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Where are the radio choices for this phone? are there any? i havent seen one!
My friend has had the photon for a while and he has always complained about dropping calls, or sms's not going through, I just got done rooting and unlocking it, flashed CM7 and he said it is worst. Anyone out there got some suggestions?
What version build is on the phone?
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well, im not exactly sure what was origionaly on it but I know it was 2.3.4,
but now it has "[KANG][ROM] CM7.2 by Photon Dev team 4-23-2012" on it.
Hmm, is he using it with sprint or another carrier like cricket?
I would just flash him back to stock have sprint update his profile and prl.
And if everything is fine flash custom roms.
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valentinoh said:
Hmm, is he using it with sprint or another carrier like cricket?
I would just flash him back to stock have sprint update his profile and prl.
And if everything is fine flash custom roms.
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Be careful letting sprint update your phone. Once you update to 2.3.5 you will be stuck with a locked bootloader till someone figures out how to unlock it. The basebands (radio) currently used by most roms is the one from 198_7 which is 2.3.4. As far as I know there are only 3 basebands for the photon and none of them make that much of a difference in reception if any at all. Currently 198_7 is your golden ticket for any kind of xda support.
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BAleR said:
Where are the radio choices for this phone? are there any? i havent seen one!
My friend has had the photon for a while and he has always complained about dropping calls, or sms's not going through, I just got done rooting and unlocking it, flashed CM7 and he said it is worst. Anyone out there got some suggestions?
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Been using KANG CM7.2 since the beginning on a non sprint network in India. Never had a problem. The rom is almost stable. 99%... And i neither had an issue with the network data nor call drops.
There's a network selection option in
Settings -> Wireless and networks -> Mobile networks -> Network Preference right ??
I have a photon on Verizon and I get 1-3 bars in my basement and once in a while I drop a call but when I leave the basement I get 3+ bars ALL the time. Are you sure you or your friend has strong signal at all ( if possible try another sprint phone).
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BAleR said:
Where are the radio choices for this phone? are there any? i havent seen one!
My friend has had the photon for a while and he has always complained about dropping calls, or sms's not going through, I just got done rooting and unlocking it, flashed CM7 and he said it is worst. Anyone out there got some suggestions?
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The photon has one of the best, if not the best radio of all sprint phones. Unless he is in a bad area for sprint then I don't know what to tell ya.
tsdeaton said:
Be careful letting sprint update your phone. Once you update to 2.3.5 you will be stuck with a locked bootloader till someone figures out how to unlock it. The basebands (radio) currently used by most roms is the one from 198_7 which is 2.3.4. As far as I know there are only 3 basebands for the photon and none of them make that much of a difference in reception if any at all. Currently 198_7 is your golden ticket for any kind of xda support.
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Updating the PRL and Profile is totally different from updating (upgrade) to 2.3.5.
I see the point of the suggestion to update profile/prl, it can make a difference in call/reception quality.
For those who are concerned about going back to stock for profile/prl updates there is another way. When on rooted stock use an app such as TiBu and freeze the upgrader/updater apk's. Then create a nandroid backup. If you need to go back to 198_6 or 7 for whatever reason you are safe.
My MoPho's in the kitchen sink!!
Well looks like hes SOL, when he first got it I did update the prl and profile and it didnt do much. Figured a custom rom would help. But his photon is on sprint, and his girl has the same exact phone and she has all the same exact problems he has. Like droped calles, and also the phone became very sluggesh over time, one of the worst phones i've ever used, and i've used at least 15 or 20 different android phones on all 4 major carriers foor a substantial amount of time. Sorry to say it, but its just my opinion. So... I think its just a bad area concidering the evidence. But anyway, hes been away for a few days and I cant get to the phone so I can't check anything. Thanks for the reply's though.
i have tmobile and i keep getting no service on top, i dont know what to do, im running ICS OTA, and i flashed the eng hboot now i cant get service.
Is that all you really did? Just flash ENG hboot?
yup, lol. it sucks, called tmobile also, was on stock and they just told me to hard reset.
How did you flash the hboot? Via hboot or some other way? Though that's pretty much the easiet.
yep. i can normally fix anything i do to my amaze, but one minute ill have 4G working next thing it reboots, and i can't connect to mobile network, I switch it on and it only says turning on... and it sticks like that. and sometimes if it reboots it just says no service. like at all. i can Tmobile 4 times now. and yet, nothing. weird.
flashing a different hboot has no effect on your signal.
yesh, i know, just thats weird. It started on saturday, and until now, like when im asleep, it'll turn off service, or it'll reboot by itself, wake up saying send report to HTC, and on top where it has the carrier it says NO SERVICE.
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Just reflash a stock RUU or restore your backup if you made one, probably messed some file up by accident, somehow.
yeah, i did that. flashed gingerbread, updated to ics OTA, still being dumb.
alobear said:
yeah, i did that. flashed gingerbread, updated to ics OTA, still being dumb.
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Open the back of you phone and make sure the contacts are all clean on both the cover and the phone, then try again, if not call tmobile, it's probably a faulty device or something. Never heard of that happening, even after reflashing complete stock.
yeah i know its weird, and i had this device since november, which RUU would you recommend i flash? maybe the one i flashed like you said was faulty,
Once you flash a basic stock, you should be fine, maybe it's a hardware problem, phone fell down anytime lately?
Dark Nightmare said:
Open the back of you phone and make sure the contacts are all clean on both the cover and the phone, then try again, if not call tmobile, it's probably a faulty device or something. Never heard of that happening, even after reflashing complete stock.
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I have the same problem but ive only installed the leaked Ruu then the official ota so basically my phone is un-adulterated besides the fact that is bootloader unlocked w S=on everything works good but signal sucks where my old MT4G had 3bars (4G) my amaze has one or goes to 2g even an x from time to time, for now im looking everywhere for a fix
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I have the same problem but ive only installed the leaked Ruu then the official ota so basically my phone is un-adulterated besides the fact that is bootloader unlocked w S=on everything works good but signal sucks where my old MT4G had 3bars (4G) my amaze has one or goes to 2g even an x from time to time, for now im looking everywhere for a fix
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Is your phone dropping calls? Are you Missing call or text? I doubt it, it's not that the ICS OTA made our signal worse, it's just that they finally fixed the signal itself to show exactly what signal we're getting and not just random numbers, as long as no calls are being dropped, etc. Why try to fix what's not broken?
i finally got everything working except for mobile network, my phone would reboot when i would try to refresh my twitter, i saw a thread on someones mobile network not working, im going to see there.
Do you mean your data isn't working? Check your apn settings, mobile network and data are not the same dude.
nothing was working at first, couldnt call of receive, now i can but mobile network is still buggy.
Does anybody happen to have or is willing to make a Milestone X2 SBF for the Altell network? I am currently running the Ntelos SBF with no data connectivity. Any help would be appreciated.
I need the x2 sbf for alltel also, I can find it for the x but not x2
All your missing is the carrier files for that network. Try doing a more thorough search for the altell sbf or nandroid. That or if you can. take it in to your store tell them you got a bad flash and you just need them to write the carrier specific files to your phone so you can use it to connect again. It's easier and probably faster than having to scour arroud to find it.
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I'm pretty sure the Alltel sbf isn't on the internet lol cause I've searched extensively, and I've found/used other SBFs so it's not that I cant find any(though if I'm wrong about this I would gladly accept being proven wrong lol)
And I've taken phones into Alltel (HTC desire for US Cellular and Droid X2 for verizon) n got them to set them up on my account but with both of them the data stayed on my old phone n wouldn't work on the new ones. With the HTC I RUUed it with the Alltel one, with the DX2 i used the Ntelos SBF since I couldn't find an alltel one n figured if it didnt say verizon they wouldn't try the "this is a verizon phone, it wont work. just give up and leave" method lol
Maybe just getting the baseband would work, but finding that's about as impossible as finding the SBF in my experience
One of my major goals in life is getting a phone from another carrier on alltel, just because they say it can't be done lol. I hope someone figures out a way cause so far I'm not smart enough to
Try asking for someone to upload a stock nandroid of an altel phone. Write the ntelos sbf and restore the altel nandroid over top of it. If you don't want it to look like it was rooted do a factory reset and un install the recovery app. After that it should have altel branding everywhere but the kernel which will say ntelos. If you that doesn't give the phone network access try talking to a I.t. Rep and tell them the phone works all it needs is the apns and base band to be updated to their network. I've done before with my phone no problems the problem is getting a hold of the right people who will do what you need
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So after reading through all the posts about flashing my phone to ics from droidstyle's post, i ended up trying to flash my phone from 2.3.5 (which I was not able to update normally by my crappy carrier) to one of the ics roms. Which ended up giving me zero 3g access. My question is are their specific files i can pull from a working Showcase with the latest carrier supported os, to put on my phone after i flash it to ics to get it to access 3g again? My problem is all these roms and what not tend to be based off verizons phone the fascinate. Which as far as i can tell are almost identiacal except a few differences. I dont have verizon as my carrier but a little kansas based one called nex-tech.
there is a 3g data fix.zip floating around here somewhere in this section...thats what u need.
*edit found it
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/59704791/Data_fix_ISC.zip
So that'll fix it? Ur awesome. I tried searching about 3g but I couldn't find anything
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OK so another question... if that doesn't work how do I revert back to the stock OS from my carrier that gives me 3g access
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Birdman2007 said:
OK so another question... if that doesn't work how do I revert back to the stock OS from my carrier that gives me 3g access
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go to rootzwiki and download the stock eh09 or ei20 package then follow the going back to stock part of the guide.
ok, so after all that i still dont have 3g access. Tried reverting back to 2.3.5 but it wont give me my 3g back at all.
Birdman2007 said:
ok, so after all that i still dont have 3g access. Tried reverting back to 2.3.5 but it wont give me my 3g back at all.
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most likely you will have to call your carrier and have them do a esn swap or activate a old phone on your line then switch back.
I went down to the office and they did a swap of a phone they had in the building. No luck what so ever. My girl friend and i have the same exact phone, minus a small hardware update between them. Ive completely erased all of my phone and flashed a generic showcase rom and updated through their website. They programmed it and all that jazz but no luck...
phone info
hardware version 1500.05
firmware version 2.3.5
Baseband version S:i500.05 K.EI20
Biuld number SCH-I500.EI20
If u need any other info im happy to do anything to get this damned 3g back
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I went down to the office and they did a swap of a phone they had in the building. No luck what so ever. My girl friend and i have the same exact phone, minus a small hardware update between them. Ive completely erased all of my phone and flashed a generic showcase rom and updated through their website. They programmed it and all that jazz but no luck...
phone info
hardware version 1500.05
firmware version 2.3.5
Baseband version S:i500.05 K.EI20
Biuld number SCH-I500.EI20
If u need any other info im happy to do anything to get this damned 3g back
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You want an easy fix? Activate it on a Verizon account....
I'm not trying to offend you, but Samsung created it for Verizon network...you might be able to program it to work on another, but you might not...idk
DROID DOES, Apple did...like I forgot when
Well the phone is a Nex-tech phone, that is where i bought it from. That is the local cell phone provider here. Its worked flawlessly rooted for almost 6 months. Then i decided to try and get ics on it and followed the guide droid so awesomely wrote up for everyone. It didnt work so well for me, because Nex-tech is some random generic cdma cellphone provider.
Birdman2007 said:
Well the phone is a Nex-tech phone, that is where i bought it from. That is the local cell phone provider here. Its worked flawlessly rooted for almost 6 months. Then i decided to try and get ics on it and followed the guide droid so awesomely wrote up for everyone. It didnt work so well for me, because Nex-tech is some random generic cdma cellphone provider.
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I had a Sprint Epic for a brief time but live in an area where it was using Nex-tech's towers since Nex-tech is part of Sprint's roaming alliance. I was running custom Froyo roms from XDA because there was no official Froyo release at the time. After a few months it had the same problem with losing 3G. I spent two hours on it with Sprint's tech support and never got it to work again. They even sent me a refurbed phone and it failed right out of the box. They wanted me to drive to the nearest store to have them activate it, which was 1 1/2 hours away when it should have been able to activate thru Nextech's system. Needless to say I ate the ETF and got a Fascinate.
My theory is Nextech has some kind of black list that shuts off data on phones it thinks are roaming for an excessive amount of time. Maybe switching to an ICS Rom designed for the Fascinate might have triggered that.
Good luck with getting it working. The main thing that keeps me from going back to Nextech is their lame tech support and huge repair times instead of refurbished swapouts. I keep hoping when Nextech's contract with Sprint is up next year maybe Sprint will come out here.
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no solution is currently available to use 3g once you ics
even if you have a verizon 4g sim
even beigephone can't come up with one without a 4g chip as of this writing
more of verizon locking down their phones
depending on the rom some will work with 4g but these is a trick to it, try searching the forums
I had no problem putting my razr maxx with ics on pageplus
Just had to reflash it was up and running in less than 10 minutes
Can not get mms to work
I have talk text sms and 3G
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Wardcst : Can you give more info on how you flashed?
Did you do a OTA to ICS and then flash using CDMAWS? Was it a paid version?
I have a Razr, flashed using Beigephone, on stock GB ROM. Havent upgraded to ICS yet but would like to if I can do it myself and get 3g and dont have to send it to Beigephone. Any info will be much appreciated. Thanks!
wardcst said:
I had no problem putting my razr maxx with ics on pageplus
Just had to reflash it was up and running in less than 10 minutes
Can not get mms to work
I have talk text sms and 3G
sent from my DROID razr max on pageplus
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lashton said:
depending on the rom some will work with 4g but these is a trick to it, try searching the forums
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i've searched forums for weeks and no avail stock gb 181 to ota ics
like you saying there is a trick to go search doesn't help anyone
people claim to have solution but don't publish it and others don't get all features running
others really don't have ota ics and still on gb
droidrazr said:
Wardcst : Can you give more info on how you flashed?
Did you do a OTA to ICS and then flash using CDMAWS? Was it a paid version?
I have a Razr, flashed using Beigephone, on stock GB ROM. Havent upgraded to ICS yet but would like to if I can do it myself and get 3g and dont have to send it to Beigephone. Any info will be much appreciated. Thanks!
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mine is done by beigephone
took ota ics and lost internet connect although in the mobile settings i can see 3g/1x signal strength 3 bars
used cdmaws paid to flash and still can't get it back
beigephone claims they have a fix and i'm sending it back
pltctytc said:
mine is done by beigephone
took ota ics and lost internet connect although in the mobile settings i can see 3g/1x signal strength 3 bars
used cdmaws paid to flash and still can't get it back
beigephone claims they have a fix and i'm sending it back
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Yeah looks like there is a 49.95 service on Beigephone to flash ICS Razr and Razr Maxx. Let us know if it works out for you pltctytc.
Thanks!
droidrazr said:
Yeah looks like there is a 49.95 service on Beigephone to flash ICS Razr and Razr Maxx. Let us know if it works out for you pltctytc.
Thanks!
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they're reflashed for free in the past. although i don't expect it this time
its cheaper than the alternatives in the long run. could have gone to V ported to prepaid for one month then port back to ppc and see what happens. would cost me more than 50 for that
one no one seems to know what bp does different unless they have the uber expensive software that can do more than cdmaws. maybe just a bug in the phone from the update....who knows...
droidrazr said:
Wardcst : Can you give more info on how you flashed?
Did you do a OTA to ICS and then flash using CDMAWS? Was it a paid version?
I have a Razr, flashed using Beigephone, on stock GB ROM. Havent upgraded to ICS yet but would like to if I can do it myself and get 3g and dont have to send it to Beigephone. Any info will be much appreciated. Thanks!
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I used qpst and DFS I don't have cdma workshop
there is a thread on howard forums post 11 tells how
you do not have to use any cut now there is a *#*#4636#*#* for phone info to change the radio to lte cdma evdo
I did the over the air as a tester for motorola simm has to be in for data to work I have no mms
In menu settings about phone status it does not show phone number or prl but when I read phone in qpst or DFS all info comes up
Phone works great though I have not factory reset it not sure if that makes any difference or not
I went from stock rooted 181 to the OTA ICS used voodoo root keeper and restored root after the update and worked perfect
wardcst said:
I used qpst and DFS I don't have cdma workshop
there is a thread on howard forums post 11 tells how
you do not have to use any cut now there is a *#*#4636#*#* for phone info to change the radio to lte cdma evdo
I did the over the air as a tester for motorola simm has to be in for data to work I have no mms
In menu settings about phone status it does not show phone number or prl but when I read phone in qpst or DFS all info comes up
Phone works great though I have not factory reset it not sure if that makes any difference or not
I went from stock rooted 181 to the OTA ICS used voodoo root keeper and restored root after the update and worked perfect
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bionic and razr are 2 different phones 4636 doesnt work on razr there are apps for that or ##program
i have factory reset but it didn't do anything. i was rooted before and after with no problems rerooting
i'm thinking its all in the sim card and might need to be erased or replaced or a dealer needs to activate it somehow...just guessing
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bionic and razr are 2 different phones 4636 doesnt work on razr there are apps for that or ##program
i have factory reset but it didn't do anything. i was rooted before and after with no problems rerooting
i'm thinking its all in the sim card and might need to be erased or replaced or a dealer needs to activate it somehow...just guessing
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uhhh
4636 does work on the razr?
devs would say to use it to toggle to gsm then back to lte to get data working. so i guess not on stock roms?
i have the gsm razr, so i don't know if it's disabled on stock cdma
pltctytc said:
bionic and razr are 2 different phones 4636 doesnt work on razr there are apps for that or ##program
i have factory reset but it didn't do anything. i was rooted before and after with no problems rerooting
i'm thinking its all in the sim card and might need to be erased or replaced or a dealer needs to activate it somehow...just guessing
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I am on 211 OTA ICS on the razr maxx and *#*#4636#*#* sure does work it did not on GB but it works Fine on ICS try it you will see
wardcst said:
I am on 211 OTA ICS on the razr maxx and *#*#4636#*#* sure does work it did not on GB but it works Fine on ICS try it you will see
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tried it a couple times...it makes a phone call on mine cdma drmaxx
gotta have it
pltctytc said:
bionic and razr are 2 different phones 4636 doesnt work on razr there are apps for that or ##program
i have factory reset but it didn't do anything. i was rooted before and after with no problems rerooting
i'm thinking its all in the sim card and might need to be erased or replaced or a dealer needs to activate it somehow...just guessing
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turns out you need the 4g sim for the ota ics on drazr to work on ppc
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turns out you need the 4g sim for the ota ics on drazr to work on ppc
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Yes for Data you do or it will not work
So pltctytc, were you able to install ICS and get data working on Pageplus with the 4g SIM card?
I have the 4g SIM Card that came from Verizon in the phone and if i remove it, data doesnt work on GB and goes on roaming mode. Putting back in, data starts working again.
I was thinking of safestrap and install an ICS leak on the safe-side but what I have read is that you have to have ICS on the non-safe side also. The other option is safestrap and then install the stock .181 on the safe side and then try and see if it will OTA update from it to ICS. If anything goes haywire, i can go back to the non-safe side.
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Yes for Data you do or it will not work
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droidrazr said:
So pltctytc, were you able to install ICS and get data working on Pageplus with the 4g SIM card?
I have the 4g SIM Card that came from Verizon in the phone and if i remove it, data doesnt work on GB and goes on roaming mode. Putting back in, data starts working again.
I was thinking of safestrap and install an ICS leak on the safe-side but what I have read is that you have to have ICS on the non-safe side also. The other option is safestrap and then install the stock .181 on the safe side and then try and see if it will OTA update from it to ICS. If anything goes haywire, i can go back to the non-safe side.
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as far as i know you always needed a sim (3g on gb) no matter what on at least the razr for internet (without wifi)
beigephone said i needed the 4g sim to get it working now with ics. $15. i have no idea what info is on the sim. maybe it just acts like a key and you'll be good
i don't mess with leaks and safestrap etc. i take the authentic ota's and keep rooted. on my dx i did sbf's but not with the maxx
its just verizon locking down 'their' phones
works w/ 4g card
got maxx back from bp today 3g works and has v sim card installed
in the settings 3g card is checked not 4g
preferred network mode lte/cdma
sms does not work but that is a current bug in a lot of ics updates...there is an app that gets it back.. android 4 ics sms
pltctytc said:
as far as i know you always needed a sim (3g on gb) no matter what on at least the razr for internet (without wifi)
beigephone said i needed the 4g sim to get it working now with ics. $15. i have no idea what info is on the sim. maybe it just acts like a key and you'll be good
i don't mess with leaks and safestrap etc. i take the authentic ota's and keep rooted. on my dx i did sbf's but not with the maxx
its just verizon locking down 'their' phones
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I just got a Razr XT912 that came with a SIM. I assume you mean a "clean" SIM? Does this just apply to the Maxx? I'd really like to be on ICS (now on GB 2.3.6) before I try flashing on my own.
help
pltctytc said:
got maxx back from bp today 3g works and has v sim card installed
in the settings 3g card is checked not 4g
preferred network mode lte/cdma
sms does not work but that is a current bug in a lot of ics updates...there is an app that gets it back.. android 4 ics sms
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hi,I have the same issue any advice?