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Hey guys. I dont know if this is a big issue or not because my phone doesnt drop calls or anything. After rooting and going to CM6 my bars for sinal don't seem to ever want to jump past 2. And if they do get past 2 its only for a split second then my bars drop again. I know theres a RADIO and a WIMAX to flash as Ive read but never knew if that was necessary or not. Anyone have any ideas?
I am on CM6 official and I have the same problem, I have reflashed multiple times as well. My internet speeds are horrible speedtest and xtremelabs reads me at about 500 kbps tops. In the past I was getting 1.5 mbps easy.
I believe the bars dont represent signal strength but 3 g signal strength. I've been using cm6 since the first nightly
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I believe the bars dont represent signal strength but 3 g signal strength. I've been using cm6 since the first nightly
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I have heard this before but it does not explain my slower data speeds. I have been using Evo since launch I download constantly and browse the web on a daily basis. Since going to CM6 I have noticed a considerable decrease in speed.
-I flashed to the latest radio updates
-I went back to an earlier rom and made sure the pri is updated
-I've reflashed multiple times
Still no help and speedtest and xtremelabs speedtest has me rated at half of my usual internet speed.
Thanks again!
I'm running CM7, nightly 15 I think, and my wifi strength is terrible. It drops out all the time and says that I've only got "fair" signal strength when I'm 20 ft away from my router and behind 1 wall. It will drop off completely if I have my hand over the side of the phone, aka using the keyboard. Before on CM 6.1.1 I didn't have this problem; if I was doing exactly the same thing I would have "good" signal strength with the side of the phone covered. Is there a fix in the works?
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Bump... anyone have any info?
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Same problem here, I am within 3 or 4 concrete walls, when using the phone sideways, signal tends to drop.
I recommend you to post at CM7 thread, and flash the latest build.
I will be testing wether my signal improves.
There was a thread, maybe the dev cm7 thread that some users fount that when you put your hand over the top of the phone, the signal tends to drop off 25 to 50%. I see it too on cm6.1.1, but not an issue...just from 4 bars drops to 3 but still very functional
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Crey23 said:
some users fount that when you put your hand over the top of the phone, the signal tends to drop off 25 to 50%. I see it too on cm6.1.1, but not an issue...just from 4 bars drops to 3 but still very functional
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This is exactly the issue that I have, except that the wifi actually drops to 0 bars then disconnects.
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This is exactly the issue that I have, except that the wifi actually drops to 0 bars then disconnects.
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Yep, that's what you get
Well, I gave my Epic to my mother and right after doing so, she wanted Netflix. So...I hooked her up with stock EF02 (w/ root) and now she's complaining about the phone being dying "super ultra quickly" - her words.
Hell, she's even using a 3500 MAh battery and it's still only lasting like 6 hours WITHOUT use. (yes, I've tested and made sure the battery wasn't the problem, it's definitely the EF02 leak.) I can put her back on EC05 but it'll leave her Netflixless.
P.S. I noticed the battery drain only occurs when there is low signal (ie: roaming and switching back to Sprint, etc.)
P.P.S. She has GPS off, volume on vibrate, no WiFi is on, however, Bluetooth is on.
which EF02 release is on her phone
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im kinda new to the epic scene, was on evo for along time but considering the extended battery, and non use. might be a kernal specific issue. more info info if you have any
also one thing i forgot to mention was ive noticed on any sprint cdma phone, when its jumping from signal to signal, kills the battery fast. a quick fix might just be to get "roam control" on her phone. saves my battery
I'm getting awesome batt.life , 7hours, screen on 1h40m, wifi about 30m at lunch, volume LOUD, some youtube, uploaded some images, 50 text messages, uploaded an image with bad signal, didn't kill the batt... EF10 modem, no crash yet, about 2 days using this, no problems, love GB for the epic, even if its a leaked version...
_dit::: make sure your not using the dk28 modem, It won't allow phone to go into deep sleep, just a heads up, only has a problem on GB roms...
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Bluetooth is on.
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This could be a issue. Also like someone else said roam control could help. How is her signal at home? Does she have a internet connection? If you answer poor signal and yes to high speed internet call sprint tell them she has very poor signal in her house. They wil send you a Airrave for free I did this and batter life has been great. Also look at EF02 Plus by ChrisG been the most stable for me. Last but not least disable all services mentioned in randomkings post.
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This could be a issue. Also like someone else said roam control could help. How is her signal at home? Does she have a internet connection? If you answer poor signal and yes to high speed internet call sprint tell them she has very poor signal in her house. They wil send you a Airrave for free I did this and batter life has been great. Also look at EF02 Plus by ChrisG been the most stable for me. Last but not least disable all services mentioned in randomkings post.
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I tried to get an airave just last week, it was a no go, they said they have diffrent units now, and can't give them away, Ill try again this week. They told me no problems in my area, so...
Edit: plus there is no montly charge anymore, only a one time fee for the airave, $129.??...
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I tried to get an airave just last week, it was a no go, they said they have diffrent units now, and can't give them away, Ill try again this week. They told me no problems in my area, so...
Edit: plus there is no montly charge anymore, only a one time fee for the airave, $129.??...
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I got for free about a month ago in my area just south of Boston. The only charge is if I leave sprint and don't return the equipment.
Ya I got an airrave in my home with 6 devices and I have a good sized hom and it covers almost full bars across the house, and yes they have a list of new policies and new devices they will tell you that they can't give it to you without you paying, just call again at least call 3 or 4 times, that's what I did and I got the airrave for free and I don't pay any extra a month.
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And vibrates uses more battery.
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She was on the EC05 modem and I upgraded her to EF02 modem. Do you recommend moving her up to EF10?
Btw, home signal is probably the best 3G will ever get. We went on vacation and our condo room had NO signal, that's where the battery drain was horrible. It's anywhere that signal is weak.
Is there anyway we can edit the batterystat.bin to trick the phone to have better battery life
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ee03 modem seems to favor battery life but drops data and will need an airplane mode toggle. also i use no frills cpu control on demand 100/800.
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She was on the EC05 modem and I upgraded her to EF02 modem. Do you recommend moving her up to EF10?
Btw, home signal is probably the best 3G will ever get. We went on vacation and our condo room had NO signal, that's where the battery drain was horrible. It's anywhere that signal is weak.
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Both EF modems suck. They drain the battery very quickly which is evident byy how hot the phone gets. EE03 is the way to go for battery life.
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ee03 modem seems to favor battery life but drops data and will need an airplane mode toggle. also i use no frills cpu control on demand 100/800.
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Nofrills CPU kept killing my modem. I uninstalled it and have no modem problems anymore. Gingerbread leak does not like external CPU controls.
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She was on the EC05 modem and I upgraded her to EF02 modem. Do you recommend moving her up to EF10?
Btw, home signal is probably the best 3G will ever get. We went on vacation and our condo room had NO signal, that's where the battery drain was horrible. It's anywhere that signal is weak.
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No stay with EF02 modem. Also I am experimenting freezing some more apps that seem to be rogue when listening to music or streaming videos. But the last time I did this I lost the ability to send and receive mms LOL so it is a work in progress.
Does anyone know why the phone signal will constatly stay yellow in the battery status? I cannot get it to shut off. It never did this to me before the GB update as I have old screenshots showing a green phone status only every so often and the rest is a grayish color.
I was on the EF02 modem with Anonymous i3 rom for about 1.5 weeks before I knew about the modem crashes it caused. I did a fresh odin to the original samsprint ef02 leak then did a odin to the ee03 modem then decided to odin to ec05 as it seems most people are having good luck with that modem but my battery sucks! I keep it in wifi always as Im always at home or work, if not there I will turn wifi off. I have the sleep policy set to never for wifi... I am at my wits end.
snap01 is from a rom b4 the ef02 leak
snap02 is the AA i3 rom taken tonight
I got 2 phones and both have extended batteries. Did a comparison with EE03 and EF02 and battery life. The EF02 modem reached the low battery popup 3 hours before the EE03. Plus battery temp stayed mostly 3 degrees cooler in the EE03. Just try it on her phone and see if it lasts a little longer for her.
How did you get those snaps? I am on srf 1.2 and can't get them.
Thanks.
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How did you get those snaps? I am on srf 1.2 and can't get them.
Thanks.
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I use an app from the market called Shoot Me
Could it be that the battery would just drain faster in one place than another? It seems when I am at work I can never get a gps lock unless I go outside or have wifi on and the battery drains like crazy. At home I just have wifi on but the battery seems to drain slower??
Also I don't get the continous yellow colors on the Phone Signal at home it is green. The pic was while I was at home before I got to work. As soon as I got here its just always the various yellows!
install the ee03 modem and make sure you kill off SNS, DRM, and System updates whenever the phone is booted up. stock ef02 odexed runs fine for me
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Hey all,
Just wondering what kind of signal strength you guys are getting?? I know it is based on where you live but I'm just curious. I'm anywhere between -73 and -87. Is that any good?
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-77 here. Tower is about 1.5 miles away. I figured it would be much better than that.
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-69. No clue how good/bad that is lol. Displaying 2 out of 4 bars, although I heard those are immensely accurate lol.
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-87 here. Signal is terrible on the supposed most reliable network. When
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Close to 0 of the best
Your mobile phone signal is very good
Verizon
I assume you have verizon right? I think verizon is awesome where i live since i most times get full bars (michigan by the way) so maybe your in deadzone for verizon... although can you hear me... good might fail there huh
What kind of radios r u guys running?? I'm running the 2.15.00.07.28. And I'm anywhere from 1 to 2 bars, but sometimes 4
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I'm on the 08.08 radio. And I know closer to 0 is better, I just don't know if mine is decent or awesome lol. Mine now is -75.
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hmmm. i dont kno if updating it would be worth it or not. lol. the thing that bugs me the most is that my signal always bounces around. it never stays consistent. it goes from 1 bar, to 2, to 1, to 4, to 2 etc. i just wish it was constant because im pretty sure it puts a hurting on my battery
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hmmm. i dont kno if updating it would be worth it or not. lol. the thing that bugs me the most is that my signal always bounces around. it never stays consistent. it goes from 1 bar, to 2, to 1, to 4, to 2 etc. i just wish it was constant because im pretty sure it puts a hurting on my battery
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Right now I'm at -79 with 3 bars showing. I'm in a spot were reception is great. At my apartment it was at -86, showing 1 bar. Verizon is not very strong where I live, but I never drop calls or have issues with cutting out. I did update my PRL today, which it did update to a different number, so I'll re-test it out at home to see what it looks like.
EDIT: I am using the 08.08 radio.
I'm using the 2.15.10.07.07 radio from the GB OTA and I have a -65. At times I've seen it as high at -91 at my house.
Can't complain though, I get service everywhere I've been.
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I'm using the 2.15.10.07.07 radio from the GB OTA and I have a -65. At times I've seen it as high at -91 at my house.
Can't complain though, I get service everywhere I've been.
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Technically, -91 is low, not high lol. Closer to 0 is higher.
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Technically, -91 is low, not high lol. Closer to 0 is higher.
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Ahh, good point, I didn't notice my mistake. I usually get -91 or so around my house, but at work I get -65 -- only about 2 miles distance, but work is closer to a tower.
I don't remember what I was getting with the 07.28 radio. I wish I would have checked before I flashed the new one.
Even with 5 bars of signal, you will probably never go below -50.
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Even with 5 bars of signal, you will probably never go below -50.
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10charac
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I know there is a thread for the latest system update but I thought we should have our own thread to discuss radio experience.
For me it's nothing short of amazing! I am such a happy camper right now. I work in a brick building and I could hardly ever hang onto a 4G signal. I would say the phone was staying in 3G 90% of the time and 10% 4G.
Flashed the latest radios and over the last 4 hours I have had a solid 4G signal all day! I can finally use my 4G signal at work! It's been horrible because we don't have wifi in my building. I have heard that handoff between wifi and 4G is quick but I havent been able to test yet.
How's everyone else's experience?
I say go flash this now! http://rootzwiki.com/topic/33228-jro03o-radios-for-toro-ff02fg02/
Nice. Thanks for the quick link. Didn't have to read through the other forum to find it. At work downloaded the zip on my phone, flashed through cwm and boom. New awesome radios
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That's all I have to say about that. I know speed test is not reliable but its something.
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Damn! Especially that large of a jump! I haven't even done a speed test...I'm just glad to be able to even grab 4G haha
Everything is so much snappier now. My signal strength stays at four bars constantly too.
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I unfortunately didn't get any speed tests from 4.0.4 radio but I did do the latest from 4.1.1.
Not sure if I should be happy or sad?
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Got a nice signal bump in my house, went from 2 to 4 bars... awesome.
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Very, very happy with the new radio release.
I was one of the many unlucky Nexus users with the 4G/radio drop, and had been resigned to using strictly 3G in order to simply have a usable phone outside of being on a WiFi network. For such a good phone, this issue had me literally hours away from finally returning it back to BB since it is w/i the 30 day return window and getting a new phone altogether.
After flashing the radios this morning, I have had no signal drops, constant 4G and no delays or hiccups of note. Whatever they fixed, hopefully it remains!
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Very, very happy with the new radio release.
I was one of the many unlucky Nexus users with the 4G/radio drop, and had been resigned to using strictly 3G in order to simply have a usable phone outside of being on a WiFi network. For such a good phone, this issue had me literally hours away from finally returning it back to BB since it is w/i the 30 day return window and getting a new phone altogether.
After flashing the radios this morning, I have had no signal drops, constant 4G and no delays or hiccups of note. Whatever they fixed, hopefully it remains!
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Yep, these are the radios it should of shipped with out of the box! I've been struggling with similar issues for almost a year!
I usually get a good signal in the building where I work and at home. I've flashed the new radios and haven't noticed any huge improvements. Nothing is worse either.
I flashed the new radios, too early for me to tell since where I am in NYC I always got 4G, but I just tried a few speedtests lucky if I get 5 Mbps
I don't think I have ever seen anything higher then that unless I am on wifi, how do you get such great speeds.
I just think the new radio show more bars but they didn't increase my signal or anything...
its -100dbm and I have full bars all the time
I live in reno nv so not very many people on the network as compared to NYC.
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Nothing changed for me at all. I've always had a good signal going back to 4.0.2.
No noticeable change of anything here.
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pwrmedia said:
Very, very happy with the new radio release.
I was one of the many unlucky Nexus users with the 4G/radio drop, and had been resigned to using strictly 3G in order to simply have a usable phone outside of being on a WiFi network. For such a good phone, this issue had me literally hours away from finally returning it back to BB since it is w/i the 30 day return window and getting a new phone altogether.
After flashing the radios this morning, I have had no signal drops, constant 4G and no delays or hiccups of note. Whatever they fixed, hopefully it remains!
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Wanted to echo what you said. I was in the same exact boat! I haven't used 4G in months because I would loose data constantly and people would tell me that when they called it would go into fast busy. I am now hitting 24 hours on 4G after the radio update and not a complaint! I certainly hope this is the fix:good:
Side note: I haven't noticed an increase in signal but as long as my data stays I don't care.
I've had a big jump in speed. I live just outside a 4G area and before these radios I would get about 2 bars and of was alright to use it, but used WiFi most of the time. Now I would rather use my 4G because its faster than my WiFi, lol.
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I had a good first day with it, it seemed to hold signal at work better (which it usually drops in certain areas of building a bit). Still same visible bars and such...I'm not prepared to declare it better yet, but am optimistic that it will be an improvement for me.
Everyone has LTE phones here in LA no 30mbps for me.
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Same old same old for me. Constant data drops... 55 percent without signal time. usually 44 percent without signal on the older radios (house is built like a bomb shelter, literally) so if anything, its worse now.
bah humbug