blinking triangle

I don't know without looking at the manual, but if you have access to do that, I would look it up real quick and find out what that triangle means. If you can't find anything there, and no one here has a good answer, you might want to call up support or head to your local store, depending on what's easier.

Can you still make outgoing calls, and check your voicemail?

 

Sorry about the double post, but I think I just found the answer. Your phone is probably not getting a signal. If you pull down your status bar, does the phone say TravelTalk? I just looked at mine, and it's suddenly roaming, which is what TravelTalk means, for a MetroPCS phone at least.

 

No worries. Sucks about losing a paycheck.

FYI, if you frequently end up in null-coverage areas, drop a few bucks into a Metro roaming account, which will cover you when you go out of area, assuming that area is covered by TravelTalk.

MetroPCS | TravelTalk

 

Have you turned the phone off and back on since the first time it happened? When mine lost signal yesterday, in an area I usually get signal, I had to reboot it to reestablish the signal. Hopefully it's just an anomoly and not the norm for you.

 

I'll keep my fingers crossed that it doesn't keep happening to you.

 

hell, i'm only 4 blocks from there tower and i only had there phone less then a month and it went to roaming...WTF metro piece of shit lol i hear boostmobile calling me back

 

do you have roaming enable?

 

That was going to be my question as well.
If you have enabled roaming and you are in your Home METROPCS area you will cause your phone to not be able to take or make calls.
You need to have it set to HOME. DO NOT have it set to automatic as this will cause the phone to drop into another carrierers towers causing your isssues.
Metro's tech support and their FAQ's state this very thing.
Make sure you phone is set to HOME and see if that does not clear things up.

Settings > Wireless & Networks > Mobile Networks > System Select > Home only

 

no its always been set to home, i never used it on automatic.

thinkin about upgrading to the samsung indulge, seems to be alot better phone.

plus its supposed to be 4g lte ready

 

Im with ya, I have the metro Ascend which I gave my wife and I bought the galaxy prevail from boost. I gotta say its a way better phone its faster plus I now have 3g wooo whooo!!!

But I will never leave the ascend forums, these people are awesome!!