HTC Desire 3g problem

Orange's version of the Desire has a fault with the radio firmware. Solution is to root and install a custom firmware. This affects only Orange ROMs, and since I don't have access to such a phone (donations will be put to good use, I promise), I can't confirm it.


Yes, I have an answer for you. Wrong forum. Seriously, Wildfire does not share the same hardware with Desire. So, while your solution might work for the short run, 2G is sometimes better than no connection at all.

1. I am india facing the same problem, i.e. sometimes the 3g connection is lost but it does not automatically come back until I check and uncheck one of the following settings:
1. Turn on Wifi
2. Mobile Data

2. However there is important point to note that I have been using the phone with same connection for the past 4 months and the problem has been encountered only lately, therefore it must be related to some software changes.
3. Recently I brought my dad's Samsung Galaxy S and My Desire with me both having 3g connectin from the same service provider and sometimes and I must say very few times, did the problem occur in desire while it did not occur on samsung galaxy s. To be noted both are running android 2.2
4. Few days back I had shifted some applications to sd card which I had not done before and I do have a feeling that something relating to applications could have been the cause.
5. I did contact the HTC India Support Center as well, after researching they replied to turn off and turn on the "Always on Mobile Data" option and it should work. They said if it is not resolved by this the problem will definitely be fixed by doing a hard reset not from within the phone but the ones using volume controls.

Hoping this helps. Someone in the forum did a hard reset I remember, did it resolve the problem. Also I did notice decrease in occurence of this problem today. So I am not going to do a hard reset immediately. Will observe for few days to see if problem fixes by itself, else will do a hard reset.

Hello everyone, (HTC Desire, HTC Desire 3G Connection Problem, "HTC Desire 3G Connection", "HTC Desire Connection")

Continuing my reply from where I left yesterday. I performed the hard reset yesterday night without even restoring the backed up settings, still I continue to experience this problem. Using the same sim I do not see this problem in my dad's galaxy.

The customer care told to contact service center, but I do not think they will be able to help much. Maybe if they replace the Circuit Board, it might fix. What I do not understand is where this problem came from, because for 3 Months it worked perfectly.

Switching between airplane more of checking unchecking mobile data connection restores the 3g signal and data connection.

Sometimes when it does not connect on checking mobile data setting, it gives error "incorrect apn setting" and moments later on retrying connects without problem using the same apn. And for 3 months prior the same settings existed so I do not know what the heck is going. Htc please fix this and give us OTA update. Please

Hi Michiel,

You say its working fine after restoring it to factory settings. You mean you are no longer experiencing the mobile data connection issue. Did you hard reset using option from settings or using the volume hardware keys. I did using volume hardware keys because the customer care executive told me to do so but I am still facing the problem.

Thanks and Regards,
Rahul.