Here’s the question: is this a network/coverage problem or a hardware problem (signaling that my phone is about to go belly-up).
My carrier is T-Mobile. I’m using a BlackBerry Key2, running on Android 8.1.0, the latest OS this phone can use. I’ve had the phone since July 2018 and I love it.
This morning the screen showed “no service” for several hours. I did all the stuff you’re supposed to do, i.e., rebooted lots of times, turned airplane mode off and on before and after rebooting, took the sim card out and put it back in again, tinkered with settings. I even got in the car and drove around looking for coverage, thinking it might be a glitch at my house. No luck there.
Then like magic, service just reappeared. Usually service reappears quite soon, after only a couple of reboots. This time it took hours. I don’t think anything I did made it come back. I think it was an anomaly, but a network anomaly or a hardware anomaly?
This service disappearance/reappearance has happened about three times in the last few months; I’ve been with T-Mobile about a year. Before that I was with AT&T but ditched them after this 5G baloney. Also, T-Mobile has an Old People’s rate of only $50/mo.
Any ideas?