Data connectivity issues - Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE

Hey all, I've had my Evo for almost over a year now, and data was never an issue. As of lately, I'm unsure what caused this issue to start popping up, but my phone will have a 3G or LTE connection, but even if I don't move or leave the phone alone, I will lose the data connection and a popup in the notification drawer says "Unable to establish wireless data connection" where toggling data or airplane mode doesn't usually cause it to come back, it just does whenever it feels like it. I don't know whether it's Sprint, or my hardware, but this issue has been present for the past few months with no solution. I am on the latest radios, sense ROM, and learned about custom PRL's today (on 56019 now) and nothing has solved it. I've searched for anything on this device related to this problem and haven't found anything, so any suggestions or help would be appreciated

Any suggestion whether the issue is at least my phone or the network would be helpful. I have no clue what the cause of the issue could be. Thanks

njd.sina said:
Any suggestion whether the issue is at least my phone or the network would be helpful. I have no clue what the cause of the issue could be. Thanks
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I noticed this more frequently as well once I installed 4.3 a while back - seems like the radio is much more sensitive and would pop up that message occasionally when it would switch between 1x/3g/4g/Wi-Fi - or from roaming back to sprint. I just ignored it - dismissed message and all would be well.
however, sprints network has been more and more troublesome these past 4-6 months - actually switched to ATT beginning of May due to this after being with Sprint for 16+ years.

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After HSDPA drops HSDPA stays disconnected

Hey, so today I was riding the train back from work and its kind of insane on the signal part for the phone because it jumps through thousands of towers and internet is really crappy on my train line. Funny thing is I lost HSDPA signal and when I got off the train to an area I know I have reception in and got home it was still "stuck" with the upload arrow green, and refused to load pages. I turned it on and off (data connection) and it got back to normal. Shouldn't it do that automatically? is that a known bug or do I have a falty device? its brand new and this is the second time it has ever happened to me with it...
yes, it should go back automatically but since it was trying to hop so many towers it may have gotten confused and freezes. just reset it.
If it happens continuously then it maybe a issue but if happens the odd time I would not worry about.
Well it didn't happen until now and I've had the phone for over a week. Talked to a rep and she "refreshed" my connection and connected me to a different APN. I have also disabled "fast dormancy" (FD) which is an option that causes the phone to "pause" connections when nothing uses them which is only available on GS2 and some carriers don't support. My carrier doesn't. My thought is that this causes the device to keep its data connection dormant after trying to awake it. The upload arrow stays on implying that the phone is waiting for a response from the network which doesnt happen since it doesnt support FD which causes the connection to freeze. Reseting the connection fixes this. In any case, I've read in this thread http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1132399 that the problem is solved by doing these two actions - changing APNs and disabling FD. If anyone else has an insight on this I'd love to hear it. I'll report here with tommorow's upcome.

[Q] Mobile Data Drop - Not Suspect To Outage

In the past two weeks, my mobile data has been down. I don't believe it to be an outage in my area due to the duration of the problem, and the inconsistency with other Verizon Wireless phones. I was running Juice Defender for a while, and every now and then I would notice that the Mobile Network would drop. Toggling the Mobile Network would not fix the problem, either. I usually cleaned out my cached data for the Juice Defender app, turned the app off, then toggled airplane mode once. (Sometimes just toggling Airplane Mode wouldn't fix it, therefore I had to clear the cache for the app.) Now this fails to work. I cannot get my mobile network to connect by any conventional means. When I receive MMS messages, my network will connect long enough to download the attachment. Also when I do a search for a Software Update, it connects just long enough to tell me there aren't any updates for my phone. I've tried updating my PRL with *228 and I've even tried *18 from a post over at Droid Forums. Neither work. I've removed the battery and SIM Card as suggested in some other threads here at XDA. I've also removed the Juice Defender app.
The phone is not rooted and has never been rooted with the Temp Root methods. I'm not opposed to rooting, but if I root, I'm gonna perm root and I would rather not have to factory reset my phone if I don't have to right now. I'm mainly posting this because I cannot find anyone online with the same issue that I am having. Any help would be appreciated. Personally, I think its an issue with Dalvik-VM. I can attach a copy of my LogCat if needed. Any ideas on my issue? Thanks in advance!
Check your power settings, if you are in economy mode it will mess with your data connection.
I have a paid version of JuiceDefender, it has caused me so many problems I don't even bother to install it anymore.
~John
I also have the same issue, tried a couple basebands and could not fix it. I ended up not using it...
Every once in a while my mobile network or just lte somehow gets turned off and I have to turn it back on, but that's rare.
I tried juIce Defender and also had problems losing my connection so I uninstalled it. Plus the settings were so confusing to me. I'm using Green Power now and that seems fine.
You didn't mention mhs so I assume you're not using it but that has known connection issues.
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sunsys14 said:
I also have the same issue, tried a couple basebands and could not fix it. I ended up not using it...
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Did you ever try doing a factory reset? I'm curious to know if that will fix it.
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I tried juIce Defender and also had problems losing my connection so I uninstalled it. Plus the settings were so confusing to me. I'm using Green Power now and that seems fine.
You didn't mention mhs so I assume you're not using it but that has known connection issues.
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Juice Defender gave me fits, too. I'm not using my phone as a Mobile Hotspot, either.
I kinda think its my ROM. I'll play around with some stuff, or I'll just get around to doing a factory reset and see if that fixes the problem. I'll post any solutions here for others.
Are you in a good 4g area? If you scroll down the general section here, you will find my topic. If you use 3g more than 4g, there is a post in that thread about##778#. It helped me. Sorry if it doesn't help you, Cheers.
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I just wanted to let you know that I'm having this problem as well. I AM rooted and running CleanRom, but my daughter has a non rooted Bionic, and both of us suffered a complete loss of data today. My husband's rooted Rezound is fine.
I took my phone into Verizon today, and after initially just trying to swap out the phone (which I wouldn't allow them to do, it took me too long to get my phone the way I want it), they finally switched out the 4G sim card, and the data came back instantly.
When my daughter leaves school today, she will get her 4G card swapped out as well, and we'll see if it is in fact a network connectivity problem.
It seems to me that our 4G phones has a lot of trouble switching from wifi to 3G/4G service.
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It seems to me that our 4G phones has a lot of trouble switching from wifi to 3G/4G service.
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I will +1 this. My work WiFi is spotty, and so the phone falls in and out of WiFi. The Rezound HATES that and usually leaves me with no connectivity. There is definitely a WiFi->Mobile Network issue.
Try doing a factory reset. Could be a bad device... Im getting amazing reception on mine. I havent even seen my 3G or 1x icons yet. Constant 4G lock.
Forget what I said, my data connection has been dropped again for the past thirty minutes and there's no way for me to get it back.
I'm going to try a factory reset. I *really* don't want to have to send my phone back because my husband is getting amazing coverage on his Rezound. However, we're still in the first week of our Verizon contract, and if this looks like it will be a standing issue, then we'll have to cancel and go crawling back to horrible Sprint.
CocoaGoddess said:
I just wanted to let you know that I'm having this problem as well. I AM rooted and running CleanRom, but my daughter has a non rooted Bionic, and both of us suffered a complete loss of data today. My husband's rooted Rezound is fine.
I took my phone into Verizon today, and after initially just trying to swap out the phone (which I wouldn't allow them to do, it took me too long to get my phone the way I want it), they finally switched out the 4G sim card, and the data came back instantly.
When my daughter leaves school today, she will get her 4G card swapped out as well, and we'll see if it is in fact a network connectivity problem.
It seems to me that our 4G phones has a lot of trouble switching from wifi to 3G/4G service.
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I think I'm going to try doing this. How painful was it for you to convince them to give you another SIM Card?
Edit: Just read your last post. Please let me know what a factory reset does for you.
They had no issues at all swapping out my 4G card, they certainly couldn't let me walk out of the store with no signal. They knew they had to try something.
The factory reset on the phone appeared to work. I've been steadily switching it from wifi to data, and the data signal picks up, albeit a tad bit slow. Only thing is, I still don't really get 4g, while my husband's Rezound has a great signal.
I got insurance on the phone, so I'll put up with it as long as I can before I start screaming at Verizon.
Good to hear. I'm going to try to switch out my SIM card today and see if that fixes it. I thought maybe it was something with the ROM, seeing as how my 3G will turn on whenever I need to send an MMS message, so a factory reset made sense to me. I just don't want to do it. Lol. Thanks for the info!
I've experienced it twice in the last 24hrs and it just happened to be right after I installed and used LTE OnOff. Don't know if there might be a connection there. I keep forgetting this phone has the ability to switch 4g/3G unlike the TBolt. Needless to say, that app is no longer on the phone.
KORM via the beast known as the Rezound.
I had an issue with the mobile network just dropping in and out (other people in the room did not lose signal). We currently don't have 4G and it is 3G only. I did a factory reset of the phone, but it continued to occur. Took the phone back to Verizon store to exchange it (it was 1 week old). At first they weren't going to and gave me a run around but in the end exchanged it. Have had no problems with new phone.
My girlfriend's Bionic keeps dropping 4G more frequently than my Rezound. I get this problem too though. Usually a toggle of Airplane Mode fixes it...but it's pretty damn annoying. Happens once or twice a day!
A Factory Reset fixed it. Everything went smoothly, too. I backed up all my SMS Messages with HTC's Messaging app, and got my network back as soon as I restored it and set everything back up. Hopefully this will help anyone else who might have had the same problem.
I've been side by side with a fresh Rezound and watched both of them jump from 4g to 1x to 3g and sometimes never 3g. The problems were a million times worse with my droid charge as it's a combination of the handsets and the towers.
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Hmmm
I have this happen if I am in an area with NO signal (such as the basement level of my office building) for long time. Only a reboot will bring back data. Does not happen often (maybe 2ce in a month and a half).
I am intrigued by the person who blames the install of LTEOnOff. I have it installed but do not use it. Maybe if I ever have to hard reset (such as if ever run the unlock), I will not reinstall that program.

Not Getting Data

For some reason today my Amaze decided to randomly stop getting any type of data signal. I will be able to place and receive calls, and send and receive texts, but I will not be able to connect to the internet, or anything requiring data.
If I go in to settings it will show my mobile network as on, but I will have to toggle it off and on a few times before it eventually comes back up. It seems the first two trys it will say "turning on..." and nothing will happen until I turn it off and back on, eventually getting data signal.
I didn't change anything this morning to prompt this, and I don't have any battery saver apps that turn data off when the screen is off. This is also happening both at work and at home, places where I have always had great signal before, so I am at a bit of a loss as to what is going on with my phone.
For reference I am running ICS 4.0.3, S-Off, and rooted.
It's a tmo issue.
Have others been experiencing this issue today?
All week.
Oh, I had assumed that people in the Midwest were experiencing problems with the storms and all, I didn't know they were having issues in California.
Thats a relief at least, I was worried there might be something up with my phone, which at the moment I can't afford to replace. That is certainly a load off my mind!
It's a nationwide issue, seems to be overload on the network or they're probably installing that new band.
Haha, well as long as it keeps me from buying a new phone it's all good. Thanks for the info!
Lol at getting a new phone, no prob, it should be back on in an hour or so.

HTC 4.3 and "Preparing SIM card" bug. Won't establish data connection.

Hello all,
I updated my HTC Evo 4g LTE to the 4.3 OS quite some time ago. Recently within the past week, I have started to experience a "preparing SIM card" bug as well as not being able to establish data connection. This only happens when I am out and about. My phone works fine when I am connected to Wi-Fi.
This is really annoying because when it happens, I can't send messages or make calls. It makes my phone completely useless. Again, this started occurring about a week ago. The Evo 4g LTE doesn't even have a SIM card, so I am stumped on what to do.
Is there any way to downgrade to HTC 4.1 from 4.3, or any known fixes? Any help will be greatly appreciated.
I think you have the same issue that my first device had. I think on of your radios is shot. To check, use signal check (app) and find out what networks it sees. You're going to have to do this in several places before you can be sure if this is the problem though.
My evdo 3G was shot. (I think eHRPD was too, but I don't remember very well). I know my LTE was fine though. The only ROMs that worked on my phone were sense ROMs. AOSP ROMs would reboot almost immediately after booting, unless I put it in airplane mode within the first few seconds of booting.
Please let us know if this is consistent with what you're experiencing and if you're able to find a fix! I had to get a new phone .

Data issues (Verizon)

Is anyone else experiencing hang ups when using mobile data? Every so often (multiple times throughout the day) data stops coming in and I see the upload arrow on the LTE but no apps or data respond until I flip on airplane mode and back off. It's been happening every day for over a week and factory reset didn't help.
Happened to me a few times but not super frequent. It was random and I figured it was verizon data service and not the phone. I didn't see any downtime for vzw online though so I dunno. There's a security update and maybe that'll fix the bug if it is one as well.
I've noticed this as well.
I mostly get it when I launch the Google Search/Assistant app. I can verify it immediately because it's not listening for my voice input. Another way to tell is that the newsfeed that Google usually loads doesn't appear, nor does it attempt to auto complete any searches I perform. I haven't had to cycle my Data or WiFi on/off to get it to work, I usually just kill the app from the Recents screen and relaunch it, whereupon it launches and performs normally.
I have noticed the same thing when it comes to my google feed/google app.
Just happened again and it's pretty annoying. Can't figure what's causing it. I noticed Pandora wouldn't play and then tried to open my Google feed and nothing. Tried YouTube and a few other apps and still nothing. Did a reboot and all is good. Will try and toggle data off and on next time
Still happening. Randomly when browsing things won't load and I'll notice the LTE upload arrow and nothing works until I toggle airplane mode. Starting to get on my nerves.
Good to know it wasn't just me.
I'm all the way in Korea so I can tell you if can't be the network provider at fault here. Also the immediate recovery after toggling airplane mode and back also points to this problem being a device issue.
This is quite irritating...
Quick update: after a factory reset the phone still hangs randomly on 4G up data until toggled off.
Hopefully the last update. Switched sim cards and it seemed to solve the issue. Been running 4G data instead of WiFi for the past two days without hiccups. May have been an issue when switching the card from my 6P.
I had random glitches with the data too. I noticed it has pretty weak RF performance compared to Moto Z and S7 Edge on verizon. I haven't tested S8 yet (waiting for unlocked)
Phone tricked me. Issues persist after new sim card. Now comes the battle of refurbished phones.
FWIW, I can't see any difference in RF performance good or bad vs my old HTC One M8. In good spots, service is still good. And in bad spots, it's still bad.
Well, service is great when it works. I assumed it was network prioritization but it happens even on a New billing cycle.
I replaced the sim card, reset the phone, used safe mode, and just got all brand new G6 in the mail. Same issue and Verizon doesnt know why. At this point it has to be a network issue.
As an interesting side note, I used my 6P all day with no issues this past weekend
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Well, service is great when it works. I assumed it was network prioritization but it happens even on a New billing cycle.
I replaced the sim card, reset the phone, used safe mode, and just got all brand new G6 in the mail. Same issue and Verizon doesnt know why. At this point it has to be a network issue.
As an interesting side note, I used my 6P all day with no issues this past weekend
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I've had a similar issue recently, a few times. Sometimes the phone will say no network connection in certain apps, other times it just does not work, LTE arrows blinking, but no data, apps do not respond. However, it would not work after toggling airplane mode, so I rebooted. Oddly, when this happened, my wife opened the same app on her G6, and it worked (we were not on wifi). Not sure if it's a network issue, or not. I'm gonna try a factory reset and see if that corrects this. I've had the device for 10 days, has happened 3 times.
I had a similar issue 2 days ago; no Verizon internet when trying to use my Chamberlain garage door opener app. I got it to work again when switching networks from Global to LTE/CDMA and back to Global. After that I rebooted the phone, got off wifi to make sure Verizon data works. Haven't had a problem since.
Another update but I'm sure no one cares any more. Used my 6P all last week with no issues. Back on my G6 today and data freezing throughout the day. Verizon doesn't believe me and no one knows what to do. I'm SOL and this G6 is to blame.
My girlfriend and I have both bought 2 brand g6s. Within 30days of owning, all of the issue that have been presented on here have happened and continue to happen even after joining a different verizon network plan. We have not figured out a fix and these are BRAND NEW. Not refurbished phones

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