Just got my stock 4.0.1 Nexus and its got XXKK1. Is this the best for UK networks?
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XXKL1 has shown the best performance for me, with 4.0.3. 4.0.4 uses LA2 which is also good, i suggest you go straight to 4.0.4
The latest radio for European region is XXLA2 which should theoretically give the best results. However, I think it is very much based on location and network provider. Try both XXKL1 and XXLA2 and see which gives the best signal strength and network speeds.
XXLA2 gave me a 120% boost in 3G speeds. No kidding here.
I flashed Evolution 2 with no problems and followed the instructions to a tee. The only thing I haven't done is the cache wipe. The problem I am having so far is with the radio. I get no data and a data packet roaming message from the status bar. I can only get data working is if I flash the Telus modem prepped for ICS. I had similar problems as well with other roms and I'm guessing the radio rom that only plays nice with Telus is their modem. Am I wrong? If so any suggestions? I'm on the Telus network if it helps
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Weaponx525 said:
I flashed Evolution 2 with no problems and followed the instructions to a tee. The only thing I haven't done is the cache wipe. The problem I am having so far is with the radio. I get no data and a data packet roaming message from the status bar. I can only get data working is if I flash the Telus modem prepped for ICS. I had similar problems as well with other roms and I'm guessing the radio rom that only plays nice with Telus is their modem. Am I wrong? If so any suggestions? I'm on the Telus network if it helps
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Ok, first things first: do the cache wipe, and use the script provided with the ROM for it. Trust me, it won't delete any of your data, it's perfectly safe. (I speak from experience) The only thing you will notice is that your phone will take a really long time to boot immediately after the wipe. That's expected, let it be.
To your question:
It makes no sense to me why using TELUS' radio on TELUS should be the only way for your phone have data. I can't test this for you as I am not a TELUS client, but I have used the TELUS modem on Rogers and Mobilicity without any trouble at all. The one thing I can think of that may do this is your modem's band settings: the ROM comes with a modem for T-Mobile, which uses a different frequency for its data network. This is how you (try to) fix this:
Go into the Phone application and dial the following:
*#*#2263#*#*
Upon hitting the last * you will see the service menu for the phone, allowing you to set which bands the phone will be looking for for a network. Then press (3) for GSM and then (5) for GSM 850/1900. This should do it for TELUS. If this doesn't work, try using (3) for GSM and then (7) for GSM ALL, or if all else fails, just go into the menu and set (1) for full Automatic.
Another thing, though: I don't understand why you would want to use the T-Mobile radio, when the TELUS one gives you something all of us here can only wish for: presence on two networks at the same time. You can be riding an elevator or take your time in the parking lot without loosing data even for a second! This radio is meant for the TELUS network, and is giving you the best possible experience on it. If it works for you, my advise is to stick with it. The T-Mobile one isn't a step up for you.
Thank you for the detailed response. It is very appreciated. The reason I used the T Mobile modem was that it was the one provided in TDJ's link and I thought it might be more "compatible" with the T-Mobile leak. I didn't know about the advantage that the Telus modem provided. Could you explain what is meant by prescence on two networks? Either case the Telus modem has been very stable thus far and I think I'll keep using it for now.
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Well, this flavour of the Galaxy S2 is not meant for TELUS. It is meant for T-Mobile, an AWS carrier. This phone cannot work very fast on TELUS as it does not support its data network fully. Worse still, last Q4 this phone was pitched against Rogers' LTE flavour of the S2, the Skyrocket, whose ICS leak we were running until recently. TELUS had to beef it up beyond the 14Mbps possible with HSPA so that it would compete.
So, they loaded it up with a state-of-the-art HSDPA radio, which allows it to aggregate signal from two HSPA towers to get its speed edge. I don't think this is done very often, if at all: it's quite remarkable TELUS did that. In a nutshell, your phone can sit on two cellular networks at the same time, the 850Mhz and the 1900Mhz one, and aggregate them to give you the theoretical 28Mbps. Still not LTE, but in the ballpark. You own a T989D, where the D stands for dual towers, and the 850Mhz band means you can stream music uninterrupted while walking into an elevator and then out again.
So that's it, in a nutshell. If I were on TELUS, I would be running this radio as well, up until the day I can replace it with another TELUS radio.
Hello,
For people having problems With the TMO Radio on Telus.
The Tmo radio sucks on Telus it will break Data connection, so use the Telus radio. But you can not flash over TMO ICS Rom with the Telus RIL files, it will break signal all together.
If you are already using a TMO ICS rom use one of the Telus radios in the Nexusmod thread with the system folder removed or remove the system folder before you flash the radio.
If your getting ready to flash an Ics rom and your on Telus radio, skip the flashing radio step. I hope that helps.
Though I heard rumors that the Telus radio doesnt quite work perfectly with the TMO leak
If we could use this thread for problems with Telus users using the leak that would be great
After flashing the Telus modem with the RIL file removed, ie installing the modem from the Nexus Mod thread in the dev section, this Rom has definitely more stable data connection. There are still some random drop outs but not as often as the TMo radios. Actually I have flashed many of the ICS leaks and there has, in my experience, data drop outs with any TMo modem on the Telus network. I'm very happy thus far with Evolution 2. There are occasionally some app crashes and camera glitches but overall nothing deal breaking. Amazing job on this ROM.
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Do you think this could cause a phone force close with the Virgin Mobile network?
EDIT: Yep. That was the problem. Thank you guys so much, I've been stressing for days... The Telus radio fixed everything.
Working for me here. I'm not sure if my speeds are where they should be though, as in they seem to be half of what they should be. This leads me to think that the phone might only be seeing and connecting to one tower instead of two for the HSPA. My baseband shows up as Unknown too, so I'm not sure if that is a big deal or not.
I am a Telus user and to be honest found my quickest speeds with the Blaze ics modem, but I live in a rural area. I am trying the UVCL8 modem now and it is okay. I was getting some data roaming errors with this one, but it seems to have smoothed itself out. The Telus & Tmobile radios as I understand it are supposed to both supposed to support HSPA+ or a theoretical maximum of 42mpbs. I would confirm all of your apn settings and make sure they are all fine.
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I am a Telus user and to be honest found my quickest speeds with the Blaze ics modem, but I live in a rural area. I am trying the UVCL8 modem now and it is okay. I was getting some data roaming errors with this one, but it seems to have smoothed itself out. The Telus & Tmobile radios as I understand it are supposed to both supposed to support HSPA+ or a theoretical maximum of 42mpbs. I would confirm all of your apn settings and make sure they are all fine.
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Bizarre. I just tried the Blaze modem and had extremely slow speeds on speedtest. Like 1 mpbs, whereas I had at least 10 with Telus' modem. It isn't like I was getting slow slow speeds or anything I guess. Just kind of strange.
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I am a Telus user and to be honest found my quickest speeds with the Blaze ics modem, but I live in a rural area. I am trying the UVCL8 modem now and it is okay. I was getting some data roaming errors with this one, but it seems to have smoothed itself out. The Telus & Tmobile radios as I understand it are supposed to both supposed to support HSPA+ or a theoretical maximum of 42mpbs. I would confirm all of your apn settings and make sure they are all fine.
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curious, where in canada you living? I'm on vancouver island and I kind of get junk speeds
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So I wanna know what radio your using. And what carrier, I'm on optus and I don't know whats best. Im currently on KK6 as it gets the best speeds...
I'm on TPG (Optus reseller) using stock radio...the speeds for me **** all over what i was getting on my Sensation last week
UGLC1
I am with Vodafone, and recently (3 days ago) flashed UGLC1...works very well for voice calls, I'm getting roughly the same speeds on my phone as I do on my broadband at home (tonight 3424kbps down, only 422kbps up; on 6/5 I had 3934kbps down, 1757kbps up), and my wireless strength seems to be better than it was on stock too.
I had major call quality issues with KK6, and trouble getting a signal at all with KRLB1 (though I was fiddling around with radio bands at the time and got stuck on AUS rather than AUTO, so that may have interfered with my results).
Basically, the best way to do this is to back up your radio (use the Galaxy Nexus Toolkit), and then download some off xda and see if they work. I'm sure you know that Speedtest.net has a great app to use for benchmarking.
I'm using the XXLA2 radio with the Swedish carrier Telia and it's so-so.
What's the difference between having "WCDMA Preferred" and "GSM/CDMA auto (prl)" as was pre-4.0.4?
There's some detail on this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=688492
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What's the difference between having "WCDMA Preferred" and "GSM/CDMA auto (prl)" as was pre-4.0.4?
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they are carrier dependencies and refer to how a carrier handles voice calls...GSM is the standard most used, WCDMA (i think) was the early 3G
I'm using XXLA2 with Optus. It's better than the original KK6 for me in terms of reception I think. I haven't really tried changing the radios just because I don't really have any reliable way of benchmarking them lol. Keen to get an answer here
XXKK6 here on TPG (optus)
never had any problems with it so haven't touched it, though I never download any large files on mobile data so can't really say anything about speed (I tend to stay under the 50mb/month 'free' PAYG data lol)
I just tried the SC04DOMLE3 radio, with not very good results...a couple of calls were fine, but one was garbled and one dropped out unexpectedly.
I've reveted to UGLC1, which has been pretty stable for me over the last two or three weeks since I flashed it
Hey People,
I bought 2 months ago my Galaxy Nexus on Play Store for this wondeerful price they sell it.
My plan was to bring it here to Brazil and, of course, use it.
But, I used it on T-Mobile network while I was in the USA in Maryland area. The results where very good... Almost always having 3G signal and pretty decent speeds testing on speedtest app.
When I started using it here in Brazil, I had some issues related to HSPA+ speeds.
My carrier (Claro BR) does support HSPA+(some carriers here, don't), and sometimes, I think, the phone just forgets to use HSPA+ and keeps using HSDPA...
I can reach up to 4Mbs on HSDPA and always between 4-8Mbs on HSPA+.
What I normally do is turning on and off airplane mode and the phone starts using H+ again.
I am using I250UILE1 radio and CNA 05192012 nightly w/ 1344-384 Trinity kernel.
I forgot to say that when I turn Wifi off and automatically let my phone connect to DATA connection it fastly connects to HSDPA switches for a little time to UMTS and then switches back to HSDPA and no signal for H+. And I again have to switch radio off and on (airplane mode).
I think I tried almost everything...
Hi everyone.
I have a problem with my GSM Galaxy Nexus. The phone drops the signal on a random basis, very often, even when I'm calling.
I have the latest version of Jelly Bean installed, via official OTA (4.1.2). I am not rooted.
I have installed the ClockworkMod Recovery to try new basebands. My phone has the XXLF1 baseband, but I tried also the UGLH1 and the UILE1. Same problem. I've also checked the RIL: it matches with these radios I tried.
Is there anything I can do?
I brought it back to Samsung Service and when it came back to me last week, it had the same problem.
Any idea?
Thanks!
PS: I live in Italy and the reception in my area is generally good.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sibbor.getril
My current ROM:http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1892807
4G Signal drop on CynogenMod 11-20131213-NIGHTLY-maguro
I am also facing the sharp Signal drop on 4G connection during VOIP calls within 1/8 of minute on all carriers. I have checked using three Carriers SIMM.
Please help me either to stay on same Baseband 4.2.2 or downgrade?
Thanks