I'm at a loss on this one - a few days ago I lost the hotspot feature on my phone(s). Mine was rooted with BAMF 1.5 and my wife's is factory. I have tried everything I can think of to get the hotspot to work with no luck, so I finally gave in and called Verizon cs who transferred me to 2nd tier tech who tried everything including factory reboot on both phones. He finally gave up and sent me a replacement over night. That worked for a little while but now it doesn't work either. I figured it was maybe the laptops (I have a VAIO, wife has a Toshiba). I restored mine back to factory and tried it again with no luck!
I am at a loss here...can anyone guide me to get this working again? I am crossing my fingers that it is just a stupid setting or something I'm overlooking.
EDIT- Also tried the teathering fix from adrynalyne...still no luck with it
Related
I have been running custom roms on my droid since the root explot was first discovered, and I have a rooted xoom as well. Last night I rooted my thunderbolt and installed the debloated rom. I don't think it is even related to my problem, as it still worked fine after doing this, but I thought it was worth mentioning. I removed the sim card today, just to prove to my brother that it did indeed have a sim, and after reinsertation, my thunderbolt has not been able to connect to a data network. I do not live in a 4g area, and I have tried reseating the sim several times. I can make phone calls, wifi works fine, but I cannot get the 3g icon, and the browser won't load if not on wifi.. I'm starting to get scared. I can't think of anything else to try. Any suggestions?
EDIT 1: I have intermittent 1x data, but I never get 3g. And when I say intermittent, I mean I get it like right after a call for maybe a minute, then it goes away.
Sent from my Xoom using XDA Premium App
I had this same issue as well when I removed and reinserted my SIM card. When I booted back up I was stuck on 1xRTT. After making a call, they phone locked back on to LTE and everything was good after that. If it still isn't working I would recommend giving Verizon a call. They may be able to reactivate it. I did notice that the problem persisted even though I flashed a couple different roms on the device. I'm thinking it probably isn't a great idea to remove and insert the SIM if you don't have to.
Just an update,
I spent 2.5 hours at the effing verizon store today after spending an hour on the phone. Even after all that time, and giving me a new SIM, they STILL couldn't get my TB to connect to 3g. They said that it might magically start working at midnight for no particular reason, but had no clue what to do (I was actually at a corporate store btw) If it doesnt start working tonight, I am going back tomorrow. I have no idea what the hell is up. I am very tech savvy, and this is just insane. It must be a verizon problem in my area that it wont let the phone reactivate for the 3g/4g
Any ideas? I have a Plain Jane rooted TB that has been stuck in 1X despite (in order):
- rebooting
- pulling battery
- restoring a known good saved ROM from ROM Manager
- toggling enable on RevA
- installing jcase's rooted 1.70.605 OTA and MR2 radio
- factory reset
I am in midtown Manhattan. I should have stellar 3G/4G. Is there anything left to do but return the phone to VZ?
Bluecat.NYC said:
Any ideas? I have a Plain Jane rooted TB that has been stuck in 1X despite (in order):
- rebooting
- restoring a known good saved ROM from ROM Manager
- toggling enable on RevA
- installing jcase's rooted 1.70.605 OTA and MR2 radio
- factory reset
I am in midtown Manhattan. I should have stellar 3G/4G. Is there anything left to do but return the phone to VZ?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
You should check your settings and see if your mobile network is on(obvious answer and I feel like you have probably done that). Make sure you dont have any apps that are turning it off i.e. juicedefender or any other apps that control your mobile network. It could be the ROM you are using so try and use your stock ROM and see if you get 3G/4G in that. Make sure your SIM card is in properly. I do not know if that will be an issue but it could help. Also along with ROMs make sure the ROM you are using is friendly with the radio you are using. I can not think of much else. Google it too and search this forum or others that might help too! Good luck.
The simplest and most obvious possibility that still has to be asked: Do you have the back cover on the phone?
wichi2010 said:
You should check your settings and see if your mobile network is on(obvious answer and I feel like you have probably done that). Make sure you dont have any apps that are turning it off i.e. juicedefender or any other apps that control your mobile network. It could be the ROM you are using so try and use your stock ROM and see if you get 3G/4G in that. Make sure your SIM card is in properly. I do not know if that will be an issue but it could help. Also along with ROMs make sure the ROM you are using is friendly with the radio you are using. I can not think of much else. Google it too and search this forum or others that might help too! Good luck.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have the Stock ROM w/corret radio and yes mobile is on, airplane mode off. Also tried pulling the battery. This sucker stuck on 1X for dear life.
FreemanB said:
The simplest and most obvious possibility that still has to be asked: Do you have the back cover on the phone?
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
yes, back cover is on
I had the same problem you did. I used Bamf 3.0 and flash the newest leak radio. My phone all of the sudden the next day dropped 3G. I went into the VZ store today and told them my sim card died and they gave me a new one. It working now, so I said unroot your phone like I did and get a new sim card. Make sure you update to their newest software before going into the store.
Seem like alot of people on the forum are saying they are not getting 3G/4G lately after the new radio that was out. I got my radio the day it was leak.
gammagogeta said:
I had the same problem you did. I used Bamf 3.0 and flash the newest leak radio. My phone all of the sudden the next day dropped 3G. I went into the VZ store today and told them my sim card died and they gave me a new one. It working now, so I said unroot your phone like I did and get a new sim card. Make sure you update to their newest software before going into the store.
Seem like alot of people on the forum are saying they are not getting 3G/4G lately after the new radio that was out. I got my radio the day it was leak.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks. But I had my problem before I flashed the new radio. I've been using the original plain jane root from back in March. It worked two nights ago, was stuck in 1X the next morning.
Since I now have the new OTA stock is there an easy way to get it out of root or should I just follow the sticky instructions and go all the way back to original ROM?
Instead of taking it in you could also just give them(verizon) a call. I know they can see if your phone is rooted from there and many verizon workers have theirs rooted and might be able to help you!
Yeah mine worked 2 days ago too but yesterday it died I was using bamf for a while now. I flashed the radio before that too, all of the sudden it just dropped. The guy at VZ store told me that never happened before that a sim card just die like that.
wichi2010 said:
Instead of taking it in you could also just give them(verizon) a call. I know they can see if your phone is rooted from there and many verizon workers have theirs rooted and might be able to help you!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Thanks, but I spoke to VZ last night. The rep was nice and all but said the factory reset should fix the problem (it didn't) He said the next step would be to replace the phone. I might call again tonight to see if I can bump up the tech support ladder to someone more knowledgeable. Still hoping someone here could help me out.
Like I said, I had the original plain jane root that everyone did back in March when the phone came out. No reason for it to suddenly get stuck in 1X the other day.
Ive had that problem twice now. The first time my 4g antenna stopped working for whatever reason. I replaced the battery cover and it worked again for a few days. When it stopped again I called verizon and they sent me a new phone which is probably what youre gonna have to do.
So... VZ is next-day mailing me a new phone. I wanted to exchange it in the city but they said once you have the phone for more than 14 days exchanges have to be done by mail. Still, I'd love to know why the phone died.
Starting on Monday night 02/18/13 I was going through settings on my phone and accidentally selected Band 800 not knowing what I was doing. Immediately I noticed I was unable to send sms/mms. Later I discovered unable to send/receive calls. I can receive mms/sms and data works just fine.
The phone shows a 4g connection (cdma+lte) but if I switch to cdma it loses signal.
I have already spent the past 2 days on the phone with Verizon and HTC. Neither of them can figure out how to fix my problem. I have factory reset the phone, replaced SIM card with a new one, updated OS to ICS from http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2136273 and updated the radio from the same post.
I used the DEBLOATED Rom Deodexed version: 7.02.605.06 710RD
Phone is rooted with Revolutionary.
After several more factory resets as directed by Verizon and HTC, the initial issue remains.
I rooted my phone in 2011 and have had zero issues til Monday when I selected that band 800 setting.
I am unable to receive a factory replacement due to the phone being quite worn and used. I am not willing to pay Verizon a $100 deductible to replace my phone (pointless having insurance if I have to dish out more $$$ to use it)
Please if anyone out there knows how to fix this...help me.
Go back to what you messed around with and see if you can change it back
If I hadn't already tried that and it worked, I wouldn't have made a thread on here. Verizon and HTC both can't even figure out why it won't work.
The craziest thing is I had switched service over to a different phone (HTC Imagio Windows Mobile) and still had the same issue. That phone isn't rooted or modified in any way. Had never been used til I took it out of the box and had Verizon change service over to it.
It is definitely something with Verizon and HTC phone on their end, not mine.
I am now on a 3 year old Blackberry Curve that isn't having any of the issues either of the HTC phones had.
Hmm strange but i remember back in september i flashed Newts sense 4.0 rom and it was too laggy so i went back to stock 2.1 and my data was out it had the 4g icon and everything and but it would timeout and my texts would come in late even though i tried many radios and even called verizon but no luck. In the end I went to the Rom Roll up thread and flashed the Froyo Ruu from Hboot and let it do its thing then i upgraded it all the way to Gingerbread rooted again with revolutionary and that fixed my radio problem might fix yours too im not sure just sharing my experience
A new problem...I still have 4.3 on my Verizon Note 2, have updates disabled via Titanium Backup, still have the original Verizon unlimited plan...the phone does exactly what I want it to do, see no reason to mess with a winning formula. Most of the time I'm on my pc, I use the Pdanet hotspot to get connection. (It uses "FoxFi" to accomplish that, can't say I'm exactly sure how) Anyhow, when firing up the wifi mode, it always has to verify with some server that I've paid the 'subscription' fee. For the last 2 days, that process just times out. I've restarted phone, uninstalled / reinstalled pdanet/FoxFi key, no change. Always times out whilst 'checking subscription status'. (USB mode DOES work, however) I suppose there could be a problem on the other end....hope this isn't something that Verizon has managed to stomp.
Anyone else familiar with this problem, else have a work-around?
I am having the same problem since yesterday afternoon. I hope someone can figure this out.
Same problem also did verizon put a block on it
Same here! Going crazy as this is only internet for me!
Wife has same problem...I'm thinking it's a problem with the server that FoxFi uses to verify that you've purchased their app. Prolly get fixed monday
(Question: I really haven't done anything to this phone for a couple years...did they ever make it truly rootable beyond 4.3? That is...to the point where you can enable the wifi-hotspot without using a 3rd party app)
Direstraights1980 said:
Same here! Going crazy as this is only internet for me!
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Us as well...and THAT'S only because there's a 10' stick of bamboo attached to my chimney, with an omni-directional antenna on top of THAT, feeding a cell-phone booster (Gives us passable 3G upstairs, which gets pushed around our hovel with a wifi-repeater. About as Green Acres as you can get)
Foxfi is working again. Got up and tried this morning expecting the same checking for subscription message but to my surprise it worked exactly as normal. No updates or anything. Keep it up Foxfi Your Awsome!!
Within the last week, I downloaded and installed the latest update for the Sprint S9+ (ARG7). Before getting the update, Calling Plus was working fine. The transition from wifi to data during a call worked great. After taking the update, CP is hit and miss. Sometimes it's enabled, sometimes it isn't. It usually only enables itself while on wifi. When on a call and leaving wifi, CP completely drops and the call drops. Is anyone else having this issue? If so, how did you fix it? I'm really hoping I won't have to reset my phone.
It all makes sense now.... I've been on the phone with Sprint and Samsung the least few days and nobody can figure out why. They wiped and reinstalled everything... Still nothing... Went today to Sprint and they gave me another sim card.... Still don't work.... So I just looked up online and see that Sprint is doing away with calling plus and finally getting voilp..... And the technician said that Sprint was discontinuing calling plus
bone6606 said:
It all makes sense now.... I've been on the phone with Sprint and Samsung the least few days and nobody can figure out why. They wiped and reinstalled everything... Still nothing... Went today to Sprint and they gave me another sim card.... Still don't work.... So I just looked up online and see that Sprint is doing away with calling plus and finally getting voilp..... And the technician said that Sprint was discontinuing calling plus
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I ended up resetting my phone and it fixed it at that time. I still randomly have Calling Plus crap out. No idea why it's happening still. Sprint is indeed doing away with Calling Plus in favor of VoLTE. People have been saying don't take the update for your phone for VoLTE of you're not in a soft launch market.