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
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I bought a touch pro off of ebay. When I got it the phone was already unlocked. I went to get it activated last night. when I left I called my voicemail and checked my messages. Everything worked fine. But before I went to sleep I noticed I wasnt getting good signal. I did *228 and did both options. Didnt help.
Today at work I received two text messages, but i still could not connect to data (email) So after work I drove to alltel to see what was wrong. Come to find out I couldn't make or receive any calls. They told me the speaker was broken, after convincing them that it wasn't in fact the speaker, they put me on the phone with alltel tech. They concluded that my PRL was way out of date, amd they couldnt figure out why my phone wouldnt make any calls and that my phone was broke. I asked if I could just update the prl manually via EPST and they said yes but essentially it would not make a difference because it has to be done over the air. And since I could not make any calls Im basically S.O.L.
So basically when I left alltel I was under the impression I was infact S.O.L. and I bought a junk phone.
But a mile down the road, it worked again, granted, it took along time for calls to go through, but i could make a call to my voicemail, to *228, and I got the "test" txt message from the alltel rep that never went through..
now, 3 miles down the road, a little bit out of town, I tried to send the rep a txt message saying "IT WORKS!!" But it would not work, I am back to square one and cannot make any outgoing calls. Its almost like I am "out of coverage area" But any other time I have full bars at my home, which is only 6 miles out of town.
I manually updated my PRL to no avail. I cant do anything with this phone.
I think either its on its way out, and is working intermittently, or I need to go back to town where it was working earlier, and try to reprogram the phone again now that I have the new PRL in the phone, but I doubt this will work.
I am wondering if re-locking the phone will take care of the issue, but I am skeptical of that as well. I think the phone is screwed.
There's a link to a recently released alltel stock rom on this site, have you tried flashing the newer rom? It will update your PRI and PRL and radio. It may be worth a shot, seems you're up the creek anyway.....
do you have a link to the rom? I cant find it. I downloaded the one from HTC website and its from 2009-07-07. I flashed it last night.
the 7-7-09 one is the one he is talking about... once flashed it will install a PRL from 2 months ago what is a good PRL and update to the latest radio. if that doesnt fix you issue i think u got sold a bad phone man srry... find the guy who shipped it to you and burn down his house
depending on how the first person unlocked the phone could of caused some issues but none of the unlockers that i know of would cause this. so re locking it depending if it was on alltel before or not could fix it but could also make it so you cant flash anything to it.
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?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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The simplest and most obvious possibility that still has to be asked: Do you have the back cover on the phone?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
So I installed CM7 following the wiki on there site, using Revolutionary.io Everything worked fine, got s-off, installed the CWM recovery and then installed CM7. Well when I boot to CM7 the phone is telling me that it is no longer activated. It worked perfectly before. Ive rooted several EVOs on Sprint in the past and have no issues, didnt know if anyone had has some similar problems before and what they did to fix it.
This is a common Revolutionary bug.
You can try to take the battery out for a full minute and then go to settings, update, update profile. Then update the PRL. This did not work for me.
If that fails you need to try to send text messages and record the error codes when they fail. Call sprint from a different phone and give them those codes (dont tell them you rooted or s-off'ed) Hopefully you get someone with half a brain and they ask you for the IMEL code (behind the battery) and reset your phone. It took me 3 calls (and resets) to Sprint over a week but finally it stuck. On a friends phone it only took 1 reset by Sprint to get it to work. If you have any call or text failures after Sprint resets it you need to call them again.
I personally believe this is caused by a failure in the hands-free activation mechanism preformed after running Revolutionary.
Is it possible that you flashed a GSM rom aka the wrong radios? I'm assuming you mean it has no network connections by "not activated", some more detail might help you get a solution quicker.
Good luck!
Well after some reading, people were saying that I should go back to stock and then reactivate. So I did that and when back to CM7 and and nothing. Others were saying to play with the MSL buy dialing ##3282 or 228 but I didn't have the code for it so I just went back to CM7 and it turns out it works now. Not sure why but who the hell cares. Sucks that Revolutionary has those issues. Its worked great for me so far.
I had this happen too right after I rooted a week ago using Revolutionary.
It's no big deal and you don't need to waste your time switching roms or jumping through hoops just call Sprint and tell the your phone just stopped receiving calls.
In my case my 3g data worked but not texts or calls. I called Sprint and just said my phone wasn't making or receiving texts or calls and I wasn't sure why.
They just reset something on their end or whatever they do and I was good to go. No need to do anything else.
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Hello all,
First post on XDA; I've been searching for this issue for the past 4 hours, and found very little. I hope I haven't missed anything.
Long Story
Had a rooted phone, tried to flash JellyBAM; worked, except that kernel got messed up (touchscreen didn't work). Problem remained even after restoring HTC Sense. I assumed it was b/c my phone still had S-ON.
After successfully running DirtyRacun on my Evo 4g LTE, I flashed JellyBAM 7.6.2 (using TWRP 2.4.4.0, wiped Dalvik, Cache, Factory Reset & System first). Everything worked fine, except that there is no mobile network whatsoever. When booting JellyBAM, it prompts me to activate my phone:
"A special call needs to be made to activate your phone service. After pressing 'Activate', listen to the instructions provided to activate your phone."
I do this, but the problem is that I get an automated message: "Your account is not authorized to make calls to this phone number. If you would like to have additional capabilities added to your account, please call Customer Service."
This is the same message I get trying to make any phone call. Nothing (data, calls, etc) works on the mobile network now. I called Sprint to see if they could simply de-active then reactive my phone, but it appears to them as already activated. The tech I spoke w/ thinks I may have deleted the Sprint programming.
This sounds plausible, but what's REALLY WEIRD is that *2 still dials Sprint perfectly, and holding 1 still tries to check voicemail. So clearly some aspects of it connect with Sprint still. I have no idea what's messed up, unfortunately.
I don't believe JellyBAM is the culprit here, b/c after DirtyRacun but before flashing JellyBAM, I still had this problem.
Helpful Info
Android Version: 4.2.2
Radio Version: 1.12.11.1119
Kernel version: 3.0.73-g5d13a2c
JellyBAM 7.6.2
Question
Is there anything I can do to fix this so that my phone can reconnect with and use Sprint's mobile network? I'd really like to preserve JellyBAM, S-Off, and Root, given the amount of time and effort it took to get those working. Thank you so much, any help would be greatly appreciated.
First, try updating your radio.
I'd say to RUU back to stock and see if the problem persists. If it does then take it to Sprint and they should give you a replacement if you have the YEP. I had a similar but not so screwey situation, a few actually, like yours and when I lost all network Sprint replaced my phone. I've always had success dialing my voicemail after attempted activations and then my phone would kick back in within about 15 minutes while keep texting and calling my home phone.
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Delakit said:
First, try updating your radio.
I'd say to RUU back to stock and see if the problem persists. If it does then take it to Sprint and they should give you a replacement if you have the YEP. I had a similar but not so screwey situation, a few actually, like yours and when I lost all network Sprint replaced my phone. I've always had success dialing my voicemail after attempted activations and then my phone would kick back in within about 15 minutes while keep texting and calling my home phone.
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Thank you for your response, I really appreciate the help.
I updated my radio, which went smoothly, but unfortunately it didn't work. What's frustrating is that I don't even know what the problem is. I know it isn't the ROM I flashed (since it had the same problem on HTC Sense before I flashed JellyBAM). It seems to have started after DirtyRacun S-Off process.
I'm still pretty noob so I don't know what else besides radio it could be. I'm really reluctant to try and restore my phone to stock due to the amount of time I spent learning to root and S-Off it. Wouldn't want that to be in vain, though I might not have a choice at this point.
Is there something I should try next?
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Thank you for your response, I really appreciate the help.
I updated my radio, which went smoothly, but unfortunately it didn't work. What's frustrating is that I don't even know what the problem is. I know it isn't the ROM I flashed (since it had the same problem on HTC Sense before I flashed JellyBAM). It seems to have started after DirtyRacun S-Off process.
I'm still pretty noob so I don't know what else besides radio it could be. I'm really reluctant to try and restore my phone to stock due to the amount of time I spent learning to root and S-Off it. Wouldn't want that to be in vain, though I might not have a choice at this point.
Is there something I should try next?
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Flash back to a sense rom and update Profile and PRL if that doesn't work call Sprint and have them re-provision your phone
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Flash back to a sense rom and update Profile and PRL if that doesn't work call Sprint and have them re-provision your phone
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Before calling sprint, Google the 4g lte dialer codes, I'm sure there is one that activates the wireless reactivation process (that was the case with my old gs3)
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I know after achieving S-off, I had to call Sprint due to a security issue. I couldn't make calls or anything.
It was painless and took all of 5 minutes.
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So about a week ago I switched from Verizon to Cricket with my SCH-i545 that I foolishly updated to OC1 through OTA before leaving Verizon *doh, what a dummy I am*. I have had a persistent problem with sending SMS messages when connected to 4G LTE and I am not sure what else to do, here's what i've done up to this point.
1. Checked and rechecked a thousand times the APN settings of the phone, they are exactly as listed on the Cricket site.
2. Contacted customer support VIA zendesk, checked my APN settings again, had the customer service member "refresh" the signal to my cell phone and after that didn't work he shipped me a new SIM card because I wasn't able to access the "message centre" to check my SMSC number like you can on most S4's due to VZW's restrictions (cant access it through dialer codes either, those are also restricted). Got the new sim, he activated it, still doesn't work.
So, I guess my question comes down to, HOW IN THE WORLD can I view and edit my SMSC number is that is the culprit (which I think it might be). My wife has ZERO troubles with her phone and has the exact same setup except she didn't upgrade (thankfully) to Lollipop OC1.
Hopefully someone out there has dealt with this already and I have just missed it although my search hasn't turned up anything. Sorry that i'm not more well versed in the lingo for this type of stuff, and I hope my post is easy enough to understand.
I really hope I won't have to just get a new phone.
Me too
Stuck in the same boat as you. Either waiting for T-Mobile to release their lollipop update or hope for a root so we can get back off the OC1 update. Luckily my GF has a backup phone while we wait for people smarter than us to come up with a fix
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Stuck in the same boat as you. Either waiting for T-Mobile to release their lollipop update or hope for a root so we can get back off the OC1 update. Luckily my GF has a backup phone while we wait for people smarter than us to come up with a fix
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Yep, I just wish I could LOOK AT the SMSC number, that would at least tell me if that is what the problem is or not.
That or disable the freaking 4G LTE so I can send a message. Never again will I OTA an update, lesson learned. Thing is that my wife is on the EXACT same setup, just with the old kitkat instead of lollipop and her SMS works just fine on the same S4 on 4G LTE. Sigh, IDK.
SCH-I545 + Lollipop + Cricket = No outgoing text + no keytones from dialer
Had same issue + no keytones on dialer so can't check VM. I just about bricked my phone trying to resolve it and lost the mk2 BL in the process, could not go back to JB or KK. This was a disaster. I found elsewhere people taking their SCH-I545 to TMobile has same issue. My only conclusion is that the VZW firmware nazis clamped down harder and harder with every OTA until you can't take your phone elsewhere. My XO with identical phone is still on JB with Hyperdrive and has no issues. I won't be upgrading her phone.
I am just about ready to go office space gangster on my VZW + Samsung product. My only recourse with this phone is to get Google Voice, which I have done for exactly $0. On a Cricket group plan with 5 people I only pay $24/mo for 2.5GB of data so if you have 4 people you trust to pay their bill on time there is no better deal. We'll see if that is enough with GV, it probably will be. So all Cricket is to me now is an LTE service and I can use any carrier and my carrier number doesn't matter anymore, it's just a gateway. So if you don't mind assimilating into the Borg GV has some real benefits and will resolve this VZW issue.
In the meantime, I am setting aside the $ I save on Cricket and I will buy an unlocked phone from HTC or LG or Moto when it is time and go CM and never look back.
I'm in the exact same situation with VZW GS4 going to Cricket. Unless I had a lapse in reality, I got an SMS/MMS to go through the very first attempt and not since. That makes no sense. I still receive SMS. And, I get calls. But, sometimes outgoing calls try to send as International.