The Diamond is almost a perfect phone mobile, but one difect is the power signal that is no very good.
we can concentrate all the tweaks possible in order to increase the power.
adding cabs, modifing registry and radio.
i have a HTC s310 too and GPRS and EDGE signal is more than Diamond.
Radio ROM
I suggest you try other Radio ROMs. See the Radio threads for more info.
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I suggest you try other Radio ROMs. See the Radio threads for more info.
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when we power on the diamond the power signal is more hard, after some second comes down. Creed that some application or service of wm6 has to that to make with this.
this is because the antenna hardvare it's on the bottom, and when you hold it in your hand you will block the reception. you can try with signal antenna booster...
he does have a point tho, if i put my orange sim in my sony w880 i get a good 3g reception, but when i put it in my diamond i can only get standard gprs, id expect more for the money i paid for this fone
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this is because the antenna hardvare it's on the bottom, and when you hold it in your hand you will block the reception. you can try with signal antenna booster...
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I thought the "antenna" is by camera? Dont u think it's counter-intuitive to have it at the bottom where your palm will most likely covers it while talking?
i think its at the bottom! try it!
the signal always decreases when i cover the bottom part of my phone with my hand!
crap design if you ask me
mancsoulja said:
he does have a point tho, if i put my orange sim in my sony w880 i get a good 3g reception, but when i put it in my diamond i can only get standard gprs, id expect more for the money i paid for this fone
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just one remark:
are you sure that 3G is enabled in our diamond? some people do this (using GSM only) to get a longer stand-by time
gioiellino said:
The Diamond is almost a perfect phone mobile, but one difect is the power signal that is no very good.
we can concentrate all the tweaks possible in order to increase the power.
adding cabs, modifing registry and radio.
i have a HTC s310 too and GPRS and EDGE signal is more than Diamond.
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Oh.. cmon.. saying that Diamond is almost perfect is a bit of a stretch ...
with regedit
if we change manualy the value of "Signal Strength" max to 90 the bars signal change up.
But this value reset after a soft reset
i dont know if we can stop this value at 90
i dont know if this is only a graphic change.
i have both setted to 100 !!!
i tryed over 90 but bars signal not apperas.
only until 90 the bars up to max
Ciao, dipende dalla ricezione che hai in quel momento.
se sei sotto ai 90 ed aumenti il valore aumentano le tacche, ma non so se è solo un cambiamento grafico.
tu che valore avevi prima di mettere 100?
oppure se avevi gai 100 vuol dire che in quel posto è ottima la ricezione.
prova quando non ne hai, e sei con una tacca, ti aumenta notevolmente.
gioiellino said:
if we change manualy the value of "Signal Strength" max to 90 the bars signal change up.
But this value reset after a soft reset
i dont know if we can stop this value at 90
i dont know if this is only a graphic change.
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this changes only the status information for the top icons of systembar.
like in your screenshots, having a signal strength of "30", you have one bar in graphical information.
now with "90" you have a row of bars.
two bars are the value "60" on my device
so you are only modifying status information for the output of the device, sounds logical if you look on the registry tree where these values are and what other values are possible to change.
i have the same problem my signal power is very bad with the diamond
Since i've upgraded my rom i started having problems with my signal reception.
ROM Version 2.03.456.2 WWE
ROM date 12/23/08
Radio version 1.09.25.23
Protocol version 52.51.25.26H
When i had 1.93. rom did not have such a problem?!
if im not mistaken the antennas are bi-amplified. there are 2 antennas. one on the top and one on the bottom. i could be wrong. but look behind your battery cover, btw my sprint diamond is by far the fastest phone iv ever had as far as browsing and get a consistent 1000kbps.very impressed for a windows 6.1 phone. tf3d is what screws up the speed
ok. diamond have only one antenna (at the bottom) the worst design I ever seen. I have to change the device and "upgraded" to blackstone for that, because I have a very expensive internet connection at Vodafone.
so...
If you open the battery case, at the botttom you have four screw to open the "antenna support plastic" ... how to tell to be understud... between those four screw you will see some "cuts" I mean it is a cooper foil stuck on the plastic but it's black too (painted). that's is the antenna.
Only REAL things that you can do to increase the signal:
1. change your radio
2. hardware antenna boost.
1. To see what the radio it's the best in your region, you will have to test your signal with different radios, for a couple of minutes, but you will have to have your phone in the same position (in your house) and when you read the signal strenght your body must be in the same position for all the tests because this will influence or block the transmission. the best way is to put it in front of you on the desk and read the signal from the same position after a few min.
2. You can try to attach another antenna connected with other one but this will brake your warranity. BE AWARE!
SO if you like to go foward with this I can post some pic here in the next 24 hours from now, because right now I don't have a diamond. all you have to do is to tell me if you will like to see how to disansamble a diamond.
Good luck and all my best.
v001011 said:
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Only REAL things that you can do to increase the signal:
1. change your radio
2. hardware antenna boost.
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2. You can try to attach another antenna connected with other one but this will brake your warranity. BE AWARE!
SO if you like to go foward with this I can post some pic here in the next 24 hours from now, because right now I don't have a diamond. all you have to do is to tell me if you will like to see how to disansamble a diamond.
Good luck and all my best.
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Yes, I would love to see how to attach another antenna or some kind of hardware booster to the diamond. Sounds really cool. But do you get better (I mean REALLY better) signal after this modification?
Thanks!
v001011 said:
ok. diamond have only one antenna (at the bottom)
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There is more then 1 antenna. The plastic at the top side of the phone (camera area) has the same painted plastic foil cover as the bottom, if you look at it carfully under a strong light you will notice the same sort of "cuts" on it.
So there is another antenna at the top also.
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Hello folks,
I've been thinking on this.
I think its very possible to install a normal SD WiFi into the device and I remember that someone talked about this in the past but I think the thread got lost in the last DB crash.
Does anyone know or has some info?
I will take the risk in doing this if someone gives me some feedback.
I tore appart my Socket SD WiFi and belive me, it's really small and thin!
I think it's just a matter of soldering the contacts to the correct positions on the slot, but still, i'm not sure what would happen if once soldered I insert a memory card...
Some say that even with the WiFi card turned off but inserted will still draw power from the battery, how true is that?
Any feedback is really appreciated.
TIA,
Rayan
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Rayan said:
I think its very possible to install a normal SD WiFi into the device and I remember that someone talked about this in the past but I think the thread got lost in the last DB crash.
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I will take the risk in doing this if someone gives me some feedback.
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Though it might be interesting for the rest of us, don't do it. It think you will fail. Reasons are:
- there is most likely not enough free space inside the device
- even if there was, the WLAN antenna would then be inside the device, causing all sorts of electromagnetic interference and disturbing the nornam operation of your device. Also, you'd get really bad reception, as the device's cover shields the antenna
- if you solder things to the SD port's PINs, you can no longer insert another SD Card. Well, physically you can, but electrically you then have two SD cards, which will overload the card slot pin drivers; and logically you also have two cards, and when some software talks to "the" card, both will try to respond, causing undefined behavious.
So, unless I missed something very basic (like today being April 1st... ;-)), this sounds like a really bad idea.
Cheers, Daniel
I was thinking of doing this to the Imate Jam which does not have wifi. The XDAIIs has it internal so I dont think it would be that bad. You cant unplug it also and I dont think it uses more power while switch off.
But at the end of the day, its your phone so do what you want, just let us know how you go.
Good luck
Thank you for your feedback!
That's a good point zakeen, however the XDAIIs was meant to be like that.
But I really don't think the interference could be that bad since the WiFi antenna will be just a couple of inches closer to the rest of the hardware. And even though it's not a real test, I already placed my MDA2 close to my WiFi router's antenna and it didn't cause any interference at all... But still I might be wrong and the telephone part of the MDA2 might loose a few reception bars since I plan to place the WiFi module right on top of the cellular antenna... :roll:
I think the real problem resides on what tadzio mentions about the piggy back not working... :?
In terms of space, I'm sure it will fit (I already know my MDA2's internals after several disections in the past!).
Any other ideas?
TIA,
Rayan
Estupendo Rayan, ¡con dos coxxxes!
Hace poco tiempo que estoy pensando en hacer una falsa tarjeta SD que me permita sacar los contactos fuera y experimentar sin tener que abrir la PDA, pero no tengo una SD con wifi (la tengo en formato CF con el backpack)
Pienso que si la antena wifi queda detrás de la cubierta negra no habrá problemas puesto que esa parte no está cromada (por esa razón ahí es donde va la antena GSM)
Wonderful They border, with two xxxxxx! Recently time which I am thinking about making a false SD card that allows me to accede to the contacts and to experiment without having to open the PDA, but do not have a SD with wifi (I have it in CF format with backpack) I think that if the antenna wifi is behind the black cover there are no problems since that part is not chromed (for that reason it is there where antenna GSM goes)
Hi,
I am new to Universal (but not to HTC units ), so when I got a used one with a broken LCD last week I was very excited. But after I replaced the display and played around a bit with this toy - I thought it was not worth the hype.
But I got more & more suspicious about its wifi antenna and yes it definitely has some problem. It has 50% of the signal strength a half meter from my wifi router. From three meters it drops to 25%. And after 5 meters it's dead.
I upgraded the Radio stack to 1.14.10, but nothing's changed. Has anybody any suggestion?
The unit was taken apart by the previous owner and it is missing some screws - but all the screws around the antenna is in place...
If somebody needs photos I can post some.
Please advise!
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Have you tried going into wireless lan settings, then click on the power mode tab and change to best performance. That should do something. Maybe its set to best battery which would give you crappy performance and range. I am able to log into the internet wifi within my block.
HTC UNIVERSAL wifi power is very very ow i have the same problem and way to solve it. when my laptop says what signal is excelent my ppc cannot connect.
Xeon_IV said:
Have you tried going into wireless lan settings, then click on the power mode tab and change to best performance...
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Thank you for your suggestion - now it's in midway position. It should do better - 4 meter is deadly! I have tried out with an Alpine and a Wizard as well and both done a better job!
Can you do me a favour and test it? I measured it at 0.5 m - 1 m and 4 m without _any_ obstruction (no wall whatsoever) between Universal and my router... That is why I suspected a hw failure.
Thanks,
ym
onlineemails said:
HTC UNIVERSAL wifi power is very very ow i have the same problem and way to solve it. when my laptop says what signal is excelent my ppc cannot connect.
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But _that_ low?!?
Very strange however, since both Alpine and Wizard do a better job than my Asus laptop with built in wifi. So this would be a big surprise for me from a HTC unit...
Today I will test it with a Pretec SD wifi card - if this beast let me install the card's driver at the first place
i can use my exec in bed which is 10 meters, one floor and one wall away.
the signal is at about 1/3 strength at that distance which is ok but not as good as my laptop.
have you changed any settings on your wireless base station as this could also be the problem.
Continuing Uni WiFi problem
Sorry to post in an old thread, but there doesn't seem to have been any resolution here. I have the same problem as the OP, in that my Uni will only detect WiFi about two metres from the router unobstructed. Any further, and the Uni loses the signal. My Laptop gets the signal up to 15 metres away, through walls & floors, and my desktop is in another room using the wireless aswell. If it's any use to possible helpers, i'm running KDS WM6, previously standard WM5, and the router is a TP-Link branded thingy.
Any help would be greatly appreciated, it's intensely annoying being unable to use the WiFi functionality on the PDA.
Thanks in advance.
No real help sorry, but my Exec has terrible WiFi performance too. Within a couple of metres of the router it has max signal, but this drops off to 1/2 after 5m. (Laptop still shows full) And anything over 7/8m you may as well forget. Laptop seems to get twice the range. My old HP Ipaq 5xxx series PDA used to get much better perfromance than the exec, but lasted a lot less on WiFi. Maybe HTC have deliberately sacrificed range for battery life? Even with the device set to max performace? I wonder if anyone could do a registry hack to up the power to the WiFi, or would this potentially burn our the device?
Range issue - power of PDA or router?
Thanks for the reply anyway Steve. I reckon my range is even worse than yours - I mean, seriously, I have to be sat right nest to the router to get a signal. As may be apparent, i'm more of a 'consumer' than a developer when it comes to my Exec, but to continue your line of thought, is it an issue with the power coming from the Universal's Wifi, or from the router itself? I imagine if there are very few of us with this problem, then it's down to some poor router setup/cheap hardware on our part...
But yeah, if anyone with a little more knowhow could shed some more light on our problem, i'm sure we would all be very grateful.
Regards
wow i thought i only had this problem, a friend of mine said upgrading might help. any way i've posted a thread about the same problem here
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=321872
doesnt it kills you not being able to use the wi-fi in such a device???????
GurneyHalleck said:
is it an issue with the power coming from the Universal's Wifi, or from the router itself?
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I would bet the Universal, as I've always had the same router, in the same place with every wireless device I've used. The Uni is the worst performing of the bunch by a noticable margin.
Then again, I wonder if it has something to do with where the WiFi antenna is in the Uni itself? If the phone is pointing the wrong way the the phone itself blocks the signal? Every other device I have used has an external antenna (even the Ipaq)...
Hmm help needed from some experts here me thinks!
Expert Help needed, I agree
I doubt it's anything to do with the orientation of the antenna in the device, my lappy has an internal antenna and gets the signal just fine. Also, to add to the list of 'working' wireless devices, even my Nintendo DS picks up the signal throughout the house... Does radio version have anything to do with Wifi reception? I'm using 1.10 - y'reckon I should try 1.18 see if that helps? Rhetorical question, sorry - I'll TRY 1.18 and let you know if it helps.
Regards
not only poor wifi signal, the gsm signal also poor at uni, any solution of the gsm signal become stronger??
Held out for the desire, as i was informed by orange that it was a UMA handset and would be the answer to all my signal problems at home...
Only to find, i am left floundering in the no signal land still with no UMA!
Any suggestions????
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Held out for the desire, as i was informed by orange that it was a UMA handset and would be the answer to all my signal problems at home...
Only to find, i am left floundering in the no signal land still with no UMA!
Any suggestions????
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Post in the correct forum maybe?
i would class adding UMA
As a major forward development, and would welcome a patch or external software...
We have not rooted the device yet so cant really do much.
The only things you could do would be to install a different ROM, but this will void your warranty
well if orange promised it would be uma you are perfectly with in your rights to take it back and surely ask for a full refund for mis leading claims
Hi All,
My Buzz is having low signals mostly, doesn't matter whether outside or inside. Usually it will not attain full 4 bars & periodically only one bar & no network signals.
Tried inserting an aluminium foil to the bottom cover(i think that's the antenna) through one of the gold connectors but no real difference here.
I googled on the net & it seems that HTC phones are notorious for their low signal.... Not sure how true it is though.
Anyone have any ideas to go around this problem?
Thanks....
I am facing the same problem !!! do you find whats the matter
Nooby Noob said:
Hi All,
My Buzz is having low signals mostly, doesn't matter whether outside or inside. Usually it will not attain full 4 bars & periodically only one bar & no network signals.
Tried inserting an aluminium foil to the bottom cover(i think that's the antenna) through one of the gold connectors but no real difference here.
I googled on the net & it seems that HTC phones are notorious for their low signal.... Not sure how true it is though.
Anyone have any ideas to go around this problem?
Thanks....
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did your problem is sorted out??
Nooby Noob said:
Hi All,
My Buzz is having low signals mostly, doesn't matter whether outside or inside. Usually it will not attain full 4 bars & periodically only one bar & no network signals.
Tried inserting an aluminium foil to the bottom cover(i think that's the antenna) through one of the gold connectors but no real difference here.
I googled on the net & it seems that HTC phones are notorious for their low signal.... Not sure how true it is though.
Anyone have any ideas to go around this problem?
Thanks....
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Well flash some other radio version and then check results..?
U need cwm 2.x.x.x to flash a radio btw.
Press thanks if it helps.
So I have this weird problem on my G4.
Every now and then when just doing normal things on the my phone it totally freaks out and all by it self it suddenly starts to tap random parts of the desktop, slides the pages, opens apps, closes apps, goes into calculator and a bunch of buttons are pressed randomly. It's almost like someone has hacked my phone and is trolling me by just tapping randomly on the phone.
Just today when looking at Facebook it closed the app, scrolled down notifications, data was turned off and wifi turned on.
I thought it might have been my screeen protector, bit of moisture in it or something. Took that off and still does it. Took out the battery for a minute and still does it.
It happened a few months ago then nothing for ages and now it's started again this weekend.
Anyone else had this sort of problem. Is it a hack?
I had exactly the same problem with a completly new G4. Somehow I had the feeling it depends on temperature a little as when I was on balcony where it was colder it was more bad then inside the flat. It was pretty bad and appeared most of the times so it was reproducible. After fiddling around some days I exchanged it under warranty. The one what I received now doesn't have this problem anymore
i have the same problem with my LG G4 H815 with Stock Rom modified or not , with Genesys Rom , with Imperium Rom and with CM Based Rom and another Custom Rom
For me this mysterious ghost taps and touchs arrived rarely and randomly with V20D ; i have remove some touch screen speed, presure and reaction tweaks in build.prop and resolv partially this problem for me in Imperium or in Genesys Rom and in my stock tweaked too ^^
sorry for my bad english
Mmmm. So no word whether it is hardware or software based?
I thought it might be limited to when I was connected to internet as it only seemed to do it on WiFi or Data. But it has now done it with no connection.
It might be temp based, but it's pretty hot where I am, and humid. I haven't had it long enough to test it in colder environments.
Hopefully it sorts it self out as I bought it from Topbuy.com and they are pretty bad for warranty claims.
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Mmmm. So no word whether it is hardware or software based?
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I'm getting phantom touches to the point my G4 is unusable now. However as soon as I put my phone on airport mode I get zero phantom touches.. Seems to me that would indicate its a software bug rather than hardware?
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I'm getting phantom touches to the point my G4 is unusable now. However as soon as I put my phone on airport mode I get zero phantom touches.. Seems to me that would indicate its a software bug rather than hardware?
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Weird. Mine just stopped doing it and haven't had the problem in ages now. Fingers crossed
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Mmmm. So no word whether it is hardware or software based?
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What is the first 3 digits of the serial# ?
this is a screen problem ie hardware from what i understand. Happened with early batches then went quiet.
My phone started doing this while at home, but only when it's plugged in and charging. It may have something to do with the quality of the charger. I keep my OEM charger in the car and I have no problems when I use my phone in the car while charging. My chargers at home all came from eBay and the ghost taps start when I am charging at home and trying to use the phone. I get the problem whether Wi-Fi is on or off using the eBay chargers. I don't use Wi-Fi in the car, but I use Mobile Hotspot a lot without any ghost taps. Hope this helps!
The same problem!
I have the same problem. My G4 is the h815 20A, serial number starts with 505. The ghosts taps started 1 month ago and impair the use of the mobile device. Amazingly, the touches almost disappear when the phone is on the charger. Anyone have any solution for this? What would be the problem?
I think that's no a hack problem. It can be a software or a hardware problem, but i don't know.
Can anyone help me?
Ho il vostro medesimo problema. Talvolta partono anche le chiamate, si spegne la connessione dati e si attiva da solo il Wi-Fi, pagine di Facebook che scorrono da sole. A volte risulta inutilizzabile..
Sounds like water damage or from humidity. I had an iPod do this and fixed it by cleaning the connectors for the touchscreen. What have you to lose in trying? Don't break or void warranty though.
Fraw89 said:
Ho il vostro medesimo problema. Talvolta partono anche le chiamate, si spegne la connessione dati e si attiva da solo il Wi-Fi, pagine di Facebook che scorrono da sole. A volte risulta inutilizzabile..
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Su XDA devi scrivere solo in inglese, regolamento.
On XDA you have to write only in English, forum rules.
Inviato dal mio LG-H815 utilizzando Tapatalk
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Su XDA devi scrivere solo in inglese, regolamento.
On XDA you have to write only in English, forum rules.
Inviato dal mio LG-H815 utilizzando Tapatalk
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I apologize, I will not do it again.
I solved the problem: I change the touch-screen system. I think that is a hardware problem.
This is a software problem. Many of G4 owners had this ghost touches when the phone was released. An update fixed it later, but now I can confirm LG messed up again as I'm having the same issue with the latest version of the software.
Hi guys,
I have the same problem.
I noticed that it appear a mostly on 2G connection or on LTE when it fall back to 2G or very low signal.
Locking on 3G seem to solve. There's no way to lockLTE.
Tried several roms, with no luck. Do you have any other clues? It's Hardware or Software. Any new kernel or modem can solve it?
here's a video for this. LINK VIDEO
Thank you for your help.
This is not a software problem. This is a hardware digitalizer problem. It's necessary to change the all the touch screen system (digitalizer problem).
I have same problem with H818N, the problem seem to disappear if airplane mode is turned on, it also seem stable when on 3g only, which implies it has something to do with mobile signal. I have tried several things without luck and the thing is I can't easily reproduce it. At times It happens when there is an incoming call or SMS. Any suggestion will be helpful
Having the same problem on an H815 running (yet to be updated) CM14. If the screen has fingerprints or streaks it ghosts like crazy. If I can turn the phone off (before anything disastrous happens) and just give the screen a quick wipe (t-shirt, napkin, whatever), problem fixed! I would say it is definitely related to the hardware of the screen digitizer and random conduction of the greasy finger prints, cheek plants, etc. Cheers
Same problem. G4 H815 602 v20d stock. The problem started when I left the phone in the sun too long while hiking. For me, it only happens when the screen is off so I disabled 'knock on'.
Airplane mode does not help.