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This past few days i'm having issues on data. It randomly drops like 2-4 times a day.
Yes i have tried different modem and rom.
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I am. I notice it about twice a day. I've done all the tmo troubleshooting and there is a "trouble ticket" out right now for my phone because of it. I run a speedtest and then take a screenshot of the 0kbps speed, to document the exact times. My plan is to follow all the troubleshooting steps and when nothing works I will request a discount on my bill every month that it occurs.
I have a sneaking suspicion that it is somehow related to throttling. Do you ever get throttled and if yes, do you get data drops more often during throttling?
i'm sure i'm not getting throttled. don't know wth is happening to my phone.
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I have my phone set to EDGE so that I don't hit the cap and get throttled, but I have EDGE crap out on me 3-5 times a day, making me have to reboot the phone to get any data back, but my calls and texts work fine even after it craps out.
I don't know if it's a phone problem, but it's damn annoying, and I will get T-Mobile to fix it, or replace my phone.
If you've tried other modems, maybe look into some of the antenna mods. They seem to help some people. Might warrant a new phone if you can prove to Tmobile its defective.
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i hope the problem is on tmobile's towers.
I have mine running on att no data issues
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Anyone else having problems with their texts being not delivered to their photon? The last 2 days ive gotten tons of texts that were sent day(s) before.....this only happens when I reboot. I cannot figure out why....anyone else having this problem?
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Anyone else having problems with their texts being not delivered to their photon? The last 2 days ive gotten tons of texts that were sent day(s) before.....this only happens when I reboot. I cannot figure out why....anyone else having this problem?
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I've had this problem over the last few days. Not only do I receive the texts days after they were sent, but I've gotten duplicates, each with separate date/time stamps. I'm guessing it has to do with roaming in/out of data coverage, but not sure.
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Roaming in and out of coverage would make sense.
It happened to me once. I rebooted and got 27 messages
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I've noticed it happening to a lot of my friends the past few days, not just on the photo. Sprint may have been experiencing a hiccup, yesterday was horrible but today seems to have cleared everything up.
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I was having the same problem. Could receive but not send. I deleted Gosms and everything was working again.
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Sprint network issue is normally the cause. Search your areas listings and i bet there was some outage or something they were working on.
I have seen this behavior across many phones and networks so it would be hard to me to think its down to the phone.
If you continue to see the same issues, see if they can reprovision your phone. I remember phones always acting up on me when id switch around to new phones. id also go ahead and make sure your phone is up to date with everything and then giver her a good ole restart. Honestly, a restart is one of the healthiest things for many electronics. just like takin a shower in the morning, it gives a new good fresh start.
On the phone with sprint for hours and even changed the phone number. I just got a replacement Photon because the first was doin the same thin. This is a fresh new out the box Photon just activated. I can't send text messages, cant make phone calls, occasionally receive text messages and some phone calls, but the internet/browser works perfectly fine. Sprint told me they checked the towers and nothin was wrong at all and everythin down to a T is correct with the phone, settings, and setup. Anybody have any clue whats going on?? thanks in advance
Did you activate Google talk? Sounds stupid but i did and then uninstalled it. So instead of text going to your phone they are going to Google. Just log into Google and deactivate talk. Took me awhile to figure that out lol. Hope it helps.
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Na no google talk. Thanks though
Damn sorry. Hope you get it figured out.
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wel so far out of nowere the new phone started working flawlessly. guess some things had to reset but so far so good. appreciate it
LMAO!! I just posted this in the wrong thread :3 Sorry guys.
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I had issues today as well on both lines. Sprint told me they had issues in my area today. Now everything is back to the normal 1.2 to 1.8 download speed on 3G. Never experienced Sprint slow unlike other people.
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yea I dont know what the deal was. they told me I had to change my number which was last resort because for a fresh brand new phone to not work and do the same as my older phone caught them by surprise. But now everything is working on point but lets see for how long
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I had issues today as well on both lines. Sprint told me they had issues in my area today. Now everything is back to the normal 1.2 to 1.8 download speed on 3G. Never experienced Sprint slow unlike other people.
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WOW... I don't even think my phone could handle speeds that fast. More like 300K over here.
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.
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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 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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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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Try This...
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!
Non of my SMS are being delivered today. Anyone else having this issue?
EDIT: Having the same issue with whatsapp messenger as well.
99.5% chance its sprints towers. Update prl and profile, reboot, wait it out. Your surrounding towers are probably being worked on. It's one of Network vision "side effects"
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Simple PRL and profile update will fix it 99% of the time
Any other ideas? I've done many PRL updates and profile updates, hard boot and soft boot and went from tower at my work to tower at my house about 45 minutes apart, and SMS still not going through.
My phone is working fine in terms of data and phone calls etc, just no SMS. Whatsapp seems to have fixed itself as well.
I've had really annoying texting issues. Probably been my biggest issue with this phone -- I guess it could be due to network vision upgrades, but it started happening right after I purchased my EVO 4G LTE. Mine hang sometimes, then other times it'll send the same message 10 times.
The only issue I've had to where it just won't send at all, even after a restart, is with my airave. I've had it happens a few times -- my texts will hang indefinitely (arrow animation never stops) until I unplug my airave.
I had issues with sms not sending today also. But I'm sure its b/c of them working on the towers LTE.because about 3 times since last Saturday I had LTE for like 5 minutes or so then gone.but sms working again now.
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It's the network upgrade guys. Coincidence or not, it's the upgrade. Everyone has complained about this and it's always the same explanation.
Do you have to call your voicemail to get your texts?
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It's the network upgrade guys. Coincidence or not, it's the upgrade. Everyone has complained about this and it's always the same explanation.
Do you have to call your voicemail to get your texts?
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Oh, okay. Color me convinced.
Funny you post this, mine are not working well this afternoon.
Just curious, are you guys using stock or custom rom?
Stock.
Anyways, I called up sprint and they were able to help me out. At first he said there was a cell site that was being worked the tech did the troubleshooting, asked me to reboot and I am able to send and receive test messages
Out of the blue I'm now unable to send text messages. :crying:
I can still receive them, just can't send them. Hopefully it's something on Sprint's end and it works itself out in a days time.
I found out I was unable to make calls as well. I restored a few previous Viper 4G nandroid backups to see if that would help, but no luck. I finally restored all the way to the stock rom w/ root and I was able to make calls again. A fresh wipe and install (not restore) of Viper 4G and I was back to not being able to make calls. Guess it's stock rom for me for awhile. Classes started today and I won't have as much time to play.
And stock pooped out too. Must've been a fluke earlier.
Things now work again. The fault is all on Sprint's end. Stupid Sprint...
I hope there's a silver lining and it means I'm getting LTE sooner than later!
Its network congestion most likely, in my experience sudden roaming or network dropping in and out in a well covered area means repair or upgrades which now that I think about it could affect text messages as well