better than stock and wasn't too buggy, glitchy
or laggy. Got a new skyrocket headed my way ill try it on there hopefully Amazon wont screw me like eBay has
in the past the last thing I ordered from Amazon was this LG thrive I'm typing this reply on, this phone is as reliable
As Ford's old inline 6's