So lately I have been having really really bad connection speeds. I decided to change my ROM to synergy's newest which also happens to display 1X/3G. It wasn't until I flashed this ROM that I noticed I was not connecting to 3G no matter where I went. I updated the profile/PRL and still nothing. 4G and WiFi works fine, but I just can't get 3G. Is there a fix for this or do I have to send my phone back? Internet is pretty much unusable at this point unless I am on 4G or WiFi.
There was a guy in the viperROM thread that said after flashing a theme I made that showed 3g/1x, his phone wouldn't switch to 3g...turns out his phone's settings were screwed up...here's one of his posts....
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Hey Vinchenzop. The 1x problem I was having I fixed. I don't know when it happened but my phone was stuck on 1x. If I never flashed your theme I would have never known. I had to mess around with doing hands free activation and stuff but I managed to fix it without calling Sprint ha. Now my speed is super fast which is awesome because the whole time I thought it was Sprint getting to overloaded. Thank you so much for all your help on this and I reflashed the new updated theme with 3g/1x again and it works great.
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So maybe try contacting him to possibly find a fix/advice in the right direction
This has happened to me as well on two different roms. 3G just goes away. Rebooting a few times seems to get it back working for me. It does suck. I think it might be related to the weak ass signal and all the roaming the phone does at times.
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There was a guy in the viperROM thread that said after flashing a theme I made that showed 3g/1x, his phone wouldn't switch to 3g...turns out his phone's settings were screwed up...here's one of his posts....
So maybe try contacting him to possibly find a fix/advice in the right direction
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Thanks, I'll try to contact him.
use ##3282# then view EVDO preferred mode should be "Automatic" chances are if youre stuck in 1x it may say CDMA only use your MSL to get into edit mode, change to automatic then menu> commit and reboot ..helped me
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use ##3282# then view EVDO preferred mode should be "Automatic" chances are if youre stuck in 1x it may say CDMA only use your MSL to get into edit mode, change to automatic then menu> commit and reboot ..helped me
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I love you.
Thanks so much! I was on cdma only too....I went from .02 on download to a meg... Thank you!
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Damn... Mine was already on auto and I am still stuck on 1g/edge
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Not exagerating, I spent my whole Sunday getting out of this same mess! I don't know if it was that superwipe floating around or what, but I lost everything, data and voice. I of course tried all the tricks and it would not even go through the reprovision process. My radio was still showing the latest, but nothing! I said screw it and RUU back to stock but still being S-OFF. Everything works! So I threw back on my recovery and superuser and all is well. Have no idea what caused it, but just to eliminate one possibility I won't use superwipe anymore, not saying that was the cause, but TW recovery does fine by itself in my opinion. Might want to give it a shot if all else fails!
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So yesterday i bought a vibrant on craigslist (stupid) checked it out for a while and everything worked perfect.... after paying and going our ways i went to make a call but it just said dialing for about a minute then hung up, then i went to send a txt and the sending failed. It says it has a full signal and it says 3g/edge (internet wont work either). i found if i restart the phone or turn airplane mode on/off i can place a call or send a txt or two before it starts failing again.
Its on 2.1update1, baseband t959uvjfd, kernel 2.6.29.... Any ideas on how to fix or am i screwed???
Well, that's a stock rom so either he never flashed anything or reverted back to the stock rom when he started having problems. I don't have any definate answers, but all I can suggest is to try flashing a new modem and/or rom and see if that fixes it. Realistically you're not under warranty, so you've got nothing to lose.
The sticky at the top of this thread can help direct you on how to do it.
Okay ill try a new rom and see if that helps. Any suggestions on a good one? also when i hit check for an update it says no firmware dont know if that helps anything or not.
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Okay ill try a new rom and see if that helps. Any suggestions on a good one? also when i hit check for an update it says no firmware dont know if that helps anything or not.
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Nope, there's no official updates past what you're running. I personally use Eugene373's Ginger Clone R2. Runs very smooth. Everything's about personal preference though
I suggest using odin to see if it fixes the problem.
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Are you using your own sim card?
Edit: Nevermind just saw that you can call after a restart.
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Okay i tried a new rom and its still doing it ill now try a new modem and odin...
Well the rom should have included a different modem, so I doubt that will help. Sounding more and more like a hardware issue unfortunately
Yeah thats what i was afraid of
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Yeah thats what i was afraid of
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Well.....I guess what I would do is hold out for a day or two to see if you get in additional (hopefully better) help. If nothing comes along, call T-Mobile and try to talk them into a replacement.
Hmm.... so i was playing around with settings and it seems that when i put it to gsm only network mode everything works its just on edge... its been 15 min so far and its still working. If i switch it back to use both or wcdma only it stops working again. Any thoughts?
Been a couple days and ive tried a couple different roms/modems and it will still only work in gsm only mode. Any thoughts or does it sound like a hardware problem?
I've had this problem when there is a network outage. Did you ever have good 3g in your area?
The weirdest thing is when I'm traveling, and 3g drops off, it auto switches to gsm no problem. If I'm at home and there is a 3g network issue it will not auto switch, but I switch to gsm only and edge works fine.
I've had that issue on two vibrants now. And luckily, it can be fixed but you need to odin to fix it.
First, make a back up of your efs partition (using a computer is easiest, adb pull /efs). This will make a backup of the files needed to do any future unlocking.
Next, odin to jfd. With reparation checked as well as "clear phone efs". Then, you won't have that issue (at least for quite a while).
"if you amplify everything, nothing is heard"
Follow this exactly to get back to stock 2.1, this will reset your baseband, kernel, modem and you'll have a functioning phone:
http://androidspin.com/2010/08/09/how-to-restore-or-recover-your-samsung-vibrant/
Then you can root your phone and download a new rom!
No theres no outage my hd2 gets 3g perfectly fine... and i tried to odin jfd and all that but still only works when on edge only...
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No theres no outage my hd2 gets 3g perfectly fine... and i tried to odin jfd and all that but still only works when on edge only...
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Did you also check the clear phone efs?
"if you amplify everything, nothing is heard"
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Did you also check the clear phone efs?
"if you amplify everything, nothing is heard"
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What does clear phone efs do, or rather, what is EFS?
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What does clear phone efs do, or rather, what is EFS?
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/efs is your radio control partition. And every once in a while, stuff gets messed up there and you need to clear (reset) it using odin. The only thing is, if you don't make a backup of it, you'll lose your unlock code.
"if you amplify everything, nothing is heard"
You have the correct plan on this line? Long shot but might help. Regardless of warranty I would flash it to bone stock and call t mobile and see what they can do. Maybe they can boost the signal or send a new sim. Could be that simple.
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Can anyone link me to any ROM (2.1-3, doesn't matter) which has CWM working? I can only ODIN and can't install CWM. I have flashed 2.1 and 2.2 official ROMs for ODIN, but neither have CWM.
The impetus is to fix my modem. Something is severely wrong with it and I need to test out more modems. I tried flashing several different ones before. I'm going to try it again because I'm really desperate.
Explanation here
These are just kernels and should be what you need. Just pick whatevers closest to ur current ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=870480 Good luck!
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These are just kernels and should be what you need. Just pick whatevers closest to ur current ROM:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=870480 Good luck!
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Appreciate the link, but I still can't get into CWM. Can you recall any ROM's with Voodoo recovery and can be installed via Odin?
the odin'able kernels from supercurio should have the red version of CWM recovery.
are you able to get into recovery at all?
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the odin'able kernels from supercurio should have the red version of CWM recovery.
are you able to get into recovery at all?
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Got a hold of a WIFI signal and used regular CWM.
Unfortunately, I'm getting the same result as I did before. Flash a tried-and-true modem: still not getting any signal. I have a feeling it has something to do with the EFS or something like that. I have flashed JFD, JK2, and Eugene's 'Froyo that doesn't brick' over a dozen times in the past 24 hours, but there has to be something that's lingering from each of the installs. I've formatted all the partitions as well. One of my JK2 flashes got constant RIL resets, so I'm almost certain it's a ghost of some sort from CM7 (the ROM I was using when the issue arose). I'm really, really sad :'(
did you toggle airplane or 3g on/off while on cm7?? i believe i heard of someone having a similiar problem because they did that and then flashed another rom. will look for the thread.
EDIT: When you flashed CM7 for the first time, did you do the efsbackup.zip step? taken from the CM7 faq on their forums
If you don't backup efs, after booting CM7 you won't be able to get any cell service.
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Don't know if maybe you skipped a step on that first flash.
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Tired of edge speeds, want to lock in 3g? Okay this next one, do at your own risk ask usual, use with caution. I kinda figured this one out on my own, through trial and error, so I’m not sure how stable or accurate, or even how safe it is to do this. I did notice though, if you screw up, you can use the factory reset code above and things should go back to factory defaults.
Okay…so again do at your own risk. Also by locking into 3g speeds, if you ever go into a non 3g area, or if your 3g signal is poor in your area, then your phone calls will drop and data will stop, unless you go back and set the phone to its default automatic gsm/cdma settings.
Dial: *#*#197328640#*#*
Click [1] debug screen
Click [8] phone control
Click [7] network control
Click [2] band selection
This is where you make a change, default setting is [1] automatic, which means it chooses automatically between gsm/cdma (Edge vs 3g). So we are going to change this and set it to wcdma band which is 3g.
Click [2] wcdma band
Click [1] wcdma all []
Now it should display “select wcdma all bands [*]"
Now on the bottom of your phone, click the menu key, it’s the one next to the home key, now click back, menu again one more time, back one more time, this is just to confirm it set to number 2 wcdma band.
Now click menu key one last time, click end.. and you are done. Now to double verify that the phone is locked into 3g, dial in: *#*#4636#*#*
Then click phone information Then scroll down to “set preferred network type” It should now have listed “wcdma only.” PS, if you tried to do a shortcut, and just set wcdma this way first without doing the lock above, it would just go back to gsm/cdma auto once you exit the screen.
Your phone should now be locked into 3g.
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Maybe??
The link provided should be all you need really. The first set is CWM flashable .zips' the second set should be what ur looking for to ODIN. Just look at your Baseband version and choose whatever ur closest to. For example I'm running Malice 2.3.1 which has a stock Baseband version of "T959UVKB5 so for me I would choose the "KB1+Voodoo" link under: ".tar you can flash with Odin or SGS Kernel Flasher" and flash using ODIN. Hope this helps. Good luck!
If all else fails:
- ODIN to stock
- Root
- install CWM recovery
- Flash custom ROMs
My sim card was in backwards once check that just in case.
So if you guys didn't notice I posted right above you.
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Got a hold of a WIFI signal and used regular CWM.
Unfortunately, I'm getting the same result as I did before. Flash a tried-and-true modem: still not getting any signal. I have a feeling it has something to do with the EFS or something like that. I have flashed JFD, JK2, and Eugene's 'Froyo that doesn't brick' over a dozen times in the past 24 hours, but there has to be something that's lingering from each of the installs. I've formatted all the partitions as well. One of my JK2 flashes got constant RIL resets, so I'm almost certain it's a ghost of some sort from CM7 (the ROM I was using when the issue arose). I'm really, really sad :'(
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...EDIT: When you flashed CM7 for the first time, did you do the efsbackup.zip step? ...
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Yup, followed all the steps, although you don't really need to back it up, it's just good technique that Cyanogen is trying to popularize.
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Taken from another forums...
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Maybe??
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My sim card was in backwards once check that just in case.
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LOL. I'm fairly confident that it's in correctly. Didn't expect to see this suggestion though. Just FYI, I tried 2 different SIM cards, both verified to work on other phones.
Thanks for all the suggestions, but none of them work. Like I said, I'm fairly sure this has something to do with the EFS or something modem-related that has gone corrupt.
CM7 was working perfectly fine, then I woke up one morning and looked at my phone and the signal was out. It was fine the night before, but something must have happened. I looked on my AT&T account and it received it's last bit of data around 8AM and I woke up around 1PM so sometime in between then, something went wrong. It's been a great phone since August. I've gone through pretty much every TW ROM since, but it looks like this is the end of my run with Android. I'm really busy with Finals and don't really have time to learn about EFS and RIL.
I wish I had a warranty, but it's a T-Mobile phone and I'm on AT&T and neither of them look too kindly upon each other.
Samsung one year warranty apply to you? Ie you the original owner?
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Samsung one year warranty apply to you? Ie you the original owner?
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No. I got it on Craigslist and I'm an AT&T subscriber. I planned on paying $350 (a steal of a price last August) and getting a top-end phone this August (my actual upgrade period) and selling it for >$500 to recoup my losses.
Damn that sux bro! Did you try Hard reset?
- Hold volume down + Press power
- Clear Storage
I dunno dude messing with the radio scares me personally. Good luck!
Everyone else may not find this to be an interesting problem, but I do.
I have a rooted HBOOT 1.40 HTC Evo 3d that I got when the phone was released. I use the original TWRP that was out when the phone achieved perm-root. I've utilized multiple ROMs including: Synergy, CM7, MIUI, Eternity, and a few others. I have been using MIUI for a good two months or so until this recent issue.
Onto the issue, when someone calls me I can sometimes hear them and talk to them. So sometime when I am called my phone actually works as a phone. Other times, the other person's line keeps ringing and ringing. This happens when I call someone as well. When I call my voicemail [1 then call], I get nothing. When I go into the diag everything seems correct. I'm not super-down with all that side of things, but it seems right. I've tried placing a call long enough just in case it's an error 16 for calling [texting is fully operational].
I've NANDed back to a Sense Rom [Warm TwoPointThree] and updated my PRL, Firmware, etc as much as possible and still no dice.
So does anyone have anyway they could help me? Right about now I'm thinking unrooting is the best option. Any advice would be much appreciated. Thanks!
Not sure if it will work but you can try updating profile then prl in settings. If that doesn't work you can try a data restore. Also if you aren't on the most current radios probably wouldn't hurt to flash that either. Just tossing ideas out there for you.
N if none of that works ask Sprint to reset it n tell them what's going on might be on their end as well
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ckoadiyn said:
N if none of that works ask Sprint to reset it n tell them what's going on might be on their end as well
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Well I'm setting up ADB right now to flash the newest radio. Unroot here shortly. And if all else fails I'll call sprint. And if still not a no-go, looks like I might just use that upgrade on my other line for a new phone. Might hold out for an ICS or something and downgrade to a *eek*feature phone*eek*. Meh.
i had something similar to this a few months back. it was actually due to sprints towers having some issues. it was happening to my 3d and my wifes og evo, but not to the shift on our account. it was weird. but i would totally call sprint and see whats up sounds like its them.
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i had something similar to this a few months back. it was actually due to sprints towers having some issues. it was happening to my 3d and my wifes og evo, but not to the shift on our account. it was weird. but i would totally call sprint and see whats up sounds like its them.
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That's what I had said originally. Hmm. Ok. Thanks for the input.
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I meant thought. :\
UPDATE:
The issue was Google Voice integration. The app itself didn't do it, if it had then it would've been fixed in the unroot process. It is nice knowing I can unroot, but this scare was .
Thanks for all the help guys.
Ok so I rooted this bad-boy I used the HTC unlock method, upon selection of my ROM audibly was miui I wiped and flashed but I did not flash in fastboot. I flashed in recovery and it actually took, problem is I noticed my signal had reduced to 1x speed. Upon flashing to a sense ROM which is cleanrom3.0 I used it to update prl and profile but didn't help stayed the same. So I called Sprint they tried to work some magic to no avail. I then took it upon myself to go complete stock and rid root. Once the ruu flashed and I booted, I noticed I had 3g I checked prl version number and it was the same as before I went to stock. So i didn't get to happy I still wanted more research info for the cause. I then did a speed test and oh god was it slow. Download was 0.02mb/sec upload was 0.70mb/sec strange that upload was faster. But now I would like help to see what I should do next, Sprint tried to say it was hardware. Remember my phone is brand new just died insurance claim. I was thinking flashing a now ROM but thus time make sure I do it in fastboot first. Advice would be nice?
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Ok so I rooted this bad-boy I used the HTC unlock method, upon selection of my ROM audibly was miui I wiped and flashed but I did not flash in fastboot. I flashed in recovery and it actually took, problem is I noticed my signal had reduced to 1x speed. Upon flashing to a sense ROM which is cleanrom3.0 I used it to update prl and profile but didn't help stayed the same. So I called Sprint they tried to work some magic to no avail. I then took it upon myself to go complete stock and rid root. Once the ruu flashed and I booted, I noticed I had 3g I checked prl version number and it was the same as before I went to stock. So i didn't get to happy I still wanted more research info for the cause. I then did a speed test and oh god was it slow. Download was 0.02mb/sec upload was 0.70mb/sec strange that upload was faster. But now I would like help to see what I should do next, Sprint tried to say it was hardware. Remember my phone is brand new just died insurance claim. I was thinking flashing a now ROM but thus time make sure I do it in fastboot first. Advice would be nice?
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I know if your stock sometimes you can get a lemon I had a brand new evo 3d on launch day and the radio part of the phone went bad data sucked and at times wouldn't work... I wasn't rooted.. That was in a week of using the phone....
Another thing is if you know you msl and some of the program codes you could do that reactivate your phone hands free thing it might help you...
I did it back on the EVO back in the day.....
If I remember it was something along the lines of that ##data## edit msl and somewhere in that you could do a reset...
Do this at your own risk tho.... The worst thing that would happen is your phone might not reactivate and you would have to do it again online sprints site...
Yeah sounds about right with the lemon thing, other things are going wrong now that I'm stock. I did the mos thing once before with sprint actually three times before. When I first got it and later when it started tweaking.
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I hate to just come here and ask for help, but I haven't found any solution over the past two weeks, and I didn't see any similar threads in this forum.
I have an HTC Evo 3D through Sprint. Two and a half weeks ago I downloaded the update. The update appears to have worked in the sense that the layout and many features are tweaked a little. However, since I updated it, whenever I turn it on it turns itself off and then back on every few minutes. The reason for this is that I am in Australia so it can't connect to the network to complete the update. I have been here for nearly two months, and won't be back in the US until mid-November. I have solely been using my phone with WiFi for email, internet, etc, and I would like to be able to use it for this purpose again. I called Sprint but they weren't able to help me because there is no Sprint service or Sprint stores in Australia.
Does anyone know of a way to fix the phone? If I factory reset it, will it come back without this issue, or will I just have a phone that doesn't work and lost its memory? Would there be a way to fix it by rooting it?
All help is appreciated. I'm not very knowledgeable on this kind of stuff, I apologize.
Thank you, have a great day.
Even in Airplane mode it does this?
Can't you install the latest sprint ics ruu? That should sort it. I'm gsm though so I never browse the cdma section but I think that should solve your issue.
Best of luck getting it working
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Even in Airplane mode it does this?
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I have had it in airplane mode the entire time for the last 8 weeks.
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Can't you install the latest sprint ics ruu? That should sort it. I'm gsm though so I never browse the cdma section but I think that should solve your issue.
Best of luck getting it working
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I'm sorry but I'm not sure what this all means. Are you suggesting that I root the phone using the newest Android version (ICS=Ice Cream Sandwich)? I have no clue how I would do this, or if it would actually solve my problem.
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I'm sorry but I'm not sure what this all means. Are you suggesting that I root the phone using the newest Android version (ICS=Ice Cream Sandwich)? I have no clue how I would do this, or if it would actually solve my problem.
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Here's a post with download links and some information about running the Sprint ICS 2.89 RUU. You didn't say if you are S-ON unlocked or S-OFF and the procedure is slightly different between those two states. If you have never HTC unlocked your phone and rooted your can just run the RUU.exe as if you were S-OFF.
ramjet73
I wonder if there is any way you can get an active Airave to connect to? Sprint obviously wouldn't issue you one in Aus, but perhaps you could have a friend or family get one, activate it, then send it to you in Aus.
Wait....are you saying as long as I have an Airave, I can get service all over the world?
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Wait....are you saying as long as I have an Airave, I can get service all over the world?
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Well, not sure. It does require GPS signal, so it may detect anything not in the US and refuse to work. It was just a thought. Anyone else try to use an Airave outside the US?
It sounds like you aren't rooted and haven't done anything outside of the normal update for the phone.
When you say that the it turns off and back on, do you mean that the phone is simply rebooting randomly? If so, then I think a custom rom might help you.
I don't think the factory reset will fix this for you btw. I also wouldn't try it unless I got a really good backup (which is pretty easy once rooted).
Thanks everyone for your help. I ended up doing an RUU flash using the info ramjet73 gave, and it appears to be working fine except that I lost all of my memory. I couldn't get it backed up before I did it, but I'd rather have a working phone without my old contacts and stuff than have it not work.
Log on to your google account and download them again.
Glad it's working. Be safe out there! Or try to be.
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Log on to your google account and download them again.
Glad it's working. Be safe out there! Or try to be.
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How do I do that?