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Okay. I thought I didn't have stellar service in my area. (Bounces from 0 to 2 bars, depending) Now my tutor, who has a DX, pulls 3-4 bars where I get none! Same exact time, same exact place! WTF gives HTC!
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What radio are you using? I noticed a full bar increase when I flashed updated radio
Im stock, unrooted. So whatever they give out stock. Im waiting for OTA gingerbread to root.
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3 or 4 bars seems extreme. Could be a hardware defect. My buddy has DX and we both get no service in my basement and terrible service upstairs. So it's not universal.
Edit: could be your phones are on different towers. I know I seen a thread about configuring what tower you connect to.
I have this problem too! My signal sucks most of tthe time. When im in the 18th floor of a building in Boston I get like 1 or 2 bars. Which radio is best to flash? I've never flashed a radio before
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Thing is guys you can't go by the bars they can be misleading....although the icredible does have a know problem with bad signal but if you really want to know your signal strength go to main menu, then go down to about phone, then click on network signal that's the real signal..... -85 to -75 is about average
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rosser725 said:
I have this problem too! My signal sucks most of tthe time. When im in the 18th floor of a building in Boston I get like 1 or 2 bars. Which radio is best to flash? I've never flashed a radio before
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Bars are meaningless. They are not a good indicator of signal strength. Follow the instructions posted by newtoroot to see what your signal strength actually is.
The best radio is the one that gives you the best combination of signal and battery usage. No one can tell you which one will work best on your individual phone in your specific location. The only way to know which one will work best is to test drive each one for a few days and se which suits your needs best.
My signal is -91 dbm. Total crap. :/
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Bud my signal is -95 right now leave it on that screen and walk around and watch how it changes
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I'm haven't moved for an hour and it sits at -91 dbm. Wtf.
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Just switched from 09.01 radio to 11.19 and I my signal went from -75dBm to -69dBm. Not a huge improvement but still an improvement.
A word of caution: BE EXTREMELY CAREFUL IF YOU TRY TO FLASH A NEW RADIO. THE INCREDIBLE I HOLD IN MY HAND IS BECAUSE I FLASHED A RADIO AND BRICKED MY OLD HTC ERIS
Sorry for yelling, but seriously be carefull.
because your holding it the wrong way.
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try a prl updated. *22899 i have had better reception now that they updated it
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because your holding it the wrong way.
(sorry i couldn't resist)
try a prl updated. *22899 i have had better reception now that they updated it
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Is this *22899 any different from the regular *228 press option 2?
*22899 seemed to work for me
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Is this *22899 any different from the regular *228 press option 2?
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Yes, it just skips the automated voice and jumps into the music (updating)
This phone definitely has some kind of signal issue or something. Especially with SMS. I have to resend messages all the time for "general SMS error" is usually what it says. Quite frustrating and ill probably end up with a phone that's been smashed into a million bits someday.
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broons said:
This phone definitely has some kind of signal issue or something. Especially with SMS. I have to resend messages all the time for "general SMS error" is usually what it says. Quite frustrating and ill probably end up with a phone that's been smashed into a million bits someday.
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Had this same EXACT problem! You're gonna need a new phone bro....
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Mine increased its speed and signal 1.5~2 times than without the foil.
By doing that your connecting the wifi, gps and radio antennas together with the tin foil. Bound to cause some problems in the long run.
Runs good. Guess you are wrong.
Looks like the wifi and 3g antennas are bridged but the gps has been gone around (the one at the top).
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hmm.. wanting to try this but also not. even if not now, it does seem very possible that connecting the wifi and the 3G antenna should/will cause a problem.
Normally both radios wouldn't be running at the same time. But what would happen when running wifi tether?
Stole my thread bro. But that's an interesting way you did it.
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hmm.. wanting to try this but also not. even if not now, it does seem very possible that connecting the wifi and the 3G antenna should/will cause a problem.
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I would avoid it. The radio engineers did it their way for a reason.
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Another Chinese mod... Not the smartest move in the long run especially with health and safety standards. The phones are designed to take in only so much information and data at a time. Doing this is like overclocking your processor and in time comes with a price. Use at own discretion.
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Which one is the phone antenna ?
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Which one is the phone antenna ?
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the one with the longer gold strip
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Normally both radios wouldn't be running at the same time. But what would happen when running wifi tether?
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Also curious, to the OP, have you tried running wifi tether with the foil?
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the one with the longer gold strip
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Woo hoo think ill come up with something with foil and super glue
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bik2101 said:
the one with the longer gold strip
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I believe it's the top one. I tested it multiple times.
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Also curious, to the OP, have you tried running wifi tether with the foil?
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I'll test it and report back
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Also curious, to the OP, have you tried running wifi tether with the foil?
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I'll test it and report back
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deaffob said:
I believe it's the top one. I tested it multiple times.
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Sure about that? Because when I tried the foil trick on just the bottom one I lost signal which wouldn't happen If it was the ones on top.
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I believe it's the top one. I tested it multiple times.
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How did you test it?
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The antenna next to the camera is GPS. GPS uses a loop. If you'll notice, the gold strip covers both contacts to form a complete loop.
The mobile antenna is on the bottom with the long strip.
Bridging all of the antennas is bound to cause some problems. If you have both radios on, but leave wifi disconnected, it will stay mostly off as it periodically polls for access points.
The mobile radio works similarly. While not on a call and not using data, it isn't maintaining a constant connection. It periodically polls for updates and connectivity.
In the end, not all of the radios will be firing at once.
With minor testing you might not notice any problems. Keep in mind the problem that plagued the iPhone was exposed antennas for different radios being bridged causing dropped calls.
I'd be interested in seeing some real world testing and not quick benchmarks. Try some google maps navigation and see how reliable it is. Make a phone call while connected to wifi. Try some wifi tethering. Wifi tether while browsing google maps on your device to activate all 3 of the radios affected. I'm genuinely curious what the results would be.
Yeah this isnt a good idea. For whatever reason it might run fine now, but there is something called SWR (standing wave ratio) which is reflected power back to the transmitter. If you have a high SWR due to unmatched load (antenna) then you will eventually degrade the RF front end of the transmitting radios in addition to inefficient radiation of the signal.
As it was mentioned before, great received signal and data download, but poor upload...this to me is a direct indication that the transmit side is mis-matched and most of the power is being reflected back to the transmitter. The great received signal is really irrelevant because cell base stations transmit high power...around 20 watts while our handsets are on the order of 0.3 watts or less so overall receive performance is going to be good regardless of a properly matched antenna.
Bottom line, I wouldn't recommend this.
I've been stuck on 1x and no svc bars all day, and on and off yesterday. Keep getting the data roaming message.
Called sprint and they ran me through a bunch of trouble shooting, as usual, but could not resolve it. She said that my internet wasn't updating or something. Opened a service ticket and told me to take it in to the store so they can check the device.
Anyone have this problem before, and how did you fix it?
I'm currently running srf 1.2, genocide 2.0, honycomb fusion explosion theme, ec05 modem, and I have an airrave.
My wife's epic is also stuck on 1x, and the blackberry on our extra line also says 1x with 1-3 bars.
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My issue isn't that similar, but recently was the first time I've even seen "1x" on my phone. I literally have never seen my phone on 1x before, in fact, I thought it wasn't even possible on Sprint (Like, I didn't know it had the same name).
If all your phones are stuck on 1x, then it is most likely something with the service. You already did everything I could think of, so I'd just take it to Sprint again and tell them that it's been happening for a while and you've already been to a store, but it's becoming a real issue and you shouldn't have to be charged for a service that does not provide what they have offered, or something threatening like that.
Hope you can fix the issue soon,
Acer
I feel better knowing someone else also is experiencing this. Since like Thursday I haven't had a reliable 3g connection whatsoever I keep getting the "1x" icon also.
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I feel better knowing someone else also is experiencing this. Since like Thursday I haven't had a reliable 3g connection whatsoever I keep getting the "1x" icon also.
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Same...wonder if it's something up with Sprint.
I literally haven't seen that phone have the 1x icon in the 13 months I've had it.
I've had trouble, but with updating my PRL and Profile. Once I read this, I've kinda conviced myself that somethings up on Sprints end, and not ours. Could this be part of Sprints Network Vision in action?
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It could be the airrave. I had trouble getting a 3g connection the first time we set ours up.
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Same here with 3 epics for 2 days, called Sprint and had them push a refresh on all 3, then I updated prl and profile on all 3, been working for about 10 hours now on all 3.
Wow! I knew I would get some response to this, but not that everyone is having the same problem...lol! Well, that sucks. I wondered about the airrave, but I mentioned a few times to the phone rep that I had one, and she never said anything about it. She did say they were no problemswith the service in my area. I'll have to see what happens when I leave for work tomorrow. Does make me wonder if sprint has something brewing that is messing up everyone's service.
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malcolmXman said:
Same here with 3 epics for 2 days, called Sprint and had them push a refresh on all 3, then I updated prl and profile on all 3, been working for about 10 hours now on all 3.
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I'm going to give this a try, its really annoying because the one bar I now get(id get usually 4-6 bars like a month ago) puts me somewhere around 50kbps...
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Reset the Airave and your router and modem. They screw up the Airaves all the time. Airave techs direct line is 866-556-7310.
Update= 3g still working on all 3.
Oh and I have no airave.
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Oh and I have no airave.
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Sorry AC, was replying to the OP.
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kennyglass123 said:
Sorry AC, was replying to the OP.
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Its cool I hope its on sprints side and its only temporary
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malcolmXman said:
Update= 3g still working on all 3.
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Back on 3g today. Not sure what the problem was this weekend. I had no data when I got up, but rebooted the phone and so far so good. Full bars again, at home. I did switch roms last night. Installed miui with the data fix just to see if it made a difference. Didn't make a difference last night, but its working fine so far today.
Going to reset the airrave after work anyway, just in case. Are you guys back to normal today as well?
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Back on 3g today. Not sure what the problem was this weekend. I had no data when I got up, but rebooted the phone and so far so good. Full bars again, at home. I did switch roms last night. Installed miui with the data fix just to see if it made a difference. Didn't make a difference last night, but its working fine so far today.
Going to reset the airrave after work anyway, just in case. Are you guys back to normal today as well?
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I was going to say I was back to normal but just as I hit "quote" my 3g went away and went back to 1x then I gt an error saying "sign in fail"
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I made the switch from the Evo 3D to the Epic touch and I noticed that the GPS doesn't work as well as it did the Evo.
I was wondering if there was anything that can be done to make the signal a little better.
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coming from the epic this thing works amazingly well
but i get a signal within 5 seconds and a 10 meter range
the gps on this thing works even better than on the photon in my experience
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I dunno...I fired up Google Earth on my lunch break sitting in my truck at work. I tapped "my location" and it flew in and was only off by 1 parking spot. I'd say that's pretty accurate.
So far as the radio strength I'd have to agree...usually it works fine for me, but some times I can't get a signal with it on my center console but if I put it in the door-handle pocket it works fine. I think that might be software tweakable...
You can try gps aid from the market. I used it on my epic and it helped but this phone works a lot better than my epic.
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I had to return mine for gps problems, the new one works great!
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Mine takes a while to lock and best i can hope for is 15m
Using GPS Status mine often shows an accuracy of 6 feet. I didn't even know cell phones were supposed to be capable of that resolution. I'm very impressed here.
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mine takes forever to get a lock, if I even get one. hmm, maybe I should go return it for GPS issues.
If your phone hasn't been rebooted in a while gps wont work very well. Reboot phone and it will lock fast.
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Using GPS Status mine often shows an accuracy of 6 feet. I didn't even know cell phones were supposed to be capable of that resolution. I'm very impressed here.
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All my other phones put me withing a few feet of my location, nor more than a few yards off in most situations. This has constantly had me at least a half of a mile off. I has me in an adjacent neighborhood at home and a half mile out in the river at work. i have tried all the settings. I am leaving work early today and going to Sprint for a possible exchange to another Touch. I already anticipate the run around but if they cant get me at least in the sprint parking lot, I am demanding a new phone. Its to the point where I cant use my GPS because it is totally inaccurate.
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mine takes forever to get a lock, if I even get one. hmm, maybe I should go return it for GPS issues.
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Check this out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18319079
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpkiJeUQpvQ
You should get a different copy.
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my GPS is fantastic
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Check this out.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=18319079
You should get a different copy.
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yea, saw the video. I have the same exact problem that is shown in the video. Now the question is, do I need to put my phone back to stock before I take it in?
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yea, saw the video. I have the same exact problem that is shown in the video. Now the question is, do I need to put my phone back to stock before I take it in?
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Yep, odin back to stock and you should be good to go.
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How long does it take you guys to get a GPS lock... Sometimes it take 5 minutes...
For me, I have never seen longer then 30 seconds. Usually less then 10 seconds.
I was goofing around with QPST the other day and noticed that there are Unpopulayed GPSone settings. Does this phone support GPSone? I populated the entries with data from my old phone. I don't think it made a difference, I just did it in the name of experimentation. What's the worse that could happen, I just have to reload my saved NV settings.
GPS used to be awesome...doesn't ever lock at all anymore. Reboot doesn't matter, GLSCLRX didn't help, re-stocked it, everything. no help.
1st floor of a 3 story condo building, in the bathroom with it raining outside. Doesn't matter what I do this thing gets within 10 yards of my location within a few seconds tops.
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GPS used to be awesome...doesn't ever lock at all anymore. Reboot doesn't matter, GLSCLRX didn't help, re-stocked it, everything. no help.
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Try the rom in my signature with GPS tweaks to see if it helps.
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I've seen these things all over the place, some crazy designed hexagon sticker you stick on the back of your phone or battery that's supposed to boost signal.. do these things work? if these don't work is there anything that DOES? the s3 has the worst reception of any phone I've ever used.. everyone around me will have 5 bars, ill have 0 and were all on the same AT&T network, cept I got this godawful phone.. anyone know of a legit antenna booster? if it goes under my case no one will see it anyways
'Thanks' to any useful replies!
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Could be a bad phone... Take it to your local ATT store and compare signals with their display model?
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I have the i9300 not the att variant so there's no way to compare. but otherwise yeah I get 0-1 bar where everyone else with att gets 4-5.. I'm hoping its just the modem, and it'll get some nice upgrade in the future, but till then, looking external help
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Change your modem I used to get 1 bar to none on att now I get 3 to 4
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I don't know if this will help but it appears to have worked for me. I can't find the original post with this suggestion so I don't know who to give credit to. Pull SIM card and battery. Put them back in and see what happens. It's improved my data tremendously. Hope it works for you. I'm on Verizon in case that matters.
Currently not being productive.
To answer your question -
No, they're a gimmick. If they worked, the manufactures would put them in there themselves.
It's been proven they do absolutely nothing
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I had it on my old phone, galaxy s2, but it didn't work out. I didn't notice any difference.
Faulty phone for sure because the GS3 has like the best reception I have ever had and I have owned them all in the past two years, literally. Lol
Those things are still around?! Hollyyy....
SGS3 has fantastic reception. I have had so any different phones and this one has great signal strength.
Wow they really are a gimmick? I was not planning on getting one or anything but all this time I really thought they worked.
I have sprint and the reception is bad an air rave works well at home and a good repeater for distance check into the linkys E4200 v-2
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