Hi,
Quick question, should I expect SMS to work on an XT912 on 3 Mobile in the UK?
Longer explanation:
It says message not sent... every... darned... time! I don't seem to be able to update the SMSC under the Testing Menu. Three mobile have a site which can push settings out, but I never receive anything. The page is here "http://h3g.hosting.smarttrust.com/mysp_h3g/sc.0"
I get the same results using Go SMS Pro. Just want to know if I'm wasting my time and should just get another phone!
Cisor said:
Hi,
Quick question, should I expect SMS to work on an XT912 on 3 Mobile in the UK?
Longer explanation:
It says message not sent... every... darned... time! I don't seem to be able to update the SMSC under the Testing Menu. Three mobile have a site which can push settings out, but I never receive anything. The page is here "http://h3g.hosting.smarttrust.com/mysp_h3g/sc.0"
I get the same results using Go SMS Pro. Just want to know if I'm wasting my time and should just get another phone!
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It should work,you probably just need to flash a patch so your XT912 work on a gsm network just use the search button to find that forum thread.
Edit: try this one,flash the cdma to gsm patch,just make a nandroid backup first.
http://downloads.crackflasher.com/?dir=Devs/DWiZ/Roms/PATCHES
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I've had annoying results using an XT912 with certain ROMs on 3 (Ireland) as well as with Meteor.
Stock Verizon rom 4.1.2 works well if you're in an area of good 3G coverage.
If you drop to 2G, it won't come back to 3G without being put in Airplane mode unless you apply the gsm patch mentioned above.
Several of the 4.1.2 variants left me with an inactive touchpad during voicemail calls, and attempted to handle voicemail using USSD codes which locked things up. In those situations, I was unable to edit either the voicemail number or the SMSC number.
My best results have been with cyanogenmod.
You may need to reboot twice after installation before your wifi will work.
There are mobile data issues which are helped by deleting all apn's and running the gsm patch. (clear dalvik/cache afterwards)
I had fully functioning phone with the 10.1.2 release and the specific gsm patch for that.
SMS, Mobile data, wifi, gps, camera all worked as expected.
I applied a nightly to it and lost mobile data which was a show stopper.
I'm now running 10.2 since I realised that any problems I'd had with 10.2 before were reproducible in 10.1 and also fixable.
I can confirm that all functions are working well and the phone is even moving between 2G and 3G comfortably.
The files I am currently using are:
cm-10.2-20130901-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip
gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip
signed_GSM_fix_CM10.2_spyder.zip
I've installed in a freshly created Slot 1 on Safestrap.
I keep the Verizon stock installed also in case something goes wrong, but haven't booted it since before the weekend.
Let me know if that makes sense to you, and I'll see if I can clarify anything for you that might help.
It's a great phone when it's working smoothly.
Awesome, thanks Niallb. It's good to know
niallb said:
cm-10.2-20130901-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip
gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip
signed_GSM_fix_CM10.2_spyder.zip
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niallb said:
It's a great phone when it's working smoothly.
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I had assumed so! Just hope I can get it all up and running
Fingers crossed!
Dammit!
No joy with that suite of files. SMS still won't send. I do seem to have data, and I can take calls. I've not moved between 2 /3 areas so can't speak for any transition problems.
No SMS is a show-stopper for me unfortunately. I think I might abandon the XT912 as a nice experiment, but time to go play with something else
Thank you for your help Niall. It is very much appreciated
Have you done a factory reset from the settings and made sure to clear dalvik/cache in safestrap after applying the GSM patch?
When I dial in *#*#4636#*#* and go to Phone Info, there is initially no value in the SMSC box.
When I click on refresh, the correct number for my network appears (+353857000000)
What comes up when you hit refresh here? Make sure it's got the full international dialing code on it.
The XT912 on Verizon firmware assumes all European GSM networks are international roaming, and I had problems returning calls to people in my address book that didn't have the country code in front of their numbers - it now knows what country I'm in, so that's no longer a problem, but a similar problem might be affecting your SMSC .
niallb said:
Have you done a factory reset from the settings and made sure to clear dalvik/cache in safestrap after applying the GSM patch?
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Nope! I'd missed that in the instructions. I'll give that a go now
So, to get a set up equivalent to yours I should:
1. Create a new slot
2. flash "cm-10.2-20130901-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip" and "gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip"
3. Wipe Dalvik / Cache
4. Boot
5. Reboot
6. Complete initial setup
7. Flash signed_GSM_fix_CM10.2_spyder.zip
8. Wipe Dalvik / Cache
9. Run factory reset
10. Win?
niallb said:
When I dial in *#*#4636#*#* and go to Phone Info, there is initially no value in the SMSC box.
When I click on refresh, the correct number for my network appears (+353857000000)
What comes up when you hit refresh here? Make sure it's got the full international dialing code on it.
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I get the same behaviour as you. The correct SMSC is shown only after I hit refresh. I've checked with the provider, and it is the correct number. With the +44 code included.
niallb said:
it now knows what country I'm in, so that's no longer a problem, but a similar problem might be affecting your SMSC .
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Is this the country specified in the initial setup? I'm choosing English - United Kingdom.
Once again, thanks for taking the time to try to help me out!
I did it in this order, but applied the GSM patch before the first reboot.
1. Create a new slot
2. flash "cm-10.2-20130901-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip" and "gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip"
3. Wipe Dalvik / Cache
4. Flash signed_GSM_fix_CM10.2_spyder.zip
6. Wipe Dalvik / Cache
7. Boot
8. Reboot
9. Complete initial setup
10. Run factory reset from Settings menu
11. Reboot
10. Wipe Dalvik / Cache
11. Reboot
12. SMS
The country specified in the initial setup is just your preferred language.
niallb said:
I did it in this order, but applied the GSM patch before the first reboot.
1. Create a new slot
2. flash "cm-10.2-20130901-NIGHTLY-spyder.zip" and "gapps-jb-20130813-signed.zip"
3. Wipe Dalvik / Cache
4. Flash signed_GSM_fix_CM10.2_spyder.zip
6. Wipe Dalvik / Cache
7. Boot
8. Reboot
9. Complete initial setup
10. Run factory reset from Settings menu
11. Reboot
10. Wipe Dalvik / Cache
11. Reboot
12. SMS
The country specified in the initial setup is just your preferred language.
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Thank you for your help and I'm sorry I didn't respond sooner!
I found the cause of the problem by speaking to the network (3 mobile). We found that the SIM card was at fault! Probably damaged from being moved between phones frequently whilst I was getting used to the new device.
I replaced the SIM card for free at the 3 store and SMS instantly worked whichever ROM I booted in to.
Thanks again
CIsor
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ok so i have the HTC Droid Eris and it is rooted, i put this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944430 on my phone via flash zip. i upated my connection stuff via *228 and yet the connection is not picking up from local towers. the only question is how do i access my SID number? ive tried multiple program numbers like ##778 and ##7764726 but nothing seems to work so i can change my SID number to what it should be and i know its wrong. Please help
Is your phone prepaid?
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No its not prepaid
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ok so i have the HTC Droid Eris and it is rooted, i put this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944430 on my phone via flash zip. i upated my connection stuff via *228 and yet the connection is not picking up from local towers. the only question is how do i access my SID number? ive tried multiple program numbers like ##778 and ##7764726 but nothing seems to work so i can change my SID number to what it should be and i know its wrong. Please help
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Are you unable to make or receive calls? What ROM were you running before flashing GSB? Did you do a full data wipe before flashing GSB?
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ok so i have the HTC Droid Eris and it is rooted, i put this http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=944430 on my phone via flash zip. i upated my connection stuff via *228 and yet the connection is not picking up from local towers. the only question is how do i access my SID number? ive tried multiple program numbers like ##778 and ##7764726 but nothing seems to work so i can change my SID number to what it should be and i know its wrong. Please help
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FYI if this helps, or even if it doesn't, you can see the MEID number underneath the battery. I find that you usually have to use the HEX version on Verizon's website. I don't know if this will help you, however, because flashing ROMs does not affect activation status.
Is this the number you're looking for?
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Are you unable to make or receive calls? What ROM were you running before flashing GSB? Did you do a full data wipe before flashing GSB?
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i was running the factory default phone, i wiped everything and flashed the rom i linked on it, i can receive calls, voicmails, texts, mms, the internet is fine, but its not connecting to the towers near me, its picking up off different towers and the person at verizon said i need to change the SID number to 30730 which i know what one to change and i know where it is, i just cant access that part of the phone to change it because i dont know what program number to use.
flash the official RUU and start fresh possibly can fix the problem and re-root then flash new rom
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FYI if this helps, or even if it doesn't, you can see the MEID number underneath the battery. I find that you usually have to use the HEX version on Verizon's website. I don't know if this will help you, however, because flashing ROMs does not affect activation status.
Is this the number you're looking for?
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everything is active, thats not the issue and no i did not need the MEID number i can find that in the info on my phone, but thanks for the reply
dragon1018 said:
flash the official RUU and start fresh possibly can fix the problem and re-root then flash new rom
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ive dont this twice, once last night and once today, still cannot access programming menu
Ronoriot said:
i was running the factory default phone, i wiped everything and flashed the rom i linked on it, i can receive calls, voicmails, texts, mms, the internet is fine, but its not connecting to the towers near me, its picking up off different towers and the person at verizon said i need to change the SID number to 30730 which i know what one to change and i know where it is, i just cant access that part of the phone to change it because i dont know what program number to use.
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To my knowledge, the ROMs do not alter any activation state of the phone* - that stuff is held in a hidden partition (the "mfg" partition, I suspect) in the flash memory chip that are never touched by any of the usual ROM flashing operations. That's why you can change ROMs and maintain the same activation and PRL data from ROM to ROM. So, I don't know why your phone's tower association would have changed if was working correctly before flashing a developer ROM.
*The only exception to this is if you perform a factory reset with the stock recovery on the phone - that does clear the activation state of the phone. The "factory reset/wipe data" menu entry of the custom recovery doesn't touch activation data or PRLs, though.
If that's what happened, then you might have to temporarily revert to a stock ROM - just don't use the factory reset procedure on the stock ROM before you re-root the phone. (BTW, you could certainly use the March 2011 OTA stock ROM - installing it won't overwrite your custom recovery, so you can simply do a nandroid backup/restore to get back to your current setup - no need to "re-root" if you do that.)
There's probably something I don't understand about the situation you are describing, unless it has something to do with towers that were acquired from a different carrier (Alltel?) by Verizon - under normal circumstances, your phone would prefer to connect to the best signal within it's home network, assuming that there are not other problems that prevent that from happening (such as call congestion through a certain tower). Perhaps the towers you want to connect to are actually considered to be "roaming" by the PRL you have on your phone, and that's why the more distant VZW towers are chosen?
bftb0
bftb0 said:
To my knowledge, the ROMs do not alter any activation state of the phone* - that stuff is held in a hidden partition (the "mfg" partition, I suspect) in the flash memory chip that are never touched by any of the usual ROM flashing operations. That's why you can change ROMs and maintain the same activation and PRL data from ROM to ROM. So, I don't know why your phone's tower association would have changed if was working correctly before flashing a developer ROM.
*The only exception to this is if you perform a factory reset with the stock recovery on the phone - that does clear the activation state of the phone. The "factory reset/wipe data" menu entry of the custom recovery doesn't touch activation data or PRLs, though.
If that's what happened, then you might have to temporarily revert to a stock ROM - just don't use the factory reset procedure on the stock ROM before you re-root the phone. (BTW, you could certainly use the March 2011 OTA stock ROM - installing it won't overwrite your custom recovery, so you can simply do a nandroid backup/restore to get back to your current setup - no need to "re-root" if you do that.)
There's probably something I don't understand about the situation you are describing, unless it has something to do with towers that were acquired from a different carrier (Alltel?) by Verizon - under normal circumstances, your phone would prefer to connect to the best signal within it's home network, assuming that there are not other problems that prevent that from happening (such as call congestion through a certain tower). Perhaps the towers you want to connect to are actually considered to be "roaming" by the PRL you have on your phone, and that's why the more distant VZW towers are chosen?
bftb0
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i will try this but before i do i'll try to explain a bit more, when i call the normal eris programming number, it tries to actually make a call instead of giving me the option to go into edit mode, now when im on the stock rom i can do it but as soon as i flash any other rom on it, it doesnt allow me to do so. i had a rom from a droid 2 on it and when i used the droid 2 programming number it worked just fine and i could edit the info. hope this helps clarify a bit, and thanks for the help
bftb0 said:
To my knowledge, the ROMs do not alter any activation state of the phone* - that stuff is held in a hidden partition (the "mfg" partition, I suspect) in the flash memory chip that are never touched by any of the usual ROM flashing operations. That's why you can change ROMs and maintain the same activation and PRL data from ROM to ROM. So, I don't know why your phone's tower association would have changed if was working correctly before flashing a developer ROM.
*The only exception to this is if you perform a factory reset with the stock recovery on the phone - that does clear the activation state of the phone. The "factory reset/wipe data" menu entry of the custom recovery doesn't touch activation data or PRLs, though.
If that's what happened, then you might have to temporarily revert to a stock ROM - just don't use the factory reset procedure on the stock ROM before you re-root the phone. (BTW, you could certainly use the March 2011 OTA stock ROM - installing it won't overwrite your custom recovery, so you can simply do a nandroid backup/restore to get back to your current setup - no need to "re-root" if you do that.)
There's probably something I don't understand about the situation you are describing, unless it has something to do with towers that were acquired from a different carrier (Alltel?) by Verizon - under normal circumstances, your phone would prefer to connect to the best signal within it's home network, assuming that there are not other problems that prevent that from happening (such as call congestion through a certain tower). Perhaps the towers you want to connect to are actually considered to be "roaming" by the PRL you have on your phone, and that's why the more distant VZW towers are chosen?
bftb0
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i did what you suggested, put the stock rom on my phone, then used my back to my custom rom and it changed all my connection settings in my ESPT menu, which i cant access for some reason
Ronoriot said:
i did what you suggested, put the stock rom on my phone, then used my back to my custom rom and it changed all my connection settings in my ESPT menu, which i cant access for some reason
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^This sentence confuses the crap out of me. I read it 5 or 6 times, and have no idea what sequence of operations you performed. I only have a vague idea that you can't get something to work.
If you can't access the EPST menu, how can you see what the settings are?
Here is what everybody has said so far (basically the same thing, but in different ways) :
- The EPST menus are generally not available in custom ROMs, especially any of the AOSP (Froyo/Gingerbread) ROMs. You need a stock, or near-stock ROM to be guaranteed that they will be available
- The same thing is true of "secret dial code menus". They don't exist in custom ROMs, unless those custom ROMs are nearly identical to stock ROMs (that is, directly derived from a stock ROM).
If you want to try it, you can flash either a RUU or PB00IMG.zip file - these operations flash a "nvram" file (*.nb0), which conceivably resets PRL and other non-ROM settings. After doing that, and fooling with EPST using a stock ROM, you will need to re-root.
As I mentioned, you should not run a "factory reset" procedure on your phone after you have configured what you want (with EPST) when there is a STOCK recovery on the phone.
Beyond that, I'm sort of mystified why you are unsatisfied with a phone that appears to be working normally. (What application are you using to determine cell phone tower? Are you inferring that from location services (Google Maps) with GPS and WiFi location services turned off?)
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Im unable to make voice calls through the Phone app. It will connect, then make no noise (ie no ringing). Same if i receive a call, i hit accept and i hear nothing, nor can the person calling me hear anything. I can use the voice search/navigation, and i can use other voice apps (ie voxer) just fine. SMS works, as does 3g, and im not getting any error messages.
Phone is GT-I9100, Kernel is Siyah 3.1rc6, running D4rom (ICS). I've tried 3 seperate roms (Omega v11, D4, and Slim (all ICS)) all having the same issues. Im assuming this is an issues with ICS (or more likely something i didnt update prior to switching) but ive spent about 6 hours now trying to find out what is causing it.
I realize downgrading would solve this, but i'd rather find out what my issue is and fix it. any ideas?
Flash again, but this time full wipe, it happened to me once on d4 rom, this should do it
Edit: have you tried wanamlite with siyahkernel? If you follow the below, you shouldn't have a problem.
A. Ensure FULL wipe;
1. System
2. Cache
3. Data
4. Dalvik cache
B. Immediately Flash ROM
C. Let boot and initial setup
D. Check if phone dialer and choice calls are ok?
E. If ok, Restore only user apps and data. NO System crap. Recheck
F. Reboot and setup accounts. Recheck
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Still no luck. Flashed 3 times, once with D4 again, twice with wanalite. did factory reset, manually wiped /data, /system, /cache, and Dalvik cache. after doing initial run (i didn't set up my gmail account, since i need wifi for that (data cap is annoying)) i tried to make a call, and it still wont ring. At first it would end the call after 15's or so. after restarting it it would go longer, usually until i end it. SMS still works, as does 3g data.
I got an error this time setting up the clock, but it was only visible for about 2s. It was something to do with setting the time, if i can get it again ill try to write it down.
Also, when wiping the Dalvik cache i get this :
E:unknown voluem for path [/sd-ext]
Dalvik cache wiped
any other advice?
I finally downgraded to GB rom (unnamed). Phone worked fine, as well as everything else. Ty for your help though, It was greatly appreciated.
Also, i noticed prior to updating it that the search and back buttons didnt do anything. IDK if this is normal or not, i dont use those buttons much.
Very strange after fresh full wipe and flash, and test without setup of the different ROMs
Edit: Have you tried flashing some of the alternative ICS modems found in the modem thread? Maybe yours doesn't like the modem packaged with the ROM.
If that doesn't work, what if you flash one of Intratech official or Frankenstein firmware. You'll need to re-root after and flash cwm again.
That error with the Dalvik is ok. Forget why, answer will be found with some searching though. If you look carefully, it would have said "Dalvik cache wiped"
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My Note is unlocked. The sim is unlocked. The phone has been rooted/CMW. Everytime I try to flash the radio, my Note does not recognize the sim. Keep in mind that the radios are correct and should work. Can someone please help me out? :/
This problem is persistent ...
We have several users that are seeing the same problem ....mostly t-mobile customers using an ATT note.
Some users have been able to restore sim function by downgrade to GB .
But others have not been able to restore sim function, and sent the devices back under warranty.
Currently, there is no fix for this condition, other than a return to stock GB.
And even then, it's not a sure fix.
We believe it has something to do with the device unlock procedure...but no solution has been found ...g
Yeah, I have T-Mobile. I was trying to flash the radio so I could get 4G on it. But I found a solution to the problem. Thanks.
What was your solution to the problem?
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atn_chargers said:
Yeah, I have T-Mobile. I was trying to flash the radio so I could get 4G on it. But I found a solution to the problem. Thanks.
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Would you mind sharing the solution ?
This problem has caused many users to exchange their devices...
Many people here would like that answer ....g
Really? I wish I've would've known this sooner. Could've saved a lot of peoples units. So it's actually pretty simple but it's lengthy (depends on how much data you have on your phone). I've found this method to work for me every single time.
So here's what you do:
- Go to CWM Recovery (my version of CWM is v5.5.0.4. Not sure if that matters or not)
- Do a Nandroid backup
- Wipe cache partition (TWICE)
- Wipe Dalvik Cache (TWICE)
- Go to zip files and flash your radio of choice (your phone's radio should now be flashed to that particular one you selected)
- Restore your phone. This is the lengthy part. It took around 10 minutes for me.
- Now go reboot your system
And there you go. Once it boots up, it should immediately lock in a signal.
I've also found some success flashing different radios by following this method:
- wipe data (twice)
- wipe cache partition (twice)
- wipe Delvik cache (twice)
- Flash desired radio
- Fix permissions
- Reboot
Thank you for the info...
One question, how did you unlock your device ?
was it by the carrier ?, or did you use a pay service online ?
We are having several users report different degrees of success, depending on how the device was unlocked.
I guess a second question: Did you unlock before, or after you rooted the device ? This also seems to be playing into the troubles that some TMO users are having...
Thank you again....g
I paid an online service which then gave me an unlock code for the phone. So it was unlocked first, and then rooted second. But I've come to a conclusion! I'm going to sell my Note. Speeds are extremely unreliable and the data drops are killing me!!! It feels like the data drops once every minute or so. It's just not practical for my use. I think the reason behind this problem has to do with the Note not having the 2100 band. Even when the phone shows full 4G bars, data is non-existent sometimes.
Hi everybody!
Yesterday, I applied a custom rom to my Galaxy Note and after a successful installation, my data plan wasn't working like it used to be.
I have to say this isn't the first time I have done this, and in the previous opportunities after flashing the rom and rebooting, the EDGE/3G icon appeared by itself detecting my data plan. I never had to configure the APN settings (like it is said in many posts I have seen here).
So, when I realize that it wasn't working properly, I re-flashed the rom but didn't worked. So then, I downloaded the ICS stock rom and flashed it through Odin, hoping it would reset all things here and would give me the initial configuration, but that didn't work either.
I have entered through settings and deactivated/activated the options related to mobile data, but that icon never appears or my data connection showed up.
Forgot to mention that this phone was unlocked through cellunlocker by code, and that I can make phone calls with no problem and also the Wifi works fine... And thank you in advance for any advice/help that you could make
If it's happening with different ROMs then take a look at your modem (baseband). Are you using I717UCLF6? Go to System Settings-About Phone-Baseband Version.
Like ^^^^ said, and you didn't say it, but I'm guessing T-Mobile. So flash any ROM you like, reboot and let but settle in, then flash the Blaze 4G or whatever T-Mobile modem works best for you.
You did enter your APN info?
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You did enter your APN info?
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This....^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^................g
Hello to everyone..
I live in Argentina and my carrier is Movistar.
I have a XT912 which bought it unlocked in the US.
The phone works flawlessly with the stock rom (SMS, MMS, 3G, etc)
Recently I installed CM10.1. It work very nice but I have to issues, I can't send SMS and 3G doesn't wort at all.
If I try to send a SMS it gives me an error even though I can receive SMS.
And 3G does not work even though I go to APN settings and enter the correct Movistar settings I copied from stock rom.
Any help will be appreciated...
Thanks in advance...
go into recovery, wipe cache and dalvik or flash another rom
heblu said:
go into recovery, wipe cache and dalvik or flash another rom
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I really appreciate you taking your time to answer.
I've done that several times. First times I always delete the rom slot1 then create it again and install the new nightly from CM10.1. Later I learned it isn't necessary that action so every time I install a new nightly I do what you recommend.
I try to use it frequently so the phone gets multiple reboots. I tell you this because lot of people says some things get fixed after some reboots.
Anyway if you get any new idea it would be very welcome.
Thanks..