I am in Southern CA and my M-CELL is working. All iPhones including the 5 connect just fine
damn. thanks!
mine right now is the "Location Verification" stage of reactivating. i'm in Chicago, but they said it's everywhere.
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I am in Southern CA and my M-CELL is working. All iPhones including the 5 connect just fine
I don't think it matters which phone you have. The issue is/was with the M-cells. I have an ip5, 2 4s's and 1 ip4. None of them were able to connect to the M-Cell last night.
Anyone still not able to connect to MicroCell with their iPhone 5? The first time I contacted support I was told to wait 24-48 hours. I have since turned my phone off/on, gone to airplane mode and back numerous times, unplugged the MicroCell, contacted at&t support and at their suggestion disabled LTE. Still no luck. Has anyone else had to disable LTE? I'm not going to be very happy having to do that every day when I get home, not that it seemed to do any good.
Does the microcell signal have priority over the LTE signal on the iPhone? I get a lousy 0/1 bar of LTE at my house. I'm hoping that my phone will just stay connected to the microcell rather than bouncing back and forth between the microcell signal and LTE.
any input would be appreciated! i've got a microcell on the way
I can confirm that the phone will use the microcell over the weak LTE signal. It stays connected to the microcell too.
My only issue with the microcell is that despite disabling automatic handout of calls to the macro network the iPhone 5 will still hand out the call to macrocell or loose the M-CELL alpha tag but stay connected to M-CELL. Not quite sure which is occurring. This seems to happen when I am actually on a call.
What I did was turn off Hand Off in the microcell settings, and that seemed to the trick where the phone would occasionally alternate between microcell (5 bars) and "4G" (and now LTE) which had around 2-3 bars but ended up in tons of dropped calls. With that disabled, it just stays connected to my M-cell.
FINALLY!
I think they're pushing out a fix because more people are having luck (myself now included).
I unplugged the MCell for 1 minute or so. Turned on Airplane mode during this time.
Turned the MCell back on. Waited until it was fully up and running. Turned off Airplane mode. At first, no luck. Waited ~2 minutes and BAM.. MCell on iPhone5.
Good luck!
What I did was turn off Hand Off in the microcell settings, and that seemed to the trick where the phone would occasionally alternate between microcell (5 bars) and "4G" (and now LTE) which had around 2-3 bars but ended up in tons of dropped calls. With that disabled, it just stays connected to my M-cell.
...I have had my microcell for over 2 years and now that we upgraded to iOS 6 on our iPhone 4S and 5 we do not receive voicemails anymore. Our phones connect to the microcell and we can make and receive calls just fine but if someone leaves a message, our phones don't register that we have a new voicemail. We get this message when we leave our house, weird.
I unplugged the microcell and also pushed the reset button on the back but it does not seem to help. Anyone else with this issue? Also, we have no LTE in Central Oregon, yet.
Thanks for the help!!!!