Vodafone signal dropping out completely on Galaxy S2

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hamstar

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#142863 27-Mar-2014 08:38

Hey guys,

I was wondering if anyone else is getting complete signal dropout? Whenever I got to work (in Albany) my phone (SGS2) will lose all signal bars about 5 times a day. The only way to get it back is to reboot it, only for it to drop sometimes just 10 minutes later. At home it will drop maybe twice a day.

It started happening near the end of last year, so I put CyanogenMod 10.2 on it to try to alleviate the issue but it had no effect. I even tried using GetRIL to change the radio interface layer but ended up losing the stock RIL and had to reflash the phone because none of the other RILs would work.

I though maybe some network changes on Vodafones side could have affected it, but then other people should also have the issue so maybe it's just that my phone has been dropped to many times?

The other thing is my /data/logs folder is filling up with 1MB RIL dumpstate files at the rate of about 1GB a week (i.e. dumpstate_ril_RESET_BY_CP_SILENTRESET_20140318103055.log).

Here's an example: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/84968d7ea27b1fc9cbd3

Anyone got any ideas how to fix this?

Cheers

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#1013631 27-Mar-2014 08:57

Maybe the hardware is just faulty and no software changes will fix it