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Hi,
When I go in a dead zone (Montreal underground metro) and lose my network signal, the phone will not reconnect unless I force it using the airplane widget.
This happens randomly.
Anyone else have this issue?
Thanks,
The Internetzz
Same thing happens to me in the NYC subway, but sometimes not even airplane mode will bring it back up I have to restart the phone to get signal back.
That's what just happen to me. Any one gets any idea?
I just exchanged one on Saturday, AT&T didn't even question it. I told them that it was random, and I had to reboot the phone to get my data service to reconnect. Now the replacement is starting to do the same thing...
Symptom 1: randomly losing signal (H+ and cellular) and getting red circle. (reboot required)
Symptom 2: after exiting a dead zone, network wont hook back on (red circle). I have to enable then disable airplane mode. Happened once or twice that I had to force a reboot.
As far as speed, I get ~3194 kbps down and 57 kbps up... It's kinda sucking.
Phone replaced. Same problem so far. I hope the next update will fix this because they do not want to exchange my phone (you have used it for over 30 minutes)... Lesson learned. Never buy the phone directly from the carrier.
i have the same problem with my motorola defy. reconnect sometimes needs over 30 minutes. sometimes a manual network selection does the trick, but sometimes i get a simcard not allowed error. really annoying bug! no one any idea for a fix or an app that solves this?
I currently have the same issue every time I go through the tunnel on the train. I had the same issue with my MyTouch3g and it was rectified when I updated the radio...so a radio upgrade would be nice
Is there a way in either the settings menu or an app that will prevent the Photon from constantly looking/pinging for a stronger tower? I have determined that once locked onto a tower and it stays locked (or locked onto wifi), my battery life is actually very good. For example, at lunch, I sit in my car for about 45 minutes connected to one of the 4g towers and am using the phone the whole time while listing to music/podcast and using the internet and I start with a full charge and will only lose between 10 to 15 percent of the battery.
However, where I actually live are a bunch of weak coverage areas. While sitting in the school car pickup line for about 30 minutes I will typically lose close to 40 percent of the battery and the temperature goes up to 107 – 110 while I do nothing with my phone. My normal temp is 93 – 95. I used one of the locale apps that tells you what cell tower number you are on and in the 30 minutes I was in the car line it connected to seven different towers switching between them all many times. The cell phone tower pinging also happens when at a football came (Bucs, Raymond James Stadium) because of the amount of people trying to use their phones. There is no possible way of making it through the six hours without the phone dying.
So my question is – without going into airplane mode is there a way to prevent the cell tower hopping? I would rather have a constant weak signal then having the phone constantly looking for a better signal.
I am rooted on stock rom.
I don't think so man. Cell signal plays a huge roll on cdma phones, obviously the better signal you have the better battery life. Ive never heard of a way to prevent cell tower hopping as these phones are programmed to link with the best tower it feels will offer best signal. Sometimes you'll be on a Verizon tower and that may be the best one around or it may be the worst but if its closest to you your phone will possibly connect to it. You don't have to turn on airplane mode; i use the data saver profile that only uses data when the screen is on so when screen is off i save a **** ton of battery because the phone isn't trying connect the radio.
This is the only feature remotely close to what you're asking and it won't prevent "tower hopping". This will just only connect to sprint towers if you choose "Sprint only" resulting in probably even worse battery life.
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/7494/20110915114711.jpg
Thanks for your input. I was reading some of the other threads hear and found what you show in the picture. Mine was on any cdma and I switched it to auto as it was suggested it might help with 3g.
I am going to see how automatically performs today when I pick up my kid. Tomorrow I will switch to sprint only to see if that makes a difference.
I will report tomorrow evening with findings.
If we can get custom radios for the phone that should make a difference. The radio (afaik) contains the algorithm for determining which tower to connect to based on the PRL, among other things.
What battery setting will restrict data to only when the screen is on?
Jeffrey_L said:
What battery setting will restrict data to only when the screen is on?
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Go to settings and battery etc then find battery mode. Works like a charm i.swear.
http://img153.imageshack.us/img153/6687/20110915145312.jpg
By turning off data when screen is off , will data sync automatically when I wake the phone up?
Also, switching to automatic in the settings did not help while in my kid's car line at school. I am going to change to Sprint Only tomorrow and reboot before I leave work. I did not reboot today when I changed to automatically. Not sure if that makes a difference.
korsjs said:
By turning off data when screen is off , will data sync automatically when I wake the phone up?
Also, switching to automatic in the settings did not help while in my kid's car line at school. I am going to change to Sprint Only tomorrow and reboot before I leave work. I did not reboot today when I changed to automatically. Not sure if that makes a difference.
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Yes when u wake up the phone it will sync everything.
Just an update. Today my phone has never been better with battery and cell tower switching. The only other thing I did was reboot after changing to "automatically " . Real test will be this afternoon.
What really stands out is the battery tempature. At idle it is in the low 80s. After heavy use it is in low 90s. Maybe I did get lucky with the change.
This has happened to me twice (in a row) lately. At around 8PM EST those two nights, service on my phone just disappears. The only way to get signal back was to remove my battery while the phone was on (soft reset) and everything went back to normal again.
Does anyone know the cause of this minor glitch?
Is it the Rom?
The kernel?
Or just the phone itself?
I need the answer to this ASAP because I have about 6 more days before my 30 day refund gives way. If it's the phone I would like to get a replacement before it's too late.
SpectraDawn said:
This has happened to me twice (in a row) lately. At around 8PM EST those two nights, service on my phone just disappears. The only way to get signal back was to remove my battery while the phone was on (soft reset) and everything went back to normal again.
Does anyone know the cause of this minor glitch?
Is it the Rom?
The kernel?
Or just the phone itself?
I need the answer to this ASAP because I have about 6 more days before my 30 day refund gives way. If it's the phone I would like to get a replacement before it's too late.
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the only way to tell if its the phone is to revert back to stock and test it out. Its very odd that you're getting data loss at the same time everyday....i dont have an explanation for that.
Tower maintenance perhaps? Try switching to airplane mode for a few minutes and then turn airplane mode off and see if service returns. If the tower drops off for a short time, your phone may initially query the tower often but then after a couple of minutes, switch to querying at a much lower rate to save battery. Pulling the battery and re installing forces the phone to query at the higher rate - much the same way that switching on and off airplane mode might.
Just a thought. I've had similar issues in my area where the tower would drop out at the same time for several days.
Good luck!
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the only way to tell if its the phone is to revert back to stock and test it out. Its very odd that you're getting data loss at the same time everyday....i dont have an explanation for that.
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I will try that and see if there is any difference.
FESCSteve said:
Tower maintenance perhaps? Try switching to airplane mode for a few minutes and then turn airplane mode off and see if service returns. If the tower drops off for a short time, your phone may initially query the tower often but then after a couple of minutes, switch to querying at a much lower rate to save battery. Pulling the battery and re installing forces the phone to query at the higher rate - much the same way that switching on and off airplane mode might.
Just a thought. I've had similar issues in my area where the tower would drop out at the same time for several days.
Good luck!
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The thing about the tower issue is that I thought the same thing. But my roommate has ATT and every time I had no service, he had full bars. The first time this happened I talked to an ATT rep and he was confused as well on why that would happened. Suggested returning my phone if it happened again, which it did.
I'll see if it happens again tonight
So I have a rather strange problem.
You all know those interference noises a phone causes while receiving a SMS or a call.
If I'm home the whole day I have no problem with those noises. I only have them occasionally when i get an sms or something like that.
But when I leave the house for uni for example and return later my speakers are constantly humming and it doesn't really stop. It will only stop after I turn on airplane mode and turn it back off.
Also during that time the battery drains rapidly. It's about 10% per hour.
I've had that problem with the stock rom and then went through all Resurrection Remix Versions since 2.1, but the only difference was the volume and the sound of the interference. But it never went away.
Currently I'm on Resurrection Remix 2.4 with Siyah 3.3.2 and Modem Version I9100DXLP9.
I guess I could try all diferent modem versions and look if it fixes the problem. But since I don't really know what I have to do to start it, it's a little tricky to check if it is really fixed. I only know for certain that the problem occurs after returning from uni.
Here's a screenshot of the battery drain of today.
It contains:
1. night
2. leaving the house and listening to beyond pod on my way to uni (first awake period)
3. while in uni checking the time
4. driving back, listening to beyond pod, playing on gbadroid
5. at least you see the gap in the wifi status, that's where i turned on and off the airplane mode
the prblm is radiowaves tht interfere the electronic devices,well i don kno wat settings or any tweaks u on,,,but a good idea is to check if ur cordless phone,oven,tv all r placed at far distance as per electronic rules,an yes sometimes these things happen.its not neccesary tht it takes place for all..during my studies we had this project on y the tv gets mass disturbance during lunch hrs,see the real prblm was the oven ,behind the wall and the phone,very clearly the oven will on,cause its lunch time an ppl usd to make calls cause it was free time too..so check ur devices an post
If you mean that another device is disturbing the speakers, then I can tell you that that is definitely not the case since the interference stops once I turn the phone off.
Also I don't think that any device is interfering with my phone because the problem vanishes after I reboot.
I wrote before that it suffices to turn on airplane mode and turn it back off, but today that also wasn't enough. The disturbance went away, but the battery drain stayed. So I turned the phone off, removed the battery, waited a few secs, put it back in and turned it on again. After that the battery percentage dropped instantly from 19% to 12% but since then it has stayed at 12%.
I made another Screenshot:
I think I have an idea what could be causing the problem. I think it has to do with GSM/UMTS.
Where I live there is hardly any UMTS connection. So I guess, when I leave the house and come into UMTS region my phone switches to that, but after I get home it has problems switching back to GSM and that's what's causing the noise.
It's only a wild guess, but I try to confirm it during the next days. I just switched to UMTS only. That means I have hardly any connection at home, but I'll see wether that helps my problem...
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I think I have an idea what could be causing the problem. I think it has to do with GSM/UMTS.
Where I live there is hardly any UMTS connection. So I guess, when I leave the house and come into UMTS region my phone switches to that, but after I get home it has problems switching back to GSM and that's what's causing the noise.
It's only a wild guess, but I try to confirm it during the next days. I just switched to UMTS only. That means I have hardly any connection at home, but I'll see wether that helps my problem...
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UMTS ought not provide the same sort of interference. I don't know the technical reason anymore, but my understanding is that only 2G induces that kind of interference in other circuitry.
That's why I think maybe it's stuck switching between UMTS and GSM and everytime it switches to GSM it interferes with my speakers and that constant switching is causing the battery drain.
I guess it could have something to do with the fact that there is no reception in my lecture hall at all.
I will have to try to track down wether that constant disturbance and battery drain only happens after the phone hasn't had any reception for a longer period of time or if it is always after I leave the house.
So today I was again in that mentioned lecture hall and after returning home the speakers again wouldn't shut up.
I noticed a little downward arrow in the connection bar. I don't really know what that's doing there since I have wifi active and no data connection.
After a while disturbing the speakers and not getting really good signal it changes to UMTS. The disturbance is gone but so is my connection.
After a reboot the arrow and the disturbance are gone. So I guess there is some data connection that is stuck or something like that?
Anyone else had an issue with the G3 showing a time that's several hours off? I live in a large metro area in the midwest; my house is out in the suburbs, and I work downtown. When I'm anywhere but downtown, the time on my phone is accurate. Once I get close to work, the time shifts +4 hours and stays that way until I get home. Both time and time zone are set to automatic, although toggling these options off and on again will force it to show the correct time for about 3-5 minutes, and then it switches back. Spent about 45 minutes on the phone with Verizon, and they said it's "a GPS problem with the G3. LG says to do a hard reset." Even if I set the location to "Battery Saver", which to my understanding doesn't even use GPS, it still shows the incorrect time. I find it hard to believe that a hard reset will magically fix my issue. For the time being, the only way to resolve the issue is to turn off automatic time.
Anyone else experience anything like this?
Yes lots of time issues with this phone. Here is another thread with reports of odd problems.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2904900