I currently have a TMobile Pocket pc phone edition that i recently installed the WM2003 upgrade on, i love it.
Now i hear that there are XDA2 devices out, which sound like better,faster devices. I asked TMobile, and they say that as long as the phone supports GSM 1900 and can be unlocked to use any SIM card, switching phones is a piece of cake.
So i guess my question is, has anyone tried this? I would like to get a O2 XDA2 over the M1000. Has anyone gotten them to work on the TMobile network here in the USA? I'd hate to spend the money on the device and not have it work. Or would it be better if i wait for some (needed?) ROM upgrades?
Thanks a lot =)
Edit: Okay so i didnt type in the right keywords into google the first time. User review here basically answers all my questions:
O2 review at mobilefly.com
I have had this problem for about a month now. Until then (from July last year) everything was fine. I dial, and then phone says "Dialing" for approximately 2 seconds, and then says "Call Ended".
This is driving me crazy. I got a new SIM card because I read somewhere that the SIM card may be the problem. But it didn't help.
Once or twice have I had the situation where it says dialing, but never seems to dial, stays there for a long time, and then disappears.
The thing that I've also noticed is that if I go away from my home it does not fail.
This weekend I drove approximately 40 miles. I made maybe 20 calls because I was testing my phone. Every one was successful.
It seems that if I leave this particular area it works great. As soon as I get close to my house again, failed calls.
Any suggestions? it seems like a network problem, but my wife's phone never fails here. It is a different phone by the way.
I have seen a few posts about this, mostly in the T-Mobile vibrant forum, but no real solution, except getting a different brand. My experience with it working better away from my home leads me to believe it is a network problem, but after reading that people have had 3 different replacement phones, 4 different SIM cards, etc. I'm beginning to think that this phone has a serious problem.
Yes, although I said it once already, THIS IS DRIVING ME NUTS!
Any suggestions?
Thanks!
I have found this happens on all makes and models, etc. I sell cell phones for a living (worked for a couple carriers, both GSM and CDMA). There are many causes, making a cell phone call is a super complicated operation. Most likely, your home tower is experiencing on a regular basis very high traffic loads or has some other issue. Luckily, for you, it is in all likely hood simply an outbound issue and will not and does not affect incoming calls, etc. Sadly, you just need to sort of live with it and accept that (no matter the carrier, btw) there are going to be issues like this.
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I know that a call will failr every once in a while, but I have 1/3 to 1/2 of my calls failing, and it never used to happen. I have thought that maybe this area has high traffic. Although you would think the network would be good here, since there is a T-Mobile store within a mile of my house.
And I never had a problem in 6 years, until the last month or so. And my wife's phone never drops calls here.
I will continue to try and figure this out.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am trying to think of any changes that I have made to my phone recently, anything.
Thanks.
rblancrt said:
I know that a call will failr every once in a while, but I have 1/3 to 1/2 of my calls failing, and it never used to happen. I have thought that maybe this area has high traffic. Although you would think the network would be good here, since there is a T-Mobile store within a mile of my house.
And I never had a problem in 6 years, until the last month or so. And my wife's phone never drops calls here.
I will continue to try and figure this out.
Any suggestions would be appreciated. I am trying to think of any changes that I have made to my phone recently, anything.
Thanks.
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I'm new here and I came here after replacing my phone 3 times for the same thing + not being able to receive calls.
Sometimes the wife would call me and the phone won't register the call and I’ll receive the VM and hour later!
Lord knows the grief I get when I don’t answer!!!
I’ve replaced SIM 4 times; TM has done “trouble ticket” to check the towers! (Notice the s in tower)
It seems it’s just this phone, I’ve used her Garminfone and worked fine.
Used her old G1 and also worked fine!!!
I’ve since rooted and used a ROM to see if that helps!
One thing for sure, these “cooked up” ROM’s that are available here are 10 times better then the crap that most manufactures puts out!
I will never buy a Samsung phone again!!!
Greetings everyone.... New Samsung Galaxy S2 Skyrocket owner here.... Quick question if I may, and I've searched first to no avail.... I'm new to AT&T, having migrated over from T-Mobile. When on T-Mobile I had the HTC Sensation 4G. One thing that was indeed cool about that device is that it came with T-Mobile's WiFi calling. I know that AT&T does not offer the same, and that's fine, but here's my question.... As part of T-Mobile's WiFi calling app, the phone could be programmed to automatically turn on WiFi at locations you specify (work, home, etc...) and then turn it off when it knows you have left said location. it was great, as I never had to touch the wifi on/off button or remember to turn it on or off. I've searched through the Android Market and I see several apps that can do the same. I'm wondering if anyone here can recommend one in particular.
Much thanks!!
I believe Tasker can do what you're looking for. I've heard good things about it, but never used it myself though.
Thanks for the Tasker suggestion, however I was a) not really interested in something so comprehensive, as I believe there are stand-alone apps that will do just what I am looking for and b) Tasker is a rather expensive app considering I won't use 90% of it.
Thanks anyway.... still checking around....
Wifi Auto On
My wife and I got new Galaxy S II phones from C Spire earlier this month. They came with Android 2.3.6 out of the box, but a tech guy loaded 4.1.2 while we were still in the store. A few days later, I noticed a few odd things on both phones when using Google Maps:
With "Use wireless networks" checked, "Use GPS satellites" unchecked, and Wi-Fi off:
Maps plots my coarse location, so that I can see the blue directional arrow surrounded by a relatively large circle. So far, so good. But if I drive somewhere and keep Maps up, it never updates my position.
With "Use wireless networks" checked, "Use GPS satellites" checked, and Wi-Fi off:
Maps plots my coarse location, just as above. The GPS icon appears and starts flashing in the notification area. Five minutes later, it will still be flashing. Again, if I drive somewhere and keep Maps up, it never updates my position.
With "Use wireless networks" checked, "Use GPS satellites" either way, and Wi-Fi on:
Maps plots my coarse location, just as above. If I drive by a Wi-Fi network, Maps zooms over to the proper location, and the surrounding bluish circle is much smaller. However, after a few seconds, it zooms me back to my original position, and the much wider circle is back. And I know my car is incapable of teleportation.
Here are the things I have done:
Used the Text CS service, was told to make sure I had a clear view of the sky, turn GPS off and back on, turn the phone off and back on, and finally to try a factory reset, which I eventually did and got the same results.
Tried several GPS apps for deleting and re-downloading AGPS data.
Talked to a C Spire sales person and tech person, called their customer service number, and talked to the tech guy who installed the updates to our phones the day we got them. He worked with it for a while, had me reset the phone through recovery mode (neither forms of resetting restored the original version of Android), and finally said he'd get us replacement phones. This shouldn't be taken as a rant against C Spire; all of these people were very friendly.
Went to my local C Spire store and got the replacement phones set up (they already had 4.1.2 on them, and I'm not sure if they came that way or if someone updated them). Exact same problem still occurred.
Did a chat with Samsung customer service. Had me restart the phone in Safe Mode, and that still didn't help. Suggested I call in and setup a support ticket, which I haven't done yet.
Our previous phones were both the original Galaxy S (SCH-I500). While the phones themselves seemed to bog down in their old age (and froze or reset themselves at least daily), the mobile network locating and GPS locating worked amazingly. Under decent conditions, the GPS might take 5 seconds to lock.
I finally had a bit of a breakthrough today, but it hasn't resolved the issue where location via mobile network won't update (scenario 1 in the numbered list above). I found out about GPS NMEA data, which, for those who have no reason to learn about such things, is the raw data transmitted to and from a GPS satellite and receiver, and installed GPS NMEA Tool. After starting the app, I waited for a bit, and still no GPS lock. The initial view presented by the app is a human-readable summary of the data, and at some point I opened up the raw GPS NMEA log. It started spouting off a few lines that looked to be saying "I can't find a dang thing," but suddenly all of that changed. I switched back to the summary view, and sure enough, I had a fix on several satellites. I exited the app, opened Google Maps, and it got a lock again. It didn't stay locked the whole time, and it was slow to update my position, but it did work.
As far as I know, GPS NMEA Tool is only a diagnostic tool that doesn't perform any magic fix to the phone. I thought this might just be a strange coincidence, but after being inside this evening, I took my phone back outside. I opened up Maps, and after a few minutes, I didn't have a lock. I fired up GPS NMEA Tool, and after a minute or so I had a lock again.
So, does anyone have any clue what might be going on? Here's the info on my phone:
Using an Otter Box Commuter case. I don't think it has any metal in it, and I think someone at a C Spire store tested the GPS without the case on.
Model: SCH-R760X
Android version: 4.1.2
Baseband version: S:R760.01 K.GB28
Kernel version: 3.0.31-980103
[email protected] #3
SMP PREEMPT Fri Mar 1 04:29:20
KST 2013
Build number: JZO54K.SCH-R760X.GB28
Hardware version: H:R760.01 K.Q
Software version: GB28
Mobile network type: EvDo-rev.A
Well, I haven't gotten the GPS to lock in again, so I'm guessing the GPS NMEA Tool has anything to do with it. So basically, I'm still experiencing the exact same issues as before.
Well, apparently Samsung sent a batch of GS2s that weren't properly configured for C Spire. The stores were told not to sell those phones. I'm supposed to have a replacement very soon. So I suppose this issue is now finished!
Ok, I assumed getting a new phone would solve the problem, but it didn't. I'm on my fourth phone, I think, and they all seem to behave the same way. A few new things:
When I left the store with the new phone, I turned on Google Maps and left GPS off. My coarse location did update a few times, but then it stopped doing so after I was about 2 miles from the store.
I can get my coarse position on Maps to update by either restarting my phone, making a call, or sending a text. Obviously, my phone connects to a new tower when I change locations, because I can make calls and not have them drop soon after. Also, I figure people wouldn't be able to call me if I left the tower that my phone currently thinks it's connected to. It seems that unless I do something proactive, the phone doesn't want to acknowledge that it's moved on to a new tower.
Occasionally I can have GPS work for a little bit, but it never lasts for long.
Still going on. About the only thing new I know is that this seems to be isolated to GS2s running 4.1.2.
Another update regarding my (probably hopeless) situation. I captured data packets (which only seems to work if using Wi-Fi; on 3G, the phone doesn't look to handle the TCP/IP stuff itself) with Shark, and it looks like my phone has no problem communicating with googleapis.l.google.com. The actual data is encrypted, though.
The phone continues to report that I'm connected to the same base station (specifically, the same sector) until I do one of the above-mentioned things, although sometimes I'll have to make a call twice before the phone figures out where it is. Also, I've noticed that sometimes, if I've driven from point A to point B (we'll say they're 25 miles apart), after a single brief phone call, Maps might move my location to a spot in the middle of A and B. It may then move my location to point B after a second call.
So I still have no freaking clue why my phone won't properly report what tower it's connected to until certain events occur.
Also, I'm guessing the GPS issue at least partially stems from my phone not knowing where the heck it is most of the time. If it's getting assisted GPS data that's intended for a different location, that would definitely cause a delay in finding satellites.
By the way, I'd love to know if anyone else is experiencing this issue, or anything similar.
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By the way, I'd love to know if anyone else is experiencing this issue, or anything similar.
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Wanted to let you know I am experiencing the exact set of problems you are with my Galaxy 2 from CSpire. The gps works in a very inconsistent manner. Some days it works perfectly. Some days it doesn't work at all. Weather and cloud cover have no bearing on whether on not it works.
I spoke to someone at Samsung, but they were no help. They said I could send it in for repairs, but knowing my luck they would test it during one of the few times it works perfectly.
I'll be anxious to hear if you or somebody else discovers a fix for it.
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Wanted to let you know I am experiencing the exact set of problems you are with my Galaxy 2 from CSpire. The gps works in a very inconsistent manner. Some days it works perfectly. Some days it doesn't work at all. Weather and cloud cover have no bearing on whether on not it works.
I spoke to someone at Samsung, but they were no help. They said I could send it in for repairs, but knowing my luck they would test it during one of the few times it works perfectly.
I'll be anxious to hear if you or somebody else discovers a fix for it.
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Unfortunately, I don't have a solid answer. But based on my experience and your response, I'm guessing there's some sort of issue with the 4.1.2 update that screws up how the location is reported. I've seen GS2's in stores that have 2.3.6, and they seem to work fine (although I obviously can't run off with one to test it). Plus, if this issue had been present when the phone was first released, I figure it would be much better documented. The problem now is:
There are 2 newer generations of Galaxy S out. Most people buying new phones are going to choose one of the newer 2.
Of those already owning this phone, many won't have updated them to 4.1.2.
Of those who have updated or recently purchased a GS2 that's already running 4.1.2, many won't ever make use of the location functionality.
Out of those who have noticed this issue, I'm sure there are a decent amount who are eligible for new phones soon and just decide to deal with it for a short time.
Out of those who still have a while on the contract, many will likely never get around to doing anything about this issue.
So there are probably a very small number of people who have a GS2 running Android 4.1.2 and who have noticed this issue and want to do something about it. If this issue is specific to the C Spire phones (or C Spire and a few smaller carriers), that further limits the number.
I don't know the details on how a carrier and a manufacturer work together on a version of Android for a particular phone, so assuming there's a real problem (which obviously isn't hardware), I don't know how it could be fixed. Also, I don't know how much effort Samsung and any wireless carriers who carry this troubled phone are going to put forth, given that this phone is probably considered to be in its "end of life" stage.
Samsung also gave me the option of sending the phone in, but I'd be without my phone (unless I got a loaner phone) for 2 weeks or so, and I don't know if I'd be expected to pay shipping to get it there.
I figure the best option would be to see if C Spire would allow you to trade the phone for a different model. It's not ideal, since you'd either have to move to a different brand or move up to a 4G plan (if you're in a situation like mine where you have an older plan that you can keep as long as you have a 3G phone). But I'd say at least talk to someone at a store and see what they might offer. And please let me know how it goes, if you decide to do that. Best of luck!
Another thought: You could have the phone reverted to Android 2.3.6. Again not ideal, but I figure it would fix the issue. I don't know if there's any official way for this to be done, but I'm sure a way could be found.
A new problem...I still have 4.3 on my Verizon Note 2, have updates disabled via Titanium Backup, still have the original Verizon unlimited plan...the phone does exactly what I want it to do, see no reason to mess with a winning formula. Most of the time I'm on my pc, I use the Pdanet hotspot to get connection. (It uses "FoxFi" to accomplish that, can't say I'm exactly sure how) Anyhow, when firing up the wifi mode, it always has to verify with some server that I've paid the 'subscription' fee. For the last 2 days, that process just times out. I've restarted phone, uninstalled / reinstalled pdanet/FoxFi key, no change. Always times out whilst 'checking subscription status'. (USB mode DOES work, however) I suppose there could be a problem on the other end....hope this isn't something that Verizon has managed to stomp.
Anyone else familiar with this problem, else have a work-around?
I am having the same problem since yesterday afternoon. I hope someone can figure this out.
Same problem also did verizon put a block on it
Same here! Going crazy as this is only internet for me!
Wife has same problem...I'm thinking it's a problem with the server that FoxFi uses to verify that you've purchased their app. Prolly get fixed monday
(Question: I really haven't done anything to this phone for a couple years...did they ever make it truly rootable beyond 4.3? That is...to the point where you can enable the wifi-hotspot without using a 3rd party app)
Direstraights1980 said:
Same here! Going crazy as this is only internet for me!
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Us as well...and THAT'S only because there's a 10' stick of bamboo attached to my chimney, with an omni-directional antenna on top of THAT, feeding a cell-phone booster (Gives us passable 3G upstairs, which gets pushed around our hovel with a wifi-repeater. About as Green Acres as you can get)
Foxfi is working again. Got up and tried this morning expecting the same checking for subscription message but to my surprise it worked exactly as normal. No updates or anything. Keep it up Foxfi Your Awsome!!