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Rogers Stronger HSPA/3G Signal?

Kind of a stupid topic but thought I would ask. Has anyone else in the Thornhill/Vaughan area noticed much stronger HSPA/3G signal strength?
In my entertainment room in the basement I used to get NO HSPA/3G signal and always switched to Edge (2G) so I can make and receive phone calls. I would also get about 1-2 bars in 2G (Edge). Today however I noticed that I got full bars HSPA/3G and they stay full. I thought it was a bug and noticed my iPhone also had full bars.
So anyone else or am I just bugging out?
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theMaDHakkeR said:
Kind of a stupid topic but thought I would ask. Has anyone else in the Thornhill/Vaughan area noticed much stronger HSPA/3G signal strength?
In my entertainment room in the basement I used to get NO HSPA/3G signal and always switched to Edge (2G) so I can make and receive phone calls. I would also get about 1-2 bars in 2G (Edge). Today however I noticed that I got full bars HSPA/3G and they stay full. I thought it was a bug and noticed my iPhone also had full bars.
So anyone else or am I just bugging out?
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Where the he'll is Thornhill/Vaughan
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Sorry should have been more clear. Its Rogers Canada Toronto Ontario.
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You can use something like Open Signal Maps to see the towers around. They probably just put up a new one near your house...
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I have no idea but I'm getting nearly 7000mbps in my basement lol.
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7000Mb/s or 7000MB/s?
Anyway, regardless of units, you seem to have a super internet connection using HSPA+/HSPA
My guess is 7Mb/s.

Question regarding leaving on CDMA/LTE vs. CDMA.

So, LTE is not in my area as of yet. Every once in a while, I travel to the city which has LTE. So my question, should I just turn it on when I know I'm going to be using it or can I just leave it on all the time? Will it drain my battery? Thanks!

I would just turn it on when u need it. I'm sure it draws battery cause it will constantly scan for lte
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Thanks, much appreciated!

It makes absolutely no difference which mode you have it set to unless you have LTE in your area. It will not drain any additional battery. There is one exception... If you have a Sprint Airrave (home signal booster for areas with poor service), you want to keep it on cdma mode. Cdma/lte mode when connected to the Airrave disrupts text messaging.
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It makes absolutely no difference which mode you have it set to unless you have LTE in your area. It will not drain any additional battery. There is one exception... If you have a Sprint Airrave (home signal booster for areas with poor service), you want to keep it on cdma mode. Cdma/lte mode when connected to the Airrave disrupts text messaging.
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Doesn't at all affect my airvana. When I 1st got this phone there was a provisioning issue that disrupted text messages only when connected through airave.
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http://google.about.com/od/socialtoolsfromgoogle/a/How-To-Turn-Off-4g-Android-4g.htm
One of many articles explaining that leaving lte on does drain battery because it searches for lte signal.
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It makes absolutely no difference which mode you have it set to unless you have LTE in your area. It will not drain any additional battery. There is one exception... If you have a Sprint Airrave (home signal booster for areas with poor service), you want to keep it on cdma mode. Cdma/lte mode when connected to the Airrave disrupts text messaging.
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yeah, that makes no sense. a radio searching for a signal once a day is going to draw more power than a radio not searching at all. Now think about if you leave it on all the time. its going to be searching for a LTE signal at whatever interval that the LTEscan timeout and wakeup is set at.
so, short answer, if you are not in an LTE area, turn it off

cannot connect to cell network

I was in a building and had full bars but could not make a call, it kept saying "not registered on network". so i selected an ATT network and when i try to switch back it says "error searching for networks". also when i hit "select automatically" it sits on the "automatic registration" screen until the end of time. anyone have any ideas? I cant make calls, or get data. I can use WIFI fine, and even WIFI calling.
Stock ICS rom with faux Kernel. I had some system apps frozen with TB but i defrosted them all and restarted, problem remains.

Disabled WIFI calling, ReEnabled WIFI calling, then disabled it again and when I disabled it the last time I had full bars, then I just selected network automatically, worked real quick and I had 4G back too...not sure what caused it but its good now.

It's normal. Sgs3 can't roam on other towers. If you have T-Mobile it will only connect to T-Mobile towers. Have the same issue with a few different sgs3 phones. Latest being unlocked an using an at&t SIM and it does the same thing, will only connect to at&t towers. No roaming on other towers.
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I think it won't roam if there's a tmobile tower detected. If there are no tmob towers it should let you roam.
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Would that would have caused no bars and no cell data in my house later that day too? My house always has full bards and ive been getting 18Mb down on 4g there too, yet i had nothing.
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mustk1ll20 said:
It's normal. Sgs3 can't roam on other towers. If you have T-Mobile it will only connect to T-Mobile towers. Have the same issue with a few different sgs3 phones. Latest being unlocked an using an at&t SIM and it does the same thing, will only connect to at&t towers. No roaming on other towers.
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Roaming is not device dependent. It's cell tower dependent. Each area is zoned. If T-Mobile has an agreement in said area with att, then you can roam. If the tower you are near is an att tower and there are no roaming agreements, then you won't be allowed to roam. And as the doc says, you most certainly will not be allowed to roam if there is T-Mobile service. But I hope and feel optimistic about the metro PCs merger. I feel that will greatly allow us to have a deeper area of coverage as well as more areas having service.
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freakasis said:
Would that would have caused no bars and no cell data in my house later that day too? My house always has full bards and ive been getting 18Mb down on 4g there too, yet i had nothing.
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Are you reporting zero coverage in your home when you used to get full 4g? Have you tried moving to another location and seeing if it worked?
Or are you saying you have service but it's just not making phone calls and connecting to data?
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Until I turned wifi calling off, on, and and off again..... I had 0 service. I started at the hospital, and and remained when I went home, about 2 hours.... Reboots did not affect it..... I originally turned on wifi calling when I went nto the hospital because there was no service, but they have wifi..... But even when I left the hospital, I still didn't have service for hours, until I switched wifi calling off, and on, and and off again.... Then all of the sudden full signal and 4G came back. I need to mention that outside of the hospital in have had nearly full signal strength everywhere in my county including my home before and after this incident.
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Sounds to me like either the wifi calling feature got hung somehow leaving you stuck sorta in between it shutting off and the cellular side turning bback on (if that even makes sense!), or there were some issues with the tower in the area, and once maintenance was complete, you got your signal back.
Just guessing here!
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Aight well thanks for the input.
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Data issues.

If you are on tmibile with the note 2 and having data issues. You are not alone. It's tmobile side. I would advice people to call and let them know. My data has been max 300kbps inside my home and now since yesterday at work the same. I have to step outside to get full speed never happened before. And I dont think its because of root.
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Its allngood here full speed
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Does your 4G even work? Mine is stuck on Edge since yesterday. I live on the 4th floor of my house (roof-ish) so really shouldn't have problems up here. In fact, I never did, until literally yesterday morning.

I live on the 3rd floor apartment with nothing behind my building and the tower is visible from my patio. Yes my says 4g all day long.
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I had similar issues when T-Mobile was refarming their towers in my area to add 3.5g via 1900 mhz, especially midnight to morning. Not sure if that's your issue, though.
Signal would get weak, speed slow, sometimes only edge. Lasted about a week or so.

same here
Galaxy s2 and wife's amaze still running perfect 4g speeds. This Note 2 gets stuck in EDGE all the time. Can't even use it. anyone have any luck flashing another rom and getting up to 4g speeds?

oopewan said:
Galaxy s2 and wife's amaze still running perfect 4g speeds. This Note 2 gets stuck in EDGE all the time. Can't even use it. anyone have any luck flashing another rom and getting up to 4g speeds?
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Same over here. Already called tmobile they didn't do anything at all.
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My data is light years better than it was on sprint.
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I have pretty good 4G service on my Note 2 right now. Sometimes it'll get a little slow but more times than not, it's very fast.

The high speed are just two steps outside on my patio and the low ones are on my couch and the tower is 5 miles away.
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Alright guys my data speeds seem to be fixed. If you have issues call tech support.
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I'm not sure whether it's because of root or not, but it has to be the phone. My girlfriend has a different phone than mine and hers was working perfectly inside and outside, whereas mine would not want to load anything, it would drop to edge and then to no signal at all. After getting a replacement phone, it's working fine.
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cameljockey1 said:
Alright guys my data speeds seem to be fixed. If you have issues call tech support.
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What did they have you do?

iamtimmah said:
I'm not sure whether it's because of root or not, but it has to be the phone. My girlfriend has a different phone than mine and hers was working perfectly inside and outside, whereas mine would not want to load anything, it would drop to edge and then to no signal at all. After getting a replacement phone, it's working fine.
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What did they have you do?
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Just called 611 asked for tech support on the automated system. When you get the tech you will have to do a new apn but not to worry if you tether it wont affect it. They will do a number of other trouble shoot things. Just tell them its been happening to you for a couple weeks. If they say call us back tell them no. Ask to open up a service ticket. All is well in my home now. Let me know if this helps. And you can also call customer care first and tell them that im not happy with my data speed connection and see if they give you credit like they did to me. Be nice of course. Good luck
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oopewan said:
Galaxy s2 and wife's amaze still running perfect 4g speeds. This Note 2 gets stuck in EDGE all the time. Can't even use it. anyone have any luck flashing another rom and getting up to 4g speeds?
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Funny you should ask, I totally recommend the following ROM: Build number Jedi Master 5 (Rocks)

I think im getting a replacement also. How long did your guys take to ship?
Edit :Gave Samsung a call and they said its the device itself so their replacing it free. To anyone with this problem call Samsung you have a 1 year warranty I thought it was going to cost me money
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Jaimesco12 said:
I think im getting a replacement also. How long did your guys take to ship?
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I ordered mine on a Saturday and received it Monday night. That was pretty quick in my opinion. Especially because I'm so impatient.
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If t-mobile hasnt refarmed my area, wouldnt that mean I am in a 3G area? Isnt utms:3 technically 3G? Thats what I show in settings, getting 12mb max downloads.
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No issues over here. I can tell you, I don't need 42mbps, and I'm 100% satisfied with my speeds after Sprint's garbage. Getting 7.72mbps now, and I've had them for 20 days and already used 10gb. When
I forced my device to run 3g and Edge, it was frightening, similar to what I would get with Sprint, but I've never had issues with 4G or staying on 4G in my area.
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You guys aren't alone, but I think this is a tower issue not a phone issue. Possibly a new modem might fix this.
Why do I say that?
Well at home, by San Francisco, I get 15-23 Mbps download speeds, and now I'm in Las Vegas for business, and am only getting 100-500 Kbps.
I called and let them know of the issue, and they were going to do a field ticket where they actually take out the phone and test it on that tower to see what is going on.
I think anyone else having this issue should do the same. My guess is it has something to do with the refarming of the 1900 Mhz band.

arthurbrownleeiv said:
You guys aren't alone, but I think this is a tower issue not a phone issue. Possibly a new modem might fix this.
Why do I say that?
Well at home, by San Francisco, I get 15-23 Mbps download speeds, and now I'm in Las Vegas for business, and am only getting 100-500 Kbps.
I called and let them know of the issue, and they were going to do a field ticket where they actually take out the phone and test it on that tower to see what is going on.
I think anyone else having this issue should do the same. My guess is it has something to do with the refarming of the 1900 Mhz band.
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Agreed. Like I said earlier just call them. They will take care of the issue. Takes a little bit but they get it done. And when speaking to tech support be detailed of where the issues are. Street names and such.
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Gs3 Won't Connect To The Closes Cell Tower

My phone seem to connected to cell towers miles and miles away when I have LTE Towers basically in my backyard. Is This A Problem With Radios modem defected phone?? My girlfriends OGEvo connects to the one down the road and has great reception and 3g. Don't mind the one right on me that's my airave witch is off right now. Also if I go down the road it will connect to the closes one and I'll have LTE. Please help Thanks
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tmoney239sucka said:
My phone seem to connected to cell towers miles and miles away when I have LTE Towers basically in my backyard. Is This A Problem With Radios modem defected phone?? My girlfriends OGEvo connects to the one down the road and has great reception and 3g. Don't mind the one right on me that's my airave witch is off right now. Also if I go down the road it will connect to the closes one and I'll have LTE. Please help Thanks
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You can try flashing a different radio, don't know how much it will help though... what app is that btw?

Thanks, I really know nothing about radios. would u have a suggestion on which one to use. Also It's called Netmonitor From the Play Store
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tmoney239sucka said:
Thanks, I really know nothing about radios. would u have a suggestion on which one to use. Also It's called Netmonitor From the Play Store
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Try out mb1, if already on that one (check baseband in settings to find out) try ma4...

tmoney239sucka said:
Thanks, I really know nothing about radios. would u have a suggestion on which one to use. Also It's called Netmonitor From the Play Store
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Check to see if there is a PRL update for your phone. Go into system settings / system update / update PRL. Just a thought and thanks for the app name will check it out.

If the tower is too close the signal goes over you. They broadcast high so if you're within a few hundred feet you won't connect. I have this issue at my mom's house. Theres an lte tower on the back of the block and I have to walk across the street to connect to it.
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If the tower is too close the signal goes over you. They broadcast high so if you're within a few hundred feet you won't connect. I have this issue at my mom's house. Theres an lte tower on the back of the block and I have to walk across the street to connect to it.
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100% correct the closer you get to the tower itself the less signal you will get. I have figures that a minimal distance of 2 city blocks to get strong signal from closest tower.
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-EViL-KoNCEPTz- said:
If the tower is too close the signal goes over you. They broadcast high so if you're within a few hundred feet you won't connect. I have this issue at my mom's house. Theres an lte tower on the back of the block and I have to walk across the street to connect to it.
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Makes real good sense. I have so many other towers in my area though shouldn't it atlease connect to one of those instead of a tower in the city above me. I'm guessing that's what that green line going to the tower means in my picture... Also for the people that asked. Yes I did do prl and profile update no I haven't tryed any radios yet I'm currently on LJ7 baseband. Will try later though
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I must just be in a bad spot. I've never had good reception and I know their in the middle of network Vision cause their was no lte just 3 weeks ago and it's starting to pop up everywhere. so I'll probably have to wait til their done. I just hope when it is done my reception will be alot better cause it suuuuucks at my house. That god for airave.
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tmoney239sucka said:
I must just be in a bad spot. I've never had good reception and I know their in the middle of network Vision cause their was no lte just 3 weeks ago and it's starting to pop up everywhere. so I'll probably have to wait til their done. I just hope when it is done my reception will be alot better cause it suuuuucks at my house. That god for airave.
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If it's anything like the 3g and voice upgrades we got over here it will be... went from 2 bars to full signal and from lucky to pull .30 mbps to consistently getting 1.50 or more (and this is during peak usage times, in the middle of the night I pull just over 2 mbps, enough to tether the ps3 for black ops 2 with no lag whatsoever!)

Ok been looking for those new baseband but can't find the latest MB1. I did try a few others with no success. I am now on LG8, still sucks so I want to try the latest one. Anyone got a zip file.
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tmoney239sucka said:
Ok been looking for those new baseband but can't find the latest MB1. I did try a few others with no success. I am now on LG8, still sucks so I want to try the latest one. Anyone got a zip file.
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Hell yea, u are the shiiiiii lol. Thanks man
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Well had LTE at my house for a week and still having the same problem. I go from 4 bars with fast lte to no bars with barley 3g on, weird right? 4g's popping up everywhere in my city and I'm afraid their done with my side of town and I'm still stuck with crappy service. Any ideas?
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tmoney239sucka said:
Well had LTE at my house for a week and still having the same problem. I go from 4 bars with fast lte to no bars with barley 3g on, weird right? 4g's popping up everywhere in my city and I'm afraid their done with my side of town and I'm still stuck with crappy service. Any ideas?
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Dial *18 on the dialer, hit send/call, and let it do it's thing....This should give you better signal instantly.

tmoney239sucka said:
Well had LTE at my house for a week and still having the same problem. I go from 4 bars with fast lte to no bars with barley 3g on, weird right? 4g's popping up everywhere in my city and I'm afraid their done with my side of town and I'm still stuck with crappy service. Any ideas?
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Crappy service is also pretty normal when LTE starts popping up, so it may partially be that as well

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Dial *18 on the dialer, hit send/call, and let it do it's thing....This should give you better signal instantly.
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I did and nothing changed. Thanks for the help, I didn't know about the *18 thing.
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