Any one know if it is possible to force a 3G connection, my house is located right between where 2 towers overlap, as I pull up to my house in the car, I have a 3G connection, but a soon as I walk into the house I can see the 1 tower drop off and the other pick up, problem is the stronger tower is only an EDGE connection. I bought an 8db gain antenna, but that just made the EDGE connection stronger.
Shy of moving my house 1 block over, does anyone have any ideas.......?
did you try forcing it to wcdma only ? were you able to keep the signal?
did it, works great, thanks
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i have a pretty poor signal (3g and 4g) inside my apartment. 4g doesn't come in at all really, and 3g is about 3 bars at most, sometimes it briefly goes to 4 bars. i live on the ground floor of an old brick building, but i'm willing to try any tricks to get a 4g signal indoors (making a ledge for the phone up by the ceiling? by a window?). if i stand in front of my window on the sidewalk i get a fine 4g signal, but i don't want to set my phone on the sidewalk outside to wireless tether
has anyone experimented with any techniques to get a good signal? i heard 4g has a more difficult time penetrating through walls and insulated glass (i just have old windows with 1 single thin pane of glass). is there any way to position the phone to best get a signal (avoiding contact with certain parts of the phone? where is the 4g antenna specifically within the phone, at the top?)? can i somehow make an antenna somehow and place it outside my window and connect it to my phone in some way? are there sprint indoor antenna booster devices of some kind?
forgive me in advance if this has been covered... yes i did try searching but unfortunately when the device itself has "4g" in the name im getting a lot of invalid results
thanks!
I happen to live in an area where I seldom get a signal stronger than 60% outside my home. Within my home, I run between 10% and 30% signal. Due to this I tend to get a lot of dropped calls. I have reported this "valley" in my city as being in a weak signal area for AT&T. Most of it began with 3G. I have now resolved that I should purchase a signal amplifier with an omni antenna that can be installed in my attic that would have about a 35-40 foot cable running to the inside unit. As I understand it, that should closely resemble an outside signal.
Anyone have any suggestions on home cell phone amplifiers that will handle multiple calls simultaneously? It obviously is not totally an AT&T issue because I have several friends on differing networks that have the same problem in my house.
Any help would be appreciated.
On my EVO, sitting right next to my N router, I can get maybe 9-10 mbps downstream. Meanwhile, my laptop can get 22 mbps.
Is this normal for the phone to max out at 9-10 mbps or am I doing something wrong?
** If this is a stupid question, please bear with me as I don't know much about the electronics of wifi on phones. Please explain rather than flame
Upon doing further research on this, I can see that wifi reception on the EVO is a major issue. In the same room my laptop is at full bars, my EVO shows no bars at all. This is a powerful router and I can't get more than 20 feet away without losing signal significantly.
I have noticed I am running on Channel 2. Would I do better if I changed channels? From what I have read only, people are saying that other phones such as the iPhone 3GS have twice the wifi range as the EVO.
Just performed interesting test.
These wifi routers shoot signal in all directions. As a test, I create an aluminum foil parabolic mirror (crude but effective) and put it under and behind my router. I then held the phone 4 feet from the router and ran speedtest.
Results:
WITH FOIL MIRROR:
11396 mbps(d)
1044 mbps(u)
WITHOUT FOIL MIRROR:
9117 mbps(d)
1033 mbps(u)
The up speed in both was about the same as that is due to my EVO beaming back to the router. However, the surprising part was that my downstream speeds increased by almost 25% with the mirror in place.
THE MORAL OF THE STORY:
If you have a wireless router that is situated in a corner or along a wall of your house, create a parabolic "radar dish" using tin foil and place it between the router and the wall and see if you wifi speed and reception does not improve.
** UPDATE:
I live in a pretty big house. The router is in my upstairs office which is the opposite end of the house from my living room. Prior to creating this "radar dish" I had zero wifi reception in the living room. With the "radar dish" I now have 1 out of 3 bars in the living room and am getting around 5 mbps downstream.
I am impressed that such a simple fix could make such a difference.
I really only use this phone as a tiny tablet, no service on it, so its airplane mode. wifi only, its a great device. But im having weak wifi connection, the wireless router is in a bedroom, and in my office, which is just across the living room from the bedroom with the router in it, its one bar, - 88db, etc ,sometimes no signal, i'll be trying to check email on it, an ill have to stick the phone up in the air or move it around before it picks it up again,etc. i've tested same spot with ipod touch, an its has almost full bars -40ish db, no problems.. so im thinking its the phone, has anyone else noticed it?
mistororange said:
I really only use this phone as a tiny tablet, no service on it, so its airplane mode. wifi only, its a great device. But im having weak wifi connection, the wireless router is in a bedroom, and in my office, which is just across the living room from the bedroom with the router in it, its one bar, - 88db, etc ,sometimes no signal, i'll be trying to check email on it, an ill have to stick the phone up in the air or move it around before it picks it up again,etc. i've tested same spot with ipod touch, an its has almost full bars -40ish db, no problems.. so im thinking its the phone, has anyone else noticed it?
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Yes, my phone likes that. Hope 4.2 or 4.3 will fix it.
So it seems if i pry up on the removable module i get good signal in the house if i pry it back a hair i lose it. Is there an antenna in the module?
Rite now. I grab by the module only and hold over my head. Signal stays great. If ihold it by module and hold it screen up seems to lose
Finally solved my issue. Im for some reason not connecting to the nearest towers. My tower. Is to far away to get good lte. Changed up unlock instrucs switched to gsm umts. Now im on 3g. Strong good signal in the house. Earlier i thought it was a dormancy issue. Kinda is. Device doesnt know if it wants lte or not. So it kept dropping. I watched to sigs. And they are average to most of my sprint devices at 100 to 115. Now on hspa÷ im getting 85 to 100 with no drops. Unless lte antenna is in the charging module and is messed up. Ive had good strong no dropped sig for 30 min or so versus the 1 or 2 min i could get it to hold before on lte. Band 5