I'm posting here on behalf of a friend because I've tried everything I think I can do to help, but to no avail. I'll try to make this quick.
My friend bought a Galaxy Nexus LTE in December and it worked great for a few weeks, until the vibrator in the phone broke - he took it to a VZW store and they replaced it for him.
Upon receiving the replacement phone, he was having trouble with LTE staying connected. It would continuously drop and instead of falling back to 3G, it says he has no signal - signal indicator in settings displays a red bar (i.e. no coverage).
He took it back to VZW and they tried his SIM card in an employees phone - same issue happened to that phone. They then tried his SIM in a new phone off the shelf, same thing happened again.
Verizon is saying it's an issue with something at the account level, but I've encouraged him to go in and complain until they give him another replacement, just in case. However, it's very odd that his SIM card in three different GNex devices produces the same issue, even though his first one worked great. They have said that a future software update would fix this.
The other day I installed the leaked 4.0.4 update on his phone to see if the new radios would work, but the same issue kept happening. So I reverted him back to 4.0.2 so he could take his phone back to Verizon and beg for another replacement. Unfortunately I forgot to re-lock his phone so I still have to do that before he takes it in.
Has anyone ever heard of this before? It seems so odd that his SIM card would do this, but I still think that Verizon owes him another replacement device since he has a phone that isn't working like it should. He's getting a big discount on his family plan but he'd prefer to have LTE on his new phone.
I would love your thoughts - this just doesn't make sense to us. Any suggestions other than replacing the phone again? It sounds like VZW doesn't want to do that for him so it might be easier to fix it another way.
Can't speak for Verizon itself, but I have been through several SIM cards now on Telstra. Same issue, all of a sudden they are unable to pick up signal at all. Seems the pre-paid cards are more susceptible.
I'd ask for a replacement SIM, as opposed to a replacement phone as it's been proved the issue exists on multiple handsets already. If a new SIM doesn't alleviate the issue, the VZW rep may be right in that it is at the account level.
Good luck!
Iv had the AT&T One X since the 4th and so far I love it! I haven't had any wifi issues or bootloops or anything, the only problem I'm having is the phone will randomly lose signal completely (0 bars, little x next to the signal) and wont get it back unless I put it into airplane mode and turn it back off, or reboot the phone. In the 6 days Iv had it it's lost signal 3 times, once on the road where I normally get at least 3-4 bars, and the other 2 happened at some point over night while I was asleep. Has anyone else been having this problem? Also do you think it's a software/radio problem that can be fixed in a update, or would it be hardware in which case I should take it to the store and exchange for a new one.
I've had this problem myself. Had the phone for 19 days now and I think it's happened to me 3 or 4 times.
I can guarantee it's fixable with a software update, even if the problem is hardware-related. At the very least, the software could detect the lack of signal and automatically cycle in and out of airplane mode to fix the problem without user interaction. But I'm sure whatever fix we get will be much more reliable than that.
WHEN we get the fix is another question...
Thanks for the reply. I figured it might be a software issue since you can cycle airplane mode and get it back and I don't really want to take it down to the AT&T store for an exchange in fear I wined up not able to set up gvoice or start getting wifi issues and the like lol. so far the signal drops are far and few in between making it an annoying issue rather than a critical one, and I read we've got root now so even if HTC/AT&T twiddle their thumbs and pretend nothings wrong I'm sure the community can save the day lol
I would swap it out Azure. My first HOX did exactly this, and I saw it reported elsewhere on a number of other devices. To me that says it's most likely a bad radio flash on some handsets. I suppose you could try and flash the RUU that was posted, as it most likely includes the radio as well.
I got tired of all my calls going directly to VM without ringing. And not being able to send out texts. My replacement works much better (or rather, how it should've from the beginning).
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I got tired of all my calls going directly to VM without ringing. And not being able to send out texts.
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Was this problem intermittent?
My phone has been doing this randomly, except it never went to voicemails, just hung up after like 30 seconds.
Wondering if I should switch it out also.
Had this problem for a day. Took my phone to the at&t store and they changed out the sim card and I haven't had a problem since.
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usfslacker said:
Had this problem for a day. Took my phone to the at&t store and they changed out the sim card and I haven't had a problem since.
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I never thought about the sim card being a possible problem...might run up to the store when I get the chance and swap my sim out and see if that fixes it, if not I'll just swap the device out and hope all's well
The CSR actually swapped a new micro sim first, since the one provided via online sales was an older one (most likely from the iphone 4/4s batch). It didn't seem to fix the problem though.
And yeah, the problem was very intermittent. One second it would be working fine, and the next it would show the "x". Sometimes the bars would come back immediately, other times it wouldn't until I rebooted or cycled airplane mode. Luckily it happened while I was at the store; it's much easier to convince a sales rep to swap a phone when they can witness the issue(s).
Yeah it's only happened to me twice since I got it on the 4th... it'll be very hard for me to convince them that there's an issue haha... maybe I'll head down there if it happens at a time when I'm not in class or something. I'm sure if I mention returning it/their policy I'll get a swap.
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The CSR actually swapped a new micro sim first, since the one provided via online sales was an older one (most likely from the iphone 4/4s batch). It didn't seem to fix the problem though.
And yeah, the problem was very intermittent. One second it would be working fine, and the next it would show the "x". Sometimes the bars would come back immediately, other times it wouldn't until I rebooted or cycled airplane mode. Luckily it happened while I was at the store; it's much easier to convince a sales rep to swap a phone when they can witness the issue(s).
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next time my phone drops signal I'll take it into the store and see about a sim swap in hopes that'll fix the issue if not then I'll reluctantly swap the unit out (I've grown rather attached to this one xD)
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strange...woke up today and my phone completely lost signal again, normally there's a few days between each event but this is the first time it's happened twice in a row =\
So it happened again, I'm going to go get it switched... but it says on the Mobile network section of settings, "Disconnected because service is unavailable."
There is clearly almost full signal strength, and I have never been without service where I live.
I was expereincing constant network drops all of yesterday due to an outage. However, it's back to normal for me today. So it may be possible there's an outage near you as well.
I think it is more AT&T than your phone. I was in down town buffalo at a swim meet with 5 bars of hspa+ on my blackberry bold that has a great radio. I had data but it was slow dial up slow. There were maybe 100-200 people at the meet and it was at a community college. The only other time I had this was when I was in a car that was driving by the buffalo bills stadium. Voice worked but I had no data. I guess too many people using their cell phones.
Definitely not AT&T, my SE Xperia x10 worked perfectly fine, never had any trouble with signals.
I also encounter the intermittent signal drops on my 4 days old AT&T one x.
It seems to me that the One x doesn't hold signal as good as the iphone, my 4 and 4s usually get around 2 bars in some really remote locations of the building I work. But the One X just drops signal completely. I'll see if I can do a sim swap like some others suggested.
I'm starting to think it could be an issue with lte phones because the same thing was happening to me on my galaxy note with 2 different sim cards and 2 different devices and now it's happening on my hox
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it has happened to me 3 times in 5 days. All 3 times I was either:
1. in a poor reception area and it came back on its own, i did not have to use airplane mode.
2. was using BT streaming in car and using car charger, once car charger was unplugged, signal came back.
One X has issues
Definitively problems with the phone.
I have three.
They just drop signal completely. One will work, the other will not. Only way the signal will come back is if you turn the phone on and off again. I love everything about this phone....except it isn't a very good phone.
Also, typically when I turn the phone back on, that is when I get my text messages. Nice.
Yeah I figured out it happens when I lose signal (a couple buildings on my schools campus don't get reception), and then the signal won't come back until I reboot or airplane mode.. this is after a sim swap.
Oh and do I need the box my phone came in to swap it?
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I have had this issue as well being on the Rogers (Canada) network. I started a thread as well and my theory is there may be a hardware issue reading the SIM cards.
Every now and then I get a "preparing SIM" message pop up on my screen. Also, I lost signal once and in frustration I slapped the phone into my palm VOILA! signal came back full.
This is the second One-X I've gotten from Rogers so there may be a design flaw somewhere. The problem is this behavior only pops up intermittently and cannot be recreated at will. This makes troubleshooting very difficult and practically unprovable in the eyes of providers.
Hopefully there are more reports of this problem and the carriers push back on HTC to resolve the problem.
I wasn't going to post this, but what is happening to me seems to be more than just bad luck.
I am still having issues. I have three 16GB nexus 5 on December 16th and a 32 GB nexus 5 on December 27th 2013. They were all brand new, the boxes haven't been opened.
Last weekend (mar 1st 2014) my wife's phone's (nexus 5) radio just randomly died. it had "No Service".
We swapped simcards, still didn't work. SIM card was fine.
The simcard from the dead phone, worked on another phone. But a working SIM was not working on that phone.
I factory resetted the phone. Rooted the phone, to reload the Modem image, nothing happened. Loaded Cyanogen v 11, nothing.
But I then went and sold my phone of on Kijiji for $200 and bought a new one instead.
This Week again (7 days later after the death of the first phone), my phone died (2nd phone). Same thing. No cell network (it was working today morning, did at around 11am), No Service.
You cant connect to the Koodo Network even if you find it on the network list manually.
Koodo said it is an hardware issue with the Nexus 5.
I tried a SaskTel sim, same thing. Doesn't work on the phone with dead radio.
I called LG, they keep sending me to the cell carrier to get warrantied. And Cell carrier, sends me to LG, and Repeat..
FML
Now I am just waiting for my other 2 phones to die. If all four phones die, then there is something really wrong.
Does anyone have any suggestion to bring the radio back up?
(It is funny when you call Tech Support for the phone, they say "please remove your battery and put it back in again".. Lol. Nexus 5 battery is not removable.. duh!)
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I wasn't going to post this, but what is happening to me seems to be more than just bad luck.
I am still having issues. I have three 16GB nexus 5 on December 16th and a 32 GB nexus 5 on December 27th 2013. They were all brand new, the boxes haven't been opened.
Last weekend (mar 1st 2014) my wife's phone's (nexus 5) radio just randomly died. it had "No Service".
We swapped simcards, still didn't work. SIM card was fine.
The simcard from the dead phone, worked on another phone. But a working SIM was not working on that phone.
I factory resetted the phone. Rooted the phone, to reload the Modem image, nothing happened. Loaded Cyanogen v 11, nothing.
But I then went and sold my phone of on Kijiji for $200 and bought a new one instead.
This Week again (7 days later after the death of the first phone), my phone died (2nd phone). Same thing. No cell network (it was working today morning, did at around 11am), No Service.
You cant connect to the Koodo Network even if you find it on the network list manually.
Koodo said it is an hardware issue with the Nexus 5.
I tried a SaskTel sim, same thing. Doesn't work on the phone with dead radio.
I called LG, they keep sending me to the cell carrier to get warrantied. And Cell carrier, sends me to LG, and Repeat..
FML
Now I am just waiting for my other 2 phones to die. If all four phones die, then there is something really wrong.
Does anyone have any suggestion to bring the radio back up?
(It is funny when you call Tech Support for the phone, they say "please remove your battery and put it back in again".. Lol. Nexus 5 battery is not removable.. duh!)
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This doesn't sound like a dead modem, but more like a problem with your network. You say you can see Koodo Network in the network list, if that's really the case, your modem is not dead. Is Koodo perhaps blocking your ESN from connecting to their network? (This is independent of sim card). There are not a lot of reports of Nexus 5's modems going dead, and the fact that you had two do this really suggests a network problem. Can you switch to a different provider? Lastly, when you go to system settings, about phone, do you have a baseband version (modem softwre) listed? I have had phones randomly lose their modem software (although very rarely). Can you also check and see if the basebands are the same for the working and non working phones?
I am currently on my 3rd Samsung s6 active in less then 2 months. My problem is the phones work fine for about 2-3 weeks then just out of the blue it drops the network. The only way I know to get the network back is to restart the phone. The problem occurs nearly every 12 hours and progresses an hour later each day. I don't have hardly any apps installed and I didn't do anything prior to the problem happening. I did notice this last time it happened the signal strength on the sim card under Sim Status was reading -51dbm when it's usually reading around -100dbm or so. My carrier is AT&T and they had me replace the sim card once with the first phone. We've been with AT&T for nearly 20 years with no problems. I have 4 other phones on my plan with 2 of them being smart phones & both Samsungs but different models and they have no problems. The way it's acting makes me think it's more of a software issue then a hardware problem. Does anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Is there any type of "event log" I can look at to see if something changed when this began?
Thank you in advance for any help.
Received my 4th PHONE yesterday and tonight it has already dropped the network!! AT&T says they can only replace the problem phone with the same model so according to the last guy I talked to a different model is out of the question. I call BS on that, I am totally fed up with this crappy phone and after nearly 20years of being at&t's customer I am getting fed up with this runaround as well. Perhaps it's time to switch carriers. For all of you that actually read my post, thank you for at least looking at it. Since no one had any suggestions I'm done. Considered this post closed, thanks.
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Ever since I purchased this phone back in September I've constantly had issues with my data connection.
Some days are worse than others, but days like today I have to cycle airplane mode every few minutes just to get connected again.
Technical support initially thought it was my SIM so I got the R5 sim but the issue wasn't resolved. I also did the reset of all network connections as well to no avail.
These issues make the phone downright infuriating to use many times a day. Hoping someone can point me in the right direction for a solution
Ive had every note since the 8 and one plus since they offered them on TMobile. I also have the Xperia 1 ii and pixel 4s.
Every single phone beats the Samsung's in signal. It's a Samsung thing.
Don't think it's a Samsung thing! I've had Samsung and Notes since the Note 2 and live in the country quite away from any towers. Still getting 80Mbps on 5G just the same as my OnePlus 7 Pro. Have you checked with T-Mobile and made sure the correct APN is assigned?