Had my note for a week and it would never work right on any AT&T hotspots. It would connect but I would get a notification that the connection failed, basically it seems that the authentication failed as I would get no data despite still showing connected in wifi connections. They gave me a new sim along with about 2 hours of wasted time doing other crap. They eventually put my sim in another handset and it worked. Come to find out that 4 other people have had the same problem in the past couple weeks with their Note. One of which was there at same time and his started working about ten minutes after a sim swap. The other two both got new phones like I did. Something you guys may want to check out, especially if within the 30 days. I spent the past week skimming through and installing apps suggested apps, time to start over.
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I had similar issues and got a new sim
Fixed it for me as well
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Had my note for a week and it would never work right on any AT&T hotspots. It would connect but I would get a notification that the connection failed, basically it seems that the authentication failed as I would get no data despite still showing connected in wifi connections. They gave me a new sim along with about 2 hours of wasted time doing other crap. They eventually put my sim in another handset and it worked. Come to find out that 4 other people have had the same problem in the past couple weeks with their Note. One of which was there at same time and his started working about ten minutes after a sim swap. The other two both got new phones like I did. Something you guys may want to check out, especially if within the 30 days. I spent the past week skimming through and installing apps suggested apps, time to start over.
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Chief Geek said:
Had my note for a week and it would never work right on any AT&T hotspots. It would connect but I would get a notification that the connection failed, basically it seems that the authentication failed as I would get no data despite still showing connected in wifi connections. They gave me a new sim along with about 2 hours of wasted time doing other crap. They eventually put my sim in another handset and it worked. Come to find out that 4 other people have had the same problem in the past couple weeks with their Note. One of which was there at same time and his started working about ten minutes after a sim swap. The other two both got new phones like I did. Something you guys may want to check out, especially if within the 30 days. I spent the past week skimming through and installing apps suggested apps, time to start over.
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UGGGHHHHHHH I hate when I click "Thanks" instead of Quote. Ugh.
Anyway, so they swapped your phone when they just needed to swap the SIM? Brilliant...
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UGGGHHHHHHH I hate when I click "Thanks" instead of Quote. Ugh.
Anyway, so they swapped your phone when they just needed to swap the SIM? Brilliant...
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First, thansk for the thank anyways!
Second, No I did need a new phone. They swapped my SIM with no change. The one guy got a sim swap and it worked for him. Took awhole new phone for me. But I'm big on getting what I pay for. They used the free wifi as a selling point. I will very rarely use it, but first night there I was at McDs and got a connection failed notice. If i'm paying for it, it'll work one way or the other, especially now that I dont have unlimited data.
Just because it connects to a wifi spot doesn't mean you get internet right away. You still need to open up a browser and confirm to their terms and conditions before the internet works.
Yea I know, it wouldnt do that though. The browser tried to connect and got nowhere. The key to the authentication fail is that network connections showed it connected but the ATT notification said connection failed. This is the safeguard that keeps all but ATT devices off the network, a function of a implicit deny rule.
This is prob meant for another thread but they really need to make those ATT Hotspots recognize that you're on an ATT phone and auto connect without having to hit accept on the Terms and Conditions. I have times when my mother and aunt are at a Starbucks and they'd call me saying they're on the wifi but it's not working. I gotta keep telling them to open up a browser and hit accept on the terms and conditions.
BTW, does anyone know if you nuke/freeze the AT&T Hotspots app, does this prevent you from using ATT Free wifi?
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This is prob meant for another thread but they really need to make those ATT Hotspots recognize that you're on an ATT phone and auto connect without having to hit accept on the Terms and Conditions. I have times when my mother and aunt are at a Starbucks and they'd call me saying they're on the wifi but it's not working. I gotta keep telling them to open up a browser and hit accept on the terms and conditions.
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I've never had to accept any Terms and Conditions on an AT&T device at an AT&T hotspot. If I go to Starbucks, the phone connects without any prompting and gains access, a little AT&T hotspot indicator appears in the notification bar. If I try to connect with my laptop or a non-AT&T phone, I have to accept Terms and Conditions.
I also had to exchange my Note this week, after about 10 days of use. The phone was in the car holder and it rebooted. It then started boot looping where it would display the Samsung splash logo, and then reboot. It would not go into Recovery, though would go into Download mode. AT&T tried to reset it for 20 minutes and then gave up and gave me a new phone.
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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.
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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.
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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!!!
ok i just got this hting less then a week ago, and 2 nights ago i was loading some game and the thing crashes. no big deal, boot right back up again. unlocked the screen, got to about the point where the sense weather displays and bam reboot. then even if i left it alone, it would constantly reboot. it got so bad to the point i couldnt even get it into h-boot. so i let the battery die, charged it up then booted it into h-boot and did a factory reset. reset worked fine, got 70% of the way through set-up then bam, boot loop
let the battery die again, factory reset it boot i into recoverymode, and was able to reboot and set it up. used it for about 10-20 mins, started syncing up accounts and stuff figuing whatever i did fixed it. bam, reboot. now im at square 1.
now im in my 14 days to exchange it but every damn store in boston is sold out, and since im an employee of at&t it get least priority to inventory(yes even though i am also a paiyng customer, seems kinda stupid but whatever). and i dont wanna deal with somerhing refurbed if i have to do a warranty swap...
so ANY ideas or help would be great.
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ok i just got this hting less then a week ago, and 2 nights ago i was loading some game and the thing crashes
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When you wiped and restarted, did the device begin to restore your installed apps? I would try a wipe without the device restore, just start it clean.
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ok i just got this hting less then a week ago, and 2 nights ago i was loading some game and the thing crashes. no big deal, boot right back up again. unlocked the screen, got to about the point where the sense weather displays and bam reboot. then even if i left it alone, it would constantly reboot. it got so bad to the point i couldnt even get it into h-boot. so i let the battery die, charged it up then booted it into h-boot and did a factory reset. reset worked fine, got 70% of the way through set-up then bam, boot loop
let the battery die again, factory reset it boot i into recoverymode, and was able to reboot and set it up. used it for about 10-20 mins, started syncing up accounts and stuff figuing whatever i did fixed it. bam, reboot. now im at square 1.
now im in my 14 days to exchange it but every damn store in boston is sold out, and since im an employee of at&t it get least priority to inventory(yes even though i am also a paiyng customer, seems kinda stupid but whatever). and i dont wanna deal with somerhing refurbed if i have to do a warranty swap...
so ANY ideas or help would be great.
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I'm with ya. Mine was solid for the first couple of weeks. Now its just a bootloop. Oddly, it was fine while I was on a flight today. Maybe something to do with the radio??
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And FYI I'm on the horn with HTC who says its a problem with the SIM. I took it out and its working just fine on wifi. Of course they have no resolution and offering to do nothing for me, other than "they're looking into it". It did stop the reboots for me though.
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I have had the same problem. Taking out the sim worked for a day but now it still reboots. Doing a clean factory reset doesn't work. It will re-boot over and over until it runs the battery out.
HTC said they are looking into it. WTF.
I use mine for wifi only, no SIM...I've been stuck in the boot-loop of death 3 times and the only thing I can do is let it run till dead. Really lame...and I was outside my 14 days.
Best build quality of any tablet I've owned (just about all of them) but it really has quite some bugs.
Thought I would share since I feel the HTC rep is full of BS with the SIM solution.
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I use mine for wifi only, no SIM...I've been stuck in the boot-loop of death 3 times and the only thing I can do is let it run till dead. Really lame...and I was outside my 14 days.
Best build quality of any tablet I've owned (just about all of them) but it really has quite some bugs.
Thought I would share since I feel the HTC rep is full of BS with the SIM solution.
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I agree with what you've said and feel that if we can't get some root access and start cleaning this thing up it will not live up to expectations... I'm finding less and less reasons to use it each day.
By the way. back on topic. I've gotten a reboot 4 times today while trying to get the gps to hook up and navigate. and it never has connected!
FYI: They're saying it's location-based now. HTC made me give them all the addresses I was at while it had been rebooting. It's happened to me in Chicago, where I live, and DC over the weekend.
I got this thing for remote administration. It's worthless to me without a SIM card.
AT&T is sending me a free one though. Guess I'll see if it happens on that one.
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FYI: They're saying it's location-based now. HTC made me give them all the addresses I was at while it had been rebooting. It's happened to me in Chicago, where I live, and DC over the weekend.
I got this thing for remote administration. It's worthless to me without a SIM card.
AT&T is sending me a free one though. Guess I'll see if it happens on that one.
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I just landed in McLean and my device is rebooting like mad unless it's in airplane mode!!!
I've disconnected all mobile data and am connected with wifi only and so far no reboots... Will keep you informed but suggest you attempt same. 2:15pm Still no reboot!! 3:45 turned off airplane mode... rebooted twice already.
10:57pm. No reboots once I got out of DC/McLean area and into Baltimore. Back in Texas now and no reboots since landing and corrected to 4g
My reboot problem solved with workaround - boot in portrait mode
I had what may be a different issue than described in other entries on this thread, but here's my story:
1. Rebooted the device manually (to clear app memory)
2. Touched screen to log in
3. As soon as circle dragged to middle of screen, device reboots
(repeated this many times in frustration, then)
4. pulled SIM Card and microSD card, same issue
5. Put device in portrait mode (HTC logo on right, charger on left)
6. touched screen to log in
7. get to password entry screen.
8. enter password, I'm in!
9. Insert SIM, manually rebooted, log in with Portrait mode, works
10 Insert SD card, manually rebooted, logged in with Portrait mode, works.
11. Manually rebooted, logged in with landscape mode (HTC logo on top, charger on bottom), got instant reboot. Pulled SIM/SD, same thing.
I don't know if it was a bug in the password protection screen or what, but I disabled my password at login and now I only orient it in portrait mode when I boot. Have not had the problem since. Oh and mine is not location-based - It worked forever in Seattle until it stopped working, and also worked in Paris, France until it stopped working. Same location each time - same room even. only change was orientation of the screen for me.
I think all the reboot issues are related to AT&T Sim cards and AT&T apps
Because I unlocked my own and uesing another sim card and I didn't face any rebooting issue
bmw-boy said:
I think all the reboot issues are related to AT&T Sim cards and AT&T apps
Because I unlocked my own and uesing another sim card and I didn't face any rebooting issue
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I swapped devices and will see what happens when I travel tomorrow... As for the ATT apps, unless you have root you can't pull those and if you do have root... Please share it with the forum.
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I swapped devices and will see what happens when I travel tomorrow... As for the ATT apps, unless you have root you can't pull those and if you do have root... Please share it with the forum.
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I hope to have root but i unlocked my device t use it with another SIM
Good times... now I have two of them right next to each other rebooting - my replacement and my old one. I even activated a new sim...
This is getting frustrating
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Good times... now I have two of them right next to each other rebooting - my replacement and my old one. I even activated a new sim...
This is getting frustrating
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It is entirely location based. Last week I was in McLean VA. My device was in constant reboot. When I left and was closer to Baltimore it was fine. In Austin over the weekend... No problem. This week in Nashville... No reboots at all. I'll be in DC next week and am sure it will reboot.
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Hey all,
This request may sound odd, but could you list out the last time ur device rebooted and in what city?
I'm in Dallas and my tablet stopped rebooting over the weekend.
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Hey all,
This request may sound odd, but could you list out the last time ur device rebooted and in what city?
I'm in Dallas and my tablet stopped rebooting over the weekend.
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Reboot last Friday in the Tyson's Corner area of VA.
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Mine magically stopped the crazy reboots tonight. No update or anything. In Chicago and confirmed with another guy in Chicago on another forum that his stopped as well
Hmmm... wonder if it was AT&T
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mattyass said:
Mine magically stopped the crazy reboots tonight. No update or anything. In Chicago and confirmed with another guy in Chicago on another forum that his stopped as well
Hmmm... wonder if it was AT&T
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. Things that make you go hum....
I have the same problem !! I return it and I bought other one "Unlocked" I thought that will work, but,, still with same problem
i will change the SIM card from at&t to t-mobile hopefully the problem will not occur.
The ones not having or the reboots stopping, are you in a LTE market? Plus you could be a “soft” LTE market. ATT Intruder, Austin is not listed as a LTE market, but does your JS indicate LTE on the taskbar? San Antonio had LTE On since Feb/March. The people having the reboots, might be in markets where they are “lighting up” LTE in beta and those APNs/PSIDs might not be load in those new LTE SIMs cards.
Or, I could’ve been out of the cellular world too long…
So, all of my family just signed up for AT&T from T-Mobile and most of us got Galaxy S II's from Amazon for $0.01 (good deal). However, my brother and I are both having data issues. We'll be connected to HSPA+ with 4/5 bars, but sometimes anything that requires data (webpage, email) won't load, an there will be minimal data activity in the status bar. I have to click links multiple times for a connection to finally occur (if not wait a minute). Other times, I've waited so long I've turned airport mode on and off. My brother tested his GSII next to someone's Atrix, and their Atrx loaded a webpage without any latency, while my brother's browser just sat there with the initial loading bar, no network activity.
I haven't done much testing/replacing the ROM/radio, because methinks the stock ROM shouldn't be having this problem in the first place. Can I check logcat w/o root?
Could this be a cellular issue? We ported our numbers from T-Mobile, and still have the T-Mobile account. I never had to activate my AT&T phone when I got it from Amazon (came with SIM card, worked out of box). I also noticed strange behavior. I had both my old T-Mobile phone and my new AT&T phone on at the same time, and my T-Mobile phone rang, even though I had supposedly ported my number to AT&T. So if that can happen maybe it's some crazy SIM issue going on?
Any advice or pointers of assistance from the GSII forum would be appreciable.
Thanks!
Sounds like the AT&T sim card is not activated, or fully activated. Id call them and verify. Also make sure that you are on a 4G data plan... that can also cause issues with data.
When you port a number it can take up to 48 hours to fully port the number. Until it is done both phones will ring. The reason for the bad satanist that even though it works out of box you have to call Att to set the account up the rest of the way. I can't tell you how many people came into my store due to this.
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When you port a number it can take up to 48 hours to fully port the number. Until it is done both phones will ring. The reason for the bad satanist that even though it works out of box you have to call Att to set the account up the rest of the way. I can't tell you how many people came into my store due to this.
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Bad satanist?
zelendel said:
When you port a number it can take up to 48 hours to fully port the number. Until it is done both phones will ring. The reason for the bad satanist that even though it works out of box you have to call Att to set the account up the rest of the way. I can't tell you how many people came into my store due to this.
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You work for AT&T? That is funny on so many levels.
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You work for AT&T? That is funny on so many levels.
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Lol, that is hilarious and awesome at the same time. Talk about best android sales rep!
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Update: Just took phone out of pocket and loaded cnn.com. Tooks ~20 seconds before page even started loading (beyond initial bit of browser loading bar). Both up/down HSPA+ became active at various points in the time frame.
This seems to be a common occurrence. I remember talking to an AT&T rep from Georgia or something because my dad called her to get our account in order. She called my phone, as was like "Oh you're talking on your GSII? -- it must already be activated then." She made no indication that it still needed to be activated.
Sorry damn keyboard. I ment bad data connection.
I used to run a small retailer but still do freelance support for a few of the Att stores around town. You would be amazed how many store managers have no idea about the products they sell lmao
Call Att and get tech support and have them refreash your connection to the data servers. That should fix you right up.
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Sorry damn keyboard. I ment bad data connection.
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Bad satanist is much better
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Sorry damn keyboard. I ment bad data connection.
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I had this problem running miui, cm7, and now I'm on unnammed. I've used all the modems and still nothing helps. I thought unnammed didn't have this problem? To fix it I haft to flip to airplane mode and back, then its fixed.
Sorry if this has been asked. I'm on taptalk on my phone and I don't know how to search with it
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Could be APN settings. I don't know them off hand, but they are listed in post 2 of the miui thread.
If it happens on multiple ROMs it could also be a bad SIM card. Does it do it on pure stock? If so, try a new SIM card.
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ok, thanks. ill look them up. this issue is making me want to switch back to my iphone, but hopefully this will fix it cause i like android, just this is getting old
Are you talking about wifi or 3g?
Are you using any battery saving apps like Juice Defender?
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Are you using any battery saving apps like Juice Defender?
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This. I haven't seen this issue reported often, and in the past, it's turned out to be an app interfering with the connection. If not, it's likely an apn issue.
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I had this problem running miui, cm7, and now I'm on unnammed. I've used all the modems and still nothing helps. I thought unnammed didn't have this problem? To fix it I haft to flip to airplane mode and back, then its fixed.
Sorry if this has been asked. I'm on taptalk on my phone and I don't know how to search with it
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I've had the same thing happen to me on other AOSP roms too. On both the SGS2 and my captivate.
I just switched to iscrewed to see if the prob is still there. Its hard to reproduce the bug, but it happens when i go from either:
1. being connected to wifi for a long time and then leaving that area, mobile data doesnt turn back on
2. being in a bad service area for a long time, and then leaving it, mobile data doesnt turn back on.
The worst thing about it is i use google voice for texts, and thats usually how i can tell that it cut out, because i stop getting texts from people.
I love android and google, but honestly if problems like this dont get ironed out, then as long as the next iphone has a decent size screen im probably switching over.
FYI this has occurred when i had the bare minimum installed on my phone, and i never use any ridiculous battery saving apps.
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I've had the same thing happen to me on other AOSP roms too. On both the SGS2 and my captivate.
I just switched to iscrewed to see if the prob is still there. Its hard to reproduce the bug, but it happens when i go from either:
1. being connected to wifi for a long time and then leaving that area, mobile data doesnt turn back on
2. being in a bad service area for a long time, and then leaving it, mobile data doesnt turn back on.
The worst thing about it is i use google voice for texts, and thats usually how i can tell that it cut out, because i stop getting texts from people.
I love android and google, but honestly if problems like this dont get ironed out, then as long as the next iphone has a decent size screen im probably switching over.
FYI this has occurred when i had the bare minimum installed on my phone, and i never use any ridiculous battery saving apps.
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Have you tried a new SIM card? My problem was similar, and followed me from one phone to another as you describe. New SIM card fixed it right away.
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quarlow said:
Have you tried a new SIM card? My problem was similar, and followed me from one phone to another as you describe. New SIM card fixed it right away.
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Wow, i didn't even consider that.
I will be trying and will report back. If this fixes it i will owe you my life!
I might have to switch back to cm7 just to name sure it's the Sim card that's causing it.
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Have you tried a new SIM card? My problem was similar, and followed me from one phone to another as you describe. New SIM card fixed it right away.
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ill try this out tomorrow. just now when checking my email i had to turn on airplane mode and back off to get data to work.
also, i tried the apn settings on the first page of the miui thread and it didnt work. i tried those settings on miui, wiui, cm7, and unnammed but they all made it so that my internet didnt work at all.
so just to clarify, i shouldnt haft to change apn settings and my phone shouldnt be doing this on non stck roms, right? sim is likely the problem? this has gotten really old really quick and its embarrassing when im trying to show my friends something but my phone isnt working.
Your phone should work fine on any ROM you find here. Mine does. I never have to play with APNs, even on miui. I never have to play with airplane mode or power cycle. But, when my SIM was bad I would drop data connectivity all the time. Calls would fail (outbound only), and other glitchy reception issues. Sometimes airplane mode fixed it, sometimes power cycle, sometimes airplane mode on, power cycle, and all times it was temporary. Its worth a try, shouldn't cost anything to get a new SIM. If they give you trouble at the store just tell them you called 611 and they told you to go in for a new one. If that doesn't fix it go warranty route for a new phone.
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also, i tried the apn settings on the first page of the miui thread and it didnt work. i tried those settings on miui, wiui, cm7, and unnammed but they all made it so that my internet didnt work at all.
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Those APN settings have worked fine for me on both CM7 and every Sammy ROM I've used. I always have (unrelated) problems with MIUI, so I can't verify that one.
So i went today and got a new SIM. Its been about 9 hours, but no problems yet. Time will tell if it works, but im willing to bet that was the problem, and this is why.
When i went to get my sim, the guy there told me that when ATT started rolling out 4g phones (which includes 3.5g) many employees had trouble with their data switching on and off until they switched their sim cards.
Then i started thinking to myself - I've had the problem about as long as I had my SGS2, and only had the problem with AOSP roms on my captivate - then i made the connection.
When i used a stock, or stock based rom on my captivate, i had no problems. The second i used an international ROM, or an AOSP rom is when i would have the issues. What is the difference between the roms............. The ATT rom doesnt have hspa+ enabled, so using my old "3g" sim card i was fine. No 3.5g to connect to to cause problems. CM and international Roms would use that new 3.5g network and would then screw up.
That is my theory anyway, and if it turns out true it would have solved one of my biggest annoyances with android. (or at least my android experience)
fingers crossed
i too went in and got a new sim. my phone service actually quit working before going in. id get calls and i could hear them but they couldnt hear me. i replaced the sim and all is good. where miui would hang and data would freeze and id haft to redo the airplane mode trick, it would just hang for a sec or 2 and then start downloading again. ive only had it hang 2x now and i think its because it might be switching from hspa to 3g or even wifi.
so for the sim card thing worked. if it fails in the mean time, ill come back to this and give an update. thanks for suggesting it being the sim card cause i wouldnt have thought of that.
I'm another day strong without any problems. I don't know of its due to the new sim or because i switched to a Samsung based rom. I should switch back to test, but I'm loving the speed of icsrewed right now.
If i had to guess i would say it's due to the sim, and if so, there should be a sticky somewhere that says to make sure your not using an older 3g sim card. Would have saved me months of aggravation.
Will report back after a few more days. In a week or so I'll switch back to cm to see if it fixes it there as well.
That's one reason I generally buy my phones at the att store (authorized reseller, but dedicated to att phones). Usually they will price match, and they know things like that. My SIM went bad when I had my captivate. Later when I upgraded to a faux G phone the att rep knew I would need a new SIM, and replaced it then, even though it was only a month old. They also knew the "3G" data plan needed to be converted to a "4G" (still unlimited) plan on their system for me to get data.
You don't get that kind of assistance when you buy at Walmart, online, etc.
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quarlow said:
That's one reason I generally buy my phones at the att store. Usually they will price match, and they know things like that. My SIM went bad when I had my captivate. Later when I upgraded to a faux G phone the att rep knew I would need a new SIM, and replaced it then, even though it was only a month old. They also knew the "3G" data plan needed to be converted to a "4G" (still unlimited) plan on their system for me to get data.
You don't get that kind of assistance when you buy at Walmart, online, etc.
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Amazon Mobile just sends you a new simcard anyways lol
Interesting, maybe next time if my data refuses to work I should bug at&t for a new Sim card. I had problems on different roms including stock rom where I had to turn off and on my data or else it will not work. But I think my modem might have played a role. Data seems fine now.
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zynine said:
Interesting, maybe next time if my data refuses to work I should bug at&t for a new Sim card. I had problems on different roms including stock rom where I had to turn off and on my data or else it will not work. But I think my modem might have played a role. Data seems fine now.
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If you go directly to an AT&T store they replace it for free.
penguinlogik said:
If you go directly to an AT&T store they replace it for free.
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Yup just show up. They shouldn't charge. as long as your an att customer theyll take care of you. I've never heard of anyone paying for a new Sim. If you lose your Sim I've heard of them charging people, but i doubt they'll charge even then.
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!!