Short and simple:
After getting past the boot loop, my radio dies and now i'm not able to get a signal.
This happened before, and caused my radio to be permenantly disabled or malfunctioning.
what gives?
any idea why I cant connect to the network?
I think what your suppose to do is flash .3.2 or something like that first, and then flash to the latest? I'm not sure, but I remember reading about that somewhere. Also if Im not mistaken .4.2.1 (I think thats it) was having problems. Again I'm not sure on this, search joker's thread.
Why wasn't that in the directions then? I was under the asumption that you just used the 0.4.3 version.
I'm patching over the 0.3.2 now, then going to apply the 0.4.3 to see if that makes a difference.
If it helps anyone, every time i try and start my cellular radio it tells me com.android.phone has stopped working.
Obvious error is obvious.
Still giving the error on 0.3.2.
Any other photo users have there radio's shut down? this is the second phone this has happened to.
Remember don't quote me on any of this I'm just going from what I think I read. Flashing on top of .3.2 wasn't needed, but I think it was a way to fix loss data. As for the force close did you try fixing permissions?
And does your data not work on any rom?
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I think it 0.3.1 first.
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I am am at work but will check when I get home if you are still having problems.
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I am am at work but will check when I get home if you are still having problems.
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I confirmed that it's only an issue with the CM9 0.4.3
My radio worked fine on Rocko ROM and CM9 0.3.2.
I'm going to try step-by-step upgrading.
It's not what happened with my first Photon thank God.
I'll post back with results
Right now I'm at 0.4.3 and everything is working great!
All I did was go down the upgrade list, starting from 0.3.2 and ending at 0.4.3
For 0.4.2.1, I chose the as is fix, not the Xoom mediaplayer addition.
Works like a charm~
You do what you gotta do for a klondike bar
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Okay so I am on GSB 1.7 for my Eris right now. Using the CCname app by conap, I changed it from Verizon - Rule the Air! to something more like Verizon Wireless. Problem is, now it just flashes the roaming triangle and I dont have service. Any ideas?
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Okay so I am on GSB 1.7 for my Eris right now. Using the CCname app by conap, I changed it from Verizon - Rule the Air! to something more like Verizon Wireless. Problem is, now it just flashes the roaming triangle and I dont have service. Any ideas?
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What exactly did you put in? I know that there are some characters that this doesn't like, such as quotation marks and the like. If you use these "illegal" characters, it will show the roaming indicator.
See this post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=11506500&postcount=1599
Thanks, I used :
AT&T. Lol jk, Verizon Wireless
It used to work great...now it says 'roaming indicator off' all the time. I am not using any bad symbols...just my name. Doesn't matter what I change it to.
Eris/GSB2.0
I had the same problem had to nand restore...so I stopped using it, hopefully conap is well aware and might issue a fix at next version. Either way I appreciate everything he does
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I had the same problem had to nand restore...so I stopped using it, hopefully conap is well aware and might issue a fix at next version. Either way I appreciate everything he does
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I did a nand restore as well as a fresh install. And it worked before GSB 2.0...so
Where do you download it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been looking for it everywhere and can't find it. Please HELP!!!!!!!
What ROM are you using?
It comes with the GSB ROMs.
Hey guys, I'm what you would call somewhat of a novice user. My GPS when using the actual satellites doesn't work anymore. It can only use the cell tower triangulation method which is useless for the turn by turn navigation app. It worked fine until I followed this guide to flash custom roms, unlock the bootloader etc. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=113626
After I did that, the battery life was very poor so I installed edgan's kernel from the same page. The phone, rom, battery etc worked great except the GPS. Any ideas how I can fix this? I'm on Bell Canada if that makes a difference. Any more info let me know! Thanks.
edgan's kernel ? its old ...
Try testing the GPS with softwares like: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.chartcross.gpstest and https://market.android.com/details?id=com.eclipsim.gpsstatus2
I recommend you unlock your bootloader, install recovery with ROM Manager, install good rom such as CM7 or Aura or DarkSide or HomaBase, install the latest radio and good kernel if you want.
Links:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1136261 (unlocking bootloader)
https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.rommanager (recovery)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=997 (ROMS section)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1163009 (Bell gingerbread radio)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1156040 (updated kernel)
Ok I have Rom manager and my bootloader is already unlocked. I'm gonna try installing that kernel you gave me there, see if that fixes the GPS issue. I don't understand what a radio does, should I install that one too? I'm honestly fine with this rom I and how it looks but I just really want the GPS fixed cause I use it a lot.
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Ok the new kernel didn't help so maybe I'll try the radio. I'm not gonna bother unless someone thinks this will help because I've read elsewhere that it's a risky procedure.
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Actually seems to be working now just took awhile to lock on. Thanks for the kernel!
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I suppose this is somewhat of an update. Kernel seems good, good battery life. The GPS works now but takes an eternity to lock on. Can someone suggest a fix? Would a new rom, radio etc fix that? I hate to be such a bother but I use the GPS daily for jogging and turn by turn navigation. I'm inexperienced and don't want to cause further problems so I'll wait this time before I do anything. Thanks again.
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Try this guide for fixing GPS problems : https://code.google.com/p/atrix-dev-team/wiki/FAQ
Other than that, i think you should full wipe everything (data,cache,dalvik-from recovery), install a new rom, install new radio, install the faux123 kernel.
I did all this yesterday and my gps now works great and locks in a few seconds .
There seems to be some kind of inconsistent GPS issue with the Atrix. On my Atrix (US-ATT) sometimes, but not always the GPS will not get a "fix". This seems to only happen occasionly however. It seems to work better if the first use of the day is when the phone has cell tower service.
Perhaps there is a related GPS issue. The Atrix only registers an "accuracy" value of zero.
This has been noted in the following link:http://community.developer.motorola...o-Location-Accuracy-on-Gingerbread/td-p/17116
Ok well I've tried a new kernel, used GPS status to calibrate compass and installed a new radio and nothing has worked. I'm assuming I need a new rom then. Can anyone suggest a good rom? I saw the CyanogenMod 7 thread but it says the fingerprint scanner won't work. I use that all the time so I would prefer not to sacrifice it if there are other good roms out there. I'm hoping for some suggestions and then I'll get on that to see if it fixes my GPS issue. Thanks guys.
Search here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=997
Look at their features, read the comments and pick the one the look good to you.
If I am having trouble with my GPS I will...
turn the phone off
take out the battery
then put it back in.
Most of the time the GPS will then work.
i've never had the gps not work completely on the atrix. i've noticed that with certain roms and radios will take longer to get a signal and less reliable once locked. not sure if this will fix your gps problem but try flashing homebase its one of the best roms out there and gps works great for me, i get a signal lock in my house. it also doesnt loose any features like CM7 with webtop and fingerprint. it will install the latest kernal(faux), rom(2.3.4), and radio(1.77.30). its very easy to flash just use CWM or rom manager. theres a few versions of homebase, try the blue chronic and update using blue chronic 6.2. remember to clear cache before you flash and run the finalizer after the update.
Thank you for the recommendation. I didn't see this before I installed the alien rom and I must say I love the look. The GPS works great now too. Everything is in working order and worked fine for about 3 days and then today my battery wouldn't charge past 65%. I'm in the process of killing it to 0 and then charging it back up too see if that will fix it. Anyone else heard of this?
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Thank you for the recommendation. I didn't see this before I installed the alien rom and I must say I love the look. The GPS works great now too. Everything is in working order and worked fine for about 3 days and then today my battery wouldn't charge past 65%. I'm in the process of killing it to 0 and then charging it back up too see if that will fix it. Anyone else heard of this?
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The battery thing happened to me yesterday on stock GB. I think Diviance mentioned that he's seen this a few times on Aura, as well as some other ROMs. I just kept using it as normal, and I think after my 3rd charge it went back to 100. (I had just re-calibrated my battery so I was too lazy to do it again.)
You can try discharging as you mentioned, but other than that I haven't seen a sure fire fix for this. It seems to pop up over and over, across different ROMs.
Oh as long as it fixes itself eventually, no worries. Thanks alot for the info!
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I started this thread to note fixes or not the OFFICIAL OTA release on or about 101211 accomplished without having to manually run the pre release/leaked sbf, This way we can rule out any problems associated with that process as the cause. I have tested the following fixes successfully and my phone is rooted:
Voicemail played on my BT headset more than once without rebooting unexpectedly.
Stay awake while charged remains checked after opening kickstand.
Calls have not dropped yet so I am encouraged.
I can't even get my damn thing to go. I supposedly started it about 5 hours ago and haven't seen a single status message since. Whenever I go back into Update Motorola Software it says I can't because an update is already in progress... Yeah it's cool they're putting out updates to fix problems but 1. It's nice not to have problems in the first place and 2. It would be cool if they would actually download.
This isn't the first update that's sat there and stared at me for hours.
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I can't even get my damn thing to go. I supposedly started it about 5 hours ago and haven't seen a single status message since. Whenever I go back into Update Motorola Software it says I can't because an update is already in progress... Yeah it's cool they're putting out updates to fix problems but 1. It's nice not to have problems in the first place and 2. It would be cool if they would actually download.
This isn't the first update that's sat there and stared at me for hours.
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Reboot ur phone. It might start downloading when its on again. Thats what happened to me
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The leaked SBF and the OTA SBF are exactly the same. Exactly. You can verify the hashes yourself if you like. See link below.
If you can't get the OTA to download/install correctly, just download RSD Lite and the SBF from the dev forums and flash it manually with RSD lite. That works very reliably. See below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202666
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I can't even get my damn thing to go. I supposedly started it about 5 hours ago and haven't seen a single status message since. Whenever I go back into Update Motorola Software it says I can't because an update is already in progress... Yeah it's cool they're putting out updates to fix problems but 1. It's nice not to have problems in the first place and 2. It would be cool if they would actually download.
This isn't the first update that's sat there and stared at me for hours.
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This OTA was a pain for me too. After 12 hours of overnight nothing, pulled the battery and 3 hours later it worked. Not saying the battery pull was needed. Something different/wrong about this one.
So far, I'm seeing faster data (3G & WiFi, no 4G in my area yet), and all around snappier response. Let alone the obvious, like VIDEO CHAT! (That's huge for me, since my daughter lives 2,000 miles away from me, and I really only get to see her on webcam).
Pew! Pew! Pew! From my Mo-Pho!
http://android-gz.com
You're missing the point...
This thread was not started because I thought there was a difference in the builds. This thread was started because there is a difference in what one must do to install the updates. Installing the Official OTA eliminates any problem one may have run into using RSDlite as the reason the build did not fix whatever they hoped it would. Not to mention the fact the pre-release thread is 80 frigging pages long, predates the 101211 release date and refers to steps one would not see/experience downloading or installing the Official OTA update.
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The leaked SBF and the OTA SBF are exactly the same. Exactly. You can verify the hashes yourself if you like. See link below.
If you can't get the OTA to download/install correctly, just download RSD Lite and the SBF from the dev forums and flash it manually with RSD lite. That works very reliably. See below.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1202666
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I updated and now my wifi doesn't work...
After update, my WiFi is much quicker to pickup a connection and seems more stable.
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Installing the Official OTA eliminates any problem one may have run into using RSDlite as the reason the build did not fix whatever they hoped it would.
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I don't think you understand. There is no difference in terms of actual changes made to the phone between OTA and manually flashing through RSD.
The SBF contains everything on the phone, system image, radio changes, etc. Everything. You can completely wipe the phone clean and the SBF will give you back a stock working phone exactly as if you had Motorola do the OTA.
Now, if you are having trouble using RSD Lite, that's an issue with RSD Lite. Post the errors and we might be able to help.
Big fix for me was that I can now answer the phone in the car dock and play sound through the car speakers. Before, if you tried that (by hitting the speaker button), the mic wouldn't function.
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Not too sure of what improvements came about. I do see my gallery FC every time I try to open it.
Any ideas for solution ?
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The ota update was failing for many including me...i never did get it to install
Now today it looks like they quit pushing it.."no update avabile" message if you try to update
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The Accuracy function for the gps now works
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Not too sure of what improvements came about. I do see my gallery FC every time I try to open it.
Any ideas for solution ?
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Do you.mean the stock gallery or 3D gallery? I'm not having this problem, but have in the past with the 3D gallery. To fix it, I had to uninstall and reinstall the 3D gallery.
I was cheesecaking yesterday and after I was done for the say I made a nand backup of it and went to restore my normal nand. BSR froze during it and I had to battery pull after waiting forever. So I had to SBF. I went to restore again and all the md5 sums were mismatched. So I did a wipe and SBF'd again. Still no data connection. I tried it a few times again and finally went into settings and did a full wipe sd cards included and restore to factory settings. Internet came back but sometimes still wont connect like when idle for a while.
My questions now.
Can a nand restore that freezes cause this? How can a SBFing not totally fix this? Since I woke this morning and had no data until I rebooted is my phone screwed? Thanks for any help you can provide.
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I know that sometimes u may have 3gto issues after sbf and a data wipe from stock recovery
Have you tried dialing *228 and reprogram your phone?
I would do option 1...then call again and do option 2
U may also want to try sbf back to 2.2.2....data wipe from stock recovery...cache wipe as well.
then set up phone and take both OTAs to get back to 2.3.4
Don't try to restore any old nandroid...
Start over
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But first just start with the *228
Have u done that at all since ur sbf/wipe?
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I had this same exact issue b4 when I had a nandroid restore freeze on me as well...
I believe this is how I fixed it...I am not totally positive tho.
I am trying to remember exactly what I did.
I don't.know if I posted anything about it at the time tho....
I did that last night after every attempt. The only time it worked was after I was on stock blur and did the factory reset in the settings and included the sd cards on the wipe. Then it took the *228 but I never tried option 2. Maybe I should *22899 also. I don't have the old backups as they were list in the wipe not that they were usable. If the *228 option two or the *22899 I will download the froyo SBF and try that direction. So sux. Can't believe recovery locked up on me I was soo happy with my setup.
Thanks for the assistance. I hope the *228 works
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Oh yeah...another quick tip
Verizon recently had trouble with their 4g services.
now I know this is 3g. But it IS a very real possibility that there may be some tower issues in your area or something with the service itself is screwy.
Don't rush anything or get to worked up at this point.
It's still early to tell whether its ur phone itself having problems or something else.
also. For some reason I have seen things like this justkind of "work themselves out" lol....
It would be one heck of a coincidence. I was gonna give it a few days before I brought my stock phone back to Verizon anyway just in case it did work itself out. My luck they'd give me a d3 or something gross like that with a keyboard XD
Oh and a question. I know almost nothing about 4G but isn't 4G ran off of gsm and not cdma? Thought 4g phones had sims
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I know almost nothing about 4g lol.
I guess I should do some research at least just for my own knowledge lol
(Edit...I am not mocking u either lol...I just realized it might look like that lol )
I did t think you were mocking me lol. Well I got sick of the way the phone data was working or not working I guess would be the right way to say it and well went to froyo and updated up. Will know something tomorrow I wish I had wrote my kernel down but I'm sure of wasn't 00005 like it is now. I swear it was a different kernel which may have got stuck from the cheesecake I was last on when the restore froze. Hopefully that was it. Ill know more tomorrow.
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Yeah I was gonna ask u bout kernel also.
But sbf should have changed that
Who knows. Maybe something just went screwy
Keep us posted on what happens. I for one am very curious to see if this worked.
How's it looking so far?
Also. Do u use the battery/data manager?
I think the default after a data wipe is nightsaver or something. Which will kill ur data after non use over night. Maybe that is causing an issue
First thing I do is change that to performance. I know the SBC should have changed that I'm sure it wasn't 00005 but not 100%. Well after about 7 hrs of sleep I had a solid data connection when I woke up. Seems soild so far.
I have an increased signal reception I know my basement. I can use data on the phone if I'm not touching it (I live in bfe ) so that's a plus.
Activation worked without a hitch after going the froyo route as well. Ill have one more update on this thread t
later but I hope my recovery never locks up during a restore again
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Good to hear.
If this stays true add [SOLVED] to beginning of thread title in case anyone else experience this they will know a way to fix.
My idea truly was a "shot in the dark" lol.
OK will do. I needed an idea cuz I was out and sometimes you just need an outside shot in the dark. Thanks. Ill put that in the title when done with a synopsis of it all if it holds till tomorrow.
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Another thought. It might not be a bad idea to run chkdsk on your sd card. There's a reason the restore froze and being that all the checksums were mismatched, one has to wonder if there's something going on with that card. If so, it could be a source of more problems in the future. Just a thought. You can do with it what you want.
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Another thought. It might not be a bad idea to run chkdsk on your sd card. There's a reason the restore froze and being that all the checksums were mismatched, one has to wonder if there's something going on with that card. If so, it could be a source of more problems in the future. Just a thought. You can do with it what you want.
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The locking up of BSR might have corrupted it and caused errors with my backups but the issues after I sbf'd 2.3.4 led me to believe it was something is causing my 3g issues. It appears the sbf to froyo has fixed it though.
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Im thinking there may have been some "rogue" system data maybe related to the kernel that wasn't being wiped or fixed via sbf.
I do t know enough to diagnose the actual problem. But I know enough to troubleshoot them lol.
It would just be great to know exactly what the root cause of this problem was so that we know exactly what to do to fix it.
I hope it stays working for ya.
I still think it might have been a network issue also. Did u ever call Verizon and ask if they had any tower issues in your area or something they were doing to the network during the days/times u experienced the issue?
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Im thinking there may have been some "rogue" system data maybe related to the kernel that wasn't being wiped or fixed via sbf.
I do t know enough to diagnose the actual problem. But I know enough to troubleshoot them lol.
It would just be great to know exactly what the root cause of this problem was so that we know exactly what to do to fix it.
I hope it stays working for ya.
I still think it might have been a network issue also. Did u ever call Verizon and ask if they had any tower issues in your area or something they were doing to the network during the days/times u experienced the issue?
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No I never did call Verizon. My friends up here on it had no data issues plus I traveled a bit with the phone to different tower areas and still had the same issues. I was thinking the same thing about the rogue system data. I think while it was restoring the 2.3.4 backup from the 2.3.5 updated kernel and the freeze might have left something in there that was probably something the similar 2.3.4 kernel couldn't overwrite or rid itself of. Then the different froyo kernel overwriteit with a completely different kernel and shazam. Well that's my guess. I wish I had the exact cause though. Still working good though
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Summing this mess up.
BSR froze during a restore to my normal 2.3.4 custom rom setup from chessecaking and installing 2.3.5 updates. SBF'd 2.3.4 but had bad 3G issues after that. Multiple 2.3.4 SBFs later still had 3G issues.
On Ash's advice I tried 2.2.2. Seemed to be better but not 100% I then went to a different computer (mine is a way underpowered netbook running Win 7 and I am not sure it was finishing but it came up pass)reinstalled all of it and ran RSD 5.4.4 in XP compatability mode. SBF'd 2.2.2 again and rode the updates up.
That has for sure fixed it to 100% Im back to a custom rom and stead 2mb downloads when I have good service...unlike at home
Whish I knew what caused BSR to lock up during the restore in the first place and I dont know if RSD 5.4.4 has issue with Win7 or not but a few things including mods I was running in my backup that was restoring could have caused it to go ballistic.
First off,
Thanks for taking the time to view this post and offer any help.
Second, sorry if it's in the wrong place (Never really sure of the right place these days)
Finally, the problem:
This morning my phone had no signal at all for a good few hours till restart. I got signal back then shortly afterwards it drops again not to come back on till a restart. I have done a clean flash of the ROM and it is still persisting. Oh and I forgot to say that now my radio is asking for superuser access constantly which makes the phone unusable, this doesn't restore the signal though. I have also tried flashing Evervolv with the same result.
Any ideas?
EDIT: Now the phone won't get any signal at all, even after a reboot and full wipe, it's like the rom can't access the radio receiver (No idea if i decribed that right)
EDIT: I have a feeling this may relate to my problem. Could anyone confirm or correct me?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/show....php?t=1497246
Seems like that link you provided is down right now. Have you tried flashing the stock ICS ruu? Not sure whether your CDMA or gsm.
Just checked the link there and its working now. I'm not sure what I did but after reflashing disarmed toaster (for like the 10th time) it seems to have done the trick. No problems with signal anymore.
I would still like to know what caused it for future reference though. And I'm gsm
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Joe.Tolchard said:
Just checked the link there and its working now. I'm not sure what I did but after reflashing disarmed toaster (for like the 10th time) it seems to have done the trick. No problems with signal anymore.
I would still like to know what caused it for future reference though. And I'm gsm
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Maybe not, the problem is back again, going to get a stock rom and test that