I signed up with tmobile about two weeks ago and have had no complaints until now. All of a sudden I am having trouble keeping a constant data connection at my place of business. Idk if its my phone or a problem with the local tower but the signal is all over the place while browsing the web. It looks like a strong signal until I go to use data then it drops to nothing. Last week this wasn't a problem at all.
Any tweeks or hardware I can buy to help remedy this?
My phone is completely stock and I am on the 30/month pre paid plan if that makes a difference.
Are there any better radios out that can be installed maybe?
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Is WIFI available at your place of business? If you are completely stock I'm assuming you are on GB. If that is the case use the WIFI calling feature offered by T-Mobile. If WIfI is not availiable you can try flashing the Blaze modem it improved my data speeds.
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Unfortunately WiFi is not available. I will look onto flashing the blaze modem. Thanks!
If ICS is indeed right around the corner will it come with different modems?
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Unfortunately WiFi is not available. I will look onto flashing the blaze modem. Thanks!
If ICS is indeed right around the corner will it come with different modems?
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Well hopefully it is right around the corner and we can have the current crop of ICS roms rebased off the T-Mobile S2 stock build and not from our distant cousin AT&T SkyRocket's build. But to be honest I’m not sure if it will or will not but I’m assuming it will as the current set of radios needed to be tweaked to work on current ICS roms. Any who if you want Mr. X has a list of some radios that he has tried and reported working he listed radios for both GB & ICS which I will post a link to his thread below. Try them out and you might just find one that works for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426001
I called tmobile about what was going on. They said they were going to try to reset my data connection and that I should reboot my phone and of its not fixed in a couple hours then to call them back.
I did this and all is well again! I'm back to a good signal and have not had any data issues in the past couple hours!
Thanks for all your help though it was greatly appreciated!
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Glad to hear T-Mobile was able to help fix your issue
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Sometimes my phone, even when there definitely is signal, would say searching for signal. It would take a couple reboots before I get my signal back. Even tried manual registration, it would get stuck registering on the tmobile network. Im running darkside v8, could anyone help with this annoying issue?
Flash another radio?
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Trying lc8 radio , hope this solves the issue
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For Darkside ICS roms, you need to use their modded radios, if you don't flash theirs, you will get data and signal issues. Check their thread for downloads.
I tried this , still didn't help. I switched to cm9 and installed the recommended uvle1 radio , and I still had the same problem. Either I had to manually register on T-Mobile or keep rebooting until signal came back (I'm in a full signal area)
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I tried this , still didn't help. I switched to cm9 and installed the recommended uvle1 radio , and I still had the same problem. Either I had to manually register on T-Mobile or keep rebooting until signal came back (I'm in a full signal area)
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I'm pretty certain this is an ics issue for some people. I had same thing last night, flashed gb, instant signal. If yours is consistent then I suggest running logcat to see what android is doing .
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My wifes is doing the same thing. It hasn't ever been rooted. Sometimes all she can get is E or G and then it drops. We have 3G area but it doesn't pick it up. Maybe I need to root it and flash a new radio. Any thoughts would be great. Thanks
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Hmmm strange , actually, mines worked fine before I upgraded to an ics rom , either cm9 or darkside evo . No signal drops whatsoever , not sure what's going on now , sim card seems to be fine , no drops In a froyo sidekick 4g
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A strange update on this thread, my problems with signal loss are now gone now that I'm on cm10
Edit: when it boots I have to make sure its 2g/3g setting otherwise it boots with no signal
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Disregard what I said in my previous post, I'm really hoping for a real solution/possible flaw with my gs2. I had to move my sim in my sidekick 4g, because my gs2 didn't seem to pick up any signal, and registering on the network would take forever . This is the biggest problem I have with my gs2. I can't always be moving my sim to the sk4g everytim my gs2 doesn't want to pick up signal, its very inconvenient. If it helps at all, I've had this issue every since I've gone beyond gb (this only seems to happen in ics and jb)
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Hello,
So im having a bit of an issue and hoping someone can help. I gave an unlocked galaxy s2 t989d to a friend in the us to use on att. Data was not working so i entered the correct apn values and it works great. For some reason though, the phone jumps onto the tmobile network randomly sometimes even while in an att service area.
So my question, is there any way to stop it from going to tmobile? I want it to stay on att.
Thanks for any help!
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Hello,
So im having a bit of an issue and hoping someone can help. I gave an unlocked galaxy s2 t989d to a friend in the us to use on att. Data was not working so i entered the correct apn values and it works great. For some reason though, the phone jumps onto the tmobile network randomly sometimes even while in an att service area.
So my question, is there any way to stop it from going to tmobile? I want it to stay on att.
Thanks for any help!
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Does it happen in any area or typically their home area? It could be several factors that cause this...is the phone rooted?
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It happens when she is at home. She has weak signal in her basement and the data drops down to edge. It then will briefly jump over to tmobile and say roaming then go back to att.
Any ideas?
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It happens when she is at home. She has weak signal in her basement and the data drops down to edge. It then will briefly jump over to tmobile and say roaming then go back to att.
Any ideas?
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well she's in a basement first and foremost, some basements can cause that. Thats normal, if the signal coming into the home isn't that strong in that area of the house, then thats normal and in reality there isn't much you can do about that. However, you can try to flash a different radio. I've heard good things about the blaze 4g radio (uvlf4) in some areas, and the galaxy notes radio (uvlg3) for others. I personally get the best signal off of uvle1 (tmo ics radio). Try those other two out and see if it improves. But if its only that one area, then that could be the culprit, and that unfortunately is something nobody can really do anything about. I had an apartment that was like that once, couldn't get anything useful out of my cell unless i was on wifi.
worse case scenario she can install a home repeater for AWS 1700/2100
http://www.wilsonelectronics.com/ProductDetails.aspx?Product=155&title=AWS+70+(802365)&Category=11
it has been tested and it really works, luckily i have no needs for that, but I've always planned to install one for my Car when i drive to poor reception areas
Thanks for the help!
I will try flashing a new radio when i grt the chance and see if that helps. I figured it was just an issue because of the low reception. I just did not want her to incur any roaming charges or anything so i figured i would see if someone had an idea.
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I've been hearing a lot of people say that they are having really good luck with the Galaxy Note radio- FYI, Good Luck!
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Thanks for all the help guys!
So i have decided to try out the stock tmobile 4.0.4 rom with the tmobile radio that comes stock. One question, csn i flash the odin of stock tmobile right over the stock telus 4.0.3 without issue or do i need to unlock the bootloader and root first?
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**edit** i found an image for the stock 4.0.4 tmobile rom for odin. Before i flash it, just wsnt to check if i have to install cwm, or root or unlock bootloader to do something first or can i just put the phone into download mode and just odin it right over the stock telus 4.0.3?
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I have been flashing for years and i just came over from ATT SG3 where i had no problems flashing and retaining 4g, but now on tmobile every rom i flash all i ever get is 3g and never 4g .. only for a brief second. the reason i came from ATT was the unlimited data.. can someone please assist as i used CM10, AOKP, WICKEDv5, blackjelly..... i cant figured it out. any help would be appreciated.
So you have the T-Mobile version now? Tried different radios
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Teo032 said:
So you have the T-Mobile version now? Tried different radios
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I have tried every single radio but alas.. i have had no luck and i live in Phoenix, AZ and i have tried all the 4.1.1 modems
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I have tried every single radio but alas.. i have had no luck and i live in Phoenix, AZ and i have tried all the 4.1.1 modems
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Hmm i would think Phoenix should have good service. Maybe you should Odin back to stock and start all over. Radio is the only reason i can think of that would affect the speed.
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How are you distinguishing what connection you are on? Many roms will show H+ instead of 4g
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I'm on stock. Rooted yesterday and download speeds seem slower now. I will do more testing this afternoon.
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well on the t-mobile variations the best you can get is H+ and most ROMs show that. other than that, try using a different kernel. that was the problem for me where my data wouldn't even work sometimes.
It looks like op knows the difference between 3g and 4g/H+ he noticed that he only gets 4g for like a second here and there and that's it.
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I had a similar problem. What happened with me was one day I went from great 4G (HSPA+) speeds 80ms Ping, 25MB Down, 4MB Up to all of the sudden a 1200ms Ping with 0.05MB Down and NO UPLOAD.
Turns out it was a problem with some towers in my area. Took T-Mobile two weeks to fix everything. Not sure if that is what's happening here but it could be possible.
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I have tried every single radio but alas.. i have had no luck and i live in Phoenix, AZ and i have tried all the 4.1.1 modems
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I live in phoenix, Arizona.
My sun niggaa!
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Same issue AOKP Build5 4.2.2
I too have this same issue with AOKP build 5 solid 3g but no 4g (H+) (tmo)
Stock however has solid 4g (chandler AZ)
gonna try CM and see what happens there.
Also gonna research radios aswell (really really really liked AOKP just didnt like being back on 3g)
I have had this phone for about 4 or 5 days. When at my house I get 3g and only about 1 or 2 bars. This happened on my Samsung stratosphere too. Could this be a SIM card issue or hardware. I have read about a lot of people replacing this phone and still getting issues with signal. If I do bring my phone in to a Verizon store to get a sim card do I have to revert my phone to stock? I don't know if I should send my phone back or if where I live is just horrible for data. Sorry for so many questions.
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Flash another baseband radio and if you are using custom rom with custom kernel then flash stock galaxy nexus's kernel.
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I have had this phone for about 4 or 5 days. When at my house I get 3g and only about 1 or 2 bars. This happened on my Samsung stratosphere too. Could this be a SIM card issue or hardware. I have read about a lot of people replacing this phone and still getting issues with signal. If I do bring my phone in to a Verizon store to get a sim card do I have to revert my phone to stock? I don't know if I should send my phone back or if where I live is just horrible for data. Sorry for so many questions.
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Since it is the case for two phones, then maybe the 3G coverage is not good in your place.
Try asking others living around to confirm if they also suffer the same 3G coverage problem. Also try in another place to see if it still shows a weak signal everywhere or only at your place.
I do get better signals in different areas. Even with the 3g and 1 bar my speeds for browsing are decent but I just was wondering if a sim card or replacement would help. Thanks and I will ask some people
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SkylineZx said:
I do get better signals in different areas. Even with the 3g and 1 bar my speeds for browsing are decent but I just was wondering if a sim card or replacement would help. Thanks and I will ask some people
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If you would like to try another baseband radio as suggested by manumanfred then this thread should help you if you have a Verizon Galaxy Nexus as it seems
Check this for baseband radios if you have a GSM Galaxy Nexus
I flashed the 4.0.4 radios and they didn't change. Should I try flashing again?
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I flashed the 4.0.4 radios and they didn't change. Should I try flashing again?
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Flashing radios makes a slight, if at all a difference. Your best bet would be to keep calling and complaining to your provider, ive seen some success stories where others have been able to get verizon/att to pay for a 3g extender
Edit:Alright thanks. I think I am just in a bad area and I use wifi at my house anyways. Thanks
I accidentally misread the radio labels. The 4.0.4 did install.
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Edit:Alright thanks. I think I am just in a bad area and I use wifi at my house anyways. Thanks
I accidentally misread the radio labels. The 4.0.4 did install.
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I am not sure that an old radio will perform better than the newer one. Give them a try then choose the one that suits you better
Well I am going to have to switch back to the latest. Data barely turns on when on these 4.0.4 radios. I am not going to return my phone because I doubt mine is defective. Thanks to everyone for helping
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SkylineZx said:
Well I am going to have to switch back to the latest. Data barely turns on when on these 4.0.4 radios. I am not going to return my phone because I doubt mine is defective. Thanks to everyone for helping
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It would be great if you mark this thread solved by adding something like "[SOLVED]" at the beginning of the current title
One more thing please is to make a habit of hitting the "Thanks" button to those who help you
Good Luck
4.0.4 radios are old. Try running something a little newer. I'm using FC04/FC05. Although honestly I don't really see a difference. Most of the time it just adjusts the timings between switching in and out of 4G... which I have disabled.
I would also recommend looking at a cellular booster/repeater. I work underground in the bottom floor of an office complex and we don't get signal from any carrier. We paid like $200 for a repeater and now we're good.
Does what Rom or kernel you are using effect your signal and speeds? Sorry if this is a dumb question but my lte is at like 4mbs right now and it was 20 plus last I checked a few days ago. I have unlimited data... supposidly
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Also is there a fix? I remember on the s3 doing build prop tweaks or changing modems. Haven't seen anything about that here
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Any help before I start wasting time flashing new roms and kernals. Apn settings are correct.
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Does what Rom or kernel you are using effect your signal and speeds?
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Generally no. It might affect what codes are displayed (LTE, 4G, E... vs. H+, H, etc) but most do not affect the radio unless you load the wrong ROM for your baseband (xxxxxMDL, etc.). Check settings for APN (can be rom affected) and radio band with *#2263# to be sure.
You can use any modem version on any rom... Your firmware version doesn't have to match your modem/baseband version. That's why people pull them and post them. So you can try each one and find which works best for your location. By testing modems out you can achieve anything from better service to better battery life.
But yeah nobody has pulled and posted them for tmo. I was actually looking just 2 weeks ago. We only have 2 tho. I pulled the modem from my phone which is running MDL but never tar'd it. Was going to pull the other from a tar but download of the tar was slow as hell and my pc shut down (thanks MS for the updates. Perfect timing) and killed the download and never got back around to re-downloading it.
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You can use any modem version on any rom... Your firmware version doesn't have to match your modem/baseband version. That's why people pull them and post them. So you can try each one and find which works best for your location. By testing modems out you can achieve anything from better service to better battery life.
But yeah nobody has pulled and posted them for tmo. I was actually looking just 2 weeks ago. We only have 2 tho. I pulled the modem from my phone which is running MDL but never tar'd it. Was going to pull the other from a tar but download of the tar was slow as hell and my pc shut down (thanks MS for the updates. Perfect timing) and killed the download and never got back around to re-downloading it.
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Thanks guys. Just strange my signal bounces around so much from 4g to lte. I live in Denver and would of thought coverage would be great in a big city. Also seems my signal used to be better all the time instead of sparratic bursts
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