[masterlin1]

So I broke my Note I last Saturday and had to get a new phone, I chose the Note II since I liked my original Note so much.

However, I'm getting pretty frustrated with it, it never seems to have a solid carrier signal. My original Note had some issues with getting a signal, but I knew where to place my phone in certain areas of the house (where I knew connections were spotty) in order to get a signal so I could get calls and texts.

The Note II? It seems to constantly fail to receive texts in a timely manner (I've been routinely getting SMS texts 1-2 hours after they were sent) even in spots of the house where I KNOW the connection is fine. I also seem to regularly get the "failed to send" error in my texts in areas of the house where I never had any issue.

I'm a big texter, it's how my friends and I communicate, so it's getting pretty frustrating. Anyone have this problem? Any possible solutions at all? If not, I may end up returning the thing.

Also, when I go to Settings > About Device > Status this is what comes up:

Signal strength
-114 dbm 27 asu ---> Can anyone tell me if this is good or not?

Service state
In service

Mobile network state
Disconnected --> Is it supposed to say this? I see the AT&T logo on the top left and it says I have 2 bars

[jdub1981]

Do you have a microcell? I believe whike on wifi you are using it instead of mobile network. Might test this to see if thst is the reason you are disconnected.

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[masterlin1]

Nope, no Microcell, never needed it.

EDIT: So managed to fix the problem, the default APN my phone came with was wrong I think. Under APN type it didn't have the term "hipri" so I made a new APN with the same settings for everything else, but added "hipri" to APN type so it reads default,supl,mms,hipri now.

[destefmx6]

Glad it worked. How did you find the proper APN number for your area?

Nope, no Microcell, never needed it.

EDIT: So managed to fix the problem, the default APN my phone came with was wrong I think. Under APN type it didn't have the term "hipri" so I made a new APN with the same settings for everything else, but added "hipri" to APN type so it reads default,supl,mms,hipri now.

[masterlin1]

Glad it worked. How did you find the proper APN number for your area?

Someone posted it on the xda forums and I pretty much just copied it over to my device.

[sqa4life]

Someone posted it on the xda forums and I pretty much just copied it over to my device.

I am having the same problem.
If you don't mind, please post screen shots of all your APNs settings.


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[masterlin1]

I am having the same problem.
If you don't mind, please post screen shots of all your APNs settings.


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Here's what I'm using:

Name: AT&T 4G
APN: phone
Proxy: Not set
Port: Not set
User name: Not set
Password: Not set
Server: Not set
MMSC:
MMS proxy: proxy.mobile.att.net
MMS port: 80
MCC: 310
MNC: 410
Authentication type: Not set
APN type: default,supl,mms,hipri,dun
APN protocol: IPv4
Enable/disable APN: APN enabled
Bearer: Unspecified

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A consistent thing I found online was that the inclusion of the phrase "hipri" under APN type seemed to improve a lot of people's connections. I showed my cousin this and it worked for him as well using a Nexus 4 on T-Mobile.

[Heifzilla]

Thanks for posting. I've been having the same exact issue on my at&t Note 2 and it's really annoying. I'm trying this fix and hope it helps.

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