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So I have been for the past week, at my house, having about the worst 4G reception ever. It shows 4G in the status bar, until I actually try and connect to any internet service, and then it disappears. Well this started on my second Thunderbolt, so I assumed something was up with the phone, specially since I unrooted the phone, and the issue was still there. So I went and exchanged my phone today. I noticed that the issue remained. Brand new phone, at my place of work today was pulling 20+ down from speedtest and then I go home, and even outside my house, it is loosing 4G everytime you try to do anything on the internet.
I noticed only one difference. My PRL changed from 15008 to 15011.
So figuring my new phone is probably fine from a HW standpoint, I went ahead and rooted this phone, and I noticed something weird. Everytime I boot the phone, it switched between two PRLs. It either has a PRL of 1, and then reboot and it then will have a PRL of 15011. Rinse and repeat.
I also noticed that in the same location that it used to be signal strength was around -82Db, and is now closer to -95Db.
So I am going to call Verizon tomorrow, and see if they know if a tower is down, etc, or see if they can check into it, as my phone is only usable at home on 3G, which is the same reason I paid my ETF on sprint and left for verizon, because I could get LTE in my house.
I even tried Das BAMF 1.5 and then flashed the radio update, and there was zero change in anyway.
I am going to assume there is a screwy tower nearby that is causing my problem, but if anyone has any suggestions let me know!
my phone acts the same way around my apartment...
i think they must be messing with the towers still. specially cause we haven't officially got 4g here yet.
have the same problem up in Northwest Columbus - 4G has been going in and out for the last two days for me - figured it was just the tower, 3G is absolutely fine.
Are you having issues where the phone's internet cutting out? I'm trying to work out if its an issue with the phone or the signal in Manchester.
The phone will be working fine for texts and phone calls then when I go to use Internet radio, Marketplace or Internet browser quite often the internet will drop out.
Hi no .
My phone is behaving but does have the 3g to H problem where it flies between the 2 . Although this does seem not as bad as other users are experiencing
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Its literally driving me insane. Its about 6/10 times I go to use the internet it wont work! But if I do get it to stream it seems to be ok.
I'm considering going for the ONE X instead getting sick of the problems with the S.. Shame really as I love the size!
Hard reset and see how it acts after that .
Most of the niggles I had went after I did that.
The S for me is a keeper for a while , screen is great , battery life is amazing . Have you called 3 to see if there's an issue
Got mine today from three. Will report back if I notice anything. Three can slow data down I believe depending on usage on a network. Being in a city might have something to do with it.
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Be grateful you get signal. I get jack sh*t in manchester with vodafone haha, always have.
Well I unlocked my bootloader last night, didn't end up putting any ROMs on it but had to start again with my Apps everything was working perfectly when I went to download everything (This is in Sale, about 5 miles from where I work). I even managed some Battle Field 3 online gaming via personal hotspot on my PC.
It was only late on last night I starting having an issue.. was it an app I installed I wonder? I will experiment further.
Shame its networked locked, was going to led it to my friend to try with his Vodfone sim to see how he gets on with it.
Its not the PHONE WOooh! Three have just called, problem with the mast in my area, fixed by the 27th. I can deal with that. And there I was deleting apps etc.
mardon85 said:
Its not the PHONE WOooh! Three have just called, problem with the mast in my area, fixed by the 27th. I can deal with that. And there I was deleting apps etc.
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Not to deflate your balloon but I have same prob. I have a fairly good Three signal where I live NE of York. Put the sim out of my One S into Defy+ and I get good signal. Put sim back into One S and back to 1 or 2 bars. I took it back to Three in York but with full signal in York had a hard time explaining my prob. So the assistant typed on the computer ..... guess what she said ....
" problem with the mast in my area, fixed by the end of the week"
Now that is one coincidence is it not? That said even if there was an issue with the 'mast' doesn't explain why the Defy+ has the normal good signal with no signal loss as per One S
Micro sim will work in Defy+ if you place it correctly over the connecting pins!
There are others on here with similar problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1588345
There is definitely an issue with the current radio firmware as I still have the jumping 3G to H sign but even so at home on the Wirral or in Sale Manchester the internet is spot on, even if it only has 3/4 bars where as in work its full signal but the internet drops out all over the show.
I think it could well be a coincidence that there is an issue with the mast you're on, does the Desire support the faster HSDP+ internet? Maybe its that?
Not sure about the Desire.
I think it's probably the a firmware issue as you say. I know I have a good Three signal where I live as I've tried their PAYG service. Put either the payg or the monthly contract sim, both from Three, in the Defy+ and get a good signal readout. The signal seems to bounce all over. One minute I'm on full bars and the next lost connection. In York where signal is stronger than mine in the sticks there is no issue. Tried with little success to explain the problem to the assitant in Three shop but with full bars on phone she thought I was some sort of fool Mind you when she played the mast card asked why then the Moto Defy+ had no issues with signal
I'm hoping there will be a patch from HTC at some point though they maybe need to be made aware of the issue. I would like to try a T-Mobile sim in the One S but suspect it's locked to Three. I'm sure it's a network provider issue.
Iv had the AT&T One X since the 4th and so far I love it! I haven't had any wifi issues or bootloops or anything, the only problem I'm having is the phone will randomly lose signal completely (0 bars, little x next to the signal) and wont get it back unless I put it into airplane mode and turn it back off, or reboot the phone. In the 6 days Iv had it it's lost signal 3 times, once on the road where I normally get at least 3-4 bars, and the other 2 happened at some point over night while I was asleep. Has anyone else been having this problem? Also do you think it's a software/radio problem that can be fixed in a update, or would it be hardware in which case I should take it to the store and exchange for a new one.
I've had this problem myself. Had the phone for 19 days now and I think it's happened to me 3 or 4 times.
I can guarantee it's fixable with a software update, even if the problem is hardware-related. At the very least, the software could detect the lack of signal and automatically cycle in and out of airplane mode to fix the problem without user interaction. But I'm sure whatever fix we get will be much more reliable than that.
WHEN we get the fix is another question...
Thanks for the reply. I figured it might be a software issue since you can cycle airplane mode and get it back and I don't really want to take it down to the AT&T store for an exchange in fear I wined up not able to set up gvoice or start getting wifi issues and the like lol. so far the signal drops are far and few in between making it an annoying issue rather than a critical one, and I read we've got root now so even if HTC/AT&T twiddle their thumbs and pretend nothings wrong I'm sure the community can save the day lol
I would swap it out Azure. My first HOX did exactly this, and I saw it reported elsewhere on a number of other devices. To me that says it's most likely a bad radio flash on some handsets. I suppose you could try and flash the RUU that was posted, as it most likely includes the radio as well.
I got tired of all my calls going directly to VM without ringing. And not being able to send out texts. My replacement works much better (or rather, how it should've from the beginning).
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I got tired of all my calls going directly to VM without ringing. And not being able to send out texts.
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Was this problem intermittent?
My phone has been doing this randomly, except it never went to voicemails, just hung up after like 30 seconds.
Wondering if I should switch it out also.
Had this problem for a day. Took my phone to the at&t store and they changed out the sim card and I haven't had a problem since.
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usfslacker said:
Had this problem for a day. Took my phone to the at&t store and they changed out the sim card and I haven't had a problem since.
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I never thought about the sim card being a possible problem...might run up to the store when I get the chance and swap my sim out and see if that fixes it, if not I'll just swap the device out and hope all's well
The CSR actually swapped a new micro sim first, since the one provided via online sales was an older one (most likely from the iphone 4/4s batch). It didn't seem to fix the problem though.
And yeah, the problem was very intermittent. One second it would be working fine, and the next it would show the "x". Sometimes the bars would come back immediately, other times it wouldn't until I rebooted or cycled airplane mode. Luckily it happened while I was at the store; it's much easier to convince a sales rep to swap a phone when they can witness the issue(s).
Yeah it's only happened to me twice since I got it on the 4th... it'll be very hard for me to convince them that there's an issue haha... maybe I'll head down there if it happens at a time when I'm not in class or something. I'm sure if I mention returning it/their policy I'll get a swap.
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The CSR actually swapped a new micro sim first, since the one provided via online sales was an older one (most likely from the iphone 4/4s batch). It didn't seem to fix the problem though.
And yeah, the problem was very intermittent. One second it would be working fine, and the next it would show the "x". Sometimes the bars would come back immediately, other times it wouldn't until I rebooted or cycled airplane mode. Luckily it happened while I was at the store; it's much easier to convince a sales rep to swap a phone when they can witness the issue(s).
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next time my phone drops signal I'll take it into the store and see about a sim swap in hopes that'll fix the issue if not then I'll reluctantly swap the unit out (I've grown rather attached to this one xD)
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strange...woke up today and my phone completely lost signal again, normally there's a few days between each event but this is the first time it's happened twice in a row =\
So it happened again, I'm going to go get it switched... but it says on the Mobile network section of settings, "Disconnected because service is unavailable."
There is clearly almost full signal strength, and I have never been without service where I live.
I was expereincing constant network drops all of yesterday due to an outage. However, it's back to normal for me today. So it may be possible there's an outage near you as well.
I think it is more AT&T than your phone. I was in down town buffalo at a swim meet with 5 bars of hspa+ on my blackberry bold that has a great radio. I had data but it was slow dial up slow. There were maybe 100-200 people at the meet and it was at a community college. The only other time I had this was when I was in a car that was driving by the buffalo bills stadium. Voice worked but I had no data. I guess too many people using their cell phones.
Definitely not AT&T, my SE Xperia x10 worked perfectly fine, never had any trouble with signals.
I also encounter the intermittent signal drops on my 4 days old AT&T one x.
It seems to me that the One x doesn't hold signal as good as the iphone, my 4 and 4s usually get around 2 bars in some really remote locations of the building I work. But the One X just drops signal completely. I'll see if I can do a sim swap like some others suggested.
I'm starting to think it could be an issue with lte phones because the same thing was happening to me on my galaxy note with 2 different sim cards and 2 different devices and now it's happening on my hox
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it has happened to me 3 times in 5 days. All 3 times I was either:
1. in a poor reception area and it came back on its own, i did not have to use airplane mode.
2. was using BT streaming in car and using car charger, once car charger was unplugged, signal came back.
One X has issues
Definitively problems with the phone.
I have three.
They just drop signal completely. One will work, the other will not. Only way the signal will come back is if you turn the phone on and off again. I love everything about this phone....except it isn't a very good phone.
Also, typically when I turn the phone back on, that is when I get my text messages. Nice.
Yeah I figured out it happens when I lose signal (a couple buildings on my schools campus don't get reception), and then the signal won't come back until I reboot or airplane mode.. this is after a sim swap.
Oh and do I need the box my phone came in to swap it?
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I have had this issue as well being on the Rogers (Canada) network. I started a thread as well and my theory is there may be a hardware issue reading the SIM cards.
Every now and then I get a "preparing SIM" message pop up on my screen. Also, I lost signal once and in frustration I slapped the phone into my palm VOILA! signal came back full.
This is the second One-X I've gotten from Rogers so there may be a design flaw somewhere. The problem is this behavior only pops up intermittently and cannot be recreated at will. This makes troubleshooting very difficult and practically unprovable in the eyes of providers.
Hopefully there are more reports of this problem and the carriers push back on HTC to resolve the problem.
Hi,
From past three days, signal is not showing up on the phone. And it only shows a red triangle with a white plus sign on it.(Emergency Calls Only)
I didnt do any changes to the phone, it just randomly started three days ago.
I am on Indian version of unlocked Motorola atrix 2 MB865.
I am on jellybean 4.1.2 for past many months. So I dont suspect the ROM.
I have tried using some other sims also.(It is NOT the problem of the Sim)
I usually get full signal at my place.
I have searched internet thoroughly and read almost all the threads related to this topic, but it didnt help me much.
Things I have tried till now.-->
- Swapped sims with many other phones.
- Installed the "Network" app and many other similar apps which was suggested in some other threads.
- Switched Flight mode on and off.
- Factory reset the phone.
- Kept it off for hours and then checked again.
- Prayed that it will get fixed soon
Q) Did you try turning it off and on again?
Ans) Yes..yes.. Many many times. Sometimes, after reboot it shows signal for 2-5 minutes, but I CANT make/receive any calls/sms(The call just drops two seconds after dialling)
PS:- I think that when I received the last call, I was listening music on my headset and I had received the call with the headset.
Thank You very much.
K****ijs said:
Hi,
From past three days, signal is not showing up on the phone. And it only shows a red triangle with a white plus sign on it.(Emergency Calls Only)
I didnt do any changes to the phone, it just randomly started three days ago.
I am on Indian version of unlocked Motorola atrix 2 MB865.
I am on jellybean 4.1.2 for past many months. So I dont suspect the ROM.
I have tried using some other sims also.(It is NOT the problem of the Sim)
I usually get full signal at my place.
I have searched internet thoroughly and read almost all the threads related to this topic, but it didnt help me much.
Things I have tried till now.-->
- Swapped sims with many other phones.
- Installed the "Network" app and many other similar apps which was suggested in some other threads.
- Switched Flight mode on and off.
- Factory reset the phone.
- Kept it off for hours and then checked again.
- Prayed that it will get fixed soon
Q) Did you try turning it off and on again?
Ans) Yes..yes.. Many many times. Sometimes, after reboot it shows signal for 2-5 minutes, but I CANT make/receive any calls/sms(The call just drops two seconds after dialling)
PS:- I think that when I received the last call, I was listening music on my headset and I had received the call with the headset.
Thank You very much.
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Is the Baseband version shown, or is it blank?
XploitMachine said:
Is the Baseband version shown, or is it blank?
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Baseband version is showing as 2012-0712 09:44 Off Blf LUD_EDISON_R1E_PATCH_36_120712_0920 ch1090280_M570_PC_CARD_RAINB
I have now found that it is due to very very poor reception.... For some reason, this phone's signal reception has drastically reduced.
I can get signal only if I go out, still the signal strength is shown at maximum -75dB and frequently dropping to -100dB. I was able to make one call and it dropped as soon as i entered inside the house.
(The same sim on other phones have full range even inside house)
What is the suggested solution?
Thanks
K****ijs said:
I have now found that it is due to very very poor reception.... For some reason, this phone's signal reception has drastically reduced.
I can get signal only if I go out, still the signal strength is shown at maximum -75dB and frequently dropping to -100dB. I was able to make one call and it dropped as soon as i entered inside the house.
(The same sim on other phones have full range even inside house)
What is the suggested solution?
Thanks
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Seems to be a hardware issue then. Is your phone within warranty, by chance?
Nop it is not in warranty.
yx868868 said:
I would love to help you, but I can not afford to，Experts hope to help
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If you can't afford to help, then what's the point of this post?
Increasing post count I guess.
Might be a loose connection after a drop ?
Your best bet would be to dissamble the phone and assemble again. In the meantime check the connectors and others if they're in their place. There're good disassembly videos for atrix 2 in youtube.
K****ijs said:
Hi,
From past three days, signal is not showing up on the phone. And it only shows a red triangle with a white plus sign on it.(Emergency Calls Only)
I didnt do any changes to the phone, it just randomly started three days ago.
I am on Indian version of unlocked Motorola atrix 2 MB865.
I am on jellybean 4.1.2 for past many months. So I dont suspect the ROM.
I have tried using some other sims also.(It is NOT the problem of the Sim)
I usually get full signal at my place.
I have searched internet thoroughly and read almost all the threads related to this topic, but it didnt help me much.
Things I have tried till now.-->
- Swapped sims with many other phones.
- Installed the "Network" app and many other similar apps which was suggested in some other threads.
- Switched Flight mode on and off.
- Factory reset the phone.
- Kept it off for hours and then checked again.
- Prayed that it will get fixed soon
Q) Did you try turning it off and on again?
Ans) Yes..yes.. Many many times. Sometimes, after reboot it shows signal for 2-5 minutes, but I CANT make/receive any calls/sms(The call just drops two seconds after dialling)
PS:- I think that when I received the last call, I was listening music on my headset and I had received the call with the headset.
Thank You very much.
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K s h i t i j s, who is your network provider? EDIT: Just saw that you're on MTNL.
I have been having a similar problem for a similar length of time with my Atrix 2 and I'm on stock ICS. I got my sim replaced by Vodafone but the problem persisted so I asked the guy who originally sold it to me to get it checked out (warranty is long gone).
He mentioned that another customer of his with the same phone also developed the same problem around November or December 2013. Both that guy and I are on Vodafone, Mumbai.
In testing, his phone worked perfectly with an Airtel sim and mine worked perfectly with a borrowed IDEA sim. Both our sims work perfectly in other phones. Both were then sent to the official service centre but they essentially threw their hands up.
The coincidental timing of the problem for two (maybe three) phones of the same model leads one to think there must something with the network broadcasting? Could someone with better knowledge of the subject (mine is approximately nil) comment?
Hello,
I'm asking for some help to diagnose my call problems on UMTS.
First of all, three things happened recently, and let's assume that they happened roughly at the same time:
I dropped my Nexus 5 on concrete shattering the screen completely;
Google released Lollipop which some people believe has problems with 3G and LTE;
I'm using a rather old SIM card manually cut to fit micro-SIM dimensions.
About two days after receiving my Nexus 5 back from guys servicing it (new LCD screen) I had a telephone conversation that was disconnecting once every minute or two. There was no problem recalling though. The same day later I noticed that dialer app says "Emergency calls only" which was pretty weird. I was on Cyanogenmod 11, some recent nightly back then.
My first guess - revert to earlier nightly via TWRP. It didn't help - I was still on emergency calls only and nobody was able to call me. However, I could browse Internet without any problems on 3G.
Second guess - clean flash stock 5.0.1. It didn't help too, however calling went back on for some time (several minutes) before breaking back to "Emergency calls only".
Third guess - buy a starter SIM and check if it works. It did at first but stopped after an hour or so.
Fourth guess - bring the phone back to guys servicing the LCD to check antennas. I've left it for two days. It was opened and antennas checked. Everything was fine, not even a bent flex.
For all this time when on 3G/LTE data transmission worked flawlessly. I could download Google Maps, browse the Internet, whatever. It's just the very basic phone function that acts weird - as if I wasn't registered to a network. Everything seems to work fine on 2G, except for very rare disconnects (once per two, or three days).
So, considering it's pretty weird I'm seeking for help - could it be possible that after hitting concrete something broke down on the motherboard that results in such weird behavior? Or is, perhaps, my retro-SIM dying? Any ideas? Maybe flashing a well-tested radio ROM? Diagnostic apps?