sorry for my bad in English
when I dialer used GSM (2g) only, I had to talk very loud and nearly the mic, if not, my friend could not hear my voice
however, when i used WCDMA (3G) only, everything was fine but except the signal strength came down very low (between 99 and 105 dBm - between 1 and 2 bar). sometime, it is no signal
I tried to flash radio, but It was the same problem
can someone explain my problem and guide me how to fix it please!!!
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My question is why My hermes Tytn picks up the weakest signal at this moment, that is the '3G' signal which is only 1 bar. If i switch to 'G' i get 4 bars instantly.
I have flashed the radio roms already went from 1.40.30 to 1.38.01...anyone thought about making my hermes just picking up the strongest signal automatically regardless if i want to use my UMTS connection?
bandswitch is not really an option right, bc i want my phone just picking op the strongest network at all times.
Its quite ridiculous that my phone picks up the weakest eg 1 bar '3G' instead of 4 bars of 'G' in my opinion especially when im in a phone conversation.
Any comments are welcome.
Regards,
Chiwah
btw new black touch rom is nice...only dunno if its a mon-tue-wedn etc on my today screen.
i have the same problem, although this thread should be moved to "hermes" or "hermes upgrade" forum instead of wm6 forum.
but if anyone has a solution to how to fix it that would be most welcomed by me aswell. (right now I always use gsm network)
Try to update radio to 1.41, it will solve your problem
I have same experience, it is solved after i updated the radio to 1.41. It is noticed that radio !.43 encountered same problems as 1.38 or 1.40. It always pick up the weaker signal such as 3G instead of steady GSM. For the radio 1.41 it always pick up the strongest signal, it will pick up GSM autuomatically if 3G signal is weak.
Or.....
Or you can just search for a great little program called band switch. this program creates a little icon at the bottom of your screen allowing you to switch band on the fly with the click of a button. it is free and was developed by someone in the community. just do a search for it.
I think you will find that the device when in auto (in common with all 3g devices) is set to choose 3g if its available - and thus it will choose 3g if it can get a signal. Personally I prefer 3g (even with one bar) to gsm as it means I can talk and receive emails at the same time.
But I am aware that some hermes users on some networks seem to have some 3g issues with low signal (ie it thinks there's a 3g signal but actually voice and data have trouble getting through).
I agree. The phone will deliberatly attempt to use a 3G signal whenever available. As long as you can send and receive calls, it seems to me that is a desired feature.
Now, if only they would expand 3G into more of my state...
Hey,
I've recently got my DHD. Although i still have that call drops like i had it with my HTC Hero.
At home we have a bad 3G signal. That's why i set my DHD to GSM Auto (PRL).
It still uses 3G and there are no more than 2bars (signal strength). However i also see my DHD on 3G with no bar (signal strength).
Sometimes when i make a call (1 of 5-10Calls) the phone starts on 3g, after some time it hands over to 2g and the call is dropped.
Do you know is the call drop at 3g to 2g handover the providers fault or is it the handset?
My best solution would be to adjust the GSM Auto (PRL)-3G-Treshold , so it would require a better 3G signal and would'nt switch to 3g at home at all. Is this possible?
Another solution would be if i make a call, phone should switch to 2g automatically. Seems more realistic!?
If those ways are not possible i can just use the workaround to use WIFI at home and use "toggle 2g if wifi"
Thanks in advance!
Have you tried to fix it to GSM only without PRL? This is how I've gotten rid of my phonecall dropouts on 3G.
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Ya ofc, but the coverage is only bad at home.
That means once i leave home i want to use 3G.
Switching everytime i leave home is no solution.
But thanks anyway!
Hi,
My signal reception is not always great. Sometimes i also have the issue of having no reception untill i unlock my screen, but thats not always the case, sometimes i have to reboot the phone to get my signal back but this not always work. The signal loss occurs even when i'm asleep and the phone is on my nightstand.(i've seen this in the battery history). Battery drainage is not greater when there's no signal. Also when i make calls i and sometimes the other person hear loud noises(peeping). Also my signal bar show full bars and when i try to make a call this doesn't work because when after a while trying to make the call, the bars drop to maybe 1 or even no bars.
The problem with high pitched noises while making calls i've had from the beginning, in GB. Losing signal reception i've had since i 've rooted ICS 4.0.3(one-click doomlord). under 4.0.3 i've flashed the .72 baseband but that didn't helped. Now recently i've did a factory reset + flashed a generic 4.0.4 and rooted it, because 4.0.4 isn't yet released in Belgium. under root I removed bloatware, but didn't remove critical apk's.
In the menu with available network providers my operator/provider has only 2G, i've choosen the automatic connection instead of manual, only in big cities 3G appears in the menu, dunno if this is relevant.
My Sim is maybe 3 years old.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
dahakske said:
Hi,
My signal reception is not always great. Sometimes i also have the issue of having no reception untill i unlock my screen, but thats not always the case, sometimes i have to reboot the phone to get my signal back but this not always work. The signal loss occurs even when i'm asleep and the phone is on my nightstand.(i've seen this in the battery history). Battery drainage is not greater when there's no signal. Also when i make calls i and sometimes the other person hear loud noises(peeping). Also my signal bar show full bars and when i try to make a call this doesn't work because when after a while trying to make the call, the bars drop to maybe 1 or even no bars.
The problem with high pitched noises while making calls i've had from the beginning, in GB. Losing signal reception i've had since i 've rooted ICS 4.0.3(one-click doomlord). under 4.0.3 i've flashed the .72 baseband but that didn't helped. Now recently i've did a factory reset + flashed a generic 4.0.4 and rooted it, because 4.0.4 isn't yet released in Belgium. under root I removed bloatware, but didn't remove critical apk's.
In the menu with available network providers my operator/provider has only 2G, i've choosen the automatic connection instead of manual, only in big cities 3G appears in the menu, dunno if this is relevant.
My Sim is maybe 3 years old.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
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I do recommend buying a very cheap signal booster.
It's like a bumper sticker and placed where the antenna.
The signal problems rarely belong to the cell, in most cases within a few base stations belonging to the company in relation to users.
I hope I have helped.
best regards
Is there any way (app or otherwise) to disable 3g but keep on lte? When I'm at work (a lot) I would rather have the option to use just those 2 but no 3g . Is there any way this is possible? I'm on slimkat so this might be a question to ask in the general android, but I never get answers when I ask there, so I"m trying here.
whenever I go from 3g to 2g it drops signal for a second and drops calls, but when going from lte to 2g it doesn't (and without 3g the calls should default to 2g and I wouldn't drop them on campus) so if anyone knows why the signal drops that could also solve my problem
Hello,
I have a problem with 2G signal.
My phone random lost 2G signal. If I am not in a 3G coverage, I don't make any call.
3G and LTE signal are mostly OK.
Same problem is on any custom ROM, and official ROM (I tested V20g and now I have V20k).
It will be probably a hardware problem
Do you have someone the same problem as me?
Any idea?
I have a unlocked bootloader and I try find a solution before sending to a service...