Root Phone is hosed

[Granite1]

I have no idea what happened, phone won't make or receive calls, period. I've tried everything, reflashing my Rom, cache wipes, prl/profile updates, I even reflashed my firmware. Nothing.


Called Sprint with my wife's OG EVO, they did a bunch of epst stuffs, nothing. Phone absolutely will not reconnect to the network.

I'm out of ideas at this point.

 

[Reaper351c]

Have you tried taking the sim card out and putting it back in

 

[Granite1]

This phone doesn't have a removable SIM card unfortunately.

 

[ocnbrze]

that sucks granite. sorry to hear that. have you tried to take it in yet?

 

[Granite1]

that sucks granite. sorry to hear that. have you tried to take it in yet?

Nope, I'm on vacation a couple hours from home, and the closest Sprint store is over an hour away. Looks like I'm phoneless until after my vacation.

I feel vulnerable without it.

 

[EarlyMon]

Bummer.

If you have your msl, you can do the epst reset from the phone.

Sometimes they don't get it right when you're talking to them.

 

[Granite1]

I didn't think about that EM, good idea. I'll have to dig my msl out. Maybe a good lazy day project.

 

[EarlyMon]

MSL Reader ftw.

 

[Granite1]

Ok, manually reset via epst, did a hands free activation, failed again.

But I was able to get a prl and data profile update to take finally. I now have 3G data back, but no calls in or out still.

This is what I'm getting:

 

[Chief YYZ]

When I switched to my LTEvo I gave my mom my OG, I kept getting the "network is busy" every time I tried to activate it (the OG.) Sprint customer service couldn't figure it out, I just kept playing with stuff until I finally got it to work. For the life of me I can't remember how I fixed it. I think it was something like changing roaming to Sprint Only and/or turning on then off airplane mode or something else fairly random that didn't really make sense but forced the phone to change the cellular connection. I have been racking my brain trying to remember what I did, but I just cannot recall exactly what it was. I think because it didn't really make sense why it worked...
Sucks you can't get it working, but hey, who wants to get calls on vacation anyway

 

[-Mike-]

Refer to my 'Random Weirdness' thread....

 

[Granite1]

Just got off the phone with Sprint again, they're sending me a replacement. The towers are fine here, and no one else is reporting issues, so they're replacing it, for free.

I guess this one was a lemon from the beginning, just lurking. O well. At least we have S-off for the latest hboot in case it comes with that one. We'll see.

 

[ocnbrze]

Just got off the phone with Sprint again, they're sending me a replacement. The towers are fine here, and no one else is reporting issues, so they're replacing it, for free.

I guess this one was a lemon from the beginning, just lurking. O well. At least we have S-off for the latest hboot in case it comes with that one. We'll see.

nice!!!!!!! i would recommend moonshine as it seems the easiest now....hopefully you will not have to though.......LOL

 

[Rxpert83]

I had the same thing happen to my s3 on Friday.

I'm seeing a lot of reports of this.

Very strange

 

[ocnbrze]

did i miss something? when did you get an s3 rxpert? LOL

 

[Granite1]

Noticed that a little while ago. LOL

 

[Rxpert83]

did i miss something? when did you get an s3 rxpert? LOL

Decemberish?

I had them both for quite a while, and ended up selling the LTEVO sometime in the spring because it had a screen yellowing defect. My parents also upgraded to the S3, and it was a lot easier providing tech support from 6 hours away when I had one to work with.

I regret it big time . The build quality isnt there, the screen isnt as nice, and the camera isnt as nice. But I can say I tried Sammy. Back to HTC I'll go for the next phone


Anyway, this is really strange that its happening on multiple devices around the same time. I've seen multiple reports on XDA of this happening to people on the s3 side.

 

[Rxpert83]

Arrrgh It just happened again!!! 2 weeks in a row on Friday:thumbdown:

 

[Granite1]

So it's happening to multiple phones?

I wonder if it's a network thing, or if it's a phone thing?

I'm home now, and the phone makes calls fine now. I no longer have data, won't connect 3G at all.

I wonder if Sprint is having provisioning problems?

 

[caborobo]

Similar if not exact same issue with my wife's, wait for it, iPhone 5. Sprint fixed it with an account reset over the phone with a "tech."

 

[Rxpert83]

So it's happening to multiple phones?

I wonder if it's a network thing, or if it's a phone thing?

I'm home now, and the phone makes calls fine now. I no longer have data, won't connect 3G at all.

I wonder if Sprint is having provisioning problems?

Yeah they replaced the first 2. I should get the 3rd s3 either tomorrow or Wednesday. I'm not going to do anything other than sign into Google play for at least a week

 

[Granite1]

Got my replacement yesterday, This one connects to the network just fine. No issues with call quality now.

Screen has a yellow tint to it tho.

We'll see what they say when I show the difference with my old one.

 

[Granite1]

Got yet another one today. Screen looks a lot better. Also this one doesn't twitch. The other replacement had to have a bad LCD or digitizer.

This one is working fine for now. I'll test it out for a day or two and then root it.

 

[knickstar90]

I'm having a weird issue with my phone. I can send text messages but I can't receive them. I still can make calls and 3g works fine. Only issue is receiving texts. I've just been using google voice but its getting annoying (also mms don't work)

I was on the newest pacman rom when it started two days ago. Went to a stock rom. Still having the same issue. Updated profile and prl but still no texts.

 

[ocnbrze]

Go back to a stock rom and call sprint. Have them re-provision your phone.