I want to know how to disable the light turning on when the phone changes from a tower to another tower. Or when the phone changes form EV to 1X. I live in Fremont, CA and when you are going on HWY 880 right around the Dixion landing exit the phone light always swiches on and then turns off. I want to disable the light from turning on. I don't know if it is because a tower change or from a split second dead spot, or even if it's changing from EV to 1X for a split second. Can anyone help with this issue? The whole screen light turns on.
this may or may not be in the right sub-forum. mod's plase move this to the right forum. I posted here because i have a sprint touch pro.
Thank you for your time and help
Nimish Patel
Are you sure it's not checking an e-mail account or automatically updating something else..?
Nope it's not checking e-mail. It always happens in that area. Another place it also happens is in the walnut creek/concord area. I had a mogul as well and it also did same thing. It happens both ways, north and south bound.
The same thing happens to me, but only in roaming. I am not sure of a regedit for this.
You and everyone else would like to know Sorry but i think this is the same as the phone waking up for now reason type thread been posted a million times no solution
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I have had 2 different vibrants now and they both have done the same thing. I haven't been able to isolate the problem to any one thing so I ask if there is anyone else experiencing the same problem. My network connection just freezes. I can't call or text and I have no data. If I try to make a call, it freezes on dialing and the only way to get it back is reboot. This is happening about twice a day and is really a pain. The only way I know it has happened is by trying to make a call and it freezes. I don't know how long it has been that way and when people try to call me, it goes straight to vmail. I put a new SIM card in thinking that was the problem, but it didn't help. I have searched everywhere trying to find a fix. TMO CSR was absolutely no help at all. Shocking.
BTW I am in an area with no 3G coverage. I am on EDGE all the time.
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I have had 2 different vibrants now and they both have done the same thing. I haven't been able to isolate the problem to any one thing so I ask if there is anyone else experiencing the same problem. My network connection just freezes. I can't call or text and I have no data. If I try to make a call, it freezes on dialing and the only way to get it back is reboot. This is happening about twice a day and is really a pain. The only way I know it has happened is by trying to make a call and it freezes. I don't know how long it has been that way and when people try to call me, it goes straight to vmail. I put a new SIM card in thinking that was the problem, but it didn't help. I have searched everywhere trying to find a fix. TMO CSR was absolutely no help at all. Shocking.
BTW I am in an area with no 3G coverage. I am on EDGE all the time.
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Since you have had the problem now with two different phones it could be a result of some app(s) you have installed, or related to your coverage. Did thr problem start after having each phone for some time?
I am working on ruling out an app. Weird thing is, I have had winmo for over 3 years in the same area with no probs. This is my first android. I am uninstalling an app at a time to figure out if it is one.
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So I uninstalled the ESPN Scorecenter app. I haven't had a freeze in over 24 hrs. Guess I am going to have to find another app to follow the games while I am at church.
are you sure u r in area that has only Edge? have u try to Lagfix the fone?
goodluck.
This just happened to my wife's Vibrant. This reminds me of when I had the T-mobile Shadow, where suddenly, it would not be able to send or receive data or calls BUT the phone itself shows no indications of any signal problems. It's as if the cellular software component has frozen and so the signal bars are frozen to whatever state they were and thus tricking you into thinking everything is fine until you try to make a call or someone calls you on a landline wondering if your cell phone is dead.
I suspect it's due moving into a poor or zero signal area and the phone tries to make a data connection. I really have no idea how to fix this other than to hope there is a firmware update to resolve this. The only fix is to reboot the phone (flipping the phone to flight mode gets one to a state where you can't turn flight mode off... which indicates a lost of control to the cellular component).
I am consider finding a way to reboot the phone nightly, which will help if this happens overnight, but I wish there was a way to detect this more immediately so it can reboot when needed. Perhaps an app that monitors the carrier signal strength and if the signal level is perfectly the same for a long duration, then a lock up of the cellular component is suspected.
Hey, so today I was riding the train back from work and its kind of insane on the signal part for the phone because it jumps through thousands of towers and internet is really crappy on my train line. Funny thing is I lost HSDPA signal and when I got off the train to an area I know I have reception in and got home it was still "stuck" with the upload arrow green, and refused to load pages. I turned it on and off (data connection) and it got back to normal. Shouldn't it do that automatically? is that a known bug or do I have a falty device? its brand new and this is the second time it has ever happened to me with it...
yes, it should go back automatically but since it was trying to hop so many towers it may have gotten confused and freezes. just reset it.
If it happens continuously then it maybe a issue but if happens the odd time I would not worry about.
Well it didn't happen until now and I've had the phone for over a week. Talked to a rep and she "refreshed" my connection and connected me to a different APN. I have also disabled "fast dormancy" (FD) which is an option that causes the phone to "pause" connections when nothing uses them which is only available on GS2 and some carriers don't support. My carrier doesn't. My thought is that this causes the device to keep its data connection dormant after trying to awake it. The upload arrow stays on implying that the phone is waiting for a response from the network which doesnt happen since it doesnt support FD which causes the connection to freeze. Reseting the connection fixes this. In any case, I've read in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1132399 that the problem is solved by doing these two actions - changing APNs and disabling FD. If anyone else has an insight on this I'd love to hear it. I'll report here with tommorow's upcome.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe on the new HTC EVO LTE from Sprint, you can now surf the web over data while talking on the phone. If this is correct, then I have a question because it currently doesn't work.
When I'm on the phone and open up the internet, it immediately turns my screen off. Then I have to hit the power button to turn the screen back on. But if I touch the screen anywhere, the screen turns back off. As a result, I can't end the call nor unlock the phone by pulling the ring up. Therefore I have to wait for the the person I'm talking to, to hang up the phone in order for the call to end and allow me back into my phone, otherwise I have to do a force shutdown in order to get back into my phone. Is anyone else experiencing this issues or have any suggestions? Thanks.
Something sounds wrong. You running a ROM of any kind?
Mines flawless, and I actually use it a ton more than I tought I would.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe on the new HTC EVO LTE from Sprint, you can now surf the web over data while talking on the phone. If this is correct, then I have a question because it currently doesn't work.
When I'm on the phone and open up the internet, it immediately turns my screen off. Then I have to hit the power button to turn the screen back on. But if I touch the screen anywhere, the screen turns back off. As a result, I can't end the call nor unlock the phone by pulling the ring up. Therefore I have to wait for the the person I'm talking to, to hang up the phone in order for the call to end and allow me back into my phone, otherwise I have to do a force shutdown in order to get back into my phone. Is anyone else experiencing this issues or have any suggestions? Thanks.
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it only works if it supported by the towers you are on. so it wont work in all cities. you need to see what network you are working on like EVDO REV A or that new enhanced network
I'm on CDMA - EvDo rev. A network right now which may be the problem. (Let me know if that is the case.) At the moment I'm in Florida near Jacksonville which I don't believe have any of the new towers. In addition, I've experienced the same problem in Nashville TN. I can't firm what network I'm on in Nashville until I get back home on Friday.
And no, I'm not running any rom. I've only rooted my phone and unlocked it, but I haven't done anything with it beyond that. Everything is pretty much stock.
So instead of staying on ruim/sim, my phone randomly turns itself to NV. I don't know when this happens, and it happened 3 times today. At first I thought I had the RUU bug where people lost service.
How do I tell the phone to stay on the right cdma subscription? This is annoying me -_-
Hello,
My problem is that when I am using GPS navigation on my phone, whether on Waze app, or google maps.
For example real time could be 1:00pm, and while driving the gps screen would turn to night mode and the time on my phone would be some time at night.
I took some screen shots today, I uploaded them to my google drive because I dont know how to shrink them to post them here.
first one is using Waze app
, real true time on phone is 8:50AM, if you look at the arrival time on the bottom it says 4:09PM in 20 minutes.
Second one is using google maps, true time is 2:24pm, but the screen is on night mode.
These screen shots were taken before the time on the phone also changed to some time at night.
I hope my links work.
Could this be because of an issue with the GPS?
Anyone else experienced this?
I have seen numerous examples of the time being wrong in my g3. In each case, it is set to network-sourced time zone and time. The time zone will display correctly, but the time will be in the future by several hours.
When this happens, I normally disable network time, set the time manually.
Both mine and my wife's g3 have been doing this daily for the last week in the greater-Seattle area. Toggling airplane mode fixes it temporarily. Very annoying but will have to turn off the network time I guess.
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I'm in Seattle, too. Maybe it's a local problem?
Seattle user here too. I live in Lake Stevens and its usually fine until I pass lake Washington. Once in Seattle proper I'm pretty much screwed with bad time till I clear the area and bounce the radio. Very frustrating as it jacks up my SMS message order.
Sounds like we should give em a ring to see what's up. The next question is whether its happening to all devices.
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Seattle user here too. I live in Lake Stevens and its usually fine until I pass lake Washington. Once in Seattle proper I'm pretty much screwed with bad time till I clear the area and bounce the radio. Very frustrating as it jacks up my SMS message order.
Sounds like we should give em a ring to see what's up. The next question is whether its happening to all devices.
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I'm in Seattle, too. Maybe it's a local problem?
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meekell said:
Both mine and my wife's g3 have been doing this daily for the last week in the greater-Seattle area. Toggling airplane mode fixes it temporarily. Very annoying but will have to turn off the network time I guess.
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This might help you guys, I'm in LA and both my friend's and my G3 works fine when using GPS. Nothing weird to report, seems like a problem with the Seattle towers. Keep us updated.
Yeah it happened twice to me, the first time I noticed I was going downtown from the north, and I noticed that it happened when I passed around the UW area. The second time I used GPS this time I was going north from the south and it got messed up when I was driving by Boeing field.
That was last week, today I tried it again and it was all good, but this time I am running the jasmine ROM, this is weird.
Time on this phone messed up. As I switch time zones it freaks out and I have to bounce the radios.
Seattle here as well: This has been driving me insane and even caused my alarm to not go off. LG said I needed to ship it back to them because it may be a hardware issue, leaving me phone-less for 2 weeks.
Not only does it screw up my time, but whenever I set time to manual, it does not save that setting and eventually switching back to network time.
Does anyone have a solution?!
Seattle!
Commuting from Burien to Downtown Seattle here. My husband and I have been experiencing time zone change daily for weeks since we got the phones. Mine jumps ahead exactly 7 hours when I go to work, resets itself eventually or I reset it manually, then 7 hours again when I come home. I can't rely on my phone as a clock/alarm/scheduler anymore which is one of the main things most people use their phones for! My SMS texts are also getting mixed up because the time stamp changes and the messages show up out of order. The really annoying thing is that even when I reset it manually and uncheck the automatic detection settings it just undoes my choices and rechecks the boxes. This is not something that is just a minor annoyance, this is a serious issue that needs to be addressed. This is the first thread I've found with anyone describing exactly my problem and it makes a strong case for it being Seattle specific. How can we move forward with this information?
I'm having the same problem in Indianapolis. My gf has had the problem for a month or so, but mine was fine. I updated to the new firmware, and I suddenly started having the same problem. Mine is rooted, hers is not. It does seem to be tower specific because as I drove around town this morning, my time changed 4 times.
With any luck, I may have gotten VZW's attention via twitter. If others could tweet to @VZWSupport it might help confirm the problem.