3G Speed & Tweaks? - Sprint Samsung Galaxy Note II

I just traded in my beloved Photon for the Note2. I had modified the build.prop for faster 3G speeds. From the same exact location I have noticeably slower 3G speeds than my photon. Yes I am painfully aware of Sprint's awful 3g network. Has anyone come up with 3g tweaks for the GN2?
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sndtubes said:
I just traded in my beloved Photon for the Note2. I had modified the build.prop for faster 3G speeds. From the same exact location I have noticeably slower 3G speeds than my photon. Yes I am painfully aware of Sprint's awful 3g network. Has anyone come up with 3g tweaks for the GN2?
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Most people just flash over to a different PRL. Here is a thread to kind of get you started:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660740
Any cut doesn't work on our phones so it is easier to download the PRL you want to try, place it on your phone, rename it test.prl and then do:
Phone Dialer: ##data#: View: PRL Write: Write PRL
I have been using the 00001.prl for Verizon for about a year now I use about 2-3gb a month and have had no issues with Sprint caring. On Sprint I get about .50mbps on this PRL I get about 1.65mbps.

afbond03 said:
Most people just flash over to a different PRL. Here is a thread to kind of get you started:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1660740
Any cut doesn't work on our phones so it is easier to download the PRL you want to try, place it on your phone, rename it test.prl and then do:
Phone Dialer: ##data#: View: PRL Write: Write PRL
I have been using the 00001.prl for Verizon for about a year now I use about 2-3gb a month and have had no issues with Sprint caring. On Sprint I get about .50mbps on this PRL I get about 1.65mbps.
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Thanks. I had flashed a different PRL to my photon as well. It allowed me to force roam with 3G . However if you data roam too much sprint will can you. Im talking abour improving the 3g data throughput on the phone without having to roam
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No 3G data roaming on Frozen 1.2.0

So we are out on vacation and I can't get a 3G signal. I am using Syndicate Frozen ROM but my wifes unrooted phone gets 3G. It does work within the Sprint network but not when in roaming. Any fix for this? I also can't update my PRL here. Thanks!
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I believe that the unrooted stock rom erroneously reports 3g no matter what data signal it is receiving. Have you/she ever seen it not report 3g?
Have you run a speed test on your wife's unrooted phone. She might not be getting 3G either. Most Sprint smartphones will only display 3G as the network you're on no matter what it really is (sometimes 1x, a 2G technology!).
If she is getting at least 300kbps then she does have 3G. To get yours to work on it you need to manually update your PRL.
The attached 11114 PRL has 3G roaming nearly everywhere
Will 11114 still work wen my current PRL is 60680? Also my wife does not have a speed tester app on her phone however she is able to load things faster than I am.
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Fryedchicken said:
Will 11114 still work wen my current PRL is 60680? Also my wife does not have a speed tester app on her phone however she is able to load things faster than I am.
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It doesn't matter which PRL you are currently on, if you do what it says in the link you will get 11114 PRL.
However, Sprint will roll you back to 60680 you don't freeze system updates, which you can do with Antek Application manager (in the market).
So with 11114 will sprint be complaining of roaming like on 00001 or be just fine.
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dito33 said:
So with 11114 will sprint be complaining of roaming like on 00001 or be just fine.
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If you go over 300mb while roaming it certainly is a possibility. You can still do that without this or the 00001 prl. Usually they only get mad if they notice you aren't using the sprint network at all anymore or if you do 1gb+ roaming per month.
Well as an update I never had the chance to change my PRL and give it a shot. I figured it wasn't worth making the wife mad at me for messing with my phone while we were on vacation. I still would like to know why this happened. I almost never go anywhere that I don't have the Sprint network. Thanks for the help anyways everyone!!

[Q] PRL 1115 and still getting 1x speeds

For some reason when I load the 1115 PRL I only get 3g speeds for about 1/2 an hour, then it goes back to 1x. I have tried reloading a couple of different times and still the same thing. I use roam control to switch over to Verizon and that works just dandy, but no 3g speeds. Its the weirdest thing, anyone else have the same issues?
i have same exact problem i am on 1x all the time after 11115 prl
will wait for answer otherwise going to take it back to sprint let them fix it..
Maybe the area ur in doesn't have 3g on vz? I know there's one area I go to that there's barely a vz signal with 1x
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1115 only gives 3 g in 5 states. I'm not sure which ones. Chances are 1115 will have no effect for you. If you want 3g you need to use 0001 otherwise your stuck on 1x
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Also there is an app in the market called netmonitor it will tell you what if you are roaming.
If the "carrier " says sprint , your not roaming.
It also says the network type you are on.
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i took it to sprint store they had to reset and reprogram now i am back up
i guess this is not for me
thanks
dtr145r said:
1115 only gives 3 g in 5 states. I'm not sure which ones. Chances are 1115 will have no effect for you. If you want 3g you need to use 0001 otherwise your stuck on 1x
Wisconsin and Michigan are two of them.
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dtr145r said:
1115 only gives 3 g in 5 states. I'm not sure which ones. Chances are 1115 will have no effect for you. If you want 3g you need to use 0001 otherwise your stuck on 1x
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I live in Hawaii and on my island of Kauai Verizon 3g works great. 1.2-2Mb/sec
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bluefire808 said:
I live in Hawaii and on my island of Kauai Verizon 3g works great. 1.2-2Mb/sec
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Man what the hell I'm totally jelous...
Try out roam control. It's been mentioned in these forums before and it works great. Unfortunately it's not on the market anymore but you can buy it directly from the developers website. I use it at work where I get hardly any sprint service and it roams on 3G perfectly. It also helps out my battery because the phone isn't constantly trying to switch from roaming to local. I think the site is roamctrl.com.
I use Roam Control in Atlanta and it works great and I do indeed receive Verizon 3G on my phone. But Roam Control can't magically give you 3G if it's just not available on PRL 11115 in your area. I would try a different PRL but please be wary of roaming all the time. Sprint will eventually be very upset with you.
dtr145r said:
1115 only gives 3 g in 5 states. I'm not sure which ones. Chances are 1115 will have no effect for you. If you want 3g you need to use 0001 otherwise your stuck on 1x
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Can anyone else confirm whether or not this is true? 3g with prl 1115 only works in 5 states?
Use the search button or try it yourself.
It's not hard to load a pro,
Netmonitor will tell you if your roaming and if you have 3g
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jasone4gt said:
Can anyone else confirm whether or not this is true? 3g with prl 1115 only works in 5 states?
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It works in Houston, Texas area. When my discount with Sprint was through Dish Network all my devices would have the business PRLs. I found a way to change my discount from 16% to 20% by creating a AOL email. Anyway since doing that I no longer get the business PRLs. Not worth the 4%, since I no longer work with Dish Network I am stuck with this AOL discount
Ja5oN said:
Can anyone else confirm whether or not this is true? 3g with prl 1115 only works in 5 states?
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Its these states
National & Custom PRLs Available for FL, MI, OH, WVA, & WI
dtr145r said:
1115 only gives 3 g in 5 states. I'm not sure which ones. Chances are 1115 will have no effect for you. If you want 3g you need to use 0001 otherwise your stuck on 1x
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I'm not sure that is correct... I am in Pennsylvania and both 1115 & 1119 give me 3g in forced roam all the time. Both Alltel & Verizon are good to go.
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CyberpodS2 said:
I'm not sure that is correct... I am in Pennsylvania and both 1115 & 1119 give me 3g in forced roam all the time. Both Alltel & Verizon are good to go.
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Unless if things changed as of a few months ago. Sprint doesn't have 3g in our state. I live in pa as well.
Im going to get both prls and try it out again.
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try a different prl, the hacked 1337 is the only one that will give me 3g roaming
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267893
I've been using 1115/1119 in CA and am now getting 3g speeds when roaming. That's when Sprint doesn't push the stupid 60686 to my device.
11115 Works for 3g in Seattle area... and +1 to Roam Control...

[Q] prl that gives you 3G speed when roaming?

Hi. I was waiting for Roam Control to work on S3 to be able to force roaming whenever I get bad 3G speeds on Sprint, which is quite often.
So now this day have come, but I can't find prl file that would allow 3G speed while roaming! I tried 24006 - still get 1x when roaming.
Modded prl like 00001 etc will just connect to Verizon network full time. Not what I need. And even with this modded prls whenever I'm roaming, still getting 1x speed on Verizon.
Is there no hope? No way to get 3G roaming speed?
12121 is working great for me in Milwaukee. None of the prl's starting with 2 have me 3g roaming. Neither did 11115, which works fine on my S2.
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I also use 12121 with 3G roaming.
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I use /0001 and get killer speeds like 1.5 -2.3 Mpb all day
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12121 all the way. No roaming - sprint 3g, roaming - another carrier 3g.
Old school non LTE 11115 works great on Sprint 3G or Verizon 3G for me. I don't have any LTE yet so I'm not missing anything
nope.. nothing works for me here in NY
tried 12121 and 11115. still getting 1x speed
anyone got this working in NY? anyone tries to combine prls? surely if I can get 3G speed with 00001 then it is possible to do when roaming as well?
help
rostb said:
nope.. nothing works for me here in NY
tried 12121 and 11115. still getting 1x speed
anyone got this working in NY? anyone tries to combine prls? surely if I can get 3G speed with 00001 then it is possible to do when roaming as well?
help
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00001 is always roaming
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nicholaaaas said:
00001 is always roaming
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Yeah I know. Don't need that. Just wondering, if 00001 works fine here, then there's gotta be prl that lets me do 3G roaming.
Tried 12123, same thing. 1x speed.
I am using 12124 and have 3g roaming (when available).
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budde2 said:
I use /0001 and get killer speeds like 1.5 -2.3 Mpb all day
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Where are you located?
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You can use any cut to change prl on a touch wiz Rom ...just use 00001 and change when you need update prl to foo back top sprint or try them all until you find one that works
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Epix4G said:
You can use any cut to change prl on a touch wiz Rom ...just use 00001 and change when you need update prl to foo back top sprint or try them all until you find one that works
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Yeah I know. But I also hate touchwiz. And can't switch prls on CM10. I guess you can't have everything...

Roaming on Verizon, with 3G Data&MMS?

I'm interested in being able to roam on Verizon, since Sprint is a POS at my school and home, and I'm constantly loosing messages, and data speeds are very sad. Anyways, I did a quick search and found a guide on changing the PRL to Sprint's "Corporate PRL" which apparently grants roaming with 3G data on Sprint, but it seems as if though that guide is old (Sept 19 from last year) and I'm not sure it'll work on my ROM (AOKP JB) So, does that guide still work? Is it safe? If no, what are my other options?
Also, how much minutes/texts/data usage would piss off Sprint? I've been meaning to switch for a while now...
F3L1XZS said:
I'm interested in being able to roam on Verizon, since Sprint is a POS at my school and home, and I'm constantly loosing messages, and data speeds are very sad. Anyways, I did a quick search and found a guide on changing the PRL to Sprint's "Corporate PRL" which apparently grants roaming with 3G data on Sprint, but it seems as if though that guide is old (Sept 19 from last year) and I'm not sure it'll work on my ROM (AOKP JB) So, does that guide still work? Is it safe? If no, what are my other options?
Also, how much minutes/texts/data usage would piss off Sprint? I've been meaning to switch for a while now...
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It will work fine still. I'm doing it right now. I suggest flashing the Verizon PRL 00002.
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revamper said:
It will work fine still. I'm doing it right now. I suggest flashing the Verizon PRL 00002.
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Thank you, kind sir!
revamper said:
It will work fine still. I'm doing it right now. I suggest flashing the Verizon PRL 00002.
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I don't want to get too deep into this since there is a PRL thread in the forums, but doesn't that one force you to roam all the time? Sprint has a roaming limit of something like 200MB a month; if you go over that they can and frequently will cancel the rest of your contact. Some people do that on purpose, which I don't recommend or advise. If you just want to use your phone when you don't have much of a signal, use a PRL like 11115 along with the app Roam Control, that way you control when the phone roams.
yes.. oooo2 or w.e is a verizon prl roaming 100%.. i used the sprint corp prl i think 11124 or something which wasnt roaming while set to home only. but would have verizon 3g while in roam only with roam control which is compatible with jb now... however if using verizon eventually u will get a call from sprints roaming team.. and the prl thread is right. just need to be on a tw rom and when u go back to a aosp rom prl will stay until u update it
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I use the 11119 PRL that works great when I'm roaming... I roam on Verizon with 3g data and everything, but I'm on Sprint the rest of the time. It works great.
Mac of York said:
I use the 11119 PRL that works great when I'm roaming... I roam on Verizon with 3g data and everything, but I'm on Sprint the rest of the time. It works great.
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yea... 11115 & 11119 are older versions of 11124.. 11115 did best for me.. got call from sprint but got my airvana back so no need to roam here anymore
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[Q] How to get faster data speeds

Hi, i was wondering how i might get faster data speeds. i currently have an gs2 epic 4g touch on sprint. i rooted my phone flashed a new prl and used roam control and still cant get better than half a meg download rate.
Which ROM are you on?
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Try flashing different modems. Some modems perform better than others depending on your area.
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Turn wifi on and get off the Sprint network lol
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t0mmyr said:
Turn wifi on and get off the Sprint network lol
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Amen
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KaptainKratos said:
Hi, i was wondering how i might get faster data speeds. i currently have an gs2 epic 4g touch on sprint. i rooted my phone flashed a new prl and used roam control and still cant get better than half a meg download rate.
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sprint rep stated to me that it's a nationwide outage effecting 3g & 4g and it should be fixed by today.
Master_Ellis said:
sprint rep stated to me that it's a nationwide outage effecting 3g & 4g and it should be fixed by today.
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I would have laughed at that Sprint rep. 3g data has been a joke for along time now on Sprint. 4g it's decent but not even close to other carriers. Only good thing about Sprint is the truly unlimited data because it's so Damn slow
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I was pretty sure that reply was meant to be sarcastic just saying
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KaptainKratos said:
Hi, i was wondering how i might get faster data speeds. i currently have an gs2 epic 4g touch on sprint. i rooted my phone flashed a new prl and used roam control and still cant get better than half a meg download rate.
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If you know your MSL number
open phone dialer
dial ##data#
edit
enter MSL number
go to other
multimedia
set the proxy numbers to
0.0.0.0
0
0.0.0.0
0
exit out and reboot your phone.
It bypasses the sprint proxy server. One less data hop.
Elw00d said:
I would have laughed at that Sprint rep. 3g data has been a joke for along time now on Sprint. 4g it's decent but not even close to other carriers. Only good thing about Sprint is the truly unlimited data because it's so Damn slow
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I have a friend of a friend (yeah, I know) who works for Sprint/Nextel. Supposedly, they are knocking down 3G towers and not telling any of their customers.
Another issue that you may or may not be having is 4G downloads on custom kernels. If your 4G download speeds are very slow you may need to use a repack or stock kernel.
g_ding84 said:
If you know your MSL number
open phone dialer
dial ##data#
edit
enter MSL number
go to other
multimedia
set the proxy numbers to
0.0.0.0
0
0.0.0.0
0
exit out and reboot your phone.
It bypasses the sprint proxy server. One less data hop.
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I've done this method as well and can attest to this :good:
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egingell said:
I have a friend of a friend (yeah, I know) who works for Sprint/Nextel. Supposedly, they are knocking down 3G towers and not telling any of their customers.
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This is not true at all. Sprint is disbanding their iden network, beyond that, their towers operate at different frequencies so they carry 3g and 4g on the same tower. What your friend might have been referring to is the practice of re-directing towers when coverage is opened in a new area, which can affect existing service slightly, and typically customers aren't informed.
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This is not true at all. Sprint is disbanding their iden network, beyond that, their towers operate at different frequencies so they carry 3g and 4g on the same tower. What your friend might have been referring to is the practice of re-directing towers when coverage is opened in a new area, which can affect existing service slightly, and typically customers aren't informed.
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Personally, I think it was a sales ploy to get him to buy a 4G phone.
MHousos said:
I've done this method as well and can attest to this :good:
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I tried this method. Just places a call to ##3282# then says the phone number im trying to reach is unavailable.
Way around it??
berkoz912 said:
I tried this method. Just places a call to ##3282# then says the phone number im trying to reach is unavailable.
Way around it??
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Are you on a AOSP rom?
berkoz912 said:
I tried this method. Just places a call to ##3282# then says the phone number im trying to reach is unavailable.
Way around it??
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AOSP/CM type ROMs do not support dialer codes.
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AOSP/CM type ROMs do not support dialer codes.
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That explains it! Im on CM10 Beta.
Anybody know of a way to get faster data speeds on AOSP Roms?
berkoz912 said:
That explains it! Im on CM10 Beta.
Anybody know of a way to get faster data speeds on AOSP Roms?
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You could install a port forwarder and a proxy server and forward port 8085 to 127.0.0.1.
Just an idea.

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