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[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] K12123:
My gsiii for some odd reason loses 4G and sometimes even service. Last night when i was on a call, it dropped and the signal reflected that i was running on edge then it switched to someting that said "G." I looked at my brother's siii and he was also on edge. So i tried putting it on airplane mode however it would not go through. It's as if i never pressed anything. So i had to restart the phone and it was on airplane mode, so i took it off then about a minute and a half later i got 4G back. Today when i was browsing the web, i randomly lost 4G again but this time i continued to have signal just no data. About a minute later I got it back. About a minute later i lost it again and regained it about a minute later. I havent noticed anything else about the phone and ive had it for about a week and last night was the first time that i restarted it. Any ideas? Has anyone else experienced this? Thanks!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] ballenone:
I'm also having the same problem it just happened to me today also and happened the other day when I restarted phone it did nothing then I did airplane mode that didn't do anything so I clicked the enable packet data off then on an item came back in hoping it's not going to be a hardware problem cause I've dropped calls for no reason and had no service or bars were showing but had no edge 4G etc
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] K12123:
Yeah it's really weird, when I was using mt4g, it would do that randomly as well, I'm not sure if it's a phone or a network issue. Anyone else experiencing this random drop in data?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] circuit.007:
Same here I think it's a common issue with tmobile devices.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jgalan14:
I think is just the network it had happened to me but while driving some place and Idk if is the coverage but other then that I do see going from h+ and 3g, I have a custom theme install
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] aznmode:
I just moved from Sprint to Tmo and I'm getting the same on my S3. It would look like i have good 4g coverage with 3 bars then all of a sudden it goes to Edge. So I have to wait for it to go back to 4g to start surfing. Edge is like 15kbps for me which is not even modem speed which is 56k. If I accidentally start surfing on Edge it seems to wanna stick to Edge until I close whats using data then it will eventually go to 4g. But when I get 4g its awesome and I get over between 6meg to 12 but only 40% of the time. I called Tmo and they said I have great 4g coverage where I'm at....ya sure.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] jgalan14:
Ha ha tell them to give you credit Lmao
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] hedjemunkee:
It's them rebooting equipment due to all the upgrades they're adding.

Sent from my MyTouch 4g
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] benefit14snake:
This is very good for a lot of reasons!! Can't wait.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] cwalker0906:
I just checked settings... battery... cell standby... 45 percent without signal.... anyone else check those stats? I got people telling me they called but no record on my phone
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] K12123:
I've only experienced outright loss of signal once, which was last night. So far nothing else has happened really. It was just odd that my phone won't even go into airplane mode until I rebooted the device.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Fyahstarter:
Same thing happened to me. I was actually quite worried and about to send my phone back. Everything seems to be working okay now. No issues.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] rookiegenius:
this has driven me mad for the past few days. recently I upgraded to a S3 and my dad got a S 4G (which was released 2 years ago). while we were in Costco, my S3 randomly switched to Edge while the S 4G has 4G all the time. ALso we were on vacation to San Francisco so I could experience "Tmo largest 4G network." While we were in a hotel in Fremont, my S3 again switched to Edge and back to 4G randomly while the S 4G had 4G. also the signal is not stable at all. sometimes(1 or 2 times) it even dropped to zero bar. SOMETHING wrong with samsung phones. I read somewhere someone had this issue with the S2 also. I can live with the HSPA+ for 2 years, but hey dont give me random Edge like that:mad:

I plan to go exchange for a new phone at Costco... probably a new S3 to see if the issue still exists...
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] tamasrepus:
T-Mobile's 4G network works in a interesting way (do all HSPA+ networks work this way?). They idle in UMTS mode (3G) until there is network activity, and then switch to HSPA+ (4G) mode. The network changing is an automatic thing does to save battery life ("Cellular standby" is often the largest battery drains).

Ever use an AOSP-based ROM (i.e. Cyanogenmod)? You'll sometimes see the network indicator in the status bar switch between 3G to H+ to 4G, etc as you use it. Stock T-Mobile ROMs are hard-coded to always say "4G", but if you go to Settings → About phone → Status, you can watch the network type there change as well as the phone does anything over the cellular network.

You should never be dropping to GPRS or EDGE. Perhaps the mechanism described is defective on your phone?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] K12123:
Happened again today. Had signal but no 4G, not even Edge, just bars. i think it happens whenever the signals low. Thoughts?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] sfsilicon:
I'm having the same issue at my work place. I'm getting Edge (50-80%) more often at my desk, when previously with my SGS2 it stayed at 4G all the time. Checking Cellstandby I am getting 31% time without signal.

Is there a setting to force 4g connection?

My office is in Cupertino, CA and reception is not bad in general, but there are a few locations with 4G dead spots.

I'll check my reception again at home (Santa Clara, CA). I can do a side by side comparison with my SGS2 (now belongs to my wife).

On call with TMO right now, they are going to do a reset of the phone in their system, then I will need to do a reboot. Fingers X'd that things will improve.

BTW, what options do I have to get a replacement phone if I bought mine from Walmart? Do I need to send it in or can I do an instore exchange? Just got it on Sunday. Will I incur any fees if I returned the phone?

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Reset didn't work. Passed on to level 2, there submitting a service request to check reception in the area. Need to follow-up on Friday if the reception is still bad. Since I'm in Cali I do have 30 days to return the phone. ;)
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] Zephyron:
I have similar reception issue but I dont lose signal completely. I will go from 4g(hspa+) to 3g to edge then it will switch back to 4g after 30secs-60secs. Quite annoying since I will be stationary and it will happen and it happens more when Im in a car. Never had this problem when I had the Nexus One.
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] aznmode:
Question. With your s2 what happens if you're in an area without 4g? Do you get edge?
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] justice26:
I am having the same issue. I had perfect 4g coverage all over my town, (I live in south texas). The problems started 2 days ago, when I lost all 4g coverage. I took out my sim card and placed it back in and the 4g logo came back on. But now I have been noticing that my cell signal will completely drop and then slowly come back up. This has happened several times. I also went to tmobile and changed my micro sim card and the issue remains. AND NOW I AM ON EDGE!!!!!
[T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII] aznmode:
Has anyone been able to get a replacement and did it fix the problem?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] XiaoSiuMai:
I tried screenshot app and it just comes out black. What app do u guys use?
[Samsung Galaxy Nexus] ÜBER™:
Power button and volume down. You're welcome
[HTC EVO 3D] DevXen:
So This Theme: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30337571/Ics%20theme%20E3d%20cdma%20beta1.zip

Was originally here:

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1635667

It was a GSM theme. that someone ported to CDMA - the RC1 of CleanRom with ICS.. and it did things i've never seen a theme do, I was impressed, the only problem it had was when it charged the battery icon only went about 1/10th of the way then restarted, so you could'nt ever tell how charged it was by looking. but even that was okay..

I have used this rom/theme since it came out a couple months ago.. until recently my phone started having several issues, having to constantly resent SMS messages for them to go through. .. the 'sleep after 15' seconds being disabled, and the screen staying on. making calls and texts while in my pocket *unlocking itself* .. and when i had headphones plugged in it would randomly call people.. So I figured it was time to change the Rom.

So I installed ViperROM ICS Beta 3.0 (for some reason it goomanager won't download the 3.1 update)

And now i'm back to the green. and pretty stock look .. i'm not a big fan of green.

So I wanted to ask if someone would be willing to convert this theme over for me. cause i don't know how. i know the tweaks caused issues with the next CleanRom Update. cause they changed how they did a couple of the tweaks i guess.

I checked the forum to see if there was ever an update. and the guy stopped working on it, and now is only working on a full GSM Rom. which doesn't do me any good as i'm on a CDMA Evo3D

anyhow, any help out there, would be very appriciated. thank you guys..

... Dev
[General Questions and Answers] Dell Streak 5 user:
Some days ago i tried to download a new app and the play store show me everytime the same error. Even updating isn't possible.

I know there's a connection between Play Store and google talk. The problem is that i can't create a connection with google talk. Even hours later of waiting for a login - no reaction.

I read some advices, so i cleaned the catches of google talk and play store but this problem still exists.

The only solution i know is to reinstall the whole system, but i can't dopwnload a backup application to safe my data.

Does anyone have similar problems? Please help me, it's really frustrating to sit in front of your phone for hours and nothing works.

btw: i got a dell streak 5 without and flashing or sth else, just updated un android 2.2.2

I really preciate if sb helps me!!
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] skillzo1:
Is it me, or is the sound like REALLY bad. I know it doesn't have the wolfson chip, but i was still expecting better. Any music being played sounds really bad. Even videos when you turn it all the way up, its not even decent. Same thing when the headphones are plugged in.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] JUSMEJOSE:
Mine sound nice...
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] rschauby:
Mine sounds great, and the amp puts out some decent power so driving decent headphones is easy.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] skillzo1:
Hmmm wonder if somethings wrong with mine. It's not cracking or anything. Just seems low turned all the way up, and when i mess with the settings Rock, jazz, bass, etc etc, it just doesn't seem right to impress me.

I'm coming from the tbolt...wich had decent sound IMO, so my standards arn't unrealastic
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] The_Biz:
Mine was loud even using bluetooth headphones.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Master Ramy:
Same mine sounds excellent in all setups Ive tried..
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] skalatsky:
Mine sounds wonderful and better than my old sgs2
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ilostmypistons:
Mine sounds great.... better than my daughters ip4s and wifes EVO
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] ddaub14:
Mine sound great! Even better now that I flashed a rom with beats.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] jgalan14:
To me it sounds good, sometimes too loud lol, for a small speaker it gets the job done
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] fleurdelisxliv:
mine sounds nice 2 hope it stays that way :)
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Aridon:
Good. Not awesome but good.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] z0phi3l:
Mine passed my sound test, I play Pink Floyd's High Hopes off The Division Bell, at the beginning the is some low ambient sounds, I play the song through Google music with a semi decent pair of headphones, and with the volume in the "normal" range I can hear the crickets etc.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] woodydog:
Its 3× better than my HTC one x half as good as my iPhone 4s. I can deal with that
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] Ascertion:
I use mine in the car (mostly) and it sounds REALLY good. Better than my S2.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] skatin707:
Mine is great. MUCH better than my HTC One X and iPhone 4. I'm more than pleased with this phone.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] MCKang25:
Ehh its ok, for your average joe it will be fine. But if you consider yourself and audiophile then it is still not as good as the iPhone 4. Head over to head-fi.org they have some graphs and eq charts of the S3. The consensus is that iPhone 4 > International S3 > US S3.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] z0phi3l:
Whoever said that is full of it, I've used all 3 generations of SGS, AND the last 3 generations of iPhones, the SGS always sounded better to me and most others, and this is using half decent headphones, not the included crap ones, listening to FLAC or 320kbps MP3s
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] woodydog:
Love my gs3 but 4s is crazy loud with earphones or on loudspeaker. But gs3 will get the job done. One x was pathetic
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] tony_5309:
Sounds great here. Even louder than my One X.
[Galaxy S III General (US Carriers)] MCKang25:
I guess its subjective but at least in my experience I notice that the soundstage is a bit congested and treble a bit more brighter then my iPhone 4 with my Westone ES5s. With my sister's beats headphones i was hard pressed to notice a difference.

http://www.head-fi.org/t/615935/galaxy-s3-sound-test-result-golden-ears-korean

Some head-fi people who have both the iPhone 4 and SGS3
[General Questions and Answers] Ascertion:
Hello,

I recently upgraded my phone line on Sprint for the Sprint Galaxy S3. I had the Epic Touch 4G prior to the Galaxy S 3. My son's line had an LG Optimus S and was only $20 /month, regardless of it being a smartphone.

Anyways, I had Sprint activate my Epic Touch 4G on my son's line and now Sprint is charging me a $10 smartphone fee per month. Sprint did NOT tell me this during activation. I just noticed that my bill is $10 higher than normal. So now I talked with Sprint customer service about this and they explained it's a mandatory fee for the phone but they did not mention this fee until just now and they say they can't help me.

What can I do?

P.S. Mods, if I'm in the wrong section, please move me to another section.

Thanks,

Confused Sprint Customer
[General Questions and Answers] _Variable:
Maybe they are still charging you for the Optimus S?
[General Questions and Answers] Ascertion:
The Optimus S had no $10 fee and now the line does since the Epic Touch is on it.
[General Questions and Answers] F3L1XZS:
Most likely, it is the $10 for the WiMax service.
[General Questions and Answers] BretonGirl:
They've been charging that fee for well over a year now. Old news. It's clearly documented on their site and they printed a notice in our bills a couple of months before it went into effect. There is nothing you can do except downgrade to a dumbphone.
[General Questions and Answers] Slap-Yourself :):
It's a $10 Premium data fee. The only thing you can do is to downgrade to a non-smartphone (unless it's been changed to a mandatory fee.)

Whenever a device is activated there's a pop-up alerting the CR that there must be a $10 add-on placed. There's no getting around it unless a discount is added. But in most cases, a rep can't discount that particular charge.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] bostonbassman78:
Has anyone ever seen this posting pic in a minute any help appreciated
[Motorola Droid RAZR] Soopafly Incredible:
Is your preferred network set to "home only"? Or "automatic"?
[Motorola Droid RAZR] bostonbassman78:
It's not mine its a friends and he says it only happens at his work

Just messed around with those setting's myself and could not get that icon to pop up at all
[Motorola Droid RAZR] OneStepAhead:
Pretty sure that's the Home Network icon
[Motorola Droid RAZR] bostonbassman78:
With ICS its hard cause u have to switch to gsm and when i tried messing around in those settings i could not get signal period but i will mess around with it again see if i can't get it to duplicate that icon
[Motorola Droid RAZR] bostonbassman78:
Ok i have tried just about everything with the network's and i can not duplicate that icon at all lol
[Motorola Droid RAZR] malj:
I get this icon at work as well. I believe it is from a network extender/repeater. We use those on our floor and I get the icon on my Blackberry as well.
[Motorola Droid RAZR] JerseyFF:
The flashing house is indeed an indicator that your phone is connected to a VZW Network Extender. I have one and see it while at home.
[HTC Desire S] kibril:
I designed this version of the system for my broken phone with fried emmc chip. This disk can be used in the working devices as "Recovery Disk"/"Emergency Disk" for testing purposes or other google's account))

1. Get “adb” and “fastboot” from Android SDK tool.

2. Prepare a blank memory card (Micro SD 4GB and more) for recording an image of the system.

3. Download the system image to a memory card sdcard_4g.rar.

4. Decompress/unrar archive, and u get the image of the SD card sdcard_4g.img.

5. Write image to your sdcard with:

Linux:

dd if=/path_to/sdcard_4g.img of=/dev/sdX

”, where X your device.​

Windows:

Write image with Image writer for Windows to Micro SD card​

Experts can make own sized partitions with this structure:

sdb1 – fat32 (rest size) the external storage
sdb2 – extendet partition
sdb5 – ext2 – 4MB
sdb6 – ext2 – 4MB
sdb7 – ext4 – 585MB /system
sdb8 – ext4 – 315MB /cache
sdb9 – ext4 – 28MB /devlog
sdb10 – ext4 – about 1-1.2GB /userdata

then decompress and copy system.7z:

dd if=/path_to/system.img of=/dev/scX7

, where X your device.​

6. Dowload bootloader's image “bootsd.img”.

7. Boot your phone to “BOOTLOADER” (VolDown+Pwr → Pwr).

8. Connect device to computer via USB cable.

9. Boot your device:

Command line

fastboot boot /path_to/bootsd.img

Wait 3-5 minutes (The 1st boot can take some time, depend on speed of memory card).​

If all goes well, you get the device working without using the phone's internal memory!!!

Good Luck!!!

PS: Be careful the image of the memory card will erase all existing information on it! Select the correct device before recording an image on the memory card. The author assumes no responsibility for the integrity of your data and equipment damage!

If you think the author's helpful, buy him a beer!

Booting from "Recovery":

To launch an android from the "Recovery", copy the "update.zip" to your memory card at root directory of the fat32 partition. In the "RECOVERY" select "apply update from sd card" and confirm "install" by selecting "Yes - Install ...". Installing update.zip only starts the Android system from the SD card. Now you can run the system without a PC.

This method is suitable to run in an emergency, if discharged or the phone needs a restart. He uses the chroot method and kernel in your RecoveryMod, so there may be some limitations of the functional (ex. WiFi module bcm4329.ko - wifi dont work after boot from Recovery).
[HTC Desire S] fosco_:
Downloading and testing...

Will give you feed back as soon as i boot
[HTC Desire S] kibril:
Now I'm working on others ROMs based on CM7.2 and ICS... Waiting for your replay:)
[HTC Desire S] fosco_:
It works!

Everything is working ok! How about a mini-guide on how to build customized sd-images? ;)
[HTC Desire S] kibril:
Mini howto)

U can modify the contents of the memory card directly through the card reader. U need a PC with Linux only, because Android - a Linux + virtual machine Dalvik. Now you do not need "RECOVERY" to clear/wipe the cache or user data. Simply delete unnecessary or format /cache or /date partitions, without fear of damaging the data on your phone, you can always restore from an image memory card, or take another card.

Change "/system" partition to add/remove programs, sounds, pictures and more right on the disk.

PS: Howto about progamming, compiling kernel or android... It's not a trivial task, it can be described in several books. And the principles have been repeatedly described in the Internet. I may write later. Still a lot of things I can do.
[HTC Desire S] basementcat:
the mposelys

Hah if only HTC could come up with a solution such as this! +1 :angel:
[HTC Desire S] kibril:
Mostly Devices can boot by this way, if they have MicroSD or USB port. This is "Linux way".
[HTC Desire S] rakmok:
Awesome! it is working! I almost got my phone boot after 10 months. THANK YOU SO MUCH!. Is it possible to directly boot into SDcard after rebooting?
[HTC Desire S] kibril:
Im working on boot from the Recovery. U need SD Card Class 10 or 6 to quick booting phone.
[HTC Desire S] lastniik:
you can upload an image flash drive with the original firmware 4.0
[HTC Desire S] tetotarek:
Great !!

for me it works !! i got my phone back after 3 months of death :)

but there is small problem ! when i switched it off then turned it on it gets stuck on HTC logo

and i have to do the last few steps again and again to turn the HTC on.

"7. Boot your phone to “BOOTLOADER” (VolDown+Pwr → Pwr).

8. Connect device to computer via USB cable.

9. Boot your device"

is there any way to avoid this ??

Many thanks for you man :)
[HTC Desire S] ReznovHuang:
AWESOME!!!

Unfortunately,mine Volume down key doesn't work well...ANYWAY,THANKS!
[HTC Desire S] kibril:
Added loader from the "RECOVERY" menu...

Added loader from the "RecoveryMod" by install update.zip .
[HTC Desire S] tetotarek:
how can i do this ??

i copied it the SD card and tried to install it from recovery mode but nothing happened

and another thing ,, is there any way to enlarge the free space of my SD card

its 16 Giga and after writing the system image on it it turned to 1.79 G only.

Thanks
[HTC Desire S] Xevios:
Not running

Hey

When I try to run this on my branded desire S I get stuck at the carrier screen, if I try to boot via recovery method I get an sd card mount error, I have tried writing this to my sd card in both linux and windows.

Thanks
[HTC Desire S] kibril:
U have problem in sdcard slot. I have same problem after service. Place correctly MicroSD in the slot.
[HTC Desire S] kibril:
Try boot from fastboot 1st time. About 16G make own sized partitions or u can resize partitions in Gparted/parted under Linux.
[HTC Desire S] Xevios:
I can run this: http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=1575272 just fine though so I don't think it's and issue this my SD card,

thanks for the reply though :)
[HTC Desire S] tetotarek:
Now I can restart / shutdown my phone perfectly by your suburb solve ( update.zip )

also i partitioned my SD card so now the external memory is about 12 Giga

Many thanks man you rooked my life :)
[HTC Desire S] tetotarek:
Important thing

Now, and after couple of days using my desire s, i can say that everything works great and perfectly except two important things :(

1- it can't read any of Pic's files that i copied it on my SD card from PC - when i open the gallery it says - there is no items - despite when i capture photo from the camera he can read it and i can find it in the gallery !!

2- it can't read any of music files that i copied on my SD card also

i tried everything but it seems it is something unsolvable.

Any ideas ??