Hi Y´all.
Did a search on this without any luck. There isn´t any forum specifically for Huawei U8650 (sonic) and i think this might be an android issue.
I bought this phone for my stepdaughter on her 13´th birthday and i can´t for the life of me figure out how to acheive data connection.
This is what i have tried:
1: The SIM-card used for test is my own card, normally running flawlessly in my Desire HD. It therefore stands to reason that the there is no problem with the service provider.
2: SMS and voice dial generally performs as expected. One odd thing strikes me though:
Any bog standard sms from another phone is recieved as always.
The service provider has a "setup by sms" service and there is a setup for the Sonic as well. That sms isn´t recieved.
Can an android phone be locked to a fixed country? has anyone ever heard Huawei doing such a thing ?
The phone is tested in Greenland but was bought in Denmark.
The phone was not bought through a service provider but a bog standard electronics webshop. thus - no contract.
2g & 3g network are enabled.
Access points for MMS & GPRS are set up as instructed by service provider.
Phone has been set up to choose automatically between 2g & 3g network allthough fixed 2g & 3g connection respectively has been attempted.
The phone has been for a check up under guarantee - came back with a clean bill of health.
Here´s what really confuses me:
When i scan for available networks the phone can actually see both 2g & 3g network
Pretty much the only thing that i haven´t yet tried is rooting the handset and trying another rom.
I´m going to travel to Denmark in a couple of months and am considering bringing the handset with me for further testing.
There it will also be possible to show up in person at the store and get them to show me it works. I am therefore not inclined towards rooting since it, most likely, will be a guarantee "gotc`ha"
please help - my mental health is at stake :silly:
Regards
ELO
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I have had my TITAN since about a week after its release. At that time, I was using an O2 SIM card and everything was perfect and fine.
Around 4 weeks ago, I switched to Talk Mobile as my O2 contract was up and I got a deal from Talk Mobile. Since then, my phone has been a disaster - but I dont think the TITAN is at fault.
Around 50% of all my calls get dropped. Typically, when this happens, I will be connected to a 3G/HSDPA network with decent signal strength. The call will drop, I look at the phone and the signal has been lost entirely. Then the signal comes back but at GPRS or EDGE. I also often have a GPRS or EDGE connection in areas I know have strong 3G signal. The phone will transition to 3G eventually but it is a right pain.
I am already on my 2nd Talk Mobile SIM card and will try a 3rd this week. I have tried hard resetting my phone too. None of this has helped and the network have so far been typically useless in trying to help so I was wondering if any of the bright people on here would be able to help at all.
Many thanks
Sounds like a network issue, I am on Vodafone and have not had any problems with the handset. Make sure you have correct network settings installed on the Phone like APN's etc for Talk Mobile
Are they listed in htc connection setup? if so run it.
Talk mobile piggybacks vodafone iirc. i get this problem of switching 3g/edge/gprs with vodafone and talkmobile. with talkmobile if its a phone they don't sell they don't seem to have the settings for internet/mms etc. i usually have to manually input them.
If you need to manually input the Talkmobile settings, they're all on the website.
Click the second orange button 'Talkmobile phone settings' and they should be listed in there.
talkmobile.co.uk/get_your_settings.html
Thanks to all for the responses. When I run HTC Connection Setup app, there is a setting for Talk Mobile which I selected. Before doing that, I had no internet as obviously Windows Phone on its own doesnt have the right settings.
I will try manually entering the APN details next and see if that helps, but I dont think the APN affects voice calls if I am right?
dumped o2 and got my titan with vodaphone. No issues at all. Maybe you can Complain ?.
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dumped o2 and got my titan with vodaphone. No issues at all. Maybe you can Complain ?.
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I am complaining vigorously
You've checked the aerial right? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=18523952&postcount=12
I have a Talk Mobile sim (I got it as it was an offer - unlimited data) and a Vodafone sim. I have the same problems with Talk Mobile.
E.g. today I could only get Edge in London, and it seemed to be slower than basic G. When I swapped to Vodafone sim, in same area, suddenly good H signal, and fairly fast.
Also my pop3 email sometimes just errors with the Talk Mobile sim.
When I first got this TM sim in November it was great, downloaded no end of music and data on the Titan. Past few weeks it has been rubbish. I find calls are ok though.
Haven't got as far as complaining.... yet.... sorry have no answer but just to say that I don't think it's the Titan at fault.
Hi,
I've got a somewhat strange situation, I'd like to find a solution to. I live just by the border of Belgium and Holland and go over regularly to Holland. My Belgian provider of course goes into roaming mode when on a Dutch network, that's all fine like that.
The problem is, that since I live too close to the border, the phone often stays on the Dutch network instead of switching over to the Belgian - unless I do it manually.
Is there some kind of setting/app to switch to a preferred network when it's present?
My old HTC Touch pro had a network operator priority list, and it worked rather well with that - hope there's a solution for Android too...
Cheers.
Somebody asked exactly the same question a few months back but i doubt a search would find it and i don't know if they got an answer .
Same sort of location as well .
jje
I'd be very interested as well... Let us know if you find something, I'll check it out on my side.
I'm in the same situation, on returning to my home country my phone stays with the neighbouring country operator, and I pay unnecessary roaming charges. Any solution would be an absolute god send for millions of people who live near borders. It's weird, it seems like such an obvious app to produce. Any suggestions would be most helpful. This thread is what made me register on XDA. I have a Samsung Galaxy Note GT-N7000.
An app to display the available cell towers (cid`s) and the option to manually select would be great! Ever since Tmobile/Orange activated a new cell near me I continually connect to that instead of my `normal` Three cell and the bandwidth is crap.
Atb
SST
Hey there,
Thanks in advance for taking a read and hopefully giving me a hand to figuring this out.
I live in Canada, and my service provider is Virgin Mobile.
I purchased a phone from eBay to use on my network. I double checked the network bands were compatible with my network, and fortunately they were. (I bought an unlocked HTC One Max from Verizon.) I received the phone yesterday, and as soon as I inserted my SIM to the phone, it told me "This SIM card is from an unknown source." My cell service will show as active for about three seconds, and then flip to no bars with "no service available" as the status.
After doing some research, the error message was from a Verizon Setup application. I haven't yet rooted the phone (I just got it yesterday) so I haven't bothered to install Titanium and uninstall the Verizon Setup app.
I also set my APN settings correctly as to Virgin Mobile's network (a branch of bell nonetheless), I've double and triple checked these. My service is nothing short of intermittent still, and I can hardly use the phone. Phone calls will literally cut out right in the middle like 5-10 seconds in. It's rendering my new phone useless.
Any ideas as to what could be making my service cut in and out? It's receiving service, so clearly the bands are compatible; However, my research showed this to be true also, so that's not a surprise.
If anyone could provide some possible solutions to solving my issue, that'd be greatly appreciated.
Thanks so much,
SaturatedLemon.
Hi all, sim unlocked s-off sprint m9 used to work well on android 6 with official rom. But until the phone was upgraded to Android 7. Data connection stopped working for one operator (NOS in Portugal). However Vodafone works well.
Tried different roms and apn settings, same at all. Data connection does not work on NOS operator.
Does anyone have similar issue and of course any advices?
Thank you all.
redoano said:
Hi all, sim unlocked s-off sprint m9 used to work well on android 6 with official rom. But until the phone was upgraded to Android 7. Data connection stopped working for one operator (NOS in Portugal). However Vodafone works well.
Tried different roms and apn settings, same at all. Data connection does not work on NOS operator.
Does anyone have similar issue and of course any advices?
Thank you all.
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Why sim unlock a Sprint variant and not an AT&T or T-Mobile which already support GSM?
did you find a solution?
i have exact same issue.
bought one m9 from ebay with sprint (651) firmware on.
lte was working fine in israel (1800 2100).
after nougat im only getting 3g.
it makes sense that i cant use those bands (1 and 3 i think) on a sprint device.. but it did work with marshmallow
Same problem in the USA
I have (nearly) the same problem in the United States with a Sprint CDMA version of the One M9. The main difference is that my data speed is even worse than 3G, around 10-20 Kbps. Occasionally, I get faster speeds, but I haven't been able to figure out if it is location-specific (but always away from home and work) or due to some other characteristic.
The phone came brand new in a retail box from an eBay seller. It worked as expected for 1.7 years. The OTA update which installed Android 7 (aka Nougat) in early 2017 resulted in the very slow data speeds. WiFi is unaffected, but data is so slow that I cannot reliably send or receive MMS; Google Maps says that I do not even have a data connection for traffic info.
EcoMobile (my MVNO provider; I still have a sprint email address, so I know who is actually providing service) could only suggest resetting my phone; did this twice with no change in operation (but several of the programs which automatically re-installed themselves operated differently, including GMail no longer providing auto-complete for addresses).
After literally 2 hours in chat with htc, they told me that my MEID indicates my phone was "made in Taiwan". I took this to mean that: 1) the person I was chatting with had poor English skills (because aren't they all made in Taiwan?), and 2) my phone is gray market (meaning it was not imported into the country via official channels, even though the manual was in the American version of English).
I came to XDA looking for an answer, too. I was mildly surprised to see that this topic was at the top of the list for the One M9.
The best solution for my situation would be the proper ROM for my phone, but I don't know how to figure that out from the MEID. htc USA says they cannot help me with this.
I could even go back to Android 6, but I do rather like the new features in Nougat.
Alternatively, I could root the phone and install a 3rd party ROM, but I still need to know how to choose the proper one for my phone.
I hope this info finds its way to a helpful expert.
Regards,
Jeff
Hello I am from Argentina. I recently changed the rom of my alcatel pop 2 (5042a) for a custom rom based on miui 9 (it is in beta). The problem is that I recently changed the telephone company and the company is from another country, so I must enable data roaming and configure an apn for the internet to work for me.
Internet works well, captures 3g and 4g signals perfectly, the dilemma is that every two times I lose connection and I appear in the signal bar that I have no service. I already contacted the company and they told me that there is no problem with them, but I do not know why I lose connection with the network when using the mobile data.
I tried to go back to the stock of this device and it happened to me exactly the same, I tried the chip in another cell phone but the problem was not there. I also try to put the chip of other companies in my cell phone and it works well. The problem seems to be with my cell phone and the new telephone company (Tuenti). Can someone give me a hand?