All of the sudden on Friday my Nexus S with OTA ICS started to drain the battery like crazy. I looked at my signal and where it says 3g it was grayed out, not blue like it should be. When it is grayed out I can't receive data. I took it to the Cincinnati Bell store in Kenwood and the guy tried everything except rebooting the phone. Changing the APN's and doing some other things. It worked for a while and now it doesn't. What should I do? Has anyone had this problem? It's making me mad. Oh also, it did it on my wife's phone at the same time too!
have you tried factory data reset?
backup your data first though
No not yet. It started working on mine again.
Not sure what is going on.
Maybe there is a problem with your carrier. As far as I know the phone uses a lot more battery when it tries to establish a connection, so that would fit.
Do you have someone who uses the same carrier or another phone so you can check if that problem only occurs on your phone?
Radio?
ota updates radio to KI1 I think
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I factory reset my phone and put my carriers apn's in. data bars only light up blue after I turn phone off and on. What the heck is going on with that?
had a similar problem with my galaxy ace, rebooted the data would work for about 2-5 mins then cut out. I ended up getting a new sim card, and eventually a new phone. I reccomend flashing a new radio or trying a new sim card.
super frustrated right now. my att one x starting having issues out of nowhere today. all of a sudden i no longer had service, which i though may have been a strange rom issue.
clean flashed viper xl again, and it seemed to work for a bit, but no my phone/internet keeps coming in and out . works for like 10 seconds, then doesnt work for like 30 minutes.
(tried factory reset, and clean flashing a rom, as well as cleaning sim card and reinserting a few times)
(hoping that att is doing maintenance on the tower near me or something?
i have no clue what i can do to try to fix this? :crying:
Try going into settings- mobile data and changing it to gsm/wcdma. That may fix the issue until AT&T gets all of the lte bugs worked out.
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super frustrated right now. my att one x starting having issues out of nowhere today. all of a sudden i no longer had service, which i though may have been a strange rom issue.
clean flashed viper xl again, and it seemed to work for a bit, but no my phone/internet keeps coming in and out . works for like 10 seconds, then doesnt work for like 30 minutes.
(tried factory reset, and clean flashing a rom, as well as cleaning sim card and reinserting a few times)
(hoping that att is doing maintenance on the tower near me or something?
i have no clue what i can do to try to fix this? :crying:
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This happened to me too. I was on CleanROM 6 R2. Tried to install a sense 5 theme. Something went wrong during the installation. Got stuck in the HTC white screen, and it rebooted itself a few time but always to the HTC white screen. I was able to go into recovery and do a restore (after a few times that I couldn't enter the recovery). After the restore I had problems with my signal. I tried to flash a new RIL (HTC ATT 3.18 (Thanks to liamstears!)(0.24p.32.09.06_10.130.32.34): http://d-h.st/Maq). Tried flashing another RIL (ATT 2.20 (0.19as.32.09.11_2_10.105.32.25): https://www.dropbox.com/s/4sbtbmw2ra...105.32.25L.zip RIL (flash separately): https://www.dropbox.com/s/4u7p8jgvk2650hl/2.20RIL.zip). It didn't help. I tried installing a new ROM (CM10.1) every thing was OK, however I keep losing my signal (x in the network). I tried flashing the RUU 1.85 (of course I relocked the bootloader etc.). Now I'm on stock 1.85, I have signal (sometimes even full) however from time to time I lose the signal completely. It usually happens when switching cell towers (downloaded GSM Signal Monitoring from the play store), and I can get stuck with no signal for hours. Tried to check in the Phone info (*#*#4636#*#* in the dialer) and changing the GSM/WCDMA/LTE to WCDMA only or WCDMA preferred, turning off and on the radio etc.
Don't know what to do that I haven't already done. Furthermore, I sometimes get stuck in a loop of the HTC white screen, and it boots over and over again to that screen (can do that for quite some time). Even after getting into the bootloader and selecting recovery, it sometimes doesn't enter the recovery. And even selecting shut down from bootloader and the phone is connected to the computer (for charging), it shuts down and after 2 min. it wakes up and get stuck in the HTC white screen loop all over again.
Before all that I never had a problem with the signal. I was on hboot 1.09 (I still am), and s-off. I don't remember when version I was however I remember that is had (0.17 something in it can't remember if with 'a' or not). I noticed that RUU 1.73 is (0.16) that's why I didn't want to flash it and went straight to 1.85 however I don't remember I had the at&t boot animation when I got the phone almost a year ago.
BTW, I live in Israel and my carrier is using 850 & 2100 MHz UMTS (the 2100 was a roaming one due to the fact it's a MVNO) and before that I was on another carrier that has 900 & 2100 MHz.
Please HELP! Having a phone without signal is like having a brick!
i apprecaite the feedback and help you guys offered.
looks like att was just doing maintenence or something in my area, because everything seems to be back to normal this morning...
my bad =)
just worried something got screwed up, and im one of those that uses my phone constantly.
Hi Guys,
Just switched over from the Iphone and liking the Android platform so far. So in my tinkering quest, I think something got screwed up with my APN.
I flashed ViperOne 3.1 to my HTC One (T-Mobile phone, but I am using an AT&T SIM) with 4.3. Radio. 4A.21.3263.03 with the latest firmware from Tmobile (side note, Im still not sure if/how the firmware changes when flashing a new/custom ROM).
Anyway, I flashed Viperone and everything went fine and updated the new APN for ATT. With the stock phone, I had been using the "pta" APN and got great reception and LTE speeds. With the Viperone initial flash, same reception, same speeds.
Next, I realized I didn't install the Superuser stuff so I thought I had to reflash everything...which I did. On the 2nd go around, now I can't get the pta APN to work. I get cell service (same reception as before with full bars, but no data). The only way to get data and cell is use the phone APN but cell is 3G (>1mb) and 1 bar at best.
The only thing I remember doing that could have possibly screwed something up inbetween the two flashes of Viperone, is that I installed AdAway. Not sure it this would effect anything or not.
I've also tried totally wiping the phone and installing Viperone for a third time via a sideload. I have not tried going back to a completely, locked stock phone yet. Also, tried loading AndroidRevoltion but same deal. But given I am a noob, I am still a bit worried about screwing something else up flashing back to a stock locked TMobile phone.
Any ideas on how to fix the APN issues? I have tried all settings in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2172110
As well as a couple others and combos, but nada.
Anybody? Nobody?
Some more info, I took my phone down the street and messed around a bit at a local coffee shop. I was amazed when I didn't change anything and I got a whopping 46mb downspeed. Haven't really seen that in my area. Still only had 2 signal bars when everywhere else is usual 5. I am in San Diego so coverage is never an issue. Anyway, I then traveled about 10 blocks away to run an errand and it dropped back down to under 1mb. Same 1-2 bars. Something is definitely funky. The phone and data works. talking on it seems fine, just doing any network data stuff is very slow other than that one instance.
I have no idea how this happened, but here goes explaining it. I was running latest Cataclysm Rom w/ latest faux kernel. I was browsing the web through LTE when I wanted to SMS someone. After a few minutes the SMS failed. Then a few minutes later I got no signal. Restarted, Got LTE although under service state it says out of service and unknown mobile network type. After 20 seconds Got no signal, this happens every time now when I restart. Flashing back to factory settings didn't fix anything. I am now very bummed out. I don't think it's the carrier (aio) since if there were a service outage anyone with AT&T would have problems too. There's also the possibility that the magnet on the name tag to my work shirt could have very well played a part, although I doubt it since I don't hold the phone that high. I contacted Google on their support page, but I probably should look into LG's warranty, which likely won't cover it. So....
How can I fix my radio?
If I can't fix it within my means, how can I get it fixed?
Are you able to add an APN?
Your cache.img could be corrupt. Try and flash the stock cache.img from the stock image.
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Are you able to add an APN?
Your cache.img could be corrupt. Try and flash the stock cache.img from the stock image.
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Hmm. Here's the weird thing though - when I first got my phone to a carrier I would have service, but no internet access when I didn't add an APN. In the phone's state that it was in, I already flashed the APN like normal and worked. But now, it has no signal to work with, so even adding an APN would be pointless if it isn't connecting to -any- network.
I ran wugfresh's nexus root toolkit to run the complete stock process. I even re-locked the bootloader in case I have to ship it somewhere. Watching the stock flash process, I did see it flash everything without failiure from the official 4.4 stock image, but didn't fix it. I'm starting to think it's a hardware failure, since the radio does the same thing every time I reboot it regardless of what rom, kernel, bootloader, baseband, etc. I throw at it (connects to LTE for a few secs, goes into no signal).
What other options could I do to remedy this?
EDIT - Google has already responded and sounds like they could send me a replacement device, not certain yet but here's hoping.
I'm experiencing this same issue you described in your previous post. I think there's an outage in Northwest Ohio for Aio Wireless, or AT&T altogether. I don't see anything on twitter or google, so I'm not sure if it's just me, or it is affecting many users. I noticed it when I was on a phone call with a family member and the call dropped. When I tried to call back, my signal kept bouncing between LTE to no signal, back to LTE, and no signal. Now it says I don't have anything at all. If I search for mobile networks, it reconnects me to LTE and I can surf the web, run speed tests, but if I try to SMS or call someone, it drops my signal again.
I'm thinking the network is down for voice, but not so much data.
Did you try flashing your carrier's radio?
Team Nexus 5 sucks
I need some help here, weird Verizon signal issue. So I got my U11 on Thursday the 22nd of June. I tested out the stock rom, all working fine, signal working fine too. Then I unlocked the bootloader, put twrp on in system RO mode, put magisk on, then put viperU 1.0.0 on. Viper/magisk and everything was working perfectly, I still had signal, could make and receive calls, send and get texts, wifi was all good, everything was good until Friday afternoon. I think it had to do with me trying to install the ota 1.1.0 viperU, but my signal dropped, still had 4g but that was touch n go. I tried to reinstall the ota because as far as my settings said and knew, I was still on 1.0.0 and when it checked for updates it found 1.1.0 again. After that 4g would work for a moment at boot then die, and there was no signal for calls/texts, that has the signal bars full with a slash through them. I tried fresh installing viperU 1.0.0, no change. I tried every combo in the test/advanced settings, changing the preferred network mode and ims settings, turn the radio off and back on and it would see verizon and try to connect, sometimes seemingly getting signal and changing the signal bars and getting 4g, then losing both. The status msgs on the advanced settings page would go back and forth as far as registered on the network, so I went to verizon and tried to get a new sim, the new sim didn't change anything, BUT a weird thing that happened is when the vzw rep went to the back to get me a new sim and activate it my U11 got signal, both 4g and call/text and I even got a msg, then it died again a moment later. So next I tried completely restoring and relocked my bootloader and installed the 1.11.617.4 RUU for my OCNWHL using htc_fastboot which it did perfectly fine, but still no signal. The bootloader says relocked(L) and software status: modified. Shouldn't it say official again since I flashed the RUU? I have tried reseating the sim and rebooting multiple times too. Oh and one more thing I noticed, my WiFi is touch and go now too, it'll say connected but websites fail to load, apps fail to download, etc until I turn off and back on my phone WiFi. Any ideas guys/gals on how to get my phone connected again? I just want to be able to use my new U11! Thanks in advanced!
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I need some help here, weird Verizon signal issue. So I got my U11 on Thursday the 22nd of June. I tested out the stock rom, all working fine, signal working fine too. Then I unlocked the bootloader, put twrp on in system RO mode, put magisk on, then put viperU 1.0.0 on. Viper/magisk and everything was working perfectly, I still had signal, could make and receive calls, send and get texts, wifi was all good, everything was good until Friday afternoon. I think it had to do with me trying to install the ota 1.1.0 viperU, but my signal dropped, still had 4g but that was touch n go. I tried to reinstall the ota because as far as my settings said and knew, I was still on 1.0.0 and when it checked for updates it found 1.1.0 again. After that 4g would work for a moment at boot then die, and there was no signal for calls/texts, that has the signal bars full with a slash through them. I tried fresh installing viperU 1.0.0, no change. I tried every combo in the test/advanced settings, changing the preferred network mode and ims settings, turn the radio off and back on and it would see verizon and try to connect, sometimes seemingly getting signal and changing the signal bars and getting 4g, then losing both. The status msgs on the advanced settings page would go back and forth as far as registered on the network, so I went to verizon and tried to get a new sim, the new sim didn't change anything, BUT a weird thing that happened is when the vzw rep went to the back to get me a new sim and activate it my U11 got signal, both 4g and call/text and I even got a msg, then it died again a moment later. So next I tried completely restoring and relocked my bootloader and installed the 1.11.617.4 RUU for my OCNWHL using htc_fastboot which it did perfectly fine, but still no signal. The bootloader says relocked(L) and software status: modified. Shouldn't it say official again since I flashed the RUU? I have tried reseating the sim and rebooting multiple times too. Oh and one more thing I noticed, my WiFi is touch and go now too, it'll say connected but websites fail to load, apps fail to download, etc until I turn off and back on my phone WiFi. Any ideas guys/gals on how to get my phone connected again? I just want to be able to use my new U11! Thanks in advanced!
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All I can say is a lot of people are having problems with Verizon, me being one of them. I've had the phone almost 2 weeks and still can't get it working. I've talked to HTC and Verizon so many times and they say it's being worked on.
same here. Spent a couple days with near constant contact with Verizon trying to figure out out. Got in touch with HTC and it seems it may be a firmware issue. I can verify with no doubt that it's not the sim though. I've put mine back in my old phone, it worked. I put my daughters in my new phone, it failed to work. I even got a new sim for mine, but no luck. Multiple ROMs, multiple RUUs, and multiple factory resets, and wipes. All we can do is waiter, and pester the hell out of HTC to get them to hurry up.
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same here. Spent a couple days with near constant contact with Verizon trying to figure out out. Got in touch with HTC and it seems it may be a firmware issue. I can verify with no doubt that it's not the sim though. I've put mine back in my old phone, it worked. I put my daughters in my new phone, it failed to work. I even got a new sim for mine, but no luck. Multiple ROMs, multiple RUUs, and multiple factory resets, and wipes. All we can do is waiter, and pester the hell out of HTC to get them to hurry up.
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It's so stupid that they don't even do testing before putting it on the market.
If either Verizon or HTC would come up with a simple software update to enable CDMA and all LTE bands, that would solve everything. The problem seems to be that Neither is putting much priority on it.
BTW: Since the U11 works with Sprint, it has the CDMA and LTE bands built in. They're just not set up to fully work with Verizon yet.
Exact same problem.
My unit is going back for refund tomorrow. 4 hours of work trying to get it going and I'm done. HTC blames VZW, VZW says it's hardware. $650.00 paperweight. No thank you.
I'll reorder if this get straightened out. There are hundreds working just fine on VZW.
Seems to be just a few of these that wont stay connected.
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Exact same problem.
My unit is going back for refund tomorrow. 4 hours of work trying to get it going and I'm done. HTC blames VZW, VZW says it's hardware. $650.00 paperweight. No thank you.
I'll reorder if this get straightened out. There are hundreds working just fine on VZW.
Seems to be just a few of these that wont stay connected.
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same here. Spent a couple days with near constant contact with Verizon trying to figure out out. Got in touch with HTC and it seems it may be a firmware issue. I can verify with no doubt that it's not the sim though. I've put mine back in my old phone, it worked. I put my daughters in my new phone, it failed to work. I even got a new sim for mine, but no luck. Multiple ROMs, multiple RUUs, and multiple factory resets, and wipes. All we can do is waiter, and pester the hell out of HTC to get them to hurry up.
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I was starting to lean towards firmware today because of the wifi going in and out. Seems like to get an app to download from play I have to search it, start the download, turn off wifi, turn it back on and then it'll download, yet updates download just fine. Fandango app won't load movies or anything. Etc. So I'm wondering if it's the system or radio...
stock U11 no issues on VZW
I took my sim out of my VZW line to test it out on my U11. I did some speed tests before I took it out. I inserted the VZW sim into the U11 and it booted up with no issues. Received LTE and ran speed tests and they were similar to the other device. There was VoLTE available and it was stable but I didn't make any calls with it. So just sharing my experience with my stock, Unlocked U11. I put the Tmo sim back in but it's good to know it'll work. It seems like some are having issues from the get go and some are having issues after modifying?
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I was starting to lean towards firmware today because of the wifi going in and out. Seems like to get an app to download from play I have to search it, start the download, turn off wifi, turn it back on and then it'll download, yet updates download just fine. Fandango app won't load movies or anything. Etc. So I'm wondering if it's the system or radio...
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That's what's so screwy about it. On mine, I get WiFi flawlessly, and I even get mobile data, in 4g even. I just can't talk, or text. Before that, I could text, but no data, and couldn't talk. It's got to do with the way it's using the radios being screwy. The hardware functions, I've had full connection before, it lasted about 2 hours, and sounded amazing even.
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I took my sim out of my VZW line to test it out on my U11. I did some speed tests before I took it out. I inserted the VZW sim into the U11 and it booted up with no issues. Received LTE and ran speed tests and they were similar to the other device. There was VoLTE available and it was stable but I didn't make any calls with it. So just sharing my experience with my stock, Unlocked U11. I put the Tmo sim back in but it's good to know it'll work. It seems like some are having issues from the get go and some are having issues after modifying?
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Short answer: Yes. I noticed mine stopped after installing a ROM on it, but it was not the first one (test driving to see which I liked on it best). Others have the issue even with it locked still. I think the ROM flashing was more a circumstance than the cause in cases like mine. I even RUU'd back to stock, did factory resets, and tried other SIMs. It also seems to be only Verizon, unless someone on another network wants to set me straight.
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That's what's so screwy about it. On mine, I get WiFi flawlessly, and I even get mobile data, in 4g even. I just can't talk, or text. Before that, I could text, but no data, and couldn't talk. It's got to do with the way it's using the radios being screwy. The hardware functions, I've had full connection before, it lasted about 2 hours, and sounded amazing even.
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Short answer: Yes. I noticed mine stopped after installing a ROM on it, but it was not the first one (test driving to see which I liked on it best). Others have the issue even with it locked still. I think the ROM flashing was more a circumstance than the cause in cases like mine. I even RUU'd back to stock, did factory resets, and tried other SIMs. It also seems to be only Verizon, unless someone on another network wants to set me straight.
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I remember an issue on Verizon and the M9 that after flashing a custom rom, you stood the chance of loosing VoLTE. It did not happen to everyone and did not happen all of the time. I flashed custom rom for months and then one day, boom, VoLTE gone. The only way to get it back was to get the phone replaced. RUU did not work to get it back. Sounds similar to what is going on now. So my question is has this problem affected anyone that has not unlocked the bootloader yet?
I just checked the M9 Verizon section and looks like they did find a fix without replacing the phone. But I think you need to be s-off. Interested if this could resolve any of these issues here.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-one-m9/general/volte-advanced-calling-fix-t3393007
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I remember an issue on Verizon and the M9 that after flashing a custom rom, you stood the chance of loosing VoLTE. It did not happen to everyone and did not happen all of the time. I flashed custom rom for months and then one day, boom, VoLTE gone. The only way to get it back was to get the phone replaced. RUU did not work to get it back. Sounds similar to what is going on now. So my question is has this problem affected anyone that has not unlocked the bootloader yet?
I just checked the M9 Verizon section and looks like they did find a fix without replacing the phone. But I think you need to be s-off. Interested if this could resolve any of these issues here.
https://forum.xda-developers.com/verizon-one-m9/general/volte-advanced-calling-fix-t3393007
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I will be trying this later today. Good ol' @dottat
If we get s-off we can probably safely flash roms without magisk n still have volte n even a more stable radio/system firmware, if dev's make it happen of course. Or am I wrong, I don't mind having magisk, I just want to be able to root n customize my phone with it still working as a phone n not a fancy calculator or wifi only device haha. I'm debating getting a replacement from HTC until the firmware stabilizes at least, then I'll mod some more. Cause mine was working perfectly fine until I tried to put viperu 1.1.0 Ota on it.
I just noticed that when I drag down and get the quick settings into view there's a note in the top left that says "the sim card is missing or not readable. Insert a sim card" and that doesn't go away even when the occasional notification that says "sim card inserted click here to finish setup" pops up.
Was fine for a couple days - now suddenly today only getting "roaming" service. Manually trying to connect to VZW fails and says my SIM isn't allowed access.
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Was fine for a couple days - now suddenly today only getting "roaming" service. Manually trying to connect to VZW fails and says my SIM isn't allowed access.
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Same here when I tried that.
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Same here when I tried that.
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Starting when? or intermittent?
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Starting when? or intermittent?
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The full story is in the op of this thread, but it started about a day after I got the phone, started with only voice/text going out, then lte dropped too so now my phone is wifi only. R u on stock or have u unlocked ur bootloader?
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The full story is in the op of this thread, but it started about a day after I got the phone, started with only voice/text going out, then lte dropped too so now my phone is wifi only. R u on stock or have u unlocked ur bootloader?
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Ah sorry, didnt notice you were OP. I have unlocked but was running stock OS with Magisk (no other mods, I just wanted root). Noticed that turning of VoLTE in phone settings killed connection, so I was able to toggle that off and on (+airplane mode in between) to usually resurrect connection. Now nothing is working. Going to do a full wipe now to see if it comes back.
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Ah sorry, didnt notice you were OP. I have unlocked but was running stock OS with Magisk (no other mods, I just wanted root). Noticed that turning of VoLTE in phone settings killed connection, so I was able to toggle that off and on (+airplane mode in between) to usually resurrect connection. Now nothing is working. Going to do a full wipe now to see if it comes back.
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No worries haha. My signal today is intermittent, I'll get bars but can't call because when I try 4g turns off. In the HTC test settings, when I have bars it sees Verizon network but not my phone number, where as when I don't have bars (bars with slash through them) it sees my number but not Verizon network. For u to see this menu type *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer. My VoLTE is activated in settings tho.
Factory wipe didn't help either. Doing RUU now. This is so ridiculous. Also I accidentally deleted my backup, oops. Le sigh. This thing will probably be going back. Sad. I was loving the phone.
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For u to see this menu type *#*#4636#*#* in the dialer.
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Bruh - go in menu -> Phone Info -> Turn Off Radio
Select "LTE Only" Select "WCDMA/LTE"
Turn radio back on.
Fixed problem instantly!!! Thank you SO SO MUCH!
edit: MMS doesn't work, but SMS seems possibly ok? not sure.
edit 2: WCDMA/LTE is the magical answer. All seems working now.