Anyone else had an issue with the G3 showing a time that's several hours off? I live in a large metro area in the midwest; my house is out in the suburbs, and I work downtown. When I'm anywhere but downtown, the time on my phone is accurate. Once I get close to work, the time shifts +4 hours and stays that way until I get home. Both time and time zone are set to automatic, although toggling these options off and on again will force it to show the correct time for about 3-5 minutes, and then it switches back. Spent about 45 minutes on the phone with Verizon, and they said it's "a GPS problem with the G3. LG says to do a hard reset." Even if I set the location to "Battery Saver", which to my understanding doesn't even use GPS, it still shows the incorrect time. I find it hard to believe that a hard reset will magically fix my issue. For the time being, the only way to resolve the issue is to turn off automatic time.
Anyone else experience anything like this?
Yes lots of time issues with this phone. Here is another thread with reports of odd problems.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2904900
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Hi,
When I go in a dead zone (Montreal underground metro) and lose my network signal, the phone will not reconnect unless I force it using the airplane widget.
This happens randomly.
Anyone else have this issue?
Thanks,
The Internetzz
Same thing happens to me in the NYC subway, but sometimes not even airplane mode will bring it back up I have to restart the phone to get signal back.
That's what just happen to me. Any one gets any idea?
I just exchanged one on Saturday, AT&T didn't even question it. I told them that it was random, and I had to reboot the phone to get my data service to reconnect. Now the replacement is starting to do the same thing...
Symptom 1: randomly losing signal (H+ and cellular) and getting red circle. (reboot required)
Symptom 2: after exiting a dead zone, network wont hook back on (red circle). I have to enable then disable airplane mode. Happened once or twice that I had to force a reboot.
As far as speed, I get ~3194 kbps down and 57 kbps up... It's kinda sucking.
Phone replaced. Same problem so far. I hope the next update will fix this because they do not want to exchange my phone (you have used it for over 30 minutes)... Lesson learned. Never buy the phone directly from the carrier.
i have the same problem with my motorola defy. reconnect sometimes needs over 30 minutes. sometimes a manual network selection does the trick, but sometimes i get a simcard not allowed error. really annoying bug! no one any idea for a fix or an app that solves this?
I currently have the same issue every time I go through the tunnel on the train. I had the same issue with my MyTouch3g and it was rectified when I updated the radio...so a radio upgrade would be nice
This has happened to me twice (in a row) lately. At around 8PM EST those two nights, service on my phone just disappears. The only way to get signal back was to remove my battery while the phone was on (soft reset) and everything went back to normal again.
Does anyone know the cause of this minor glitch?
Is it the Rom?
The kernel?
Or just the phone itself?
I need the answer to this ASAP because I have about 6 more days before my 30 day refund gives way. If it's the phone I would like to get a replacement before it's too late.
SpectraDawn said:
This has happened to me twice (in a row) lately. At around 8PM EST those two nights, service on my phone just disappears. The only way to get signal back was to remove my battery while the phone was on (soft reset) and everything went back to normal again.
Does anyone know the cause of this minor glitch?
Is it the Rom?
The kernel?
Or just the phone itself?
I need the answer to this ASAP because I have about 6 more days before my 30 day refund gives way. If it's the phone I would like to get a replacement before it's too late.
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the only way to tell if its the phone is to revert back to stock and test it out. Its very odd that you're getting data loss at the same time everyday....i dont have an explanation for that.
Tower maintenance perhaps? Try switching to airplane mode for a few minutes and then turn airplane mode off and see if service returns. If the tower drops off for a short time, your phone may initially query the tower often but then after a couple of minutes, switch to querying at a much lower rate to save battery. Pulling the battery and re installing forces the phone to query at the higher rate - much the same way that switching on and off airplane mode might.
Just a thought. I've had similar issues in my area where the tower would drop out at the same time for several days.
Good luck!
nyydynasty said:
the only way to tell if its the phone is to revert back to stock and test it out. Its very odd that you're getting data loss at the same time everyday....i dont have an explanation for that.
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I will try that and see if there is any difference.
FESCSteve said:
Tower maintenance perhaps? Try switching to airplane mode for a few minutes and then turn airplane mode off and see if service returns. If the tower drops off for a short time, your phone may initially query the tower often but then after a couple of minutes, switch to querying at a much lower rate to save battery. Pulling the battery and re installing forces the phone to query at the higher rate - much the same way that switching on and off airplane mode might.
Just a thought. I've had similar issues in my area where the tower would drop out at the same time for several days.
Good luck!
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The thing about the tower issue is that I thought the same thing. But my roommate has ATT and every time I had no service, he had full bars. The first time this happened I talked to an ATT rep and he was confused as well on why that would happened. Suggested returning my phone if it happened again, which it did.
I'll see if it happens again tonight
I've noticed here recently that when I turn on my phone, it displays standard time, then military time, which it is set to. Sometimes, it will show an outdated time before it updates itself. We're talking a matter of seconds, but I didn't know if anybody had an idea.
I see the same thing. It's annoying.
Especially the standard time to Military time.
I could partly understand the update in a time from when the phone went to sleep, or screen is shutoff to when it wakes up, but this is poor programming.
Anyone have an idea for a fix?
Once my phone was off 20 minutes when I woke up. It would update each minute just fine, except it was off exactly 20 minutes.
I had to reboot to fix it. I don't believe I was stock, but I don't remember which kernel I was running. I flashed it again shortly after that.
Hasn't happened since.
This is one of the many reasons I NEVER trust the alarm on a phone. I've had problems of them not going off even back when I had a razr.
If I'm travelling, I'll make sure to set the alarm on at least 2 phones (if I'm with others), just in case.
I recently purchased a USED S4 Active, and I am having an unusual problem with it.
I will leave my house in the morning. ALl during my drive to work, my data does't work. It's on, it just doesn't have "4g" at the top, and I can't use the internet, etc. Toggling the data does not help, neither does resetting the phone. About the time I get to work (after about a 15 minute drive), my data pops back on.
Today, at work, my phone connected to a stray wifi connection (One that I have used before, so my phone remembered it) just for a minute or two. Once it disconnected from the wi-fi, my mobile data was gone. Just like when I leave my house: It was gone for about 15 minutes, just like before, and then just popped back on like everything was OK.
I don't THINK this is an issue with my particular phone, but if it is I need to know so I can return it. I've searched high and low, but no one else seems to have had this problem. So I figured I would turn to the best!
Model: Samsung Galaxy S4 Active
Android version: 4.2.2
AT&T phone, but unlocked and working under the T-Mobile network.
Bump, i guess.
I have a bit of an update over the weekend. Apparently this isn't JUST from wi-fi. I had it turned off over the weekend, and I still would get dropped data for about 15-30 minutes at a time, about 2 or 3 times a day. I would have full bars, have good phone service, but just no data connectivity. The "Mobile Data" option is on the entire time, it never shuts off.
I'm going to the T-Mobile store hopefully today or tomorrow, but my hopes aren't high. I'd much rather get help from people who know what they're doing.
Hi All,
Firstly, I'm new here so please accept my apologies in advance if this is entirely the wrong place to open up this thread. Forgive me if I've gone into too much detail here, but thought it made sense to put as much info down - much of the following mayor may not therefore be relevant to the particular problem I'm having.
I have a Galaxy Note 3, which I've had for some 19 months now and it has generally been very good and reliable. I drive quite a lot, and my car is a VAG group car which uses rSAP to connect via Bluetooth - this too has been very stable and reliable.
About 3 months ago I noticed that my battery life had suddenly reduced dramatically, despite no change in use from my part (no new apps, not suddenly watching YouTube 24/7 etc.). I figured the battery had passed it's best, so went to the high street and purchased a new genuine Samsung battery, but this behaved exactly the same as the original battery.
I then noticed, occasionally, that while at home, my WiFi was dropping it's connection to my router, complaining that "Authentication Failed" (despite the WiFi password not having changed). Disabling the WiFi on the phone, and then re-enabling it seemed to fix this.
The following month, I had a notification from my provider that I'd used 80% of my data allowance, and a few days later another warning that I was at 90%. I get 10GB per month in my deal, and AFAIK, I've never in the past come anywhere close to using this up. A few days later, I tried to get online to google something, and landed on an EE page telling me I'd used up all my data for the month, which would reset the following day. I put this down to the WiFi Authentication problem mentioned above.
The following day, the phone told me that an android update was available. I applied this update, and thats when things started going really odd! The phone suddenly became very slow to respond. Sometimes turning the phone on would yield the lock screen with no wallpaper, other times I'd get the wallpaper and nothing else (no digits to unlock the phone for example). And I noticed that when in the car, the rSAP connection would drop off after 10 minutes or so - I put this down to the phone being unresponsive, and called EE.
EE recommended that I return the phone to factory defaults, which I did. After this, the phone is definitely more responsive, but now my rSAP connection drops out after around 2 minutes, and then re-connects. If I am actually on a call, the connection stays up for a little bit longer, but still drops out after 5-7 minutes. If I have the phone plugged into a charger in the car, it stays connected for a little bit longer, sometimes up to 15 minutes, but still regularly drops it's connection.
I noticed that this new o/s has a new feature for "Trusted devices", which I've added the car as, but this made no difference.
It is almost as if, this new version has included some sort of bluetooth power saving feature whereby if nothing much is happening (i.e. I'm not actively in a call), the conneciton drops out after a couple of minutes - unless I'm on external power, in which case it drops out after a bit longer. Prior to the update, it would stay connected, sometimes for hours at a time.
Has anyone else encountered this problem, and can you offer any suggestions as to what I might be able to do to investigate further (eg. are there any bluetooth logs I can inspect?) or better, fix the problem.
Your help is much appreciated