Hello, after leaving a earlier post, I really am at the end of my tether with my wifes phone, basically, her sim works in my galaxy s (VodafoneUK) and so does mine (3UK), but put either sim in her phone, it shows a few bars in the signal bar with both sims, but still says 'Emergency Calls only' I/she cannot make any calls on her phone, I previously rooted before, added custom rom, to try and mend problem, also used odin/samifimware to put stock JVQ rom back on her phone, but to no avail (her firmware/modem/etc all ends in JVQ, my phone has nv_data.bin files etc but hers doesnt have these, what can I do to solve this, tried everything and anything so far!
EDIT * DID A CHECK WITH CHECKMEND TO SEE IF PHONE HAS BEEN BLOCKED,IT HAS* currently *UNKNOWN* network has imei blocked the phone
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a quick history of what I've done so far
Sumsung I897 captivate from ATT unlock and being used on Telus network was working great for about 4 days, then all kinds of problem started cropping up.
Phone came unlocked, I rooted using update.zip from xda, installed rom manager and started removing ATT bloatware, entered SMS and APN info which worked fine.
Yesterday I noticed that where I once got good reception I was now getting nothing and would have to drive down the street before I would get something descent. I thought maybe I'd put it back to stock with rom manager and see if that would help which it did not. It actually made it worse, decided to go all out and use the Odin3 one click downloader just to make sure I was back to stock firmware. This didn't work either but now I can enter the SMS and change the preferred network type but it doesn't save. Preferred network type is grayed out and even though I can change it it never save same as SMS.
Now I can't hold connecting in my living room where my wifes Milestone gets full bars. I tried taking the phone to where I had the best signal and change the preferred network, SMS, and set the network operator but it doesn't save any info, can't find on operator half the time on manual or auto and gave me an error and logged it to #*9900#
I've been at this for 2 days straight and can't figure out how to get it right back to stock, it seems to keep hanging onto the same preferred network and not saving anything I enter.
What can I do to get back to stock, and it has to be something that wipes everything clean, clean, clean, because even the GSM disconnects stay logged under *#*#4636#*#*
***I desperately even tried pulling the batt and SIM card for the night in hopes that would do something.
So, if I'm understand what happened correctly, you bought an unlocked Captivate, rooted it, deleted some bloatware, entered your Telus APN info and everything worked awesome for about four days. Now everything has gone down the hole. Is that right?
If that is the case, then we need to figure out what changed. Using Odin3 would have definitely put you back to stock/unrooted your phone, I don't think you could go back any further than that. If I were you, I would act like I first got the phone. As in, I would do everything you did to it, as if was day one. At one point, everything worked fine. Try to recreate that. You can always look into exchanging it or perhaps Samsung customer support can give you a little more insight to what's going on. Here's the number if you want to try them out.
Samsung customer service - 1.800.726.7864
Thanks, I've gone through the process a few times today from start to finish trying to figure it out ... maybe some of the problems aren't real problems and just limitations that I didn't know where their. I've since flash with odin3+re-partion to the bone stock i897UCJF6 as in not the one click method. It loaded fine but still have the same issue, I can't set preferred network type or get it to keep the number entered into SMSC. I think if I can get passed that I'll be be one the up side of winning. I keep noticing that the log of GSM disconnects never clears or the usage statistics under *#*#4636#*# , I'm thinking its in the same area that other bad data is being held onto instead of being cleared when flash firmware or factory reset.
Is anyone able to change preferred network type? maybe I was never able to change it but I think I should be able too.
I may be wrong in assuming this but I don't think ATT is going to be interested helping me connect one of their handset that I'm trying to use on foreign network, but I could be wrong and is an open option.
*#*#197328640#*#*
debug screen
phone control
network control
band selection
wcdma band
wcdma all
menu->end
used this to lock my phone to WCDMA only so that problem is solved
*** never mind posted to soon it still didn't stick after rebooting
be carefull using the service menu as I have no idea what most of this stuff does
I got the SMS service number issue fix by taking out my sim, swapping in another known working sim from the same network, setting the service number, pressing update and then swapping back. Before every time I tried to update the service number it spit out an "update error" can anybody tell where the SMS config data is stored? on the phone or sim.
The only problem I'm having now is with reception which maybe fixable if I can set the preferred network to WCDMA only. But the button for that option is a light blue colour vs other phones that I can change this setting on. Does the blue mean anything like a locked function or something that set by the firmware as unchangeable?
Hello there, right, a few questions, me and my wife have galaxy s phones, mine on 3UK, hers she bought second hand today unlocked, she is on vodafoneUK, mine can browse, everything perfectly, hers though, although it works, wont make calls, or internet, says emergency calls only, mobile network not available, I have rooted her phone with CF-XX-JVQ (chainfire i presume), all went well, rooted perfectly, but still no mobile network, when you do *#1234# the PDA,PHONE and CSC end with JVQ (Like mine), tried installing darkys 10.2 rom to see if that would work, installed perfectly....but still no network, put her sim in my phone, great signal, all works! her Imei is correct..... what do I do next??? cant find vodafones rom at all, not sure what modem or files I need!!!
please save my ears from my moaning wife!!!
help!!! please!!!
Are you sure it is unlocked? Emergency calls only is without SIM card, or while the phone is sim-locked...
its been sorted, contacted network, its been imei blocked.
Alright, so no dilly dally, just getting down to business.
I received a 2x (P990hn) that had been locked to fido, under the premise that I'd just unlock it.
I was going to do that, but for some reason, I decided to install the newest possible cm (10.1) and it worked. My 2x is running 4.1.2 almost flawlessly, but there is one huge flaw which is just killing me. I had clockworkmod installed to flash 4.1.2, but I uninstalled it, so that I could attempt to reinstall stock onto my phone, so that I could shove my foreing sim in and unlock it (more on this in a sec)
I can only get my telus (this is the sim that I'm paying for right now) sim to work if I'm connected to wifi.
Otherwise, it says I'm connected on the lock screen (bottom of screen will have TELUS), but my signal strength will be gray, and upon sliding my notification bar down, it'll say no internet access. I won't be able to text, use browser, use the phone as a phone, or use skype.
If I only have wifi on, I can use the browser, but I can't use the phone as a phone, text, or use skype.
Everything works perfectly if I'm connected to wifi and a tower.
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Minor issues
-no APNs will ever stay saved, and if I plug the fido sim that came with the phone in, it'll find the fido APNs, but it won't be able to connect to any network
-I have to manually click automatically connect every time I reboot my phone, to connect to telus, otherwise, it won't connect automatically.
-if I try to open the hidden menu (*1809#*990*) it'll say "Connection problem or invalid MMI code." however, the code for finding my IMEI (*#06#) works fine.
What do I do? I've tried to take it back to stock, but to no avail. I tried tie KDZ file method, but the program always crashes at the point where it says "call fnUpgradeStart"
I don't know what else to do, I've been looking for 3 days now.
I tried texting two separate people today on the bus, where I didn't have wifi, and texting worked! However, the invalid mmi problem persisted, and the browser didn't work, nor did gmail syncing. I'm taking my sim to my TELUS store later today, and I'm going to get it replaced, it is two years old.
So, I tried phoning my friends cell, and it worked, no connected to wifi. I still can't get internet, but I can text and call, so my problem is no where near as bad as I thought it was.
My cellphone (actually with cyanogenmod 10.1) doesn't have line, i can't send/receive sms and calls, but 3g works, i called the company but they only said to try to put the sim in another phone, it works on other phones, so what can i do? It's device's fault.. i tried to change rom, but nothing happened.
yesterday i was connected for 3-4 seconds.
what can i do?
EDIT: it was V10, i updated it to V30 and changed sim company (from WIND to TIM) still have the same prob
Hi I am in need of some help. I will try to give as much detail as possible.
I was talking on the phone 3 days ago and suddenly my call was cut short. The signal icon at the top was greyed out and it had a little x in the bottom. I tried to figure out what happened and at first I thought the cell tower went down because I was unable to connect to 2g, 3g, LTE/4g, nothing.
Next day with my father visiting my house, I tried his phone, put in my SIM, it works, there is signal (nothing greyed out) and I see the name of the phone service at the top left "Personal". His phone with his SIM works as well. Cell towers are working fine. I put my SIM back in my phone, no signal, not able to make phone calls or receive text messages.
At this time WIFI, Whatsapp, the phone itself works. I double checked APN settings from the carriers website, everything matched. I tried rebooting the phone, reseating the chip, selecting towers automatically, manually, and read many many discussions on the web none of which helped. I decided to do a factory reset. Backed up all photos to the computer and proceeded to reset it to factory new. Put in the SIM and same problem. Oh I also in the meantime have spoken with my service provider and they do not see anything wrong on their end.
So now I proceed to restore the phone from a backup on my MI account, all apps restored. Now I try to use Whatsapp and it wants to confirm my account with a text message, that is a problem because I can't receive text messages. I went to my service provider today, they put in a store SIM with a different number and it worked, they assumed I had a faulty SIM and gave me a new SIM with my number, same problem. Now I think it has something to do with XIaomi or MIUI or my MI account. I log into my MI account from my computer and try to add my email under security and it won't let me because it needs verify my account by sending a text message to my cell which of course is not working.
I am thinking of rooting the phone but I imagine I will somehow be blocked there too.
What happened to my phone?
Is my account being protected in some way MIUI, XIaomi or my MI account preventing me from activating my SIM?
Everything I try to do requires a confirmation text.
I want to root the phone but in order to do so I need to request that Xiaomi unlock the bootloader which will require a text message which of course is to be sent to my phone that wont connect to the cell tower.
Was I hacked or spoofed?
How do I go about fixing my situation?
Have you tried changing region and changing back to your country again? That may be possible reason.
For confirmation of code for bootloader unlocking, while applying put your sim card into other phone and that way you'll be able to get code and bootloader unlocked and can flash and try with different rom.
Similarly if your device is out of warranty then you may want to check with the antenna cable inside phone if that is got disconnected or got loosen. I don't if this would have happened or not but this could be issue. Process with precaution if you do so,I won't be responsible for anything.