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JB 4.1.1 Won't connect to tmobile towers

It updated OTA on it's own and was working last night. This morning I looked at my phone and it was connected. I moved it and it lost signal and hasn't gotten it since. I can't force it to connect, will get roaming but roaming in this area is emergency only.

AtomicPC said:
It updated OTA on it's own and was working last night. This morning I looked at my phone and it was connected. I moved it and it lost signal and hasn't gotten it since. I can't force it to connect, will get roaming but roaming in this area is emergency only.
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Slight update, no APN settings are on here, won't save when I try to add them. Well it saves but then it still shows none.

Its busted, reflash
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xsteven77x said:
Its busted, reflash
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Just did that. Still nothing.

Ok I've flashed 4.0.4 then CWM to 4.1.1 and nothing. Flashed 4.0.4 and nothing then flashed GB on it and nothing. I'm out of ideas.

Maybe you didn't save properly? Don't press back when done inputting everything, but press menu>save.

If that doesn't work, there's a remote possibility it's a problem with the SIM card. You might want to go to your carrier store and ask for a new one; in my experience this is usually free. Other than that, if flashing a whole new ROM doesn't fix it, I have a hard time understanding how it could be anything other than a hardware issue.

zorak950 said:
If that doesn't work, there's a remote possibility it's a problem with the SIM card. You might want to go to your carrier store and ask for a new one; in my experience this is usually free. Other than that, if flashing a whole new ROM doesn't fix it, I have a hard time understanding how it could be anything other than a hardware issue.
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It was the sim card. I wished I would have thought of that before I wiped everything though. Oh well I got a clean install and learned a lesson. Never skip step 3...

Need help with gps on Verizon Galaxy S3

Hey Everyone,
Hopefully you have time and can answer this for me. About a month ago I downloaded the very first alpha rom of CM10 for the S3. Installation went fine and all but GPS was totally screwed up. Well a few roms later and updates to Google Maps its still not locking on to my position, even with WiFi on like someone suggested but wasn't needed before I began flashing so many roms lol. I've been using GPS toolbox and GPS status to get locks but it doesn't hold. It will stay locked then lose it a minute later where as when I didn't mess with roms and was on stock it would be fine and be able to see my phone from anywhere. Right now I'm looking at it as I type and it says GPS on in green on one of the apps and 8 in view and 7 in use but its still blinking constantly and the accuracy is at 500 feet sometimes more which is totally unacceptable. Used to be within 40 ft or less than that before something totally screwed with my GPS. I'm really desperate now Max because I use my GPS to get around town as I have a horrible memory but don't want to take it back to Verizon to get a new one and shell out more money. I've tried a lot of steps up to and including going back to complete stock on the phone to know avail, its still screwed. I've cleared the A-GPS cache and re downloaded it from these apps but its still not 100% perfect where I need it. Would you happen to know what to do to get this thing in working order so I can use it again and not have it lose lock while I'm on the road like its been doing? Maybe if you have an unaltered gps.conf file you could copy the stuff in that file for me and paste it on an email so I can recreate my own and see if it helps. Its under the system/etc/gps.conf if you need to know where it is. I really need help and you guys are the only people that actually knows these phones inside and out that could possibly help me on this. Like I've said, I've tried everything I can think of, using GPS tools on the market, going back to stock, jumping from 3 different roms and even deleting the Google maps and re downloading it and nothing helps, but hopefully you can. Thank you for taking the time to read this long email as I tried to give as much detail to my problem as needed to help you help me.
-Nick

I have had this problem flashing to. I have found that going back stock fixes the problem. Also do you do data wipes and cache wipes too.

aldude345 said:
I have had this problem flashing to. I have found that going back stock fixes the problem. Also do you do data wipes and cache wipes too.
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I've already tried going back to stock, and yes I do complete full wipes when going from ROM to ROM. Hence why I am so confused on what to do with my problem.

aldude345 said:
I have had this problem flashing to. I have found that going back stock fixes the problem. Also do you do data wipes and cache wipes too.
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I should say do data wipe/cache wipe and the other cache wipe then bull battery and redownload stock

aldude345 said:
I should say do data wipe/cache wipe and the other cache wipe then bull battery and redownload stock
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Already did all that

Metalhead520 said:
Already did all that
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If you are using CWM then format system. Sounds more like a hardware problem as mine is working fine.
TAPPED in on my (now unlocked bootloader) Verizon S3

How long did u let GPS lock on
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tdperry said:
If you are using CWM then format system. Sounds more like a hardware problem as mine is working fine.
TAPPED in on my (now unlocked bootloader) Verizon S3
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I went back to stock unrooted so its just plain recovery with no advanced options like in CWR

bigdaddywong83 said:
How long did u let GPS lock on
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It never really locked on, it would find a bunch of satellites, then drop them, then find them.......never does completely lock on, even with wifi on. Ive tried everything I can think of too, and even downloaded some other gps fixing tools on the market with no help.

My GPS is fried
I have done alot of troubleshooting and I believe I screwed up my phone. I went from Synergy to CM10 and then to cleanrom. While on cleanrom I noticed my GPS wouldnt lock. So I flashed Synergy (Fully Wiping Of Course) and still no GPS. So I odined to stock and relocked bootloader. Still no luck. I ran GPS fix GPS Status GPS AIDS and GPS test and I am still screwed. My GPS still wont lock. It always says searching for GPS. I left the Navi on last night all night with a destination set hoping it would lock and say the magical words I want to here like "turn left" but instead I woke up to searching... been wiping data and cache 3 times daily tryna get this fixed.

I had gps issues no matter what rom or type of wipe i did. I notice it started after the synergy release where the gps settings were modified and no matter what it never worked again.I reverted the phone completely back to stock and the same thing. I called Verizon and they sent me a new phone, no issues anymore.

ren274u said:
I had gps issues no matter what rom or type of wipe i did. I notice it started after the synergy release where the gps settings were modified and no matter what it never worked again.I reverted the phone completely back to stock and the same thing. I called Verizon and they sent me a new phone, no issues anymore.
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Did you try to reprovision? *2767*3855# (wipes everything on internal SD)

Zalithian said:
Did you try to reprovision? *2767*3855# (wipes everything on internal SD)
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No but after I flashed the factory kernel, radio, and rom I went into the recovery and did a wipe/data factory reset. That erased everything I had on the internal sd and set it back to stock. Still didn't work after that.

Zalithian said:
Did you try to reprovision? *2767*3855# (wipes everything on internal SD)
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I know it wasn't directed towards me but I tried that number in the dialer and it did a different kind of factory reset than I've done myself, but the gps on my SGSIII is still screwed up. I've been sitting here for 10 mins waiting for it to find me and still nothing. I really don't want to have to send it back for another one, is there any other numbers I can do on the dialer to do something else? On Google Maps the icon to where Im supposed to be is grey and blinking so I don't think it sees the phone. I do rely on my gps for a lot so its bad that this isn't responding at all.

Metalhead520 said:
I know it wasn't directed towards me but I tried that number in the dialer and it did a different kind of factory reset than I've done myself, but the gps on my SGSIII is still screwed up. I've been sitting here for 10 mins waiting for it to find me and still nothing. I really don't want to have to send it back for another one, is there any other numbers I can do on the dialer to do something else? On Google Maps the icon to where Im supposed to be is grey and blinking so I don't think it sees the phone. I do rely on my gps for a lot so its bad that this isn't responding at all.
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I didn't have to send it in and wait. I called them wednesday, it got here today (with their free shipping). Then you get 5 days to send in the original phone, they include a postage label and everything. No down time at all. Just make sure you completely set it back to stock before you send it.

ren274u said:
I didn't have to send it in and wait. I called them wednesday, it got here today (with their free shipping). Then you get 5 days to send in the original phone, they include a postage label and everything. No down time at all. Just make sure you completely set it back to stock before you send it.
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Yeah its already back to stock, it seems faster after that reprovisioning but just wish the gps would work. Ill take it in my local Verzion store on monday to see what I can do about this. I just hope I don't get a SGSIII replacement that's already been tinkered with by someone else lol. I think my days of tinkering with phones myself are over since I don't want to go through this again

I also have the gps issues however I didnt restore back to stock.. anyway I bought my phone not directly from verizon I paid almost full retail price would they still take it for replacement or I have to go to samsung?

Samsung. And good luck with that. They are the worst. I had to get my nexus fixed and I sent it in 3 times for repair. They kept saying they fixed it and never did. after the third time i started screaming at them and they sent me a new one. hehehehe

GPS Woes =(
addictedhacks said:
I have done alot of troubleshooting and I believe I screwed up my phone. I went from Synergy to CM10 and then to cleanrom. While on cleanrom I noticed my GPS wouldnt lock. So I flashed Synergy (Fully Wiping Of Course) and still no GPS. So I odined to stock and relocked bootloader. Still no luck. I ran GPS fix GPS Status GPS AIDS and GPS test and I am still screwed. My GPS still wont lock. It always says searching for GPS. I left the Navi on last night all night with a destination set hoping it would lock and say the magical words I want to here like "turn left" but instead I woke up to searching... been wiping data and cache 3 times daily tryna get this fixed.
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I have the same problem. I was running Synergy at the time I noticed it. It's really difficult to get Maps to lock, and seems to only work after GPS Test or GPS Status first get a lock (which each take up to 30 seconds typically).
I went COMPLETE stock to try fix it; total wipe, locked bootloader, no root, pure vanilla. Still couldn't get lock with Maps.
I'm trying a custom gps config file now to see if that helps.
Really wish someone would figure out what caused this and how to fix/revert it.

The original galaxy s had the worst GPS ever (or later version would initially work but get worse over time), but a dev (jt1334) for the samsung fascinate fixed it after 8 months by changing something in the kernel.
Hopefully some devs familiar with his work could look at what he did and see if there is something similar that could be done on the gs3

[Q] wifi seems to be stuck

My wifi was working fine before but yesterday I tried getting on wifi and the position seems to be stuck. It seems like it was to connect but it wont connect, i leave my phone to try and connect for many hours and it doesnt. I go to mysettings to try and turn the wifi position to off and i cant. Ive tried restarting and taking the battery out and nothing helps. I got my wifi to turn off, and after a few hours without trying to get on wifi i tried connecting and its back to what it has been doing, like in a stuck position. I got it to go off by turning the phone off completly for a few hours. Any help is well appreciated. Thank you in advance. I tried attaching a picture to better explain this, but for some reason I cant even attach a file.

What rom are you on?
God promised men that he'd put beautiful women in all corners of the world. Then he laughed and laughed and made the world round

Nohemy73 said:
My wifi was working fine before but yesterday I tried getting on wifi and the position seems to be stuck. It seems like it was to connect but it wont connect, i leave my phone to try and connect for many hours and it doesnt. I go to mysettings to try and turn the wifi position to off and i cant. Ive tried restarting and taking the battery out and nothing helps. I got my wifi to turn off, and after a few hours without trying to get on wifi i tried connecting and its back to what it has been doing, like in a stuck position. I got it to go off by turning the phone off completly for a few hours. Any help is well appreciated. Thank you in advance. I tried attaching a picture to better explain this, but for some reason I cant even attach a file.
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I've been having weird WiFi issues recently too. I'm stock. I disabled the ATT Smart WiFi but that doesn't seem to fix things. Tried one of the WiFi applications to reconnect when it detects the failure but that works only about 99% of the time.

jd1639 said:
What rom are you on?
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My phone is stock, havent done any upgrades besides that of android. Im a beginner, so i wouldnt know how to answer this. Any help is greatly appreciated.

aspexil said:
I've been having weird WiFi issues recently too. I'm stock. I disabled the ATT Smart WiFi but that doesn't seem to fix things. Tried one of the WiFi applications to reconnect when it detects the failure but that works only about 99% of the time.
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My wifi doesnt even connect now, it shows that its trying to connect but it wont. The wifi icon doesnt go to full green, it stays on a transparent green, like it wants to connect but wont.

If it was me I'd flash the stock from and get it back to the way it used to be. But if you're on stock now and haven't done any flashing its going to take a lot of learning on your part. You are going to have to learn to use odin and where to get the stock rom. Not sure if you're up for that.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I957 using xda app-developers app

If you both are on stock call ATT. They will be more then happy to help you. With your level of knowledge that is your best course of action. They will most likely tell you to factory reset your phone. You will loose all your apps and settings. Tell them you want to back that up first. They should be able to help you from there.

hechoen said:
If you both are on stock call ATT. They will be more then happy to help you. With your level of knowledge that is your best course of action. They will most likely tell you to factory reset your phone. You will loose all your apps and settings. Tell them you want to back that up first. They should be able to help you from there.
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Guess this is what i will have to do, i just dont no if something is wrong with my phone. Thank you for your help

Hey guys,
I've been using this phone (skyrocket ROGERS version) and have had this problem ever since I "upgraded" to ICS; and I've had so many problems with this phone! I've just learned to accept that my WiFi will never work consistently enough for me to use it so I just always use my data plan (luckily I've got a lot of data).
THINGS I HAVE TRIED
Cm 10 stable
Cm 10 nightly
Cm 9 stable
Miui
Flashing stock ICS
Flashing stock Jb
Things I haven't tried
Flashing stock gingerbread (because this was the only time my WiFi worked consistently, but why go back to gingerbread)
If anybody has ANY insight on this it would be very helpful
I guess I should also mention that I've flashed everyone of these ROMs that I listed at least 3-5 times just to ensure it wasn't just a bad flash.

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.

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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

Mobile Data Connection Dropping

I have installed ViperOne and Clean Rom and I have the same problem with both. After a while of inactivity my data will just quit working. The icon will still be there but the phone won't connect at all. I have to place it into airplane mode to fix this. And just fyi sleep mode is off and power saver is off. It's just like my phone forgets how to connect after a little while. I had ZERO problems when I was stock. And now this.....please help me!
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Oh and I have also done factory resets between each Rom install so everything was clean when it was flashed.
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tm1618 said:
Oh and I have also done factory resets between each Rom install so everything was clean when it was flashed.
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Did you figure this out? i'm having the same damn issue.

bnsrowe said:
Did you figure this out? i'm having the same damn issue.
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Nope. I've returned completely to stock and am going to get a new SIM card tomorrow. If that doesn't work I'm going to get a warranty replacement.

bnsrowe said:
Did you figure this out? i'm having the same damn issue.
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Read santod's post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55130095
then respond in this thread. scrosler doesn't want us to discuss this issue in his rom thread. This is the perfect place to continue.
I can't wait to try it because I have the same issue on my travels but will have to wait until I get home and to my PC. Would love to read more success stories...
In essence santod says: flash the stock recovery, do a factory reset from hboot to restore the VZW radios, then restore your setup. Should work with most sense roms, but so far the people solving this issue all flashed a RUU.
Anybody have a link handy for the stock recovery?

i've ruu'd back to "stock" and am trying this now.

berndblb said:
Read santod's post here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=55130095
then respond in this thread. scrosler doesn't want us to discuss this issue in his rom thread. This is the perfect place to continue.
I can't wait to try it because I have the same issue on my travels but will have to wait until I get home and to my PC. Would love to read more success stories...
In essence santod says: flash the stock recovery, do a factory reset from hboot to restore the VZW radios, then restore your setup. Should work with most sense roms, but so far the people solving this issue all flashed a RUU.
Anybody have a link handy for the stock recovery?
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Stock Recovery: Link :good:
You can find that and my firmware links in this thread.

Did the stock recovery so far so good but I won't know for sure until I get out and about today. It seems I didn't have the issue until it dropped from 4g to 3g back to 4g and have a decent 4g signal at home.

For now it seems as though that did the trick. I didn't loose data all day, we will see though.

Well it didn't work, I had to toggle airplane mode several times today to get data to work again.

bnsrowe said:
Well it didn't work, I had to toggle airplane mode several times today to get data to work again.
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Are you going to RUU?
That's what I plan to do tomorrow. It's getting to be extremely annoying. Not even toggling airplane mode or mobile data on/off does anything. I have to reboot every time.

berndblb said:
Are you going to RUU?
That's what I plan to do tomorrow. It's getting to be extremely annoying. Not even toggling airplane mode or mobile data on/off does anything. I have to reboot every time.
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RUU'd, stock recovery, flashed radios, and new SIM. I've tried everything. It seems as though if I'm in a low signal area where I go from 4g to 3g to Wi-Fi it happens. It's like there's a handoff problem between all the radios. Will show 4 bars of 4g but under mobile data in settings says disconnected.

Mine just started doing this. I'll RUU when I get back home to Texas.

bnsrowe said:
RUU'd, stock recovery, flashed radios, and new SIM. I've tried everything. It seems as though if I'm in a low signal area where I go from 4g to 3g to Wi-Fi it happens. It's like there's a handoff problem between all the radios. Will show 4 bars of 4g but under mobile data in settings says disconnected.
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May want to try this

kc6wke said:
May want to try this
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Trying this now, we'll see what happens.

bnsrowe said:
Trying this now, we'll see what happens.
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I can confirm that it did fixed the issue, I didn't loose data all day no matter if wifi, 4g,3g, or 1x,

Same here. In the last 5 days I travelled in 3 states, large cities and very rural areas where it dropped to 3G or 1x - it never had problems to return to 4G (or getting a data connection at all).
This fix proves what's so great about these forums! I probably would have ditched a phone I totally love in all other aspects due to a problem that OEM customer service would not even acknowledge existed!