my data speeds have been slow constantly and my call connections have been poor recently... im on roms running 4.0.3 and 4.0.4... any suggestions? thanks
id love some help here if anyone can help... thanks!
try them all and use the one that gives you the best service, or visit existing threads as there are several (use search)
i personally use xxkk6
I've used XXKK6 and UGKL1. I was getting a stronger signal with UGKL1, but opted for XXKK6 since it was still pulling down a solid signal and eliminates the concern of not having a stock baseband when another OTA comes out.
I currently use UGKL1 and get great call quality and data speeds between 5 and 20mbps depending on time of day. My pings are higher than they were with XXKK6 though.
zephiK said:
try them all and use the one that gives you the best service, or visit existing threads as there are several (use search)
i personally use xxkk6
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This.
Also, a lot of radio performance depends on your location - what works for one person on your carrier may not necessarily work for you. Best bet is to try a few and see what works best.
I flashed Evolution 2 with no problems and followed the instructions to a tee. The only thing I haven't done is the cache wipe. The problem I am having so far is with the radio. I get no data and a data packet roaming message from the status bar. I can only get data working is if I flash the Telus modem prepped for ICS. I had similar problems as well with other roms and I'm guessing the radio rom that only plays nice with Telus is their modem. Am I wrong? If so any suggestions? I'm on the Telus network if it helps
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Weaponx525 said:
I flashed Evolution 2 with no problems and followed the instructions to a tee. The only thing I haven't done is the cache wipe. The problem I am having so far is with the radio. I get no data and a data packet roaming message from the status bar. I can only get data working is if I flash the Telus modem prepped for ICS. I had similar problems as well with other roms and I'm guessing the radio rom that only plays nice with Telus is their modem. Am I wrong? If so any suggestions? I'm on the Telus network if it helps
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Ok, first things first: do the cache wipe, and use the script provided with the ROM for it. Trust me, it won't delete any of your data, it's perfectly safe. (I speak from experience) The only thing you will notice is that your phone will take a really long time to boot immediately after the wipe. That's expected, let it be.
To your question:
It makes no sense to me why using TELUS' radio on TELUS should be the only way for your phone have data. I can't test this for you as I am not a TELUS client, but I have used the TELUS modem on Rogers and Mobilicity without any trouble at all. The one thing I can think of that may do this is your modem's band settings: the ROM comes with a modem for T-Mobile, which uses a different frequency for its data network. This is how you (try to) fix this:
Go into the Phone application and dial the following:
*#*#2263#*#*
Upon hitting the last * you will see the service menu for the phone, allowing you to set which bands the phone will be looking for for a network. Then press (3) for GSM and then (5) for GSM 850/1900. This should do it for TELUS. If this doesn't work, try using (3) for GSM and then (7) for GSM ALL, or if all else fails, just go into the menu and set (1) for full Automatic.
Another thing, though: I don't understand why you would want to use the T-Mobile radio, when the TELUS one gives you something all of us here can only wish for: presence on two networks at the same time. You can be riding an elevator or take your time in the parking lot without loosing data even for a second! This radio is meant for the TELUS network, and is giving you the best possible experience on it. If it works for you, my advise is to stick with it. The T-Mobile one isn't a step up for you.
Thank you for the detailed response. It is very appreciated. The reason I used the T Mobile modem was that it was the one provided in TDJ's link and I thought it might be more "compatible" with the T-Mobile leak. I didn't know about the advantage that the Telus modem provided. Could you explain what is meant by prescence on two networks? Either case the Telus modem has been very stable thus far and I think I'll keep using it for now.
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Well, this flavour of the Galaxy S2 is not meant for TELUS. It is meant for T-Mobile, an AWS carrier. This phone cannot work very fast on TELUS as it does not support its data network fully. Worse still, last Q4 this phone was pitched against Rogers' LTE flavour of the S2, the Skyrocket, whose ICS leak we were running until recently. TELUS had to beef it up beyond the 14Mbps possible with HSPA so that it would compete.
So, they loaded it up with a state-of-the-art HSDPA radio, which allows it to aggregate signal from two HSPA towers to get its speed edge. I don't think this is done very often, if at all: it's quite remarkable TELUS did that. In a nutshell, your phone can sit on two cellular networks at the same time, the 850Mhz and the 1900Mhz one, and aggregate them to give you the theoretical 28Mbps. Still not LTE, but in the ballpark. You own a T989D, where the D stands for dual towers, and the 850Mhz band means you can stream music uninterrupted while walking into an elevator and then out again.
So that's it, in a nutshell. If I were on TELUS, I would be running this radio as well, up until the day I can replace it with another TELUS radio.
Hello,
For people having problems With the TMO Radio on Telus.
The Tmo radio sucks on Telus it will break Data connection, so use the Telus radio. But you can not flash over TMO ICS Rom with the Telus RIL files, it will break signal all together.
If you are already using a TMO ICS rom use one of the Telus radios in the Nexusmod thread with the system folder removed or remove the system folder before you flash the radio.
If your getting ready to flash an Ics rom and your on Telus radio, skip the flashing radio step. I hope that helps.
Though I heard rumors that the Telus radio doesnt quite work perfectly with the TMO leak
If we could use this thread for problems with Telus users using the leak that would be great
After flashing the Telus modem with the RIL file removed, ie installing the modem from the Nexus Mod thread in the dev section, this Rom has definitely more stable data connection. There are still some random drop outs but not as often as the TMo radios. Actually I have flashed many of the ICS leaks and there has, in my experience, data drop outs with any TMo modem on the Telus network. I'm very happy thus far with Evolution 2. There are occasionally some app crashes and camera glitches but overall nothing deal breaking. Amazing job on this ROM.
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Do you think this could cause a phone force close with the Virgin Mobile network?
EDIT: Yep. That was the problem. Thank you guys so much, I've been stressing for days... The Telus radio fixed everything.
Working for me here. I'm not sure if my speeds are where they should be though, as in they seem to be half of what they should be. This leads me to think that the phone might only be seeing and connecting to one tower instead of two for the HSPA. My baseband shows up as Unknown too, so I'm not sure if that is a big deal or not.
I am a Telus user and to be honest found my quickest speeds with the Blaze ics modem, but I live in a rural area. I am trying the UVCL8 modem now and it is okay. I was getting some data roaming errors with this one, but it seems to have smoothed itself out. The Telus & Tmobile radios as I understand it are supposed to both supposed to support HSPA+ or a theoretical maximum of 42mpbs. I would confirm all of your apn settings and make sure they are all fine.
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I am a Telus user and to be honest found my quickest speeds with the Blaze ics modem, but I live in a rural area. I am trying the UVCL8 modem now and it is okay. I was getting some data roaming errors with this one, but it seems to have smoothed itself out. The Telus & Tmobile radios as I understand it are supposed to both supposed to support HSPA+ or a theoretical maximum of 42mpbs. I would confirm all of your apn settings and make sure they are all fine.
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Bizarre. I just tried the Blaze modem and had extremely slow speeds on speedtest. Like 1 mpbs, whereas I had at least 10 with Telus' modem. It isn't like I was getting slow slow speeds or anything I guess. Just kind of strange.
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I am a Telus user and to be honest found my quickest speeds with the Blaze ics modem, but I live in a rural area. I am trying the UVCL8 modem now and it is okay. I was getting some data roaming errors with this one, but it seems to have smoothed itself out. The Telus & Tmobile radios as I understand it are supposed to both supposed to support HSPA+ or a theoretical maximum of 42mpbs. I would confirm all of your apn settings and make sure they are all fine.
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curious, where in canada you living? I'm on vancouver island and I kind of get junk speeds
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I'm on LG8 right now. Seems fine on store phones. My signal strength is worse. Wanted to check out some others. What are you using and what works well for you?
Switching back to LG2, I'll report back. I know each phone is different and it's also dependent on the area.
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I'm on LG8 right now. Seems fine on store phones. My signal strength is worse. Wanted to check out some others. What are you using and what works well for you?
Switching back to LG2, I'll report back. I know each phone is different and it's also dependent on the area.
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Im on LG8 and doing well.
Im also in a market with LTE so maybe thats why.
Ive read others have better luck with LG2 if they are in a non LTE market.
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Im on LG8 and doing well.
Im also in a market with LTE so maybe thats why.
Ive read others have better luck with LG2 if they are in a non LTE market.
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I figured since LG8 is more fine tuned for the Vision / LTE network, I'd have better luck going back to LG2. I'm testing a battery right now, so I don't want to lose that info. It would reset. Just don't know when to make the jump.
-58 dBm 16asu @ home on LG8 with Airave. Lol. I'll need to turn that off.
Modems
From what I've gleaned from reading several threads on the topic, there is no "global" answer when it comes to modems. Their performance can be different for each phone. There is a great tool developed by clark44 from TeamSonic, click here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1816530 that allows you to flash any of the current modems available from Sprint. I've used the tool several times, and have used each modem for 3-5 days each. I ended up settling on LEN as this gives me the best reception & data speeds for the area I live and work in, a non-4G LTE area
I have a unlocked galaxy s2 X from t-mobile that im currently using with wind. The data is just incredibly sow on it and i know its not Wind because my friend who has the same phone as me and is on wind gets around 3mbps down and around .5 up while i get no where near that. So i just want to know is there a way to speed up data in Toronto area
I have the same phone on Wind. My data speed is good but it also depends on data traffic (sometimes its slow) as well as your location.
Also, try flashing different radios. Personally, I prefer TLLE4 radio which is a telus ICS radio.
do u have the link to that radio
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do u have the link to that radio
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Heres a list of radios, (the telus radio is in there too) just try different ones until you find what works best: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1895400
cheers!
Hi,
I have a T-Mobile S4 and have seen several threads about installing a TMo ROM and kernel on an AT&T S4, but I just switched to AT&T and wondered about installing a stock 4.4.4 At&t ROM and kernel on my TMo S4. It's unlocked and I run Pacman on it now but for some reason, it very rarely gets an LTE signal and seems to choose "H" when my wife's at&t phone uses LTE. I've tried different combinations of Preferred Network Modes and nothing helps. I was hoping a stock at&t would run better. Is this possible or can anyone lead me in the right direction?
Thanks
First thing to do is check the APN. Make sure the settings match ATT stock, as shown here in the APN section.
Running an ATT ROM wouldn't actually give you better reception. However, it's well known that TouchWiz ROMS report higher signal strength than AOSP ROMs or iPhone for that matter. It's not that Touchwiz actually gets better reception, they just report it in terms of bars biased more highly. I did a study on this by reading signal strength (in db) on my M919 phone running an AOSP based ROM, next to an actual ATT I337, and an iPhone 5S. Actually the M919 got the best reception (in terms of db, by a small margin) but the reported bars were lower than the other two. Here is a link.
It's possible that the way your ROM/Kernel are set up, the threshold to switch to H+ instead is different than in TouchWiz. You could try running the M919 stock firmware for a while, and see how it does. You could also just try updating to the latest LTE modem (which requires bringing your bootloader up to current as well).
Good luck and let us know what you find.
Marc
Thanks for the awesome help. That's exactly what I wanted to know. I ended up deleting all of the extra APNs except for the necessary ATT phone one and its been working great. For some reason it would randomly switch to a worse APN when it had choices.
Glad I ran across this thread. I am running Net10 and deleting all extra apns changed my phone from unusable indoors, to always having 2 or 3 bars . I can't believe it took me this long to try it. Thanks for the help.