TL;DR Does the full ICS update fix 4G data crashes and reboots?
I have had the rebooting issues and 4G data crashes that seem so common on many forums however I have yet to read about a fix for them.
The reboot issue seemed to be caused by the phone switching between 3g and 4g. Using LTE On/Off prevents the reboots but I get random 4G crashes. They last only a few seconds but once they start its near impossible to use data and the phone must be restarted anyway. I'm rooted, S-Off with the recent ICS radios flashed on a Gingerbread ROM. My question is will flashing the full ICS ROM fix the issues? Or will a new SIM card fix the problems? Im still a little noobish with this stuff so please be gentle.
It might help considering the ota included a completely reworked ril and some other components the ril didn't have before that help tons. I haven't had one data drop where I have to switch to airplane mode or toggle data to get it back. I'm not running the official build but one of Santod's roms that is using the new ril.
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Yes, the update and more importantly, the radios and new Ril, do fix the data drops, reboots, battery drain, etc,...
Well worth the upgrade in my opinion.
First time in a long time, that I have felt the radios were actually solid.
Thank you, I will be trying one of Santod's tonight.
And Santod thank you for getting the radios and ROMs out so quickly. Much appreciated!
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Hi everyone, recently my 4g has been dropping constantly, I haven't been able to use it at all. Whenever I try to use it, the 4g symbol disappears and reappears. I am using AOSP roms, it happened on OMFGB and The new theoryaosp. I have tried MR2 radio, MR2.5 radio, and the newest radio. This just started happening a couple days ago. Can anyone help? Thanks
Bump, help please?
there was a thread about getting 4G to work on CM7... since both of those are variations of it i'd say give it a try(unless you already have);
here's the link: How to get 4G to work
i can't say if it works or not though as there's no 4G in my area yet.
That didn't work for me my 4g still drops everytime I try to go on the internet, thanks though
check if verizon is having issues in your area, my went down for a few days and i called a rep and they said they were having issues. happens a lot if they just turned it on
Nah thats not it, my mom has a stock thunderbolt and she gets good 4g connection
AndQuocDrew said:
Hi everyone, recently my 4g has been dropping constantly, I haven't been able to use it at all. Whenever I try to use it, the 4g symbol disappears and reappears. I am using AOSP roms, it happened on OMFGB and The new theoryaosp. I have tried MR2 radio, MR2.5 radio, and the newest radio. This just started happening a couple days ago. Can anyone help? Thanks
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I suggest the OP read the developer's postings from the ROMs they use and do what the developer asks for those that can't get LTE to work correctly:
We have working data on our AOSP rom.
4g is confirmed to work for most.
If it doesnt work for you, read the thread for info on logcats. Get us some of those
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1132818
The developer can't fix the problem unless you send him system logs showing why your data is dropping out.
Also if you happen to be using "nightlies" stop doing that if you always want things to be working correctly. They're not the most stable things in the world and prone to regressions due to the accelerated schedule. Someone might disagree with me, but that someone has never developed before and doesn't know what goes on when you start messing with code and push it out before it's fully tested
I keep having the data to drop off completely most of the time the only way to regain it is to reboot. It seems to be worse when I'm in a 3g area,more frequent. I am rooted I have tried several different Roms from Aosp to sense flashed a couple different radios but still have these annoying data drops. Has anyone else encountered this and is there some way to make this phone more stable?
Solved. well sort of.
DizzyFox said:
I keep having the data to drop off completely most of the time the only way to regain it is to reboot. It seems to be worse when I'm in a 3g area,more frequent. I am rooted I have tried several different Roms from Aosp to sense flashed a couple different radios but still have these annoying data drops. Has anyone else encountered this and is there some way to make this phone more stable?
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On after reading a ton of post thru out the web and trying different things nothing helped. Still had constant data drops. So I tried the. Bamf_forever_1.10 rom. I have been on this rom now for 2 days so far zero data drops. I have not changed anything else just flashed this Rom. So I guess the question is what makes this rom so different that it holds the signal so much better?
Good to c you got it working, mine took a phone replacement. Maybe you found the right combo of ROM/radio.
Tapatalkn with my Thunderbolt
Yes maybe. But too bad I may be limited to a single Rom. At least this one is very impressive to say the least.
Make a nandroid, make note of the radios n keep flashing/experimenting. Maybe your phone likes sense 3.0?? Yeah, forever 1.10 is one of my go to's on my sd card, good ROM
Tapatalkn with my Thunderbolt
Since upgrading to the new base/radio, I've noticed that my 4G speed is good and fast. But my call reception is terrible.
I was on Nils' v3.0 first, and I thought the iffy call quality was due to some trouble spots at work.
But now I'm running Joel's BAMF and it's like I can't compete a call without a dropout.
Data is crazy fast on both ROMs, but the call issues are killing me.
Do you think maybe there was a problem with the RUU install? Is there anything I can do, short of a complete reinstall?
Bump.
Sorry for pushing this, but I really need some help here.
It seems to be a conflict within the radios used by the radio app and the ones used to conect with the mobile netwok....
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I tried disabling mobile data and making a call, but there was still a lot of reception dropout.
Any other ideas?
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I tried disabling mobile data and making a call, but there was still a lot of reception dropout.
Any other ideas?
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i havent seen this yet. in fact my call quality has improved with the latest ruu and the 4g speeds stayed the same. you could try relocking it, flashing the ruu, unlocking, then a rom of your choice. but i dont see how that would help at all.
I'm just thinking maybe the radio flash didn't go quite right? I'm just running out of other ideas.
Tonight when I get home I'm gonna try the stock battery with the original cover. Maybe all the battery pulling goofed up my extended battery cover's antenna?
I am running the stock ICS leak on a stock phone and my reception is fine.
Somebody recomended installing the RUU twice to eleminate chances of problems.
That's what I did and have not had the first problem yet.
It's not running it twice. More like it updates hboot then needs to be rebooted back into the updated hboot to complete the rest of the update.
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I tried going back to my stock battery and cover to see if I was having an antenna problem on my extended battery back cover, but there was no noticeable improvement in cell reception.
Again, data was great, but calls were dropping with alarming regularity.
I decided that it was likely due to a bad flash of the RUU with the new base, so I hunkered down and went through the process again. Re-lock; RUU; Unlock; Flash Amon Ra Recovery; Flash Joel New Firmware Kernel; Wipe Data, Cache, and System; Flash BAMF; Boot...
It's late, but I called Best Buy's auto line. I got through the whole list of options without an audio dropout. Tomorrow will be the real test, but I'm encouraged. Wish me luck!
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I tried going back to my stock battery and cover to see if I was having an antenna problem on my extended battery back cover, but there was no noticeable improvement in cell reception.
Again, data was great, but calls were dropping with alarming regularity.
I decided that it was likely due to a bad flash of the RUU with the new base, so I hunkered down and went through the process again. Re-lock; RUU; Unlock; Flash Amon Ra Recovery; Flash Joel New Firmware Kernel; Wipe Data, Cache, and System; Flash BAMF; Boot...
It's late, but I called Best Buy's auto line. I got through the whole list of options without an audio dropout. Tomorrow will be the real test, but I'm encouraged. Wish me luck!
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If this works for you, I think I'll get off the bench and into the game.
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The Reinstall of the RUU did not fix my radio problem.
Man, I look forward to the next base leak. My data is great, but call sound quality and reception reliability is REALLY bad.
Is it a regional thing? Is anyone else running on the new base and living in the Riverside/Corona CA area?
Is it a phone thing? Is it just my phone that doesn't like this update? I have done these a few times in the past, and I haven't had any other issues. My Radio numbers and HBOOT versions all show correct. The ROMs I've run (Nils' ICS 3.0 and BAMF 1.1 and 1.2) on this new base all work great, and behave as we've all read about in the development section. Everything else is fine.
Does anybody else have any ideas? Thanks
I've had my thunderbolt for over a year now and its been rooted for most of that time. Up until recently everything been working fine. I was running CM7, but for the past few weeks I haven't been able to get data when connected to 4G. The 4G icon shows up but is grayed out, but when I toggle airplane mode it turns blue but still does not work. My first though was that my radios were wrong so I flashed a bunch of different radios but none of those worked. Next I tried flashing a bunch of different roms (all AOSP because I hate sense), no help. I finally figured it was my SIM card so I got a replacement from verizon.
So none of this worked and on a whim I decided to flash a sense based rom, and 4G worked!
Is this a common problem with thunderbolts or does anybody have a fix for this? I really want to switch back to CM7 (running MIUI with no MMS right now).
EDIT: I forgot to mention, for some reason 4G data works on the MIUI rom I'm currently running. So for now I'm opting for speed over MMS.
For anyone interested my radios are currently:
LTE: 0.01.79.0331w_1
radio: 1.49.00.0406w_1
-Nex
Hello,
I have had my tbolt rooted for over a year as well, I am a flashaholic and never had a data problem, maybe u need to switch ur kernel, I'm on ziggys kernel and I've been on since it released and never had a problem, I never really changed my radio, hope this helps.
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There are 4G issues with AOSP, you get slower data speeds and for some reason my coverage recording maps don't record 4G properly when using AOSP. Sense works fine.
jonah1234 said:
Hello,
I have had my tbolt rooted for over a year as well, I am a flashaholic and never had a data problem, maybe u need to switch ur kernel, I'm on ziggys kernel and I've been on since it released and never had a problem, I never really changed my radio, hope this helps.
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I did switch to imosyens lean kernel on a few roms after things started acting up. I don't think my kernel is the issue though, seeing as I was running CM7 for so long with no problems.
–Nex
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There are 4G issues with AOSP, you get slower data speeds and for some reason my coverage recording maps don't record 4G properly when using AOSP. Sense works fine.
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Odd that it worked for so long and randomly crapped out. You wouldn't happen to know of any fix or work around to this problem, would you? I really just can't stand the notification menu and icons that come with sense.
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Good evening. Has anyone experienced any success with the data drops with the new radio combo. I have tried the combo for several days. As long as I have 4G data is fine. As soon as the connection switches to 3G and back to 4G, I have to reset data connection by turning on/off airplane mode. If anyone had this issue and no longer experiencing it, please advise what steps were taken to resolve. I have also performed a Wipe Cache/Wipe Dalvik.
Thanks again in advance!
c0dblack said:
Good evening. Has anyone experienced any success with the data drops with the new radio combo. I have tried the combo for several days. As long as I have 4G data is fine. As soon as the connection switches to 3G and back to 4G, I have to reset data connection by turning on/off airplane mode. If anyone had this issue and no longer experiencing it, please advise what steps were taken to resolve. I have also performed a Wipe Cache/Wipe Dalvik.
Thanks again in advance!
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This is a common issue with the leak. I've heard good / bad things about the new radios (nothing that convinces me to change from default radio). You'll just have to wait for the official release of ICS on the Thunderbolt.
feered said:
This is a common issue with the leak. I've heard good / bad things about the new radios (nothing that convinces me to change from default radio). You'll just have to wait for the official release of ICS on the Thunderbolt.
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This happened to my fathers and my Tbolt. I reflashed the radios over the Rom. I used Jrockers .19 radios he posted on another site and it fixed the problems. I've been running the ICS leak now for a week or so as a Daily driver and I use data all day. All my work orders come via email and get closed out via email. I've had no problems after a day or so of tinkering to get everything to work.
Hope that helps you out.
zub57 said:
This happened to my fathers and my Tbolt. I reflashed the radios over the Rom. I used Jrockers .19 radios he posted on another site and it fixed the problems. I've been running the ICS leak now for a week or so as a Daily driver and I use data all day. All my work orders come via email and get closed out via email. I've had no problems after a day or so of tinkering to get everything to work.
Hope that helps you out.
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Can you post the link to that radio. i am having to turn on and off my data all the time and i use my email all day long...
thanks
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I used Jrockers .19 radios he posted on another site and it fixed the problems. I've been running the ICS leak now for a week or so as a Daily driver and I use data all day.
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What radios did you have before? Are Jrockers .19 radios different than the standard .19 radios? You're never dropping data, or just rarely? I agree, a link would be nice to share with the rest of us.
I found this but again no links to the radio's that aren't giving data drops.... anyone have any update on this?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1870893