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Denamian
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You might want to see if there is a 4.3 based rom for your phone, as that is when android added TRIM support, which should help with keeping the NAND from acting up.Rooted and installed stock ROM sans bloat. So far so good
Denamian
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8-10 months out on an ancient phone like the S2? What the holy hell?
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Joeboo
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Apparently he's on the "1 upgrade per half decade" phone plan.
Hell, last year I broke my S4 and had to go back to an S3 for 2 months before I had an upgrade available to go to the Note 3. I felt like I was living in a 3rd world country going back to that S3. I'm definitely spoiled.
Hell, last year I broke my S4 and had to go back to an S3 for 2 months before I had an upgrade available to go to the Note 3. I felt like I was living in a 3rd world country going back to that S3. I'm definitely spoiled.
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Yeah I used my old Galaxy Nexus for a couple days a while back and it was stunning how slow it was, how bad the screen looked, and how bad the battery life was. While I was using it I thought it was just fine and that's pretty much an S3 equivalant. Can't imagine using an S2 still.
I have been having texting / connection issues lately on my phone and in the past I would just remove the battery from my phone, wait 5 minutes or so, and then put it back in to fix it. My new phone is a htc desire 816 which essentially has a built in battery / case. Yes I can tear the back off etc but I don't want to have to do that every time I want to refresh myself on the network. Any suggestions onot how I can solve this is appreciated.
Does that "remove" the phone from the network long enough so that it resets it que or however that works? Or does it not work the same way like it does for cable modems?
Siliconemelons
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turn on airplane mode for a while if your just wanting to refresh the network connections.
also is there still that thing where you go and update the local cell tower info setting thing? I forgot what it was called but I had to do it to get my "not really released" pre3 to work better on Verizon.
Denamian
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Airplane mode or toggling mobile data off and on will force the phone to search for towers again and is all that is needed 90% of the time to reestablish a connection.
That would be the the PRL (Preferred Roaming List). It's used for CDMA phones to tell them what bands and towers to look for and what order to do it in. Back when I have an EVO 4G on Sprint, if you were rooted you could replace the PRL with once that would look exclusively for Verizon towers instead of Sprint. You can usually force tje phone to check for a PRL update from the system settings where the phone software update is found.
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Should you leave the phone in airplane mode for 5 or so minutes and then switch it back on or just flicking it on and off enough to reset the connection?
Siliconemelons
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Yeah I have always been sprint or Verizon- so I am a CDMA person- GSM folks don't deal with that thing then
but yes- forcing a sprint phone to always "roam" to Verizon is awesome- you basically delete the phone from ever seeing/attempting to connect to sprint towers
Denamian
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Just long enough for the phone to figure out that it is no longer connected to a tower. Once your signal icon indicates you no longer have mobile data you can turn it back on. Waiting longer won't do anything else unless it's a bigger problem like the radio in your phone bugging out to the point it needs to be rebooted or it's a problem that's not on your end.
