Hello there,
I'm having a bit of a issue with my 3G connection; I'm getting a lot of different issues while using it inside of my house. The main problems I'm having are the following:
My connection keeps freezing; even with 3-4 bars in 3G coverage. It also happens randomly, it can work a while then stop working and then continue to do so. Sometimes I'm even barely able to use the 3G connection. Putting the phone in airplane mode, and then back "usually" solves it, but sometimes it happens every fifth minute so it's really annoying.
The phone keeps changing cell towers to other towers with poor 3G coverage (which pretty much kills my connection), even when it's connected to a 3G network with 3-4 bars it changes after a while to a network with 0-1 bars in coverage.
Sometimes while loading pages or when trying to download files they get corrupt due to the connection; I've got no idea why this is happening.
I've been in touch with my telecom provider before and they've told me that there's no issues with their celltowers in the area; they've even been there to check it and I'm the only one in the area who've reported the issue. I've tried to put the simcard in another phone, but still no luck.
Is there any way to resolve these issues? I've been thinking if there's any way to force the phone to stay on the same celltower, but I've not found anything regarding it as of now. Any ideas?
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Hello all,
Lately (meaning, the last couple of days -- perhaps 3 or 4), my phone has been unable to get a Verizon data network connection for a certain amount of time (4G or 3G). WiFi works fine. However, anything else doesn't work, say, for a few minutes, or a hour or so. Sometimes, a reboot will fix the problem, but sometimes it won't.
The odd thing is, the "4G-LTE" icon is displayed and shows activity (up and down arrows blinking), yet I can't browse the web, update the weather, update Facebook, check email, etc., etc.
Does anyone have any ideas? Running BAMF 1.3.2. I am in the middle of NYC (plenty of 4G service). Yes, Mobile Network is enabled in the Settings. Tried a battery pull as described above AND a SIM card pull. Still no fix.
I had a similar problem a few days after I got my Thunderbolt. I was still on stock yet. I ended up going to the Verizon store and they did a hard reset to fix it. It sucked because I lost all my data but since it was new I didn't have much on it. If you back up everything with Titanium Backup it shouldn't be too bad tho, factory reset is under "SD card and storage" in the settings menu.
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There have been many problems with the TB and data/network problems as of late. I believe it to be because of this new 4G rollout that is coming Thursday, plus the fact we will be seeing an OTA quite soon they are propbably preparing the network for that, thus giving all of us all these weird problems that we have been having.
(everything above is just rumor and based on my 100% factual opinions )
daniel178 said:
Hello all,
Lately (meaning, the last couple of days -- perhaps 3 or 4), my phone has been unable to get a Verizon data network connection for a certain amount of time (4G or 3G). WiFi works fine. However, anything else doesn't work, say, for a few minutes, or a hour or so. Sometimes, a reboot will fix the problem, but sometimes it won't.
The odd thing is, the "4G-LTE" icon is displayed and shows activity (up and down arrows blinking), yet I can't browse the web, update the weather, update Facebook, check email, etc., etc.
Does anyone have any ideas? Running BAMF 1.3.2. I am in the middle of NYC (plenty of 4G service). Yes, Mobile Network is enabled in the Settings. Tried a battery pull as described above AND a SIM card pull. Still no fix.
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You are describing the same problem I'm having and I also live in NYC. But, I have no problems getting data when I force the phone into 3G mode only.
I notice the data connection problem even though the 4G symbol is up when I don't have cell reception for a while...like being underground while on the subway.
Turning the phone off and on or rebooting seems to fix the issue. I'm thinking the phone has handoff issues with whatever tower is near by.
Anywho, I did the "data fix" by changing the EVDO setting from eHRPD to Rev. A. I dunno if that'll do anything.
Hello,
Why is this happening:
I'm using xoom 3g with hsdpa -connection. If I ping my xoom's ip from outside (or another address from the console) to maintain hsdpa -connection, the browser does not work as it should.
Sites do not load completely; the browser 'loading bar' stops in the middle and nothing happens. About only 1 image is loaded from the sites then nothing. But the ping keeps getting responses. I'm a bit confused why this is happening
- Andy
Ever heard of a DOS attack? It's where multiple clients ping a host on the internet so that there's so much traffic going to the host that it can't operate properly. Now, most hosts on the internet have a decent connection meaning it takes a lot to bring them down. You're on a 3G connection... which are flakey at the best of times, nevermind if someone's constantly jamming icmp packets down it.
Of course, I could be wrong, but your symptoms definitely sound like that's what's happening.
Why do you have a constant ping going anyway?
Thnx for your quick response!
The host that I'm pinging from the xoom is google.fi and when I'm pinging xoom, it's from my own server that is not under dos attack. I know that 3G connection can be a poor one but that's not the case imo. At least my ping response times are 20-40ms.
I did a fast testing with the new firefox5 and this effect does not happen with it. I have to do some more fiddling with firefox.
The reason why I'm pinging constantly is to maintain HSDPA -connection and prevent xoom from roaming when I'm actually using the device like browsing the web and using gtalk. The roaming happens way too quickly (xoom drops to 3g from hsdpa)
- Andy
wisekki said:
The reason why I'm pinging constantly is to maintain HSDPA -connection and prevent xoom from roaming when I'm actually using the device like browsing the web and using gtalk. The roaming happens way too quickly (xoom drops to 3g from hsdpa)
- Andy
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Does that actually work? I see no reason why it should.
ed. I can't even reproduce what you're seeing. It may be that we're on different carriers, but my device isn't responding to pings from the world while on mobile data.
It's normal for HS*PA to fall back on 3G sometimes when it can't actually maintain a HS*PA connection.
ydaraishy said:
Does that actually work? I see no reason why it should.
ed. I can't even reproduce what you're seeing. It may be that we're on different carriers, but my device isn't responding to pings from the world while on mobile data.
It's normal for HS*PA to fall back on 3G sometimes when it can't actually maintain a HS*PA connection.
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Yeah I thought the whole point of it falling back to 3G was because the wasn't capable of holding an HSPDA connection? Certainly if I'm travelling I get a mixture of 3G and H... and sometimes still GPRS (*shakes fist at Orange*).
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Does that actually work? I see no reason why it should.
ed. I can't even reproduce what you're seeing. It may be that we're on different carriers, but my device isn't responding to pings from the world while on mobile data.
It's normal for HS*PA to fall back on 3G sometimes when it can't actually maintain a HS*PA connection.
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Yes it works with my provider anyway.. On the status bar when roaming/doing nothing xoom says that my connection is '3G.' When I start to ping it (or from it) the connection changes to HSDPA; logo changes to 'H' and it prevents it from falling back to 3G. Everything works much faster when the roaming doesn't happen and for some reason even the conn dies sometimes (no internet connection) when it keeps changing it back and worth.
Didn't have too much time to test it with firefox5, but it seems that this doesn't happen with it.. but firefox itselfs crashes a bit too often Maybe this whole "thing" is fixed in honeycomb 3.1.
- Andy
Hi guys
I'm well known for being quite wordy. I'll try to keep it short with this one. Summary: my data stream is interrupted, apps don't get or lose connection.
Network situation:
Signal strength ok up to excellent (~75-90dBm). Technology usually UMTS/HSPA, problem also occurs on GPRS/EDGE though. Happens when stationary but equally when on the move.
Devices affected:
HTC DesireZ, Samsung Galaxy Note, Samsung Galaxy SII, Motorola Defy, HTC Desire HD. Occurred first when I was using the DesireZ but is still happening now on the Galaxy Note.
Issue/problem description:
Despite the steady and good connection to the network and of course an open data connection - we speak of Android - the actual data flow seems to be/get interrupted all the time.
When I hit a window of "data deadness" the browser doesn't load pages, online-apps refuse to work showing a spinning busy/wait indicator and eventually timing out, Maps doesn't load content, Tapatalk throws an error, in short: any online bound activity comes to a halt, despite the connection being "up".
Bad issue: when at some point the timing is really bad, GMail push gets interrupted. Worst issue: GTalk is unable to stay online. Basically whenever I load/bring to foreground GTalk, it has to reconnect. It also loses connection though when in foreground. Wake up the device, GTalk greys out the contact list and first has to reconnect. This can happen after 5 minutes, but also several times within a minute. There is no indication of any interruption or error, data just doesn't flow.
I discussed the issue several times with my providers network engineers, they are unable to help at this point. They observed my device and are happy to report that wherever I was, I had good signal and am usually connected to their HSPA network. No anomalies. The engineer yesterday said they rebooted all antennas around where I am the most, they all rebooted and came back up without any error, so their network seems to be fine, from his perspective. Since it does not only happen to me, but to several friends and relatives, and on several devices, at very different locations (one friend lives 150km away) it must be something they changed in the network. The outages don't happen when connected via WIFI, Talk is rock-solid then, they also don't happen when using another operator. One friend even tested with a pre-pay card from another operator in another country: stable connection, all the time.
So what I'm looking for is some kind of a possibility to collect logs, network data, anything to somehow try to pin down the issue and solve it. It's not like the operator is unwilling to help, he said he is just running out of options. And since it works brilliantly via WIFI, on other operators and did work for years on my operator until last August/September-ish, it must somehow be solvable. It's not the services, it's the network.
Anyone any options or ideas? Maybe an insider which has an idea what it could be?
#Tapatalk #Galaxy Note
I have the same problem
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Does anyone know of a possibility to steadily log network connectivity, data streams/flow, network stability or interruptions? It is turning me crazy and I don't know how to help my network provider help me. Duh...
The signal strength indicator will usually change colors when a internet connection is lost or being established. I believe the default colors are green for connected or grey for disconnected. On Motoblur its blue for connected and white for disconnected so the colors may very.
When it drops is the indicator changing colors or is data just dropping?
...not on Samsung-ROM's. The ability is not implemented in Samsung-ROM's.
I was running Cyanogenmod on a DesireZ, where the indicator is implemented. I also suffered the same problem on the DesireZ. The indicator never changed.
As described above, the data connection to the network is up constantly, indicated by a never-changing G, E, 3G or H+ indicator. Signal levels are good or excellent. There is no feedback by the system or obvious indication that the connection is interrupted. I do notice it only by (online) apps suffering a time-out situation, usually only when actually in use and in front. As for example:
- (mentioned) Talk having to re-sign in when being brought to front all couple minutes.
- (mentioned) GMail losing server-connection and push-capability.
- (mentioned) When trying to browse a page in the browser.
- When pulling up a train table on the public transport app.
- When buying a "mobile-ticket" in the same app, often while verifying my CCard details.
- (mentioned) When browsing various forums with Tapatalk.
- Trying to load videos in YouTube app.
Uuuhm... running out of examples
So the 2.20 OTA update released claims that it provides 3G/4G connectivity fixes... Does anyone know if this solves the occasional loss of connectivity (mobile network says "disconnected," "disconnected due to the network being unavailable," or "turning on" endlessly) requiring airplane mode toggle problem?
I discovered within the first few weeks of owning the phone (including 2 swaps which all did the same thing) that any time I leave a major area with good coverage my phone consistently does not work (texts do not send, phone calls cannot be placed or received, mobile network says disconnected or turning on), even though sometimes I may have 1-3 bars and the 4G symbol. Airplane mode only sometimes fixes the problem, and then it may or may not happen again within a few minutes if I am in the same area.
It's driving me crazy and I don't want to send it in and receive a refurbished phone... For all I know I could get one of the same early release devices that has the exact same problem.
I was at a friend's house on a nearby island this past weekend and the phone simply would not work. Nothing. I had 2-3 bars and "4G" THE WHOLE TIME. Upon leaving the island and returning home it is now working.
i never had a connection drop after updating to this rom.its awesome and battery life is insane.
Nexus 5, 4.4.4, stock
Hi,
I am trying to tether my phone to my laptop but have come across a weird issue. The phone shows signal strength of ~100dBm and HSPA.
I monitor the health of the connection by continuously pinging www.google.com. Every few minutes the ping jumps from ~100 to ~10000ms and browsing becomes impossible. The only way I have found of getting it back is to turn on and off aeroplane mode and then re-enable tethering.
I think its something to do with the HSPA connection reducing to 3G when not in use, hence keeping a continuous ping going, but this hasn't helped.
I installed RF Signal Tracker to try and work out what is going on. The graph showing signal strength hovers around 100dBm but occasionally blips to ~50dBm (still HSPA) for a few seconds, which is when the ping rockets and the connection becomes unusable.
I am tearing my hair out trying to get this to work properly - can anyone shed any light on what is going on?
many thanks