Hey guys,
OK so here's the deal, I bought a Huawei p9 from offer up, the seller was up front and honest with me and told me that it would not get cell service with his carrier, he had tmobile, so I thought it was probably just user error, well I have a SIM with att and tmobile, and I tried with both, however it does get service and works but loses it in a matter of minutes, looks like when it tries to switch from 3g to lte and won't get it back again unless I go into mobile network settings and change from automatic to manual but then doesn't get any better than edge and it doesn't even work when I try to call out or data, the model number is Eva-l09 and I live in the east coast US, I did a little bit of research and found that this is a p9 from Taiwan, I've tried rebranding it from c636 to c432, no matter what Rom I installed custom or factory, same thing... Am I screwed? Or is there a way to enable the correct bands?
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Hi all, great forum, I've learned quite a bit from just reading all the threads but I have a headscratcher I couldn't find anything on and hopefully someone can answer this as I'm losing my mind trying to figure it out.
I have a Telus Milestone which works perfectly fine with CM7 RC12 on the Telus network in Canada. Every time I travel to Europe or other places it just won't connect to the local network, just emergency calls.
I tried every single baseband in AOR 3.3 but nothing works. I also tried different roms (Cronos X 1.5, FroyoMOD 2.9.1, wiping phone, factory reset, etc.
Even tried the Moto Defy baseband switcher with no luck. AFAIK this phone is capable of 850/1900/2100 bands.
Really appreciate any help!!!
Well, according to this - http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1641030-Does-the-Telus-Milestone-support-2100MHz-3G - Telus Milestone should support European frequencies, but not 2g and it have same hw like MM for Europe.
Some time ago I was a TelusLite rom for Milestone user and it was working well with 2g and 3g after change to Germany baseband (in Poland). Without baseband change it was only working on 3g.
Maybe you need to flash some European-compatible rom (eg. FroyoMod/CM7) and then try?
Thanks for the quick reply.
I tried changing to Germany baseband which should work but it doesn't. In my case I'm trying to connect to Orange Romania which uses 900/1900/2100.
I did try FroyoMod which is Italian if I'm not mistaken, it was developed by 89luca89. Also tried different flavours of CM and Cronos.
It almost seems as if I have to unlock first or maybe Telus is blocking my account from roaming... is that even possible?
I've ordered an unlock code from cellunlocker.net, hopefully after unlocking I can use a local SIM and see if it connects.
Thanks for the help!
Hm. It is strange that it doesn't working on every rom.
Maybe Telus don't have an agreement for roaming with Orange Romania? I think that it is a problem with one of the cell operators, not with your phone.
Good luck with local SIM
Yeah, strange indeed.
I doubt it is Orange RO as I tried it in Paris, France last week and it wouldn't connect to any network there either, Orange, SFR, etc. A couple of months ago I couldn't connect to Cubacel either. I just figured the commies don't like Canadian smartphones. LOL
I have a feeling Telus has my account locked from roaming. I'm praying the local SIM will work.
Thanks again!
Well, just as I suspected, Telus must have the SIM locked from roaming. The unlock code from cellunlocker.net worked like a charm. Phone connects to local Orange RO network, full 3G data connectivity too.
It's good news I'm happy that you managed it to work.
Looks like Telus don't want you to use other operators. But there is no impossible things
So I have this phone (Samsung Galaxy Exhibit II 4G) from T-Mobile, I am on the 30$ monthly 4G plan with 100 minutes of talking, 5GB of 4G and Unlimited Texting. My question is since I recently tried to unlock my phone, but not sure if it was already unlocked since I purchased it through amazon and its the prepaid version of the phone, or if the sim just needs to be unlocked, whatever the case I am traveling to Europe next year and wanted to know if I can use this phone with the networks there. I just tried today going into the Select network option under wireless and networks and after searching for some time I had a choice between T-mobile and At&t and some how I acctually was able to connect to At&t even with my T-mobile sim card in it. So does this mean I can use it in Europe and just connect to networks there that way? I know its alot of money but I will fill up my account with money forsure before I go. Is it possible?:laugh:
Call TMobile and tell them your traveling to Europe and you need your phone unlocked. They will probably want to email you the unlock code.
When you get to europe set up a service and drop in their sim card. The Galaxy Exhibit (Exhibit 2) specs say it will work in Europe however, for some unknown reason, some people have problems.
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Call TMobile and tell them your traveling to Europe and you need your phone unlocked. They will probably want to email you the unlock code.
When you get to europe set up a service and drop in their sim card. The Galaxy Exhibit (Exhibit 2) specs say it will work in Europe however, for some unknown reason, some people have problems.
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Thanks for the reply! and I acctually did that and its been 3 days since I called asking for the unlock code and they said they would email it to me but no luck yet..its strange as to why unlockcell.com or something like that didnt work...But i meen something is already unlocked if I can search and connect to other networks other than Tmobile right? I connected to At&t just by going to the select network operator in android settings..
I can switch between carriers believe that would just be considered roaming.
I used this exact phone, Samsung Galaxy Exhibit ii 4G, somewhat successfully in Europe last year. This was the WalMart phone that I paid to unlock. Here's what I experienced.
The first try was in England with the O2 network. I popped in their SIM card. While I got the phone and texts to work I never got the internet to work. For some reason it did not automatically download the APN information. I tried manually loading that information and it still never worked. While it seemed it should have had internet access, it showed data transfer at the top of the screen, it was so sloooooow that it was useless. I had purchased the SIM card at a place called Carphone Warehouse. They ended up lending us a phone for about a month so we could use the SIM. I would recommend trying a different carrier than O2 and make sure before you leave the store that it's actually working or that you can get your money back if it doesn't or that you can get a loaner phone. BTW: there isn't much 4G in Europe either.
In Germany I bought a Tmobile SIM card and it worked find.
In Italy I bought a TIM SIM card. Again it did not properly download the APN data. But with a little online searching I found the correct APN information, manually loaded it in, and it worked fine.
Data usage in England, Germany, and Italy is actually fairly reasonable. Don't even consider it in France. First it costs 15 euros just for the SIM card and data cost per mb is horrendous.
Be sure to go to an actual phone store to buy your card and not a tobacco shop. At least at the phone stores you can get help if you are having trouble.
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I used this exact phone, Samsung Galaxy Exhibit ii 4G, somewhat successfully in Europe last year. This was the WalMart phone that I paid to unlock. Here's what I experienced.
The first try was in England with the O2 network. I popped in their SIM card. While I got the phone and texts to work I never got the internet to work. For some reason it did not automatically download the APN information. I tried manually loading that information and it still never worked. While it seemed it should have had internet access, it showed data transfer at the top of the screen, it was so sloooooow that it was useless. I had purchased the SIM card at a place called Carphone Warehouse. They ended up lending us a phone for about a month so we could use the SIM. I would recommend trying a different carrier than O2 and make sure before you leave the store that it's actually working or that you can get your money back if it doesn't or that you can get a loaner phone. BTW: there isn't much 4G in Europe either.
In Germany I bought a Tmobile SIM card and it worked find.
In Italy I bought a TIM SIM card. Again it did not properly download the APN data. But with a little online searching I found the correct APN information, manually loaded it in, and it worked fine.
Data usage in England, Germany, and Italy is actually fairly reasonable. Don't even consider it in France. First it costs 15 euros just for the SIM card and data cost per mb is horrendous.
Be sure to go to an actual phone store to buy your card and not a tobacco shop. At least at the phone stores you can get help if you are having trouble.
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Are you able to connect to 2100mhz HSPA which is the 3G frequencies used in these countries. My understanding is that the phone is triband HSPA at 850/1700/1900 HSPA and wouldn't be compatible with the 2100mhz used in Europe. There is a small overlap between the 850mhz spec and the 900mhz so it might be possible if the winds were blowing right to get a 3G signal in some European country occasionally, but that you were mostly relegated to a 2G signal and that you should absolutely avoid carriers like 3 who had no 2g licenses.
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Are you able to connect to 2100mhz HSPA which is the 3G frequencies used in these countries. My understanding is that the phone is triband HSPA at 850/1700/1900 HSPA and wouldn't be compatible with the 2100mhz used in Europe. There is a small overlap between the 850mhz spec and the 900mhz so it might be possible if the winds were blowing right to get a 3G signal in some European country occasionally, but that you were mostly relegated to a 2G signal and that you should absolutely avoid carriers like 3 who had no 2g licenses.
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Actually it's a quad band phone.
GSmarena.com lists the full specs for this phone and they show this:
2G Network GSM 850 / 900 / 1800 / 1900
3G Network HSDPA 850 / 1700 / 2100 / 1900
I was getting 3G in Germany and Italy, no problem. Sometimes, depending upon where I was, it would drop down to Edge. I have no clue why it didn't work with the 3 network other than I just couldn't get the APN right. So for England, try a different network and make sure it's really a different network. Some of the carriers have the same names but are on the same network. When you can I'd suggest sticking with Tmobile. That way you're most likely to have it work. Oh, to get the SIM cards on the continent you usually need to have your passport to set up the account. So don't forget to bring that along when you go to the phone store.
Oh, when I said I tried the O2 network I actually meant the 3 network. Sorry about that. I stand corrected. I never did try O2.
All in all it worked pretty well. Usually the plans include around 200 mb data per month. So you do have to be careful as to how much you use your internet. Fortunately many McDonalds have free wifi these days. In Germany, however, you have to have a local phone number to use the McDonalds wifi because each time you want to use it they have to send you an SMS with a daily passcode and you only get 1 hour per day usage.
My understanding is that Europe used Band I HSPA (2100mhz) and that 1700/2100mhz was "Band IV" and something different:
Take a look at this Wikipedia article to see where I am coming from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UMTS_frequency_bands
I used this phone last month on a trip to Brazil with a local carrier, without any problem at all. Just like people on the thread said, you just need to call TMo and ask them about the unlock code, should be on your mailbox by next day. If you didn't get it, call them, 611, and use the option 9 to call straight to the operator, and tell them that you are traveling next week. However, to get the unlock code, you have to be using the phone on TMo for at least 3 months, or have someone that has a plan that has been active for such period.
Hi there my friend!
I went to US last month and brought one of this with me. I had to unlock it through an internet service because TMo SMS with unlock code never arrived – even though I called Costumer Service when I was at the US.
I can confirm that my cellphone worked with both 850 and 2100 frequencies. These are the two ones we have here in Brazil – actually, one of the operator uses 850/2100 and all other use 2100. I have one SIM of each operator and I tested them all with my SGE4G.
One little remark that I feel I should make although I almost know it does not matter: I never tested them with stock ROM since I flashed custom and AOSP since day one.
In Europe I used just the stock ROM. I hadn't even used the phone in the US at all so it didn't have any updates either. The only thing I did was unlock it. As I said it worked fine in Germany with Tmobile. Fine in Italy on TIM once I got the APN right. But never worked in England with 3. In England, try a different network than 3 and make sure the internet is really working before you leave the store. Otherwise you can't get your money back.
If you get the SIM at Cellphone Warehouse in England ask if you can get a "standby" phone to borrow if the SIM doesn't work in your phone. Their 'standby" phones aren't very powerful but at least you'd have something to use. You just need to return it to any of their stores when you leave.
The phone drops down to Edge when it wasn't in a 3G network. So I set up the browser to download text only, worked with mostly mobile only sites, and avoided all video. You need to do this anyway in most countries as your amount of data included in the monthly fee is very limited.
Hey,can any developers try to change the software of the radio so the phone work in asia&europe wcdma900/2100MHz
Hi all,
Got an SP (C5303) the other day which was sold to me as an EE phone although when I checked it's unlocked so now not so sure where it came from as there is no branding on the phone.
Bacicaly I'm on Orange in the UK and I'm having trouble with realy slow data, the phone is basicaly stuck on GSM, I only ever see 'G' on the signal indicator. I know there is 3G avalable as my previous Xperia U could get 3G.
I have seem 'E' once on the siganl but the moment I tryed to do anything with the phone it dropped to 'G' again.
I have got the phone set to 'WCDMA prefered' and have had the APN sent to me by Orange.
Does anyone know how I can get it to connect to 3G?
Regards.
Force it in network settings
Gesendet von meinem Xperia SP
Thanks for the response.
How do I force it in network settings?
I assume he means go to settings/wireless and networks/mobile networks
Then for network mode select WCDMA only
I'mm on EE's LTE service and I guess they have some kind of 'load management' which dumps you on the next category down if your preferred data connection has a poor signal or is being used heavily by others.
Similarly you may want to check out that your network operator is EE 3G - not 2g.
I have tried setting it to WCDMA only and just get a red cross and no signal bars.
Even as far as changing it in the *#8#4636#*#* menu.
I have tried flashing a UK generic firmware and still get the same results.
Tried a '3' sim and could get no signal again.
I have even gone as far as checking if the IMEI has been blacklisted, it's not fortunately!!
The only thing I can assume at the moment is that the radio is messed up some how but thought flashing different firmware would have resolved this?
Going to try flashing a Orange UK firmware to see if there is some little tweak in there from Orange to make it all work!!
At the moment I feel like I'm running in circles and banging my head on a brick wall all at the same time!!
Any ideas of something I may have missed would be great!!
Thanks all for the help so far!!
Oh just thought in the network operators there were no 3G options of any operator.
One thing Orange did mention when I spoke the the was that the MNC in the APN should be 30 but the default comes up as 33 and I if I change it to anything other than 33 the APN vanishes!!
Sounds like a hardware issue, especially if you’ve tried another sim and that couldn’t get data either. The quickest way to confirm is to see whether the EE sim can download data on another phone.
I put my sim back in my xperia U and it went straight to 3G then H so the sim seems fine!!
Looks like I bought a lemon!!
Looks like I will be contacting the seller for a refund, shame I really liked the phone!!
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I put my sim back in my xperia U and it went straight to 3G then H so the sim seems fine!!
Looks like I bought a lemon!!
Looks like I will be contacting the seller for a refund, shame I really liked the phone!!
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Try this? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=43890652
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Just thought I would let you all know the outcome of this one!!
I have had it looked at by a local trusted phone repair shop and in his opinion the phone had suffered water damage.
His reasoning was the security seal was missing and the moisture indicator was wonky.
Don't know where the security seal should have been or what it looks like, but the moisture indicator was wonky (once I was shown where to look) as apparently in the factory they are stuck on by machine and are always dead straight.
But the good news was I tested eBays money back guarantee and I got a full refund including postage once I sent the phone back.
Thanks to all that tried to help me trouble shoot this issue!!
Good to know eBay stick to there refund policy.
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Hi every one, i have huawei p7 l10 b133sp01 and its show me roaming, i am in norway using norway sim card, who can help me with that? Sometimes 3g sometimes R, what i shell do?
I have read its a place problem about the cust info. That partition haven't got the properly info of the carrier, so the phone think that you are out . That happens because your carrier use the network of other carrier. For example imagine that your carrier its apex, but use the o2 network, in fact its using another , that's roaming and if the phone haven't got the information to know that the roaming is local , show that.
Some people say that they can solve the problem installing the udpate.app of the vendor cards. Didn't work for me. The other way is try th edit build.prop adding new lines , but you need root for that ..good luck.
Hi every one...
First.... my phone is not blacklisted...
I live in Venezuela, here we have 3 mobile carriers, my phone only recognize one carrier (just the one that I don't use) the other two recognize the sim card but no signal error, in just one opportunity one carrier says that this phone can not be used... I purchase this phone in Colombia unlocked it there and them brings it to Venezuela... So it's not blacklisted... I want to try changing the IMEI number and try... the carriers here don't has the phone in blacklisted neither...
Any advise...
Thanks you so much
ejaimes said:
Hi every one...
First.... my phone is not blacklisted...
I live in Venezuela, here we have 3 mobile carriers, my phone only recognize one carrier (just the one that I don't use) the other two recognize the sim card but no signal error, in just one opportunity one carrier says that this phone can not be used... I purchase this phone in Colombia unlocked it there and them brings it to Venezuela... So it's not blacklisted... I want to try changing the IMEI number and try... the carriers here don't has the phone in blacklisted neither...
Any advise...
Thanks you so much
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when it isn't blacklisted then there also isn't any need to change the IMEI.
It is also illegal in many jurisdictions to do what you're asking (not sure about Venezuela, though).
Sounds most like the phone not supporting the wireless bands used by the other carriers. Many phones, especially low-end ones, only support the bands for the carrier they are built for; any other carrier if they work it's either luck or means you checked the cellular band compatibility list.
Another possible explanation is just that the phone doesn't have the APN for the other carriers, and therefore can't access their networks (though usually this would at least let you get calls/SMS). That can be fixed by looking up the correct APN and setting it manually in Settings->Cellular.
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