Hi,
I'm currently using radio version 1.09.23. I've tried 3 other radio, the default, 1.05.*. No matter which radio I'm using the 3G reception is very weak on Three UK network.
Does anyone has any suggestion which radio they use for Three UK? London area.
Thanks
3's signal is usually weak. It's not phone's fault i guess.
my sony ericsson has a far better signal that the HTC and the SE holds the signal
im currently thinking about binning the Touch diamond and using the SE all over again and just use the HTC for my golf gps system bit of a waste tho
The GSM reception is absolutely fine. It's the 3G that is really dissapointing.
Yes, I had the same problem.
So, I bought a E71 from three.
Most of the time on E71 is 3G, sometimes 3.5G(that's HSDPA signal)
HTC supports 3G, but on my HTC phone, I only got HSDPA signal.
I thought the phone receive different 3G frequency.
As Three has weak HSDPA signal, so HTC receive weak signal with three.
So I had a test, I insert a T-mobile sim card.
T-mobile do the HTC diamond, so I thought they should support it .
The signal is very good.
In conclusion, I can only think that's frequency problem.
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with my tp2, i recognized very poor connectivity. the phone permanently switch between 3g and gsm. in places where my old i780 had full 3g, my tp2 got gsm or at max. 1 bar 3g. is this a well known fact or some setting issue?
I've had a Nexus one suffering with weak 3G reception on O2 UK and am wondering if the HTC Desire (a very close cousin), has the same problems ???
I would hate to get a HTC Desire and still have the same 3G problems.
The Issues I had with the Nexus One was the the phone would pickup and try keeping hold of a 3G signal, but it picked it up very weak, a 20-30dBm less than other phones.
Thanks for the information
Ash.
I thought N1's problem was dropping 3G, not weak signal.
Updated from G1 to Desire and I couldn't tell that 3G is weaker or stronger -- seems about the same.
O2 !!
I have an Iphone and the 3G coverage for O2 is just silly compared to T-Mobile , Orange etc. I would say it is more likely the O2 network coverage at fault rather than the phone . Look on the O2 forum thousands of complaints about no Strong 3G signal in London !! on all phone makes .
Moving to T-mobile or Orange as soon as I can
I agree O2 3G is very poor, tried a friends voda sim in my touch HD and speed tested at 4000kbs where my O2 could only manage 900kbs.
To where I live, Ive tested T-Mobile, 3UK, O2 and Vodafone and they all suffer 3G Signal loss for me when using a Nexus One.
Have you tried a different location or a different handset in the same location. It could be you are just in a poor reception area or on the edge of 3G coverage.
The signal issue has nothing to do with n1-desire. T-mobile just sucks. n1 for at&t works fine but my n1 with t-mobile 3g sucks a$$.
shep211 said:
The signal issue has nothing to do with n1-desire. T-mobile just sucks. n1 for at&t works fine but my n1 with t-mobile 3g sucks a$$.
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The OP means T-Mobile UK not T-Mobile US
It's fine for me on T-Mobile, it drops between HSDPA and 3G A lot though.
Maybe there's a problem with the antenna in your handset?
Ive lived as the same location for 10 years and had good 3G reception with loads of other phones.
Just interested to knowing how other people are getting on with it.
Thats not good then ash, hope you get it sorted some how and the same problem does not exist with the desire.
I think the problem is a combination of things... I live on the South Coast and have a Nexus One on Vodafone, 3G/HSDPA is great.
Google Nexus One had that bug but it was fixed in update and since Desire comes with that update installed you are fine
ash99 said:
Ive lived as the same location for 10 years and had good 3G reception with loads of other phones.
Just interested to knowing how other people are getting on with it.
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Sorry I misread your post, I have no 3G issues with T-Mobile on the Desire. So it doesn't seem to have the same bug that the Nexus One did.
Great signal so far - been all over Scotland the past weekend and if I didn't have H it went to 3G and if not then to G - and i was very pleasantly surprised to see that the web worked the whole time - just faster or slower. When my G1 didn't have a good 2G signal I couldn't use facebook or twitter, both were OK on the Desire - just slower to load!
By the sounds of it so far so good. Potentially not a lemming after all !!!!
Sitting at my desk in central London, I get 4-5 bars of gprs signal only, no 3g whatsoever. If I set it to "WCDMA only" in settings then it will sit without a signal all day.
I put my SIM back in my old phone (HTC HD) and it gets 5 bars of HSDPA at around 3mbps in the exact same location. If the signal is so good why can't the desire even detect it?
Same story at my house, old HD gets 4-5 bars of H while the desire fluctuates between 1 bar of H and 5 bars of gprs.
Do I have a faulty unit or is just the limitations of the desire's radio hardware?
Does anyone on O2 in London get a decent signal comparable with their old phone?
dickson123 said:
Sitting at my desk in central London, I get 4-5 bars of gprs signal only, no 3g whatsoever. If I set it to "WCDMA only" in settings then it will sit without a signal all day.
I put my SIM back in my old phone (HTC HD) and it gets 5 bars of HSDPA at around 3mbps in the exact same location. If the signal is so good why can't the desire even detect it?
Same story at my house, old HD gets 4-5 bars of H while the desire fluctuates between 1 bar of H and 5 bars of gprs.
Do I have a faulty unit or is just the limitations of the desire's radio hardware?
Does anyone on O2 in London get a decent signal comparable with their old phone?
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im on tmobile and im my expericence its the other way round, when i had my old hd, id struggle to get 1 bar hsdpa but on my desire i get 2 or 3 bars all the time, maybe u should try a new radio
AndroHero said:
im on tmobile and im my expericence its the other way round, when i had my old hd, id struggle to get 1 bar hsdpa but on my desire i get 2 or 3 bars all the time, maybe u should try a new radio
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Wasn't aware there was a newer radio, I've had the 1.21 OTA update which I thought contained a radio update as well. I used to flash different radios on the old HD but it never made such a drastic difference as either 5 bars of 'H' or not even detecting the 3g network at all.
HTC Desire's 3G signal is much weaker than 2G.
I am at home, HTC Desire only has 1 to 2 levels of 3G signal, but full signal when turn to 2G. I use same SIM card on my Samsung i8000, 4-5 levels (5 is full) when in 3G.
How to fix the 3G weak signal of HTC Desire?
scott4 said:
HTC Desire's 3G signal is much weaker than 2G.
I am at home, HTC Desire only has 1 to 2 levels of 3G signal, but full signal when turn to 2G. I use same SIM card on my Samsung i8000, 4-5 levels (5 is full) when in 3G.
How to fix the 3G weak signal of HTC Desire?
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Are you rooted? If so, try flashing a different radio version as this can improve 3G speed and signal strength as well as Wi-Fi performance, and battery life.
MasDroid said:
Are you rooted? If so, try flashing a different radio version as this can improve 3G speed and signal strength as well as Wi-Fi performance, and battery life.
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have tried different versions of radio, no luck. which version of Radio is the best ?
2G has a greater range than 3g, I think.
When I'm in the middle of nowhere I always get a 2G signal even if I know there is a 3g tower closer than the 2G one I'm connected to.
I generally get better signal with 2G most of the time.
mercianary said:
2G has a greater range than 3g, I think.
When I'm in the middle of nowhere I always get a 2G signal even if I know there is a 3g tower closer than the 2G one I'm connected to.
I generally get better signal with 2G most of the time.
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Hey guy,
You didn't read my first post carefully.
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HTC Desire's 3G signal is much weaker than 2G.
I am at home, HTC Desire only has 1 to 2 levels of 3G signal, but full signal when turn to 2G. I use same SIM card on my Samsung i8000, 4-5 levels (5 is full) when in 3G.
How to fix the 3G weak signal of HTC Desire?
sorry,
phones perform differently, also some phones give you a misleading scale on the signal level, there is no industry standard as to what signal level 4 bars is afaik. manufacturers have been known to fudge scales of all sorts on their devices to make it appear better than a rival product.
try to get both phones to report signal level in dBm to compare accurately.
I also get relatively poor 3g signal with my desire compared to some other phones i have had...looking at bars, have never compare dBm.
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Hey guy,
You didn't read my first post carefully.
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HTC Desire's 3G signal is much weaker than 2G.
I am at home, HTC Desire only has 1 to 2 levels of 3G signal, but full signal when turn to 2G. I use same SIM card on my Samsung i8000, 4-5 levels (5 is full) when in 3G.
How to fix the 3G weak signal of HTC Desire?
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Bars are no way to tell how strong the signal really is, since i flashed the latest radio i have a decent 3g connection without any bars.
If you already tried different radios there is no way to fix it, different devices will preform differently under the same conditions, nothing to do about that.
TheGhost1233 said:
Bars are no way to tell how strong the signal really is, since i flashed the latest radio i have a decent 3g connection without any bars.
If you already tried different radios there is no way to fix it, different devices will preform differently under the same conditions, nothing to do about that.
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which radio you use regarded as decent?
32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27, but please understand that that will mean nothing for your situation.
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32.49.00.32U_5.11.05.27, but please understand that that will mean nothing for your situation.
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this is what I am using. no good.
By the way, to all.
What I mean 3G signal is for voice. the reception is poor for phone call in 3G, it sucks when doing phone calls, but no problem in 2G. I place my SIM card into Samsung i8000, reception is strong and phone call has no suck at all.
Hey
I have searched alot and unable to find the solution. Basically i just bought the Bell HTC Desire Z and running on the AT&T. Problem i am having is poor service. I am having "H" instead of 3G. I knw H atand for HDSPA. But service is very poor. My network mod is on auto. If i switch to gsm only i get full bars but if switch to auto i lost more than hal of the bars. What would be the best way to resolve this issue? Installing custome rom is only solution, if so which one is best to use?. Thanks in advance.
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The problem is that older signal types like EDGE or GPRS are more efficient at reaching through walls, etc compared to UMTS or HSDPA. When you set it to gsm only, you are forcing only 2G and therefore getting more bars but with slower speeds. If you want faster speeds then you will have to allow WCDMA, which is a weaker signal.
If you root it you can install a newer radio version. A phone's radio is the way that it connects to the network provider. The .17 radio has given me stronger signal but worse battery life.
Thanks it helped. So for how long ur battery last? Are there other radios available which has ballanced output?
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