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
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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.
Apk07 said:
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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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
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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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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.
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for the hell of it i just did a speedtest on my Inc2 and these were the results:
Ping - 219ms
Download Speed - 0.29 Mbps
Upload Speed - 0.26 Mbps
my phone is currently showing 3 bars.
when i had the Thunderbolt it was showing like 7 Mbps DL & 2 Mbps UL in this area(without 4G).
does anyone else have crap speeds to?
You are comparing a 3G phone (Inc2) to a 4G phone (Thunderbolt)... Ofcourse its going to be slower...
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he said without 4G... should be the same.
I find it highly suspect that a 3G connection was generating 7mbit. The maximum burst rate (meaning: not streaming rate) is 3mbit for EVDO Rev.A. Both the Thunderbolt and the Incredible 2 have 3G radios using Rev.A, not Rev.B.
I've noticed sometimes the connectivity indicator has a delayed update and I can be connected to 3G before the icon changes from 1x to 3G coming out of the parking garage at my office (I can tell because streams that don't work on 1x would start up fine).
I've been able to get over 1mbit consistently on my Inc2, and have been able to exceed 2mbit in some areas.
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for the hell of it i just did a speedtest on my Inc2 and these were the results:
Ping - 219ms
Download Speed - 0.29 Mbps
Upload Speed - 0.26 Mbps
my phone is currently showing 3 bars.
when i had the Thunderbolt it was showing like 7 Mbps DL & 2 Mbps UL in this area(without 4G).
does anyone else have crap speeds to?
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yea... mine has been annoying me too. I always seem to get a higher upload than I do download speed.
This is after 4 tries back to back, all of them upload speed was higher.
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Even though Tmobile sucks when it comes to coverage area, I kind of miss the 3g speeds I had with them. My Vibrant would hit 5 mbps constantly
Just used the same SpeedTest.net app, after three back to back tries:
Down: 1742, 1192, 1894 kbps
Up: 589, 675, 543 kbps
Ping: 185, 140, 220 ms
Full bars in northern NJ
Full bars
signal around -71 dBm
Ping: 211ms
Download: 884kbps
Upload: 699kbps
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yea... mine has been annoying me too. I always seem to get a higher upload than I do download speed.
This is after 4 tries back to back, all of them upload speed was higher.
Houston, Tx by the way
Even though Tmobile sucks when it comes to coverage area, I kind of miss the 3g speeds I had with them. My Vibrant would hit 5 mbps constantly
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what rom are you on?
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what rom are you on?
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Stock rooted Gingersense, I took a screenshot back at my desk where I have no bars but was outside when I ran the test.
Had full bars and i'm on the new radio.
You need to turn on Roaming I know it doesn't make any sense
Wireless & Networks - Mobile Networks - Data Roaming Checked & CDMA Options - SYS select automatic. There I bet it's fixed.
I live in Philly across from a major hospital with thousands of people inside.
I have 3 bars at my house usually. When I first got my OG Droid it was faster than my DSL at 2200k. Then after I guess more people got smartphones it got slower and slower.
I was getting max 200k oftentimes 80k at my house since Fall '10. At work it is much better around 1200k stable but at 5pm at work used to kick me off the network. No biggie right I have wifi at home. Well it is a pain if you take a walk outside and there is a dead zone around your house.
So I decided to try a friends Sprint phone. SAME EXACT signal readings same speed. Got an Inc 2 finally I thought my droid was crap. Same thing with new phone.
Then I started trying everything. Turned on Roaming as noted above bingo!
I have a feeling Sprint / Verizon towers are used jointly? Like you need roaming for things to work properly in downtown philly. I don't know but I don't loose connection anymore whenever I have bars showing. Where in areas that there are a large number of people I had problems previously at peak hours. Now everything is stable now.
It doesn't make any sense to me at all. It is turned off by default on all phones?? But the difference is like night and day. I mean I know Verizon/Sprint share networks but that should only be in the boonies? I would love an answer. Just don't go overseas with that enabled.
i am satisfied with my inc2 data speeds. i put my inc2 next to an evo 4g (running in 3g mode because there is no 4g in my area)...and the inc2 loaded all the websites i tested quicker than the evo.
the inc2 was showing 1 to 2 bars, the evo showing full bars... i would click on a link at the same time on both phones and inc2 won everytime.
I average a MB up and down, zero complains. Running 2.3.3 (recent upgrade).
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I used to get atleast 1MB with 3+ bars on stock froyo before S-OFF, but after I installed CM7 Beta 1 I'm getting lower bars than I did before, is that happening with anyone else, or is it one of those things you just randomly notice?
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I used to get atleast 1MB with 3+ bars on stock froyo before S-OFF, but after I installed CM7 Beta 1 I'm getting lower bars than I did before, is that happening with anyone else, or is it one of those things you just randomly notice?
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Don't look st the bars. They are set to show so many based on signal and that changes from Rom to Rom (why a dx can show 4 bars but I have 2) go to settings about phone and look at your signal strength.
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Wireless & Networks - Mobile Networks - Data Roaming Checked & CDMA Options - SYS select automatic. There I bet it's fixed.
I live in Philly across from a major hospital with thousands of people inside.
I have 3 bars at my house usually. When I first got my OG Droid it was faster than my DSL at 2200k. Then after I guess more people got smartphones it got slower and slower.
I was getting max 200k oftentimes 80k at my house since Fall '10. At work it is much better around 1200k stable but at 5pm at work used to kick me off the network. No biggie right I have wifi at home. Well it is a pain if you take a walk outside and there is a dead zone around your house.
So I decided to try a friends Sprint phone. SAME EXACT signal readings same speed. Got an Inc 2 finally I thought my droid was crap. Same thing with new phone.
Then I started trying everything. Turned on Roaming as noted above bingo!
I have a feeling Sprint / Verizon towers are used jointly? Like you need roaming for things to work properly in downtown philly. I don't know but I don't loose connection anymore whenever I have bars showing. Where in areas that there are a large number of people I had problems previously at peak hours. Now everything is stable now.
It doesn't make any sense to me at all. It is turned off by default on all phones?? But the difference is like night and day. I mean I know Verizon/Sprint share networks but that should only be in the boonies? I would love an answer. Just don't go overseas with that enabled.
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if I enable roaming though it gives me a warning about extra charges. is that true?
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if I enable roaming though it gives me a warning about extra charges. is that true?
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well yes, if you're roaming.
voxigenboy said:
if I enable roaming though it gives me a warning about extra charges. is that true?
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Verizon has a roaming agreement with sprint. I think it would only come into play overseas. In Europe that setting could get you in to trouble.
Had Roaming on from NY to SC not a peep from Verizon billing.
It's much faster right less data drops too.
Yianaki said:
Verizon has a roaming agreement with sprint. I think it would only come into play overseas. In Europe that setting could get you in to trouble.
Had Roaming on from NY to SC not a peep from Verizon billing.
It's much faster right less data drops too.
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It's true
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Yianaki said:
Wireless & Networks - Mobile Networks - Data Roaming Checked & CDMA Options - SYS select automatic. There I bet it's fixed.
I live in Philly across from a major hospital with thousands of people inside.
I have 3 bars at my house usually. When I first got my OG Droid it was faster than my DSL at 2200k. Then after I guess more people got smartphones it got slower and slower.
I was getting max 200k oftentimes 80k at my house since Fall '10. At work it is much better around 1200k stable but at 5pm at work used to kick me off the network. No biggie right I have wifi at home. Well it is a pain if you take a walk outside and there is a dead zone around your house.
So I decided to try a friends Sprint phone. SAME EXACT signal readings same speed. Got an Inc 2 finally I thought my droid was crap. Same thing with new phone.
Then I started trying everything. Turned on Roaming as noted above bingo!
I have a feeling Sprint / Verizon towers are used jointly? Like you need roaming for things to work properly in downtown philly. I don't know but I don't loose connection anymore whenever I have bars showing. Where in areas that there are a large number of people I had problems previously at peak hours. Now everything is stable now.
It doesn't make any sense to me at all. It is turned off by default on all phones?? But the difference is like night and day. I mean I know Verizon/Sprint share networks but that should only be in the boonies? I would love an answer. Just don't go overseas with that enabled.
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It is often the case that providers will share towers. Many communities hate the sight of towers in their area (they're ugly...yes, this really does happen) so they are forced to keep them to a minimum. They share towers but not necessarily radio equipment, so you may not be necessarily be running through Sprint on a Sprint tower.
Not terrible. Houston
I am wanting to make sure that these are the general speeds everyone else is getting with their E4GT. I noticed that it generally takes so much longer when trying to do anything with the an application that uses the data connection.
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This is generally consistent for my area, and I am wondering if it is a malfunctioning tower, or what. 4G Speeds are consistently great, when I get a 4G Signal (which isn't at my house).
As far as battery life goes, I literally received 6 hours of usage on a full charge yesterday. I had flashed my phone thursday night to EL13, and I have been EL13 before and was experiencing some pretty good usage.
I am wondering if I should reflash again, and start from scratch all over again. I have calibrated the battery by letting it die off, then charging it to 100, didn't seem to help.
Well i can say this. It looks like in general you are in weak signal areas most of the time. Weak signals from tours and terrible battery life absolutely go hand in hand. See it works like this. The weaker the signal the more power your phone puts out in order to increase the strength of the signal. With a great signal and not touching my phone it could sleep for 4-7 days before running out of battery. How ever at my old work place where i had a terrible signal in just 5-6 hours of my phone in sleep mode i could easilly go from. 100% charge to 30%. A bad signal will drain your battery faster than almost anything you could otherwise do on your phone except maybe recording HD video. Hooe this helps you. Feel free to ask a question via pm if i was confusing at all.
EDIT- Sprint is known for giving away free Air Wave's to people to boost signal at your house which should increase your battery life dramatically. Also there could be a problem keeping your phone from going into a deep sleep which also could eat your battery alive also. Some times its comonly a app that you installed that could cause. Your phone not to go into a deep sleep. If you have the bad luck of having a combo of both of these problems your phone battery wouldnt stand a chance sadly
In the first picture, regarding speedtest, I would generally agree. I just took that at my house literally 20 minutes before posting.
But the other pictures, have 4 to 5 bars. Assuming that amount of bars is relative to signal, wouldn't that indicate that I have a pretty good signal?
Could be work on your local tower too. Call *2 and see if there is any reported outage as well.
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As gho stated there may be an outage or there are working on the towers. As far as battery life i suffered from it. Now battery life seems better once i downloaded juice defender and ram manager
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My speeds are creeping up... I use to get 3.x on 3G where I live.
Now at work, its a different story... Horrible.
Battery life is great, but the bad signal theory mentioned can be a problem in areas.
Ho-lee-crap does a low signal area suck your battery dry. I did some x-mas shopping (moar like browsing) in North Hampton. I don't really ever go there except around x-mas time to bar hop and pretend to x-mas shop with some friends....and holy crap, the Sprint signal sucked there...and Verizon signal even seemed to suck there. I could barely even roam. Got the "absolutely no signal" circle, feared it was LOS coming back from the ancient past, but as soon as we left the bar I was lucky enough to roam with 0 bars.
I have been getting 24-38 hours (estimated) battery life lately. (Assuming that I would have a similar usage pattern the next day.) I charge at night at roughly 35-50% and take it off the charger at 4am before work. Typically no charging all day.
So I knew I would be out all day so I charged it up at work. Left at 12pm at 100%, min200, max200, conservative governor. Twiddled a little on the ride...got there around 1ish...left around 4ish. Took a few pictures. Didn't do a go damned thing with data, that's for sure. I was at 20% the next I looked.
Like whoa.
I do have an airave, however, I had turned it off as I was wanting to do some experimental testing with our home network. Was wanting to eliminate that as a cause of the problem.
Seems like I have fixed the problem since then, so I will be turning it back on.
But I am concerned by this, because well, while I can live with a phone that lasts a day in a bad signal area, 5 hours for me is beyond ridiculous, even my HTC Hero would last longer in a low/non-signal area. That is my big concern.
What are other people averaging in their speedtest.net apps for this phone?
Try turning off the proxies and see if that helps you. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1283229) it maybe the proxies in your area are particularly bad.
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I do have an airave, however, I had turned it off as I was wanting to do some experimental testing with our home network. Was wanting to eliminate that as a cause of the problem.
Seems like I have fixed the problem since then, so I will be turning it back on.
But I am concerned by this, because well, while I can live with a phone that lasts a day in a bad signal area, 5 hours for me is beyond ridiculous, even my HTC Hero would last longer in a low/non-signal area. That is my big concern.
What are other people averaging in their speedtest.net apps for this phone?
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3G is wildly unreliable for me. Most times I'll get miserable speeds like in the first shot and then sometimes I'll decent speeds like in the second screenshot.
4G is okay although I should note that I had to go to my yard to get signal because despite the fact that I live in a strong "in-building" 4G signal area, I can't get signal inside my place anywhere.
:doh:
I haven't had to mess with the airave in so long, that I forgot what port it has to be plugged into.
I have it setup so that it goes:
Modem > Router > Airave
Does it need to be plugged into WAN, LAN1, LAN2. Obviously it shouldn't be plugged into WAN, but, I am not sure if the WAN port automatically falls over to a LAN Port if recognized as such.
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Try turning off the proxies and see if that helps you. (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1283229) it maybe the proxies in your area are particularly bad.
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This didn't really help. It actually made my problems much worse at my house.
Thats surprising air wave insanely increases 3G speed. Here are my speeds on 3G
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Sprint is the worst of the big four U.S. carriers as far as network goes. Their 3G speeds are slower than 1990's dial up modems. And WiMax 4G is so spotty and hard to hold it seems more like a gimmick, than actually something meant to be used regularly.
ATT, T-Mobile, and Verizon 3G speeds are easily ten times faster. Sprint's 3G feels like it is stuck on 1x or Edge all the time
Now the Epic 4G Touch is an awesome device itself, I love this phone, best smartphone I ever owned. But Sprint just sucks, not in the same league as Verizon or ATT.
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Thats surprising air wave insanely increases 3G speed. Here are my speeds on 3G
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As I mentioned, I didn't have it plugged in as I was doing testing on my network.
However, I need some confirmation as to what LAN/WAN port to plug it into behind a router. As I have forgotten, and regardless of what port I plug it into, the Airave still fails to give me a confirmed status check (by dialing *99).
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As I mentioned, I didn't have it plugged in as I was doing testing on my network.
However, I need some confirmation as to what LAN/WAN port to plug it into behind a router. As I have forgotten, and regardless of what port I plug it into, the Airave still fails to give me a confirmed status check (by dialing *99).
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WAN Port. Mine Goes Modem -> Router -> WAN Port on Airave (I have the "Airvana", which is the 2nd generation of this device).
SuperG03
Compared to Verisons 1.5Mb/sec - 2.5Mb/sec 3g my .8Mb/sec - 1.2Mb/sec 3g on. Sprint seemed slow to me. But after seing some of you guys that are experiencing .1 - .3Mb/sec i feel lucky to be clearing 1Mb/sec some times. I cant beleive you guys stick around getting 150kps. I would havr bailed a long time ago with those speeds.
bars dont indicate data signal strength. it indicates voice signal strength. you can have no bars and still get 3g, or all bars and no 3g.
Zorachus said:
Sprint is the worst of the big four U.S. carriers as far as network goes. Their 3G speeds are slower than 1990's dial up modems. And WiMax 4G is so spotty and hard to hold it seems more like a gimmick, than actually something meant to be used regularly.
ATT, T-Mobile, and Verizon 3G speeds are easily ten times faster. Sprint's 3G feels like it is stuck on 1x or Edge all the time
Now the Epic 4G Touch is an awesome device itself, I love this phone, best smartphone I ever owned. But Sprint just sucks, not in the same league as Verizon or ATT.
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Do you remember how slow dialup was? The majority of us beat that quite significantly. Also once I changed my proxies (shame it didn't work here) Sprint is on par with Verizon 3g here
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Sprint sucks. At my house I'm lucky if I get 100kbps. But if I drive 5 miles I'm next to a good tower and getting 1400kbps during peak hours.
I keep my phone on wifi as much as possible and use verizon towers, this combo with the cost I'm paying is worth it to me.
Check out 3G improvements being worked on in your area: https://network.sprint.com/
Why does the Sprint network data speed sucks so bad I don't mean to down the carrier but I still have my inc 2 with active Verizon and it is smoking the hell out of sprint ' s data I don't even think I can compare the two and I live in the city I'm paying good money for something I'm not getting i cant barely load the xda site thats from the app or browser
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this my speed test from my verizon phone
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my samsung from sprint
Because you touch yourself at night
Seriously though, have you tried updating profile and PRL?
Settings > about phone > system updates > update profile and update PRL
If that doesnt help, you should check the coverage in your area on Sprints site/contact Sprint for further help.
cds0699 said:
Because you touch yourself at night
Seriously though, have you tried updating profile and PRL?
Settings > about phone > system updates > update profile and update PRL
If that doesnt help, you should check the coverage in your area on Sprints site/contact Sprint for further help.
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seriously bro dont you think i've already done all this in fact more then 3 times plus i just got off the phone for the third time this week with some really rude tech from sprint whos saying something is wrong with your phone which i know is a lie because my wife also has this phone on top of that our phones were bought at different times so they are not from the same store but her is doing the same thing.
every time i have call with have done the same thing update profile reset the phone when through the whole set up again they supposedly updated me with something through the computer but still the same sorry but im pretty upset
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seriously bro dont you think i've already done all this in fact more then 3 times plus i just got off the phone for the third time this week with some really rude tech from sprint whos saying something is wrong with your phone which i know is a lie because my wife also has this phone on top of that our phones were bought at different times so they are not from the same store but her is doing the same thing.
every time i have call with have done the same thing update profile reset the phone when through the whole set up again they supposedly updated me with something through the computer but still the same sorry but im pretty upset
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Ok, well I didn't know all that, you didn't mention anything about doing all that in your original post so I was obviously gonna suggest the basic troubleshooting methods that I know of. I honestly don't know, hopefully someone else has more ideas.
More factual info helps you get better help rather than just venting when you're trying to do problem solving stuff, fyi.
This is why I left Sprint. What is the point of unlimited data if you can't even use it?
Are you running stock? I don't have the best speeds, but I'm not even full bars here.
Still getting 1mb down/600k up
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nope im rooted but it doesn't matter my wive's phone is stock and shes getting the same crap im not sure if i can deal with this i cant load any web pages with out waiting at least a minute whats the point of unlimited if it doesn't have any juice behind it, i may as well be on boost mobile network
I don't know why they suck but your download speeds are faster than mine. My upload speeds on sprint are faster than the downloads. It is horrible where I am as well.
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nope im rooted but it doesn't matter my wive's phone is stock and shes getting the same crap im not sure if i can deal with this i cant load any web pages with out waiting at least a minute whats the point of unlimited if it doesn't have any juice behind it, i may as well be on boost mobile network
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Yes specially since boost is sprint .....same thing
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ElAguila said:
I don't know why they suck but your download speeds are faster than mine. My upload speeds on sprint are faster than the downloads. It is horrible where I am as well.
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dam how can you deal with that im not a phone user im a internet user with out it is pointless so why pay all this money for it I check the network in my area and it says It will get a data update in the next 6 months is that a joke lol
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Yes specially since boost is sprint .....same thing
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exactly my point Lol
There are many things you can do to your phone to ensure it is getting proper network speeds, if that speedtest is actually the speeds you are getting then yes there is something the matter with your phone as I have always gotten an avg of 1 mb down and i live in a rural area, first thing i would try would be updating to ensure you have the correct modem installed there are many threads that will tell you all about that. Or you can try an old trick from EVO days. First get the MSL code for your phone, also a few posts on xda that will tell you how to retrieve that. Then you go into your dialer and type ##3282# a menu will pop up select edit put in your MSL and you select OTHER, then MULTIMEDIA and change RTSP proxy address and HTTPPD proxy address to 0.0.0.0 and change RTSP proxy port and HTTPPD proxy port to 0 when you are done back out of the menu reboot your phone and retry your speedtest
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Similar speeds for most the metro Detroit area.
I've been noticing slower data speeds myself until today. Ever since I started flashing the ICS leak builds/ radios. I'm on Caulks beta 2 now with fb27 radio and speeds were much better.
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There are many things you can do to your phone to ensure it is getting proper network speeds, if that speedtest is actually the speeds you are getting then yes there is something the matter with your phone as I have always gotten an avg of 1 mb down and i live in a rural area, first thing i would try would be updating to ensure you have the correct modem installed there are many threads that will tell you all about that. Or you can try an old trick from EVO days. First get the MSL code for your phone, also a few posts on xda that will tell you how to retrieve that. Then you go into your dialer and type ##3282# a menu will pop up select edit put in your MSL and you select OTHER, then MULTIMEDIA and change RTSP proxy address and HTTPPD proxy address to 0.0.0.0 and change RTSP proxy port and HTTPPD proxy port to 0 when you are done back out of the menu reboot your phone and retry your speedtest
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im up to the latest modem bro fb 27 thanks for your advise tho i will check further on it
To put it simply, it depends on many factors. Where you are, time of day, network load, test server load, signal quality, etc. Just because you have full bars does not necessarily mean you have good signal quality.
For example: in my apartment in NYC I get piss-poor 3G speeds. I'm lucky to see 200 kbps down. But when I get down to the ground level, speeds improve considerably, around 600 kbps. In my friend's apartment, I can see an average of 1.2 mbps, virtually identical to my friend's iphone 4S on Verizon. In the same place, my other friend with the 4S on AT&T can see an average of 4 mbps, which is very impressive for 3G. But when I turn on Wimax, I have seen as high as 12 mbps, which smokes the 4S on AT&T 3 times over, and doesn't drain the battery that much more. Sprint's 3G coverage is not as good as Verizon's, that's a fact, but I'd say it's pretty comparable, and for the price, it can't be beat.
Pretty sure the "Speed Test" app (like the one in the OP's screenshots) is garbage.
Try this one: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.xtremelabs.android.speedtest
Completely different results... just like going to http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ in your phone's browser.
Keep in mind: the speeds you get in a speed test doesn't necessarily reflect the speeds you're going to get while downloading, browsing the web, or using apps that need data (like Netflix or something). The data service that your mobile phone uses is a little different than having a land-line Internet connection (like cable, DLS, or fiber).
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Pretty sure the "Speed Test" app (like the one in the OP's screenshots) is garbage.
Try this one: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.xtremelabs.android.speedtest
Completely different results... just like going to http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ in your phone's browser.
Keep in mind: the speeds you get in a speed test doesn't necessarily reflect the speeds you're going to get while downloading, browsing the web, or using apps that need data (like Netflix or something). The data service that your mobile phone uses is a little different than having a land-line Internet connection (like cable, DLS, or fiber).
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Exactly what i was going to say. That speedtest app connects me to a server in Kansas half the time and im in Austin Texas. The speakeasy test is much more reliable for me. Try it an a few different server locations and check out the different results. Im not saying Sprint speeds are awesome but in my area they are as good as any other carrier.
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I use wifi most of the time. Otherwise I would have left sprint. For me I get bad speeds even at 2 in the morning. I live in a 4G area but if I want to use that I have drive 5 miles down the road. It does seem to have gotten worse and I know it is because of where I am. When I left for a trip to a different city my speeds there were so much faster.
Edit - meh misread the screenshots.
Lately at my home I've been having service issues such as having 3G but can't send messages or take
calls, its really been pissing me off, spirit said that' they are upgrading their towers but is there anything I can do?
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Yes you can.
About 3 months ago, I put a complaint I believe was in the FCC website, sprint immediatelly contacted me and kept on bugging me regarding the issue. I think the government agency really gets on their case.
After a month, I got them to give me a new phone, from EVO 3d to the Epic and didnt resolve the issue, they now credited me for $50 since I have absolutely no signal where I work and a promise to work on the issue, so the FCC let go of buggint them, but the issue still there, so now I should and will put another complaint with FCC, for 3g speeds and another one for the lack of signal for voice again!
That's the thing, many people have issues but do not complain with the FCC only with sprint. Once we start complaining with the FCC, they actually start doing something about it.
WWW.FCC.GOV
Darrien13 said:
Lately at my home I've been having service issues such as having 3G but can't send messages or take
calls, its really been pissing me off, spirit said that' they are upgrading their towers but is there anything I can do?
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airrave?
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airrave?
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Not where I work, satellite signals will not reach me. Also, even if I could use it, I wouldn't want people around, neighbors, etc, using my internet signal and disrupting my internet speed. I am in a large office... imagine how many people would connect to the airave... I returned my back to sprint.
all of a sudden here where I live (LA) my 4g keeps disconnecting and won't keep an active connection for long
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NV in progress right?
karikian said:
Not where I work, satellite signals will not reach me. Also, even if I could use it, I wouldn't want people around, neighbors, etc, using my internet signal and disrupting my internet speed. I am in a large office... imagine how many people would connect to the airave... I returned my back to sprint.
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You are will aware that with an airave you can change it so only authorized phone numbers can connect. Also, pretty sure that Sprint isn't responsible for providing excellent coverage inside your office building (Perhaps it is different if you held a business account). Keep in mind that the building structure also comes into play because the frequency might not be able to penetrate the building, which in this case the FFC can't do anything to sprint legally because it already providing the service but the structure reflects/weaken the signal by the time to penetrates the building walls.
The above is just my opinion on Sprint Service, while they are held liable to provide good signal in your home address and nearby area.
@Darrien13 I believe they are doing network vision so that would affect your service big time for a while. In my city, there was no service for approximately 3 days while they were upgrading the towers for N.V.
confirmed network vision in progress in LA and surrounding. area. expect hella good speeds and lte soon mate...
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confirmed network vision in progress in LA and surrounding. area. expect hella good speeds and lte soon mate...
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Is this the reason why my 4g speeds took a dump for about a week maybe longer now?
I've noticed the same thing here in placentia/yorbalinda and came up with the same conclusion! I used to get on average 6-10mbps and last week I was averaging 1-3mbps! Hopefully this changes!
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radrian92 said:
I've noticed the same thing here in placentia/yorbalinda and came up with the same conclusion! I used to get on average 6-10mbps and last week I was averaging 1-3mbps! Hopefully this changes!
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Sheesh, here in the valley its a godsend to see 1mbps on 3g.
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darkfire2024 said:
Sheesh, here in the valley its a godsend to see 1mbps on 3g.
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That's sad. In riverside I get 2mbps download
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daniel4653 said:
That's sad. In riverside I get 2mbps download
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I live in Norco (riverside) and spend a lot of Time in corona (also riverside) and I've never seen my 3g hit 1mb
Im pretty sure they were talking about being on 4g guys
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@Everyone posting Network vision affecting their current 4G wimax.
The 4G has nothing to do with network vision. 4G towers are operated by clearwire. Their might be maintenance being done to the towers, expect 4G speeds on wimax to drop though, since Virgin mobile/Boost mobile will be getting 4G wimax phones.
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Im pretty sure they were talking about being on 4g guys
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This is 3g
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Sprint said last month they are upgrading towers until middle of June.the lady let slip that, "hey 4g is off line there right now" i stated we have never had 4g. I've been noticing allot of towers going up and actions happening near all the cell sites. I'm in temecula. But i informed her i travel around and she stated everything should smooth out mid/late June. This was April 8th. Tech support called several times to verify changes they were making in my town.helped a little.
I tried to all her about lte, she said she was reading an internal note about the area.
Don't care if its fact or fake, just let me make calls and text damn it
It's my phone...any mis takes...sry
Need internet too. College kids with no internet = riots
Lol jk
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Had same issues in Fort Lauderdale. Was horrible! I got the same story of maintenance on towers and 4G was offline. They gave me $50 credit for each line on my account. Told me to call back after May 10th if issues still remain.
When I am 2 feet from a BIG window, in front of a open wide pershing square, I think I do have to have a signal. At least a signal. I have nothing no bars, not connection, nothing. I even tought there was a jammer nearby, but a sprint rep came to check, and said that it does not look like and that I was definatelly in a spot to get a signal.
Would I move to the center of the building, I get a VERY STRONG signal.
Febby said:
You are will aware that with an airave you can change it so only authorized phone numbers can connect. Also, pretty sure that Sprint isn't responsible for providing excellent coverage inside your office building (Perhaps it is different if you held a business account). Keep in mind that the building structure also comes into play because the frequency might not be able to penetrate the building, which in this case the FFC can't do anything to sprint legally because it already providing the service but the structure reflects/weaken the signal by the time to penetrates the building walls.
The above is just my opinion on Sprint Service, while they are held liable to provide good signal in your home address and nearby area.
@Darrien13 I believe they are doing network vision so that would affect your service big time for a while. In my city, there was no service for approximately 3 days while they were upgrading the towers for N.V.
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i left verizon yesterday and switched over to go gsm but also to save money and get unlimited data back. i got the note 2 and my wife got the gs3. great phones and they work fine except my data speeds are horrid. i live in a superb coverage area to, i get 3-4 bars constant but cannot pull even close to 1 meg down on 4g or edge. this is happening on both phones. :crying:
i called tmobile today and they say it sounds tower related as i live right by it. they opened a ticket to have it looked at but im fearing if i wait this out and it doesn't get fixed im stuck, i believe i can return the phones and cancel the contract within 14 days. do you guys think i could have a couple bad sims cards or does this sound tower related? i did port our number over from verizon too. both phones are rooted with the toolkits and unlocked bootloader if that makes a difference.
i need advice as i hate to leave and go to at&t or sprint which is far worse.
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i left verizon yesterday and switched over to go gsm but also to save money and get unlimited data back. i got the note 2 and my wife got the gs3. great phones and they work fine except my data speeds are horrid. i live in a superb coverage area to, i get 3-4 bars constant but cannot pull even close to 1 meg down on 4g or edge. this is happening on both phones. :crying:
i called tmobile today and they say it sounds tower related as i live right by it. they opened a ticket to have it looked at but im fearing if i wait this out and it doesn't get fixed im stuck, i believe i can return the phones and cancel the contract within 14 days. do you guys think i could have a couple bad sims cards or does this sound tower related? i did port our number over from verizon too. both phones are rooted with the toolkits and unlocked bootloader if that makes a difference.
i need advice as i hate to leave and go to at&t or sprint which is far worse.
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Goto settings>About Device>Status and post your Signal Strength data. With -83dBm and 15 asu I get a constant 11mb down with speedtest.net.
Where else have you tested your data speeds?
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Goto settings>About Device>Status and post your Signal Strength data. With -83dBm and 15 asu I get a constant 11mb down with speedtest.net.
Where else have you tested your data speeds?
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i have not tested it anywhere else but will tomorrow.
im getting 89 dbm 12 asu on 4g. i cannot even get close to 512 on speedtest.
does it take time for data to provision or something? i know he told me it could take up to 24-48hrs for my number to be ported. but that happened late last night.
Deleted. shinkinrui you were right. Thank god I use titanium backup.
It sounds like a bad tower
-81 dBm 18 asu here
15.06 mbps down 1.71 up
You should go out and see if you get better speeds around where you are. If you go a few miles away and get great speeds then it's the tower for sure
Agree, it could be a bad tower. They were working on a tower near my office, exact same scenario. A week later, works like a charm.
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Not sure. You can try to enter *2767*3855# in the dialer and reprovision. Might have to do it two times to get it to stick. That will force a reprovision.
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This code is the factory data reset code for most Samsung devices. It doesn't have anything to do with provisioning.
my money is on bad tower too. just switched yesterday from sprint. i got the note 2, girlfriend got the s3. our speeds are INSANE compared to sprint
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my money is on bad tower too. just switched yesterday from sprint. i got the note 2, girlfriend got the s3. our speeds are INSANE compared to sprint
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My dead cat can transfer data faster than Sprint...
Drive somewhere else in their HSPA+ coverage area and run the speedtest again to verify.
It's T-mobile, when I get on train station I get constant -53dBm and below 0.05Mbit, Wanna proof ?
Try the app "fresh network" , and look at your speed test app to see that you are on HSDPA, and not umts.
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i get 3-4 bars constant but cannot pull even close to 1 meg down on 4g or edge. this is happening on both phones. :crying:
i need advice as i hate to leave and go to at&t or sprint which is far worse.
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It's the tower. The T-Mobile tower near my house has line of sight and it went down to edge speeds (like .12Mbps down, .002Mbps up) last month. I called them on the 15th and it took them about two weeks to fix it. My speeds are back to normal now, so my advice would be to notify them that the tower is FUBAR, and wait it out. That is of course assuming you get normal speeds other places too, but it would be a moot point if your home has crappy speed. Here's my latest ST:
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Different areas different speeds me and my wife got the same phones and we get average 8mbps down.
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The cause of slow speed might be the fact that T-mobile is restructuring their 1900 band on certain towers. Here in California, I happen to live in an area where they are restructuring the cell tower I am using, so I get download speed of 0.01mbps to 0.15mbps. However, as soon as i walked out of the range of that particular tower, my download speed goes up to 12mbps to 15mbps.
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The cause of slow speed might be the fact that T-mobile is restructuring their 1900 band on certain towers. Here in California, I happen to live in an area where they are restructuring the cell tower I am using, so I get download speed of 0.01mbps to 0.15mbps. However, as soon as i walked out of the range of that particular tower, my download speed goes up to 12mbps to 15mbps.
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I hope this is true. I'm a new T-mobile customer and have had the spottiest reception in the bay area. I've read this article (http://blog.t-mobile.com/2012/11/20...-metro-areas-just-in-time-for-holiday-travel/) and am crossing my fingers. I'm constantly stuck on EDGE when i'm indoors as well.
Same here, I pop in the TMobile sim and I get 1.5Mbps and .3 up. Pop in ATT and I get 6Mbps and 1.2 up. So it's not the phone. I'll try different areas. So far I'm not impressed with their Customer Service and Data. I was happier on GoPhone.
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The cause of slow speed might be the fact that T-mobile is restructuring their 1900 band on certain towers. Here in California, I happen to live in an area where they are restructuring the cell tower I am using, so I get download speed of 0.01mbps to 0.15mbps. However, as soon as i walked out of the range of that particular tower, my download speed goes up to 12mbps to 15mbps.
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yeah that's what was causing it as i called tech support. the issue was resolved within 24hrs. i have decent speeds again now.
I had a similar issue when I first bought my note 2 on release day. Was getting on average about .22 down speed and the up speeds where so slow the speedtest app could never finish running it. Called tmobile and they opened a ticket and got it working within the week. Now I get anywhere from 14-16 down at home and roughly 3 up. Guve it some time if they say they are working on it its just a matter of time.
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yeah that's what was causing it as i called tech support. the issue was resolved within 24hrs. i have decent speeds again now.
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Glad to hear your problem is fixed. I've found T-Mobile to be iffy sometimes. But 99% of the time my phone has very acceptable data speeds.