yashsingh1/xdaforums huggingface dataset:
[Fascinate General] speedingcheetah:
Yore kidding...I just started having data problems after flashing to comrom 2.1 update and SteelBlue v3.1 theme..tried a full clean stock restore with Odin with Atlas .pit file to stock EB01..still has problems..

I was on the phone today with level 2 tech and tell told me if they did the ESN swap thing I would loose unlimited data..cause switching to a dumb esn wipes out the data plan and there is no way to re-add the unlimited data..yet the say current customers can keep unlimited data...contradictory..and just stupid..so now i am stuck with unlimited data but can't use it, they are sending me a refurb fascinate, but refused to send me a different phone...the tech said that they may consider sending a different phone only after something like 10 replacements..What the crap!? I like Samsung cause of the easy customizations and custom roms available as compared to other phones..but I am beginning to hate this phone since its plagued with bot software and hardware problems
[Fascinate General] speedingcheetah:
How the heck are you getting those speeds...:confused:u sure ur not on wifi...I have never see that speed even the day I got the phone in the store...I even ran speedtest ap on the 4g Samsung charge while at the Verizon store yesterday and was only getting about 250k with full signal...

A friend has a droid X that gets about 180k up and down and its un-modified stock...and my area does has 4g...so shouldn't be the network
[Fascinate General] chopper the dog:
The speed test app is a broken piece of ****. Test speeds using this http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ in the browser.

good day.
[Fascinate General] prehistorical:
Hey SC I am in the same boat, except now running on pure stock ED04 (never rooted POC refurb) and not getting offers like the ones you read all over XDA. Maybe it's regional, maybe it's something else. It puzzles me that you have much stronger signal strength and still encounter issues.

But for sure, the ESN swap should not kill your plan. Worst case scenario, when you activate the refurb Fascinate it should work just like a ESN swap (but others say not the same as a DMU reset). Maybe try the refurb on stock for a while to eliminate any lingering throughts about the effects of custom ROMs and rooting.

Good luck!
[Fascinate General] prehistorical:
Thanks chopper... on stock ED04 this is not working even with Flash installed from market. :confused:

"The speakeasy Speed Test requires Flash v7 or higher.

Please update your browser."

Here is what the App reports: ping (FWIW) 783ms, D/L 57kbps, U/L 80kbps.

on 7/6 I got 750ms, 38kbps, 48kbps.

Rue the Air!
[Fascinate General] speedingcheetah:
I have always used the speedtest.net app...even online on a computer it's one of the standard widely used tests...they have a server in my state, where as the one you mentioned- closest server to me is in Texas or Illinois. I will try both and see what results I get...
[Fascinate General] chopper the dog:
30 seconds apart in the same exact place. That app has been bad since froyo pretty much. I've also found it funny that a carrier will accept the results of a broken app as if there is something wrong with the device. And they both use Ookla.

good day.
[Fascinate General] speedingcheetah:
well..can't say as far as android app goes..but I just ran both tests from my laptop on my dsl line..both using Chicago, IL Server(I am in MN)..both came out with very close results..did Speedtest.net with closest server in Minnesota City, MN..speeds slightly higher..qwest also has speedtest on their local website..similar results..they all seem to work consistently..at least through a laptop..will have to try both when I get replacement phone

Edit: I still find it funny that I have yet to see any where near those speeds you posted in your screen shots on 3g on my phone here in Minneapolis, MN...

Edit: Got my "like New Replacement Fascinate Yesterday...runs much better..speeds faster..Speednet app says 1.3 to 2Mbps download and .5Mbps upload..fastest I have seen yet..Speakeasy in Miren browser gave me slightly higher speeds..all seems good for now.
[Fascinate General] davadl:
My 3G has been sporadic for the last couple of weeks (would stay connected for 1-4 minutes, then disconnect). Using the ESN swap method someone else mentioned worked perfectly. I don't have any old Verizon phones laying around so I found a dummy ESN that worked. Apparently this is a number that the CSRs are supposed to use for changes: 13800000400.

Side note, before using the ESN swap method to fix it, I found that if I put the radio into CDMA only mode (no EVDO), the data connection never dropped (but I only got the RTT x1 speeds). The CDMA data speeds I got were around 80 or 90 kbps, so I'm thinking that those of us getting slow '3G' speeds between having the connection drop were actually having the x1 connection misreported.
[Fascinate General] speedingcheetah:
By using a dummy ESN, you lose your Unlimited Data plan..you have to use a smartphone ESN to swap out or activate another smartphone on the line in order to keep the unlimited data instead of getting $30 for 2gb.
[Fascinate General] heckfm:
I was able to get VZW customer care to transfer me to tech support last night. I apparently got a tech support person that's not intimidated by someone who knows a little about computers/phones. I told him I had tried all of the standard procedures of rebooting, removing the battery, and even a full factory reset. Then I told him I had heard that it took a new phone or a DMU reset to fix the problem, so he did it right then. The whole process took me about 10 minutes and it worked for me. My 3g connection is now stable!

I'm running on ComRom 2.1 w/ PBJ -50 kernal (non-voodoo)
[Fascinate General] Zdog02:
Amazing!! I'm not sure what modem i switched to when i flashed the Evil Fascination, but i started having intermittent 3G problems before having my 3G entirely disappear. So I called the Verizon tech and told her the problems other Verizon Fascinate users been having, and the solution I found online with the DMU reset, via ESN switching. So she wanted to start with "troubleshooting!" I made a little small talk by telling her how smart you all were and she decided to give the ESN switch a try.. AND of course this took care of the 3G issue.. Thank you guys!
[Fascinate General] facinater:
I used the test device esn and did not loose my unl data.....it still there.
[Fascinate General] facinater:
Well..esn switch worked for about two days and im now loosing my 3g again.
[Fascinate General] SemiGamer:
DMU worked on my girlfriends fascinate.

Called tech support and BS'd my way through to Tier 2 support, told them I was already on the phone with tier 1 and BS'd saying they made me do all kinds of methods including battery pulls, data toggling, factory resetting, told them "Tier 1" told me to call back and have an EMU key reset done at Tier 2 ( I only had her phone with me so I couldn't actually troubleshoot cuz the line had to be open). The guy gave into doing the reset and it worked flawlessly after hanging up, rebooting and dialing *228 and pressing 1 for programming.
[Fascinate General] facinater:
I had to do a ext4 format and then restore from a nandriod bu that I did on jul 10.
[Fascinate General] AgainstYourThought:
I've been having problems with my 3G lately too. It just randomly drops off, and the only way to fix it, that I've found, is to restart the phone. Always seems to happen when I need that data connection the most!

The trouble seems to have started occurring after I upgraded to the ED04 modem using these instructions. I'm using the Blackhole ROM .

Wonder if downgrading might help. Doesn't seemed to have helped anyone else in this thread though.

EDIT: Tried upgrading to the newer EC09 modem. We'll see if I still have the problem.
[Fascinate General] facinater:
I finnally fixed my 3g issues. I seem to loose 3g the most when i was using the 3g Hotspot.

I'm now using Barnacle instead of 3g Hotspot and have not lost 3g in the last 72 hours.

Not only that my speeds and ping times are way up.

I think Verizon is trying to restrict our data usage. Even if we pay for it!!!!

I'm beginning to thinck their network just sucks!
[Fascinate General] printing724:
I posted this on Rootzwiki October 12th, supports some of your observations...

"Feedback re dropping data issues and keyboard popping up...I've been on CM since starting with nightly 23, then 35, 68, back to 59, now on 7.1.0...

I work in a building where 3g and wifi are present with weak signals that (fairly consistently) vary with location. I can cause the 3g or wifi signal to go from weak to lost by walking from one known point to another known point. In my office, both are present but not strong. Go 100 feet east or north and wifi dies. Go to the manufacturing floor, and 3g dies.

I have noticed some consistent patterns of behavior with some issues mentioned frequently in these forums. The issues are "loss of data connection", "popup keyboard", and "popup main menu".

Observations:

(1) Data connection drop occurs about 50% of the time if any data connection that is turned on drops out and returns. Doesn't matter which one. Doesn't matter which one(s) are turned on before the loss. Airplane toggle required to restore.

(2) When either data connection gets marginal, the popup keyboard starts occurring.

(3) When either data connection gets to the verge of dropping, the popup keyboard gets worse and the popup main menu also starts to occur.

(4) When the phone is returning from sleep and one of the connections is marginal, a data connection drop occurs about 50% of the time, preceded by popup keyboard and popup main menu activity.

(5) The popup keyboard occurs regardless of the input method selected (I have Swiftkey but use the GB keyboard, have tried both).

(6) The popup keyboard issue can be corrected by changing the long press menu settings in Settings-Cyanogenmod-Input. Even though "None" is the default choice after flashing, the soft keyboard is what comes up if you long press the menu key. Customize it to something else and then back to None and the annoying popup keyboard should stop. Mine did.

(7) The popup main menu is something I haven't been able to fix, but its occurrence frequency is much less than the popup keyboard was.

There's a relationship between decreasing data signal strength, unwanted phantom activity, and ultimate loss of data connection. I'm not educated enough to figure it out, but hope these observations help someone.

EC09/ED05 doesn't seem to make a difference. Neither does flash method (cwm recovery versus ROM Manager). I usually wipe 3 before flashing, then use cwm recovery advanced restore to put data back. Have used TiBu as well, didn't affect the observations."

Hope this helps someone.
[Fascinate General] NuclearEMP:
here's something that surprised me and would like to see if people have the same effect.

Find a spot where you have/show 3g two bars and then turn off data, you should immediately have full 4 bars for calling.

seems to be when the device activates data the power cuts way down.
[Fascinate General] jimv2000:
I was having a similar issue with my data constantly losing connection. Switching to a different rom (tsm resurrection) was the fix.
[Fascinate General] deadcaper:
10.11

ED01

Started for me last night after flashing community rom I have also tried going back to DI01, manually take the OTAs without any change. 3G will drop or will be extremely slow when trying to run apps that require data.
[Fascinate General] XLS125:
Hey guys, I started having this problem after I did the OTA to ED01. I flashed and odin'd a bunch of different stuff to no avail. But I did finally find a way to fix it (at least I think this is what did it). I odin'd the EB01 stock froyo then I deactivated the phone on my Verizon account then reactivated it and now I have 3g again. I updated to ED01 using the method from Adrynalyne's "get to ED01 quickly" thread and I still have the 3g connection.

I am not positive if this will work for anyone else, but I just thought I would throw in my two cents.
[Fascinate General] Legato525:
I am starting to think this is a server issue. I just started experiencing it on my xoom, and it started two days after flashing ef rom on my fascinate. Just my opinion.

Sent from my brain on channel 64!
[Fascinate General] BakaUnchi:
10.08

ED01 OTA to Commie rom = Dead modem

Flashed over 30 different things all have no 3g or slight
[Fascinate General] DevinLeFevere:
Going to the store tomorrow to see what they say. This is DevinLefevere from xda fyi. Let you guys know tomorrow.
[Fascinate General] smilepak:
How did you re-activate the phone? On VZW all I see is suspend account and reactivate account. Did that....no dice...
[Fascinate General] smilepak:
in TSM Part...

Under HDATA -> Username -> the value is empty. Does that do anything or attribute to what we are having? Shouldn't it be something like Verizon Wireless or something like that?
[Fascinate General] speedingcheetah:
maybe this problem has something to do with the kernel..overclocking...under-volting..over-volting...

Is this just the Community Rom...what about the Evil Fascination rom...

If flashing an ED01 rom is physically killing the phones modem hardware...wouldn't there be a huge uproar on those threads??? not seeing too much hipe over there..

I was going to try ED01..but not till this is resolved...SC2.9.2..EC10 Voodoo kernel...Nitro Honycomb theme..still love it..

the number on back of my phone is 10.11 btw...

I am in a bad reception spot for calls and data cuts out frequently for any Verizon user here in my concrete prison called a dorm room...:(:rolleyes:
[Fascinate General] smilepak:
Nope, tried both Evil Fascinate 3.3.2 and 3.4. Tried Community Rom

Went back to SC 2.9.2 and DL09 same issue

didn't overclock or underclock with any of the ROM.
[Fascinate General] DevinLeFevere:
I have also gone back to DL09/EB01/ED01 bloated stock etc. Nothing is changing. The hardware has **** its self.
[Fascinate General] speedingcheetah:
Well...guess its back to stock and to the Verizon store for a replacement...joy..:rolleyes:

Did yall do the .zip cwr method or OTA to get ED01 modem..or just flash the Community Rom..cause that doesn't flash a ED01 modem(radio)..:confused:..not clear if this is an ED01 modem problem..or just the rom or both that is causing this..I don't know?? Will have to wait and see what the devs say about it...

Seems more problems with OTA than anything else..i think
[Fascinate General] smilepak:
From looking at the TSM log and menu, AAA Password is empty and some settings are questionable. I wonder if ED01 corrupted that in the phone and *228 can't fix it. By looking at this article,

http://b2b.vzw.com/assets/files/SecurityWP.pdf

that information looks important... I think
[Fascinate General] speedingcheetah:
How could it be corrupting it..it not supposed to modify those( I think) else flashing all these roms would surely have reverted it back..you would think anyway..especially if people tried a complete factory restore where you had to re-program/re-activate(*228) the phone and still had problems..

Wierd,,,:confused::confused:
[Fascinate General] durakbane:
Just got off with tech support (level 2?)..he said they have an email instructing them to have us do a factory reset for those that have data issues after the ed01 update. My 3g is better but seems a little slow..I'll run speed test later.

Ran test three times:

avg download: 280kbps

avg upload: 200 kbps

avg ping: 120 ms

UPDATE: I don't think the problem is fixed.
[Fascinate General] smilepak:
Factory reset does nothing. Tried that a few times. Fortune for titanium backup, or ill be piss for all those factory reset. I give up. Ill wait for replcement. If still no fix, I hope they give me bolt ahahah
[Fascinate General] spyd3r05:
10.10 hosed too

http://pastebin.com/xJPpYRXE
[Fascinate General] thornbe:
Something is definitely going on with the VZW network. My Fascinate signal strength is jumping all over the place today, but I have been getting 4 bars at a place where I've never received more than 2 or 3.

I have the stock OTA 2.2 upgrade, rooted with some debloating.

Version 10.10 under the battery.

Finally an event that supports what I have been try to tell and show the VZW customer service reps. :D Let's hope this brings everything to the forefront.

- Tim
[Fascinate General] bmeek:
FWIW, my phone seems fine on 3g data, although signal quality at my home has always been marginal...

I had been running the "ec10" modem, imnuts kernel and sc rom prior to an odin-to-DI01 then ota to ED01. Now I'm running the ed01 modem, imnuts' latest -100 uv kernel & debloated stock ed01 rom with misc mods... Working great.
[Fascinate General] revision78:
Running kangbang ED01 modem and all is fine for me.
[Fascinate General] smilepak:
This is what I've tried so far w/o any luck, in sequence....

Problem Started with ED01 w/ Community Rom 1.0

- Wipe all (data/cache/delik)

- Flash Evil Fascinate 3.4 --> No dice issue still there

- Wipe all (data/cache/delik)

- *228 1&2

- Revert Radio EC01 -> No Dice

- Wipe all (data/cache/delik)

- *228 1&2

- Revert Radio EB01 -> No Dice

- Wipe all (data/cache/delik)

- *228 1&2

- Revert Radio DL09 & SC 2.9.2 -> No Dice

- Go back to ED01 via OTA update (wait for manual download ARGH 3HRs) in full STOCK environment --> No Dice

- Wipe all (data/cache/delik)

- ED01 Radio + Community ROM 1.1 -> No Dice

- Deactive & Reactive Fascinate via VZW.COM -> No Dice

- Wipe all (data/cache/delik)

- Flash Community Rom 1.0 -> No Dice

- *228 1&2

- Software Factory Reset (via Privacy in Setting Control Panel)

- Hard reboot factory - Wipe all (data/cache/delik)

- Reflash Community 1.0

- Reflash Community 1.1

Well, this is where i am now..phone rebooting as we speak ahahahah for the 100th times...

What I notice this time so far, the "Stay Awake" check seems to disappear every 2 minutes ahaha
[Fascinate General] speedingcheetah:
Its strange..nobody can seem to nail down what exactly in the ED01 package that is causing it..seen posts from people that did OTA to get new modem, also did .zip cwr method to get modem, as well as others that just flashed ED01 rom, not evening touching the ED01 modem..most end up with 3g problems..some do , while others don't...what the crap:confused::confused:
[Fascinate General] revision78:
I don't think we can pin it on ED01 either though. My method both times i flashed was (while completely overkill) i odin'ed all the way back to di01. left it stock, did the actual OTA to ED01 and I've been fine twice now. Prior to this I've been on every radio since di01 that my phone had when i got it. Now i never wiped anything going from stock ED01 to kangbang so maybe that does something. Not sure, but again, twice now i've made my way through the flashing and my phone is unscathed. Perhaps it is in fact hardware getting flubbed like chopperthedog has posted a couple times now. He had this same issue since starting with EB01 i think he said.

--edit--

Lots of people are saying it's simply strain on vzw network. Could very well be.
[Fascinate General] smilepak:
Hmmm...okay...whatever I tried last (a few post ago) didn't work either..

- Software Factory Reset (via privacy setting)

- Hard Reset via CMW (wipe cache, wipe data, wipe devik)

- Reinstall Community Rom 1.0

- Upgrade Communit Rom 1.1

- *228 1&2

Currently on ED01 & Community 1.1

Not using overclock / undervolt.

something in the java for the kernel/radio is causing it according to the logs people post. What I notice that is wierd is *228 option 1 completes in less than 5 seconds the last 7 times I've done it. Before they usually take at least a few longer...

No dice...
[Fascinate General] speedingcheetah:
Network Problem..maybe not..

For those thinking the 3g problem may simply be just network related...listen to this..

..a classmate of mine has an untouched stock fascinate he bought a few weeks ago here in Pensacola, FL...just upgraded to ED01 via OTA...bam..3g problems... I am running SC2.9.2....EC01 modem...EC10 voodoo kernel..no change for me..still running fine...

So he took his phone to the Verizon store...they did some stuff..ok..heres a new one right out of the box..still had 2.1 on it...data working fine..sales rep upgraded it to ED01 in store...data worked fine for a few minutes then ..bam..stopped working..go figure..even the display model in the store(running ED01) is having this problem..while all the other phones 3g (even the Bolt) is working fine...FIGURE THAT OUT!!!
[Fascinate General] revision78:
So this like really uber smart guy I know thinks it would be hilarious if it's hardware related but related to certain dates. How old is the hardware you are using if you are having the problem?

My handset is from October'ish (I can't recall that far back but I got it shortly after it launched and know I had it 2 weeks before halloween at least) and I'm not having any 3g issues and I'm in LTE area and running ED01 (two different times I've flashed it.
[Fascinate General] speedingcheetah:
I think the number before the 500 v under the battery is some kind of hardware version or something like that.. mine says 10.11..got mine middle of March this year..but again..not running ED01 and not having this problem..nor to I plan to. I have seen posts of people as far back as 10.8 (i think,m maybe 10.7) having problems..

What is your version number?
[Fascinate General] revision78:
10.09 10char
[Fascinate General] Toddw:
I've got some real reservations but I may have helped mine. What I did was do a full factory wipe/reset. Lost root of course. I used Odin and restored system file in this link:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=782204

and restored to Eclair, which may not have been necessary. I then Odin Froyo using the second option (Debloated/Deodexed Froyo Leak+root+Froyo Clockworkmod

EB01DB_DXC.tar) in this link

http://www.droidforums.net/forum/sa...roms-w-root-new-clockwork-updated-2-11-a.html

That got me Froyo and root. Then I flashed the latest version of Evil Fascination, at which point I had no GPS. So I flashed the latest version of OTB kernel from here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1011626

This got me GPS and so far my 3g is working much better. What's wierd though is that I did all this last night and it worked fine til about 10:00 this morning and my 3g dropped out again. I rebooted phone and the 3g immediately came back and has been with me since up til now at 2:00. It'll probably go out again but for now it's working.

These steps are somewhat redundant but they helped me. My phone is showing EC01 ROM but EB01 baseband (radio), but it's working.
[Fascinate General] DevinLeFevere:
Well I went to the Verizon store today. He called tech and they said for some reason I wasn't receiving data from their side. He reset the data and phone is back to normal. Something happened when flashing to Com Rom, no idea what could've caused that though.:confused:
[Fascinate General] lammers42:
I have a small sample time period, but when I first upgraded to ED01 by adrynalyne's method I had zero problems with the 3G. Signal was consistently 3G (no dropouts) in my house. After ~1/2 a day I dialed *228 option 2 and immediately after it was finished I had 3G dropouts and it is consistently dropping out in my house. I also have had problems of connection dropping with wifi hand-off. All is the same regardless of stock ED01 or the community rom.

On a side note: Today I haven't seen a signal strength higher than -91dbm, which I usually only see when I'm inside a building.
[Fascinate General] XLS125:
I activated another phone on my account then reactivated my Fascinate
[Fascinate General] thornbe:
Does anyone have a complete list of official OTA update versions for the Fascinate?

It would be interesting to see if phones that are not experiencing 3G issues started with a certain version of an OTA update, but phones that are having 3G issues didn't have a version of code that was missing something. Kind of like a cumulative code upgrade issue.

- Tim