As soon as my data connection stops my symbol switches from H to 3g straight away it only goes back when it starts receiveing data again.
Is it designed to do this? possibly for battery? the only reason I ask is there is a slight delay while it swtiches back and its slightly annoying.
Stret
Yes this is working as intended.
When the connection is idle it sits at UMTS (3G) which consumes less power, but can still transmit high speed data with low pings.
When you're actively transmitting data (loading web pages, etc.) it switches back to HSPA (H) which consumes more power but gives faster speeds.
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Summed up, since the UMTS towers in my area are operating in some sort of testing mode, I am only able to maintain/achieve UMTS reception by "dragging" it with me through hand-offs, which ONLY WORK IF I'M ON AN ACTIVE DATA CALL (H symbol showing). When the data transfer (which I keep active with MobiTV or streaming radio) pauses/ends, the "H", as usual, turns back to "3G", and the tower "kicks me off" 2-3 seconds after that. The phone loses reception, rescans, and connects to a GSM tower with no way to force it to register back to the UMTS tower, which has a stronger signal... NOW THE QUESTION:
Is there any way to trick the network into believing that my data connection is constantly being used so i can maintain this connection? Maybe keep HSDPA active w/out any actual data transfer or possibly writing a script that would download a fraction of a kilobyte every 2-3 seconds?... just a thought...let's hear yours...
The problem: At home, my 3G signal is very weak - occasionally it reaches 2 out of 4 bars, often it's only one and it frequently drops out altogether causing the phone to switch to EDGE. At work, however, I get a very good 3G signal, so it would be useful to use 3G.
Now, in theory the "Auto" band setting (auto between GSM and WCDMA) ought to cover this; but in practice the 3G signal at home is just strong enough that the phone keeps trying to switch into 3G mode (and thrashing the battery) but the actual data speed I get (even over HDSPA) doesn't seem much faster than EDGE, and every time it loses the HDSPA link and drops to EDGE there's a long pause before the data starts flowing again.
I've tried switching the phone's band setting between "GSM" and "Auto", using the GSM setting at home, and Auto elsewhere; but doing that plays havoc with "Microsoft Direct Push". Switching the phone band causes the data connection to drop, which switches Direct Push off; switching Direct Push back on again loses the more detailed settings I have set in ActiveSync (where I download email manually during work hours but automatically outside of work). In addition, because the data connection is lost, any application that's using it generally has to be shut down and restarted.
Is there some way of moving the phone between "Auto" and "2G only" mode without messing up the Direct Push setting and, if possible, without severing the data connection? While actually in "Auto" mode the phone happily switches between HDSPA and EDGE without any side-effects; so it seems like there ought to be a way to tell the phone "be in Auto mode but for the moment pretend that there is no 3G signal even if there actually is a weak one", and then use that setting in weak 3G areas, switching back to normal "Auto" behaviour when you know the 3G signal has improved. Or alternatively perhaps "Auto" mode could be made to not try to switch to 3G until you get a 3-bar signal, but, once switched, try and stay with 3G until it drops to 1 bar?
Ok, so I threw that at the window and learned how to do a reset! Now how do you change the settings to force 3g and drop edge? I read it on here somewhere but seem to find it now!
I you force edge out ,obviously your battery drains faster, but does it just revert back to the original settings after syncing? Also , the memory usage seems to be higher on 3g ?
i dont kno if the signal reverts back but i do with the 3g using more data because 3g is a faster network an then pushes more data on to the device, edge is a slower network that so less data to process thats why 3g uses more prossesing power i had edge for a wile but now 3g
So, I keep my wifi on mostly at all times. But I've found that when I leave my home, and get outside my wifi range, instead of naturally switching back to 3G (I usually have 4G disabled for battery purposes, unless I need speed), my 3G and bars icon will be all greyed out, and I will have no incoming data. I otherwise have a great signal here in Boston. Sometimes it will eventually start working, but other times I will need to reboot in order to have a working data connection.
Is this an issue anyone else has? It seems the transition from wifi to mobile data is glitchy?
I work in a building that has really bad connection to the data network. Whenever I unlock my phone, it always show full white bars but no indication of H or LTE, which means I am not getting data. It takes awhile before the phone then connects to the network again, albeit very slow.
Is my phone disconnecting from the data network when it is idle? When connection is weak? Is it trying to conserve battery from always trying to communicate with a weak signal? Anyway I can disable this delay to reconnect since I can still receive data but just slow?
i have a problem when my phone switches from wifi i will have bars but it will show a small x in the bars and i have to go into airplane mode for a few seconds then turn airplane mode off to get data working again... really annoying.
not sure if related, but the radio seems a bit wonky