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[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] braveally:
I'm using the Sony mw1 Bluetooth with my Z1 and it has been an awesome combination until recently. I'm starting to have substantially more connection problems and the music is now stuttering so much that it's unacceptable (up to 15 second gaps). I also have multiple connection drops throughout the day when I used to literally have none.

Is there anything I can do to diagnose or resolve this potential issue?

My mw1 works fine with my computer so I'm guessing it's the phone somehow.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
Did you upgrade recently to 4.3? If yes a factory reset can help.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] braveally:
I updated a couple weeks ago and it was fine the entire time until just a few days ago. Wanted to avoid that if possible but will consider if this issue persist.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
Ok, you just should know that after an update before do anything you have to make a factory reset to set android well. Sometime, for example, after a fresh installation of Android rom is recommended to reboot your device even 3 times. So sometime when issues appear this can help but no guarantee. Anyway if everything working well should fix it.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mm79k:
257 worked much better with my sbh52.

having problems with 290 with Bluetooth too, even after factory reset and even re-flashing from tft
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
Different FTF maybe?
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mm79k:
I always flash the ones specified for my region, MEA

and yes I meant FTF :D
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] eclyptos:
So flash the generic unbranded one. It will work the same way but maybe same issues will not appear.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mm79k:
it is unbranded, but specified for Middle Eastern devices

257 for the same region (MEA) did not have any issues with bluetooth
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] braveally:
I'm starting to wonder if my device is defective. Bluetooth is now acting like wifi, and working when it wants and not at other times. Bluetooth seems to turn off even though its still on (and showing its on). It even persist through restarts but works again if I switch it off then on again. I've already factory reset twice to try and diagnose wifi issues and don't want to for bluetooth issues too. Maybe i'll send it in under warranty.
[Xperia Z1 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mm79k:
Believe me it is a firmware issue. This bluetooth issue has been mentioned by several members here after updating to 290. and even after performing factory reset.

This issue has embarrassed me many times at work. It shows "connected" but when I try to answer calls through my sbh52, no voice is coming. and then I try to pick of my phone quickly from my pocket before the caller hangs up.

Flash 257 using flash tool and bluetooth will work perfectly again.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alnajmalabed:
like my old android 4.1.2 I want to open mobile hotspot without checking subscription status in my new android 4.3 galaxy s3 verizon

where are developers that will modify framework.jar file to enable this again in this new android verizon?

please help
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
If beans ever gets his 4.3 rom out it will probably be how you want. I know I'm waiting to install safestrap until he releases it. Until then I'm sure you could find a guide on how to do it.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alnajmalabed:
You mean that i wait some months also until this problem solved

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
I mean opposite, it probably isn't that hard and you can have it now if you do it yourself. Or ask for clues on how to do it instead of expecting someone else to do it for you.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alnajmalabed:
I googled that problem for a week and no answer resolve it.

If you have the way to do that, then thank you very match
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alnajmalabed:
And this problem not only on my phone, the problem was found in all verizon phones with android 4.3
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alnajmalabed:
I resolved this issue and removed '' checking subscription status '' by a zip file flashed by a custom recovery

Thanks
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
Friday night I found out how to manually do it but java was being a pain in the butt and I wanted to test it before telling you how also so I could have the file to upload to you. Just so you know the file you needed to edit was the framework-res.apk not the .jar. the xml that needed to be edited was located at framework-res.apk\res\values\arrays.xml

Decompiled it just fine but on the compile after I was done editing java was being stupid and the compile failed. Hope this information can help you in the future.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] alnajmalabed:
thank you the Pagel

if you need the zip file i will upload it and upload safestrap apk that make custom recovery
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
The zip would be nice if its not to much to ask. I can compair a working mod with my own. I already have safestrap.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Medicstud007:
The other alternative would be to use foxfi
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
I own foxfi but some people would rather use the built in tether.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] Yackley:
HotSpot Toggle Widget by Fattin

The alternative alternative would be to use the HotSpot Toggle Widget by Fattin.

I haven't tried it on 4.3 (have been putting off upgrading because of too many cons for the pros...) - but it bypasses all that verification stuff - still using the built-in tether.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
Or edit the framework-res.apk yourself. I am glad I know how now because I will never need to wait for someone else to do it. well the only reason Iwould is if foxfi breaks in a update.
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] judson75:
Where did you learn how to edit the framework-res.apk? I would rather know how to do it myself but my java skills are rudimentary at best (though I am a quick learner!!). What did you use to do the editing?

Thanks!
[Verizon Samsung Galaxy S III] ThePagel:
I downloaded a note 2 recovery zip of the modified apk. I then spent about ten minutes googling where the tether subscription checker was located then compared my apk to the note 2 apk. A lot of trial and error if you would like to see it old and slow has a edited recovery zip for the 4.3 tether (came out a day after I was looking for it so that's why I didn't choose that one). Just decompile both apk and look in framework-res.apk\res\values\arrays.xml. what I did when comparing it to the note 2 was open both of the XML in notepad++ and compare lines. I am confident I can now mod it without examples if it ever happens again. Finding a decompiler is the easy part there are a lot of free ones out there just Google it and as long as you can recognize every character in the XML (no odd symbols) it decompiled correctly. I could not find a guid on how to do this but I probably learned more from my errors than I would have learned from a step by step. Hope that helps and sorry if that made no sense typed it in a rush.

---------- Post added 31st January 2014 at 12:02 AM ---------- Previous post was 30th January 2014 at 11:53 PM ----------

Oh and if you dig around in the apk long enough you might notice how easy (but time consuming) it would be to make your own custom modifications and themes for your own rom. I like doing it this way over xposed because no matter what I do xposed is super buggy for me.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] gakio12:
I've been using Cyanogenmod since it was released in December. I could make and receive calls just fine after the fix was merged, but today when I flashed the 01-16 nightly, I can't make / receive any calls. Even reverting back to a build I built on the 13th didn't work, which worries me. I even wiped everything and reflashed, no dice.

All I am really asking is if anyone can confirm whether calls are working or not for them on the 01-16 nightly of CM 11.
[T-Mobile Samsung Galaxy Note 3] str8killinya:
Working for me on Today's Official Nightlie

Official CM11 Powered SM-N900T
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Hello Everyone,

Seeing as I'm a MetroPCS user and I don't see any MetroPCS/Nexus 5 related threads yet, I decided to create one. In which we may discuss all things related to our Nexus 5's on MetroPCS's BYOD Network (T-Mobile).

Post your experiences, speed tests, ideas, questions, etc.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
MetroPCS 4G Cap Speeds.

Well to get things started, I currently have MetroPCS $40.00 plan in which I have 500MB of 4G LTE. But get this guys, I'm past 500MB, I'm at 840MB and my speeds still haven't been throttled down. :D

View attachment 2520598

What do you guys think?

Been wanting to see what speeds or connection I'd get dropped to after, but still going strong on 4G!
[Nexus 5 General] hyelton:
Are you noticing no slow down on your speeds or connection type? Whats your speedtest results? When you hit say 500mb on the $40 plan you still will stay on LTE but will have throttled speeds, They wont force you down to 3G or EDGE
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Nope, fastest speed test today on 4G was 21mbps down. I haven't been throttled yet.

I'm wondering if I do get throttled if I can force 3G after, and have unlimited 3G speeds like when I was Houdini flashed?
[Nexus 5 General] hyelton:
Not sure. You mean by flashed was on the old MetroPCS network? (CDMA)? Since the new network is GSM prob wont. I`d love to try out MetroPCS they have the $60 plan but not sure if the website will let me order, As the closest Metro Market to me is Atlanta but I live 3 hours from there in a state with none of there original coverage, But T-Mobile is all around me so I`m not sure if its now based on T-Mobile covergae when ordering or there original coverage areas.

Does tethering work?
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Truthfully I haven't tried tethering yet, I've had my N5 on MetroPCS for about a week and a half only.
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Tethering will work the same as t-mobile. We're running on the t-mobile network and the throttling is down to 20kbps. I'm on the unlimited for 60 plan because it's so slow.

My first week of having my Nexus 5.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Was waiting for you to come around. :)

Throttling is down to 20kbps! :eek:

Is their any way around it, like forcing CDMA mode or something to get 3G?
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Not sure exactly how to do that with the Nexus 5. I don't think there is a way to do it though since it's gsm.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Dialer>*#*#INFO#*#*>Phone Information. There you can mess with Network types.

Waiting to get throttled to try it. 863MB used.
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Can you do a screenshot of your settings.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
You got it:

View attachment 2520846
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Same thing here and I get throttled to 2g speeds even though they swear it's 3g.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
:/

Do you get throttled as soon as you hit your Data limit?
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
First time I got throttled very quick. I barely got over 500 and was already throttled. This is pretty much 15kBytes per second download.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Well that definitely sucks, that's unusable..

Hopefully I'm privileged because I haven't been throttle. We shall see I'll keep this updated.
[Nexus 5 General] hyelton:
dont you mean WCDMA? CDMA and GSM are completely two different networks that are not compatible with each other..

GSM - T-Mobile, AT&T / MetroPCS uses T-Mobile towers on the GSM side.

CDMA - Verizon, USCELLULAR, Sprint, MetroPCS (BEFORE T-Mobile Bought them)(or for Bring your on phone)

On GSM 3G is called WCDMA which is not the same as CDMA.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Yes indeed I meant WCDMA, but Thanks for pointing it out.

Interesting, when I put WCDMA I get 3G but whenever I try to load a webpage it goes to H..
[Nexus 5 General] hyelton:
Let me explain that :D

3G - UMTS - original 3G up to like 7.2megs something like that. 99 of the time when using data you will be on H/H+ in the USA anyway

H - HSPA = UP to 21mbps down

H+ - HSPAP (something like that there's other variations for that one) 21mbps down or DC is 42mbps down which T-Mobile has
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Thanks for your explanation. :thumbup:
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
JD I see you got 4 hours sot now. Turning off wifi analyzing helps a lot huh lol.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Hey man,

Yes! I was going to post it here, but got caught up watching TV up to now haha. I owe it to you,Thanks man. I'm going to try and see if I can pull 5hrs SOT. :)
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Did you see the post under mines?

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?p=50505733

#speechless
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Yeah man 4 hours sot is easy. I get 3-4 hours till 20% cause I don't like it dropping under 20. I can give you more battery saving tips just pm me. I'm actually running PA beta 6 right now with ART for testing purposes.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Thanks,

PM sent!
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Anyone noticed speed decrease in LTE? I used to get 20-25mbps regularly and now it tops out around 10mbps
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Fresh speed test:
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
For me LTE speeds vary depending on location/signal strengh. But they have been anywhere from 10-40MBPS.
[Nexus 5 General] Rob4828:
I called three metropcs reps and they all told I had to go in store to register my phone; it wasn't in the inventory. I didn't want to pay the 15 dollar activation but just went anyways. The lady in the store literally asked me everything the customer rep asked and everything was a OK. They just wanted the fifteen dollars.... Whatever.
[Nexus 5 General] Rob4828:
Not bad for the first speed test.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Nice,

Enjoy those speeds!
[Nexus 5 General] akmsr:
this month i was late couple of days to pay my bill. it was due on the first, i paid on the 3rd. service was disconnected for couple of days. no big deal. but i assumed since i paid on the 3rd it will carry over and next months bill will be due on the second or so. imagine my surprise receiving a text reminding me that my bill is due on the first. so i called customer service and after some hoopla was able to explain the situation and was told that billing date stays the same regardless of when i pay. i said hypothetically i do not pay on time and pay on the 10th. she said service will be suspended after due date, it will resume on 10th, next bill will be due on the first of next month. if i want to change my billing date i gotta pay $5.00 + tax for it.

is this for real? :mad:
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Unfortunately it seems so..

Just make your payments on time, I pay one day before every single month.
[Nexus 5 General] akmsr:
but as a prepaid carrier it does not make sense. i should get a months service starting on the day i paid. if it was verizon, sprint, att with a contract then a fixed billing date makes sense.

so say you let your service be suspended for non payment and wait 25 days. on the 26th you pay. 4 days later your bill will be due again. any comment?
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
I understand what your trying to say, especially when taking into consideration that MetroPCS is a non contract provider.

But it is what it is..
[Nexus 5 General] akmsr:
thanks for understanding my point. i felt like an alien wandering around when the CSR let me know that. i can always vote with my wallet and go with other carrier.
[Nexus 5 General] PaisanNYC:
Yes Metro is prepaid, but you are not on a pay-per-use plan, you are on a recurring monthly prepaid plan. It sucks that this is how they consider it, but it is what it is. Sorry :-\
[Nexus 5 General] zimlokks:
im not sure if anyone has ever noticed how you can download massive amounts of data before reboot without a speed drop? once you reboot it throttles down horribly
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Are you hitting your data cap? That's what happens when you reach your limit on your plan.
[Nexus 5 General] zimlokks:
Well what i read was i have a 250mbs data limit, not sure if it's daily or monthly, but i would guess monthly, either way i go over that about 3 times a day sometimes without throttling the whole day unless I reboot.
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Lowest plan has 500megs of 4G a month. either way don't expect unlimited 4g and if you get unthrottled just enjoy it cause it's not really supposed to happen.
[Nexus 5 General] zimlokks:
i was able to download gbs of stuff, im happy! hopefully it stays this way!
[Nexus 5 General] akmsr:
i understand your point but i want them to publicly admit that.

let me ask you a question. i am guessing are metro user from NYC. do you have a GSM phone? how is the data speed at your location?

thanks in advance.
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
GSM network runs off t-mobile so it's really fast. All the data speeds and gsm data is exactly the same. I saw in the speed thread some really good speeds in nyc.
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Hey I recommend using Beanstalk it's incredibly smooth and my battery life almost doubled with the same usage and more features active.
[Nexus 5 General] brooksyx:
Hey guys, thinking of switcing to MetroPCs from Straight Talk when 3 month service cards runs out in April as ST has gotten very slow for me and Metro seams like a decent deal.

Is there a charge for a SIM card on the BYOD plan? Also will they run a credit check or similar if I switch to them?

I have tried a few different prepayed carriers and liked how all they really needed was my address, don't want to deal with credit checks and etc.

Thanks.

edit: trying to decide of whetehr I should stay with straight talk and try their tmobile sim, switch to metro pcs at the $40 plan, or switch to h20's unlimited talk & text w/ 500mb plan at $27 with auto refill.
[Nexus 5 General] kebles:
I'm on the $40 plan, and getting my N5 activated on Metro was a bit of an ordeal. Went to a franchise store (aka a "MetroPCS authorized dealer") yesterday, the kid there had never really dealt with non-Metro phones. He got the IMEI attached to a SIM for it, and the phone was able to get reception but wouldn't make calls, and said there was some setting I had to change to make it work. So he basically said he could just sell me the SIM and hope that I could figure it out.

I asked if he could reactivate my old phone (Optimus F6), so we tried that. Same deal on my old phone: got reception, but the phone immediately dropped calls. He eventually had Metro do some sort of "network reset". Said in an hour or two, my old phone -might- work.

Got home, waited a bit, and suddenly the N5 magically started working. So I was excited, even called the MetroPCS store I was at from it to let the kid know. He was baffled and had no idea why it was working. Of course, two hours later, N5 stopped working and my F6 was active again.

So today, went back in, asked him to try again, the Nexus activated in seconds without issue. So that's where it stands now. That was hours ago, and it does seem to still be working well.

tl;dr: apparently the N5 on Metro can be finicky, but once you get it working, it works well. ^-^
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Negative lol the Nexus is not a finicky phone. They probably set up the phone wrong. All you really had to do was by the sim card online and called metro and gave them your phone imei and the sim card number. After that you just pop it in and enjoy. You also save 15$ and a trip to the metro store.
[Nexus 5 General] kebles:
Yus yus I know. But my MetroPCS account has been finicky in general since its inception, and I'm sure mine isn't the only one. And like I said, the kid had no idea what he was doing with non-Metro-firmware phones, so that didn't help.

But now it works and I'm happy. My first real flagship device :D
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Woot! Enjoy! The experience is great on Metro since the t-mobile network is amazing.
[Nexus 5 General] Vekhez:
Lol quoting an old post, but how'd you get the Wi-Fi to show in your Data Usage tab?
[Nexus 5 General] RainMotorsports:
Its pretty much the only option on the options menu. Options is of course the 3 dotted button on any application sporting a modern android interface. Then again I am not sure if thats on stock. I have it on CM11 so that might be a bit of an assumption on my part.
[Nexus 5 General] Vekhez:
Ah, thanks! I'm on LiquidSmooth 3.0 (Half Fried Galaxy Nexus, Nexus 5 tomorrow :D) and it's there :D Thanks
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
So I managed to get over 40gb on LTE and last night it looks like they cut me off lol. I can not connect to LTE anymore :(
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Woah, That is a lot my friend!
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Hey guys what's the code to reset your phone data through metro? Is it #249 or something?
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
No idea man.. :(
[Nexus 5 General] akmsr:
hmmm...

last night midnight i lost the ability to tether. t-mobile updated something at their end and bam! lost the hotspot. the computer connects fine but whenever i launch the browser it loads upsell page from t-mobile even with user agent switcher in place. also noticed that the new upsell page has a web2go address instead of pcweb that they used to have. :(
[Nexus 5 General] brooksyx:
Does Metro require a credit check when you bring your own device? Also is the byod plan prepaid or post paid?

My straight talk runs out at the end of the month and want to switch instead of adding more funds. The data is just horribly slow.

edit: also is tax built into the price or is that extra?
[Nexus 5 General] RainMotorsports:
MetroPCS is prepaid, the byod plan is prepaid and no credit check is required. Taxes are included and it just seems like you have never heard a commercial for Metro before :p

Which ST you on now AT&T or T-Mobile?
[Nexus 5 General] brooksyx:
Thanks, probably will make the switch at the end of the month. Seems like a decent deal and like that its prepaid. Not worried about failing a credit check but why bother if you don't need to, right? Currently on At&t ST, was great at first but data just creeps now on 3g and LTE.

I actually never have heard a commercial before, I don't have cable TV and I don't get OTA reception either so just watch stuff online. They are new to my area (since the t-mobile buyout).
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
The prices are also a flat fee. For example the 40$ plan already has taxes included so it's just 40$. You might get charged a 3$ service fee of you pay in a store but online it's a flat fee for all plans.
[Nexus 5 General] brooksyx:
Cool, sounds like a sweet deal for $40 a month. I will probably order a SIM card now so I am ready to switch.

Looks like the package includes all 3 sim sizes.
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
The 60$ unlimited everything is awesome. You don't have to worry about your data at all.
[Nexus 5 General] JD2589:
Nice!

53% Battery left, 53Gs of data consumed.
[Nexus 5 General] brooksyx:
Ha well I am fine with 3g speeds, usually leave LTE off. Honestly don't even use my phone that much but like having unlimited everything just in case.
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
It's not 3g they give you 2g which you cab barely browse Tapatalk or check emails with. Regardless of you use LTE they still count whatever data you use towards the 4G limit. So if you use 500megs at 3g speed it counts and then you get throttled.
[Nexus 5 General] Kevikilla:
Need hell
[Nexus 5 General] MkVsTheWorld:
How'd you end up getting the data fixed?
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
I haven't gotten it fixed. It looks like I used too much for this month.
[Nexus 5 General] MkVsTheWorld:
Did you call them?

I activated last night and things went well. My local Walmart sells a BYOD Metro SIM kit for $9.88 & tax. From there, I had to call Metro to activate the Nexus 5. Only charge is you have to pay is the plan charge ($60).
[Nexus 5 General] FuMMoD:
Issue ending up fixing itself. Might have been some maintenence going on in the tower nearby where I live.

Edit : So happy with whatever they did to the towers nearby.
[Nexus 5 General] DroneDoom:
Are you guys using the default APN that came with the sim? My APN settings is having problems with loading MMS in the t-mobile GPRS APN. I'm using evolvesms and the MMS showing I received something in the notification but there's no message in the app.