Recently I have been experiencing problems with my data connectivity on my Nexus 5. Quite often I will try to send a text message, and no matter what it will not send, even though I have full bars. After I reboot the phone, it will show "No service" for about 5 minutes before it shows a connection. I will then be able to send and receive messages. Sometimes messages that were backed up will appear hours or days after they were sent. This happens almost on a daily basis, multiple times a day, and I am getting sick of having to reboot it all the time.
One thing I have noticed is this occurs most after I travel somewhere. So when I get to work from home I won't be able to send or receive texts until I reboot, and vice versa. It's almost as if it is changing zones, and fails to connect to the new tower.
So what I am wondering is, is this an antenna problem with my phone or my service provider? I am on Virgin Mobile in Canada, which uses Bell service towers. I have checked the coverage map, and am well in the range of 4G/LTE. I have never had this problem on other carriers, and it most recently started after updating to Lollipop 5.0.1 or 5.1 (not quite sure exactly).
Any help greatly appreciated
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I'm usually not one to start new threads, and believe me, I've searched for this issue and can't find it anywhere. If I haven't searched well, and you can provide a link, please do. Here's my problem:
I have a Yahoo mail account setup on my Vodafone (UK) branded Touch Pro (stock ROM), and I have a very odd issue. When on wifi, I have absolutely no problem sending and receiving emails. It connects, logs on, and does it's thing perfectly. However, when trying to send/receive email from this same account using regular data connection on the phone, it connects, and when trying to log on, prompts me to "Check user name and password and try again" I even re-enter my password, and still no go. Now here's where it gets really odd - sometimes (although it's rare) it actually does work through the data connection and sends/receives fine. I can't seem to figure out what's different about the times it works, and doesn't work. It has worked when I'm not roaming, and usually doesn't work when I'm not roaming. It has worked when I'm roaming, and mostly doesn't work when I'm roaming. The only pattern I've been able to figure is that it has never worked when receiving a 3G signal, and sometimes works when receiving a 'G' signal.
Anyone experienced anything similar?
I'm in the US on att and get the same problem every now and then. Yesterday I successfully downloaded my email and then 5 minutes later it was saying my password or name was incorrect. This morning it is working again.
I have no idea what is going on, but it does get annoying.
Problem #1:
My Captivate has been a little spazzy lately. It'll connect successfully to the home wifi sometimes, and then unsuccessfully others (it'll get stuck at "Obtaining IP address" then become "Unsuccessful"). If it connects, it'll stay connected for the whole day and work wonderfully. I've tried resetting my phone, forgetting the stored password and re-entering it; the signal shows full strength, but it's still unsuccessful. It'll connect fine to open networks, like the school public network, but it's only connected maybe 2 out of every 5 tries at home. I haven't been able to connect all day today. Is there anything I can do to fix this? I've heard about getting a static IP address, but I've connected before, so why can't I connect again?
Problem #2:
My other problem is SMS text related. Texting is great on the captivate, except for a few strange quirks. There are a few ppl on my contacts (with 10 digit phone numbers) whom I cannot text. I can receive texts from them, but when I reply the message is "sent," but they never receive it. Likewise, I linked my AIM account to my phone number so that IMs get texted to me if I'm ever not connected. I receive the texts, but when i reply, the same thing happens. They are "sent," but never received. It's not the SIM card; I switched phones and it works perfectly fine.
If anyone can help me, I'd be eternally grateful!
Thanks!
-Hal
Hello
I have a problem with receiving text messages on my OnePlus One I use Textra application and not the original application.
In fact after a while I no longer get the SMS I receive them only when I send one and I receive rhem with full delay which is very annoying
Does anyone have a solution?
Thank you
I also have no SMS reception. Sending SMS, calling und receiving calls, wifi , mobile internet - everything is working like a charm.
I am on the newest Sultan's cm13 ROM and since i barely use SMS i cannot really tell when it stopped working. Propably 6 or 7 updates ago.
It could be though that when trying to get a signal i tried to manually select a mobile network. Since then i am getting error messages "no service, couldnt connect to network" - always related with the wrong provider networks which i tried to chose that day. But even when i get that message it usually has the right network and is connected to it before i can look it up.
All SIM-Card status looks normal, my provider ensured me that everything should work from their side. I tried the SIM card in other devices and reception actually worked.
Could the SIM-Card be damaged? And are there options to try out besides full wipe & reset, which i would very much like to avoid? (tried wipe cache, dalvik cache, 4-5 different sms-apps and choosing different mobile networks already)
This is a really strange occurrence that I have not run into for years. Whenever I receive an MMS message and go to respond or when I try to send a image over text which would use MMS, my LTE data connection drops and I can't seem to get it back until I reset the phone.
I am using Cricket wireless in the US and the phone is on 9.0 and a dual-sim version with both Sims active.
I am pretty much at the point where I'm going to save whatever I can on the phone and reset it but I figured I would try here to see if anybody has a suggestion or has run into this before. Thanks.
Hello all,
I've been having an issue for the past couple of months where most calls to my phone go straight to voicemail (I'll very occasionally receive a call), and I will usually not receive text messages for several hours (toggling on/off airplane mode will sometimes force them to show up, but making an outbound call will always result in any pending text messages being received). When I do receive text messages, they all show up at once.
Note that the data connection is working perfectly fine - I can be browsing the internet no problem, but not receive calls or texts. Also, the signal is strong all through the area I live/work, and it doesn't matter where I am located, the issue persists.
Any suggestions on what is going on? It is out of warranty, so suspect Google will be no help. It sounds like an issue with the phone not checking in with the cell towers, and I also purchased the phone directly from Google, so I suspect T-Mobile won't be much help either (I'll be checking with them sometime this weekend, though).
Things I have tried:
1. Factory reset phone.
2. Removed and wiped off SIM card.
3. Installed newest updates.
4. Turned off all battery saving settings.
5. Messed with manually creating an APN according to T-Mobile's site, and played around with the settings.
Thank you
EDIT: I downloaded a cellular status app, and it looks like I see "Service State: Out-Of-Service" when I'm unable to receive texts. At times that I receive them, it says "In-Service." "Sim State" is always "ready," regardless.
EDIT 2: Looks like this is only happening when LTE is selected. If I switch to 3G, everything always works (EDIT 2: Just had a test call fall to go through. All test texts have succeeded, though). On LTE, it only works intermittently.