Hello.
A quick background on my GS2 problems first.
A few months ago, while connected with USB to Windows, Win7 became erratic, I disconnected the phone, rebooted partly once, and after that it was just dead. It refused to power up anymore.
Being out of warranty, a couple of stores tried to wake it up, failed, and eventually an iOS service store with some smart people, woke it up.
They said they replaced a circuit or something that presumably can cause problems with Samsung (I had checked mine a year ago for that and it didn't have this particular chip version). Nevertheless I was happy.
His explanation was that there might have been an overcharge on the USB port that fried the chip.
He reset it, put in an original v4.1.2 and the phone has been working just fine, or almost.
I now have a signal problem (wireless is fine) that I never had before it got cooked (I was on RR 4.0.7 at that time).
In my house and most of the areas I go to, the signal strength would randomly show one bar but 99% of the time it's 0 or no network found.
If I get to the downtown area, the signal is fine again.
I tried various modems and no difference.
My SIM works fine in another phone, other SIMs of the same provider work as bad as mine, other SIMs of other providers work fine.
This points to some bad setting (APN maybe) or a mismatch somewhere that affects my provider, but I use the original settings. Even if I didn't, why would it work downtown?
If it's an antenna/USB problem, why it works with other providers or downtown with my provider?
A sensitivity setting that affects just my provider? Is there such a thing anywhere?
My current settings are (for Vodafone, Greece):
PDA: I9100XWLSW
Phone: I9100BULS1 (I tried many)
CSC: I9100OXXLSB
I'm out of ideas and any help is appreciated.
A quick background on my GS2 problems first.
A few months ago, while connected with USB to Windows, Win7 became erratic, I disconnected the phone, rebooted partly once, and after that it was just dead. It refused to power up anymore.
Being out of warranty, a couple of stores tried to wake it up, failed, and eventually an iOS service store with some smart people, woke it up.
They said they replaced a circuit or something that presumably can cause problems with Samsung (I had checked mine a year ago for that and it didn't have this particular chip version). Nevertheless I was happy.
His explanation was that there might have been an overcharge on the USB port that fried the chip.
He reset it, put in an original v4.1.2 and the phone has been working just fine, or almost.
I now have a signal problem (wireless is fine) that I never had before it got cooked (I was on RR 4.0.7 at that time).
In my house and most of the areas I go to, the signal strength would randomly show one bar but 99% of the time it's 0 or no network found.
If I get to the downtown area, the signal is fine again.
I tried various modems and no difference.
My SIM works fine in another phone, other SIMs of the same provider work as bad as mine, other SIMs of other providers work fine.
This points to some bad setting (APN maybe) or a mismatch somewhere that affects my provider, but I use the original settings. Even if I didn't, why would it work downtown?
If it's an antenna/USB problem, why it works with other providers or downtown with my provider?
A sensitivity setting that affects just my provider? Is there such a thing anywhere?
My current settings are (for Vodafone, Greece):
PDA: I9100XWLSW
Phone: I9100BULS1 (I tried many)
CSC: I9100OXXLSB
I'm out of ideas and any help is appreciated.