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Data needs to shape up,

I've had my g2 for about 4 months now and I'm quite happy with it. Rooted with perm s-off, running about 4 different roms, blahblahblah. I have the full data plan for my phone, and I've used it passed the data cap through all my billing cycles so far.
However, I live in hawaii. The data here is unbearably slow. Using speedtest, I see people with scores of 4mb down and 1mb up.
I average ALMOST 0.3mb down 0.9mb up. that's with 3g on, if you couldn't guess.
I've already tried flashing different radios for my phone, but it only minamally increases my data speed for a huge increase in battery consumption.
Am I stuck here, to wander a 2g world with my almost-but-not-really-4g phone? Help me out if you'd care to lend a hand, I'm kind of sick of seeing the buffer icon permanently on youtube.
Toodles.
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The phone is 4g. That doesn't mean your area has it though. Have you bothered to call you service provider to make sure you are connected to the proper tower? I had data speeds like yours but found my phone was trying to connect to a tower in a completely different city.
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Spastic909 said:
The phone is 4g. That doesn't mean your area has it though. Have you bothered to call you service provider to make sure you are connected to the proper tower? I had data speeds like yours but found my phone was trying to connect to a tower in a completely different city.
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There's kind of no tower in, around, or relatively close to hawaii. The closest tower is in L.A I believe, which is the one I'm connected to. So no matter where I go on the island, the signal stays around there.
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You're not getting 2G speeds. 2G speeds is edge which is at BEST and THEORETICALLY a little under 250 kbps. You're doing decent for 3G. If it was a 4G connection you'd see "H" instead of "3G".

ohshootrawr said:
There's kind of no tower in, around, or relatively close to hawaii. The closest tower is in L.A I believe, which is the one I'm connected to. So no matter where I go on the island, the signal stays around there.
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That doesn't seem possible. there has to be some sort of cell towers on one of the islands there. Carriers use each others towers at times to. I know the internet out there can get screwy at times so I understand your frustrations...write your local congress person lol
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That doesn't seem possible. there has to be some sort of cell towers on one of the islands
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You're right, the OP can't possibly be correct about there being no cell towers in Hawaii. The max range of a GSM tower is about 22 miles in the best of conditions, and almost always much less. Towers have to be placed as close as 1/2 mile apart in some terrain or urban conditions. 1 to 2 miles apart is average in many conditions.
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jouva said:
You're not getting 2G speeds. 2G speeds is edge which is at BEST and THEORETICALLY a little under 250 kbps. You're doing decent for 3G. If it was a 4G connection you'd see "H" instead of "3G".
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I actually do have the H. I wouldn't be bugging out so much if I was running speedtest with only 3g xD
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ohshootrawr said:
I actually do have the H. I wouldn't be bugging out so much if I was running speedtest with only 3g xD
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Is your phone rooted? If not, it's gonna show H no matter if you are on 3G of HSPA+.

tazz9690 said:
Is your phone rooted? If not, it's gonna show H no matter if you are on 3G of HSPA+.
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I'm rooted sir.
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ohshootrawr said:
I'm rooted sir.
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Even if you're rooted, that symbol will not show unless you've got a theme or rom that is set to show HSPA+ in the status bar.
Download mobile signal widget, it will tell you whether or not you are actually on HSPA+.

captainreynolds said:
Even if you're rooted, that symbol will not show unless you've got a theme or rom that is set to show HSPA+ in the status bar.
Download mobile signal widget, it will tell you whether or not you are actually on HSPA+.
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I'm running the Ultimate Droid, CM7, LiquidMetal, MT4G, and MIUI roms on my phone. All of them shows hspa in the status bar. Except for miui, but miui is weird. Haha. The widget said I'm connected to hspa+.
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4G network down in Denver, CO?

I haven't been able to connect to 4G for a few days now. I'm not sure if my phone is malfunctioning, because I don't know anyone else with 4G to confirm if there is actually a signal to connect to - has anyone else noticed any problems with the 4G network, particularly near Denver?
The 4G symbol shows up and the phone looks like it is trying to connect... When my radio hardware failed on my first Epic, it wouldn't even do that much, so i'm hoping it is the network and not my phone
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i know for a fact that 4G works here in Aurora. Hasn't failed me once. Occasionally it won't connect but nothing a radio reset [airplane mode] can't fix. Usually its the phone that has issues. For me at least

Prefect 4g throughout denver for me
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jonesin said:
Prefect 4g throughout denver for me
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U have Verizon and sprint?

No just vzw
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I'll have to test it once i leave work for the day (in a medically shielded building so no cell signal PERIOD.)
It's possible it's a rom issue, what are you running on your phone?
(OT.. didn't know there were this many of us in the Denver metro area.. )

jonesin said:
No just vzw
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We're talking about Wimax 4g

I'm running SRF 1.2 with Genocide 1.2 (or maybe 2.0, I can't remember which one I flashed last time, lol), with the EH06 modem
I think I'll try a full wipe and reflash, because I think I had this problem once a long time ago from a bad flash...
EDIT: I also recently noticed that my
signal keeps dropping to zero bars, although the 3G symbol is still there... Maybe I'll start with a modem swap...
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runnin the EH06 modem as well, so I guess once i escape this shielded cage of a building i'll find out if 4g works.. haven't tried 4g since i flashed the EH06 modem..

Im running SFR 1.2 (in the Tech Center) using the Genocide kernel. Not having any 4G issues here.

Just got a chance to test 4g.. and it's workin fine.. (otherwise this wouldn't show up...)
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Its cool that a bunch of us are from the Metro area 8')
we should all come to my coffee shop in Aurora and whip out our Epics in the name of randomness

4g is working fine up here in Northglenn/Thornton

4g working for me in N. Denver and everywhere else I normally get it around town so guess its time for you to re flash .

I'm at denver airport I'm guessing 4g is not here??

Well, thanks for all of your feedback - I was facing the hard decision between a long phone call to tech support or a full reflash.
I had to Odin all the way back to DI18 and rebuild from there to get my 4G back, but it was worth it
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I've never been able to get 4G at DIA...
Way south in the tech center (Meridian area) 4G has always been spotty at best when outdoors and no coverage inside.

bighuta said:
Its cool that a bunch of us are from the Metro area 8')
we should all come to my coffee shop in Aurora and whip out our Epics in the name of randomness
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Where's your shop?

not a coffee drinker, but beer is always good..

pvtjoker42 said:
not a coffee drinker, but beer is always good..
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Denver Epic Beer Event?
This is one of the best cities in the country for beer. I don't know what I'd do without Odells...
And before some uneducated person says something about O'DOULs N/A **** beer, Odells is something completely different
http://odellbrewing.com/home

3g times out?

I was wondering if anyone else has/had this problem. My evo tends to time out on 3g, especially when I download a rom. The 3g indicator just goes dark and will stay that way for a couple minutes. It wouldn't be a big problem but I don't have hi speed where I live so every Rom I download is through my phone internet. When the 3g times out it causes the Rom download to fail. Has anyone else had this problem and what can you do to fix it? It's irritating having to download a rom 5 plus times
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j_shelton1988 said:
I was wondering if anyone else has/had this problem. My evo tends to time out on 3g, especially when I download a rom. The 3g indicator just goes dark and will stay that way for a couple minutes. It wouldn't be a big problem but I don't have hi speed where I live so every Rom I download is through my phone internet. When the 3g times out it causes the Rom download to fail. Has anyone else had this problem and what can you do to fix it? It's irritating having to download a rom 5 plus times
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This only happened to me when I was on stock. Now that I'm on a custom ROM, it doesn't happen anymore. I notice you are on a custom rom, so I'm sure that's not the problem.
It may be a coverage problem. It also happens to me when I'm switching from 3g to 1X, so that may be it.

The area I'm in has almost full signal. I've actually experienced this more on custom roms then when i was on stock.
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j_shelton1988 said:
The area I'm in has almost full signal. I've actually experienced this more on custom roms then when i was on stock.
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Have you tried flashing the more updated radios, etc?

Just did. Will report back to see if it helps
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j_shelton1988 said:
Just did. Will report back to see if it helps
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Any update on this? Just was curious if this did the trick for you.
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My 3g does not work on roms outside of stock sense roms. I've read where others says sense roms always show 3g even if you are getting a 1x signal but my wife has an evo 4g, unrooted, as well and my 1x is way slower then her 3g signal. I 1x signal won't load web pages in most cases. I downloaded the most recent OTA and then flashed a rom after words but still no 3g.

Any update on this? Just was curious if this did the trick for you.
After I flashed the new radios etc. I tried to download a rom overnight. When I got up it said download failed, then I remembered to update prl and what not. After i updated things were ok until I tried out my 4G. I was having major issues with it not downloading. It was extremely slow. I was using the shooter ROM when these problems started so I flashed another ROM and haven't had any problems so far. Is it possible for a rom to affect 3g and 4G performance?
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Bravo78 said:
My 3g does not work on roms outside of stock sense roms. I've read where others says sense roms always show 3g even if you are getting a 1x signal but my wife has an evo 4g, unrooted, as well and my 1x is way slower then her 3g signal. I 1x signal won't load web pages in most cases. I downloaded the most recent OTA and then flashed a rom after words but still no 3g.
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This isn't necessarily true. Most custom ROMs show 1x. However the stock does not. Also, 1x should be slower than 3g.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear but that was my point. Thats what most people "say" about roms showing 1x and my 1x is slower then my wife 3g so I know its not that we don't have 3g in our area, its the rom. Right now I'm using R2R-green-R3, which has a 4g LTE icon and faster then the 1x rom I was using before. I flashed the honeycomb theme over it looks great and works great!
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Bravo78 said:
Sorry if I wasn't clear but that was my point. Thats what most people "say" about roms showing 1x and my 1x is slower then my wife 3g so I know its not that we don't have 3g in our area, its the rom. Right now I'm using R2R-green-R3, which has a 4g LTE icon and faster then the 1x rom I was using before. I flashed the honeycomb theme over it looks great and works great!
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It shouldn't be the rom causing you to get 1x, have you tried updating prl/profile? I've run multiple custom roms and never had a problem. Areas where I know get 1x show it, but areas that get 3g show 3g and have 3g speeds
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I did up date the prl/profile but still no 3g. I'm at 3g speed now so its not a problem. Maybe I did something wrong on the other rom?
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jellybean rom questions??

ok so on these jellybean roms, my messages never send half the time even when i have full data bars or signal bars also my data always jumps back and forth between 3g and hspa and i know for a fact im in hspa region cause on a ics rom it says 4g all the time this sh*%$ getting annoying anyone know why it does this only on jellybean roms, is it cause the source code isnt fully available or something

thakrew317 said:
ok so on these jellybean roms, my messages never send half the time even when i have full data bars or signal bars also my data always jumps back and forth between 3g and hspa and i know for a fact im in hspa region cause on a ics rom it says 4g all the time this sh*%$ getting annoying anyone know why it does this only on jellybean roms, is it cause the source code isnt fully available or something
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Find a jellybean radio and flash it, should fix your problem. There is a couple threads on radio's in development section.

Hi, I'm currently using a cm10 rom and I flashed the UVLH radio. JB works smoothly for me and calls are clear and messages arrive lromptly even. Maybe just flash a new radio one that's okay for ICS
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Still bouncing back n forth between 3g and 4g what's the jellybean radio?
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thakrew317 said:
Still bouncing back n forth between 3g and 4g what's the jellybean radio?
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There is NO JB radio. 3G and 4G are almost the same thing. I do not believe T-Mobile phones with 4G can acquire 4G, as our 4G is a fake 4G. It is more a 3.5G. So I believe that it is just that the system recognizes the signal as 3G, but is really 4G.
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alphadog32 said:
There is NO JB radio. 3G and 4G are almost the same thing. I do not believe T-Mobile phones with 4G can acquire 4G, as our 4G is a fake 4G. It is more a 3.5G. So I believe that it is just that the system recognizes the signal as 3G, but is really 4G.
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Oh well damn why on ICS ROMs tho its says 4g all the time same thing basically
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Why am I only getting 1x speeds on custom ROMs?

I have a epic touch 4g flashed to cricket and I was on wondering why I get 1x on custom ROMs but stock ROMs are just fine. And when I do get 3g the data acts weird and cuts on and off.
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It might not be that you are even on 3G but sprint has this little habit of lying on their stock ROMs by making it so it always shows 3G even when connected to 1x. The devs on xda have made it so that in ROMs shows the true connection such 1x/3G.
A good way to verify while on stock is to go look on the about phone to see what you are connected to or use netmonitor/speedtest to see what connection you are on.
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I had a ROM they showed real speeds and I was on 3g. The ROM was basically a slightly modified stock though....
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another welcome to sprint thread.. my speeds are always at 1x no matter what rom/modem im on because of my area
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Well first crickets 3g doesn't work very well on sprint phones, if you want real 3g you need a cricket phone or be on Sprint.
Data does work on touchwiz roms though, and if you want aosp you have to flash a fix to get it to work on those, but it won't be even close to 3g unless your lucky.
If you don't have the fix its here http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1479175 use the ics one for ics and jb.

I've gotten 1.6 Mb/s download speed on aosp jb with Cricket, although average during the day is more like 800Kb/s. Area, PRL, signal strength, etc play a huge role as well.
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