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Help Issue with phone, or just bad signal?

Hello,
This problem started today, and I'm just a little worried about it. My phone changes from 3G to Edge a lot but today whenever it's on 3G I can't send texts. The "Message not sent" Error will repeat itself until the phone switches to edge. Then all is fine. Also, when the phone switches to 3G I just lose the signal all together. Again it was NOT doing this before and this is only happening at my home (so far) so I was just wondering if I'm just having a bad signal due to weather (there's been wind and rain in the area) or whatever or if it's the phone.

Thanks, :)
 
Hello,
This problem started today, and I'm just a little worried about it. My phone changes from 3G to Edge a lot but today whenever it's on 3G I can't send texts. The "Message not sent" Error will repeat itself until the phone switches to edge. Then all is fine. Also, when the phone switches to 3G I just lose the signal all together. Again it was NOT doing this before and this is only happening at my home (so far) so I was just wondering if I'm just having a bad signal due to weather (there's been wind and rain in the area) or whatever or if it's the phone.

Thanks, :)

Im having the same issue bud.
 
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If you are in an area where you are seeing that your connection status changes from Edge to 3G, then you might want to pick one.

http://androidforums.com/t-mobile-m...edge-lock-your-phone-into-fast-3g-speeds.html

Go to this link, it will tell you how to make sure your device only sends to 3G.

If your connected to 3G, and you press Send on a message, and while its sending, it changes to the EDGE network, your message will mess up.

I dont know why but it will, at least for me.

I put it either on 3G or Wifi, , but i dont know what the case is with Edge.
 
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If you are in an area where you are seeing that your connection status changes from Edge to 3G, then you might want to pick one.

http://androidforums.com/t-mobile-m...edge-lock-your-phone-into-fast-3g-speeds.html

Go to this link, it will tell you how to make sure your device only sends to 3G.

If your connected to 3G, and you press Send on a message, and while its sending, it changes to the EDGE network, your message will mess up.

I dont know why but it will, at least for me.

I put it either on 3G or Wifi, , but i dont know what the case is with Edge.

I did that and at places where it usually changes to EDGE, it started to just cut my whole reception out. :thinking:
 
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I did that and at places where it usually changes to EDGE, it started to just cut my whole reception out. :thinking:

Well then just keep it on edge,

See i think the problem is that it messes up when the network changes in the middle of sending a message.

If you see that its changing, the keep it on edge, if you have a good solid 3g connection, the change it back.

But yes, we need to complain to tmobile because they are the ones responsible for our connections
 
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I called tmo regarding the same problems i was getting a lot of errors whenever i tried sending a text or receiving pictures and they walked me through a solution. You have to delete one of the APN's that are located in wireless & networks/Mobile networks/access Point Names. Delete the last one which i believe is t-mobile MMS then they told me to go into T-Mobile Data scroll down to MMSC and input http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc make sure you save. this worked for me.
 
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I called tmo regarding the same problems i was getting a lot of errors whenever i tried sending a text or receiving pictures and they walked me through a solution. You have to delete one of the APN's that are located in wireless & networks/Mobile networks/access Point Names. Delete the last one which i believe is t-mobile MMS then they told me to go into T-Mobile Data scroll down to MMSC and input http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc make sure you save. this worked for me.

That didn't work for me :(
 
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I called tmo regarding the same problems i was getting a lot of errors whenever i tried sending a text or receiving pictures and they walked me through a solution. You have to delete one of the APN's that are located in wireless & networks/Mobile networks/access Point Names. Delete the last one which i believe is t-mobile MMS then they told me to go into T-Mobile Data scroll down to MMSC and input http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc make sure you save. this worked for me.

Sorry for digging up an old thread but i had read this one earlier and didn't want to unnecessarily make a new one. I also tried this and it didn't work, I got 9 picture messages of a car yesterday and only the first 3 and the last one downloaded and i can't get any of the others to download, whether it be over edge, 3g or wifi.

Any new fixes for this?
 
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