I live in Livonia, MI (about 20 miles west of Detroit) and it seems like my data connection most of the time is 1X. I do not have exact numbers or locations, but it seems to happen whenever I need to find something using my phone. Since I do not have easy access to ODIN (Apple computers) I have not done alot of modem testing.
So my question for the members that live in SE Michigan, which modem have you found to work the best and/or is there any tweaks that I could try.
Right now I am on EL30 and run either stock CM9 or CleanGB and have tried V6 supercharger, 3g turbocharger, and Kickass kernelizer tweaks.
I live in Canton. The 3g speeds SUCK here if I even get 3G at all... Lol. My house is a deadzone too so I always need all of the possible tweaks to make my internet usable. I always use the modem for the rom release I am on. I use EL30 on cm9. I also have used it on other 2.3 roms and it works fine for me. I would take a speed test first, then test EC05. Then speed test again (speed test.net app) and see what you get a faster 3g speed on. I use 3g turbocharger with the fastest setting and the speed tweaks for wifi and 3g that I have posted in the development section.
There are barely any 3g capable towers in the area to give 3g all the time so it drops to 1x. The stock rom and some custom roms show 3g when it is really 1x. The specific rom you are on shows the correct mode.
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I live in Canton. The 3g speeds SUCK here if I even get 3G at all... Lol. My house is a deadzone too so I always need all of the possible tweaks to make my internet usable. I always use the modem for the rom release I am on. I use EL30 on cm9. I also have used it on other 2.3 roms and it works fine for me. I would take a speed test first, then test EC05. Then speed test again (speed test.net app) and see what you get a faster 3g speed on. I use 3g turbocharger with the fastest setting and the speed tweaks for wifi and 3g that I have posted in the development section.
There are barely any 3g capable towers in the area to give 3g all the time so it drops to 1x. The stock rom and some custom roms show 3g when it is really 1x. The specific rom you are on shows the correct mode.
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marcusant, I am glad you replied, since this question was mainly directed to you I do use the speedtest.net app and have tested EL30 modem with the tweaks you posted, but no baseline to compare, until now. You just stated what I originally thought, 3G sucks in our area. I am going to try the EC05 modem again, but with heavy work schedule coming up, not sure when my testing will be complete.
Same I have tried every modem. El30 seems to be the best in my area also (warren).
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Yup. You just gotta try them each and see which works best for you and your phone.
EL30 seems to work best for me. I drift in and out of 3g in my area so sometimes 1x is all I get. In Traverse City, MI
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I'm around ur area in farmington hills and I'm currently on the latest modem just released which seems about the same..
But I recc just using a verizon/sprint prl and force roam. It works great for me..
Also 3g in ann arbor is amazing..
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What about roam control app?
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I'm around ur area in farmington hills and I'm currently on the latest modem just released which seems about the same..
But I recc just using a verizon/sprint prl and force roam. It works great for me..
Also 3g in ann arbor is amazing..
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What about roam control app?
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Yeah that's what I use
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What about roam control app?
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I use it also, but sometimes I cannot get the data to work. It also forces my mobile network to "Home only" (stock CM9) instead of "Auto: Domestic Roaming"
Is it normal for it to do that?
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I use it also, but sometimes I cannot get the data to work. It also forces my mobile network to "Home only" (stock CM9) instead of "Auto: Domestic Roaming"
Is it normal for it to do that?
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what prl are you on?
and yes it is normal.. first just set cm9 mobile settings to auto, then use roam control. don't go back into cm9 mobile settings b/c it'll automatically change them..
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what prl are you on?
and yes it is normal.. first just set cm9 mobile settings to auto, then use roam control. don't go back into cm9 mobile settings b/c it'll automatically change them..
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I like the 11115 (IIRC) business prl and roam.
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what prl are you on?
and yes it is normal.. first just set cm9 mobile settings to auto, then use roam control. don't go back into cm9 mobile settings b/c it'll automatically change them..
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I have been on the 11115 prl for a while now. Think I might try the one marcusant uses.
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I have been on the 11115 prl for a while now. Think I might try the one marcusant uses.
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When I first got this phone I lived in Novi. I had pretty good 3g with eclar and froyo. Now I live in Lansing its not too bad out here and in downtown there is 4g ha ha. I always and only use official modems. EL30
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That explains why I couldn't find the other one then!
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I just flashed Cyanogen RC2 and I am not able to get 3g. Where the 3g should be there is only a "1x". The data works but is incredibly slow, I asked a friend and he said that I might need to flash the new radio. Anyone have any other suggestions?
Thanks a bunch
What is your current radio?? When you flashed CM it comes with current one..
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Are you in an area with a bad signal? At work when I'm not near a window my connection will sometimes drop to that level.
No I have full service and I did a speed test and I got 1 KB/s dload speed
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I just flashed Cyanogen RC2 and I am not able to get 3g. Where the 3g should be there is only a "1x". The data works but is incredibly slow, I asked a friend and he said that I might need to flash the new radio. Anyone have any other suggestions?
Thanks a bunch
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I'm getting the Same 1x with rc2 and nightly 14.
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I've had that happen and what I did was luck mobile data off, wait a bit, then enable it again.
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This was happening to me to, on every rom. The other phone on my account was faster to...odd. So I called Sprint and they "refreshed my data services". Flawless now. Now its says 3g instead of 1x. Stoked
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is there any risk involved in this? eg. can they tell I'm rooted/running a custom rom? sorry I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff.
Also when I go to wireless settings there is no option for mobile data
Leo1103 said:
is there any risk involved in this? eg. can they tell I'm rooted/running a custom rom? sorry I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff
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Well don't mention it to them make sure you have a rom that has the option to update your prl, and profile. Because they'll want you to do it. Fare warning, they'll want you to update the firmware. I just went with it, but it didn't go through. It said "there is no system update". So it all worked out.
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This has been happening to me, too. I tried different radios, prl, etc.. with no changes. I even went back to a rooted 3.26 rom and let the phone update the firmware and everything it wanted to with no change in signal. The Sprint tech said everything looked fine on his end after having me update profile, prl, check for software and firmware upgrades. I can't remember what he called it but basically he reactivated my phone as a last step.
CM and mobile signal widget show 1x and when I go to ##debug# (on sense) and check EVDO engineering every field shows <failed>
When I get time I am going to go to Best Buy and hope their insurance works well.
That's weird because when I go to another rom like fresh my 3g works fine its just on cyanogen that my phone has this hiccup
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How it runs with your phone etc? location doesn't matter just wanna see if its worth checking out
I've heard some bad things about it. It was just a leak and never went official. So I would not recommend it. I ended up having to flash fc09 back on because it went out of service and wouldn't come back on.
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There is a reason they didn't release it
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MДЯCЦSДИT said:
There is a reason they didn't release it
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Just wanted it so when my wife messed with me I could flash it so when I killed Kissed her she wouldn't have service. lmfao
Idk what you're all talking about. Been using it since it leaked and my connection and speeds are fantastic.
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I haven't had any problems with it and I've also been using it since it leaked! I'm even in an area with miserable service...
Zeinzu said:
Idk what you're all talking about. Been using it since it leaked and my connection and speeds are fantastic.
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I haven't had any problems with it and I've also been using it since it leaked! I'm even in an area with miserable service...
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Thanks for confirming that different modems react differently for different phones/areas!
As mentioned above, YMMV. But here was my modem test (4-5 bars signal, 3 tests each) using SpeedTest.Net's app in Raleigh:
FC09: 0.69 Mbps download, 0.67 Mbps upload average
FC19: 0.31 Mbps download, 0.5 Mbps upload average
FC19 Tests
0.27d/0.53u
0.29d/0.39u
0.37d/0.57u
FC09 Tests
0.67d/0.69u
0.66d/0.65u
0.75d/0.68u
Each phone reacts differently to modems. Plain and simple. Try each modem out until you find the one that works best for you.
I ended up back on EI22.
This is a thread to discuss the FG20 build for the Boost Mobile version for our phone.
As to my knowledge there are no issues running it on our Epic 4G Touch without of course a simple APN fix to get MMS.
What we've noticed is that its a more polished version of FF18 and what we should have essentially gotten for our phone.
I would like to know your experiences on FG20 and how it's running for you.
And note any bugs you notice please!
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Everything seems fine, some (but fewer than FF18) apps FC on me. The multitask bug is still there, I haven't tested if the exchange bug is still there. Battery life seems a bit sketchy, but better than FF18's. This is near 92-95% percent of what our ICS update should have been in the first place.
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I not sure to try the full ROM because I only flash the modem and can't even make a good call 95% of calls drop on me and the people I tell to call me they all went directly to my Voice mail.
Maybe I should try full ROM but dunno.
Edit: I just notice a few hours ago service get a Lil better, I will try again maybe was Sprint Service problems.
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guys i dont know if it was just me or something, i flashed agats kernel and it didnt boot, so im guessing something is different in the kernels, also mobile odin didnt recognize it...
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guys i dont know if it was just me or something, i flashed agats kernel and it didnt boot, so im guessing something is different in the kernels, also mobile odin didnt recognize it...
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Damn. That does seem a little mysterious. I wonder what's so different in these BST builds...
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Omar04 said:
I not sure to try the full ROM because I only flash the modem and can't even make a good call 95% of calls drop on me and the people I tell to call me they all went directly to my Voice mail.
Maybe I should try full ROM but dunno.
Edit: I just notice a few hours ago service get a Lil better, I will try again maybe was Sprint Service problems.
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I've been on the fg20 modem for a few days now and not had any problem, I've have no 4g in my area and spotty 3g... my 3g speeds have been more or less the same as they were on ff11, but the consistancy and stability of the connection has improved and this has helped my battery life, not that I had an issue with my battery life... voice calls have been good and I've not noticed any change from what I experanced on ff11, which prior to this was the modem I got best results with
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Hello, I tried the FG20 rom and noticed that there was no Roaming option in the settings, so I did a quick search for Boost mobile roaming and found that BST doesn't allow roaming. So for now, it's back to the somewhat unreliable (WiFi) FF18
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Hello, I tried the FG20 rom and noticed that there was no Roaming option in the settings, so I did a quick search for Boost mobile roaming and found that BST doesn't allow roaming. So for now, it's back to the somewhat unreliable (WiFi) FF18
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Did you try Roam Control to force roaming?
cferd said:
Hello, I tried the FG20 rom and noticed that there was no Roaming option in the settings, so I did a quick search for Boost mobile roaming and found that BST doesn't allow roaming. So for now, it's back to the somewhat unreliable (WiFi) FF18
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Not sure about your location but i went from ff18 to el29 and it's a world of difference.
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Toleraen said:
Did you try Roam Control to force roaming?
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No, sorry. And since my last post, I've gone even further back to old reliable Blazer 4.1. But am keeping the FG20 modem however, figuring that it should be at the very least no worse than either FF18 or EL29.
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Not sure about your location but i went from ff18 to el29 and it's a world of difference.
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LOL! So did I as noted above.
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No, sorry. And since my last post, I've gone even further back to old reliable Blazer 4.1. But am keeping the FG20 modem however, figuring that it should be at the very least no worse than either FF18 or EL29.
LOL! So did I as noted above.
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???
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I'm not sure what you're questioning, but I'll try to be more specific. After trying the FG20 ROM/Modem and realizing that it had no roaming option, I first reverted to a backup of FF18 ROM, keeping the FG20 Modem. But FF18 has an annoying WiFi issue where it often disconnects while in sleep mode. So I then restored old reliable a.k.a Blazer 4.1 ROM which doesn't have any issues whatsoever, or at least any that bothered me. The modem itself, whether EL29, FF18 or FG20, all performed about the same regardless of ROM type, so as of yet, there is no reason to go back to an earlier version than FG20.
Bottom line, when I mentioned WiFi issues, they had nothing to do with modems..... I think.
I am still trying to figure out what makes these builds so different.
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Seems like more trouble than its worth. I think a lot if people thought fg20 would be our silver bullet. I have a feeling we'll see an update for our ics before too long
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I'm running this but I'm also on boost. Find it to be an improvement over the last few ics leaks. Using agat's latest release 4 which I loaded thru Odin since mobile Odin doesn't recognize the device anymore. All in all pretty smooth with good battery.
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So I'm at school where fortunately we have lte, but lately my phone only connects to 3g unless I reboot while in campass. But even after class I go back outside and have to reboot again to connect to lte. Anyone else have an issue like this???
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I'm having the same issue.
Full LTE available at work. Some days, it's stays on 4G throughout my entire shift. Sometimes when I use my phone for daily tasks such as web/sms/calls it drops off to 3G and stays there til I reboot then 4G comes back again. Strange.
Are you running CM or a TW ROM?
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nope, all stock
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nope, all stock
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Is your Sprint Optimizer on? Also you might get more responses asking in the LTE thread in the stickies in General.
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mooney1184 said:
nope, all stock
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And, of course, you are running the latest LG8 firmware?
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Sooo im sure alot of people noticed the 4G speed drop but what sad is that the fact of the s3 3g speeds are faster than my 4g on my s2
welp time to leave since sprint keeps making bad choices because now im an unhappy wimax user i use to see about 5 - 7 mbs
now all i can see is barely 1+mb on 4g unless......is a hack or fix to tweak this or is it that lte chips are jus super fast
because i did the proxy bypass thing where you change the proxies to 0 across the board a lil better but still slow
and well most of all no official jb and well you know by the time we really get jb
everyone will be on key lime pie lol just saying...
Tha_Dynasty2049 said:
Sooo im sure alot of people noticed the 4G speed drop but what sad is that the fact of the s3 3g speeds are faster than my 4g on my s2
welp time to leave since sprint keeps making bad choices because now im an unhappy wimax user i use to see about 5 - 7 mbs
now all i can see is barely 1+mb on 4g unless......is a hack or fix to tweak this or is it that lte chips are jus super fast
because i did the proxy bypass thing where you change the proxies to 0 across the board a lil better but still slow
and well most of all no official jb and well you know by the time we really get jb
everyone will be on key lime pie lol just saying...
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see you later then.. lol go get a phone with key lime pie! at least you have wimax.. will beat my 1x speeds in my area on 3g
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elliwigy said:
see you later then.. lol go get a phone with key lime pie! at least you have wimax.. will beat my 1x speeds in my area on 3g
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wow....then u should have posted this lol
naw i know what you mean but arggghhh its just soo bad
maybe its modem related so ill chill and go from there
What rom are you running?
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If you're in the northern/north eastern part of the US some of your problem may be due to sandy and the associated storms up there. There was a lot of infrastructure damage to the networks of all carriers up there, but with sprints infrastructure being overloaded already the damage puts even more strain on the remaining parts of the network that are functional from users being offloaded from damaged/downed towers to ones that are functioning. They were saying there would be network outages and slower speeds/increased dropped/missed calls from Minnesota east as far south as Missouri thru north Carolina. They are working on getting it back up currently and they are going ahead and doing the NV and LTE deployment instead of just patching up the damaged old towers.
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Tha_Dynasty2049 said:
Sooo im sure alot of people noticed the 4G speed drop but what sad is that the fact of the s3 3g speeds are faster than my 4g on my s2
welp time to leave since sprint keeps making bad choices because now im an unhappy wimax user i use to see about 5 - 7 mbs
now all i can see is barely 1+mb on 4g unless......is a hack or fix to tweak this or is it that lte chips are jus super fast
because i did the proxy bypass thing where you change the proxies to 0 across the board a lil better but still slow
and well most of all no official jb and well you know by the time we really get jb
everyone will be on key lime pie lol just saying...
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What Kernel are you on? If you're not running a stock kernel, 4g speeds get borked. I got 8mpbs down on stock, then would flash a JB rom and wouldn't break 1mpbs -- it would stick right around 650kpbs. Then I could flash right back to stock and speeds would be back up. I'd try flashing back to stock and see if that's it. If so, the only other kernel that I've found that doesn't break 4g is AGATS FI27 stock repack.
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What Kernel are you on? If you're not running a stock kernel, 4g speeds get borked. I got 8mpbs down on stock, then would flash a JB rom and wouldn't break 1mpbs -- it would stick right around 650kpbs. Then I could flash right back to stock and speeds would be back up. I'd try flashing back to stock and see if that's it. If so, the only other kernel that I've found that doesn't break 4g is AGATS FI27 stock repack.
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Soo i tried exactly wat you said...switched to AGats fi27 and i also changed my modem to fi27
then i updated prl and profile and now im gettting 10 mbs down and 2.5up
kinda wierd that fi25 was that horrible....im running blazer rom ics but all is fine now just have a yellow triangle in the middle during boot
but i can live with it for now until i actually feel like fixing my phone with a new rom and theme lol but thank you
It is so odd how source built kernels destroy data speeds. Don't make since. Its true. That's why blazer ROM always ran stock and it runs great
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Tha_Dynasty2049 said:
Soo i tried exactly wat you said...switched to AGats fi27 and i also changed my modem to fi27
then i updated prl and profile and now im gettting 10 mbs down and 2.5up
kinda wierd that fi25 was that horrible....im running blazer rom ics but all is fine now just have a yellow triangle in the middle during boot
but i can live with it for now until i actually feel like fixing my phone with a new rom and theme lol but thank you
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I personally found using FI03 kernel did better for me. Might have to retest again
Tha_Dynasty2049 said:
Soo i tried exactly wat you said...switched to AGats fi27 and i also changed my modem to fi27
then i updated prl and profile and now im gettting 10 mbs down and 2.5up
kinda wierd that fi25 was that horrible....im running blazer rom ics but all is fine now just have a yellow triangle in the middle during boot
but i can live with it for now until i actually feel like fixing my phone with a new rom and theme lol but thank you
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You can use the triangle away app in the play store. All the triangle means is that a custom kernel has been flashed, doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with the phone.
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You can use the triangle away app in the play store. All the triangle means is that a custom kernel has been flashed, doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with the phone.
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good good....thanks
but im still gon flash a new rom and make a new theme and see if i can fix this
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You can use the triangle away app in the play store. All the triangle means is that a custom kernel has been flashed, doesn't mean that there's anything wrong with the phone.
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Mobile odin won't cause the yellow triangle when flashing kernels
cm10+fi27 modem.
CM10 gets fast speeds now? I was throttled like crazy on cm9
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CM10 gets fast speeds now? I was throttled like crazy on cm9
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mines fast.
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mines fast.
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How fast? What kernel and rom are you running?
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How fast? What kernel and rom are you running?
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paranoidandroid 2.54 which is built on CM10 beta 2 source. I get 10meg dl and 1-2 ul.
calisro said:
paranoidandroid 2.54 which is built on CM10 beta 2 source. I get 10meg dl and 1-2 ul.
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Thanks. I'll give it a whirl and report back with my findings!
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paranoidandroid 2.54 which is built on CM10 beta 2 source. I get 10meg dl and 1-2 ul.
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Funny. I tried it and my DL speeds topped out at 600kbps then restored my nan and went right back up to 9mbps. Weird.
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Funny. I tried it and my DL speeds topped out at 600kbps then restored my nan and went right back up to 9mbps. Weird.
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odd. I get 10 dl right now.... modem? prl? weird stuff. at least we know cm10 is capable of it.