Well I like many of you on here are experancing horrendious data speeds and I don't seem to see any pattern to why some people have the problem and some people are just blazing along, so I am strongly considering taking the phone back to best buy and exchanging it for another E4GT tonight to see if that helps the problem.
Has anyone else tried to exchange their phone for another because of this problem? If so did it help or do you still have the same problem?
Also will Best Buy even let me bring mine in and exchange it for another on the spot over something like this? They said they have a couple in stock.
They may be back-hauling the network. Some days my data flies, some days its utterly useless.
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For what it's worth, I just got off the phone with a sprint tech rep and received an e-ticket to take my E4GT in for repair. He said they would try to "manually calibrate" the radio to get a better signal. He said that sometimes new phones are calibrated months before release and that new phones may not be calibrated properly when changes are made to the tower system. The rep said they were back-hauling their towers for a "multi-mode" setup or something, and my E4GT may not be calibrated for the recent changes. We will see. My data speeds aren't terrible, but they are a whole lot worse than my 1 year old Epic 4g. I will report back after the "manual calibration." Overall, though, loving the upgrade ...
Test with this, not a speedtest app...
http://speakeasy.net/speedtest
I have until next Saturday when my 14 days are up and I considered doing this as well. Replacing it for a new one.
I was having ridiculously slow 4g speeds speeds when I got the phone on launch day, but they have improved significantly. Do a prl update and such with it. Great phone!
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Hopefully Samsung fixes this I am getting about two thirds what I had with the evo
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Called sprint today for an exchange. Figure i might as well take advantage and try a new one and see if its any better. The phone really just needs a software update to fix these issues.
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Did the exchange unit perform better on 3G?
all anyone needs to do is a 'data profile restore' you just need your device's MSL.
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all anyone needs to do is a 'data profile restore' you just need your device's MSL.
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Hello,
I know how to get the MSL. What is the data profile restore thing? How do you get there?
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Hello,
I know how to get the MSL. What is the data profile restore thing? How do you get there?
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^This.
If this is a solution to issues, please post. Thanks.
Example: These are EPST codes
##data# aka ##3282#
Then you're prompted to enter unlock code (msl)
Hope that give y'all a head start.
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My speeds have gotten better over time.
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I also followed the directions in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1283229
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I have tested nearly every day in culver city between 5-6AM so there should be minimal traffic at that time and I've tested later in the day and it doesn't seem to cause any significant different in speed so this isn't due to the heavy population of Los Angeles but lack of infrastructure. I've also tested on a regular basis the offices I visit.
On 3G
In Culver City near the intersection of 2 major highways - 200-400k down - 100-200k down.
In Westwood - 300-450k down - 100-200k up
In Brentwood - 300-450k down - 100-200k up
In Santa Monica 200-400k down 100-200k up
In Pacific Palisades 100-300k down - 100k up
In the hills of Malibu - 0-100k down - 0-100k up
in Pasadena 300-450k down - 100-200k up
in Northridge 300-450k down - 100-200k up
On 4G
Pretty much the same if I get any 4G although the upload speeds are often lower.
What I don't get...I use the speed test app and I pull like 700-900kbps. I go to the actual website through the Opera Mobile browser and my download/upload speeds are sick as ****. I do not like that speedtest app.
I did a scrtn reset on my epic touch and that solved it for me.
##72786#
enter your MSL number
Reset your scrtn>yes
I went from .02 mbps DL to .7
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I have been dealing with Sprint this past week about very slow data speed. I have been getting around 50-100 kbps down and 300 kbps up. When I went to a nearby town I was getting 800- 1300 kbps down and 400-500 kbps up. All of these are on 3G. Today when Sprint called me I was asked if " EV " was displayed instead of 3G. I was told there are 3 levels to 3G. I vaguely remember EV before I rooted and ROMed but I have not seen it since. Is indication of " EV " typically removed from a custom ROM? I have used Frozen 1.2 and am now using RandomRom 2.3.4. I tried all of the available modems with Frozen with no change before I installed EG22 and Flashed RandomRom. I have a few friends that also are complaining about slow data speeds in our area so I don't think its my phone anymore. Any thoughts or advice on the subject?? Thanks!
I think you mean EV
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I think you mean EV
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Your right! Fixed!
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I think you mean "you're"
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Sprint has horrible 3G speeds which is also why Im going to drop them soon.
After Sprint did not renew its tower leasing agreements and lost its Alltel tower network, its % nationwide coverage area dropped precipitously. Even with SERO, I am now questioning whether it's worth staying with Sprint given the decline in service over the past few years.
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Sprint has horrible 3G speeds which is also why Im going to drop them soon.
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Have fun when you reach your 2g of 5gig cap. which is really easy to do.
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You're most likely on 1x. The Epic doesn't have 1x or EV signal icons by default. Try this app and it will tell you everything about your connection.
before the evo came out, sprint was worty of its name.
it had the fastest 3g in the country. 3-5mbps on my hero in nyc
then evo came out and who needs 4g when your 3g is more than enough?
Everyone saying they dropping sprint soon. Sprint will phase in their new type of signal next year, they will discuss it on the 7th of next month. I think they may have started on some towers. My 3G has greatly dropped but my 4G is almost as fast (if not as fast) as my DSL internet. I am happy with it and being with Sprint 6 years and compared to what others complain about from their service I'll stick with sprint for 6 more. Unless they raise prices.
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Everyone saying they dropping sprint soon. Sprint will phase in their new type of signal next year, they will discuss it on the 7th of next month.
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Well, hopefully it changes things for the better, but I still don't see how it makes up for the lack of towers. And what's good is 4g if I can't get it in 50% of locations? Giving it until the end of the year.
I guess im lucky. I get ok 3g (0.9mbs) and great 4g ( 5-7 mbs). But driving around my city, it cones and goes once I hit a few city hills.
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Me and my g/f both have Epics. Mine is rooted and running a custom rom and hers is stock. Both of us were experiencing crappy data speeds until i updated both phones modems to EH17.
Speeds are much better in some places where we have good signal, from 300k to 1.5 - 2.2mbps. So it may have something to do with the modem you currently have as well.
Although i did talk to a sprint employee at the nearby store and I was told they were going through some tower upgrades in the DFW area. Tearing down old towers and putting up new. He suggested that it would be around 6 to 8 months time before things are completed.
I also have been in contact with sprint over the last 6 weeks or so about crap 3g. At times I see 12KB downloads with 6 out of 6 to 6 bars.
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I ran that clear nvram thing from the other thread. I suggest you try this. It fixed my GPS perfectly and my 3g speeds have increased dramatically. I ran a speedtest earlier and got 300-350kb/s. Before I did it my 3g was atrocious at less than 50kb/s.
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Problem with all this is that CDMA "4G" eats a ton of battery compared to just as fast (or in Sprint's case, 20x faster) HSPA+ network. This is just my very personal observation between Epic and LG G2X. My super personal opinion is that CDMA should just burn in hell and die. Voice quality is better...
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Problem with all this is that CDMA "4G" eats a ton of battery compared to just as fast (or in Sprint's case, 20x faster) HSPA+ network. This is just my very personal observation between Epic and LG G2X. My super personal opinion is that CDMA should just burn in hell and die. Voice quality is better...
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This. Anyone ever run their phone in airplane mode from a full charge to 0%? The battery lasts AGES. I had to run benchmarks repeatedly on performance mode for hours to kill it purposely. The ****ed up part is that I ALWAYS have NY 3g off and 4g on. The radio in this device is horrid for battery life.
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I've also called sprint this week to ask/complain about data speeds. The best I've ever had is around 1100 kbps down, but lateley it's only been 100 to 300. So a couple of days ago I went to a verizon store and asked the girl to compare speeds with me. She was getting 1900kdps down and my epic NEVER even found the nearest server. I was blown away and very red faced when I left. I could get better data speeds with two soup cans and some string.
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I've also called sprint this week to ask/complain about data speeds. The best I've ever had is around 1100 kbps down, but lateley it's only been 100 to 300. So a couple of days ago I went to a verizon store and asked the girl to compare speeds with me. She was getting 1900kdps down and my epic NEVER even found the nearest server. I was blown away and very red faced when I left. I could get better data speeds with two soup cans and some string.
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You know who else has 2 soup cans and a string? Mah maaammm!
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I gotta say the slow data speeds were killing me but now things have changed for the good. I hit my 4g icon by accident and now my data speeds fly! 5700kbps down and almost 1700kbps up....truely awesome!!!! Thanks Sprint!!!!
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R ur 3g speeds even useable? My 3g dl rate is 80kb/s....4g is 1400kb/s which is great but tmobile 3g was at least 4 times faster, do you have same experience?
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Might just be ur coverage area, like my coverage sucks on the house, but outside with full bars I get roughly 1.5MB d/l on 3G and 5-10 on 4G.
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I don't want to start anything, but Sprint 3g is absolutely garbage. You have to be pretty lucky to get good 3g speeds.
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I don't want to start anything, but Sprint 3g is absolutely garbage. You have to be pretty lucky to get good 3g speeds.
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In my area Sprint 3G speeds were pretty abysmal (basically dial-up speeds) up until recently. It is somewhere around 300-500K now, so its usable now.
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Sprint is upgrading their net work....this has been going on for sometime I tink. Rolling speed drops, and outages. Bet that iPHONE has something to do with it. I bet it will be all sorted out by October 7th.
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Sprint is upgrading their net work....this has been going on for sometime I tink. Rolling speed drops, and outages. Bet that iPHONE has something to do with it. I bet it will be all sorted out by October 7th.
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I'll keep my fingers crossed for October 7th (but I won't hold my breath!)
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I'll keep my fingers crossed for October 7th (but I won't hold my breath!)
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Same here...and if I don't like the looks of things or if, god forbid, speed actually gets worse then I'll be forced to go to Verizon when they get their whatever Prime, or hopefully something even more compelling.
I hope not, I've loved Sprint. I love the customer service. The speeds were fantastic when the EVO4G came out. It's been all downhill from there and it has gotten especially terrible lately in my area. If it gets worse with no sign of repair, considering all of the benefits of being with Sprint have been stripped away, I'll jump ship to Verizon, sigh...
I'm glad my "real number" has been ported to Google Voice...00001.PRL to the ETF-free rescue, lol.
So no one thinks my phone is defective? Exchange it?
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So no one thinks my phone is defective? Exchange it?
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Before you do that call/chat sprint (www.sprint.com/chat) and tell them you have "slow data and have been told you need a 'data reset'"
Then after that dig up your MSL (or get it on the same call) and remove your proxys...then do another speed test.
If things haven't changed dramatically and you know that other phones in your location get more reasonable speeds then bring it back...
Sitting here at work, I just got 1.5Mbps down and 0.33 Mbps up on 3g. In Seattle just south of the airport. I can't get a 4G signal in here to test. Works for me. However, my co-worker sitting next to me just got 33Mbps down and 3Mbps up on his Thunderbolt on Verizon LTE...damn! And we prefer to use www.speakeasy.net/speedtest over the speedtest.net app or website.
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Before you do that call/chat sprint (www.sprint.com/chat) and tell them you have "slow data and have been told you need a 'data reset'"
Then after that dig up your MSL (or get it on the same call) and remove your proxys...then do another speed test.
If things haven't changed dramatically and you know that other phones in your location get more reasonable speeds then bring it back...
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Which numbers are the proxies on the E4gt? I'm in the ##DATA# and I don't see anything labeled as proxy.
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Which numbers are the proxies on the E4gt? I'm in the ##DATA# and I don't see anything labeled as proxy.
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after you hit ##DATA# it's in "others>multimedia"
zero them all out. 0.0.0.0 for proxy address and 0 for proxy port. or just delete it and leave it empty.
What's up guys. Alright last Friday my wife and I headed to Sprint and bought a couple of phones. She got the Iphone 4S and I got the Epic Touch. Previously we were with Verizon.... she had the Inc2 and I had the Thunderbolt.
When we were at Sprint I asked the rep. about signal strength and he said that Sprints towers ran off the same towers as Verizon.
When I first started messing with my Epic and went on the net I was at work and the data speeds were ridiculously slow. So I thought I gotta root this thing.
Well I'm rooted.... oc'ed to 1.5 with performance gov. I just googled "slow data speeds for the Epic 4g touch" it took a little over 5 minutes to just open up the Google page. I'm at work.... in a 3g only area... and with my HTC Thunderbolt it might take 10 seconds to open up that same page.
This is freaking me out a little. I can't believe tho that all of you out there with 3g only are having this same problem. When I googled this issue I read about guys starting a petition to send to Sprint due to the slow data speeds.
Would I would like to know before I call Sprint and raise hell is is there a fix or a workaround for this?? My wifes Iphone is also having terrible data speeds.
Pretty concerned about this.
Thanks in advance.
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Sounds like its time for a new prl and roam control. This phone is known for slow 3g data speeds. Actually sprint is known for slow data speeds. How are your wifes speeds on the ip4s? Dont forget, you always have 14 days to opt out of the contract or exchange the phone.
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What's up guys. Alright last Friday my wife and I headed to Sprint and bought a couple of phones. She got the Iphone 4S and I got the Epic Touch. Previously we were with Verizon.... she had the Inc2 and I had the Thunderbolt.
When we were at Sprint I asked the rep. about signal strength and he said that Sprints towers ran off the same towers as Verizon.
When I first started messing with my Epic and went on the net I was at work and the data speeds were ridiculously slow. So I thought I gotta root this thing.
Well I'm rooted.... oc'ed to 1.5 with performance gov. I just googled "slow data speeds for the Epic 4g touch" it took a little over 5 minutes to just open up the Google page. I'm at work.... in a 3g only area... and with my HTC Thunderbolt it might take 10 seconds to open up that same page.
This is freaking me out a little. I can't believe tho that all of you out there with 3g only are having this same problem. When I googled this issue I read about guys starting a petition to send to Sprint due to the slow data speeds.
Would I would like to know before I call Sprint and raise hell is is there a fix or a workaround for this?? My wifes Iphone is also having terrible data speeds.
Pretty concerned about this.
Thanks in advance.
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There is a simple workaround go back to vzw or try Tmobile or att .....Sprint is hurting right now but they are in the process of fixing but I wouldn't buy a wimax phone with sprint going to lte this year it's already in the works... Take those phones back naaaaaooooowwwwzzzz
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Appreciate the response. Just got off the phone with Sprint. Dude is supposed to call me back in a half hour. He believes there may be some kind of outage in my area and sending a service tech out.
I tried to explain to him that the 3g speeds have been bad since I bought the phone last Friday.
Wondering now how I'm going to get out of this contract..........this sucks.
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Appreciate the response. Just got off the phone with Sprint. Dude is supposed to call me back in a half hour. He believes there may be some kind of outage in my area and sending a service tech out.
I tried to explain to him that the 3g speeds have been bad since I bought the phone last Friday.
Wondering now how I'm going to get out of this contract..........this sucks.
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You have 14 days just take the the back and don't let them talk you out of it ..... You will have to pay for how much you used but not etf ....don't have to tell them anything really just not happy with service
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Alright cool. Rep. at Sprint never mentioned the 14 day return policy but thats how it was at Verizon. Guess I'm gonna have to take a look at Tmobile now. I'
m a data whore so I gotta have unlimited.
Thanks again
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If you are a data whore you are going to pay a lot more at other carriers. Sprint is the only unlimited.
This is too much fu#@ing fun. Now my phone is jacked. I took the phone back to stock before I called Sprint. After complaining about data speeds the service rep had me key in the dialer the pound symbol twice I think and some numbers whatever. Well now I have NO data. We tried over and over to activate my phone. Obviously tho you can't do it without a signal.
So he quickly said there must be an outage in your area and he will be sending out a service tech and calling me back in a half hour.
After an hour I called back. Went thru almost the same thing with someone else. Now I need to take my phone in for service.
I called Sprint to ***** about slow data speeds and now I don't have data. I'm laughing just typing this........
Goodnight
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Welcome to the wonderful world of sprint customer service. That whole sending out a tech to your area is a sham. Really sprint is that the best you can come up with? I have been told that NUMEROUS times and never have I ever heard anything back regarding the techs results, or if a tech even came out. Complaints on data speeds just arent that high on their priority list. If you have issues with the speeds now, they are just going to frustrate you even more later. If you really love the phone and want sprints unlimited. There are options to improve data speeds, like roaming on verizons network, which we do for free. If you are more interested in that I can send you in the right direction.
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if you use the pro each your data. using verizon's hacked prl will be great as far as speeds go. but if you use more than 300 mb you have a chanceof getting a letter telling you to quit. I am on over a gigabyte right now and was about 4 gigs last month and no letter. but you are taking a risk. if you disregard the letter and continue to use it they can terminate you for too much roaming. 3g is great in my area even without the hacked prl. by the way if you are on the hacked prl every minute you talk comes out of your roaming minutes. except for the regular nights and weekends.
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Welcome to the wonderful world of sprint customer service. That whole sending out a tech to your area is a sham. Really sprint is that the best you can come up with? I have been told that NUMEROUS times and never have I ever heard anything back regarding the techs results, or if a tech even came out. Complaints on data speeds just arent that high on their priority list. If you have issues with the speeds now, they are just going to frustrate you even more later. If you really love the phone and want sprints unlimited. There are options to improve data speeds, like roaming on verizons network, which we do for free. If you are more interested in that I can send you in the right direction.
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Can you help me out with that? 3G where I'm at sucks and most of the time I get no signal.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267893
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Thanks for the link that is EXACTLY what I need and will be using. Just gonna have to watch my data mb's while roaming. Hopefully I can get to Sprints service center after work tomorrow and get my phone up and running again. Really missing my poor 3g speeds! LOL
Thanks again
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Thanks for the link. So it's perfectly safe to use this as long as I watch my usage? I won't get charged extra for roaming would I?
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Thanks for the link. So it's perfectly safe to use this as long as I watch my usage? I won't get charged extra for roaming would I?
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I read in the thread that Sprint will start getting pissed If you go over 300mb and that its in the contract. I didn't read anywhere about being charged extra.
I'm just gonna try and cap out at 300 every month.
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I read in the thread that Sprint will start getting pissed If you go over 300mb and that its in the contract. I didn't read anywhere about being charged extra.
I'm just gonna try and cap out at 300 every month.
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Yeah. I'll just do that. I'm tired of the speeds I get here. It's less than 50kb/s with 3g coverage. It's ridiculous.
It really depends on your tower imho. 3g speeds do suck a lot of the times depending on which tower youre connected to.
In my house, i get 4g and 3g speeds (~10mbps / 1.3 mbps) but i go down the street 1/4 of a mile and bam no 4g and 3g speeds of ~100-300 kbps...
Really depends. Might want to invest in an airave or just drop and switch to tmobile / Vzw.
So you are going from bad to worse ?
If anything sprint is beter from AT&T and Tmobile. Those 2 have 2gb data limit and increased termination fees, not to mention their horrible customer services. I had AT&T for 7 years, and Tmobile for 6 years and must say sprint is bad but compered to those 2, sprint is golden.
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Alright cool. Rep. at Sprint never mentioned the 14 day return policy but thats how it was at Verizon. Guess I'm gonna have to take a look at Tmobile now. I'
m a data whore so I gotta have unlimited.
Thanks again
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Well after spending about an hour on the phone with service techs at Sprint yesterday I now have working data.
I was just sitting here messing with the phone(I have wifi at home) went into Sprint zone hit activate and now the phone is reactivated. I was on the phone with three different techs last night after the first one borked data. Pulling batteries, punching in numerous codes in the dailer, rebooting etc.
So whatever...... I'm just happy to have data back......and I did just get three voicemails from the tech that messed up data on my phone. I feel pretty stupid myself for not just trying to activate the phone on my own.
I really don't want this to turn into a hating on Sprint thread. I've had a rough experience with them so far but everyone makes mistakes. Now back to getting this thing rooted again and find another badass ROM and kernel to flash and get to roaming!!
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Return & go to t-mobile....I had sprint I never looked back
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I am a new Epic 4G Touch owner, have had my phone for about 4 hours now.
My Speed Tests results are terrible and the internet is not really usable. Getting about 21 kbps down and 312 ms up. No 4G in my area only 3G. (Sprint) I am in Detroit.
I was wondering if upgrading my radio would improve internet speeds? Or is there ANYTHING I can do to increase 3G performance?
My phone is not rooted YET.. I want to make sure the phone(s) are keepers before I go screwing around. (I have 3 of them)
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
I've read other complaints here from Detroit about the same issue. Apparently sprint service is bad there. Its a great phone and probably worth keeping if you use wifi a lot. Give it a few days before you decide.
Also what are you using for speed test? I get most accurate results here http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
I think that's what I am using, its the SpeedTest app from the market.
I gave Sprint a call to ask if there was anything I could do and was told that there is an outage in my area that should be resolved tomorrow. I let them know that I will be returning the phones if this didn't improve.
Internet may be slow, but daym I love this phone! upgraded from sprint Hero 200
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Could always request one of them air wave devices to improve ur signal inside your home.
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Yes I probably will request an airwave. I dont wish to part with this phone.
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Rich3077 said:
I am a new Epic 4G Touch owner, have had my phone for about 4 hours now.
My Speed Tests results are terrible and the internet is not really usable. Getting about 21 kbps down and 312 ms up. No 4G in my area only 3G. (Sprint) I am in Detroit.
I was wondering if upgrading my radio would improve internet speeds? Or is there ANYTHING I can do to increase 3G performance?
My phone is not rooted YET.. I want to make sure the phone(s) are keepers before I go screwing around. (I have 3 of them)
Any help is appreciated.
Thanks
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After a week I posted about the radio. In my experience, EG30 has worked the best. I just flashed FC18 tonight and will run that for a day, see how it goes. I'm on stock el29 software, rooted(obviously).
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This is just sprint, either your really lucky with 4g or good 3g or unlucky (like me) and have bad 3g and no 4g, hopefully this changes someday. Until then skip Sprint's proxy's and try different prl's and modems to get the best reception and signal strength.
Try new modems once you root. I used to get horrible speeds with ek02 but they improved with el26. There's no one modem that works best for everyone though... It varies from person to person. Anyways, with those speeds I'm assuming your problem is temporary because 21 kbps is nowhere near 3g
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I'll chime in here since I'm in the Detroit area as well, Warren to be specific. I just tested my speed test and got 0.6Mbps down and 0.43Mbps up. Second test results are 0.39Mbps down and 0.41Mbps up. Third test 0.80Mbps down 0.34Mbps up. And just for kicks and giggles a 4th test with results of 0.46Mbps down and 0.55Mbps up. All tested with speedtest.net app and 2:40am. During the day im mostly around 0.30Mbps down speed. You might want to try the stuff in this thread: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22782739 the 1st and 7th posts are helpful. Also, update prl and profile.
I have a galaxy s 3 t999 rooted running on carbon room 4.2. My phone does this strange thing with 4g and data location though... I run various speed tests and I get 200-400kbps in an area where I have full bars of hspa+ and used to get 13mbps. (the tower is about 500 feet behind where I'm at most of my day). Also when I run these speed tests, my ping is sometimes over 200 and I get a crazy location like Kansas City or new York, but I'm sitting here in Memphis Tennessee, even with location settings turned on. If anyone can send me some insight it would be greatly appreciated. If I have to flash a new radio then so be it. Here is an attached screen shot
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iTzGavin96 said:
I have a galaxy s 3 t999 rooted running on carbon room 4.2. My phone does this strange thing with 4g and data location though... I run various speed tests and I get 200-400kbps in an area where I have full bars of hspa+ and used to get 13mbps. (the tower is about 500 feet behind where I'm at most of my day). Also when I run these speed tests, my ping is sometimes over 200 and I get a crazy location like Kansas City or new York, but I'm sitting here in Memphis Tennessee, even with location settings turned on. If anyone can send me some insight it would be greatly appreciated. If I have to flash a new radio then so be it. Here is an attached screen shot
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I bet its the ROM your using. I tend to get different signals whenever I switch between ROM's as I do usually. If you haven't solved the problem already, try switching ROM's.
Or start by flashing back to stock. Then test and if things are ok, then try flashing some roms. This may be an issue with how close you are to the tower. 500 ft is probably not far enough away to be in line of sight and its signal may be overshooting you. It could receive your signal, but you may not receive its in return. Go about a 1/4 mile away, turn airplane mode on then off and see how it functions then.
Also, call T-Mobile to see if any towers in your area are experiencing problems or are under maintenance.
If that doesn't help, id try different modems as well. Could be due to the upgrade to LTE perhaps.
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happen to me too, sometime speed drop to ~0.50Mb, tried different ROM and still same thing, only fix is turn On and Off air plane mode, hey i'm work in memphis, TN and live in Bartlett, TN
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Love my Memphis lol. Born and raised here. Thanks for the tip, if it narrows it down at all I live in Germantown and the tower is on a TVA line but it's in eyesight. Only a tree or 2 blocks it. Thanks for the feedback though. I've called tmo many times and they reset my connection which I could do by doing a battery pull, but whatever. Thanks for the replies guys
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Does it seem to go quick enough for regular use?
In speedtest, your latency (ping) will always be high. While idle the phone will drop to 2g/3g to save power and bandwidth. It has to switch over when you start using it which accounts for your ping times.
I dont understand how it picks its server either. But you can manually select it if you choose. Read through my modem thread too btw. I should have some other speed test sites listed should you choose to try a different one. Comcast has a speed test page is an example.
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This also happens to me I'm in myrtle beach sc and if I do speed test, it will say my server is in Tenn or KS. Have had network reset menu times still does it. But I have great speeds none the less so in my opinion I say let it ride unless it is affecting your speeds. Again my opinion I'm no pro
I should also mention that just because a server is closest, doesn't mean its the fastest or best choice. I do know it tries to automatically pick the best one, but im not sure how exactly it does this. I imagine the app attempts to pick a server by examining things like network congestion, response time, maybe the number of hops it makes, etc. Just speculation. (And it probably receives this info from its own server, so its not actually doing all this from your phone)
in the past Ive gotten blazing fast speeds from a server 250 mi away and quite slow speeds from ones only 40-100 mi away.
Unless your actual usability is suffering, I think youre probabky ok.
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Thanks for the reply. I'll check your thread out. The speeds are five one I restart the phone but its an extreme annoyance getting 200kbps
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