[HTC One S] Sneakyghost:
@Craigspc:

There's two possible answers to that question:

First: HTC messed up the Icons in the latest base and it's showing wrong icons, mainly for US users though who never see 4G (tmob) or H+ (which would be the correct one since there actually is no 4G on that phone :D ). "G" is shown instead. So you might be experiencing a variant of that problem.

Second: The new Radio might cause you not to have good edge reception while having good wcdma coverage there so you actually never connect to edge. You should switch to edge only and go to an area with known good coverage.

Then there's some less likely answers like the phone is still hardware damaged and such.

It had also been noted on Venom Viper One S thread that the new update seems to disable parallel Phonecalls/Data usage, which we could take as an attempted fix as most of the occurences start with some sort of phone line connection. Switching off data while in call reduces the used frequency range and possibly transmission strength.

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To everyone else:

Furthermore, i found out that the Spreadsheet now holds 415 reports and shows now at least two S3 reports which are very very certainly true home button issue reports.

This makes me sad and satisfied at the same time, since it confirms all my past fears. This issue is NOT isolated to some badly manufactured samples of the S4 strain. It must be a very widespread multiplatform issue. This is getting so huge that it makes me puke when trying to imagine the numbers of devices produced and the support crash HTC will encounter with this just massive desaster.

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Lastly, i would like to ask all non-affected users reading on here (i hope there are hiding some in the sticks out there lol) to perform a simple test.

I will explain: Tecardo and me where talking about a way to make this issue 100% reproducible. He came up with the idea that the Phone has only one Radio Module for all 4 transmission technologies: Mobile, Wifi, BT and GPS. He thought if we block the upper three antennas (WiFi, BT and GPS) from reception, the phone will increase their transmission wattage drastically, attempting to build up a connection. This will, since there is only one module, be done to all 4, including GSM antenna at the bottom. Haha. Smart thought. And it hit the spot. We inserted a piece of paper underneath the SIM cover between the Antenna contacts and the cover.

We made the Issue come up 50% of the times we went to spots with weak GSM signal. Which is good enough to state two things for sure: 1. The Issue is definetely radio signal related. 2. it actually IS reproducible.

Now, what we do not know but what we believe, is this: considering the high manufacturing accuracy and the similar software on all phones, we assume that this fault is theoretically present on every single HTC One S manufactured since it will most likely be a design flaw (in the way that only micro changes in manufacturing are enough to trigger it like micrometer gaps or more or less strong contact to cover). So, if we manage to make the healthy phones "simulate" the state of the bad phone (decreased reception/increased output) it should be possible to prove that theoretically all phones suffer from it.

Now, we don't want to take the bottom covers off as that can easily be damaged. Hence the "Trick" with the SIM cover.

Do you know what i want from you guys? If you have a healthy phone, please please do the paper trick and walk around spots where you usually have really bad reception. See if you can trigger the Home Button Issue by doing a call, run some data transmission or do both at the same time...

If you find out that you suddenly have the Home Button issue, take the paper out and see if it is gone then.

Please report.

Thanks and sorry for the long text but i feel this needs some explanations.

[EDIT]

Forgot to say: running a combination of Kernel/Base from 2.31 together with Radio 1.06s from 2.21, I have a BAD home button issue at the moment. I take this as a strong indicator that the drivers in the kernel are strongly involved too. It's not just the radio alone. Phone is hard to use again.