Hi all, I think I've searched applicable threads and come up but who knows.
So i've been playing with a few of the TW based 4.3 ROMs and have noticed that I do not have simultaneous voice & data anymore when the modem (ML1) is in 3G mode. Has anyone else seen this? It had worked great on 4.1.2 whether using stock TW or a custom TW ROM. I've reflashed the modem a few times and I have not seen a difference. FWIW I've noticed this on Alliance, MOAR and CleanROM for 4.3.
All other functionailty behaves as I'd expect, a few annoyances, but those are all well known.
But simultaneous voice/data in non-4G areas was one of the reasons I bought the S3, and I'm sadly leaning on reverting back to a 4.1.2 ROM to regain this ability.
Any thoughts/suggestions on what to try before flipping back to 4.1.2?
Thanks
John
Well, for any who care. I rewiped the phone, reinstalled the ML1 modem, and installed Alliance 22, and now simultaneous voice/data works again on 3G. Not sure if the rewipe did it or if something is different in the ROM/kernel. But back to what I want.
Next up figuring out why Bluetooth fails to connect in the car after having played for a while and been off for a while. Short of a reboot or walking away from the car for some amount of time it's stuck. But that's another search to do for another 4.3 issue (worked great on 4.1.2). fun fun
John
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I've completely lost 3G ability on my NS, and I'm not sure what happened.
Here's my order of tweaks:
CM7 nightly (with 3G)
MIUI (with 3G)
ICS rom from SDK (no more 3G!)
ICS from kwiboo (no 3G)
ICS from koush (no 3G)
CM7 stable (no 3G)
I guess sometime during my playtime with the ICS from SDK build, something messed something up and subsequently I cannot get 3G anymore, regardless of ROM.
I'm not sure where even to begin troubleshooting.
- Yes, "use only 2G networks" is unchecked
- My APN should be correct, as they are the ones that loaded automatically from the ROMs. That has always worked before
Anyone have any ideas? I'm desperate for help. I haven't had 3G for what feels like a month!
Here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=19424857 in this post there is a link to the radios try flashing one of those to see if that fixes things. If not try flashing a stock unrooted rom and start over
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You know what? A new radio worked! I don't know why I didn't think of it before. Seems so easy in hindsight.
This brings up another interesting thing. Seems like a lot of the radios that used to give me 3g don't give it to me anymore, including the most popular ones people are using. That's weird...
edit: Actually, no radio issues anymore. My old radio gets 3g again, as well as others. I just needed to rotate the radio versions a few times and reboot a few more times and it fixed itself. Totally weird, but no more problems!
I had the same issue on AT&T 2 nights ago. It turned out that it was an AT&T network issue which was confirmed by tech. support.
I just thought I would shed some light on an issue I've had since leaked jb Verizon modems came around. I am the owner of a vzw network extender. Whenever I am running any asop ROM, when I connect to the extender, my gs3 says I'm roaming. From cm10/10.1 to aokp to eclipse jb, This happens on every asop ROM I've tried. The only fix is to run an ICS modem. Also I have no issues using the k3 baseband with any tw based roms. I believe this has to do with the way the jb modems report being connected to the extender on a tw based rom. With the jb modem, the tw based roms tell you that you are connected to the extender. It says network extender in place of Verizon wireless on the pulldown and also the signal bars have a little home above it. This was new to jb. On an asop ROM I get roaming and an r in place of the home on the signal bars. Is it possible that asop ROMs have not caught up yet, being that not too many people have a signal extender? And feedback would be greatly appreciated.
I haven't been hearing about this issue as not many people have network extenders. I don't think any of the AOSP ROM developers have been working on a fix for it. Thank you for bringing it up in the mean time to take full advantage of your network extender you will have to use the Touchwiz roms.
Thanks for the reply. Is there any better way to get the word out to aosp ROM developers about this issue?
Other than the development thread and PM that is it.
Bringing this back, any fix for this problem yet? =/
Same problem
I am having the same problem running a Galaxy S4 with CM 10.1. I own a Network Extender at my business, and my phone shows the "R" over the bars and out of network in the detail area. In fact, I can not send Text Messages When the extender is on, even though I am connected through our company WIFI as well. What is the best way to change your modem, Odin? If so, where do you download the old modem software? Thanks!
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I have only been using TW based roms because of this issue. I thank you all for posting this information here about the network extender issue. The good news is that all TWQ roms I have tried so far are working for my Network Extender except for Jedi so far on the Verizon network.
So I installed the Mother Of All Roms...rom...then installed the VRBMB1 Modem software. This caused my internet to fail hardcore more than it had already been failing. How do I fix this?
I live on the edge of nowhere land for cell phones. AT&T and Verizon are the only ones that work. Verizon I used to get 4g if I set the phone in the window, 3g throughout. When I updated to the new modem software, I get 4g at the window...kind of. It tends to drop to 3g. 3g works about 4ft from the window, and in the middle of the house has no signal.
I downloaded the VRBMA2 zip to roll it back, but it fails in clockwork mod like I installed the VRBMB1 update. How would I roll it back to the previous software that worked better? It may be the version before VRBMA2, I rarely update my phone because when I do, it usually works worse. But I got sick of the update thing popping up and blocking me every hour or every few days, so I put a different Rom on. : P MOAR works awesome. Verizon does not. The modem update less than not.
Thanks for any help. If worse comes to worse, I can kill everything and put the stock Rom on it and redo everything.
-Matt
I thought all the data issues on AOSP/CM were fixed. While I was on vacation, my phone (running SlimRom) showed 'mobile network disconnected' and had no data, while other people running Verizon (other Galaxy phones, iPhone) had no problems at all. Tried to switch airplane on/off, reboot etc, nothing worked.
So I'm starting to think a TW based rom might give better data?
ECrispy said:
I thought all the data issues on AOSP/CM were fixed. While I was on vacation, my phone (running SlimRom) showed 'mobile network disconnected' and had no data, while other people running Verizon (other Galaxy phones, iPhone) had no problems at all. Tried to switch airplane on/off, reboot etc, nothing worked.
So I'm starting to think a TW based rom might give better data?
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TW based roms will always provide better reception then AOSP. This is due to the fact that the radio software for the S3 is closed source, so in order to get it to work we had to backwards engineer the radio software so that it will pick up signal from the network.
About 3 weeks ago after installing the update of liquidsmooth 4.4.4 i randomly started dropping to 3g service in places that i normally had full 4g available. It has slowly gotten worse to where if im not on wifi, than the phone is pretty much useless. i normally have full coverage everywhere. so i originally thought that maybe something had gotten messed up on the update, so i did a clean install of liquidsmooth 4.4, and blackbird kernal and same thing still occurred. also tried carbon rom and slimrom, and no luck. so for the fun of it, i went ahead and reflashed the phone back to stock from backups and rerooted it, updated the modems and reinstalled liquidsmooth w/ blackbird kernal, and same thing. i have went through all the mobile networks settings and tried everything and nothing seems to help, idk if that update screwed something up or if its an issue that others have been experiencing as well, or if im just screwed and my phone phone is dying.... any help is appreciated thanks
rideforlife7 said:
About 3 weeks ago after installing the update of liquidsmooth 4.4.4 i randomly started dropping to 3g service in places that i normally had full 4g available. It has slowly gotten worse to where if im not on wifi, than the phone is pretty much useless. i normally have full coverage everywhere. so i originally thought that maybe something had gotten messed up on the update, so i did a clean install of liquidsmooth 4.4, and blackbird kernal and same thing still occurred. also tried carbon rom and slimrom, and no luck. so for the fun of it, i went ahead and reflashed the phone back to stock from backups and rerooted it, updated the modems and reinstalled liquidsmooth w/ blackbird kernal, and same thing. i have went through all the mobile networks settings and tried everything and nothing seems to help, idk if that update screwed something up or if its an issue that others have been experiencing as well, or if im just screwed and my phone phone is dying.... any help is appreciated thanks
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I'm currently running OmniToad, and ran CM 11M8 for a short while. On T-Mobile at least, with the custom ROMs it's normal to see H+ only when data is being transferred; it will drop back to 3G otherwise. When I ran the stock ROM on the Relay, it would always say "4G" regardless of whether it was in UMTS (3G) or HSPA+ mode. Apps like SignalCheck or CellMapper will tell you which mode it is really in.
On the other hand, if data transmission is only going through as 3G, it could be a phone issue or a tower issue. Is LTE available in your area, or are they just getting it set up? I know when T-Mobile was upgrading the Chicago area to provide LTE, there were a few glitches here and there.
It was stupid for T-Mobile to brand HSPA+ as "4G" but that's a different rant.
Bobby Tables said:
I'm currently running OmniToad, and ran CM 11M8 for a short while. On T-Mobile at least, with the custom ROMs it's normal to see H+ only when data is being transferred; it will drop back to 3G otherwise. When I ran the stock ROM on the Relay, it would always say "4G" regardless of whether it was in UMTS (3G) or HSPA+ mode. Apps like SignalCheck or CellMapper will tell you which mode it is really in.
On the other hand, if data transmission is only going through as 3G, it could be a phone issue or a tower issue. Is LTE available in your area, or are they just getting it set up? I know when T-Mobile was upgrading the Chicago area to provide LTE, there were a few glitches here and there.
It was stupid for T-Mobile to brand HSPA+ as "4G" but that's a different rant.
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yea LTE has been in this area for quite a while now, i had it with my S4 and it worked perfectly, i never had a problem with the service on the relay either up untill a few weeks ago the internet speed and and data coverage was great, not quite as fast as the LTE on my S4 but it was still more than adequate, i used to use the hotspot and stream netflix on my laptop. now i can usually get a text to send but calls usually fail and if i try and use the internet its impossible. it almost seems like its doing the exact opposite of what it should be doing, as soon as i try and use anything (not while connected to wifi) than it drops coverage to 3g/edge/ or to nothing at all. Im leaning towards the hardware failing side, but i figured i might as well give it a shot and post it and see if maybe i wasnt alone. thank you for your reply.
small note of background on me: first time posting ever in this forum but have been using the tools and roms from it for a long time, so im not a complete noob, but i definitely still have a lot to learn.