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Hey guys,
I live in a border city in Canada, and to avoid roaming charges whenever it automatically switches to AT&T, I have manually selected Telus.
However, my particular building has very poor reception, and every time I lose my signal, the network operation selection menu always pops up and interrupts what I am doing, and is a huge annoyance.
Is there anyway to stop the menu from popping up?
Thanks.
a_loo said:
Hey guys,
I live in a border city in Canada, and to avoid roaming charges whenever it automatically switches to AT&T, I have manually selected Telus.
However, my particular building has very poor reception, and every time I lose my signal, the network operation selection menu always pops up and interrupts what I am doing, and is a huge annoyance.
Is there anyway to stop the menu from popping up?
Thanks.
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Might sound strange but assuming your using a Telus SIM try manually registering on AT&T. You should get an error that your SIM is not supported or something similar and then register on Telus after that error. And that should resolve it.
lampel said:
Might sound strange but assuming your using a Telus SIM try manually registering on AT&T. You should get an error that your SIM is not supported or something similar and then register on Telus after that error. And that should resolve it.
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The issue I'm having is that there are dead areas in my apartment...and it picks up other carriers. Then the list of the network operators always pops up randomly, and prompts me to choose something. I am fine with it losing signal, and fine with it connecting to telus whenever it can, I just want that list to stop popping up randomly. Also, AT&T has a roaming thing with Telus, so I have to manually connect to Telus to prevent it from switching to AT&T.
It's just that darned list that keeps prompting to select a network and interrupts everything im doing.
a_loo said:
The issue I'm having is that there are dead areas in my apartment...and it picks up other carriers. Then the list of the network operators always pops up randomly, and prompts me to choose something. I am fine with it losing signal, and fine with it connecting to telus whenever it can, I just want that list to stop popping up randomly. Also, AT&T has a roaming thing with Telus, so I have to manually connect to Telus to prevent it from switching to AT&T.
It's just that darned list that keeps prompting to select a network and interrupts everything im doing.
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I've had the same issue randomly with my last three phones. I understand your frustration with the pop-up. Trying to register on the wrong network (with roaming disabled) usually worked for me. Sometimes I would also power down and remove the SIM wipe the contacts and reinsert but usually the first thing worked, at least for a while.
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If you access the "hidden menus" by long pressing the desktop, shortcuts, activities, CQAtest, Sim card....do you get an error stating the iccid's don't match?
I have been having a signal issue I'm trying to track down and wondering if this is the culprit. Basically what happens is I lose 4g and go to 3g even though the 4g signal is still very strong at my house (all other devices show full LTE). If I toggle airplane mode on and off I always get 4g back at full strength. Sometimes it will stay and sometimes I'll lose it again after a few min. When it happens it usually happens for a period of a few hours(mostly at night) and will be fine for 12 hours straight during the day. This is on a Moto X Dev edition on VZW.
Thanks in advance.
I added the SIM card item to my home screen in ADW and when I click it I see the app open, but it closes again right away, so I can't see what it says.
Edit: only other place I see the ICCID is in Settings > About Phone > Status, it is listed there, but I don't see a second number to compare to. Not sure what your phone would be looking at, because it doesn't have two SIM cards...
That's strange. I did it three times to make sure it wasn't a fluke and it worked each time.
I'm stock 4.4.4 using xposed and apex launcher. BL is unlocked.
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Not sure either. It shows an ICCID for the phone and then one for the sim. The numbers are different and it has a red error message below.
I've seen a number of threads where people post about their device dropping network data connectivity, and needing a reboot to solve it.
My issue is a bit different. Occasionally (I've noticed it 3-4 times today) when I go to send a text (SMS) or to use a data enabled service like Hangouts, that my phone shows no bars at all.. not even just no data, but the bars are grey and there's a red x. I wait about 15 seconds and it reconnects, then another 10 seconds later, the data is live again.
Phone is a private sale and under 1 month old, and all the Stamina functions are off.. I do see that the "Queue background Data" is turned on, but I don't think this should effect, no?
Not sure what digits I should be looking at to know if this might be a hardware vs software issue.. build is listed as .93
Im no stranger to unlocking and flashing, but I've kept this stock cuz it's tight and I adore the battery life.
Suggestions?
sh0nuff said:
I've seen a number of threads where people post about their device dropping network data connectivity, and needing a reboot to solve it.
My issue is a bit different. Occasionally (I've noticed it 3-4 times today) when I go to send a text (SMS) or to use a data enabled service like Hangouts, that my phone shows no bars at all.. not even just no data, but the bars are grey and there's a red x. I wait about 15 seconds and it reconnects, then another 10 seconds later, the data is live again.
Phone is a private sale and under 1 month old, and all the Stamina functions are off.. I do see that the "Queue background Data" is turned on, but I don't think this should effect, no?
Not sure what digits I should be looking at to know if this might be a hardware vs software issue.. build is listed as .93
Im no stranger to unlocking and flashing, but I've kept this stock cuz it's tight and I adore the battery life.
Suggestions?
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check in settings in network and set your network to the one you use , like gm/wcdma /lte , maybe your phone is strugling to find 3g or 4g , try it , who knows it might solve the issue , ty
Been about a month since I posted, and I'm still experiencing this issue. I often thumb my phone on and it's not connected. I don't really mind waiting for the 30 seconds or so that it takes to jump back on the network, but it often means I miss calls, and since it's my business phone, it kinda bums me out to suddenly get a VM notification of a missed call even though it never rang.
Is there some sort of utility that I can use to monitor the network activity to see how frequently it drops, and for how long? I've looked into ones on Play but they don't seem to have a history, just something that shows what data up and down is currently being reported.
Sadly the only Sony store in my city (and I think the country - Canada) has recently closed for good, so I'm not sure how to go about warranty repairs...
sh0nuff said:
Been about a month since I posted, and I'm still experiencing this issue. I often thumb my phone on and it's not connected. I don't really mind waiting for the 30 seconds or so that it takes to jump back on the network, but it often means I miss calls, and since it's my business phone, it kinda bums me out to suddenly get a VM notification of a missed call even though it never rang.
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I don't have a solution, but I can tell you that you're not alone. I've been experienced the same thing on my Z3C. I sometimes wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the MVNO I use doesn't support 4G LTE.
kopsis said:
I don't have a solution, but I can tell you that you're not alone. I've been experienced the same thing on my Z3C. I sometimes wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that the MVNO I use doesn't support 4G LTE.
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Interesting.. Your issue isn't just data, but a complete network disconnection? Im with Fido which is an MVNO under Rogers, but I thought they supported LTE. The issue also persists even on wifi
sh0nuff said:
Interesting.. Your issue isn't just data, but a complete network disconnection? Im with Fido which is an MVNO under Rogers, but I thought they supported LTE. The issue also persists even on wifi
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Yes, it seems to be a complete loss of the mobile connection. When I wake the phone I see gray bars and a red X on the signal strength indicator. Within seconds the phone re-acquires and the indicator goes to 2 or 3 bars. I have also seen it happen with wifi active. The frustrating part is that it doesn't seem to do it often enough to troubleshoot. I'll notice the problem maybe a couple of times a month and there's nothing obviously different about my usage patterns in those instances.
Mine does it at least a dozen times a day. I can only assume this as I frequently miss calls and at least 3-4 times a day I see it happen. =(
Same Problem
Randomly I have no connection at all but after a few seconds everything wents back to normal. Did not have this problem with T-mobile in Germany but with with O2 I have. With T-mobile I had LTE but with O2 I don't, so I guess that's the reason.
Interesting... I've disabled LTE and now have it on 3g/GSM. We'll see how it works moving forward, and I'll post again in a week. Stay tuned.
Service Providers
In the mobile network settings one can change the service provider manually. With LTE enabled my provider has three entries: LTE, 3G and 2G. Connecting two LTE fails, because my provider blocked it in my plan. Having LTE enabled, it often tries to connect to LTE I assume. I switched off LTE and set the provider manually to 3G. Maybe that helps. We'll see.
realTobbse said:
In the mobile network settings one can change the service provider manually. With LTE enabled my provider has three entries: LTE, 3G and 2G. Connecting two LTE fails, because my provider blocked it in my plan. Having LTE enabled, it often tries to connect to LTE I assume. I switched off LTE and set the provider manually to 3G. Maybe that helps. We'll see.
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Interesting.. I have LTE as part of my network and plan... But once I made changes to the settings as I indicated, I no longer receive the network drops I originally experienced.. I might just be missing the alerts, but it seems fixed... #crossedfingers
So today i turned my P9 (eva-l19) on, and i noticed something was off, first thing i notice is the sim signal indicators, now, even when connected to wifi they show 4G and 2G symbols, never happend before (attachment "0.png").
So, i start investigating in the mobile data menu to see if my phone is planning on using data on my second sim (which doesnt have a data plan), and luckily it didnt, but i notice that most of my settings (apn excluded) in that menu are changed, carrier aggregation was off, mobile data always on was turned on, instead of off, but the most strange thing is the default network type (basically there are a lot of options instead of 4G/3G/2G, 3G/2G, 2G). None of this options work btw. (i cant choose any actually, it just goes to automatic; only Global and below work).
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automatica means automatic
solo means only
globale means global
senza means without
preferita means preferred
Some other settings were modified, such as my battery indicator (it didnt have the % anymore), and my battery saving options (it was set to intelligent, instead of performance). Also my display time out was set to the default one.
For now i haven't found anything else and i really hope i wont.
This is really strange and annoying behaviour, as i didnt do anything that could have triggered such an event (no resets or anything), i really dont understand, i hope its the first and also last time it happens.
Anyone had the same thing happen?
Did you recently get a firmware update?
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Ulver said:
Did you recently get a firmware update?
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No, i didn't get any firmware updates, the last one i got was when i first turned on the phone, a month and a half ago :/
It's really strange behaviour, but i got an hypothesis going: i think the phone somehow acquires the location through the phone network, and displays the options related to that country, but in my case it failed, and glitched out. In fact, some of the extra network options that work are related to US networks (at least i think, EV-DO is a Verizon technology, which is US carrier if im not mistaken).
noki57oo said:
So today i turned my P9 (eva-l19) on, and i noticed something was off, first thing i notice is the sim signal indicators, now, even when connected to wifi they show 4G and 2G symbols, never happend before (attachment "0.png").
So, i start investigating in the mobile data menu to see if my phone is planning on using data on my second sim (which doesnt have a data plan), and luckily it didnt, but i notice that most of my settings (apn excluded) in that menu are changed, carrier aggregation was off, mobile data always on was turned on, instead of off, but the most strange thing is the default network type (basically there are a lot of options instead of 4G/3G/2G, 3G/2G, 2G). None of this options work btw. (i cant choose any actually, it just goes to automatic; only Global and below work).
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automatica means automatic
solo means only
globale means global
senza means without
preferita means preferred
Some other settings were modified, such as my battery indicator (it didnt have the % anymore), and my battery saving options (it was set to intelligent, instead of performance). Also my display time out was set to the default one.
For now i haven't found anything else and i really hope i wont.
This is really strange and annoying behaviour, as i didnt do anything that could have triggered such an event (no resets or anything), i really dont understand, i hope its the first and also last time it happens.
Anyone had the same thing happen?
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Same thing happened here!
It all started when i switched to 2nd SIM card for more data (both my SIMs has some limited ammount). I noticed, that Im running out off battery, so i switched battery saving mode from Performance to Intelligent. It didn't help much, my phone dies anyway. When booted, the story was same as yours...
Lots of various settings were changed:
-carrier aggregation was off
-battery indicator (% inside battery icon was gone)
-system sounds turned on (dialer, keypress, lock, and screenshot)
-all ringtones reseted to default
-all my defined alarms ringtones reseted
-display time out set to default
-default network type (basically there are world wide options instead of 4G/3G/2G ; 3G/2G ; 2G)
and the MOST ANNOYING: 4G/2G symbols in notification bar!
Conclusion:
It seems, that P9 modem/radio settings is somehow corrupted. Check attached screens..
Btw: noki57oo did you figure out, how to get rid of 4G, 2G symbols on your device?
Anyone else: Any idea, how to deal with this strange issue? Before I will do the Factory reset..
Same thing happened to me today. All I did, I have decided to restart my phone after few hundreds hours on stand-by.
All settings you've mentioned been set to default and more annoyingly, the icon of current network persists in status bar.
Only good thing is, I can now force the phone to use 4G only in network settings, haha.
I've been banging my head against the wall with this issue for a while now. I have contacted both Samsung and Verizon but so far no luck in resolving the issue. I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing this.
My S21 Ultra on Verizon is constantly switching between LTE and LTE+. This wouldn't be an issue were it not for the fact that apparently a great deal of the time it actually has no connection at all. This manifests itself with:
1) Text messages that fail to send, or indicate they failed to send when they actually were sent.
2) Incoming calls going directly to voicemail.
3) Outgoing calls that can't be placed unless I toggle Airplane Mode on and then off. (Though as it turns out, sometimes the failed attempts do ring on the recipients phone.)
At some of these times I may see a message along the lines of "Sim Card Not Present." And yes--the SIM card has already been replaced.
3) isn't much of an issue, as I have complete control over that. But 1) and 2) are both really annoying.
I made a screen capture video for a Verizon tech who is trying to help. In 40 seconds my phone switched between LTE and LTE+ six times.
A work-around that seems to be helping is using the "Samsung Band Selection" app to pick a network. I've done that all day today and have not had issues, though I also have not traveled anywhere. I fear this is not a great solution, though, as I don't think I'll be able to use it when moving around.
Is anyone else having experiences like these with the S21 Ultra? If so, are you also on Verizon?
Thanks!
Andyw2100 said:
I've been banging my head against the wall with this issue for a while now. I have contacted both Samsung and Verizon but so far no luck in resolving the issue. I'm wondering if anyone else is experiencing this.
My S21 Ultra on Verizon is constantly switching between LTE and LTE+. This wouldn't be an issue were it not for the fact that apparently a great deal of the time it actually has no connection at all. This manifests itself with:
1) Text messages that fail to send, or indicate they failed to send when they actually were sent.
2) Incoming calls going directly to voicemail.
3) Outgoing calls that can't be placed unless I toggle Airplane Mode on and then off. (Though as it turns out, sometimes the failed attempts do ring on the recipients phone.)
At some of these times I may see a message along the lines of "Sim Card Not Present." And yes--the SIM card has already been replaced.
3) isn't much of an issue, as I have complete control over that. But 1) and 2) are both really annoying.
I made a screen capture video for a Verizon tech who is trying to help. In 40 seconds my phone switched between LTE and LTE+ six times.
A work-around that seems to be helping is using the "Samsung Band Selection" app to pick a network. I've done that all day today and have not had issues, though I also have not traveled anywhere. I fear this is not a great solution, though, as I don't think I'll be able to use it when moving around.
Is anyone else having experiences like these with the S21 Ultra? If so, are you also on Verizon?
Thanks!
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I was having the same issues. I was also seeing the device lose all network connection in an area with strong 4G. Verizon sent me a new s21u. That did not help. What I have been reading is that it has to do with 5G settings. Having a 5G sim card installed, the device is always looking for 5G. When it can't be located it defaults to 4G. During this process it seems to loose connection. Verizon in its wisdom removed our ability to access ALL the network settings, in particular the ability to select your preferred network type. It is automatically set to 5G. I installed the paid (donation) version of "Samsung Band Selection" from the play store. This allows access to the advanced network setting and allows you to select LTE under the Preferred Network Type. This seems to have fixed 99% of my connection issues.
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I was having the same issues. I was also seeing the device lose all network connection in an area with strong 4G. Verizon sent me a new s21u. That did not help. What I have been reading is that it has to do with 5G settings. Having a 5G sim card installed, the device is always looking for 5G. When it can't be located it defaults to 4G. During this process it seems to loose connection. Verizon in its wisdom removed our ability to access ALL the network settings, in particular the ability to select your preferred network type. It is automatically set to 5G. I installed the paid (donation) version of "Samsung Band Selection" from the play store. This allows access to the advanced network setting and allows you to select LTE under the Preferred Network Type. This seems to have fixed 99% of my connection issues.
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ooh... Awesome! Downloaded and changed the setting. Thanks!