Hello all, hopefully somebody can help me with this, since it's making me crazy.
I have one 920 and recently got a new 1020 from Movistar (Telefonica), RM-875 with 64GB if storage. Everything was great until they launched their LTE network, and when I got a new sim card, I found out the ROM the phone has, comes with 4g-LTE disabled. Off course I did what anyone would do in this situation: I flash my phone with another ROM and I got my LTE working.
After a couple of days I noted that I was only getting SMSs telling me that somebody called me. Then I tried to call myself from another number and it went straight to voicemail. When I changed it to 3G again, calls worked fine. I know LTE doesn't support voice, so the phone should get a "notification" from the network to change to 3g to get the call, but my phone is not reacting to it. I tried the same SIM with the 920 and this one works as expected, when on LTE it changes to 3G to get the call.
I've spent the last two weeks downloading new ROMs to see if any of those can help me, with no luck at all. My last resort is to flash back to the original ROM and bring it back to the shop to see if they can help me. Oh and it's not hardware problem since a friend of mine with the same provider and the same phone, he is facing the same issue.
ANYTHING you can tell me to fix this, will be greatly appreciated, since is like a disappointing to not being able to be on LTE with my 1020.
Thank you!
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Today as soon as I left a 4G area my 3G does not work. I tried everything and I get no internet connection with 3G or 1X. When I go back into a 4G area it works fine. But if I move back into a 3G area I get no internet connection. Do you think my CDMA modem is fried?
Im having a problem with mine in general where as my thunderbolt was fine. Either I have nothing, 3g and most of the time no 4g. Headed to verizon after lunch.
It's most likely your SIM card. Had the same issue and ended up with a replacement phone for no reason. Go get a new SIM from VZ and try it.
This solution may work but definitely couldn't hurt to try. I had the same problem you seem to be having, and flashed all roms and versions of software and still only 4G would work. I thought the 3G was fried and seen very few alternatives online besides new SIM or new phone. Saddened I went to bed with battery out and SIM out and as soon as I popped them in the next morning, 3G was normal and has been normal for weeks now. I can't explain it but it more than likely has something to do with the SIM card like everyone else is saying.
Dont know why but after a few days it actually started working. Thanks to all who tried to help.
Im in a 3g only area right now. Never really had the no data problem, but suddenly I am and my phone freaks out and I sometimes lose signal for 20 mins. I'm pretty sure someone from verizon said told me not to take out the sim card
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I had sim card replaced and its still screwed getting replacement sent. They also had me do all kinds of other whack stuff that didnt work.
I lost 3g/internet also and tech support was going to send me another phone, but I tried the new sim card and Bingo. It worked! Thanks for the post, it saved me from having to flash my phone back to stock"for the warranty."
I did all the things they said to do, sim card,format sd card several times and new gmail account. Got replacement phone in and everything is working great so far.
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.
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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.
Hello,
I am from India. I had purchased a Google Nexus 5 phone (Black/ 32GB) last year (December 20th, 2013)
I have started facing a serious issue since yesterday. My entire mobile network went down all of a sudden. Tried using other SIM but of no use. The same SIM works fine in other phone. Other functions including WiFi in Phone works perfectly fine.
A couple of things that I noticed are:
1) When I try to search for the Network manually, I get the message "Error while searching for Network".
2) I noticed that the PREFERRED NETWORK TYPE is defaulted to LTE. I cannot select any other option 2G or 3G.
3) When used Choose Automatically option - it starts with Automatic Registration and then flashes an error "Can't connect to this network right now try again later"
I tried doing a Factory reset hoping that it would work. But, no success. Have contacted LG Direct Service Center (since I bought it from retailer and not from GooglePlay store) and they suggested it's a PCB problem and it needs to replaced which would cost me around 12K INR. Which I am not ready for.
Please let me know what needs to be done. Any help is highly appreciated.
Regards,
Vijay
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He's clearly not in airplane mode.
I have tried with all basic troubleshooting options, kindly check the attached screenshots. Please please help needed urgently.
I was going to make a new thread, but his problem matches mine almost exactly.
Hi guys, i have this problem for over a week now.. A very frustrating week i must say. I got this n5 about a month ago, my uncle got himself a G3 and gave his nexus to me.
Everything was smooth, amazed by the phone, everything working fine, happy as hell. It all crumbled when I went to spend the holidays at my brothers, where he lives my carrier doesn't work (everyone uses another one). When i got back to my house where the mobile network works fine it just stopped. All other sims would work on my phone and my sim work on other phones.
I gave it a time, thought it would be cause i spent too much time on my brothers and it would be ok after a while. It didn't. Then i started to worry and try to fix it somehow. First i got a new simcard (same carrier), no bueno. They told me to restore my phone and stuff, it didn't work. The phone has always that empty triangle, doesn't matter if it's 3G, 4G or 2G.
So I came to the internet look for help. I saw that some people had bring this to the LG, their response was to do a recovery with fastboot and then put 2G on the mobile network. For a moment i thought it was over, my phone finally had some bars !! But to my disgrace I can't make nor receive calls, i can only send/receive SMS and access internet thru 4G, not 2G as the support said. Oh, if i put 3G or 2G dem bars go missing and the empty triangle ****er appears again. Still, my simcard works on every other phone but now only one carrier works on my phone (not mine unfortunately).
Then I started looking on forums like this one and a whole bunch of others and tried many things, all of them unsuccessful.
I tried many things, maybe forgot some but will list those that i remember.
I tried to flash the factory rom. Then tried to flash only the radio of previous androids (tried too many of them to count). Dialed that *#*#4636*#*# or smth, put LTE/GSM, only LTE, activated/deactivated radio. Airplane mode on/off. Tried to recovery on fastboot again. Tried to make new APN. To finish my story, put a Cyanogemod rom and it also didn't work.
So now i decided to post here as my last shot before i go to that carrier that still works. Also, what guarantees that this carrier won't stop working like the others? I'm afraid that may happen. Further informations, i saw many people complaining about T-Mobile and other carries, but I'm brazilian, so it's not one of these. My carrier is Oi and the one that still works is TIM.
The two threads i got most tips were these and some sites in portuguese:
http://forums.androidcentral.com/google-nexus-5/357547-nexus-5-cell-signal-problem-s-fix.html
http://forum.xda-developers.com/google-nexus-5/help/bug-make-receive-calls-wifi-enabled-t2839814
Thank y'all in advance and sorry if my english make it hard or impossible to understand.
My fingers are crossed!
Hello, I'm having a major problem with my phone and I'd be extremely grateful for any help or expertise.
PROBLEM:
I cannot get any kind of CDMA signal on TWO Verizon HTC M8 (I didn't post in that specific thread for a reason, I'll explain, please don't move it).
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HOW THIS HAPPENED:
The first phone, I was using as normal and it was fully functional.. One night i flashed a ROM and ended up falling asleep before if built the ART cache (so it was just playing the bootanimation) and the next morning I awoke to find the boot animation still running. The phone wasn't hot but ever since then I could never get any kind of CDMA service (so i can't use my carrier.)
The second one i just bought and put my sim in and BAM. Same problem.
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MORE DETAILS ON THE PROBLEM:
If i put my sim in, i can usually get 4G data but can NEVER get any lower bands. CDMA settings are greyed out in settings. This persists across ROMs and radio firmwares. My immediate thought was to get a new sim but my sim works absolutely fine in my LG G2. The sim is cut from a microsim but the point there is it worked fine before (and still works in my G2) and it didn't shift in the tray. I tried my friend's sim from an Iphone 5s and it did the same thing. I've tried everything i possibly know to do. This problem has basically cost me $400 dollars or 2 M8s.
Even if i go into the phone info hiddenmenu, i cannot select the CDMA or EvDo bands by themselves.
Hello everyone, im new here kept searching everywhere for solution for my problem without any success. In may 10 i bought SM-G955N KT module, it was working great with 2g / 3g / 4g / LTE / LTE+, i went out of usa for almost 3 month and when i came back my phone doesn't work well with tmobile, i can send msgs use lte internet but i cant do calls at some areas, some times i have full lte bar and when i try to make a call it goes to 0 signal bar, i called tmobile many times about the issue but no solution i found out that they did upgrades to their towers in the period i was out of usa from may to august, right now i cant use the phone as any normal person its been a month that i cant use the phone at my house and some areas, i can make calls sometimes if im at different tower locations. Question is, is there any solution for this problem since tmobile did those tower upgrades its screwed up everything..... should move out to att or verizon or what should i do. I really need help with this problem its been a month, any solution would be welcome if it requires root or not i dont care i just want to find a solution for this,
Thank you.
Have you tried resetting your network settings and/or getting a new sim card?
Its not the sim card i already changed it to a new one also i tried it on a iphone 7s plus and it works fine, my phone is bone stock no root no custom software alsi its the korean version when i looked around i found that tmobile did some network upgrades from may to aug and thats when my phone got screwed up, i was albe to play with the ims setting and i got the phone to recive calls but i cant make calls, does my phone screwed up because it has the korean csc and the stock firmware or whats going on here
I'm not quite sure I understand your experience. From what I am reading, you went to Korea, got the G955N (which I bought for both myself and my wife), and then came back to the states and can't get it to work with T-Mobile?
I tried to get mine to work with T-Mobile and have experimented extensively with different CSCs and ROMs.
I eventually went over to AT&T
I've also had a rather extensive experience of how to get 4GLTE working here in the states with AT&T.
Feel free to reply here or DM me if you wish.
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I'm not quite sure I understand your experience. From what I am reading, you went to Korea, got the G955N (which I bought for both myself and my wife), and then came back to the states and can't get it to work with T-Mobile?
I tried to get mine to work with T-Mobile and have experimented extensively with different CSCs and ROMs.
I eventually went over to AT&T
I've also had a rather extensive experience of how to get 4GLTE working here in the states with AT&T.
Feel free to reply here or DM me if you wish.
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Hello thanks for your input, actually i bought the phone in the box brand new from amazon, it came here on may 10 i used it for 7 days 4G LTE 3G works great then i had to go out of country for 3 month i came back at the end of august to find that tmobile did a huge tower upgrades in my area, since i came back i wasnt able to do calls and receive calls, i was only able to text and use LTE internet but not calls, i went to different towers area and i actually was able to make calls but not in every area because some times my signal bar goes down to 0 or even 1 signal and i cant make calls still but my other friends who owns iphones or usa version of android works fine except me. Yesterday i edited the IMS setting im still on stock fw and i enabled every single feature there and i was able to receive calls in my area but still i cant do calls, i wanted to make sure if im gonna follow the steps here in this guide i will be able to use TMOBILE CSC with the korean stock firmware and get the features of tmobile as VOLTE and WIFI CALLING etc with the right CSC for sure and without tripping knox
Thank you
Hi, I did some extensive searching and was not able to find a solution for this.
I've got the SM-G955N, and ran into the same issues as other users in this thread with T-Mobile, has anyone found a workaround to unlock the LTE bands necessary to make the SM-G955N work with T-Mobile?
I didnt find solution yet too, i dont know what to do i gave up i tried everything on the official software no root.
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Its not the sim card i already changed it to a new one also i tried it on a iphone 7s plus and it works fine, my phone is bone stock no root no custom software alsi its the korean version when i looked around i found that tmobile did some network upgrades from may to aug and thats when my phone got screwed up, i was albe to play with the ims setting and i got the phone to recive calls but i cant make calls, does my phone screwed up because it has the korean csc and the stock firmware or whats going on here
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I had a phone with the Korean CSC as well, N phone as well. I left the CSC alone and it worked with T-Mobile and ATT here in the US just fine, last fall.
I later changed the CSC to XXA, and still works well. Just tested it this week with T-Mobile, and it's working. I have to say, that locally, T-Mobile has much poorer spot area service than ATT. Kinda puzzling, but that is the way it is.
My phone is rooted, so it make things a bit more handy to mess about and return to my previous setups.