Comments on: Oh woe is G1 data… http://www.tmonews.com/2008/10/oh-woe-is-g1-data/ Unofficial T-Mobile Blog, News, Videos, Articles and more Thu, 09 Feb 2012 20:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Ammed http://www.tmonews.com/2008/10/oh-woe-is-g1-data/comment-page-3/#comment-11931 Ammed Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:46:33 +0000 http://tmonews.com/?p=903#comment-11931 (i found this on a blog and it worked mircales for me. Called cc 8 times and still no luck alwasy just battery, sim, and then i dont know whats wrong wait 24hrs) This works as long as your data plan is still in place there seems to be 2 possibly 3 scenarios happening here #1 Most common, It appears there is a bug with our phones software (hopefully not the hardware ) and if your phone goes into sleep mode for an extended period of time, when you wake it up and unlock it your data does not work, but the phone and gmail do work, to fix this it DOES NOT REQUIRE A REBOOT! simply switch the phone to airplane mode OR switch 3G off and back on (wait for edge to takeover b4 switching back) this will force your phone to reconnect the data connection to the cell tower and it should be working again this scenario is what is happening to my phone I have had my phone sense 10/24 and the first 5 days i never had this problem last Thursday it started happening. I think it may be that the data network is getting overloaded by new data users going crazy using their phones and i say this because i have definitely seen some big decreases in the speed on 3G in the past few days. This might be a semi-intentional thing the towers are doing to try and cope with the demand for data on them by disconnecting the connection on phones that have not requested data in a certain time frame prob. around 20-30 min It is worth noting that i went out shopping today for 3-4 hours went all over the place and wither i was driving or in a store i had imeem streaming music on my phone and never lost connection once so this backs up what i'm thinking is happening here #2 if your a preorder customer or had a tmo account before you got your G1 take a min to check your services on the tmo site to make sure you have one of the 2 G1 data plans on your account as some people have had theirs dropped from their account and lost service due to that,no amount of rebooting or reseting data connection will fix this you need to call CC and get it fixed #3 Using an old SIM card from another phone, this one is less common and somewhat sketchy on if it works or not but some people have had issues related to this as well as other issues on their phone and it appears was caused by using a SIM from a differient phone and not the one the G1 came with, if this is your case you should get it switched out (i found this on a blog and it worked mircales for me. Called cc 8 times and still no luck alwasy just battery, sim, and then i dont know whats wrong wait 24hrs)

This works as long as your data plan is still in place there seems to be 2 possibly 3 scenarios happening here

#1 Most common, It appears there is a bug with our phones software (hopefully not the hardware ) and if your phone goes into sleep mode for an extended period of time, when you wake it up and unlock it your data does not work, but the phone and gmail do work, to fix this it DOES NOT REQUIRE A REBOOT! simply switch the phone to airplane mode OR switch 3G off and back on (wait for edge to takeover b4 switching back) this will force your phone to reconnect the data connection to the cell tower and it should be working again

this scenario is what is happening to my phone I have had my phone sense 10/24 and the first 5 days i never had this problem last Thursday it started happening. I think it may be that the data network is getting overloaded by new data users going crazy using their phones and i say this because i have definitely seen some big decreases in the speed on 3G in the past few days. This might be a semi-intentional thing the towers are doing to try and cope with the demand for data on them by disconnecting the connection on phones that have not requested data in a certain time frame prob. around 20-30 min

It is worth noting that i went out shopping today for 3-4 hours went all over the place and wither i was driving or in a store i had imeem streaming music on my phone and never lost connection once so this backs up what i’m thinking is happening here

#2 if your a preorder customer or had a tmo account before you got your G1 take a min to check your services on the tmo site to make sure you have one of the 2 G1 data plans on your account as some people have had theirs dropped from their account and lost service due to that,no amount of rebooting or reseting data connection will fix this you need to call CC and get it fixed

#3 Using an old SIM card from another phone, this one is less common and somewhat sketchy on if it works or not but some people have had issues related to this as well as other issues on their phone and it appears was caused by using a SIM from a differient phone and not the one the G1 came with, if this is your case you should get it switched out

]]> By: Slater http://www.tmonews.com/2008/10/oh-woe-is-g1-data/comment-page-3/#comment-11930 Slater Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:09:27 +0000 http://tmonews.com/?p=903#comment-11930 I have not found the best article for my comment, but i finally got to demo the G1 yesterday in a local store and needed to say that i feel like any and every review i read was way too conservative in depicting the greatness of this phone. there will be some to disagree with me on that point, but i cannot even express how inspirational this phone is. geeze, i can't believe t-mobile was able to land it in their line-up. I have not found the best article for my comment, but i finally got to demo the G1 yesterday in a local store and needed to say that i feel like any and every review i read was way too conservative in depicting the greatness of this phone. there will be some to disagree with me on that point, but i cannot even express how inspirational this phone is. geeze, i can’t believe t-mobile was able to land it in their line-up.

]]> By: Jesse http://www.tmonews.com/2008/10/oh-woe-is-g1-data/comment-page-3/#comment-11929 Jesse Sat, 01 Nov 2008 20:28:50 +0000 http://tmonews.com/?p=903#comment-11929 Just commenting... I had to call in an manually reactivate my data services last Wednesday. Also, still no link to RC update. Just commenting… I had to call in an manually reactivate my data services last Wednesday. Also, still no link to RC update.

]]> By: T1 Connect http://www.tmonews.com/2008/10/oh-woe-is-g1-data/comment-page-2/#comment-11928 T1 Connect Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:41:18 +0000 http://tmonews.com/?p=903#comment-11928 I finally took my g1 to the place where I first saw the g1 back in august on the here she is post that tmonews posted. I remember I was feining for news about the phone and that article popped up on my wing as a new rss feed. I also remembered we all saying how ugly the phone was and was debating if it was the actual g1. well it was and she's not so ugly. ahhhhh memories. I finally took my g1 to the place where I first saw the g1 back in august on the here she is post that tmonews posted. I remember I was feining for news about the phone and that article popped up on my wing as a new rss feed. I also remembered we all saying how ugly the phone was and was debating if it was the actual g1. well it was and she’s not so ugly. ahhhhh memories.

]]> By: D http://www.tmonews.com/2008/10/oh-woe-is-g1-data/comment-page-2/#comment-11909 D Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:30:02 +0000 http://tmonews.com/?p=903#comment-11909 Yeah i love my dialone app.it work for me 2. Yeah i love my dialone app.it work for me 2.

]]> By: T1 Connect http://www.tmonews.com/2008/10/oh-woe-is-g1-data/comment-page-2/#comment-11908 T1 Connect Sat, 01 Nov 2008 15:00:04 +0000 http://tmonews.com/?p=903#comment-11908 @d ill take care of that when i get home later. yea but i tried dial zero yesterday to call customer service and it worked went straight to a rep. its a nice app @d ill take care of that when i get home later. yea but i tried dial zero yesterday to call customer service and it worked went straight to a rep. its a nice app

]]> By: D http://www.tmonews.com/2008/10/oh-woe-is-g1-data/comment-page-2/#comment-11927 D Sat, 01 Nov 2008 13:11:37 +0000 http://tmonews.com/?p=903#comment-11927 See boys with patience comes virtue.As im bloging this my update is updating.I was in a phone call and the call dropped and said you have an update....Yah.Woo.Woo Also you can have wifi on cause mine is on.Enjoy everyone as im part of the new update gang lol See boys with patience comes virtue.As im bloging this my update is updating.I was in a phone call and the call dropped and said you have an update….Yah.Woo.Woo
Also you can have wifi on cause mine is on.Enjoy everyone as im part of the new update gang lol

]]> By: D http://www.tmonews.com/2008/10/oh-woe-is-g1-data/comment-page-2/#comment-11926 D Sat, 01 Nov 2008 11:47:08 +0000 http://tmonews.com/?p=903#comment-11926 Guys i just spoke to T-Mobile and the update will be on everyones G1 by the 11th as they also now have an android help dept.I think i'll wait out because the 11th is not far plus it will be done by the 11th.My phone works perfect so im gonna be patient and not take the risk of manual update. ALSO you guys have to get dial zero app from the AM as it works very well.i hate having to here the automated system.Direct line is much better.GO G1 Woo Woo!!! @T1 Dont forget that forwarding video Guys i just spoke to T-Mobile and the update will be on everyones G1 by the 11th as they also now have an android help dept.I think i’ll wait out because the 11th is not far plus it will be done by the 11th.My phone works perfect so im gonna be patient and not take the risk of manual update.
ALSO you guys have to get dial zero app from the AM as it works very well.i hate having to here the automated system.Direct line is much better.GO G1 Woo Woo!!!
@T1
Dont forget that forwarding video

]]> By: T1 Connect http://www.tmonews.com/2008/10/oh-woe-is-g1-data/comment-page-2/#comment-11917 T1 Connect Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:20:39 +0000 http://tmonews.com/?p=903#comment-11917 now they're is a little usb icon on top of the screen when u plug it in. now they’re is a little usb icon on top of the screen when u plug it in.

]]> By: dat chyk http://www.tmonews.com/2008/10/oh-woe-is-g1-data/comment-page-2/#comment-11916 dat chyk Sat, 01 Nov 2008 03:16:02 +0000 http://tmonews.com/?p=903#comment-11916 Got my update this morning but there really are no visible changes because I wasn't having problems with it anyway. Seems like my battery has been real drained today tho and I'm on edge. Oh well, as long as it fixed the security leak...I'm good. :) Got my update this morning but there really are no visible changes because I wasn’t having problems with it anyway. Seems like my battery has been real drained today tho and I’m on edge. Oh well, as long as it fixed the security leak…I’m good. :)

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