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T-Mobile signal *Temp fix*

Anyone else having an issue with their signal. I'm coming from a s2 I had signal at home and always had 4g. I'm in the sonic rom. I loose 4g and signal at home often.
Update: This works for some. Dial *#*#4636#*#* and choose (wcdma only) for the signal
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Youre not the only one. The problem is there seems to be more interference when holding the phone at the bottom where the antennas are in particular with your left hand. When there is more skin contact to the bottom left of the phone is where the problem starts. If you go to Settings> about device > status you can check the db signal as you hold the phone. You will notice a huge spike at the minimum of 10dbm (higher the dbm the worse the signal) which is enough to cause 4g signal loss and down to edge if you're already in a low signal area. Now try holding the phone upside down and to where the bottom of the phone is exposed and not making any skin contact and you will barely see any dbm change and 4g acquisition is better. You can try to perform the same test with you s2 and you probably wont see the dbm go up as much as the s3.
The only other option maybe is to get a case. There are other threads about this already but I'm using tapatalk app so I cant go to my subscribed section to repost them without discarding this reply.
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I noticed this too since I got the phone over a week ago.
I think maybe it's the micro sim card because I've never had this problem with any other phone.
And I don't know if it's the death grip because I'm always on my blue tooth.
I went to Tmobile today and they didn't really do much, they said to exchange the phone.
I don't know if that's gonna do much good.
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ThC23 said:
I noticed this too since I got the phone over a week ago.
I think maybe it's the micro sim card because I've never had this problem with any other phone.
And I don't know if it's the death grip because I'm always on my blue tooth.
I went to Tmobile today and they didn't really do much, they said to exchange the phone.
I don't know if that's gonna do much good.
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Let us know how the replacement is. I never tried to exchange as the sales rep at costco had the same issue but didnt seems like he cared much and just wanted to brush me off. Heres my updated video
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aznmode said:
Let us know how the replacement is. I never tried to exchange as the sales rep at costco had the same issue but didnt seems like he cared much and just wanted to brush me off. Heres my updated video
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Yeah, like I said I don't know if that would help. I got a couple more weeks to exchange it, so Ima see how it goes.
I'll let you know as soon as I do.
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I lost my 4g altogether today...anyway to get it back.
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I'm fine at my apartment. My parents are in a valley. We use a cellular repeater
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I think it's all the new T-Mobile customers. They are racing to catch up
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Android_Monsters said:
I think it's all the new T-Mobile customers. They are racing to catch up
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That could be it. My previous phone with T-Mo had been acting weird the past month. All bars but couldn't make calls or text, and no internet from home, mostly in the mornings. Had to switch carries.

Madblaster6 said:
Anyone else having an issue with their signal. I'm coming from a s2 I had signal at home and always had 4g. I'm in the sonic rom. I loose 4g and signal at home often.
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I can confirm that my SGS2 has a better signal than my SGS3. It is about 5dBm weaker. At least that is what the signal strength says. The key thing is the the SGS3 switches to EDGE because of a perceived weak signal (-110dBm) and it does switch back until you are in a stronger signal area. I was able to have a decent 4G signal even if my signal was -101 to -110 dBm. I could get a 4mb/s download and 1.5mb/s upload connection on speedtest. So the SGS3 does not need to switch to EDGE. My SGS2 shows a stronger signal so it doesn't switch at all. I suspect if I could lock my phone to 4G only I would be able to have similar reception as my SGS2. Maybe a future radio update will fix this. On my side I redecided to return the phone and get a replacement SGS3. Maybe that will work better.
Check post 39 of this thread for more details. Maybe we should consolidate the discussion there so that we get more visibility for this issue. Been chatting with aznmode on that thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756280&page=4

We should all contact Samsung. Peoplenwitht this issue please call with me. I will call in the morning.
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We should all contact Samsung. Peoplenwitht this issue please call with me. I will call in the morning.
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Do you know any upper level support or management? I doubt well go anywhere with customer service. I already tried once and they just suggested I call tmo
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Okay so I have a quick fix. Dial *#*#4636#*#* and choose (Wcdma only) to signal.
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Madblaster6 said:
Okay so I have a quick fix. Dial *#*#4636#*#* and choose (Wcdma only) to signal.
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Hmmmm..sounds alot like what's going on in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28819250
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I had to do this with my LG g2x. This phone is so similar to it.
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I took the liberty of e-mailing the president of Samsung about this issue. I called Samsung and they provided me with this e-mail after I professionally told them about the issue and how more then a few people were having this issue. I will be informing about any updates.

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I took the liberty of e-mailing the president of Samsung about this issue. I called Samsung and they provided me with this e-mail after I professionally told them about the issue and how more then a few people were having this issue. I will be informing about any updates.
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That is the only way to fix this issue. It is more then just loosing the signal by holding the phone wrong. I live in a very fast T-Mobile area and getting around 20 MB down and 5 MB up. I will see all my bars drop without even touching the phone. This does not happen with any other of my T-Mobile phnes. I always hav e all bars all the time at my house. This is a serious problem that needs to be fixed.
I am sending my phone back in the AM and if the new one has the same issue I will not keep it. Too bad this is a killer phone with a lousy problem.
Vinny

We'll see what happens. I was told they're gonna look into it.
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vinnyjr said:
That is the only way to fix this issue. It is more then just loosing the signal by holding the phone wrong. I live in a very fast T-Mobile area and getting around 20 MB down and 5 MB up. I will see all my bars drop without even touching the phone. This does not happen with any other of my T-Mobile phnes. I always hav e all bars all the time at my house. This is a serious problem that needs to be fixed.
I am sending my phone back in the AM and if the new one has the same issue I will not keep it. Too bad this is a killer phone with a lousy problem.
Vinny
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I have the same problem... Mine actually loses 4g and loses entire signal in the middle of street where I should have 90% signal. This also disconnects any active calls and after a minute or two, signal is back. Then again the cycle repeats every 5 minutes for all day...

I blame the modem. I live in an area where we actually have pretty damn strong and fast reception (Southern Cali..). But I too have noticed that it like to flip a lot for no apparent reason. But my Samsung Vibrant did the same thing depending which modem you used. And the modems that performed the best with that phone were impacted greatly by the region in which you were trying to use it. For instance, here in Southern Cali I felt like overall KB5 had the most consistent, and data powerful signal. But in some areas of Boston I felt that KA7 was a clear winner. It's brand new. Just be patient and give them a few weeks to kinda analyze and address the most pressing issues. And I'm sure that they'll roll out a new modem with that update. I believe there were 12 total when they stopped officially updating the Vibrant.. So there will be options ;]

Question about 4G

I live in Denver and this is my first 4G phone but I don't get 4G anywhere when my dad who has a Nexus gets it. Is it because this is an LTE phone? Do I have to wait for LTE towers? I can't use regular 4G in the mean time?

You have to wait for LTE. Denver will be a while. A year +.
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TrollMctrollington said:
I live in Denver and this is my first 4G phone but I don't get 4G anywhere when my dad who has a Nexus gets it. Is it because this is an LTE phone? Do I have to wait for LTE towers? I can't use regular 4G in the mean time?
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I believe the nexus is wimax 4g. Which is ok, but once lte gets some steam and all the switches get turned on it should blow wimax or if the water I'm terms of speed.
And once Sprint turns their old Nextel network to the “new“ Sprint network we should get better service and building penetration.
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Speedin07si said:
I believe the nexus is wimax 4g. Which is ok, but once lte gets some steam and all the switches get turned on it should blow wimax or if the water I'm terms of speed.
And once Sprint turns their old Nextel network to the “new“ Sprint network we should get better service and building penetration.
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The Galaxy Nexus is an LTE device. If that phone is getting a 4G signal then your S3 should as well.

TrollMctrollington said:
I live in Denver and this is my first 4G phone but I don't get 4G anywhere when my dad who has a Nexus gets it. Is it because this is an LTE phone? Do I have to wait for LTE towers? I can't use regular 4G in the mean time?
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the galaxy nexus is 4g lte the nexus s is 4g WiMax. Which device does he have?
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They're the same carrier?
You have Sprint, your dad has sprint? ....Right?

Felnarion said:
They're the same carrier?
You have Sprint, your dad has sprint? ....Right?
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Yeah. Both Sprint. His phone is maybe two years old now. The Nexus with the curvy screen. But that might not help because I can't remember if they all have that.

TrollMctrollington said:
Yeah. Both Sprint. His phone is maybe two years old now. The Nexus with the curvy screen. But that might not help because I can't remember if they all have that.
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That means he has the old Nexus S 4G, which uses Sprint's now-legacy Wimax standard and calls that 4G. Your GS3 does not handle Wimax, which will be phased out, but rather the new LTE 4G.
But Sprint's LTE network is very new, and has only been launched in a few cities so far. And according to the running schedule at S4GRU.com, Denver is not in line for LTE service for many months.

Mctrollington, im in denver/aurora and might get the sg3 but not sure how sprint service is without wimax as i have nan epic 4g? Are u getting decent speeds on 3g?
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nom303 said:
Mctrollington, im in denver/aurora and might get the sg3 but not sure how sprint service is without wimax as i have nan epic 4g? Are u getting decent speeds on 3g?
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I'm in the Denver area also, and just replaced a wimax Epic 4G with the SGS3. Personally I found wimax spotty at best. When it worked I got something like 2 or 3 mb downloads (not that great) but you had to be in just the right spot to get a decent wimax signal.
With the SGS3 using 3G I'm getting between 0.5 and 1.5 mb downloads (much better than I used to with the Epic), which is certainly tolerable unless you plan on downloading movies or doing heavy tethering. Again, it depends on the what cell site you are connected to and how many bars you have. Sprint's Network Vision upgrades are improving the data capacity of their 3G sites, and that is going on right now even before the LTE install.
I would say if 4G data speeds are important to you, try to hang on as long as you can before you upgrade. In my case my old Epic was getting pretty beat up and the SGS3 kept calling my name. I don't miss wimax one bit.
Oh, and the stock ICS experience with the SGS3 is WAY smoother and more polished than any ICS rom on the Epic ever was. Nothing like having gobs of ram and 16 megs of app storage built in to make things hum right along.

poit said:
I would say if 4G data speeds are important to you, try to hang on as long as you can before you upgrade. In my case my old Epic was getting pretty beat up and the SGS3 kept calling my name. I don't miss wimax one bit.
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That's good advice in general. I'm in Austin, and I happen to get decent Wimax coverage in my office. So I held on with my Epic for a bit before biting on the GS3 recently.
But LTE service is supposed to come here pretty soon, and it seemed like fun to search for service and test it even before launch. For an ordinary user with good Wimax service today and no early prospect of LTE, I would not recommend the GS3 today unless you also choose to jump carriers. (Which raises other issues of price, data caps, etc.)

boomerbubba said:
That's good advice in general. I'm in Austin, and I happen to get decent Wimax coverage in my office. So I held on with my Epic for a bit before biting on the GS3 recently.
But LTE service is supposed to come here pretty soon, and it seemed like fun to search for service and test it even before launch. For an ordinary user with good Wimax service today and no early prospect of LTE, I would not recommend the GS3 today unless you also choose to jump carriers. (Which raises other issues of price, data caps, etc.)
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After I switched off my Epic for the S3, my Epic still gets Wimax...
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a454nova said:
After I switched off my Epic for the S3, my Epic still gets Wimax...
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Hmm. Without activation? I have to try that.

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That's basically what's up in the Denver Area. Downtown gets a little faster. I am not often in Aurora but I think it's similar.
When I'm in Littleton I get absolutely no Sprint Network. It's all roaming.
I typically use WiFi. My 3G use is for tweeting, RTD navigation and a little Facebook. I have no problems or complaints with those.

TrollMctrollington said:
That's basically what's up in the Denver Area. Downtown gets a little faster. I am not often in Aurora but I think it's similar.
When I'm in Littleton I get absolutely no Sprint Network. It's all roaming.
I typically use WiFi. My 3G use is for tweeting, RTD navigation and a little Facebook. I have no problems or complaints with those.
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Sad but that how it is... I never have issues wIth coverage in Littleton tho. 3pm is peak too. expect Is to be slow. I avg 500kbps to 1.6 max in the Denver area (mostly Aurora).
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a454nova said:
Sad but that how it is... I never have issues wIth coverage in Littleton tho. 3pm is peak too. expect Is to be slow. I avg 500kbps to 1.6 max in the Denver area (mostly Aurora).
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Do you have roaming set auto? Or Sprint only?

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Do you have roaming set auto? Or Sprint only?
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It's on auto but I never roam. You might have an issue going on. Where are you having issues at? You on CM10?
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SGS2 3G Network Slow Downloading/Streaming

ive tried rtn reset
ive tried scrn reset
ive tried data profile resetting
ive tried pulling battery
ive tried adjusting build prop
ive tried calberating signal
ive tried goig back to stock EL's-FI
ive tried updating prl and profile
ive tried wiping cache
ive tried clear data from google FWS
According to this video google has enabled ipv6 for android 4.0 devices, i just dont know forsure if the sgs2 Sprint has support for it. Anyways check out this video it has to also have more valid packets in the traceroutes as well. And here is a link to get you going with sprints IPV6 i guess you have to call them to get it switched over https://www.sprint.net/index.php?p=ipv6 Sprint tec support has no idea what to do with switching im gonna try another tec LOL if you visit that link on your mobile phone you will see it at the top if your on a IPV4 or IPV6 and my phone says IPV4
here is explanation of ipv6 on utube.
http://youtu.be/-Uwjt32NvVA
###update##
Tmobile got this update with there ICS 4.0.4 And i just got off the phone with sprint mobile broad band tec and he said that our phones should be on a IPV6 as well with the ICS update and to call this number 18007267864 if your phone is running on ipv4, its samsungs tec support line and theyre able to resolve the issue, im checking into now........LOL just as i suspected well the only thing we can do is have you ship the phone to us.....bla bla........only or repair center would have those kinds of answers to your questions......no you cant talk to them theyre our secret phone scientists, we dont offer them to the public......LOL...

What's your location?
At home i get 4 bars, which is a beast connection to me nd when i'm at school(Jobcorps) i get 1 bar and i can barely get on facebook

i get 4/5 bars at my location. Ive always had good signal throughout NorthCounty SD until now. IDK if i messed up some deep internel setting or maybe fried my antenna because sprint says theres no network issues in the area so hope i can get some help.
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what ive also noticed is when i get a solid connection on 3g it will run all day and night i just do my little calberating signal dance and the bad is if i switch to wifi and then back to 3g my 3g will start acting the way the logcat logged phone responding in previous post.
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I also live in north county. My signal is never really excellent, but I have horrid 3g speeds in most places. Especially in Esco at my house. But when I was at Palomar my speeds weren't bad. My wife has an evo that seems to load things faster than me.
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that sucks
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Its likely just a network thing. Same this happened last Spring when I was in Austin. They were doing some network updates and 3g was plain garbage for a few months in areas where it was previously good, worse in others. Then all of a sudden it was fine again. Still Sprint though lol
I guess you could try other modems. Have you done this yet.

The bars are no indication of Sprint 3g reception. The bars indicate VOICE reception. You'll need to go to settings and look at the signal strength in dbm in order to check it out.
Also ... Sprints network is almost universally slow (sub 100 kbps) except in low demand areas, areas where there has been band aid fixes (extra T1 lines), and areas where network vision upgrades have been completed (1.5mbps -> 2.0 mbps on average).
As stated, if you're in an area undergoing NV upgrades then 3g and reception can be wonky as they fix up the towers.

I agree, sprint is slow. I don't think its any specific device/radio/rom. Slow is slow. Even if a speed test app says I'm getting blazing fast 3G, I still can't browse fast worth a damn.

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I agree, sprint is slow. I don't think its any specific device/radio/rom. Slow is slow. Even if a speed test app says I'm getting blazing fast 3G, I still can't browse fast worth a damn.
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That's cause of all the iPhone people... they're clogging the network.
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I live in north county. My speeds here aren't great. But using sprints proxies and the fc15 modem I can stream youtube unless I go past rancho penasquitos. Miramar is bad too.
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lol, the iphone invasion. maybe these logcats can help find what can be added to a build.prop code so jumping between wifi and 3g wont kill the 3g data transfers, idk, what i do know is that this has to mean something.
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welcome to sprints crappy network
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welcome to sprints crappy network
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Well that depend on location... Here in Arecibo, PR service is exelent. :beer:
3G up to 2.75Mbps (30.6GB in 22 day)
Reception:
Inside home 2 - 3 bars
Outside 4 - 6 bars most of the time Full
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I found out another way to tinker it and it seems to be working so far ive done it a couple times now. I had it on wifi and then switched to 3g. i couldnt get a horrible signal even. all i did to fix was turn on airplane mode then rebooted phone waited until my phone loaded up and then turned airplane mode back off and now all of a sudden 3g is good. Ive tried this twice and it works im gonna try it maybe 10 more times just to see if thats it. Please if you try post your results as well
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lol. if you have to try that many times your phones either messed up or its sprint.. but your theory doesnt have any hard evidence besides you have airplane mode on and reboot n turn it off.. i can only pull 1x speeds with full bars.. definately cant watch any video and like your name.. No 4g For Me lol
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Omar04 said:
Well that depend on location... Here in Arecibo, PR service is exelent. :beer:
3G up to 2.75Mbps (30.6GB in 22 day)
Reception:
Inside home 2 - 3 bars
Outside 4 - 6 bars most of the time Full
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PR is a NV market and deployment is going pretty rapidly. LTE is popping up in a lot of places and fiber/micro back haul has dramatically increased 3g speeds. Won't be suprised if they finished upgrading the entire market by early next year.
Anyways...this is what sprints 3g network will look like once they finish the NV upgrades... not the sub 100 kbps connections we get ...

Updated Original Post with some more Info on ipv6 and linked video to googles june 6 2012 open ipv6 deployment and explaination about pastebin links.
Makes me wonder if sprint and samsung are gonna be on the same page, maybe it will show in the Official JB update
thanks again

Omar04 said:
Well that depend on location... Here in Arecibo, PR service is exelent. :beer:
3G up to 2.75Mbps (30.6GB in 22 day)
Reception:
Inside home 2 - 3 bars
Outside 4 - 6 bars most of the time Full
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That is great and what I expected by now for 3g speeds in major USA cities. The best 3g I have seen is about 1.25Mbps

Ive had my issues with this phone also. The questions i had was 1 Sprint? 2 The phones radio 3 rom/kernal/modem. I live in a real good sprint area. i usually run 1-2.5mb down. I do notice that all 3 epic touches ive owned had wacky radios. Signal goes up and down. That is part of problem. Ive had some roms/ kernals that WOULD not have any good speed at all. I was just on a rom and source kernal and Speeds were terrible. At the same same location i flashed back to stock and used kies to update to bone stock fi27 and poof 2mbps down where it was 200k max. Try stock and see. Also the speed test app IS a joke. its awful. Try this test it seems to be very reliable. http://i.dslr.net/tinyspeedtest.html The screen shot below is in my house for some reason i get very low signal but outside its 4/6 bars. Still 1.4 mb down! I blame the ****ty at&t EDGE tower 100 ft from house.
I notice the fi27 modem goes to sleep and has trouble waking up. Not an issue with fh13 which is neck n neck tie for best modem with el29.

Verizon owner looking to switch to T-mobile

Okay, I'm having a dilemma. I don't know whether to switch to T-mobile and have access to all the good unlocked phones with tons of development or stay with Verizon and deal with their ****ty tactics on trying to stop people from modifying their own devices.
People who are on T-mobile, how are HSPA+ signals and call quality? How often do calls drop? I currently attend the University of North Dakota and I'm afraid that if I switch to T-mobile, I will get terrible reception and data signals here. Can you guys inform me if there's any good T-mobile signals in the Eastern North Dakota area?
On the other hand, Verizon's signals are fantastic. I get full 4G in my area and call quality is terrific. But as well know, Verizon likes to lock down devices and put logos on home buttons to piss the modding community off.
What do you think? I would like some input on this because I have to make a big decision - whether to stay on Verizon and have my parents pay for my current line or switch to T-mobile and pay everything myself.
Thanks!

Wow. Free sounds better to me.

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Wow. Free sounds better to me.
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Errr, I mean yeah it does but my parents want me out of it and pay for my own bill soon lol
Anyway, that family share plan is annoying and it keeps me from wanting to do some heavy tethering. I only get 8 GB of data a month and I share it with 5 other people so data gets built up pretty quick.

Of course free is always better. But if your parents are looking to kick you off I would go with t mobile. Verizon is way too damn expensive. I live in Orlando Florida and my speeds range from 10mb to 25mb. Upload speed stays constant at around 2mb.
I don't really have dropped calls. As long as I have bars which is 99% off the time my call quality is good, unless the other person has ****ty service then no matter how good of service you have the quality will be lower.
So if your on a budget and want more go with t mobile. But if you got money to blow then stay with Verizon.
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T-Mobile has better phones. Example:
galaxy s3
galaxy note 2
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T-Mobile is holding it down
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Been with T-mobile since Voicestream days, 12 years now. I'm not going no where, I love the freedom where I can buy any GSM phone available in the market, plus the plans too are cheaper. I love my Magenta

Unless you don't have signal cuz their WiFi calling is f**king worthless. I've been trying to send a text for 2 hours. Even Verizon can at least get a text through at my house.

You are going to have to do your due diligence and research coverage in your area. In the areas that T-Mobile has coverage (mostly urban/suburban areas) they are well worth the effort (great prices, great phones, no locked bootloaders) to find out if they have coverage.
If not Verizon unfortunately, may be the better choice because they have coverage in more areas.
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Babydoll25 said:
You are going to have to do your due diligence and research coverage in your area. In the areas that T-Mobile has coverage (mostly urban/suburban areas) they are well worth the effort (great prices, great phones, no locked bootloaders) to find out if they have coverage.
If not Verizon unfortunately, may be the better choice because they have coverage in more areas.
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^ Most helpful answer.

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T-Mobile has better phones. Example:
galaxy s3
galaxy note 2
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In all fairness these phones are on Verizon as well.
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I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile (with a stop at Sprint in-between), and I don't notice any difference in terms of calls.
I use WIFI calling at home since it's my only option - Verizon was the only tower that gave even 1/2 bar in my house (the reason I initially chose Sprint). However, my personal experience with WIFI calling has been great - I even have used it over my school's WIFI (a bit of an accident) and the call quality is always remarkably clear - enough so that I notice it.
The city that I work and go to college in is covered in 4G towers - I have never had a situation other than at home where I was without coverage (and, to be fair, my house is down in a small valley with thick tree coverage on the lot). If I were you, I'd take a look at their coverage maps to get an idea for what's it's like where you are.

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I switched from Verizon to T-Mobile (with a stop at Sprint in-between), and I don't notice any difference in terms of calls.
I use WIFI calling at home since it's my only option - Verizon was the only tower that gave even 1/2 bar in my house (the reason I initially chose Sprint). However, my personal experience with WIFI calling has been great - I even have used it over my school's WIFI (a bit of an accident) and the call quality is always remarkably clear - enough so that I notice it.
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How???? I just got the red WiFi calling error and it's been dropping all day and night for the last week. It goes blue and as soon as I send a text it drops service.
The support thread on tmo has over 31,000 views...

I've had trouble with it when the WIFI signal is 2 bars or less on the indicator (like if I am in the garage), but otherwise haven't had an issue - I've even made quite long calls from it - it's been on and blue (sent + received some texts) since I got home about six hours ago.
My only observation is that it needs a rather strong connection, though I don't know if this could be part of the source of issues others might be having.

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How???? I just got the red WiFi calling error and it's been dropping all day and night for the last week. It goes blue and as soon as I send a text it drops service.
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Did you set your address up in your T-Mo account? If you call 911 for example through Wi-Fi calling, they want an address on file or some crap like that. I had to do that back when I was on TouchWiz. (gave me the red thing)

psykhotic said:
How???? I just got the red WiFi calling error and it's been dropping all day and night for the last week. It goes blue and as soon as I send a text it drops service.
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I haven't had an issue as well. It might be your router. If I go outside to the back yard I will get an occasional drop because the router is in the other end of the house but all is great here with blue all day long.
OP I moved from Verizon to T mobile a while back. I'm in LA so coverage doesn't effect me as much. Never looked back.
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T-Mobile fits my needs, I live in suburban Atlanta, and I get really good data speeds. Have had NO issues with call drops. Customer support has been pretty good to me. My only issue is when I go some where rural. In those situations I get 2g or no bars. In my opinion, I'm satisfied with T-Mobile. I'm on a shared line with my brother and we pay 130 together for 1000 minute, unlimited text and unlimited data.
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Damn. Just did research on data/signal coverage in the Grand Forks, ND area and sadly Tmobile has no coverage. All the other 3 carriers do. What a bummer. Guess I have to stick with VZW
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Yea T Mobile is not a widespread carrier compared to Verizon but if t mobile supports your area then its great
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WTF

Wtf is up with this ****? My wife's friends turned 4g on on her og evo and had 4g service in lansing...wimax? Why the **** is Sprint eating their time and resources starting up wimax here? They should b working on the LTE rollout. This is really getting ridiculous now...go figure I switched my evo for the s3 cuz I figured it would never c 4g...now exactly how long am I gonna have to wait for lte?
Let me say, I'm not really one to complain about the entire 4g debacle, but I just don't understand this move. I know several people that ditched their wimax phones for the gs3 because they figured they would never c 4g on the evo...guess they got us again huh.
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Wtf is up with this ****? My wife's friends turned 4g on on her og evo and had 4g service in lansing...wimax? Why the **** is Sprint eating their time and resources starting up wimax here? They should b working on the LTE rollout. This is really getting ridiculous now...go figure I switched my evo for the s3 cuz I figured it would never c 4g...now exactly how long am I gonna have to wait for lte?
Let me say, I'm not really one to complain about the entire 4g debacle, but I just don't understand this move. I know several people that ditched their wimax phones for the gs3 because they figured they would never c 4g on the evo...guess they got us again huh.
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First, shut up.
Sprint is no longer rolling out Wimax so it has always been there. And this isn't the place to complain. Take it up with sprint if you're so upset. Or better yet pay etf and go with another company. Seeing these new threads popping up isn't anything new. Its very annoying.
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First off you don't need to b an asshole. And second off no, wimax has NOT always been here. It was in grand rapids ONLY. Do u think I'm so ****ing stupid that I don't know how to check my evo to c if I have 4g? If you don't have any input or information keep your useless opinions to yourself. No one wants to hear your idiotic replies.
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So your complaining/venting does what exactly? Your approach with the language makes you look like the a-hole just my opinion.
So what Sprint has a Wimax tower in your area and no lte yet. Did you not know there was no lte when you bought your phone? If so your uninformed buyer... they could of had that wimax tower up and ready long before you bought your gs3, just didn't turn it on till recently.
You may get a more polite response by calling Sprint customer care (because it's their job to be polite), then you would here with your useless complaining...
Just my .02.
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I'm not complaining about not having lte..I knew it wasn't here yet when I got my gs3 just as I knew there was no wimax when I got my og evo...it does upset me a little that all of a sudden a wimax signal started showing up here. It just seems that they would b so busy with regular voice, data and lte updates that any wimax additions would b a waste of time.
As far as language and attitude, I apologize. It just hit me wrong and I have some major real life stuff going on right now, so I guess that played into me being quickly irritated.
As far as Sprint goes, have you ever really called with service related questions? I know it partially depends on who you talk to, but Sprint seems to car very little about customer service/satisfaction. The ones I have talked to have some of the worst attitudes of any customer service reps I have ever dealt with.
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I'm not complaining about not having lte..I knew it wasn't here yet when I got my gs3 just as I knew there was no wimax when I got my og evo...it does upset me a little that all of a sudden a wimax signal started showing up here. It just seems that they would b so busy with regular voice, data and lte updates that any wimax additions would b a waste of time.
As far as language and attitude, I apologize. It just hit me wrong and I have some major real life stuff going on right now, so I guess that played into me being quickly irritated.
As far as Sprint goes, have you ever really called with service related questions? I know it partially depends on who you talk to, but Sprint seems to car very little about customer service/satisfaction. The ones I have talked to have some of the worst attitudes of any customer service reps I have ever dealt with.
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Your accusation about sprints CS is only from your part. Every single, and when i say every single employee I mean it. That I have spoken too has always been polite and did what they could to make me (their customer) happy. I've been with them for 4 years now and not once have I been disappointed after ending a call.
If you want to see horrible customer service go check out Verizon. I had to deal with their crappy service for 7 years.
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Ive had one bad experience with a sprint cs rep that would just talk over me and talk over me and was very rude.. drove me nuts but one out of the millions ive talked to in the last 7 yrs doesn't make their general cs bad... as for them adding a "new" wimax tower... i doubt it.. probaby just didnt have your antenna turned on.. i never did with my og evo or my 3d.. it killed my battery so fast it wasnt worth it... i get way more lte signal in south fl then i ever did wimax.. as u can tell by the reponses youve gotten so far the folks here on xda aren't the ones u wanna vent to.. as they'll make your frustration a little more frustrating ...

coming from an SG3 with LTE, I'd still love this phone without it..

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Ive had one bad experience with a sprint cs rep that would just talk over me and talk over me and was very rude.. drove me nuts but one out of the millions ive talked to in the last 7 yrs doesn't make their general cs bad... as for them adding a "new" wimax tower... i doubt it.. probaby just didnt have your antenna turned on.. i never did with my og evo or my 3d.. it killed my battery so fast it wasnt worth it... i get way more lte signal in south fl then i ever did wimax.. as u can tell by the reponses youve gotten so far the folks here on xda aren't the ones u wanna vent to.. as they'll make your frustration a little more frustrating ...
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Lol it's ok like I said just couldn't believe wimax signal here...I only ditched my evo in October and I and several friends did occasionally turn on the antenna to check for 4g service. Had done it since I got the phone. And I don't get frustrated easily...like I said something just hit me wrong especially with a very stressful real life issue I'm dealing with right now.
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What I've noticed here on san antonio is that in a lot of areas around here, lte is completely overloaded at certain times of the day, making 3g a better alternative. A ton of people have the gs3 now so I thonk that Sprint's lte is way too little for all the phones that support lte. In other words, they may have rolled another wimax tower just so everyone on wimax phones can have a fairly decent 4g. Just to possibly keep the customer satisfied while they work on upgrades for lte to better support current lte customers. Idk if that makes sense to you but it makes sense in my head.
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Even with this new LTE network, there service is still sub-par at best.. I have more dropped calls with this new service, than I have had with Winmax, and I live in the DFW area...

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What I've noticed here on san antonio is that in a lot of areas around here, lte is completely overloaded at certain times of the day, making 3g a better alternative. A ton of people have the gs3 now so I thonk that Sprint's lte is way too little for all the phones that support lte. In other words, they may have rolled another wimax tower just so everyone on wimax phones can have a fairly decent 4g. Just to possibly keep the customer satisfied while they work on upgrades for lte to better support current lte customers. Idk if that makes sense to you but it makes sense in my head.
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I'm in SA area too. My experience has been a constant, blazing fast LTE connection anywhere north of IH-10 and south of IH-10 seems to be spotty LTE, mostly 3g. When I'm on 3G, it's extremely sluggish though. Sometimes I drop down to 1x on the northwest side of town. I've heard so many different experiences though. I'm on LJ7 modem btw.
On a side note, my mother has an evo 3d that connects well with wimax. Much more of a reliable connection than I've experienced with my S3.

Besides all the trolling here, it's not a big deal if there's that there now but not 4g. Who cares. Use wifi if your home or at a friends. I'm on 3g and that's perfectly fine when it comes to Web browsing some sites.
You can complain to sprint and they would just brush it off like the other countless non major complaints they get.
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OP watch your language. Filter or no filter if you want people to help you calm down and speak intelligently without the profanities. Please read the forum rules regarding language and respect. Same goes for all.
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