I've had my S2 since last year November, and today was the first time I've ever seen the 3G icon on the status bar. Has that always been there on a stock rom!? I'm usually always on a 4g icon or Edge on a low signal area. I have never seen the 3G icon ever pop up on my phone
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I wouldn't mind it too much. With T-Mobile, 3G and "4G" = same thing.
Exactly the same issue here. Its always Edge or 4g. Odd.
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Clearly a photo shop
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Clearly a photo shop
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Its not a photo shop. In areas where AT&T has agreements and 3G only, T-Mo phones pick up on that. I have family that lives in one of these areas so.. he is right.. Its happened once to me, which that was the only area that I knew about that was a 3G-only area, every where else I go is yes either EDGE or 4G.
I rarely see edge on my phone 3g-4g all the time every once in a blue moon I see edge
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I have attached a few screenshots. Anyone else seeing results like this?
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Depends on where you live and how saturated your area is with 4G devices. When my area got it.... And I was testing before they made a official announcement I got 7-9mbps and sometimes 10+ mbps for a couple months. But eventually there were a lot of 4G devices coming online and Clearwire offers wimax 4G service for your home now..... Speed test show 3-5mbps.
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Yeah these results are from Chicago.
I get about 8000 down and 1500 up but only in my neighborhood. Elsewhere it is like 3000 to 6000 mbps down
I get this types of speed at home and around the neighborhood but i get sh*t speed anywhere else.
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From launch day of Epic up until 2 months ago I saw 4 to 6Mbps download and now...
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Crap.. I never get anything close to these ...
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I dont even have 4G service anywhere in Phoenix,az and im still paying for premium data. And dont tell me the BS that its for all smartphones, its for 4G xD
How can 4g get good signal but I have no service
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Think of 4G like Wifi...(it is in fact Wifi's humongous younger brother, built for wide scale) Wifi and Wimax and 2G/3G and Bluetooth are different radios. The 2G/3G radio is the one all mucked up.
because 4g service is from Clearwire , and not sprint
is that Los or just a real no sign
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I think I also hag a 3g signal happens two times today .last night I installed a Archidroid don't know if that caused my no service also I don't get a roaming warning anymore .I'm all stock
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Had that happen to me except I had full bars but no cell service. When I turned 4g off, the 3g symbol would cone back but no data. Reset fixed. damn los.
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In Evanston, IL 3g seems to be more than usable finally (I may even describe it as speedy) ...but not LTE quite yet - at least in the closest tower to me
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Yup. I work just before the Chicago Evanston border. 4g is solid until u start to move near Skokie
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In before the lock yes
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In before the lock yes
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Lol....
I don't have screen shots but I pulled 2.23mbps down and .9 up the other night then it switches back to the crappie tower and it's 400 or less down and .9 up, progress from the 22kbps I sometimes see.
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I get the same speeds now as well.
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I used to get those speeds everyday on my evo 4g on the 3g network 2 years ago . Now I'm lucky to get 400kbps. The now network my ass!
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Idk but I havent noticed anything for 4g related..like no toggle settings .. when im out I get 3g ...is the note 2 4g capable?
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Its an LTE device but if you dont LTE coverage in your area you will remain on 3G until sprint activates it in your area. *you may have 4G in your area but LTE is different
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Idk but I havent noticed anything for 4g related..like no toggle settings .. when im out I get 3g ...is the note 2 4g capable?
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I noticed that too, however after looking around it sounds Like a lot of new phones are set up to automatically detect and connect to 4g. If it doesn't connect it may not be in your area yet. If you want to try to force it go into settings and uncheck and then check connections optimizer. That will force a scan of available networks.
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My Evo 4G LTE has an option under mobile data to set it to CDMA or CDMA/LTE. My girlfriend has a GS3 an doesn't get 4G in places where I do. I didn't see where to cycle between CDMA only and CDMA/LTE on her GS3. May be an obvious answer, but we just got together so I haven't played with her phone much and didn't see where to make this change. Thanks for any help!
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Is under mobile network settings.
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Thank you VERY MUCH! I have no idea how I overlooked that! Just a different set up than my phones, but that shouldn't have mattered because I play around with many different phones. I was just being a noob, lol. Alright, nothing more to see here folks, let's move along and pretend this never happened! Lol
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