So is there not anything we can do with this?
dunno but i got roaming service w/data on MIUI 11.19 in Charles Town WV and in Potomac MD, not sure what that means either....... (very seldom does this happen though.)
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So is there not anything we can do with this?
Could you place a call normally when the roaming indicator was on?
Could be. I could also be wrong, but Virgin Mobile doesn't have roaming so for you too have roaming on a Virgin Mobile phone would be a feat (one that we all would like to replicate!!). I know it has been stated by the devs that CM7 and MIUI don't make any changes like that to the radio code so It wouldn't be your ROM.So the better signal and 2.5 mbps data was a coincidence?
Mine does this all the time it happens right after it boots before it notices any signal (0-1 bars at my house) then goes away the second it finds any like 10 - 15 seconds later.My motorola triumph has been doing this weird thing where the carrier name changes to "Digital Roam" it also has a blinking triangle between the signal icon and the wifi/3g icon. Is this normal? Just wanted to post this in case we could do anything. with it!
So the better signal and 2.5 mbps data was a coincidence?
I thought I read that you were on wifi, not data?
I am also getting this roaming behavior (screen looks almost exactly like the screenshot mobstergunz posted for tanner, except I have 3G signal rather than wireless) in my apartment with my Optimus V.
My apartment always had spotty service, but I always managed to get signal standing in certain spots with the stock ROM. I decided to throw on a custom Backside-IHO (cm7) ROM last month. It worked perfectly with improved signal for a while, but a week or two later I noticed that, even though the phone showed full bars with 3g, I could not make calls or receive text message. Strangely, however, I was able to access the internet via 3G! Rebooting/battery pulls only fixed the problem occasionally. I did NOT usually see a "digital roam" triangle. But I would pretty frequently get a message about International Data Roaming.
There were a couple occasions, however, when I noticed a persistent digital roam with flashing triangle (and that is what I'm seeing at the moment). The behavior seems to be the same (no calling/texts but 3G internet works) with or without the digital roam indication.
Interestingly, the phone works perfectly fine everywhere else outside my apartment (I live in Manhattan), so I do think it's related to a low signal issue peculiar to my apartment/building.
The annoying part is that the phone locks on to this strong but functionally limited signal/tower and so I can't make calls in my apartment anymore, even in the spots where I used to get signal back when I was running Stock.
I called VM tech support about this and they were surprisingly helpful in saying that they've seen this problem before, and he walked me through the steps of re-activating the phone (had to go back to froyo to do this) which he seemed to think would definitely solve the problem. It did actually fix the problem for a while, but the behavior came back a few days later. And now I'm stuck in a cycle of trying to reactivate the phone every time this happens (about once a week), and the reactivation doesn't even seem to solve the problem consistently.
Sorry I know this is a Triumph forum but couldn't find anything similar in the OV forums and it seems like a related issue. Anyone have a guess as to what's going on? Is my phone locking onto a Verizon tower that is somehow allowing 3G data access but no calls? Or is it a weird Sprint/VM tower? I have not attempted to change the PRL at all, maybe that would help?
May I reccomend a PRL change? Although, I'm not really sure if that would help. I roam a bit even with the stock PRL. I live in the boonies of north florida, so I'd be fine with roaming if it allowed for me to use my phone... its annoying. Like I said, maybe they'll add it in as a feature for those that pay extra for it.Yeah it's definitely been frustrating. Phone works beautifully everywhere else in the city aside from my apartment. For those times when i do happen to have service, open signal maps shows that I'm connecting to towers out in Queens haha (I'm right on the river).
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