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WTF is up with my 3G?

My phone has always randomly had a little glitch. For some reason, once every so often my 3G icon just disappears and stuff like my internet and market dont work. SMS still works fine though. Normally just a reboot fixes the problem but today I had to pull the battery. This happened even when I was fully stock but now I'm running DC 3.2.3 still with the stock kernal. Any similar experiences?

Running all-stock with no root. Happens to me also.
Full bars for signal (calls and texts) but the 3G icon stops transferring. I just put the DATA widget on my homescreen and toggle it. Not really a big deal...so far.

Same things happening to me it wont connect to 3g and freezes most of the time. Just started about 2 days ago
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Anyone know anything about this problem? My phone now randomly restarts even when im not using it from trying to connect to 3g im guessing. Keyboard also stops working randomly
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are you running a rom?
...If you are you should try flashing a stock rooted and see if the problem still exists. If it does you may want to try to unroot, go back to stock and update everything. Then you can narrow down if it is rom/software/hardware related

Yes i am running stock rom rooted. What do you mean by update everything?
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elegantai said:
are you running a rom?
...If you are you should try flashing a stock rooted and see if the problem still exists. If it does you may want to try to unroot, go back to stock and update everything. Then you can narrow down if it is rom/software/hardware related
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I was also running stock rooted at first. Here is a weird update I just came across though. I've installed (and uninstalled) SwitchPro, which is basically a more customizable widget than the stock power control widget, 3 times now. And every time I add the actual widget to my home screen my 3G instantly disappears.....wtf? I uninstall it and reboot my phone and it's back to normal.
I'm gonna dig in to this a bit after I get back from the gym.

hotdog32836 said:
Yes i am running stock rom rooted. What do you mean by update everything?
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I just meant that if you unroot the phone, make sure your radio's are updated to stock, update your profile and prl, then you could determine if it is hardware related or maybe you just have a bad signal?

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Yes i am running stock rom rooted. What do you mean by update everything?
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I think he means Device Self Service. Updating your PRL, Firmware and Profile.
I forgot to mention that when my 3G becomes "sketchy" this is the 1st thing I do. After that do a soft-reset and pull the battery out.

##RTN# - enter MSL - click menu, reset.
This is the only way I've found to fix this.
It wipes out ALL of your information so make sure you are backed up and synced. It is just like getting the phone new out of the box - it will auto-activate and you should be good to go.
If you don't have your MSL, call Sprint technical support and ask for it.

Thats pretty disapointing that that seems to be the only awnser. Will try when iget back from my vacation. The problem that makes me really mad is that it reboots randomly even when the screen is off in my pocket. Any backup app recomendations?
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[Q] Market server errors?

Both my wife and I (both on Fresh 3.1.0.1) are getting server errors trying to access android market tonight. Anyone else having this problem? Tried rebooting, tried routing through wifi, neither helped.

Just flashed king's kernel 4 and i'm seeing the same market issues.
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Yup, major market issues here, slow, slow.
frogomatic said:
Both my wife and I (both on Fresh 3.1.0.1) are getting server errors trying to access android market tonight. Anyone else having this problem? Tried rebooting, tried routing through wifi, neither helped.
EDIT: nvm, seems to be the local tower plus market refusing to go thru wifi. Sorry.
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Yes. I'm getting it too. What did you mean about the towers and refusing wifi?

unknown_soldier said:
Yes. I'm getting it too. What did you mean about the towers and refusing wifi?
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Edited OP. 3G here is spotty, so I thought it might be that market refused to go thru wifi for some weird auth-related reason. I wasn't seeing packets going thru the router, at least. But I turned off wifi, verified that I was able to route packets thru 3G, and still no market.

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Edited OP. 3G here is spotty, so I thought it might be that market refused to go thru wifi for some weird auth-related reason. I wasn't seeing packets going thru the router, at least. But I turned off wifi, verified that I was able to route packets thru 3G, and still no market.
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Gotcha. I do hope they fix it soon. There's nothing worse that being bored and wanting to browse apps. It's funny because I normally don't browse much on the app store. Maybe it's my fault

theres a all around problem with the market for the last hour or so i just tested both my Evo and a old Samsung Moment laying around the house and both are having the same problem.(Also my Evo's Rom is the stock rooted 2.2)

I just flashed a new ROM and thought something was bad. Good to know it's not just me.

Same here.
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Also without market on my phone! Darn server error!
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Me 2, No Market. Had it long enough to dl titanium, then nothing. server error. 1:20am est

Yeah...been down since 10pm central for me. Wonder why...
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Me too. Cyanogen nightly 8/21 with snap 7.01. Thought it was my phone too!
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same here fellas!!

It got me too, hopefully it's just some maintenance, although the least they could do would be to post a notice

It seems to be back up. However, I can't find some apps, and it's not showing free apps in the list anywhere near the top when I search (e.g. my wife just searched for "clock" -- she wants a new clock widget). I'm hoping this is a temporary problem.
Actually I'd really like to be able to filter to get just free apps on a search, but, no go on this.

I think they are SLOWLY getting it back up. I don't have top paid tab in my market. Its loading very slow, and a lot of apps are missing. Hopefully it will be sorted out by morning.

Roam Control not working anymore? :(

Ever since eclair, I've been using the Roam Control app alot on my Epic. There are certain areas that I am in daily that just get spotty/no signal at all. I flash ROMs quite often, and one of the ROMs I flashed in the past killed the Roam Control app. I'm not sure if flashing Froyo was the reason, but I do know that it worked perfectly in the past with this phone.
When I press roam only, it doesn't do anything. It asks for SU permission but the signal bars stay the same. I don't lose signal all together or roam-- this app has no effect on me anymore.
What is the problem here? I am using the latest version of the app (1.5.4) and if it means anything, I'm on ACS' wonderful ROM- 1.1.1.
Does this happen to anyone else, and is there any way to fix it or any other way to force roam?
Thanks!

I had mine break before as it kept telling me to purchase it even though I had already. After numerous attempts of clicking roam, switching devices in settings and trying to connect, uninstalling and reinstalling, and reboots it randomly started working again. Sorry that's not much help but maybe one of those techniques will work for you I wish I knew what exactly fixed but I was doing everything that I don't remember what it finally was, sorry.
I now just use a verizon prl instead so I can get 3g and not just the 1x roam control only allows. Good luck. If I think of anything about exactly what I did I'll let u know.
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I checked the auto reboot and when it eventually rebooted, it actually messed up my phone and I got a bunch of FC's
How do you use the Verizon PRL?

Roam control actually works much better for me now the I'm on the ee03 modem

Hmm...theres something wrong on my end then? I tried installing the Roam Control before anything else and it still doesn't work.
Are there any other apps that force roam?

i intsalled roam control and it did nothing. i set everything up and when i manually set it to roam it does nothing. i set it to auto and move to an area i know i get terrible signal and nothing. odd seeing as it has worked for so many.

In my house I get 1 bar on sprint towers, and when I turn on roam control I get 5 on verizons, Ive been using it since February and I believe twice it would kinda wig out and say no signal for about 10 mins or so no matter what I did, I believe it was some kind of auto update or perhaps just resetting itself? Anyways it always came back, the first time was like 10 mins the second was about 5 mins. I know that doesnt explain anything but Its what I have experianced using it. All in all a great app that I use all the time.

I am on the SFR 1.1.1 with EE03 modem and use Roam Control while at work all the time with no problems. I have had the license issue before, but a phone reboot and data connection fixed that.
I would recheck Superuser to see if Roam Control still had permission, also check mobile network settings set to Automatic, and then maybe fix permissions with CWM.
Disclaimer: I am not very developer savvy, so I do not know if these are a waster of time or not.

notmyepic said:
I am on the SFR 1.1.1 with EE03 modem and use Roam Control while at work all the time with no problems. I have had the license issue before, but a phone reboot and data connection fixed that.
I would recheck Superuser to see if Roam Control still had permission, also check mobile network settings set to Automatic, and then maybe fix permissions with CWM.
Disclaimer: I am not very developer savvy, so I do not know if these are a waster of time or not.
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I wiped all my data and started from fresh, installing Roam Control, making sure that it had SU permission, and made sure that roaming was allowed in the mobile network settings. I went into CWM and fixed my permissions, but it's still the same
Edit: I also updated my PRL but no dough.

brianhuangbh said:
I wiped all my data and started from fresh, installing Roam Control, making sure that it had SU permission, and made sure that roaming was allowed in the mobile network settings. I went into CWM and fixed my permissions, but it's still the same
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I am on my own version of SRF 1.1.0 called RandomRom linked in my signature. I baked in a lot of the mods that are now added into SRF 1.1.0. It uses Genocide to avoid freezing issues, and comes pre-journaled.
Using my Rom and EC05, roam control works great for me every day in my house. I know for a fact that RC can be a fickle app, so maybe give it a try?

brianhuangbh said:
I checked the auto reboot and when it eventually rebooted, it actually messed up my phone and I got a bunch of FC's
How do you use the Verizon PRL?
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In the development section they'd a section on how to manually update your prl. Its pretty good instructions. Just find the prl u want to use. I'm u do ng a 0001. I can't remember where I found it if its not in that thread. I'll look later.
Every few weeks I get rolled back to sprint prl but I just take the 2 to change back. If u need any thing else let me know.
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stormglove said:
In the development section they'd a section on how to manually update your prl. Its pretty good instructions. Just find the prl u want to use. I'm u do ng a 0001. I can't remember where I found it if its not in that thread. I'll look later.
Every few weeks I get rolled back to sprint prl but I just take the 2 to change back. If u need any thing else let me know.
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Just be warned, 3G roaming on Verizon may venture into excessive roaming of your Sprint contract and get your account cancelled. No one has a completely clear answer on what excessive is.

RandomKing said:
Just be warned, 3G roaming on Verizon may venture into excessive roaming of your Sprint contract and get your account cancelled. No one has a completely clear answer on what excessive is.
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I used roam control pretty much non stop for a couple months and have been on this prl for about another two months and no warnings or anything here. I'm in ms and we don't even have 3g where I'm at. The 0001 prl claims to trick your phone into showing sprint also . So that could be why.
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If you are using a backup version of Roam Control then it will not work for some reason.. everytime I change to a diffrent ROM and try reinstalling my apps that I backed up.. Roam Control does the samething.. it wont change your signal.. it just does nothing..
this happens no matter how I restore it.. using Titanium Backup, APP Monster or MyBackup Pro.
Roam Control is the only app I have to reinstall from the Market for it to work properly.
Hope this helped!!

Just to be sure, everyone having problems with Roam Control is going into settings and choosing Samsung as their phone model...yeah?
I've had a few problems with roaming on the GB leak, but it's mostly just more of the same weirdness where I randomly have to reset the modem to get a data connection, and Android refuses to 'Never Ask Again', no matter what settings I check.
Otherwise, I've been roaming with Roam Control daily at work. Mind you, I'm not on any custom kernels.
/sometimes if I start Roam Control when I have absolutely no signal, it'll try to confirm my license, fail, and then get really really pissy until I close out of it, get data back, and run it again, at which point it behaves like I just installed it
//Roam Control is fantastic for when Gingerbread's data breaks, even when on Sprint, since you can just go in, tap Automatic, and it'll reset the modem for you without requiring a reboot

stormglove said:
In the development section they'd a section on how to manually update your prl. Its pretty good instructions. Just find the prl u want to use. I'm u do ng a 0001. I can't remember where I found it if its not in that thread. I'll look later.
Every few weeks I get rolled back to sprint prl but I just take the 2 to change back. If u need any thing else let me know.
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Hey, thanks for that. What do I lose using a Verizon PRL? Do I still get my WiMAX 4g access if I use verizon PRL?

i use RC1.4 on EE03, works great for calls...data is 1xrtt as u might already know
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I'm using rc1.5.4 and I don't think it works either. I installed it after a day at work which was a bad spot for sprint service but watched my battery drain from 50% in 3 hours with a couple phone calls, emails and texts. Then my battery died. I was not happy that it drained sooo fast. Do any of the earlier versions work? Before 1.4?

jbadboy2007 said:
I'm using rc1.5.4 and I don't think it works either. I installed it after a day at work which was a bad spot for sprint service but watched my battery drain from 50% in 3 hours with a couple phone calls, emails and texts. Then my battery died. I was not happy that it drained sooo fast. Do any of the earlier versions work? Before 1.4?
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Hmm. Whenever I used to use Roam Control in the past, it gave me much much more battery life. (almost double actually)
But now it doesn't work at all.

The developer of Roam Control is here on XDA, shoot him a PM. He's a really helpful kind of guy.
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Maybe it's EL13?

Well, I've sort of had this issue on EK02 as well. Maybe its not the modem, maybe it's actually the towers. The issues I experienced with EK02 were messages being failed to be sent and contacts showing as "No Caller ID" when receiving a call. EL13 solved that "No Caller ID" bug for me, however, it made my network crazy at times. My phone's cell network constantly changes to roaming, and messages are being failed to be sent. However, although my phone says that the message didn't send, people still received them, so I never bothered hitting resend. I just want to know if others are experiencing similar problems, or it's really just an issue on Sprint's side.

I've been having similar issues previously with ek02 and now el13. Poor 3g speeds where I had no problem before, erratic signal bars and roaming in areas where it shouldn't be. I feel like eg31 was the most stable one Ive had so far. Contemplating flashing back but then I feel like I'm not compatible with the most current ROM builds.
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mrush said:
I've been having similar issues previously with ek02 and now el13. Poor 3g speeds where I had no problem before, erratic signal bars and roaming in areas where it shouldn't be. I feel like eg31 was the most stable one Ive had so far. Contemplating flashing back but then I feel like I'm not compatible with the most current ROM builds.
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I didn't even mention the speeds since I thought it was common knowledge. It was good when the EVO 4G launched a year ago, at least in NJ. And same here for me, I want to be on the latest version, especially this one where Carrier IQ is removed by default. I'm running all stock btw, but just added root when it came out for EL13.
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The bugs I've noticed on EL13 are: when calling someone, and they answer, or them calling you and you answer, it'll turn on speakerphone automatically. Also, Vlingo will activate and keep saying "how can I help you?" repeatedly while composing a text message until you force stop the app. A reboot fixes it for a while, but it will come back eventually.

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The bugs I've noticed on EL13 are: when calling someone, and they answer, or them calling you and you answer, it'll turn on speakerphone automatically. Also, Vlingo will activate and keep saying "how can I help you?" repeatedly while composing a text message until you force stop the app. A reboot fixes it for a while, but it will come back eventually.
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If you have headphones in and are at the dialer, and you push the headphones in the jack (even though they are already fully in, you push anyway), it starts calling the last person in your call log. Also calls don't output to headphones anymore. I would like for them to be outputed through my car speakers via AUX but the sound will not go through, until I remove the AUX cable...
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I just had something else happen, the lock screen is upside down. Unlocked the phone, and everything was upside down until I rotated it, and then rotated back.

I'm messing around with the EL13 ROM (stock - rooted) and had a couple of phone going to roam moments.
I've since updated profile and PRL, rebooted, and it seems to have gone back to normal, hopefully....Give this a try.

i360 said:
I'm messing around with the EL13 ROM (stock - rooted) and had a couple of phone going to roam moments.
I've since updated profile and PRL, rebooted, and it seems to have gone back to normal, hopefully....Give this a try.
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I not only did this but ALSO reprovisioned my phone a couple of days ago. only a temp fix
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Today's been better...
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I get frequent "loss of data", occasionally even on wifi. The 3g/1x is still there but the browser will hang then go to a about:blank page and the market will often say no data connection [retry], when the signal is low. I'll be going back to EG31 soon and see if is actually this radio version.

Wow, bummer for the OP and the other posters. I'm not experiencing any of these issues. My setup has never been smoother for me on any Android phone, running any ROM since 2009. If we could get Samsung to improve the GPS, this phone would be 100 out of 100!
I would recommend flashing the EG30 completely stock (non-rooted) tar to go back completely stock and start fresh. While you are running stock, test things out and make sure it all works then root from there with auto root.

I'm actually thinking of going back to EG31 modem aswell. I was never a victim of LOS, so I'll try it out tomorrow.
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EL13 ROMs are great, the radio is a hit or miss I guess. No LOS's, just weird data black outs for me.

Just_s said:
Wow, bummer for the OP and the other posters. I'm not experiencing any of these issues. If we could get Samsung to improve the GPS, this phone would be 100 out of 100!
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I'm in the same boat as you ,no problem so far.

I just got message not sent bug, and I'm in a good signal area. l ol

Flashed just the EG31 modem, and so far so good. Bars are strong reprovisioned right after flash btw. Everything else, ROM/kernel, is EL13
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I flashed EL13 a couple days ago and it sucks for me so far, I roam more than usual and I cant hold a signal.. EK02 worked fine and I just switched to see what it was about

Everything is prefect on the EG31 modem on EL13 ROM so far . However I would like to know if anyone can flash the EG31 kernel on EL13 without borking the wifi
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Nvm...message not sent error has arrived! I don't wanna go back to EG31 completely because of carrier IQ. Sprint did a better job I think in removing it
Btw I had full bars and got that message...
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This thread should not be a Q&A...i'm simply reporting my findings and sharing. Idc what anyone says, i'm not arguing this. Complete bs
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Data Profile not updating??

okay i had perfect 3g connection before i had youtube streaming fast and webpages loading really fast. Now my 3g is no bueno i have connection time outs and slow downloads speeds and buffering is all i get when trying to watch youtube over 3g. So what ive done so far
First i went straight back to stock and factory resetted everything on Gingerbread and did my OTA official updates than did update prl and profile in settings status update but my data connection over 3g is still slow so i did the next thing
##72786# SCRN reset
##3282# (checked all my settings) Device ip says 0.0.0.0 dont know if thats right the other info dont know if thats right either only able to VIEW and EDIT seperate fields one at a time
##MSL#(even put in a new MIEID number from sprint)
then onstart up hands free activation is running sucessfully it updates prl and check for firmware.I then open up sprint zone to chck voice and data both are green however there is a message of an very important profile update available please click here to have full coverage of your data so i click it and i get error cant update profile please try again later.So i keep trying and eventually it updates and says settings have been applied updating content. when i reopen the sprint zone voice and data turn green but the darn profile update for full data services is still there. So i power off pull battery and continue getting same results. The data profile isnt sticking even when it says its been updated. My 3g internet is still slow. Ive also done factory resets from the recovery menu.Sprint even re-pushed my connection off on then pulled battery to see if signal issues were an issue.
so then i do ##rtn# but still the same results. I have tried different modems as well to see if that was the case but no cigar.
Im currently on FH13 ICS 4.0.4 Official stock sprint. the sprint tec support suggest me to go into a store for further troubleshooting cause thats all they can do however i think theres more i can do here just need a little help. I know theres a bunch of more menues i can enter the codes are from this website below. I hope someone can help me with specific correct configurations in the data profile section because this phone doesnt give you the option to reset to default in your data menu just edit and view. Thank you in advanced
http://www.cellunlocker.net/blog/2011/07/samsung-galaxy-s2-secret-codes/
Thier wasnt any outage on my network or construction over here either

Don't pay attention to it's a bug in Sprint Zone it always will say there's an update. Update PRL and Profile in Settings and you're good. About speed maybe a network problem in your area it happens to me yesterday PRL Update failing and eventually updated after a few hours also speeds went back I called Sprint and indeed it was a tower problem in my area.
They will tell you there's not outage if no one is reporting. It happens a lot here in PR and when I pass by the tower in Hatillo there are workers on the tower. Lol they know nothing about their own towers.
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k cool

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Yeah, what Omar said. Plus Sprint zone is ugly as hell. I can't believe sprint allows such hideous application. Have you seen the boost zone? it's so beautiful.

Lets theme Sprint Zone!!! Lol.
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Lets theme Sprint Zone!!! Lol.
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Leave it to team themers, ugh I mean team devs, to take care of that...

Being that it's Sprint, more than likely it's just their horrible service. If you call them they will probably just give you an excuse like a tower down or something. I have constant issues with their data speeds and signal and this what they always tell me.. .
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im using a signal boost app thats from market. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freshnetwork
and its fixed my youtube streaming over 3g don't know why it takes an app to do whatever its doing for a signal im already supposed to have.
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but what also is funny is that im using a app called landroid which lets you poke around your network and see information by entering your IP so i did and i got this off a ping......
10 packets transmitted, 0 received, +1 errors, 100% packet loss, time 9007ms
this cant be right though because im using 3g right now to write this post shouldn't i be unable to reach through with these results?
i ran a busybox ifconfig and got the results i should have no packets lossed maybe i entered the ip wrong or its one of those loop traces idk it said ip so thats what i used in landroid regardless still got good 3g any tec want to fill the slots for me please thanks.

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im using a signal boost app thats from market. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.freshnetwork
and its fixed my youtube streaming over 3g don't know why it takes an app to do whatever its doing for a signal im already supposed to have.
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I didn't really notice an improvement with this app...
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it improved for a couple of hours then went back down.
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im looking into traceroutes and flushing dns thier has to be something slowin it down. Google time
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