why is my 3g faster than 4g? - Sony Xperia S, Acro S, Ion

Ok guys, here i go again. I recently installed the "smooth ion" mod thingy, after a little help from yall, and i love it. However, now my data icon is not 4g, but either an "H" or 3g, it switches constantly. I was kinda bummed at first until i realized that my speed was much greater, around 2.5 to 3 mps dl. I only get about 1 mps at best when on 4g. why is this?

Well...4g is not shown as H(3.5G) on Non ATT firmware, so it should be faster. Make sure your apns are correct (assuming AT&T)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1770813

why is my 3g faster than 4g
424aca said:
Well...H, is not 4g, so it is not really faster. Make sure your apns are correct (assuming AT&T)
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1770813
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well, as it was new, it always said 4g, and even 4g lte when i was in okc, but now it is an H mostly, and 3g flickers on momentarily sometimes. I had made a nandroid backup of the original rooted ics before i did the smooth ion thing so i went back to it and the 4g was back.

yeah what is confusing me is that i did the same smooth ion flash by ganeshbiyer but my icons were still there...
running ATT firmware

424aca said:
yeah what is confusing me is that i did the same smooth ion flash by ganeshbiyer but my icons were still there...
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did u lose ur 4g as well? My app icons remained also if thats what ur meaning. but it added some of its own

jerimynal wiley said:
Ok guys, here i go again. I recently installed the "smooth ion" mod thingy, after a little help from yall, and i love it. However, now my data icon is not 4g, but either an "H" or 3g, it switches constantly. I was kinda bummed at first until i realized that my speed was much greater, around 2.5 to 3 mps dl. I only get about 1 mps at best when on 4g. why is this?
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Smooth Ion installed new SystemUI inwhich controlled the signal icons. Assuming you got LT28at, you got to understand ATT market called 4g when it really H (3.5G). So when you are not using ATT stock firmware it will unhide the reality - that's why you see the flicker between 3G & H. About the speed it should be the same as whichever firmware you used all depend on signal received. Could be that one firmware gave you better signal reception than anoher.
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Couple of things..

First, i would like to know if there is a way to keep the phone's data network ALWAYS on H not on 3G and having them switch back and forth it slows down the internet speed. Is there a setting or something i could change.
Second the notification LED. How can i make it so it can blink quicker.. i dont want to stare at my phone for like 5 seconds to see if its blinking or not...
Third the Swype keyboard ?? is it possible to get that keyboard after i put the Cyanmod ?? That keyboard is way better than the original android one.
I have a Rooted ( S- OFF) G2.
Cyan V6.1.0-RC3.
Thanks!
Fanatico said:
First, i would like to know if there is a way to keep the phone's data network ALWAYS on H not on 3G and having them switch back and forth it slows down the internet speed. Is there a setting or something i could change.
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Your phone is only switching back to 3G if it loses the H signal. So that's an issue of your reception, not something your phone can control.
When i had the nexus one. It was always on 3G. Then i Rooted it. Changed radio etc etc.. and now it was 3g and switched to H like my g2 now. Before i hacked the G2 there was no 3g. It was either H or Edge. And everytime it's on 3G now that it's hacked it doesn't use it.. it simply just takes a few seconds then goes to H.
I use anycut from market.
New shortcut
Activity
Testing
Click on new shortcut
Select phone information
From there I scroll down to force the phone use wcdma.
I don't know if that'll work. You don't need root or anything.
I hope this helps
Sorry if it dont .
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Fanatico said:
When i had the nexus one. It was always on 3G. Then i Rooted it. Changed radio etc etc.. and now it was 3g and switched to H like my g2 now. Before i hacked the G2 there was no 3g. It was either H or Edge. And everytime it's on 3G now that it's hacked it doesn't use it.. it simply just takes a few seconds then goes to H.
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It was using 3G before, you just didn't know it. T-Mobile decided that they were going to have their G2's display H for HSPA+ as well as 3G to give people the illusion of almost always using pseudo-4G
ibemad1 said:
It was using 3G before, you just didn't know it. T-Mobile decided that they were going to have their G2's display H for HSPA+ as well as 3G to give people the illusion of almost always using pseudo-4G
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The thing is that.. when i do a speed test and my phone is in 3g the speed is around 160-250 kbs then while is testing it switches to HSPA and the speed goes to 2-3mbs.. before I hacked it it was on H. And both of the times I tested in the same place. I understand that tmobile would disguise it.. but its odd that the speed test would switch like that, which didn't happen before. Also 3g and Hspa are two different networks :/
But still thanks for the help.

[REQ] 4g icon

Since it was easy for someone to change the 3g icon to a 1x icon, can we get a 4g icon?? An LTE one would be even better.. Since Sprint wants us to think we always have 3g service, I want ppl to think I always have 4g or LTE
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For what rom, fe22?
Yep
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Okay so you want us to change the 3g icon to a 4g one or just change he current 4g icon to lte or change the 3g icon to lte 4g icon?
Ascertion said:
Okay so you want us to change the 3g icon to a 4g one or just change he current 4g icon to lte or change the 3g icon to lte 4g icon?
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Yeah he meant 3G icon to display 4G icon!
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Why not make it 5G while your at it?
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I say we just leave at G since we cool like that
I would love for this to happen....please make this happen
For deodexed FF09 roms. 3G icon replaced by 4G icon.
Flash via recovery.
EDIT: Now tested, working 100%.
Regarding this whole G situation- Once Sprint goes to the LTE system- will the phones be adapted/compatible with the 4g LTE, or will there be an OTA update or flash/cwm update be required?
I can say that the reception bars indicator are not doing the
WIMAX system any favors regarding reputation. I updated from el 29 modem, to fc 24, to fd 19 and cant see a huge difference. ( I used the open signal app to measure as close to scientific as possible to see in same static area- which modem was better.) In addition- my google navigation locking is a joke at 2-3 minutes- whereas my Telenav is much faster. Any advice is welcome to improve the GPS and signal- ( although I havent dropped any calls yet. )
SamsungGLXYS2sps said:
Regarding this whole G situation- Once Sprint goes to the LTE system- will the phones be adapted/compatible with the 4g LTE, or will there be an OTA update or flash/cwm update be required?
I can say that the reception bars indicator are not doing the
WIMAX system any favors regarding reputation. I updated from el 29 modem, to fc 24, to fd 19 and cant see a huge difference. ( I used the open signal app to measure as close to scientific as possible to see in same static area- which modem was better.) In addition- my google navigation locking is a joke at 2-3 minutes- whereas my Telenav is much faster. Any advice is welcome to improve the GPS and signal- ( although I havent dropped any calls yet. )
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These phones will never do lte
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Overstew said:
For deodexed FF09 roms. 4G icon replaced by 3G icon. Untested, but it should work.
Flash via recovery.
EDIT: Now tested, working 100%.
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Wait ... so flashing this will make your 4G icon become a 3G one? Just wondering or is it the other way? Thanks.
slick4mitch said:
Wait ... so flashing this will make your 4G icon become a 3G one? Just wondering or is it the other way? Thanks.
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haha, yes. It replaces 3G icon with the 4G icon. I know I implied it backwards in my original post.
Overstew said:
haha, yes. It replaces 3G icon with the 4G icon. I know I implied it backwards in my original post.
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Ok, thank you, this might be fun

cyanogen mod 10 4 g problem

So I installed cm ten and it flips between 3g and h+ never 4g and I am not sure how to fix this so that it shows four g. Everything else works great as far as I can tell but despite selecting 4g lte option it won't show up as that in the status bar. I can tell the internet seems fast though if anything faster than what it was on the stock ROM. Please help I'm so new to this
Its only an icon. The H you see is how CM is set up. It doesn't have a ton of pointless icons cluttering up the framework.
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zelendel said:
Its only an icon. The H you see is how CM is set up. It doesn't have a ton of pointless icons cluttering up the framework.
Sent from Arkham
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So its not meant to show 4g when in 4g mode or reception? A friend said his shows 4g all the time
adeolshivraj said:
So its not meant to show 4g when in 4g mode or reception? A friend said his shows 4g all the time
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On AT&T when you have "HSP/HSP+" Or w/e it is call it shows it as "4g"
The only real 4g is LTE and unless you are in a LTE area it will never show the fake 4g. There is also edge/2g I have seen once or twice.

Odd data problem

Ok so I have an unlocked LG Nitro HD with custom ROM (CM10) and it has a very weird problem. I've tried two different AT&T MVNO SIM cards (AirVoice and Consumer Cellular) both have the same issue. My data signal keeps changing from H to H+ and occasionally to 3G like every few seconds regardless of where I am using the phone even outside. I don't understand what the problem is. What could be the issue?
screwregi said:
Ok so I have an unlocked LG Nitro HD with custom ROM (CM10) and it has a very weird problem. I've tried two different AT&T MVNO SIM cards (AirVoice and Consumer Cellular) both have the same issue. My data signal keeps changing from H to H+ and occasionally to 3G like every few seconds regardless of where I am using the phone even outside. I don't understand what the problem is. What could be the issue?
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Are you able to use mobile data or are you just wondering why the icons go back and forth?
lordcheeto03 said:
Are you able to use mobile data or are you just wondering why the icons go back and forth?
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Data does work but it seems to drain the battery with the networks constantly switching and on occasion I get a "No Connection" screen on certain apps, I guess because if I open an app while its swapping networks the app cant connect. It's strange.
screwregi said:
Data does work but it seems to drain the battery with the networks constantly switching and on occasion I get a "No Connection" screen on certain apps, I guess because if I open an app while its swapping networks the app cant connect. It's strange.
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Yeah, constantly swapping networks will drain the battery.. what about your APN settings?
lordcheeto03 said:
Yeah, constantly swapping networks will drain the battery.. what about your APN settings?
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They are set up properly.
I had another odd problem, just a few minutes ago was texting someone and all of a sudden phone froze while vibrating then restarted! Don't know if that's a bug in CM10 or what, maybe the network swapping is as well.
screwregi said:
They are set up properly.
I had another odd problem, just a few minutes ago was texting someone and all of a sudden phone froze while vibrating then restarted! Don't know if that's a bug in CM10 or what, maybe the network swapping is as well.
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Maybe make a backup of your CM10 and try flashing a different ROM not based on CM10.
screwregi said:
They are set up properly.
I had another odd problem, just a few minutes ago was texting someone and all of a sudden phone froze while vibrating then restarted! Don't know if that's a bug in CM10 or what, maybe the network swapping is as well.
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I think this is the same issue that I recently fixed in quattrimus. I will try to get the fix included in the cm kernel soon. You might try my Rom to see if the fix works.
lordcheeto03 said:
Maybe make a backup of your CM10 and try flashing a different ROM not based on CM10.
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I tried installing CM9 and it appears to have fixed the problem, the phone doesn't try to connect to the H+ network anymore, only the H network and seems to stay on it so far. I did see it quickly go over to the 3G network but it doesn't appear to be causing any issues, it went right back to the H network. However, I really wish the CM10 ROM worked right, as CM9 is so old...
screwregi said:
I tried installing CM9 and it appears to have fixed the problem, the phone doesn't try to connect to the H+ network anymore, only the H network and seems to stay on it so far. I did see it quickly go over to the 3G network but it doesn't appear to be causing any issues, it went right back to the H network. However, I really wish the CM10 ROM worked right, as CM9 is so old...
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CM10 is snappy and oh so buttery smooth, I give you that. On another note, did you try any other CM10 variants? I'd give tdmcode's AOKP a spin. He says he might have fixed that problem you were talking about in his build.
lordcheeto03 said:
CM10 is snappy and oh so buttery smooth, I give you that. On another note, did you try any other CM10 variants? I'd give tdmcode's AOKP a spin. He says he might have fixed that problem you were talking about in his build.
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I downloaded the CM10 ROM. It seems to behave slightly differently. It stays on H normally, but when I start to do something with data, it will go to H+ until the data loads, then go back to H. So far no disconnects, I'll keep you posted. Right now I have very limited data, I'm switching to T-Mobile as soon as UPS decides to deliver my SIM card (just found out they have a 1900MHz HSPA+ network in my area!) I'll be able to test it better then, but for now I'm trying to stick to wifi, especially since I wasted so much data tonight playing around with this stuff, lol.
screwregi said:
It stays on H normally, but when I start to do something with data, it will go to H+ until the data loads, then go back to H.
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This is how it's supposed to work.
drumist said:
This is how it's supposed to work.
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Ditto... H and 3g are subsets of each other. Namely they can handle simultaneous voice and data 4G (h+) and lte can only handle data. So it switches back to H so you can receive and make calls plus it uses less battery. If you are on either 4G techs and receive a phone call while downloading it will automatically switch to H from h+ or lte, this is why. The only way you will never see this is on an AT&T rom where it only has 4G and lte icons.
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Swetnes said:
Ditto... H and 3g are subsets of each other. Namely they can handle simultaneous voice and data 4G (h+) and lte can only handle data. So it switches back to H so you can receive and make calls plus it uses less battery. If you are on either 4G techs and receive a phone call while downloading it will automatically switch to H from h+ or lte, this is why. The only way you will never see this is on an AT&T rom where it only has 4G and lte icons.
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I have LTE disabled, I'm not using the phone on AT&T.
Swetnes said:
Ditto... H and 3g are subsets of each other. Namely they can handle simultaneous voice and data 4G (h+) and lte can only handle data. So it switches back to H so you can receive and make calls plus it uses less battery. If you are on either 4G techs and receive a phone call while downloading it will automatically switch to H from h+ or lte, this is why. The only way you will never see this is on an AT&T rom where it only has 4G and lte icons.
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H+ isn't a subset of 4G is it? I know that the CM's have separate icons for 3G/H, H+, 4G, and LTE.
lordcheeto03 said:
H+ isn't a subset of 4G is it? I know that the CM's have separate icons for 3G/H, H+, 4G, and LTE.
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That certainly is debatable but the US's largest carrier considers it to be, it behaves like 4g, H+ may not be as fast but it is 90%+ as fast in most markets small enough to not make a noticeable difference as far as people's perception and the technology behaves like LTE in a lot of respects, CM is international so it just conforms to International norms so that's why you get H+ AND 4G (LTE) designators.
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I have a question for GS3 net work

SOS HELP
when I flashed AOKP's rom and using this rom almost half year
there has a crazy problem is about the T Mobile H+ signal
I remember that I used the stock rom showing the 4G icon everytime. and speed really fast.
but now I'm using the AOKP's rom when you using the H+ maybe just five minutes the network signal change to E(EDGE) or 3G
and network just stopped alittle while like 5-25 seconds then returned back to H+ or H
the problem make me crazy,
I searched in google sometimes but I didn't find any answer, maybe I just use wrong keyword on it.
so, anyone knows this issue? and how to solve that?
AOKP was released a 4g_signal.zip but it could not work right now on the android 4.2.2 ...
It happened every AOKP rom. when I flashed and use it
network signal is really instability.
It's not an issue.. the TMO S3 has only been supporting the HSPA+ bands at most and that is our 4G. When you flash an AOSP ROM it will display H+, which are the bands your on when your network is originally displayed as 4G on a stock ROM. H+ is displayed while data is being transferred. When no data is being transferred your data will bump down to UMTS or EDGE, which displays as your 3G, to conserve more battery. It's something you're gonna have to get used to on AOSP ROMs
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Actually, no it does not jump down to Edge when there is no data pull (and you'll use MORE battery, because its search for the 4G network). When there is no data pull, it will display (on custom ROMs) as 3G. When it pulls data, it will show either H or H+. You already know that T-Mo network (exception of the LTE cities) has no difference between their 4G and 3G.
Now, you said that you're getting edge every once in a while. Try flashing a new radio. But, I'm confused, because you said you're trying to flash a 4G zip onto 4.2. There hasn't been a 4G zip even for a long time on 4.1. It won't work with most 4.1 ROMs, as the last time I saw a 4G zip it was for a specific updated of AOKP. Anyway, how long has the issue been going on since you started dipping down to Edge at certain times?
Don_Perrignon said:
Actually, no it does not jump down to Edge when there is no data pull (and you'll use MORE battery, because its search for the 4G network). When there is no data pull, it will display (on custom ROMs) as 3G. When it pulls data, it will show either H or H+. You already know that T-Mo network (exception of the LTE cities) has no difference between their 4G and 3G.
Now, you said that you're getting edge every once in a while. Try flashing a new radio. But, I'm confused, because you said you're trying to flash a 4G zip onto 4.2. There hasn't been a 4G zip even for a long time on 4.1. It won't work with most 4.1 ROMs, as the last time I saw a 4G zip it was for a specific updated of AOKP. Anyway, how long has the issue been going on since you started dipping down to Edge at certain times?
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My mistake. That is what I was initially referring to. I should have said H+ displays AFTER data has been pulled. Thanks for clearing that up for me.
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