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I have an HTC Inspire 4G.
I am using it for the FIRST time, and for the first time in the Philippines.
It was an AT&T locked phone, so I had to root it to unlock it.
I followed the ace hack kit v9 instructions to get it to root. Everything worked relatively as planned except that installing CM7 resulted in a looping boot screen. I fixed that by clearing the cache, but I wasn't too thrilled with the new look. I didn't try my mobile internet yet at that point (I was on WiFi).
I decided to flash the ClearDroid ROM since I just wanted stock with root.
Everything works great. Except my cellular connection is AMAZINGLY unusably slow. I had to manually enter in the APN settings for the wireless carrier here (Globe), and that was a little bit of a pain in itself. I took the phone to one of the local stores here and they confirmed the settings were correct. Regardless, I CAN connect. It just takes sometimes 5 minutes to load CNN's mobile site, for instance. Android Market times out.
I had an iPhone 3GS here on the same service and same locations, so I know what I should be expecting as far as speeds here.
What could be causing this?
Philippine cell phone providers use 900/1800 bands.
Inspire 4G supports 850/1900
iPhone 3gs supports 850/900/1800/1900 so thats why you got better data speeds.
Im sure the phone shows an E for data connection next to the signal bars.
I do get G next to the signal bars mostly, actually.
Calling and texting works fine also ... is the data connection that much more sensitive to frequency?
Also, this HTC's page says the Inspire supports all bands for GSM and GPRS. (I'm a new user so can't post link)
What are your data speeds with the inspire, and what are they with the iphone?
One thing you may need to do is to edit your build.prop
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982082
where can i test my data speeds? using test servers outside of the Philippines will probably not be very accurate.
edit: ok i downloaded the SpeedTest.net app for Android. It seems to have several test servers in the Philippines including one 7 miles away. On WiFi I get 1600k down and 450k up (which sounds about right). On 3G I got 999ms ping and -0k down and -0k up. Note that it actually did "run" through the tests, even though it took a really long time. If I disable my connections it won't actually run through the test and will instead give me an error saying it could not connect to the network.
but i should reiterate again that my connection is EXCEPTIONALLY SLOW. when trying to access the Android market, it seems to time out waiting. when trying to use it as a tethered modem, Windows doesn't see a connection to the Internet. loading google.com takes about 10 seconds to load the text, another 30 seconds just to load the google logo. a page like CNN.com took about 5 minutes just to start to appear. data is getting transfered (i guess that is why the connection doesn't time out), but at a very very very slow speed
i no longer have the iPhone, so I can't test, but as far as overall feel, I could get speeds comparable to what I got in the USA in some areas.
ZippyDan said:
I do get G next to the signal bars mostly, actually.
Calling and texting works fine also ... is the data connection that much more sensitive to frequency?
Also, this HTC's page says the Inspire supports all bands for GSM and GPRS. (I'm a new user so can't post link)
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G is for GPRS, which has a max top speed around 60kbps down.
ZippyDan said:
where can i test my data speeds? using test servers outside of the Philippines will probably not be very accurate.
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http://pldt.speedtest.net/
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edit: ok i downloaded the SpeedTest.net app for Android. It seems to have several test servers in the Philippines including one 7 miles away. On WiFi I get 1600k down and 450k up (which sounds about right). On 3G I got 999ms ping and -0k down and -0k up. Note that it actually did "run" through the tests, even though it took a really long time. If I disable my connections it won't actually run through the test and will instead give me an error saying it could not connect to the network.
harlenm said:
G is for GPRS, which has a max top speed around 60kbps down.
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which should still be WAAAAAY faster than what i'm seeing. this feels like 1kbps
ok it looks like it was something to do with the ROM.
I did a nandroid backup and installed CM7 again. Internet works fine right off the bat without ANY configuration (didn't even have to define my APNs).
The thing is I personally don't like CM and would rather use something closer to stock. With this new info, what changes when installing CM or ClearDroid that would be killing my internet?
ZippyDan said:
ok it looks like it was something to do with the ROM.
I did a nandroid backup and installed CM7 again. Internet works fine right off the bat without ANY configuration (didn't even have to define my APNs).
The thing is I personally don't like CM and would rather use something closer to stock. With this new info, what changes when installing CM or ClearDroid that would be killing my internet?
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Flash a stock Rom and see what happens. Make sure you do a full wipe. Clear cache and dalvic too.
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As it turns out, the CM APN list is over 3 times the size of mine, which would explain why yours would work out of the box. Thank you for the heads up, I'll incorporate their list in the next build, and hopefully it will make everything work for you also!
well, i decided to copy the APN info from CM7. that seems to have fixed my problem...
Hi ZippyDan
I noticed that you wer able to resolve this issue. Im also using an Inspire 4g but cant get 3g. I wonder what u did to resolve it
hey dear community,
I am a proud Nexus 5 owner, but I hate stock ROMs and I love how many new, useful features custom ROMs pack.
I rooted my phone yesterday (note, this is the D821 device), unlocking the bootloader and rooting the stock rom went perfectly fine, however, when I flashed a custom ROM, the storage was wiped along with the system and it wouldnt boot up, so I went back to stock (I could access the recovery and bootloader, it wouldnt wipe, it would only give me storage mount errors and while mounting storage via the recovery it would show 0kb), this went smooth as well, so I decided that since I have lost my data anyways, I should give it a try and root it again. Root was successful, flashing a custom ROM too, I was happy as ever with many functions that I wished, I installed all of my apps, set the stuff up and so on (everything via WiFi). After that I had to leave and therefore disconnect the WiFi, now that's where the problem occurs, when I try to download anything from the net (even play store) the download speed doesnt even reach 30kb/sec. I tested it with speedtest apps from play store, download wouldnt reach 0.30mbps, while upload was at ~3mbps. I'm really confused at this point, could it be caused by the radio I flashed? (I used a tutorial on how to get back to stock) or is it a carrier issue and it's just a coincidence that I rooted the device when they have some issues? WiFi speeds are perfectly fine.
I also seem to have an issue with switching between networks (eg 2g -> 3g -> 4g)
this is the ROM I am using right now: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2606917
this is the tutorial I used to get back to stock: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2513701
I did not check the download speeds on STOCK ROM after returning to stock.
also websites load very fast too.
thanks for reading
edit: it doesnt seem to be ROM related, I flashed another ROM (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2525627) and the download speed is still slow.
edit... whoops, apologies..I completely misread your post.
I can't see how root would slow your data down. Are you sure your phone network isn't throttling your speed? Do you have unlimited data with a fair usage policy?
Sent from my Nexus 5
meangreenie said:
Turn off mobile data and wifi on the phone, then restart WiFi only... now do a speed check.
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thanks for your reply, I tried your method but it didnt seem to affect my speed at all
I tested the speed on WiFi and I get ~41mbps download and 7mbps upload (thats how it should be with my connection)
pepdavies said:
I can't see how root would slow your data down. Are you sure your phone network isn't throttling your speed? Do you have unlimited data with a fair usage policy?
Sent from my Nexus 5
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Im not limited with my data plan. The speed wouldnt go down no matter what, I've used the same plan for years now and this has never occured before. but Orange recently upgraded their antennas to 4G/LTE so it might be a thing on their side.
I did more research, when I'm on 4g network, the speed is normal, I get 11mbps downs and 3mbps ups, but when it switches to hsdpa or hsdpa+, the download speed goes down so badly that I cant download anything. note that websites load as fast as it should and it should be affected by download speed, right?
I cant see how root could affect it either, but maybe there's an issue with the radio I flashed when I flashed stock ROM back. On the other hand the only thing it COULD possibly affect would be 4g as the US version has different bands for 4g only.
I'm pretty sure it's a carrier issue and it's a malfunction on their side, but I found it quite disturbing that mobile data doesnt work the way it should just after I rooted and flashed a custom ROM.
I switched the simcard with my dads t-mobile, and the download speeds went up to 19mbps on my nexus 5, but at the same time when I tried my simcard in his nexus 4, the speed was good too, but it happened before, so I suppose it's my carrier's fault
and of course I had to switch the simtrays and get it stuck in my nexus 5 I had to tear it down to get it out
I got an OP6 this week, this phone is awesome. But when I use wifi tethering, the speed on my computer is very slow (1Mbps max!)... On 4G+ on the phone, I reach 110Mbps
easily. I'm on Oxygen OS 5.1.7, bootloader locked. Anyone got this issue or can help me?
Thank you in advance for your answer, and sorry for my english, I'm french.
Mine works fine, can hold 5 devices attached to wifi tethering without slowing. You may need a reset
dgunn said:
Mine works fine, can hold 5 devices attached to wifi tethering without slowing. You may need a reset
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I'll try this, thanks!
I have done a reset, the issue is still here... Please help
Sorry I can confirm my WiFi tether (using 2.4ghz) is full speed. I'm on cricket so that's about 10Mbps but I get it all day long no issues.
I am on T-mobile and I can confirm that the tethering is very slow. Not sure how to fix.
I have noticed this over the past several months and it is constant. Using multiple TMO Sims in multiple unlocked devices. Several websites will not respond when using cellular data. Those sites respond just fine when connected to WIFI on the same devices. Originally seemed to be a DNS issue but using T-Mobile DNS servers the sites seems to resolve correctly. Aside from not responding to web requests they also do not respond to ping either. My guess is that this has something to do with IPV6 but even when changing apn settings to strictly IPV4 the issue remains.
Do any other T-Mobile users have this issue? We have 1100 lines of service on several different unlocked devices all with the same issue. The easiest site to test this with is t-mobile themselves... T-Mobile.com will never respond when trying from cellular data. Also several MS Office online sites fail as well.
Steve
stevecast2024 said:
I have noticed this over the past several months and it is constant. Using multiple TMO Sims in multiple unlocked devices. Several websites will not respond when using cellular data. Those sites respond just fine when connected to WIFI on the same devices. Originally seemed to be a DNS issue but using T-Mobile DNS servers the sites seems to resolve correctly. Aside from not responding to web requests they also do not respond to ping either. My guess is that this has something to do with IPV6 but even when changing apn settings to strictly IPV4 the issue remains.
Do any other T-Mobile users have this issue? We have 1100 lines of service on several different unlocked devices all with the same issue. The easiest site to test this with is t-mobile themselves... T-Mobile.com will never respond when trying from cellular data. Also several MS Office online sites fail as well.
Steve
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@stevecast2024,
Steve, I am on T-Mobile as well. Could you give me some specific sites you are having issues with ?
I would be happy to see if I am having similar issues on these sites.
Thanks my friend.
Sure. Thanks for the reply. Here are a few:
T-Mobile.com
Login.yahoo.com
wunderground.com
Sprint.com
The sites will simply time out. Work fine on wifi.
I also have noticed issues with some apps. For instance Zello, works most of the time but occasionally they shift login servers and we have to disable tls/ssl in the app in order for it to connect. Very odd. Unfortunately, that is a bit more difficult to troubleshoot.
Thanks
If you are on Android 10 and you have bootloader unlocked and rooted, then it might be Android 10 prohibiting you. I can't do anything on Firefox now.
Articul8Madness said:
If you are on Android 10 and you have bootloader unlocked and rooted, then it might be Android 10 prohibiting you. I can't do anything on Firefox now.
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These devices are not rooted and bootloader is locked. The majority of them are CAT S42 phones unlocked. Also some Sonim XP8s, and Galaxy S9s. The issue exists on all of these devices.
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These devices are not rooted and bootloader is locked. The majority of them are CAT S42 phones unlocked. Also some Sonim XP8s, and Galaxy S9s. The issue exists on all of these devices.
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Well, add rooted and bootloader unlocked Moto 5G Ace to the list.
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Well, add rooted and bootloader unlocked Moto 5G Ace to the list.
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Glad I'm not the only one. It's definitely a bigger problem then meets the eye. These are only a few of the sites I've noticed issues with.
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Glad I'm not the only one. It's definitely a bigger problem then meets the eye. These are only a few of the sites I've noticed issues with.
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I'm really thinking it's this new BS with Android 10 and newer....
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I'm really thinking it's this new BS with Android 10 and newer....
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Well the CAT S42s we have are Android 10 but the Sonims are all 8.1.
stevecast2024 said:
Well the CAT S42s we have are Android 10 but the Sonims are all 8.1.
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Hmmm...I'd say you might just need to reflash the rom. If it still isn't working you then it might just be as simple as a defective phone.
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Sure. Thanks for the reply. Here are a few:
T-Mobile.com
Login.yahoo.com
wunderground.com
Sprint.com
The sites will simply time out. Work fine on wifi.
I also have noticed issues with some apps. For instance Zello, works most of the time but occasionally they shift login servers and we have to disable tls/ssl in the app in order for it to connect. Very odd. Unfortunately, that is a bit more difficult to troubleshoot.
Thanks
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All of these work on Data on my LG G7, using Tracfone (safelink wireless) with a t-mobile compatible sim.
I'm in California though.
stevecast2024 said:
Sure. Thanks for the reply. Here are a few:
T-Mobile.com
Login.yahoo.com
wunderground.com
Sprint.com
The sites will simply time out. Work fine on wifi.
I also have noticed issues with some apps. For instance Zello, works most of the time but occasionally they shift login servers and we have to disable tls/ssl in the app in order for it to connect. Very odd. Unfortunately, that is a bit more difficult to troubleshoot.
Thanks
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OK @stevecast2024,
I have tried each of these 4 sites on:
1. A Windows 10 desktop using Chrome and connected using GB wired ethernet to a Cox cable modem.
and​2. A T-Mobile branded OnePlus 8T (unrooted, bootloader locked) using Chrome and connected solely thru a T-Mobile 5G connection.
Note: both systems were connected using both ipv4 and ipv6
My results were as follows:
T-Mobile.com: Worked as expected on both systems
Login.yahoo.com: Worked as expected on both systems, however, the phone showed a more simplified interface compared to the desktop
wunderground.com: Worked as expected on both systems
Sprint.com: On both systems, redirected to T-Mobile.com, but then displayed a popup saying:
"Sprint has joined T-Mobile!
We're so glad you're here. If you're a Sprint customer, tap 'Continue' to access your account and more."
In short, I did not see any connectivity issues at all on these sites. I will continue to test these sites from different locations and at different times to see if I can recreate any of the issues you are seeing.
FYI: I am in Las Vegas and I have been VERY pleasantly surprised with the 5G coverage and bandwidth here so far.
May I ask where you are located ?
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I'm really thinking it's this new BS with Android 10 and newer....
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My phone has Android 11 and does not have issues with any of these sites. I wonder if it might have something to do with the 5G network upgrades in your area. Maybe a glitch was introduced in your area when the network was upgraded
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Hmmm...I'd say you might just need to reflash the rom. If it still isn't working you then it might just be as simple as a defective phone.
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Unfortunately, @stevecast2024 indicates he is seeing this issue on nearly 1000 devices of varying brands and android versions. That certainly doesn't sound like a defective phone
Thanks for testing. I'm on the east coast. Just outside of Philadelphia Pa. None of these devices support 5g but I wouldn't be surprised if the 5g upgrades may have something to do with the issue.
I will say I am beyond happy with the coverage we get from T-Mobile here. We bought the CAT S42 phones due to durability and their support of TMO LTE band 71 600mhz. The 600 mhz coverage is phenomenal.
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Thanks for testing. I'm on the east coast. Just outside of Philadelphia Pa. None of these devices support 5g but I wouldn't be surprised if the 5g upgrades may have something to do with the issue.
I will say I am beyond happy with the coverage we get from T-Mobile here. We bought the CAT S42 phones due to durability and their support of TMO LTE band 71 600mhz. The 600 mhz coverage is phenomenal.
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Yes, before I had a 5G phone, my 4G LTE here was frequently band 71 and was also fast.
I was thinking, you could try connecting one of your phones to a PC and adb shell to the device.
You should then be able to try some command line DNS and/or TCP connections, narrowing down what is happening.
So yesterday our Sonim XP8s received an upgrade to Android 10. Now not only can we not access the specified websites and many others, but we can no longer use the ZelloWork application when on mobile data. As soon as wifi is turned off Zello disconnects and will not reconnect until wifi is turned back on. Errors in the Zello Log show Failed to read public key.
I've been using my P7Pro for a while now, and every now and then the phone just seems to drop out of internet connection (non cellular related, was totally good). I get full signal and full speed on wifi and cellular on my other devices while my P7Pro is barely able to send a message.
Rebooting the device *sometimes* solves the issue and it will work fine for a very long while. But then it will do it again.
Had this happened during the cold and indoor so I'm confused af about this
System info & Plugins if anyone's curious
January update
Magisk Delta by (I can't quite remember on the top of my head, it's in this forum) That enabled 32bit support
Lsposed with Telegram module and Twifucker
USF by krad0n, works great
Kris Kernel 1.2.3 with Powerhint module
Everything else works great
yurishouse said:
I've been using my P7Pro for a while now, and every now and then the phone just seems to drop out of internet connection (non cellular related, was totally good). I get full signal and full speed on wifi and cellular on my other devices while my P7Pro is barely able to send a message.
Rebooting the device *sometimes* solves the issue and it will work fine for a very long while. But then it will do it again.
Had this happened during the cold and indoor so I'm confused af about this
System info & Plugins if anyone's curious
January update
Magisk Delta by (I can't quite remember on the top of my head, it's in this forum) That enabled 32bit support
Lsposed with Telegram module and Twifucker
USF by krad0n, works great
Kris Kernel 1.2.3 with Powerhint module
Everything else works great
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Do you by any chance use any adblock DNS filtering? Something like AdGuard for instance?
I had some issues on by P7P and the old OnePlus phone and DNS filtering was the culprit. That's the only thing I could think.
Fishawy said:
Do you by any chance use any adblock DNS filtering? Something like AdGuard for instance?
I had some issues on by P7P and the old OnePlus phone and DNS filtering was the culprit. That's the only thing I could think.
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I had AdAway running in the background (in root mode, which is static) and Never thought much about it
Will check to see if it helps.
Thanks for the tip
Any vpns?
DNs changes will definitely affect some websites, I have VPN on all the time and haven't experienced any issues ( i don't use the one offered for Google as it stopped working for some reason and either way it's not the best pot there. Also check adaptive connectivity options as that will make your connection wonky. I don't use root or any mods on my device so it's.fully stock.
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I had AdAway running in the background (in root mode, which is static) and Never thought much about it
Will check to see if it helps.
Thanks for the tip
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All good, I usually have these connection issued with VPNs and DNS blocking. I just configure the system's private DNS for now and have no issues.
Good luck!
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Any vpns?
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No, I mean... I have them (my own servers, ran Through Trojan Protocol) and they works fine. It could be related but tbh I didn't have issues when using them
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I had AdAway running in the background (in root mode, which is static) and Never thought much about it
Will check to see if it helps.
Thanks for the tip
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There was something with adaway a few weeks ago or so where I had to temporarily disable it
I get drop outs from time to time. Figured it was Adguard. I just stick it in airplane mode for a few seconds, and then it comes back. Mostly happens when I go from wifi back to cellular
There is definitely something wrong with the latest January releases. Both the stock version and the beta releases (on my device) drop downloads repeatedly. Also my device keeps losing connection and switching from 5G to 4G to LTE in the same location. Maybe on the Pixel 8 Google will finally go back to Qualcomm antennas.
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Maybe on the Pixel 8 Google will finally go back to Qualcomm antennas.
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Not gonna happen.
I haven't had a single issue since switching to LTE only (5g is spotty in my area anyways). I think the radio gets stuck searching and switching between the 2 sometimes. I noticed it most when inside buildings and this has completely solved my issue. Even in rural areas, it has remained consistent. I would recommend just using LTE and see if that has any effect.
Edit-I know you stated it wasn't cellular related and I thought mine wasn't either, but this worked for me for whatever reason.
I happen to live in an area where 5G is good on Mint (T-Mobile). I always get a solid 5G UC.
But I find that 5G is NOT all that different than LTE in real world day-to-day use. In fact I doubt that anyone could see any difference at all unless they were using an app to actually measure any difference. SO if you live in a spotty area for 5G then by all means just turn it off (it's great that we can turn it off) and stick with LTE and be happy!
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I happen to live in an area where 5G is good on Mint (T-Mobile). I always get a solid 5G UC.
But I find that 5G is NOT all that different than LTE in real world day-to-day use. In fact I doubt that anyone could see any difference at all unless they were using an app to actually measure any difference. SO if you live in a spotty area for 5G then by all means just turn it off (it's great that we can turn it off) and stick with LTE and be happy!
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Agreed, and I also work out in rural areas often, where 5G is spotty, so I just keep mine set to 4g Preferred
I've had similar connection problems but it was location specific. I live in Phoenix, AZ where my signal and connection were great with no issues on TMobile. When I visited family in Austin, TX I would get constant problems. Often I would lose signal and never get it back and would either restart my phone or just in and out of airplane mode and everything temporarily works again.