What's going on everyone. I just switched to ATT today moving from Verizon. I've had the HTC one m8 for about 5 hours. I just noticed when I am not on Wi-Fi . It says restricted access changed. Then follows with "preparing SIM.." ..seems to be constantly happening If not on Wi-Fi and at home only. Any one have any ideas as to what this is?
Appreciate any feedback.
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Has anyone seen this on their 4G LTE? I have seen numerous posts on numerous forums for older phones, but no one can seem to give an answer that works.
I experienced this error with the HTC weather widget just showing "current location" instead of the city I was in. However, even stranger, it seems that all my HTC widgets disappeared. I couldn't see any of them to add them to a homescreen anymore.
Even stranger, it would say the same thing on both WiFi and 3G. Most of what I read said it would work on 3G but no WiFi.
I tried rebooting, clearing data of the weather widgets, sync and location services, and finally even a factory reset from the settings menu.
None of those worked. Has anyone else seen this?
Ok, I even flashed back to stock RUU and I'm still getting this error. Any ideas or thoughts?
Check out this similar thread where I posted about what I believe to be the cause of it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1684460
Where are you roughly located? Only asking because I'm trying to see if it is because of upgraded software/hardware and different tower locations.
bernechad said:
Check out this similar thread where I posted about what I believe to be the cause of it:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1684460
Where are you roughly located? Only asking because I'm trying to see if it is because of upgraded software/hardware and different tower locations.
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I'm around Knoxville, TN.
I just started having this same problem about a week or so ago. It used to show the city I was in and would instantly update whenever I was in another city but now it just says current location, and when I try to manually update it gives the "unable to contact location service." I thought maybe since the towers in my area were getting updated, that could be the reason why. I am rooted too, though I don't think that would have anything to do with it.
Has anyone else been having problems with their location and 3G signal?
For instance, every time an app needs my location, it says "Unable to detect current location". and the weather widget just says "Current Location". I've tried all the basics including disabling and re-nabling automatic time zone, restarting the phone, updating PRL and Profile, etc. Checked the settings in the weather widget and some settings were unchecked, but checking them didnt make a difference. It doesnt matter if its on Wi-Fi or 3G. It cannot seem to find my location. After updating the PRL (and contacting Sprint), it was finally able to find my location, but now its stuck on that location, even with a refresh. I'm 30 miles from the location its showing (as I travel across town for work).
Also, my 3G signal randomly drops every hour or so. Sometimes it comes back on its own, and other times, it does not. I have to go into options and manually disable and re-enable it.
I have an appointment at the Sprint store on Saturday, but I was wondering if you guys have found any fixes that would help me to avoid getting a new phone.
kennethbring said:
Has anyone else been having problems with their location and 3G signal?
For instance, every time an app needs my location, it says "Unable to detect current location". and the weather widget just says "Current Location". I've tried all the basics including disabling and re-nabling automatic time zone, restarting the phone, updating PRL and Profile, etc. Checked the settings in the weather widget and some settings were unchecked, but checking them didnt make a difference. It doesnt matter if its on Wi-Fi or 3G. It cannot seem to find my location. After updating the PRL (and contacting Sprint), it was finally able to find my location, but now its stuck on that location, even with a refresh. I'm 30 miles from the location its showing (as I travel across town for work).
Also, my 3G signal randomly drops every hour or so. Sometimes it comes back on its own, and other times, it does not. I have to go into options and manually disable and re-enable it.
I have an appointment at the Sprint store on Saturday, but I was wondering if you guys have found any fixes that would help me to avoid getting a new phone.
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lol man, I've got about 10 posts in viperrom thread about this same issue.
I don't have a (real) solution, but here's my take on it: My area was recently upgraded to 3G and this is the first sense rom I've used on those towers. For me, the problem has only been with Sense based widgets and apps. 4square, facebook, maps, everything else has no problem with my location (i always leave gps toggled on).
I go anywhere where the towers haven't been upgraded and BOOM, sense has my location within seconds. I think it has to do with the recent NV upgrades my area got and it not being fully completed.
For me to get correct location at home, I have to use wifi with home router, then use something that needs gps, then update the weather widget. That will normally hold it for a few hours.
Like I said, not a solution, but what I believe to be the cause of it. If I find a way of permanently fixing it, I'll let ya know.
bernechad said:
lol man, I've got about 10 posts in viperrom thread about this same issue.
I don't have a (real) solution, but here's my take on it: My area was recently upgraded to 3G and this is the first sense rom I've used on those towers. For me, the problem has only been with Sense based widgets and apps. 4square, facebook, maps, everything else has no problem with my location (i always leave gps toggled on).
I go anywhere where the towers haven't been upgraded and BOOM, sense has my location within seconds. I think it has to do with the recent NV upgrades my area got and it not being fully completed.
For me to get correct location at home, I have to use wifi with home router, then use something that needs gps, then update the weather widget. That will normally hold it for a few hours.
Like I said, not a solution, but what I believe to be the cause of it. If I find a way of permanently fixing it, I'll let ya know.
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Yeah, thats what Sprint told me when I called. That they recently upgraded the towers near my home. But across town where I work, it hasnt been upgraded, and its the same problem.
I do believe that has something to do with it though. Older versions of Sense didn't take the upgrade and thus arent having any problems.
Appreciate you keeping me in the loop!
kennethbring said:
Yeah, thats what Sprint told me when I called. That they recently upgraded the towers near my home. But across town where I work, it hasnt been upgraded, and its the same problem.
I do believe that has something to do with it though. Older versions of Sense didn't take the upgrade and thus arent having any problems.
Appreciate you keeping me in the loop!
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Exactly. I'm hoping that a future OTA will take care of it. I've sent a few emails to HTC regarding the issue. I know it's nothing huge nor serious, but it's nice when it works properly.
Well, at least I know I'm not the only one then. I guess swapping the phone wouldn't do much good if its tower related.
I feel like taking it into the Sprint store, the employees would just re-do everything I've already done and tell me to come back if it happens again.
I'm with bernechad in hoping a software update will fix it.
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I just got off the phone with HTC. They did not have this issue in their database but do now. I sent them a link to this thread. They did not have a clue about what to do to fix it.
For whoever is keeping the lists of locations where this is a problem I'm in Georgetown, TX.
I've had the tiKtaK Beta 2 ROM for my Verizon HTC One for a few days and everything was working great until I rebooted my phone then the WiFi stopped working. No networks showed up. I read somewhere that you need to turn WiFi off before rebooting so I tried that. All that happened was the networks appeared but I couldn't connect to any of them. I entered my password for my network and it instantly said "Failed to connect to network".
I looked all around to see if anyone has had this problem and couldn't find it so if anyone has any advice I'd appreciate it. I'm not too good with this kind of stuff so sorry if I seem like an idiot.
Thanks!
Greetings All!
XDA search is broken at the moment. Suggesting that I use Google but that's decidedly hit-or-miss.
New LG G3, can't send SMS messages, and getting almost no bars at home when my old S3 is still getting two or three bars.
Any thoughts?
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers, Henri
Henri Blanche said:
Greetings All!
XDA search is broken at the moment. Suggesting that I use Google but that's decidedly hit-or-miss.
New LG G3, can't send SMS messages, and getting almost no bars at home when my old S3 is still getting two or three bars.
Any thoughts?
Many thanks in advance.
Cheers, Henri
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In case you have not tried, airplane mode cycle or restart phone help at all?
Also I assume you don't have Wi-Fi calling on? Mine shuts off cell service when I have a good Wi-Fi connection too save battery.
_Dennis_ said:
In case you have not tried, airplane mode cycle or restart phone help at all?
Also I assume you don't have Wi-Fi calling on? Mine shuts off cell service when I have a good Wi-Fi connection too save battery.
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Well, I didn't have Wi-Fi calling on; but removing the battery and replacing it did the trick for the SMS issue. Still disappointed with the reception in my house even though I do have Google Voice and VOIP so any incoming and outgoing calls aren't usually placed or taken via the mobile phone anyway.
So far have a love/hate relationship with the phone. I'll be testing the heck out of it over the next couple of days or so.
Another option to try. Go to Settings> More>mobile networks and set it to CDMA. Global seems to give a lot of people issues.
If you have LTE, you'll need to set that one.
Something else to consider...
Have you tried to update the PRL for your G3?
Settings -> General -> System Updates -> Update PRL
After the PRL has been updated, reboot your phone and report if there has been any improvement with reception.
wosiek said:
Something else to consider...
Have you tried to update the PRL for your G3?
Settings -> General -> System Updates -> Update PRL
After the PRL has been updated, reboot your phone and report if there has been any improvement with reception.
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I'll give that a shot and see how things look this evening. Thanks.
About 8-10 months ago.....maybe a little longer, my wife and I purchased two LG K7 (LG-K330) on the Family Mobile plan (T-mobile). I have had zero problems with my phone. My wife on the other hand is having some bizarre problems and she's blaming me for them. Here is a small list of some of the problems:
1. Being blocked from websites that she has been to on several occasions.
2. When going to a website, she will get either redirected or a screen saying 404 Error and one that states she does not have permission.
3. On Facebook, she has lost the ability to access all of her settings. Her "Sharing" configuration has changed and she can't set it back. And she's saying that she doesn't have the same amount of access that she had previously.. She says that sometimes she can't access links in Facebook and when she tries it bounces her right back to where she was.
She has been poking around the phones files and she claims that there are very similar file on my laptop computer. Now she thinks I am trying to limit her access and phone usage. For all I know, she has deleted something that needs to be on the phone. My question is has anyone experienced something like this before and if so, is it repairable? One more note on this matter. This is the fourth phone that this has happened on. The others were Samsung's.
Any help would be greatly appreciated because I can finally prove to her that I'm not smart enough to "hack her phone.
LG K7
Provider: Family Mobile
Model LG-K330
Android ver. 5.1.1
Security Patch Level: 2017-04-01
Build Number: LMY47V
Software ver. K33011g
Phone has never been rooted and has stock firmware. It has been connected to my laptop a couple of times to transfer photo's.
That's a bizarre problem to be having. But have you tried factory resetting it? Back up important files like photos beforehand. This honestly sounds more like a problem with the network than the phone. Have you been using the network? Make sure your DNS is correct and that your network isn't being limited.
Billybobjoe13245 said:
That's a bizarre problem to be having. But have you tried factory resetting it? Back up important files like photos beforehand. This honestly sounds more like a problem with the network than the phone. Have you been using the network? Make sure your DNS is correct and that your network isn't being limited.
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I swear it's her doing it somehow. It happens to every phone she has used. I have done several factory resets and it hasn't helped. She used our wi-fi connection at home ALL the time. I'll check out the DNS and see if it's being limited. But I would think that I would be having the same problem as I use the network a lot too.
Hey Billybobjoe, I have some additional information that might clarify the problem. She says she cant reach "https" sites, she can only see part of her Facebook page, the permissions are growing and sharing is a lot worse. She says she can't really get to a "real" website(it says something about "there is no cache for the page". She also states that she can no longer change her privacy settings on Facebook and that she thinks her phone is heavily connected to Russian social media websites.
Does this help in any way? Thanks in advance for all your help in this matter.
Billybobjoe13245 said:
That's a bizarre problem to be having. But have you tried factory resetting it? Back up important files like photos beforehand. This honestly sounds more like a problem with the network than the phone. Have you been using the network? Make sure your DNS is correct and that your network isn't being limited.
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