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Help Network freezing after 2.3?

Bongles

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Well i've had the phone since July and things have been fine.

However half a dozen times i've had a problem that everything on the phone works but its like the mobile network is frozen or down.

I'll have a full signal on an H or 3G network but if I try to browse the net i'll get the erorr page saying it can't. Try again same thing so try and call to check my balance in case out of credit (even though know i'm not) and instead of rining there is just silence for a couple of seconds then i'm back to my default screen. Try to send an sms and it says it failed.

When it's happened i've figured the mobile networks probably down but if I just turn the phone off then on again it's working fine, internet works, can sms, can call.

This wouldn't be a problem at all if it was just me using the phone that was the problem but once it boots back up I get half a dozen texts that were sent to me hours before and people saying they've been trying to call me all day but couldn't get through. (They are on the same provider and never had any problems except contacting me so its not a matter of the mobile network was down and just happened to come back up when I rebooted the phone.

The main problem is I use this phone for work and i'm out and about alot and often not near a landline or anything. It has only happened about 6 times and always at night or a weekend but if it was to happen on a morning and the boss was trying to contact me all day with an important call and couldn't get hold of me..... you can imagine.... and I don't expect to have to be checking every 30 minutes if I can access the internet just to know that my phone is working so I havn't missed something important trying to contact me.

I've only notice this problem since the 2.3 update I don't recall having it the time the phone was only using 2.2. I only have 2 apps installed on it angry birds rio and a battery monitor which installed as soon as I got the phone so I don't see either of those being the issue when it never happened all that time till the 2.3 came out.

Has anyone else experienced this issue? Is it a known problem or is there a solution for it? Cant seem to find much info on similar issues from other ppl.
 
Are you running some sort of battery saving program? Having the problems during the evening and the weekend seems to point in that direction.
 
No all I have installed that didn't come with the phone is Angry Birds RIO and "Battery Indicator" from Darshan (which doesn't have any power saving feature or anything simply shows battery stats and isn't running most of the time anyway).

I don't see the times its happened being an indication of anything, maybe if all 6 times it was around the same time of day and only on a weekend it might.

But its all been at different times i've noticed it not working (still could of happaned at any time though) just none of them happened to be during work hours since I use my phone when I leave work so know its been working up till and after 4pm every week day.

One time it was a sunday morning (so could of happened anytime during the night) the other a saturday afternoon (so anytime after 10am when i last did something on it) to various other times at night during week days which it had to of been after 4pm.

Was running the Battery Indicator the whole time it was on Android 2.2 and it never happened once so again dont see it being the app causing the issue and it would of been running 2.2 as long if not longer then 2.3 since in Australia anyway the 2.3 update wasn't available untill about the end of october.

Thought perhaps its happened to others and also only while they've run 2.3 which would indicate a 2.3 issue even if they do have a bazillion apps running that could be the cause since I do not.
 
Have you tried this network driver fix?

  • open your keypad and type in *#*#526#*#*
Try it, it fixed my network issues on my Gio with 2.3.4.
 
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