I recently got my phone unlocked due to someone going in on a bill with me with at&t which he was taking my money and not paying the bill and it's over $400 now.... so yeah I went to Metro, and now I can't switch it to get rid of connecting on 4gLTE unless I call the X228 to update the roaming list... as soon as the call connects the LTE drops off and it just shows 4g like it's supposed to. I don't want to drive over 20 miles to get to the nearest corporate store. Is there anyway to get rid of the phone connecting to AT&T networks which it appears to be doing?
Kamikaze_Hulk said:
I recently got my phone unlocked due to someone going in on a bill with me with at&t which he was taking my money and not paying the bill and it's over $400 now.... so yeah I went to Metro, and now I can't switch it to get rid of connecting on 4gLTE unless I call the X228 to update the roaming list... as soon as the call connects the LTE drops off and it just shows 4g like it's supposed to. I don't want to drive over 20 miles to get to the nearest corporate store. Is there anyway to get rid of the phone connecting to AT&T networks which it appears to be doing?
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It's all in Seetings>More>Mobile Networks>Access Point Names>Select APN>Edit if needed to Metro.
Make sure you have the APN be fast.metropcs.com or it won't work and welcome to metro
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Actually downloaded the LTE On/Off for the Thunderbolt and got it all fixed... Thanks guys.
Being it doesn't show the 4GLTE ever, is there a certain setting that I have to be set on to get LTE? I'm in Plant City, FL (right outside of Tampa)
Seems like one part is cleared up, I uninstalled the lte on/off and I'm getting texts but it's trying to connect to 4glte again and I think this is where my problem lies. I got new apn from metro when I called in today so that's all fine.
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There is a white triangle next to my "E" icon. I don't know how to get rid of it, and I'm not even sure what it is, but there are no programs running.
SlimJ87D said:
There is a white triangle next to my "E" icon. I don't know how to get rid of it, and I'm not even sure what it is, but there are no programs running.
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A triangle usually means roaming. Does your carrier have roaming partners in your area, or was the phone originally locked to another carrier?
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that be ur roaming icon, do a search on that
It just showed up out of nowhere. I don't see why it would come up, and I can't get rid of it. I've only been in USA, CA the whole time since I got this phone and my plan.
My Tilt is with AT&T. I got my plan from some independent store, so I got it for free with my plan. Is that the reason why it has shown up randomly just today?
how about for cdma phones, do you have any idea how to get it out?
SlimJ87D said:
It just showed up out of nowhere. I don't see why it would come up, and I can't get rid of it. I've only been in USA, CA the whole time since I got this phone and my plan.
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I'm quite sure that AT&T still has a roaming agrement with T-Mobile in California. If your phone is on T-Mobile the icon may show up, but most often AT&T disables the roaming icon on their devices.
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SlimJ87D said:
My Tilt is with AT&T. I got my plan from some independent store, so I got it for free with my plan. Is that the reason why it has shown up randomly just today?
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I'm going to assume by independent dealer you mean "Authorized Reseller". If your device came in the orange box and said "AT&T Tilt" on it then your phone is roaming on another network, or for some reason it thinks its roaming.
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motoyola said:
how about for cdma phones, do you have any idea how to get it out?
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For the most part hacking CDMA phones is totally different from their GSM / UMTS counterparts. Especially if you are on Verizon or Sprint. I've never had CDMA service, and with the Kaiser not being a CDMA capable device any solution you read in this thread probably won't work on your device.
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My T-mobile service is completely down as of 8:30pm central 11/03/09. I read an article that says that T-mobile reports only 5% of users have had their service down but from my facebook and twitter blowing up with a lot of status/tweets about T-mo's outage it seems more are affected. Just wanted to see if you guys were getting no service as well...
succs for yall...
what rom are you using? because that happened to me and i was runnin cyanogens latest, so i thought it was the roms fault, so i switched over to sensHERO 1.1.1 and everything is fine now...
T-mo's always down for me.. been roaming 100% of the time for the past 5 months lol. Luckily there's no roaming fees for both voice and data
Doubt t-mo outages do anything to roaming services...I haven't had any issues anyway
damn fa real ^^^^ needa get a new phone!.. lol...or take ya 3g off!
lol tell me about it. T-mo says Edge/Gprs is the main cost to the G1 data plan, 3g is just a "freebie" lol ya right w/e. Anyway I tether the heck out of my edge connection way out here in the boonies. and Cellular One, Alltel and Verizon are my only other options... ~$60 for a dedicated data plan OR smartphone add on.. and no 3g on any of those either.. dam I need to get back to civilization ..
You can find me on "Androids Around 2", I'm the only one in the entire state of montana LOL
yeah, i reflashed xrom thinking it was the rom...then my friend showed me on her iphone all these facebook and twitter updates about t-mo being down...
my service is completely down. no 3g, no phone, nothing. can't even call 911. only wifi.
maybe try switching to roaming and seeing if it works. enable roaming then goto network operators and select one that's not t-mo (so long as you have an international calling plan)..
just got service back...we'll see if T-mo's got some rebates lined up for us..if not...no biggie...hope it doesn't happen again...
Good to hear.
It'll probably happen again, it's happened about three times in the five or so years I've been with em usually only a couple hours or so long tho.. But I figure that's probably about average for most large networks.
I finally got my Sprint HTC One to accept my prepaid Tmobile SIM, I have not tested out data yet since I only use the pay by the minute plan (I will upgrade to unlimited everything later)
But it constantly keeps disconnecting and I have to manually connect it to Tmobile's network.
This usually happens if I'm moving, or if the signal is weak. (For example, I never lost connection overnight at my house, but I did lose it while I drove to work this morning, and since I would get like 1 or 2 bars inside my work, it kept on disconnecting.
Right now I set the settings to GSM Auto (PRL) seems to be stable, but I've stayed in one place so far.
I've tried WCDMA preffered, but it says "This SIM does not allow connection to this network"(could be because I'm "Pay by the minute"'?)
I also Turned on IMS registration required in the Phone info setting place, but I don't know if that makes any difference.
If we can somehow get this fixed then it would be awesome! Since I already canceled my Sprint contract and switched to Tmobile prepaid to save some money.
alberto122509 said:
I finally got my Sprint HTC One to accept my prepaid Tmobile SIM, I have not tested out data yet since I only use the pay by the minute plan (I will upgrade to unlimited everything later)
But it constantly keeps disconnecting and I have to manually connect it to Tmobile's network.
This usually happens if I'm moving, or if the signal is weak. (For example, I never lost connection overnight at my house, but I did lose it while I drove to work this morning, and since I would get like 1 or 2 bars inside my work, it kept on disconnecting.
Right now I set the settings to GSM Auto (PRL) seems to be stable, but I've stayed in one place so far.
I've tried WCDMA preffered, but it says "This SIM does not allow connection to this network"(could be because I'm "Pay by the minute"'?)
I also Turned on IMS registration required in the Phone info setting place, but I don't know if that makes any difference.
If we can somehow get this fixed then it would be awesome! Since I already canceled my Sprint contract and switched to Tmobile prepaid to save some money.
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how much did it cost to cancle?? i still have 1 year left
P.Mobile said:
how much did it cost to cancle?? i still have 1 year left
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http://support.sprint.com/support/a...termination_fee/case-sp061027-20110823-171256
that will help you out
Long story short. I was using a Verizon branded note 2 on straight talk when my contract ended with verizon. I grew tired of the phone and purchased the blu vivo xl from amazon a few days ago. Now I know that my sim in my Verizon wouldn't work on the blu phone because it's not compatible.
So I went on chat to switch my Verizon sim to an att sim from the same byop package (which also came with a tmobile sim) They said that it could take anywhere from an hour to 2 days to convert over, and that I'll know when it happens because my note 2 will stop working. Sure enough it stopped and a bit later my blu phone started getting a signal and 4G icon.
However, it was in and out all night and since then I haven't got it back. Frustrated, I then switched it to the tmobile sim. I get the 4G lte icon and arrows move up and down. My signal goes from 2/4 bars to 3/4 bars. Now I'm thinking good that's more than what att was able to do. Wrong. Well not completely.
I can send a text and my wife will get it. Not really slow but not normal. She'll reply and I can receive it. But I can't access the internet, and I can't call or receive calls. Went on chat they gave me apns to input and still nothing. I still get 4G icon and I still get service.
I really like this phone but this transition has been really draining.
Thanks you for your help.
I have no idea, I had a really smooth transition activating it onto metro. Maybe you just have spotty coverage with straight talk in your area? I'll try looking for more info
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Long story short. I was using a Verizon branded note 2 on straight talk when my contract ended with verizon. I grew tired of the phone and purchased the blu vivo xl from amazon a few days ago. Now I know that my sim in my Verizon wouldn't work on the blu phone because it's not compatible.
So I went on chat to switch my Verizon sim to an att sim from the same byop package (which also came with a tmobile sim) They said that it could take anywhere from an hour to 2 days to convert over, and that I'll know when it happens because my note 2 will stop working. Sure enough it stopped and a bit later my blu phone started getting a signal and 4G icon.
However, it was in and out all night and since then I haven't got it back. Frustrated, I then switched it to the tmobile sim. I get the 4G lte icon and arrows move up and down. My signal goes from 2/4 bars to 3/4 bars. Now I'm thinking good that's more than what att was able to do. Wrong. Well not completely.
I can send a text and my wife will get it. Not really slow but not normal. She'll reply and I can receive it. But I can't access the internet, and I can't call or receive calls. Went on chat they gave me apns to input and still nothing. I still get 4G icon and I still get service.
I really like this phone but this transition has been really draining.
Thanks you for your help.
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You need to config APN of straight talk att on your Blu XL
quyvinh said:
You need to config APN of straight talk att on your Blu XL
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He mentioned he entered the apns and still nothing
pdolo5784 said:
He mentioned he entered the apns and still nothing
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Correct. The phone is loaded with apns that matched what they gave me. The straight talk for att and tmobile.
So as an update, I bought a tmobile sim, (not straight talk this time) the phone received texts from tmobile for this and that. I have good signal as indicated from the bars. 4G lte icon is on (but no data due to not having a tmobile account, but the sim is allowed 30 texts and 30 minutes of talk time until I get one)
The problem that is persisting is that I cannot make a call. I'll dial any number between my wife's, friends even my own and it just gets stuck on dialing. No operator or anything just blank. It's flashing "dialing..." but it won't actually go and do anything.
I contacted blu, and they gave me the same apns that I used and assured me that it should work on straight talk. But yet still nothing. I contacted blu again after I got the tmobile sim. I'm awaiting an answer on that before I proclaim the phone a dud and exchange with amazon.com.
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Correct. The phone is loaded with apns that matched what they gave me. The straight talk for att and tmobile.
So as an update, I bought a tmobile sim, (not straight talk this time) the phone received texts from tmobile for this and that. I have good signal as indicated from the bars. 4G lte icon is on (but no data due to not having a tmobile account, but the sim is allowed 30 texts and 30 minutes of talk time until I get one)
The problem that is persisting is that I cannot make a call. I'll dial any number between my wife's, friends even my own and it just gets stuck on dialing. No operator or anything just blank. It's flashing "dialing..." but it won't actually go and do anything.
I contacted blu, and they gave me the same apns that I used and assured me that it should work on straight talk. But yet still nothing. I contacted blu again after I got the tmobile sim. I'm awaiting an answer on that before I proclaim the phone a dud and exchange with amazon.com.
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StraightTalk is owned and operated by Tracfone. I went through more blood pressure pills dealing with them than almost any other corporation. Best bet? Switch to almost any other carrier. I use Airvoice, but there are a BUNCH of others out there with no contract, pay-as-you-go programs. Truly, there are better deals out there than StraightTalk/Tracfone.
You are having issues (I think) because different phones available through Straight Talk work on different networks. They ask for your zip code and then show you phones from different networks that will work in your area. If you use a SIM card you are AT&T or T-Mobile. Sprint and Verizon use CDMA. Check coverage maps. This will explain why your coverage is spotty now. There is a list floating around out there that shows which networks use what phones and so on for Straight Talk. Once you put the SIM card in the phone, it picks up whatever network is available in your area. If it's a network that doesn't have great coverage where you are, service is diminished.
So I was bored and wanted to play around and try to get this to work. So far I have been successful to get data text and mms working on 3G. Now I have noticed that when I boot the phone that it connects to LTE with a strong signal then it reconnects back to 3G its almost like its possible but something it blocking it. Has anyone had success getting further?
UPDATE: I have gotten FULL LTE on Verizon working. Currently trying to figure out a way to allow CDMA as well for calls
Ya good luck I had same issue as you . Talk text 3g working good. Or LTE only working .Never could figure out how to get them both going
Yea I know after hours of messing around lol and two sim cards wasn't satisfying enough I like the phone enough to jump off big red to try T-Mobile. I honestly like this phone better then my Pixel XL
I ditched my Verizon unlimited data plan for cricket unlimited and have no regrets. Best choice I ever made
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So I was bored and wanted to play around and try to get this to work. So far I have been successful to get data text and mms working on 3G. Now I have noticed that when I boot the phone that it connects to LTE with a strong signal then it reconnects back to 3G its almost like its possible but something it blocking it. Has anyone had success getting further?
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Can you explain in detail exactly how you got this to work? I am dying to get this phone I had 1+1 when first realeased and left Verizon to get it, but now Im back on Verizon with my business phone and want this phone nothing else is close to this phone
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Can you explain in detail exactly how you got this to work? I am dying to get this phone I had 1+1 when first realeased and left Verizon to get it, but now Im back on Verizon with my business phone and want this phone nothing else is close to this phone
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It won't work it's one or the other. You are wasting your time
The city I live In has Verizon's xlte network and if you upgrade to advanced Calling then voice calls and messages all use 4g LTE data instead of CDMA, so I would only need LTE data to work, I was able to get the 1+1 to get Verizon's signal but after 5 mins they noticed and intentionally blocked me off their Network a message popped up on the 1+1 saying I had been blocked
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The city I live In has Verizon's xlte network and if you upgrade to advanced Calling then voice calls and messages all use 4g LTE data instead of CDMA, so I would only need LTE data to work, I was able to get the 1+1 to get Verizon's signal but after 5 mins they noticed and intentionally blocked me off their Network a message popped up on the 1+1 saying I had been blocked
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You have to add VoLTE on the phone AND with the carrier. you did both of these options, and t hen were blocked? Did you ever call and ask "why?"?
Thanks
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UPDATE: I have gotten FULL LTE on Verizon working. Currently trying to figure out a way to allow CDMA as well for calls
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Just curious how you have "LTE" activated on the phone. I turned on "only LTE", but I get absolutely nothing. I am only interested in LTE on t he phone, I do not need to make voice calls of SMS
Force LTE provisioning
I know that people had the same issue on the ZTE axon 7 but we're able to force LTE provisioning by going into the dialer and dialing *#*#4636#*#*. This brings up a hidden test menu and under phone information there is a switch for LTE provisioning. It takes a few tries but eventually sticks on the axon. Can someone try this on the one plus phones to see if it works?
I know this has been rehashed many times, but I thought I'd share a my experiences of how to make the 3T usable on Verizon. Main reason I have the 3T is dual SIM and OEM bootloader unlock. Fantastic device. Switched from Verizon to AT&T just for the phone. The problem is my work uses Verizon. I refuse to carry two phones. So what I've done to solve this is bought the GravityBox app, which has a feature that allows, (among many things!) you to add a custom quick setting shortcut for Network Mode. It lets you decide which SIM the setting applies to, as well as any network modes to cycle through when pressing the shortcut. I of course pick the Verizon SIM. And only select two network modes: 1 CDMA only and 2 LTE only. CDMA only allows calls,text and 2G to work perfectly. When a sending or receiving a MMS on Verizon SIM, or needing to use Verizon LTE, I toggle to Verizon LTE only. This does kick AT&T offline for some reason, but beings that I rarely need to use Verizon data, it's not that big of deal.