Well the last few days a noticed a very strange problemw with my phone.I ahve a contract with vodafone. For a week i put my sim card in my phone and everything worked fine.But know there is a crazy, strange thing happening.The phone show signal 2-3 bars in my house, shows the name of the provider but i cannot doreceive calls neither messages! When i leave the house and go somewhere else everything works fine.Well at first i thought it was a sim card problem so i changed device in order to check the sim, but the sim works great with my previous phone (htc diamond). Then i inserted another sim card from a different provider and it works fine even in mt house. That's crazyyyyy!!!
Has anyone xperienced same problems?
I am thinking to call lg service tommorw morning!
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I have since discovered that my IMEI has been blocked. This phone was bought off eBay in January but apparently the block was only placed on August 7th. I'm gutted, I'm really hoping this can be resolved or that I am covered by insurance.
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Hi everyone,
I'd greatly appreciate any help anyone can give me. Here is what happened:
About 2 weeks ago I upgraded radio from 1.38 to 1.50, which worked and everything was fine.
Last week I went on holiday to a little place on the beach, where signal has normally been a problem. Not so this time, I had plenty of signal and was talking and texting fine.
On Tuesday it worked all morning and then in the afternoon the signal dropped off and it said "no service". I cycled the phone radio a few times and rebooted the phone, all to no avail. I concluded that the local cell tower had a fault and that I wasn't in range of another.
On Wednesday we took a trip and, as I expected, a few miles down the road my phone picked up signal again, consistent with the faulty cell tower hypothesis. I recieved a load of texts that had been waiting for me, made a few calls and everything was fine. When we got back to where we were staying, the signal held - I presumed the fault had been fixed.
Later that evening the signal dropped out again as before. I assumed that perhaps the fault hadn't been sufficiently fixed in the cell tower, so while annoying I presumed when I got to a different area the signal would come back like it did before.
However, it didn't. We came home on Friday and it hasn't picked up a signal, just says "no service". If I manually search for networks it finds O2 (as well as all the others) and I can select it, but it still says "no service".
I plugged in a T-Mobile sim, and it found signal immediately, BUT I cannot send/recieve calls or texts, people calling me hear a strange problem about it being unable to connect their call, and text message delivery reports give the same (not the message that one gets if the phone is switched off) - so it is obviously on the network but something is stopping it using the network - when I try and make a call I instantly get those four beeps which indicate the call has ended.
I then phoned O2 and said I think my SIM is dead, and they agreed and are sending me a new one. However, I then tried my old O2 sim again and got a brief signal, but still the same problem as the T-Mo sim - cannot send/recieve calls/texts/anything.
My O2 sim now says no service, although I have tried it in another phone and it works fine.
Since then I have re-flashed 1.38, hard reset the OS (Sleuth's v3) and flashed the O2 WM6 official rom with 1.47, all making no difference. I've tried forcing 2G and 3G and particular frequencies (it usually says it cannot apply these band settings, but after several reboots I sometimes manage to change it).
So, in summary:
Signal is very intermittent and usually says "no service".
Even when I do have signal, I cannot send/recieve calls/texts.
My O2 sim definitely works.
I have tried radios 1.50, 1.38 and 1.47 to no avail.
I have hard reset the ROM (Sleuth's v3) and flashed the O2 official ROM to no avail.
Desperate for help! Many thanks
I have also cleaned the SIM, SIM contacts in the phone, and checked that I can access the SIM card from the phone, and I can get the phone's IMEI etc so at least part of the radio seems to be working, and as mentioned before the SIM definitely works.
Thanks
Update:
I have tried Orange post-pay and Orange pre-pay sims and they both work fine, so it doesn't appear to be my phone that has broken.
However, my original O2 sim continues to work in another Nokia phone, suggesting that the sim isn't broken.
It may just be the pairing of that sim with my phone, which is the only thing I can think of. Does the Hermes apply sim "profiles" to sims which are inserted? Have I messed up the profile associated with that sim? My new O2 sim should come next week so we will see if that one works.
Also, the error messages of the text delivery reports sent to my phone while my O2 sim was in it say "Interworking Not Available" (this is from an Orange phone). Any idea what that means?
Thanks to anyone who can help.
Oliy said:
Update:
I have tried Orange post-pay and Orange pre-pay sims and they both work fine, so it doesn't appear to be my phone that has broken.
However, my original O2 sim continues to work in another Nokia phone, suggesting that the sim isn't broken.
It may just be the pairing of that sim with my phone, which is the only thing I can think of. Does the Hermes apply sim "profiles" to sims which are inserted? Have I messed up the profile associated with that sim? My new O2 sim should come next week so we will see if that one works.
Also, the error messages of the text delivery reports sent to my phone while my O2 sim was in it say "Interworking Not Available" (this is from an Orange phone). Any idea what that means?
Thanks to anyone who can help.
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Shot in the dark here: how did you get your Hermes? Could it be blacklisted from O2 - i.e. could it be stolen from an O2 subscriber. (I would assume by the person you got it from, I am not accusng you of anything!)
Hi Todd,
Thanks for your reply. It's not something I'd thought of but it could fit the scenario. I got the phone off eBay back in January and had no problems with it until now. It's actually a T-Mobile branded one, (i.e. the MDA) rather than the XDA Trion. When I phoned O2 to ask if my account had been blocked and to get a new sim the person I spoke to said there was nothing to indicate that my account would have been blocked, which would presumably include any blocked IMEIs that were listed there. Also, if the phone had been blocked after being listed stolen it would have been blocked on all networks wouldn't it? If my new sim doesn't work I will phone O2 and ask them if my IMEI is blocked, so thanks for your suggestion.
As updated in the first message, my IMEI has been blocked, causing all the problems. The reason the Orange sims worked must be because the block hasn't propagated to the Orange network yet.
Hey i discovered i had the same problem today aswell i bourght the phone of Ebay for the first day it was working then next day i upgraded to WM6 and it stop working i did some research on why it stop working and here it was
Orange & O2:
If you place an active orange or
O2 sim into a blacklisted handset you
phone will not show any signal strength
at all! If the handset is a Nokia then a
"SIM card registration failed" message
will also be displayed. If your handset is an
Ericsson then an "Invalid Mobile" message
will be displayed. For most other manufacturers
the handset will simply show no signal!
Vodafone & T-Mobile
If you place an active Vodafone or T-Mobile sim into a blacklisted handset, the phone will appear to function perfectly UNTIL you try to make an outgoing call. When you try to call out from the handset you will hear a sequence of beeps and then the call will be dropped!!
wow nice story man , it seemed like a movie or something
anyway before i finish it i expected that your problem is that the phone IMEI is blacklisted . since its working with orange and other sims . its usually normal to get signal but u wont be able to make or recieve phone calls .
good luck .
Please help, have a horrible annoying problem…
Recently upgraded to iphone [to sell]
Put my micro sim in my phone until my normal sim arrived, once I got my normal sim and activated it I found I could longer make calls or send txts. But I can browse the web, very strange.
Currently my signal bar has an exclamation mark next to it, I’ve tried an Orange and T-Mobile sim which work absolutely fine, I have tried other O2 sims but get the same problem.
I’ve also tried flashing using task29, have tried radio’s 2.07.50, 2.10.50 and 2.12.50 and various different roms
Thanks in advance
does the sim still works in the iphone? If not its a sim failure and you should get a new one from your provider
check the small print, your sim probably belongs to jobs corp now, and has deactivated itself and reported your treason directly to the implant in steves head when you took it out of the iphone
Lol going to have to sleep with one eye open...but to answer wilwilwel the micro sim no longer works and the sim im using at the moment works absolutely fine in any other phone
HELP!
I dont know how to get home with out my htc
Hi, everyone
I am running v10b, 2.2 froyo.
Just yesterday my 2 GSM sims (from the same service provider) "BSNL" (runs at 800mhz) became corrupt after inserting them on my optimus one, and they ran perfectly all these days.... i don't know what happened... it all happened when i reinserted those sims... i tried them on other phones, and i confirmed that my sim cards toast forever, in optimus its says "no service", my other nokia phone doesn't even show the welcome screen, just the backlight and nothing on screen...
strangely enough sims from other service providers like vodafone, docomo doesn't seem to get corrupted, is it because they run at other frequencies 1800,1900...
does this mean that my optimus one is malfunctioning and corrupting my sims that work on 800mhz...
i don't know if its frequency related issue, but i can't seem to get any other possibility of damage other than that... i can't believe it damaged 2 sims.... if it was just one, i could have concluded that it was due to wear an tear of that sim, but since it damaged my second sim.... thats what raised suspicion...
any ideas
That's strange! I guess it would be better if you take it to the LG service center since sim card corruption is not something really common. I have used Airtel and BSNL on my O1 and I frequently change between MTNL and Vodafone.
OT - maybe different operators finds way, how to get few customers!
not OT - You would contact operator first, and let him try some "test" sim, if it wasn't just couple incidents in "one shot".
Same thing happend to me. My two bsnl sims got damaged after inserting them in LG Optimus One. Scared of trying the third one! Though Airtel sim is working fine.
Did you try any more bsnl sims?
CtrlU said:
Hi, everyone
I am running v10b, 2.2 froyo.
Just yesterday my 2 GSM sims (from the same service provider) "BSNL" (runs at 800mhz) became corrupt after inserting them on my optimus one, and they ran perfectly all these days.... i don't know what happened... it all happened when i reinserted those sims... i tried them on other phones, and i confirmed that my sim cards toast forever, in optimus its says "no service", my other nokia phone doesn't even show the welcome screen, just the backlight and nothing on screen...
strangely enough sims from other service providers like vodafone, docomo doesn't seem to get corrupted, is it because they run at other frequencies 1800,1900...
does this mean that my optimus one is malfunctioning and corrupting my sims that work on 800mhz...
i don't know if its frequency related issue, but i can't seem to get any other possibility of damage other than that... i can't believe it damaged 2 sims.... if it was just one, i could have concluded that it was due to wear an tear of that sim, but since it damaged my second sim.... thats what raised suspicion...
any ideas
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Had same problema
i used docomo when i bought it.
couple of days later,when i swapped it to airtel,it showed nothing.
n when i again inserted back in ma monte,the sim was gone.
after getting a duplicate one, again same thing happened.
but docomo working all wel and good,no matter how many times i remove it.
i think its d fault of phone.
cant b co incidence with so many people so many times.
UPDATE
Bsnl gave me a new 128kb sim (bsnl 3g) for Rs. 59 and it's working properly. The two sims that got damaged were (old light blue colored) Rs. 20 sims. I too think there is some problem with the phone as it should support all the sims, not just the latest ones.
Hope this helps someone.
i have totally weird yet kinda same problem. when i first flashed a new rom everything worked fine except calling. whenever i used to call someone call wouldn't go and when i try to end it it gets struck in "hanging up" mode.tried different roms still da same problem ! was using tata docomo . so changed it to airtel and it was working fine!!
did anybody experience similar kinda problem!!
Iam using airtel sim I bought 5 years ag, working without any problems..
Yes I agree. Only bsnl old sims have problem. I tested airtel,idea and docomo. All the three worked fine.
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Xperia Arc LT15i not working on BSNL Sim
My new sony ericsson LT5i Xperia Arc is not working on BSNL Sim cards not on 2G and 3G Sims shows no service but working fine on Airtel 64k sim Tata Docomo 64k Sim and Aircel 64k sim why this is not woring on 32K sims any idea . Idea 32K Vodafone 32K etc are also not working anybody has got any remedy for this.
Roaming doesnt work for some reason, but when switching Sim card to other cellphone, Roaming works.
I came to other country, phone connected to other network for a while and then it was just gone for no apearent reason. Trid to reboot, turn off turn on doesnt work. Glad i have other phone on wich sim card connects to the network.
Anyone expierienced this?
I think you should've post this on Q&A thread instead..
For me, haven't tested since I don't go outside my country at all..
hi,
i made about 30 countries and everything was working well.
from which country is your sim card/provider ?
thx
hi, provider is from Lithuania tele 2. yesterday I was in finland and phone got connected,but after some time connection was lost totaly and despite it was able to find other networks xperia waasnt able to connect. glad I had another phone SE w660,network with same sim card worked flawesly.
right now im in latvia and xperia was able to connect the network.
I imagine it must be some bug with rom because roaming works fine on other cellphone with sim card
Recently bought a second hand S3 on the UK three network and used a unlock code as on t-mobile/orange. It was working fine but recently it stopped sending and receiving calls and texts. Data usage is fine. Not sure when this happened as mainly use it for data as have a works phone. Can remember doing a software update (think to jelly bean) recently but couldn't say whether its started after that. Have used my cut down sim in the wifes S3 and it works okay and put her sim in miner and that has same issue. When I try to call it immediately ends call and texts just fail. Have tried setting to network manually both 2g and 3g and auto, sometimes it say cant register and other times it does but when call ends it then seems to change to another available network. Started to think the imei may have been blocked but wouldn't expect data to work. Anyway rang t-mobile and they said everything looks okay their end and the imei is not black listed but not sure how they could tell that. Said the issue must be with my phone. Have emailed samsung to see what they say but not to hopeful with it being a second hand phone. The bars on the signal seem okay too.
Anybody got any idea's on what to try or do as its currently an expensive data only device. :crying:
Have already tried a factory reset.
hardyp said:
Recently bought a second hand S3 on the UK three network and used a unlock code as on t-mobile/orange. It was working fine but recently it stopped sending and receiving calls and texts. Data usage is fine. Not sure when this happened as mainly use it for data as have a works phone. Can remember doing a software update (think to jelly bean) recently but couldn't say whether its started after that. Have used my cut down sim in the wifes S3 and it works okay and put her sim in miner and that has same issue. When I try to call it immediately ends call and texts just fail. Have tried setting to network manually both 2g and 3g and auto, sometimes it say cant register and other times it does but when call ends it then seems to change to another available network. Started to think the imei may have been blocked but wouldn't expect data to work. Anyway rang t-mobile and they said everything looks okay their end and the imei is not black listed but not sure how they could tell that. Said the issue must be with my phone. Have emailed samsung to see what they say but not to hopeful with it being a second hand phone. The bars on the signal seem okay too.
Anybody got any idea's on what to try or do as its currently an expensive data only device. :crying:
Have already tried a factory reset.
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If it's not your imei number. Did you have a backup of your efs folder?
Throwing out of the window from my flying Ferrari killer S3 driven by a proud omega team member
Chris_84 said:
If it's not your imei number. Did you have a backup of your efs folder?
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Didn't have a backup of anything, why? One thing I have noticed is that the sim card doesn't click into the slot. compared it against the wife s3 and the sim card doesn't go as far down as if something is blocking it. Tried my sim in the wifes s3 only putting it in the same distance and it worked fine. Anyway just in case I took some of the plastic off the bottom right up to the metal chip so it would sit in the right place not being all the way down but it still does not work. Whilst having the sim in the wifes phone I diverted all calls to my works mobile and when back in my s3 its shows as calls being diverted so it must be working up to a point. Not sure whats wrong with the sim card slot, the mechanism which you push to insert and release seems to be broken so not sure if this is the cause or just a knock on effect from taking the sim card in and out alot
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Can the sim card slot/mechanism be replaced/fixed easily?