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[Q] GSM Galaxy Nexus 300kbps

My 3g was working very slow so i downloaded this app called sppedtest.net and my download speed is around 290-350 kbps and the upload speed test gives an error it can't even complete, what is wrong with my phone, i have unlocked it officially

would flashing a new radio help?

Are you in a bad 3g area with your provider?
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What carrier? If on AT&T, you need to have it 4g provisioned
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i am gsm, from romania, orange. in my house, this is not the problem because my samsung galaxy s 2 i had before was blazing fast..

here is a screenshot

please help?

I'm using a CDMA Verizon Nexus and my Speed Test app won't even work half the time. When it does my 3G speeds never go higher than what you show. Have yet to have uploads past 100kbps. I'm on my second Nexus already.

pjd2011 said:
I'm using a CDMA Verizon Nexus and my Speed Test app won't even work half the time. When it does my 3G speeds never go higher than what you show. Have yet to have uploads past 100kbps. I'm on my second Nexus already.
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It's probably the tower and/or the server you're testing on, not the phone.
My GN blazes:

I went from xxkk1 to xxkk6 radio and i get better dl speeds now.

funny thing is that i have the xxkk6 now, so this is a software bug?

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can someone answear pls

please can no one help?i can't do nothing without wifi and i am paying for unlimited data plan for nothing

a lot of us are from the US here so we won't be able to do much to help you since your an orange subscriber. if you notice, most of us have usa companies in our sidebar.
as far as your issue. i don't think it's something with the phone. your best bet is to go into the orange store where you bought the device and talk to them about the issue and see whats going on.
i'm on T-Mobile USA, and i've had no issues with the speedtest app and have been getting on average 5Mbps down on 3G.

I have the same issue with my Galaxy Nexus. It is bought from Spain. I have tried all GSM radios, several ROMs, including the stock ones, nothing. The same SIM, in a Galaxy S II, on SpeedTest.net app (same server) gets 5 mbps, on my Nexus it never goes past 300kbps and it extremely jittery.
I suspect the phone is defective. What are your thoughts?

Your best bet is to call up your service provider and have them run through the settings of your access point names with you to make sure the settings are right.
If it's a hardware problem, you will most likely not be able to connect to 3G at all.

MilkPudding said:
Your best bet is to call up your service provider and have them run through the settings of your access point names with you to make sure the settings are right.
If it's a hardware problem, you will most likely not be able to connect to 3G at all.
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That gave me an idea and I found the problem. On each reboot Orange forces down my throat the settings and it defaults to WAP. THAT is why nothing works on mobile data; if I delete all APNs and manually create just the one for data it is fine.

Network Selection Issue (T-Mobile)

Hi,
For 12 months i've been fighting with T-Mobile UK, insisting that theres an issue with their network and poor web speeds with their inept customer service team continuing to blame the handset (even though Ive had two handsets and tested my sim card in others).
Anyway yesterday I finally cracked it, its to do with T-Mobile sharing with Orange.
When I set the network to automatic, most of time it reverts to "T-Mobile Orange" on this I get les than 0.5 meg download speeds however if I manually change it to just the "t-mobile" network I get 4 meg which is what it should be.
The problem is however my Nexus reverts back to Automatic randomly which puts me on Oranges' poor network.
T-Mobile are refusing to help and are insiting I just need to manually select the network despite me saying my phone reverts
My question is, how can I ensure that my nexus only uses the t-mobile network and doesnt revert back to auto?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Stret

Stretlow said:
Hi,
For 12 months i've been fighting with T-Mobile UK, insisting that theres an issue with their network and poor web speeds with their inept customer service team continuing to blame the handset (even though Ive had two handsets and tested my sim card in others).
Anyway yesterday I finally cracked it, its to do with T-Mobile sharing with Orange.
When I set the network to automatic, most of time it reverts to "T-Mobile Orange" on this I get les than 0.5 meg download speeds however if I manually change it to just the "t-mobile" network I get 4 meg which is what it should be.
The problem is however my Nexus reverts back to Automatic randomly which puts me on Oranges' poor network.
T-Mobile are refusing to help and are insiting I just need to manually select the network despite me saying my phone reverts
My question is, how can I ensure that my nexus only uses the t-mobile network and doesnt revert back to auto?
Thanks in advance for the help.
Stret
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I'm sorry I can't help you, but this is interesting. My GNex *never* switches onto T-Mobile Orange unless I force it manually. I had come to think that the Automatic function just doesn't work as my phone is happy to sit there with a totally lost signal. I've found T-Mobile's customer service a million times better than O2, but they're all inept really and if they can't troubleshoot from a list of problems they are incapable of using their brains. Hope you get it sorted out.
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If you are on tmo-orange signal then you are only on 2g.
The better option would be to change the signal to 3g only. This will stay on tmobile. I have been in T-Mobile for years and have never had a problem with internet speeds. However bare in mind that you will be throttled if you use a lot on the web and walk package
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GR36 said:
If you are on tmo-orange signal then you are only on 2g.
The better option would be to change the signal to 3g only. This will stay on tmobile. I have been in T-Mobile for years and have never had a problem with internet speeds. However bare in mind that you will be throttled if you use a lot on the web and walk package
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Wrong.
The 3G merger is complete. To be honest, I've only ever noticed appalling download speeds when roaming onto Orange once, but as you say reverting to normal T-Mobile fixes it.
I have mine set to stay on T-Mobile-Orange permanently and it never loses the setting, so it is possible to do.

It is far from complete. I do apologise if it'd complete in your area. Didn't take that into account. Buts not complete yet. Last time they showed me a display its was like Swiss cheese below humberside
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GR36 said:
It is far from complete. I do apologise if it'd complete in your area. Didn't take that into account. Buts not complete yet. Last time they showed me a display its was like Swiss cheese below humberside
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Can only go from what I was told by T-Mobile (who provide my work phone) who warned of network disruption in December while the final parts of the 3G network were merged.

Puzzlegirl said:
I'm sorry I can't help you, but this is interesting. My GNex *never* switches onto T-Mobile Orange unless I force it manually. I had come to think that the Automatic function just doesn't work as my phone is happy to sit there with a totally lost signal. I've found T-Mobile's customer service a million times better than O2, but they're all inept really and if they can't troubleshoot from a list of problems they are incapable of using their brains. Hope you get it sorted out.
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It changes as soon as I move
GR36 said:
If you are on tmo-orange signal then you are only on 2g.
The better option would be to change the signal to 3g only. This will stay on tmobile. I have been in T-Mobile for years and have never had a problem with internet speeds. However bare in mind that you will be throttled if you use a lot on the web and walk package
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How do I change it to 3g only, this would obviously solve it
David Horn said:
Wrong.
The 3G merger is complete. To be honest, I've only ever noticed appalling download speeds when roaming onto Orange once, but as you say reverting to normal T-Mobile fixes it.
I have mine set to stay on T-Mobile-Orange permanently and it never loses the setting, so it is possible to do.
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I was told by a customer service agent just last night that i will be on 2g with Orange, maybe it is area specific.
Thanks for the responces though chaps

Learnt something about Canadian LTE from a buddy who works for a carrier here

So I was enjoying a cigar with a buddy who is a field tech for a Canadian carrier (not mine rogers, but another one) when we got on the topic of a samsung tablet work issued him.
He said he uses it to troubleshoot LTE issues they've been having.
Basicly the device loses LTE and either goes into "no service" or get's stuck in HSPA+.
I freaked because i've noticed the same issue, but thought it was related to CM10 running on my phone.
Apparently they discovered it has to do with they're infrastructure. The phone loses LTE, tries to re-negotiate,gets rejected, and stops trying.
They're work around is to get firmware updates to get the devices (he didn't mention which ones) to re-negotiate a second (or third time) where it almost always goes through.
I just reboot or bounce air plane mode and it often works.
Just figured people might find that interesting.

stavrosg said:
So I was enjoying a cigar with a buddy who is a field tech for a Canadian carrier (not mine rogers, but another one) when we got on the topic of a samsung tablet work issued him.
He said he uses it to troubleshoot LTE issues they've been having.
Basicly the device loses LTE and either goes into "no service" or get's stuck in HSPA+.
I freaked because i've noticed the same issue, but thought it was related to CM10 running on my phone.
Apparently they discovered it has to do with they're infrastructure. The phone loses LTE, tries to re-negotiate,gets rejected, and stops trying.
They're work around is to get firmware updates to get the devices (he didn't mention which ones) to re-negotiate a second (or third time) where it almost always goes through.
I just reboot or bounce air plane mode and it often works.
Just figured people might find that interesting.
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Bell has had the same issue (for a while), I haven't received any calls about it recently but also didn't receive an email about it being resolved but it appears so. Our temporary resolution for it was to just keep it at H+ for the time being
Found where I posted about it here

I'm on fido with a rogers phone and I have never lost LTE
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stavrosg said:
So I was enjoying a cigar with a buddy who is a field tech for a Canadian carrier (not mine rogers, but another one) when we got on the topic of a samsung tablet work issued him.
He said he uses it to troubleshoot LTE issues they've been having.
Basicly the device loses LTE and either goes into "no service" or get's stuck in HSPA+.
I freaked because i've noticed the same issue, but thought it was related to CM10 running on my phone.
Apparently they discovered it has to do with they're infrastructure. The phone loses LTE, tries to re-negotiate,gets rejected, and stops trying.
They're work around is to get firmware updates to get the devices (he didn't mention which ones) to re-negotiate a second (or third time) where it almost always goes through.
I just reboot or bounce air plane mode and it often works.
Just figured people might find that interesting.
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When I bought my S3 at the Bell store here in Québec city a few weeks ago, the salesmen insisted on NOT giving me a LTE sim card.
What he told me conquers with what you are describing.
I accepted is suggestion and got a H+ micro sim.
Since then, I returned to the store to get a LTE sim card and I did encounter the issue once or twice.
I am now forcing my phone to remain on H+ at best via Settings > Wireless & networks > Mobile networks > Network mode.

In the greater HRM (Halifax/Dartmouth/Bedford) we have a pretty good LTE footprint according to the Rogers website, but my S3 is constantly reconnecting. I can tell because every time it drops LTE, my visual voicemail app will notify that it has no service.
I turned LTE off because it was just hammering my battery. I could barely make it through a 10 hour work day with little to no usage if I leave LTE on, and I'm supposedly in the middle of the service area.

trendiggity said:
In the greater HRM (Halifax/Dartmouth/Bedford) we have a pretty good LTE footprint according to the Rogers website, but my S3 is constantly reconnecting. I can tell because every time it drops LTE, my visual voicemail app will notify that it has no service.
I turned LTE off because it was just hammering my battery. I could barely make it through a 10 hour work day with little to no usage if I leave LTE on, and I'm supposedly in the middle of the service area.
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Off topic: CM10 has awesome battery life with LTE i find

I first read about LTE causing loss of service several months ago. I returned my first SIII because of it and the replacement phone would also loose service randomly. So now if I want to be assured that my phone is working when I really need it to, I have to disable LTE. Seems like more people need to know this since for some people it is important to know that your phone hasn't just decided to go into NO SERVICE mode without warning.
I'm told service providers were, until recently, strongly denying there is any such problem with LTE. It wasn't until the iphone5 came out with the same issue that this became a real problem for customer service.

What cigar were you smoking?
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Hoshneer said:
What cigar were you smoking?
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Partagas Series D #4 and montee cristo edmundo.

stavrosg said:
Partagas Series D #4 and montee cristo edmundo.
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Mmm, blunt wrap =P

HiKsFiles said:
When I bought my S3 at the Bell store here in Québec city a few weeks ago, the salesmen insisted on NOT giving me a LTE sim card.
What he told me conquers with what you are describing.
I accepted is suggestion and got a H+ micro sim.
Since then, I returned to the store to get a LTE sim card and I did encounter the issue once or twice.
I am now forcing my phone to remain on H+ at best via Settings > Wireless & networks > Mobile networks > Network mode.
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That's completely stupid... hopefully you didn't have to pay for the replacement.

stavrosg said:
Partagas Series D #4 and montee cristo edmundo.
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Oh, hell dude. You can never go wrong with a PSD 4 one of my absolute favorite Cubans. I haven't had the Montecristo yet but I've heard good things. Good choices man.
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Not sure if this is the same issue, but I sometimes receive a "not registered on network" or "sim not registered" when phone switches from LTE to 4G or comes back after being in a no service area.
A tech calls me once a week to track the issue and he told me last week they put out a fix for eastern canada and will soon do the same out west if it works. This is Telus by the way.
If you are running into what I mentioned all you have to do is switch to GSM/HSPA Auto mode under - settings/more settings/mobile network/network mode.
Of course you won't have LTE but its a reliable temp solution if you require consistent service.

MTS LTE
I've heard similar from MTS about their LTE!
My Galaxy S3 works fine on LTE, but my brother's S2 LTE never seems to display LTE on the screen, just says 4G all the time, yet speed test results indicate it really IS LTE! The first 2 weeks, his phone kept dropping to NO SERVICE randomly, but more often than not! We swapped out the LTE SIM on day 2 since the first seemed to be defective. After that, I updated the S2 to the latest release OS which seemed to have remove SOME of the issues.
From what I've heard, the LTE towers need the phone to be quiet on network activity for 20 seconds or so before it will attempt to jump back onto LTE. The S3, being much faster, doesn't seem to have issues flipping around as it needs. I'm told they are deciding which software/firmware to upgrade their towers too which will hopefully happen early 2013!
So I'm wondering if this might be the same issue with other carriers, where the problem is ACTUALLY with the towers and not devices?!

zexco said:
That's completely stupid... hopefully you didn't have to pay for the replacement.
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Not that stupid as I, like I said, did experience the issue since I got my LTE sim card.
But to answer your question, no I did not have to pay for the new sim card.

I've done the same. I find "4G" fast enough for the most part, so I just leave LTE off for the gain in battery life.
Also in Halifax I might add!
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[Q] Data service iffy on LTE - phone or Straight Talk issue

Hi,
I've been having data issues with my HTC ONE M8 on Straight Talk for the past couple of weeks. the data service for some reasons got really iffy. before everything was absolutely fine. now sometimes I cannot access data at all, sometimes something is working and something doesn't.
when the data doesn't work:
- most of websites are not reachable
- google.com seems to work normally
- google maps might work; sometimes very slow, sometimes not working at all
- ookla speedtest won't start, but if I set a fixed server it might work
- facebook.com might work in the browser but the app doesn't work
- refreshing the page seems to help
on WI-FI I have absolutely no problem. everything works fine.
phone and txt messages work without problems.
on 3G (HSDPA) everything seems to work fine. I see problems when on LTE.
anybody has the similar issues?? any suggestions?
many thank!!

I am having the exact same issue! So frustrating, I don't want to use 3g if we should be on "Full speed 4G LTE for up to 3GB"!
tried so many different APN's, no luck can't get over 2.5mbps with any of them

I would be happy with anything that works right now. the service is just NOT WORKING. I am paying for a service that doesn't work and that's not acceptable.
I opened a case with the help desk; useless. I was talking to people who don't understand the basic concepts of networking. made me add a proxy to the APN; no difference at all.
then I put a complain on Twitter and got some other people "helping" via email. at least they asked for the address of where I am always having problems; hopefully, they check out the service at the antenna. I think it's not a BTS (antenna) issue but something related to their proxy, firewall or network gateway since google.com works without problems!
I talked to a friend of mine who has StraightTalk as well and he said that he had the same issue last year!

I had the exact same issue with Net10 it is so annoying and unacceptable =(

Have you tried calling straight talk a call

U can try this from what I know ur phone gets chooses the strongest signal tower example u are around 3G tower it has a 9/10 signal and the 4g tower is a 6/10 strength it goes with the 3g hope this helps in ur dial pad dial *#*#4636#*#* then Phone Information....Scroll down a little bit to Set preferred network type. I was able to lock in LTE only doing this and gave me the fastest signal on my device hope with works for u. If u can post ur original settings before u change to lte option only on this post so u can always revert to ur original setting good luck.

SOEBOMB said:
U can try this from what I know ur phone gets chooses the strongest signal tower example u are around 3G tower it has a 9/10 signal and the 4g tower is a 6/10 strength it goes with the 3g hope this helps in ur dial pad dial *#*#4636#*#* then Phone Information....Scroll down a little bit to Set preferred network type. I was able to lock in LTE only doing this and gave me the fastest signal on my device hope with works for u. If u can post ur original settings before u change to lte option only on this post so u can always revert to ur original setting good luck.
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if I lock it to 3G it actually works well. I will try your suggested settings.
on another note I wonder if it's an issue with the phone radio implementation. my Nokia/Windows phone sees LTE very very slow but it doesn't stop working completely.

xmkgenzo said:
if I lock it to 3G it actually works well. I will try your suggested settings.
on another note I wonder if it's an issue with the phone radio implementation. my Nokia/Windows phone sees LTE very very slow but it doesn't stop working completely.
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Hmmm Idk but anything's worth a try what settings do u have it on already?

if I put it on GSM/WCDMA (so no LTE) data works fine in 3G.
and if I do a speed test in 3G it gets about 5Mbps in download vs 1, 2 or 3 Mbps when LTE works (ZERO otherwise)

The exact same thing started happening to me two or three weeks ago. More often than not, the LTE connection simply doesn't work, and when it does, it's excruciatingly slow (anywhere from 0.01 to 2.50 mpbs, and usually less than 1.00). Do you guys have AT&T or T-Mo sims? I'm starting to wonder if going to Cricket would solve the problem, but since I'm running an AT&T sim, I'm not sure if anything would change since it's on the same network.
Straight Talk support is worthless... they think a factory data reset will fix it, when it's clearly a network issue. I just told them to stop right there and started troubleshooting myself. That's a good tip about dialing *#*#4636#*#* and turning off LTE that way. It seems like that is where the issue lies - I'm having good luck with HSPA; it's slower than LTE should be, but at least it works. It'll do as a stopgap through the end of my billing cycle, at which point I can decide whether to go somewhere else or get by on HSPA until they fix whatever the problem is.

SOEBOMB said:
U can try this from what I know ur phone gets chooses the strongest signal tower example u are around 3G tower it has a 9/10 signal and the 4g tower is a 6/10 strength it goes with the 3g hope this helps in ur dial pad dial *#*#4636#*#* then Phone Information....Scroll down a little bit to Set preferred network type. I was able to lock in LTE only doing this and gave me the fastest signal on my device hope with works for u. If u can post ur original settings before u change to lte option only on this post so u can always revert to ur original setting good luck.
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spinninbsod said:
Have you tried calling straight talk a call
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tried and on pure LTE it simply doesn't work. the only way is to set GSM/WCDMA and it goes at 3G speeds but at least it works.
the funny part is that Google.com always works, whatsapp works, googleplay works. so it seems a problem with throttling or filtering to me.

spinninbsod said:
Have you tried calling straight talk a call
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yes. completely incompetent. asked for a supervisor; no way to speak to one.
I posted on Twitter and ST got back to me asking to send them an email. I did. 10 different people sending me emails with conflicting actions.
insanely frustrating.

spinninbsod said:
Have you tried calling straight talk a call
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bushpilotwannabe said:
The exact same thing started happening to me two or three weeks ago. More often than not, the LTE connection simply doesn't work, and when it does, it's excruciatingly slow (anywhere from 0.01 to 2.50 mpbs, and usually less than 1.00). Do you guys have AT&T or T-Mo sims? I'm starting to wonder if going to Cricket would solve the problem, but since I'm running an AT&T sim, I'm not sure if anything would change since it's on the same network.
Straight Talk support is worthless... they think a factory data reset will fix it, when it's clearly a network issue. I just told them to stop right there and started troubleshooting myself. That's a good tip about dialing *#*#4636#*#* and turning off LTE that way. It seems like that is where the issue lies - I'm having good luck with HSPA; it's slower than LTE should be, but at least it works. It'll do as a stopgap through the end of my billing cycle, at which point I can decide whether to go somewhere else or get by on HSPA until they fix whatever the problem is.
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I have ST on AT&T.
a friend of mine with iPhone 6 down in Newport has no problems. he sent me screenshots of speed test at 15Mbps.
I really wonder if it's some radio firmware issue...

Ironically, I ran into something very like this too recently....I was on an at&t straighttalk sim...lte had been OK prior to me updating to 4.4.4. It was never spectacular, but it was, at least, lte speeds. After the update I noticed it had become really sketchy...just as described, pretty much; even when mine worked it was trash. 3g was much better and totally stable. I thought it might be the update, but long story short, it wasn't. I inserted a friend's sim from tmobile and got full lte with no issues.
Now, in my case, I had been using a shaved down microsim rather than a nano sim, so I thought, maybe that's the issue. I noticed when ordering the new one, the tmobile one actually said htc m8 compatible on the page(plus my friend's legit tmobile sim got good signal and lte so I thought that's a good basis for comparison). Got the new one, put my number on it, and voila! I'm getting on average 20mbps lte. And it's very consistent too. So now I'm on the tmobile straighttalk sim and everything is fine.
Anyways, it's only $7 with free overnight shipping, so that's something easy to try. This wouldn't be the first time a new sim fixed all sorts of weird data problems with straighttalk either. I've been on with them for several years now and this is probably my 4-5th sim I've had to get for various reasons.
So, anyways, your mileage may vary but that fixed it for me. Hope it helps.

gokun said:
Now, in my case, I had been using a shaved down microsim rather than a nano sim, so I thought, maybe that's the issue. I noticed when ordering the new one, the tmobile one actually said htc m8 compatible on the page(plus my friend's legit tmobile sim got good signal and lte so I thought that's a good basis for comparison). Got the new one, put my number on it, and voila! I'm getting on average 20mbps lte. And it's very consistent too. So now I'm on the tmobile straighttalk sim and everything is fine.
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it seems ST on T-mobile is not having the same issues as ST on AT&T. the problem is that T-mobile coverage is not so good in my area.
I tried my phone in a different location (400 miles away) and had the same issues.

I've done some more testing.
it is really weird that Google.com works flawless while any other site seems not to work.
activating "save data usage" in Chrome seems to help. however it doesn't solve the problem. sometimes pages needs to be reloaded a few times.
even when LTE works, the OOKLA speed test gives me 2Mbps in dowload and 5-6Mbps in upload. so no matter what, I am better off with 3G.

I found an interesting thread here on XDA. I am not rooted at the moment and can't try.
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If you are rooted there is simple FIX, simple disable FD8 (Fast dormacy 8)
ro.ril.enable.r8fd=1
ro.ril.enable.pre_r8fd=1
Change both to =0 and issue will be fixed.
If your not rooted only fix is to keep HotSpot enabled than data connection wont break.
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I tried the hotspot trick but it doesn't work for me

Sorry to bump an old thread, but I just wanted to give a brief update. My LTE issues with Straight Talk went unresolved for about 6 weeks despite multiple conversations with customer service. I experienced this in Raleigh, NC, Greensboro, NC, and Virginia Beach, VA. Then for Thanksgiving, I went to New York City and New Jersey (the part just outside of Philly), where all data connections were unreliable. Yes, that means 2G, 3G, HSPA, and LTE were all spotty at best the entire time.
I ran out of patience after that, and since my billing cycle was ending on 12/4, I switched to Cricket when I got home. As soon as I popped in the Cricket sim card, everything started working flawlessly again. Cricket does limit you to 8 mbps down, but that's good enough for my purposes. The issue, if it's still going on, is with Straight Talk and not the phone.

Lollipop Fixed the Issue on my HTC M8
Hey all,
I've been following this thread as I too had issues with LTE on my HTC M8 using StraightTalk. When I first got my phone, it worked perfectly with LTE on ST. Then I ran the OS update that was released sometime near November. That's when I noticed the problems. I could run a search on Google but any webpage I would try to connect to would not load. The phone would hang and eventually time out. Your instructions to turn off LTE was great help. Pages load perfectly provided LTE is not used. I was getting really frustrated and you kept me from throwing my phone at a wall. Thanks for that.
So that brings me to this post. I updated my phone to Lollipop this morning. Thought I'd give turning LTE back on and bam.... works perfectly. I've been testing it all morning and so far, all pages load really fast. I will keep an eye on it for a while and post any updates but thought I pay it back a bit with the good news since you guys helped me.
Thanks again.
AC

thank you for sharing!!
trying to upgrade to Lollipop. unfortunately I am having an issue with the recovery (flashed from TWRP to a stock that doesn't work with the OTA and can't flash any other recovery -not sure what's wrong).
when I solve this issue and able to upgrade to Lollipop I will share my LTE test results

LTE on T-Mobile not working AT&T working

So I got my pixel xl from Google today. It works but I am on T-Mobile and it will not connect to LTE band 4 or 12 which are in my area. I have an ATT SIM for my work which I popped in and it works fine. That said without driving around Atlanta to try to find B2 I cannot tell if it is T-Mobile or the phone. Is anyone else on T-Mobile getting LTE connection at all?
So news today I can connect to LTE. Yesterday when I got the SIM in using *#*#4636#*#* I would get zero reception forcing LTE only. The phone would only connect to UMTS/HSPAP. Today after several restarts and calling T-Mobile and Google support it is now working. Here is what I did.
First Google is saying the update is supposed to affect LTE connecting issues.
Second make sure your SIM is properly registered with your provider. They should elevate the issue to higher tech support to have them look into it. This takes up to 24 hours.
Third go to your dialer do the *#*4636#*#*, go to phone info and change the preferred network type to LTE/UMTS or LTE/WCDMA (I haven't seen a difference between them). (This info is in other threads) Then restart your phone.
The problem seems to be how the phone determines what bands the network provider uses. It defaults to CDMA as the voice connection. For me this meant the phone was always connecting to UMTS only. It seems the firmware has some kind of default setting when it senses an error out the gate. The APN settings and preferred network settings needed to be updated and the phone restarted for it all to work. I now connect to band 4 LTE in my area. I hope this helps others.

I am also getting slow data speeds on my pixel XL connected to t mobile

My XL seems to get pretty consistent LTE service and good speed on T-Mobile.

LTE in Chicago working well.
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LTE in minnesota working fine.
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Google "Pixel LTE band 4 issue"

Weird. I'm getting pretty awesome Band 4 coverage in So. Cal. I also get Band 12 here, but Band 4 is what my phone tends to be connected to, which is fine since it tends to be significantly faster.

I'm in Oklahoma on t mobile getting slow connection compared to my friends. They each have a galaxy s6 edge and get between 70-80 MBs down sitting right next to me. I'm getting 14 MBs down. I just left sprint today for slow connection. Hoping to find a way to get this resolved ASAP.

mnguyen127 said:
Weird. I'm getting pretty awesome Band 4 coverage in So. Cal. I also get Band 12 here, but Band 4 is what my phone tends to be connected to, which is fine since it tends to be significantly faster.
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I only experience the issue in downtown Toronto area and I contacted my carrier, Telus, in Canada. They confirmed that network signal in such area is mainly LTE band 4...

Just an FYI for those with the same issue. Google has asked for my shipping address after contacting them about the issue.

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Just an FYI for those with the same issue. Google has asked for my shipping address after contacting them about the issue.
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Which means replacement is on its way?

Not yet I'll update the thread when I get word.

I hope that result you issue, theres a lot of people with problems with LTE band 4 around the world
https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!msg/phone-by-google/OxkJ1Sn6i5c/E_2n5dFTBgAJ
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Not yet I'll update the thread when I get word.
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Have you tried swapping SIM cards?
I pulled the sim out of another working TMO iPhone6s and my PIXEL got LTE right away.

Have an update and updated the main post.

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Have an update and updated the main post.
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Thanks. I changed mine to LTE/WCDMA. Will know how it goes next week.

All seems to be working on my end.

I was having delays in mms being sent. I was using the default APN. About a week ago I changed the APN to the one recommended by T-Mobile. Mms sends instantly now just about. I don't think it's effected much on LTE but I didn't have problems before. Make sure your on the proper APN

I sure hope there isnt a recall..My XL hasnt even shipped yet and im on Tmo

I spoke with a t-mobile rep yesterday who helped me get my issue resolved. My main apn was set up incorrectly. Now I am connected to LTE and not just hspa+. I get generally good speeds most everywhere and I have tower right by my house that must go fairly unused.