Voice phone call problems. I can make a receive voice phone calls around my local area (approx. 30 min driving circle), outside of that area, I can not make or receive calls, data and texts work fine. Called Verizon, over an hour on the phone trying many things, settings, sim card removal, refreshing network, checking for call restrictions, nothing worked. Took the phone it to a Verizon store, got a new sim card, same thing, no go. I have a refurbished phone coming from Verizon, but would rather keep my new phone.
Any guesses? Roaming is turned on phone, everything seems good, just no out of area calls. If I try to place a call, all it does is sit there saying "dialing" but I here no sounds. After a bit I get error message "out of service area", and then "call lost". It may have done this from day one, as I do not use this phone much for traveling, as I have a work cell. Any help would be great. Thanks.
Would a screen shot from the app LTE on/off, help someone to see if some radio setting is wrong?
I know one thing that is different from my phone to the other two m8's I have here is under the heading radio band, I only have two choices, usa band, and 1800-1900 band, my wife and daughter's phones have a third choice, 800-900 band. Could this be it? And how do I get the third choice back?
Ok guys, what I found out is that you have to use thunderbolt lte app from the play store. Choose cdma+lte, then choose the other radio band, not the US band. Exit out and you are good to go.
Now every time you reboot the phone, you have to go through it again. I don't know why it doesn't stick. Maybe some one can help
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Another thing I see different is, in the list of stuff in the lte on off app, Next to GSM service, my phone says emergency only, and the other phones say GSM service, in service. How do I change it from emergency only to in service?
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I have an inspire that I use on Tmobile. The probem I have is my calls are not coming in. I have the data turned off. I have to keep calling tmobile to correct the issue. I was told today that the issue is my phone will not stay conencted to the network. I got the unlock code from ATT before starting service with tmobile. Any assistance is greatly appreciated. I have been looking for three days on this issue and have not found anything.
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have you started using your tmobile sim card and not the ATT one? also you will need the tmobile apn configurations.
http://support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-1979
Yes I updated to the APN codes that Tmobile gave me but it seems like the calls come through for a few minutes after turning the phone off and back on.
you also need to turn off 3g and 4g as those are not supported by the inspire. (uses different frequency ranges that the inspire doesnt have) so turn on 'use 2g only networks'
menu->settings->wireless and networks -> mobile networks
and also make sure youve deleted any non tmobile apns. (not trying to insult just covering all the basics)
I dont have an option to use 2g only. I was looking for that. I am new to having an unlocked phone so I am not sure of what to do. Tmobile jsut said the only thing i can do is turn the phone off and on throughout the day in order for it work. I am just checking because that seems to be too much work just to use the phone.
dial *#*#4636#*#* and go to phone information and scroll down to set preferred network, change it to GSM ONLY
it really sounds like its working, but then its trying to connect to higher networks as in when u first connect u watch to go from Edge to 3G then to 4G
Thanks for all your help. That did not work as well. I powered off and on. It is still not ringing. Looks like I will have to invest in a tmobile phone.
My husband finally let me root and rom his S3 (I have a Gnex). Unlocking the bootloader and rooting (using Odin) went well. When I installed SlimBean+GApps, however, we started having an issue. He kept losing 3 & 4G signal. We didn't know about the roaming issue, so I had not backed up the IMEI. I flashed Clean Rom, and the issue is partially fixed.
The phone's signal is fine now, 3-4 bars 4G most of the time. The trouble is, we can't dial out to any numbers, and any calls to the phone go straight to voicemail. We've pulled the sim card and let it sit for a bit, but that didn't help. Dialing *228 (as Verizon tech support had him do about 4,583 times) just brings up a message about the phone being activated by the sim card, and roaming capabilities being updated. All tech support had to say was that Google Voice was probably the problem, even though we've both had it for ages with zero issues. :/
Any ideas? I don't really want to unroot and take it in to the Verizon store, but I will if there is no alternative.
EDIT: Just discovered that 4G is only working when "Preferred network mode" is set to Global, rather than LTE/CDMA.
*228 is for 3g phones only, it does absolutely nothing for LTE sim phones. Here's your solution btw.
I knew it! I kept telling them I didn't think that was supposed to do anything when I have a sim card. Crazy first string tech support. They also didn't know my battery was removable.
Will try the things listed in that link, thanks.
Falconfree said:
I knew it! I kept telling them I didn't think that was supposed to do anything when I have a sim card. Crazy first string tech support. They also didn't know my battery was removable.
Will try the things listed in that link, thanks.
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Haha Verizon lost credibility with me when I rented their global phone for travel last summer and when I got back to the US the instructions to get my GSIII working began with dialing *228. There wasn't even a warning about it being unnecessary for LTE sim phones.
Good luck and let me know how that goes.
will be on phone with AT&T in the morning or via chat with them. I have no access to my mobile data. no explanation, just stopped working. went into my settings for both SIM cards as I have data on both actually, but SIM 1 is the primary one and designated one. Switching settings made no difference. Had it look for network automatically says it's joined already but it's not. no connection, no internet, no Google now, email, nothing. confirmed with AT&T that my data plan is not messed up and still on my account. Was driving and it was end of night so rebooted phone, did not resolve, going to call tomorrow. (As if I have the time but I missed messages I needed to deal with on my break that came in personal email that can't be accessed at work). any suggestions with APN settings I might be missing or something? This is random and weird. Unless somehow data has an outage but you'd think the rep would have told me that. But this needs to be resolved! Don't know if it's AT&T or a phone setting.Was working fine until this morning! Love the phone! anyone? BTW: I just logged on to my account and have an idea: My SIM 1 is from my Note 3 but my account is reflecting that my device is now showing as unknown, so I wonder if this is what is going on. hmm. I'm still getting phone and text messages though. I guess I'm just going to register my SIM 1 now over too as well. maybe that's the issue. my SIM 2 is fully registered to the Pure XL. I guess I'm going online chat tomorrow again. Also, 4G is not showing up now as an available option under network choice either. So I wonder then if it's an outage issue but it's almost midnight here. Will have to chat tomorrow at work somehow with tech support. It's not the issue though with the SIM card from the Note 3 being the cause because SIM 2 is registered under the Pure XL and has a separate data plan, and that one is not working either when I try to temporarily make SIM 2 the data SIM slot. So it must be an AT&T issue. Will have to wait until the morning.
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Well, I have learned it is a twofold issue, but importantly, all CARRIER RELATED, not phone related thank goodness. Phone is perfect
1. AT&T did a roving sweep and discovered that my IMEI on SIM 1 was no longer matching, so it turns out that my using the Note 3 SIM was in fact, an issue. I have since had the SIM re-provisioned with the IMEI for SIM 1 now on the Pure XL.
2. However...it turns out that AT&T in my area is in fact having major data network outage problems and that explains why I was unable to log on yesterday even with my properly provisioned SIM 2. And the network is in fact, STILL OUT. So I am still unable to access mobile data and it has NOTHING to do with the phone. It's AT&T all the way. Right now-the network is down. Okay-fine-that happens-they'll fix it. If you call 611 there's an alert saying that. I know stuff happens. That explains why I was getting the weird readouts yesterday that were only showing 2G and 3G on the network. (and I still wasn't getting any connection to data anyway).
So that's what the issue is. The network has been down though more than a day which is ridiculous. They really need to fix that or pro-rate that on our bills then! I'm unable to access personal email from work and rely on my phone and this is a long stretch of time to be offline so they really need to get on the stick and fix this!
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Well, I have learned it is a twofold issue, but importantly, all CARRIER RELATED, not phone related thank goodness. Phone is perfect
1. AT&T did a roving sweep and discovered that my IMEI on SIM 1 was no longer matching, so it turns out that my using the Note 3 SIM was in fact, an issue. I have since had the SIM re-provisioned with the IMEI for SIM 1 now on the Pure XL.
2. However...it turns out that AT&T in my area is in fact having major data network outage problems and that explains why I was unable to log on yesterday even with my properly provisioned SIM 2. And the network is in fact, STILL OUT. So I am still unable to access mobile data and it has NOTHING to do with the phone. It's AT&T all the way. Right now-the network is down. Okay-fine-that happens-they'll fix it. If you call 611 there's an alert saying that. I know stuff happens. That explains why I was getting the weird readouts yesterday that were only showing 2G and 3G on the network. (and I still wasn't getting any connection to data anyway).
So that's what the issue is. The network has been down though more than a day which is ridiculous. They really need to fix that or pro-rate that on our bills then! I'm unable to access personal email from work and rely on my phone and this is a long stretch of time to be offline so they really need to get on the stick and fix this!
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Fortunately the network is up again by 12 noon. Getting LTE just fine on newly re provisioned SIM 1 card.
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Recently purchased the Xperia Z5 (E6653) and I am having some serious issues with calls on T-Mobile USA.
Calls don't dial out (or it takes multiple tries) and calls won't come in when the phone is connected to 4g (LTE); they go straight to Voicemail. I missed about 12 phone calls yesterday - just getting voicemail after vaoicemail till I realized something was wrong on my side. If I toggle off the LTE it drops to Edge (no HSPA+) and calls come in fast and outgoing calls are made with no problem.
I tried to reset the phone, then repair the software with the Sony Companion app. Still same issue. Looked online for the APN settings. Tried various ones. Re-downloaded the Internet/MMS via the phone itself. Same issue. Tried my wife's sim and it was still doing the same. I have a spare 5s and it worked fine both incoming and outgoing calls. So, it doesn't seem like its the sim card.
I have Rev 2 of this phone so I am not sure if that is anything to be concerned about. Am I missing something...any help on this would be appreciated.
Thanks.
Maybe flash a T-mobile firmware with flashtool?
Or Flash 209 firmware meant for usa?
Or wait for someone here that use this phone on T-mobile.
Are you on band 12 LTE by chance
No, it said band 2 with LTE Discovery. I am on the verge of sending it back. Swap it for another one. Let's see.
From what I have gathered/read - it should really be straight forward. Pop in sim, load Internet settings, and it should work on T-Mobile. The APN settings are correct.
Doesn't makes sense for it to completely not work on 4g and go to 2G (Edge) while skipping 3g. I'm wondering if the baseband might just be wonky. I just see this as causing more problems down the road which I don't want from a $520 device.
Any advice is welcome because I am ordering the same phone again. Lemons are always possible.
Could it be possible because I live a relatively rural area (East TN) and the phone does not support AWS? Since it doesn't support T-Mobile VoLTE and doesn't have AWS it is defaulting to 2G? Is this an issue in all areas or just rural? Apparently the E6683 variant doesn't have this problem as it supports AWS.
Check this http://www.xperiablog.net/2015/10/07/usa-buyers-guide-sony-xperia-z5/
That means ur phone should work fine with T-mobile,maybe go and get a replacement from where you bought it.
I purchased my XZP about a week ago, and since it arrived, I've had issues receiving calls. I can make calls (it takes about 10-15 seconds to start ringing) but when someone tries to call me, it usually rings once for the caller, I get no rings on my end and then the calls go to voicemail. I am coming from the unlocked LG V20. I simply removed the SIM from that phone and placed it in the XZP. I have the dual-SIM version.
I discovered that I can receive calls when "GSM only" is selected under preferred network type, but that kills LTE. Any help would be appreciated.
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I purchased my XZP about a week ago, and since it arrived, I've had issues receiving calls. I can make calls (it takes about 10-15 seconds to start ringing) but when someone tries to call me, it usually rings once for the caller, I get no rings on my end and then the calls go to voicemail. I am coming from the unlocked LG V20. I simply removed the SIM from that phone and placed it in the XZP. I have the dual-SIM version.
I discovered that I can receive calls when "GSM only" is selected under preferred network type, but that kills LTE. Any help would be appreciated.
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I have the G8141 bought from UK and using in the US (Ultra mobile which is an MVNO running on tmobile). I've never had issues similar to what you said. Try a factory reset. Also what ROM version are you in?
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I have the G8141 bought from UK and using in the US (Ultra mobile which is an MVNO running on tmobile). I've never had issues similar to what you said. Try a factory reset. Also what ROM version are you in?
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I discovered that the issue is caused by poor service in my area. I have LTE but T-Mobile has used their LTE network to disguise that every other service in this area is garbage. If I drive a few miles away, my service works normally and I can use 3G data while talking on the phone. But at home, I stay on LTE and all my calls are directed to voicemail. I solved it by staying on LTE and using my Google Voice phone number full time and using the Hangouts Dialer app to make and receive calls. Its like I have VoLTE now. hah
Since the phone doesn't support (or vice versa) T-Mobile's VOLTE, the phone will only do calls on other GSM networks which T-Mobile is apparently phasing out. So data is great and the signal looks good, but then no calls in these areas. It's very frustrating. As mentioned above, calls over data from other apps do work. Hangouts, Digits, etc.