I am on AT&T and this is my second HOX+. The first one had a speaker issue so I sent it back. I did not have it long enough to assess this issue, as I made few calls. At any rate, I am on a college campus in the southern United States. When I am on the phone with my parents, they complain that my calls randomly go to where they cannot hear me like I am stuck in a tin can and that they can hear themselves or some other voice in a fuzzy and distorted echo when they talk, but it doesn't necessarily sound like either of us. Meanwhile, everything on my end sounds just great. (other than the fact that when they start complaining of not being able to understand me I get pissed off that it isn't functioning as it should and a simple call becomes complicated with repeating everything.)
It seems like interference or a bad connection to a tower. I would flash a new radio, but I don't see any of those available for the ATT HOX+. Also, I can't disable the LTE or WCDMA radios and lock it down to GSM for testing purposes in the Phone Information menu like on my Inspire. It doesn't seem to be hardware issues, unless its the mic, because it does it randomly when I have not moved the phone, but if I go outside the building sometimes it jumps to clear like it switched a tower. I thought it was just in the building until today when I called my father and it started doing it while walking about campus.
I am rooted and S-ON, running Elegancia ROM, and currently scaled back to 2 cores using the CoreControl app specifically for Tegra 3 in the HOX forum, but this problem occurred before the root/ROM/CPU Core scaling so I don't know what's up.
So has anyone else ever experienced this? I will try it on a different network when I go home for the break tomorrow. Any and all help is appreciated guys. I really like the phone.
Yesterday I was driving and was on speaker and the other said the same. They heard the voice along with some weird squeaky sound every couple of seconds. Then I turned off the speaker and they said it was clear. I'll try one more time today.
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Yesterday I was driving and was on speaker and the other said the same. They heard the voice along with some weird squeaky sound every couple of seconds. Then I turned off the speaker and they said it was clear. I'll try one more time today.
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Upon delving deeper into the situation, it is DEFINITELY a network issue, not the mic, because as a test I used the voice recorder app which uses the same mic and held the phone like on a call and made a voice recording with the same dialogue that i used to send myself a voicemail by calling my voicemail and pressing two. The one on voicemail was garbled like a robot voice when it could be understood. I said roughly two hundred words and actually understood five of them. That's sad considering I knew what I was saying. The one with voice recorder sounded fine so I thought it might be a matter of the noise cancelling mic at the top of the phone covered by my finger. However, when I tried to input the number for destination mail box into the voicemail prompt, the network apparently started skewing my signal worse. When inputting (number changed for my privacy) 0123456789, the number would be repeated as 10124345677688678989. I remained stationary and kept conditions the same for all tests. I am a polymer scientist, so experiment repetition is part of my daily job. Sound like an AT&T issue that they more than likely will not acknowledge or an offending source of interference on campus that only affects phones with newer LTE radios?
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Upon delving deeper into the situation, it is DEFINITELY a network issue, not the mic, because as a test I used the voice recorder app which uses the same mic and held the phone like on a call and made a voice recording with the same dialogue that i used to send myself a voicemail by calling my voicemail and pressing two. The one on voicemail was garbled like a robot voice when it could be understood. I said roughly two hundred words and actually understood five of them. That's sad considering I knew what I was saying. The one with voice recorder sounded fine so I thought it might be a matter of the noise cancelling mic at the top of the phone covered by my finger. However, when I tried to input the number for destination mail box into the voicemail prompt, the network apparently started skewing my signal worse. When inputting (number changed for my privacy) 0123456789, the number would be repeated as 10124345677688678989. I remained stationary and kept conditions the same for all tests. I am a polymer scientist, so experiment repetition is part of my daily job. Sound like an AT&T issue that they more than likely will not acknowledge or an offending source of interference on campus that only affects phones with newer LTE radios?
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Sounds like a AT&T issue i havent seen any reports of this if you go to settings than to network while your on the phone what is your mobile network type and the signal strength, LTE doesnt do voice over the network so while your on the phone your probably on hsdpa
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Sounds like a AT&T issue i havent seen any reports of this if you go to settings than to network while your on the phone what is your mobile network type and the signal strength, LTE doesnt do voice over the network so while your on the phone your probably on hsdpa
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It's LTE which surprised me at first because the cell networks here are really undeveloped for the most part aside from the large cities.
Here is a radio info screen shot.
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It's LTE which surprised me at first because the cell networks here are really undeveloped for the most part aside from the large cities.
Here is a radio info screen shot.
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you phone will switch to a 3g connection as soon as you make a phone call lte is only for data
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you phone will switch to a 3g connection as soon as you make a phone call lte is only for data
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It jumps back and forth from UMTS to HSDPA during a call. I'm not sure which band is the offending network because it was cycling every few seconds.
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It cuts out a little in the 3g network of another city when visiting family. Think it's in need of a radio update or what? I don't want to get rid of the phone altogether but me cutting out annoying people when I talk really bugs me. Is anyone else experience call quality issues with ATT?
Anyone? Yes or no is ok I'm just trying to see if its just me. Really confused about this and don't want to send it back.
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I've yet to have any issues with call quality aside from the sound being sub-par in bluetooth mode.
While using the speaker and/or speakerphone though everything has been working well for me.
Although I do live in the Houston area and we generally get pretty good cellphone signals in the area. So that may be part of it.
Short answer : No issues so far in about 2 weeks of use.
I've been having similar issues here in Philadelphia. Every time I call my parents they st I sound static-y. I tried calling them on my wife's iPhone 4 and they said it was better but still not great. Woner if it's a combination of the network and the phone's radio?
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You guys are probably just in a bad reception area. I know specifically a few areas where i know better to make calls as they will just drop or have terrible reception on any device, just how it works. Now if i was in a known good cell reception area and having these issues, then i would look towards the phone. I've been to many college campus and actually found they all have pretty bad cell reception all over for who knows why. Just some food for thought...
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You guys are probably just in a bad reception area. I know specifically a few areas where i know better to make calls as they will just drop or have terrible reception on any device, just how it works. Now if i was in a known good cell reception area and having these issues, then i would look towards the phone. I've been to many college campus and actually found they all have pretty bad cell reception all over for who knows why. Just some food for thought...
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Bad reception area in the the second largest city in my state on a college campus with a -54 dBm signal strength and a repeated problem in two other cities each with -79+ signal? Not likely. Turned out to be hardware. New HOX+ came in today and it works totally fine. It is a refurb though :/ Oh well! It works when both new ones didn't. I'll give it a few days to test out before I go ahead and do the bootloader unlock. Thanks for your input guys. Must have been the antenna messing up with it. I called the ATT rep to put in for the exchange and she told me she couldn't understand me. I told her that was the problem. haha
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Has anyone else had this issue with the airave? Whenever I get back into my house I guess my photon doesn't connect to the airave correctly and I get silent calls until I reboot my phone. Anyone else? I didn't have this issue with my 3d.
Airave is kinda old, that could be it.
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Has anyone else had this issue with the airave? Whenever I get back into my house I guess my photon doesn't connect to the airave correctly and I get silent calls until I reboot my phone. Anyone else? I didn't have this issue with my 3d.
Airave is kinda old, that could be it.
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I used to have that problem before the OTA update came out, but it happened regardless of whether I was by my Airave or not. The OTA seems to have solved it though
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Has anyone else had this issue with the airave? Whenever I get back into my house I guess my photon doesn't connect to the airave correctly and I get silent calls until I reboot my phone. Anyone else? I didn't have this issue with my 3d.
Airave is kinda old, that could be it.
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I was given an Airvana by Sprint a few months ago. I had major issues with the Nexus s 4G and the Airvana. It would work fine for a bit, then it would block all my incoming and out going calls. Sometimes it would miss route them as well. It was only on the Nexus and when I unplugged the Airvana everything would work again. That's actually how I got the Photon. Sprint sent it to me to address the issue. You problems seem more like a well known bug with the phone that was addressed with the OTA.
I don't seem to be having any problems with the Photon and Airave at all. I have one of the older models that's voice only, I wish I had the one that's data as well.
I have the new airave and my photon connects just fine. I also don't have that issue anymore either where my evo would send the same message a million times to the same person...lol...not one blip with the mopho and airave!
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I have the newer airave, and the Photon connects just fine. I do have problems with the airave fairly often. Probably once or twice a week I have to reboot the airave because it loses its internet connection, or stops putting calls through. The issue is always the airave, though, not the phone.
I guess I will have to see if sprint will send me a newer one. I have had this one for two years now and I really can't live without it. The reception in my house is terrible and if sprint didn't send me one of these for free I would have dropped my service........no point in having a carrier that you can only use outside your house
My parents have one of the new airraves and my photon connects but all I get is weird alien like sounds sounds like a scrambled code or something it is really weird and annoying if anyone knows of a fix please let me know
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Has anyone else had this issue with the airave? Whenever I get back into my house I guess my photon doesn't connect to the airave correctly and I get silent calls until I reboot my phone. Anyone else? I didn't have this issue with my 3d.
Airave is kinda old, that could be it.
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I have airave airvana and i get silent calls all the time. Had to unplug airave.
OK Guys here's the issue. I spoke with Airwave support and he had me do a test:
http://voiptest.packet8.net/
Click the Start Test Button. When it's finished the thing you are looking for the most is Jitter Rate( you will have 5 different catagories). If your Jitter Rate is High (mine was 65ms) you WILL NOT be able to maintain a VOIP call thru the Airwave (it has to be no higher than 5ms). The Sprint Rep told me to call my ISP (TWC) and have them Clean and Flush my line, I did, and my Jitter Rate went down to 1.1ms and my Airwave works GREAT. Have your lines Cleaned and Flushed and rerun the test and you WILL see a difference.
So I figured out my problem I forgot I had set my voice codac to 4GV and the air rave doesn't support that. switched it back to evrc-b and all is well.
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OK Guys here's the issue. I spoke with Airwave support and he had me do a test:
http://voiptest.packet8.net/
Click the Start Test Button. When it's finished the thing you are looking for the most is Jitter Rate( you will have 5 different catagories). If your Jitter Rate is High (mine was 65ms) you WILL NOT be able to maintain a VOIP call thru the Airwave (it has to be no higher than 5ms). The Sprint Rep told me to call my ISP (TWC) and have them Clean and Flush my line, I did, and my Jitter Rate went down to 1.1ms and my Airwave works GREAT. Have your lines Cleaned and Flushed and rerun the test and you WILL see a difference.
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I have this same issue - where 50% of my incoming calls never reach me and go straight to voicemail. Other times, I would not be able to call out and other times it would go without doing anything... same goes for incoming.
Spent hours back and forth with sprint tech, with battery pulls, profile updates, power cycling of airvana and phone and reseting airvana and photon - tried switching to "sprint only" / "any cdma" / "automatic" - nothing particularly gave better results.
After the voip test, everything was in range except for the jitter - mine was between 70-300ms and average in between that which you are right about VOIP not being optimal.
I tried explaining this to comcast (my isp) and they had no idea, saving signal, upstream/downstream is good..
*** How or what do you need to do to have them [the isp] "clean / flush" the line? Is there a better technical term to convey to them?
Is this something they do over the phone from their network side? I have a comcast tech coming in, and from what a sprint tech told me - there's a possibility that the cable lines to my apartment may have not been shielded well creating RF/radio frequency interference, which results in high jitter - so it, according to him is a physical issue - not sure.
I have an old samsung voice only airave - and this works perfect without changing anything...
Would love to get the 3g data back on the airvana and have this work.
This is a legit problem. Been dealing with it for about 4 months now. Started out where the everything works great after a power cycle. Then at some point the Nexus S 4G I had would stop working with the Airvana (the new Airave). All my calls in and out were blocked and other times my calls were incorrectly routed.
I was really weird because at times the Airvana would completely kill the radio on the Nexus. I would just have the signal bars with the little x over top. Other times I would roam on Verizon and no one was able to force me back to the Sprint Network.
I actually lost a some business due to my phone not receiving the calls.
However, as soon as I unplugged the Airvan everything went right back to normal.
My wife's Epic worked just fine as did the Hero, Evo and Evo 3D. Thats actually how I got the photon for free. I had just bought the Nexus outright and was not able to return it. My problems were so well documented that a manager called me one day and offered me an Evo 3D as a way of addressing the problem.
After 2 bad Evo 3D's they sent me the Photon. Everything worked well until last weekend. I had to kill the Airvana once again. My calls were getting blocked.
Apparently what has happened is that Sprint pushed an update to the Airvana and some customers will need to have the device reset on Sprints end. I tried resting it on my end and it's a no go. I just have had to much on my plate to call them again and deal with the scripted support.
Honestly, the radio in the Photon is way better then either of the Samsungs and even the Evo 3D. So it hasn't been a huge rush.
Hope this helps. Also thanks for writing this because I thought I was going crazy as Sprint claims to have never seen these problems before.
I even had a Sprint rep tell me he was going to "boost" the signal to my phone so I got better reception in my area.
It's definitely as I agree an airvana issue - as yourself - as soon as I turn off the airvana... everything works fine... or of out of the airvana network.
What was worse is that the trroubleshooting timing - when calling/testing with tech, it works... best was that they thought everything was great when they called to test incoming, A few minutes to wrap up, I asked if they could dial it once more... straight to voicemail I really wish it did get corrected
The 1st gen samsung hasn't given me any problems thus far which makes me wonder what the issue really is... I was given a replacement 2nd gen airvana because we thought the other airvana was going bad or malfunctioned somehow.
The airvana apparently has an "access menu" which I haven't looked at : the ip they gave me : 192.168.17.2 username : admin / password : admin (or blank). They said there weren't many things to change (I can't confirm this) from there ... i,e time zone/date
This ISP clean/flush looks interesting, but I don't know what that entails or how to convey the message to them to do it.
I lost a lot of calls which should have went through - I know that feeling. It's quite a bit of time to reconvey the issues over and over going through the same steps over and over (regardless of previous call log notes) - just hoping, that this time it will work....
Is it maybe a high jitter issue??
If your Jitter Rate is too high, it will NOT keep a constant VOIP call (that's what we are using with the Airwave, VOIP). I just tell TWC to Clean/FLush my line and they know what to do. You can also tell them to Reset your Modem. This all happens on Their end. The can Reset your Modem over their line.
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I had the same issue, i upgraded from the epic to the motorola photon, when i got home all my calls were blocked and i had no air rave coverage.*99 didnt go through. I went through the settings and did a manuel update to the latest motorola software to address the silent call issue. Then i logged into my sprint account online, and reconfigured the settings to my air rave(its the new air rave airvanna) After i restricted my airvanna air rave to only my cell phone number and my wifes, i turned off my phone and turned it on, and all my problems were solved. If anyone needs help finding the settings for your air rave, let me know, it took me some time to find it, i could help you locate it. It appears we all have indifferent issues with this phone. My problems been fixed since the 23rd of august. Still no issues today.
Right thanks - I had them "reset" and send a "refresh" signal to my modem - but that didn't do anything to the jitter unfortunately... still in the ~70ms range jitter. Is that what you mean then by "clean / flush" ?
Regarding the mention of restricting the your phone number on the website, yes this was a bit tricky to get to - I initially did use this, but removed my #.
I think my apartment complex has so many airvanas around because wherever I walk around to the outside, I am at times connected when I know it shouldn't...
Apparently - if anyone else comes to your residence that has a sprint connection, their sprint phones don't work - the old airave samsung was able to add multiple phone numbers in that situation. I forgot how long it took for the sprint network to accept the guests' phone #'s - but how much can we ask for?
I am not sure if you could add more "sprint" lines to the account if guests arrived with sprint phones to have it work...
Just got my Airave last night the thing is just disgusting! I love ti and couldn't ask for better. Got my own tower in my house. Still connected down the street too. Frickin sweet. No silent calls here, will respond with more use too.
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Okay, here is my problem: Every once in a while I will completely lose all signal on my phone. It wont pick up 2G, 4G, nothing. Wifi and bluetooth both seem to work though just fine. I've searched and haven't found anyone with the same issues so I'm wondering if it's just my phone or if nobody has commented on it. I first noticed this about two weeks ago, when my phone refused to find service. I was stuck with the little X next to the signal meter. I figured I was just in an area with poor service and didn't think much of it. An hour later, still, no service. This time I went outside where I know I have good 4G service and nothing for 5 minutes. I enabled airplane mode and disabled it, still nothing. Turned the phone off and back on as a last resort. Still nothing. I ended up finishing the day with wifi calling as that still worked. Sometime later my phone began receiving service again so I thought it was a fluke issue.
Then, just yesterday the same thing happened. This was when I rebooted my phone (which bypasses the fastboot feature) and service was restored right away. I called T-mobile and they said there weren't any network issues in my area and they had never heard of this issue before on the Amaze.
So, this is where I'm asking if anyone has heard of this before. I'm running a stock ROM and it hasn't been rooted. Thanks for any comments!
This might help just a touch. I do live in an area with decent service but my couch and bedroom are deadzones for some odd reason. I bought these signal boosters for 2 bucks figuring "what the hell, I'll give it a shot". No more dead zones, and data went from E to G. Not a miracle worker but for a couple bucks it keeps a signal at least.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B004KMK018/ref=mp_s_a_1?qid=1328921838&sr=8-1
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Wireless Coverage
I have 2 brand new Amaze 4G for a few months now and had no problem with the coverage. I know the coverage is good with full signal bars and have not found any issue with coverage.
Sometimes, different phones have different received signal sensitivity. Also depends on user behavior. If you are always using a handsfree device (cable or BT) and your phone is in a bag, then your coverage is reduced by your action. The best coverage you can ever get is when you have line of sight (unobstructed) to the cell towers.
There are a few issues with your problem:
1-Poor inbuilding coverage
2-Poor coverage in your area
3-Network optimization issue
4-Hardware issue
If you are going from 1 bar to no bar, then most likely you have coverage issue. You lost signal since the level is already very low.
If you are going from full bar to no bar, you might have hardware or network optimization issue. Try your phone is the city or area with known good coverage first. If the behavior persists, then you have phone problem.
I used to manage wireless network for carriers.
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I've had the exact same thing happen to me. Red x, no signal except wifi, in places where signal is not normally an issue. Battery pull doesn't work, return to signal seems arbitrary. Had the same thing happen with my Desire. I have no answers, but you are not alone.
Yup, it happened with my first Amaze. I got it back in January and started playing with it - rooting, custom ROMs, etc. Then later that day, the signal just died on me. I thought I must've screwed something up, so I flashed back to everything stock. No luck. I waited for half a day, then it randomly started working again at night.
You probably noticed tha tI said that happened with my first amaze. That's because after that signal issue, I discovered that my camera stopped working. I returned it to T-Mobile and they sent me another one. This one is working great though.
Well thank you for all the input so far. Id like to say that this isn't my first cell phone and I'm not new to weak or poor signal areas, especially from T-mobile. I was using my phone at work at the time, which has anywhere from no signal to 3 bars depending on where you are. This wasn't one of the cases that I was standing in a dead zone when I checked my phone. I had no signal for several hours, including over 30 minutes of standing outside trying everything I could think of. I have had excellent signal outside in the past, exactly where I was "Hiding". I got the Amaze because I was tired of playing with my old HD2 and having to work around bugs and possibly not receiving calls. So far, I'm not happy that the radio seems to quit responding all together and leaves me without a phone (minus the wifi calling but I'm not always around a hotspot).
I also experienced a dramatic signal loss at home, going from full signal strength to maybe one bar right around the time that I first had issues. I don't know if this is related or if this is a completely different thing.
I am 99% sure this is an error with the phone - probably software related with the radio driver(s) or radio firmware. I guess I will try taking it back to T-mobile and seeing if they could exchange it for a new one. I was just really wanting to avoid that as I finally got my phone setup how I like it. Again, Thank you for the input and let me know if you are having the same problem or if you know of a solution.
I am on my third Amaze and also tried a Galaxy SII X due to the same problem at my home. Even the Samsung did the same thing. In my house and especially in the driveway, the signal varies wildly between -85dbm to as low as -111dbm. The frustrating thing is once it loses the signal, it doesn't seem to reacquire it without a reboot.
I'm with Telus, and they said they will check on it, but I'm not holding my breath. In my immediate area, outside my house, the signal isn't great, but it will usually hang on. I have been to different cities, and all has been well with it. Coming from a rock steady 2G Touch Pro II, I am disappointed as well..
I am new here to this site, but I am having a similar problem with my Amaze. At work I always have a weak 4G signal, but the last few days it has been gone altogether. I have full phone service (4 bars) but no data. The 4G indicates I have signal, but I can't connect to anything on the web. I called HTC and they had me pull my battery and sim card so they could send a "reset signal" to my phone. After my phone came back up I had faster service than ever, but it only lasted a few minutes and went away again. I am thinking this is a phone issue. Oh, the Amaze is my first Android. My only previous smartphone was my Nokia E71x.
I know if I have WiFi calling selected, an x will show up on my signal if i turn WiFi on. I've personally only had slow data in the area I work. I blame it on the fact that it is a busy corporate park with lots of hotels, cuz my signal is fine elsewhere. Try calling tmobile and seeing if they have known tower issues in your area. I know I had that problem with sprint and they sent me a free airave. Maybe tmobile could do something similar if its.a known problem.
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It's most likely a network issue. I get the same thing, it will timeout/refresh the network where it will not get a signal for about 30 seconds a few times per day. I blame the network, since the same thing happened to me with my mt4g
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I know if I have WiFi calling selected, an x will show up on my signal if i turn WiFi on. I've personally only had slow data in the area I work. I blame it on the fact that it is a busy corporate park with lots of hotels, cuz my signal is fine elsewhere. Try calling tmobile and seeing if they have known tower issues in your area. I know I had that problem with sprint and they sent me a free airave. Maybe tmobile could do something similar if its.a known problem.
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Thank you! This fixed it for me. It was happening only today while I had WiFi enabled, it would turn the mobile radio off completely and the box would be grayed out so I was unable to turn it back on. I had my sim updated today to enable wifi calling so after I read your post, I turned the wifi calling off and the mobile radio signal came back immediately. Strange bug.
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Thank you! This fixed it for me. It was happening only today while I had WiFi enabled, it would turn the mobile radio off completely and the box would be grayed out so I was unable to turn it back on. I had my sim updated today to enable wifi calling so after I read your post, I turned the wifi calling off and the mobile radio signal came back immediately. Strange bug.
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I was told It's by design. It saved battery life by not constantly searching for a mobile network it won't use (due to wifi calling). It's not like you can hand off the call to the local network. I do notice that if i start walking outside, once my wifi hits a low signal it logs back on the network.
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I was told It's by design. It saved battery life by not constantly searching for a mobile network it won't use (due to wifi calling). It's not like you can hand off the call to the local network. I do notice that if i start walking outside, once my wifi hits a low signal it logs back on the network.
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There is actually an option to specify how the WIFI calling works: either all the time or only when cellular signal is gone. Sounds like you have it set to be on all the time. This means that if you have a good WIFI connection, the cellular radio is shut off and all traffic goes through the WIFI calling app. The other option (which I use) only uses wifi calling when there is no cellular signal.
I have lost cellular signal 3 additional times since my last post. Its not just that I'm in a bad spot and I have no signal for 30 seconds. This goes on for 30 minutes or more - up to several hours. I have found that rebooting the phone fixes it as I believe it completely (as much as possible) removes power from the radio and requires it to be completely re-initiated during the reboot. Simply shutting it off doesn't work as the quickboot is enabled and most likely doesn't perform a complete re-initialization of the radio. My only guess at this point is that there is some kind of possible leftover code from development which never was removed from the radio (this happens more times than not). It could be a timeout or simply causing the radio to hang because of 1. excessive heat generation, 2. excessive power drain, 3. buffer overflow, 4. excessive RF transmit power... In any case, one of those issues could trigger an event in the radio to cause it to simply stop responding.
I am in the process of trying to get T-Mobile to get me a new phone as I am outside of the 30-day window. I have also confirmed it with them that this was not a tower issue.
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hay dear i've also the same problem .. i've just bought a new htc amaze 4g having full warranty and signals goes zero everytime when i m in my room ... dnt know whats the problem... is this problem also in the brand new sets..???
Salar khan said:
hay dear i've also the same problem .. i've just bought a new htc amaze 4g having full warranty and signals goes zero everytime when i m in my room ... dnt know whats the problem... is this problem also in the brand new sets..???
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Hmmmm who is dear? Lol.... Ne ways, well first off, I commend you for digging this thread up rather than just starting a new thread without even looking first :thumbup::thumbup::thumbup: I can't say I've ever seen someone who hasn't even been a member for 1 full day do that. Shoot, I see senior members start new threads or pointless threads without searching first, so good job haha.
Ok, back on topic now, if it's only dropping when you go in your room, then I don't think it's anything wrong with the phone. Not sure who your provider is, but u may be able to call them and have them look up your address and tell you what kind of signal u should get outside your house, and what to expect inside your house. I know t-mobile does at least
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Has anyone found a solid solution for this? I was able to pick up a amaze for 50 bucks off of craigslist. But I can't get it to connect to mobile net work. A T-Mobile employee told me to root it, but I'm trying not to cause it's not for me.
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crewdawg said:
Has anyone found a solid solution for this? I was able to pick up a amaze for 50 bucks off of craigslist. But I can't get it to connect to mobile net work. A T-Mobile employee told me to root it, but I'm trying not to cause it's not for me.
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Well your situation is a little different than other peoples in this thread if u can't connect al all. Ok wait so first off, it won't connect to a network at all? AND you only paid 50 bucks for it...? Sounds a little fishy to me bud, why did he say he was selling it...?
Next thing, I don't know why a t-mo rep would tell you to root the phone, rooting has no effect on your signal strength or your ability to connect to a network.
And lastly, is the phone a T-Mobile branded amaze owhat carrierr...? and will it not connect at all, period, or can u make calls just not data...?
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It's a known bug in our phone
Just wipe cash & dalvic cash
Even more convenient should be with this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ext.recovery.control
jauhien said:
Just wipe cash & dalvic cash
Even more convenient should be with this:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ext.recovery.control
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And that's supposed to do what for your signal?
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And that's supposed to do what for your signal?
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The phone simply begins connecting normally.. nothing extraordinary though..
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If the normal connection won't restore after the wiping cash & dalvik cash, you probably have to consider this awesome app:
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Thank you.
Here is the link to the free version of what actually needed though:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.igio90.androidtweaker.free
I don't know if anyone else is having this issue, but it appears I am not receiving some calls and/or receiving text late or not at all. I wondering if setting the Roam setting to "Sprint Only" or "Automatic" makes a difference. This seems to be an off and on issue. Also it is starting to get on my nerves when I get text VMs atleast 3 hours after the call was made to me (keep in mind my phone never rang during those calls).
Anybody have any solutions, besides throwing this cool "buggy ass" phone against the wall?
This is a nice phone but it definitely has some bugs to be worked out. Or is all the problems related to Sprint's F'd up signals? My wife has the EVO3D and has none of these issues... wtf.
WUESTSIDER X!
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I am also having the exact same problem. I have tried playing with all the mobile settings and updating prl without success. This issue is intermitent. Also, I am periodically getting the unable to detect time/timezone message.
I am about to call Sprint, but was hoping to find a solution here. Please let me know what you find out.
wuestsider said:
I don't know if anyone else is having this issue, but it appears I am not receiving some calls and/or receiving text late or not at all. I wondering if setting the Roam setting to "Sprint Only" or "Automatic" makes a difference. This seems to be an off and on issue. Also it is starting to get on my nerves when I get text VMs atleast 3 hours after the call was made to me (keep in mind my phone never rang during those calls).
Anybody have any solutions, besides throwing this cool "buggy ass" phone against the wall?
This is a nice phone but it definitely has some bugs to be worked out. Or is all the problems related to Sprint's F'd up signals? My wife has the EVO3D and has none of these issues... wtf.
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I have the same problem and I called Sprint and they told me they were having issues everywhere they are doing Network Vision upgrades cuz of towers being taken offline for the changes so you may be getting some of that
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kc8emd said:
I am also having the exact same problem. I have tried playing with all the mobile settings and updating prl without success. This issue is intermitent. Also, I am periodically getting the unable to detect time/timezone message.
I am about to call Sprint, but was hoping to find a solution here. Please let me know what you find out.
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I have researched the issue and it appears this issue is not uncommon. There is already an established post started for this issue, titled; "Anyone else having reception/signal issues?" Right now it appears one the ways to fix this issue is having Sprint re-provisioning your phone. Some have claimed this has helped.
I am planning on doing this myself sometime today.
But it does seem to be a Sprint conectivity issue and/or an issue with the phones antenna.
So I called Sprint and they had me reactivate, but signal still seemed to be a problem as it still roams. They recommended I take it in and get it replaced. So that is what I am going to do as I am just under the 14 day period.
not receiving calls
are you guys still having the same issue or have a work around?
I'm also not getting calls and when I try to make calls, I receive text messages that was sent in the past. I tried to contact customer support but all they've done was have me update profile and restart the phone. This is getting ridiculous specially missing some important calls.
Complain and get a free Airave. Then you'll have perfect call quality and 5 bars everywhere in your house. Done.
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I have been missing lots of calls the lastbfew days, and even wasnable to replicate the issue at my house. If my wife's phone calls mine, it will ring until voicemail on her end,and I get nothing on mine unless I leave a voicemail. I have steady, if not great signal on both (100ish DB).this is only the case for incoming calls, as I can always call out from home with no problems.
I tried that scenario a coupl dozen times, and got through 4 times.
I found two workarounds so far that seem to work consistently. (Both from other threads, can't take credit for finding them, but I did test them extensively. )
1. If I am on another call, I will get the incoming call everytime. I just dial voicemail and have someone call me to test. Without fail, the call center through.
2. Turning GPS and all location services on under settings -location. Strangely enough,all of my dozen test calls have gone through after turning GPS location on. Turning it off brought the usual 20% call success rate back.
Odd to say the least...
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Complain and get a free Airave. Then you'll have perfect call quality and 5 bars everywhere in your house. Done.
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It isn't a signal issue, the phones just don't ring. I have this issue and have full bars when attempted calls do not come into the EVO LTE. I can make calls out fine, just no received calls. Also to make this a more peculiar issue, I go down the highway a couple miles and it works fine.
I have called Sprint and followed a blog on sprint.com http://sprint.r.delivery.net/r/c/r?2.1.GT.2Z2.1hiUnF.DfhoXq..N.1QNCs.4RAa.bW89MQ__DObeFTE0 where others have the same issue, even in the same town. Sprint has followed up with no issue and ticket closed. It is currently open again..
My girlfriend broke up with me over theses missed text messages
and i missed important calls. I called sprint he had me turn off the phone while they refreshed it. Working ok so far i will say this i unrooted my phone and when i woke up i had 48 text messages from the previous week and eight voice mails from three days ago, i wonder if everyone with this problem was rooted as well.
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I had the same problem with me evo 4g and evo 3d...
I had same problem. Only way to get texts or calls was to call my voice mail. Sprint started a ticket, but since I was within my 14 days I exchanged the phone. Good thing I did cause Sprint closed the ticket on me telling me it was due to system upgrades. But it was not the network at all. As soon as they activated my new phone everything worked perfect. It was the phone the whole time.
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I have an epic4g touch and this is the only "Band aid" that has stopped me from smashing my phone!
What I would recommend doing is using Google voice as your voicemail provider. Go to the options menu on the website and have it send you an email when you miss a call.
Google voice will always log the call even if your phone does not ring. For somebody like me who uses this phone for work, it definitely helps. You may miss the call but you will at least know that you missed the call and you can call them back.
It has saved me many times!
Is anyone else experiencing dropped calls on their S4? I can't have a conversation without dropping calls. This is my second phone already had one replaced.
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Is anyone else experiencing dropped calls on their S4? I can't have a conversation without dropping calls. This is my second phone already had one replaced.
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Nope. All seem fine and clear to me.
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Nope. All seem fine and clear to me.
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Haven't had a dropped call since I left Sprint
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Is anyone else experiencing dropped calls on their S4? I can't have a conversation without dropping calls. This is my second phone already had one replaced.
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I'm in a difficult reception area (line of site tower is across a river in a different State). I've had problems with many phones and was very nervous when I saw that I consistently had 1 or 2 bars - usually not enough to have a decent phone conversation. I also find that the antenna is very sensitive and can suddenly drop to 2 bars even outside on a busy street. Makes me wonder....
But looking at bars and making calls are two different things. In fact, even with one bar, I've been able to make calls and have never dropped a call. I have to assume it's ok but don't feel comfortable. I was in a restaurant recently that was in a basement; my daughter's Iphone (also verizon), couldn't make a call while I could - with one bar.
On my old Samsung Droid I used to use the Signal Booster apps that found the strongest signal available. They definitely helped and although I was across the same river, I did get the best tower.
But on the S4, none of the signal boosting apps I've tried, and I've tried several, seem to have any effect. Something to do with 4.2?
I live, btw in a large metropolitan city.
I haven't had any issues with mine. Even in one spot that I could reliably drop calls with my Charge and Nexus (crest of a mountain that tended to have tough tower hand-offs), I have yet to drop a call with the S4.
Yeah no problems here for me. Sorry bro. Is your just your calls dropping or are texts and 4G reception suffering as well?
Data and sms are solid. Just calls. Weird stuff
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Thats really weird. My only idea, and this is a stretch, is maybe you check marked the "press power button to hang up" or the "turn phone face down to end call" settings, and that its hanging up because of that. Other than that, I am not really sure what to tell you.
So, I've been tweaking this, playing with PRL's and working with some of the RF engineers I know at Samsung and Sprint, but I wanted to see if anyone else is having problems like this.
1- You have solid signal strength, but continuously drop calls 5-10 seconds after connecting.
2- Your signal strength and data connection type fluctuates rapidly while stationary. (LTE to 3G or no data connection at all, often times with bars going to zero before immediately changing technology type)
3- Showing good signal strength until you push send on a call, then bars drop to zero, call fails, then you show good signal again.
I never had great signal at my house, but at least I had 1 bar and could make and receive calls. Since I got the Note 3, my signal strength looks great, but issue #1 from above happens 100% of the time. My wife's iPhone 5 and daughters LG Optimus do not have this problem.
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My coverage actually improved when I got the note 3
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I was having the same issue of 5-10 second drop calls. Exchanged phones and same issue still so returning the phone altother to sprint until the fix the issue. The tech at the sprint store told me Sprint and Samsung looking at ways to resolve the issue, but I have no patience for a phone that can't make phone calls... Going back to my SGS2.
I have yet to get a LTE signal on this, my third Note 3. I'm at places that I know for a fact have LTE but this piece of crap won't pick it up. This phone has me so aggravated already.
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Do you have the sim card in there activated? LTE operates over the SIM card, I removed my sim card for testing and it would not pick up any LTE signal whatsoever. Also make sure your account has LTE activated as well.
I am having the same issue with my 3G signal also, I even got a unable to connect to data network message very strange and I can't update my prl the normal way just flash them, i called sprint technical support and they told me to switch between cdma\lte to cdma only and keep it like that for a few minutes then switch back.
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had the same issue the first 3 days that I got the phone...has improved a lot on the last 4 days....after multiple restarts and PRL updates
Sprint had sent me an Airave device, so I'm going to test with that over my home internet as backhaul. If it works fine, the network is the issue. If the same things still happens, it's the phone that's the problem. I suspect network, but I'll keep everyone updated.
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Sprint had sent me an Airave device, so I'm going to test with that over my home internet as backhaul. If it works fine, the network is the issue. If the same things still happens, it's the phone that's the problem. I suspect network, but I'll keep everyone updated.
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I had three Note 3's. All had the same voice signal issues.
I bought the first phone on the day of release. When I got home, I noticed that on a connected call, the voice I heard popped and had varying signal distortions. I returned it on the 5th, and repurchased another.
Same problem. It's only during a connected call, not when listening to music, video or recorded voice. Thus, I posted a meagre on the Sprint community forum regarding voice popping, distortions and morphing.
Sprint Note 3 people nation wide began stating they also had the problem. My third Note 3 also had the problem. I returned the phone until the problem is fixed.
I did get 4GLTE briefly in one location, but for the most part, I get 3G only. I did notice that the DATA signal/antenna is slightly better than the Note 2, which is the phone I've reverted back to.
Sprint has been active in that message thread, stating they are working closely with Samsung for a fix. Some have posted that they've received a call from Sprint informing them that an update is due out the week of the 28th. Sprint Technical support confirmed an update is coming out but wouldn't commit to a timeframe.
The voice signal issues are not present during two conditions: roaming, and VOIP calling.
Take care
John
You are correct on the device update. I worked with some engineers at sprint and Samsung and an updated build is being pushed out now in waves that is to correct call audio, blue tooth audio and dropped calls, along with minor system tweaks to correct random reboots that have been reported.
If you're rooted or have modified recovery that tripped the counter, you will need to either return to stock for the OTA or wait for a dev to make a flashable version.
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I am on MJ4 now and the voice quality is a lot better now but I'm still getting dropped call though. I also got a message from sprint a few days ago that they are working on towers i my area. I noticed if i go to a different side of the city, that i don't get these dropped calls at all. It is definitely sprints/vision upgrades that are messing up all the phone calls. Some towers are old technology and some are new so they can't communicate with each other from what i have observed.
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Dropping calls like crazy
Just throwing in my observation:
I am also experiencing dropped call issues with my Sprint Note 3. I was on baseband MI5 and I just upgraded to MJ4 today. The issue is still there and calls drop sometimes 5 seconds in (while ringing) other times it will happen 2-3 mins into a call. I am lucky if I can hold a call for 5 minutes.