[Q] Will I bricking my phone - T-Mobile, Samsung Galaxy SIII

I want to install the official UVDLJA T-Mobile Rom on my Galaxy S3 and then install Frosty Jb. I have the T999v of Videotron one. Will my phone gonna be bricked or not? And my network gonna work also?
Thank you
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You're doomed bro. Turn back immediately.

Should be fine as long as you dont change your modem. I suggest you use mobile odin and unselect the modem. I did this with my t999v wind mobile and its fine.

I asked the same question with similar responses. But could those that had success maybe give a bit more detail on how they managed to odin the TMO stock? It passes the md5 but then fails when flashing, I have flashed numerous times in odin with no problem. Maybe an obvious requirement I am not aware of (stock recovery stock download or some such thing)

Thanks for the answer. I have another question. Before I turn to Frosty, my mobile network was only 3G and H+ but now with frosty, its only the 4G icon. So with frosty im on real 4g or its only a "fake" icon?
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Idyar said:
I asked the same question with similar responses. But could those that had success maybe give a bit more detail on how they managed to odin the TMO stock? It passes the md5 but then fails when flashing, I have flashed numerous times in odin with no problem. Maybe an obvious requirement I am not aware of (stock recovery stock download or some such thing)
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Used Mobile Odin and de-selected MODEM and RECOVERY worked great. Thanks for the tip!

xxjack3dxx said:
Thanks for the answer. I have another question. Before I turn to Frosty, my mobile network was only 3G and H+ but now with frosty, its only the 4G icon. So with frosty im on real 4g or its only a "fake" icon?
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T-Mobile has no real 4g. Some roms are coded to just show E and 4g for 3g, H, and H+, while other roms break it down more
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T-Mobile has no real 4g. Some roms are coded to just show E and 4g for 3g, H, and H+, while other roms break it down more
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I get up to 25/Mbps faster than my girl friends LTE hox at least that's my experience with speed test and real world usage
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I get up to 25/Mbps faster than my girl friends LTE hox at least that's my experience with speed test and real world usage
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Are you on stock?
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So OP your currently running frosty jb ?? I have a videotron whit vlalh2 and im pretty sure its incompatible ?
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ROMS not keeping 4G

I have been flashing for years and i just came over from ATT SG3 where i had no problems flashing and retaining 4g, but now on tmobile every rom i flash all i ever get is 3g and never 4g .. only for a brief second. the reason i came from ATT was the unlimited data.. can someone please assist as i used CM10, AOKP, WICKEDv5, blackjelly..... i cant figured it out. any help would be appreciated.
So you have the T-Mobile version now? Tried different radios
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Teo032 said:
So you have the T-Mobile version now? Tried different radios
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I have tried every single radio but alas.. i have had no luck and i live in Phoenix, AZ and i have tried all the 4.1.1 modems
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I have tried every single radio but alas.. i have had no luck and i live in Phoenix, AZ and i have tried all the 4.1.1 modems
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Hmm i would think Phoenix should have good service. Maybe you should Odin back to stock and start all over. Radio is the only reason i can think of that would affect the speed.
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How are you distinguishing what connection you are on? Many roms will show H+ instead of 4g
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I'm on stock. Rooted yesterday and download speeds seem slower now. I will do more testing this afternoon.
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well on the t-mobile variations the best you can get is H+ and most ROMs show that. other than that, try using a different kernel. that was the problem for me where my data wouldn't even work sometimes.
It looks like op knows the difference between 3g and 4g/H+ he noticed that he only gets 4g for like a second here and there and that's it.
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I had a similar problem. What happened with me was one day I went from great 4G (HSPA+) speeds 80ms Ping, 25MB Down, 4MB Up to all of the sudden a 1200ms Ping with 0.05MB Down and NO UPLOAD.
Turns out it was a problem with some towers in my area. Took T-Mobile two weeks to fix everything. Not sure if that is what's happening here but it could be possible.
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I have tried every single radio but alas.. i have had no luck and i live in Phoenix, AZ and i have tried all the 4.1.1 modems
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I live in phoenix, Arizona.
My sun niggaa!
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Same issue AOKP Build5 4.2.2
I too have this same issue with AOKP build 5 solid 3g but no 4g (H+) (tmo)
Stock however has solid 4g (chandler AZ)
gonna try CM and see what happens there.
Also gonna research radios aswell (really really really liked AOKP just didnt like being back on 3g)

[Q] Extremely weak wifi

Hi guys.
I don't know if its my phone or if this is the way the phone is meant to be, I have an extremely weak wifi signal. I am literally right next door to my router and I only get 3/4 bars for signal strength. As soon as I go up to the second floor, I get nothing at all unless I'm directly above my router. This is extremely frustrating at the moment. I decided to lurk around the forum to see if installing a custom rom would help and I ended up installing Jedi Invasion 2; it did not help at all.
It's just so frustrating that I have to use my mobile internet when I'm in bed instead of using my home internet. I don't understand this at all. Why is it so weak? Does anyone else have this problem?
Thank you.
Im with you on this......im staying tuned..
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Have you tried updating your modem to the latest version that was just released?
My modem is perfectly fine. I just dont understand how my old crappy blackberry had a better and stronger connection than my s3.
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I found the Wi-Fi performance increased a fair bit when I upgraded to 4.1.1. I can go a fair ways in my house before dropping bars. Wish I had run WiFi Analyzer before the upgrade so that I could actually compare RSSI.
Depends on the router freq. 2.4ghz and 5ghz. 5ghz can cause crappy WiFi strength issues. Change the settings around to 2.4 only and see what happens.
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My router does not support dual band. Like I said earlier, my blackberry has a stable connection while my s3 struggles.
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I had the same problem in 4.0.4 ICS but now on 4.1 JB it is working perfect. Before on ICS I had like 3-4 bars when I was 2ft away from the router. Now on JB I have full 5 stable bars no less with higher distance.
ShaolinMilk said:
My modem is perfectly fine. I just dont understand how my old crappy blackberry had a better and stronger connection than my s3.
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The modem he is talking about is a radio for the phone. Not the modem that connects you to the internet through your ISP.
Oh. Im still relatively new to this device so I never knew. How do I update the modem?
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ShaolinMilk said:
Oh. Im still relatively new to this device so I never knew. How do I update the modem?
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Well first thing your going to have to do is root the phone before you can update your modem.
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Att is rolling out jelly bean now through kies. Id just do that before you hit the modding route. Jelly Bean will update you too there latest and greatest modem and boot loader updates. Then root it and never look back
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So I went ahead and installed the latest modem. It made my signal even worst somehow. How do I restore back to the one I had?
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So I went ahead and installed the latest modem. It made my signal even worst somehow. How do I restore back to the one I had?
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Download it and flash it.
Im not exactly sure which modem it was.
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There's only three modems for each carrier. Try them all.
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slow 4g

For the past few days my data has been real slow well when downloading it starts off at good speeds but after a few minutes it slows down big time and for it to go back to normal i have to switch off my data then on and repeat that process any ideas what it could be or how to fix it cled tmobile support they were no help thx
Give a little more info
Are you rooted?
If so, are you running stock?
Custom rom name if any
Baseband version?
Yes im rooted running wicked v10 tmobile baseband version t999uvlh2
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Well, how much data have you used? You could be getting throttled especially if you've used lots of data in short amount of time.
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Yes im rooted running wicked v10 tmobile baseband version t999uvlh2
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And you have the unlimited data plan i assume?
Yes im on the unlimited plan and not sure about the throttling would have thought the tmobile rep would have mentioned that if that was the case
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bigfnfil said:
Yes im on the unlimited plan and not sure about the throttling would have thought the tmobile rep would have mentioned that if that was the case
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T999UVLH2 is your baseband version. Then i would try flashing the T999UVDLJC baseband and test it out.
There is a new mdm5 baseband out. Im sure you cant search and find it here.
I flashed wicked v10 on my friends tmo s3, were getting slow speeds as well. Gonna try a different radio
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I have the same problem in a certain part of Seattle where my hspa+ speed is around 4 - 10 kilobytes per second download..
Guess to many people using it
I don't think it's the rom itself. Try a different modem and report the findings. I'm on Wicked v10 in souther cali with latest modem and I'm getting great speeds. Can it be on tmobile end updating/refarming towers?
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Yeah i dnt know wat is wrong with it its been a few days now and same thing when i run a speedtest i get geood speeds but as far as downloading anything it starts good then goes down to like 650b and downloads always fail thx for the help tho
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Have you tried any of the other modems?
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No kind of new at this wouldnt no were to start open to any suggestions tho thx
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Click the link for Basebands/Modems thread in my sig. All flashable modems and a plethora of info about them is there.
Feel free to ask if you have questions. The thread is stickied in development if you need to find it later.
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Wow I was just trying to find out if others are having the same problem and Bam I see this. My download speeds start high then go slow. Hopefully it's the modem
I noticed it didn't start until I used the new T999UVDMD5
Edit: nope tried other modems and problem is still there
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Do you get different results during different times of day? Could be network traffic. Or if they're doing work on any towers it could also cause problems like that.
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DocHoliday77 said:
Do you get different results during different times of day? Could be network traffic. Or if they're doing work on any towers it could also cause problems like that.
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Indeed tmobile is upgrading their hardware and adding towers now that their LTE is spreading to more cities. Also since the merger didn't go through with At&t they are upgrading to compete in general.
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No same results at any time of day and i also noticed it did start happening until i flashed the t999uvdmd5 but since then used different ones but same results
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Call support to see if they are working on the network in your area.
If not, try the other modems in my baseband thread.
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At&t note 2 mod for T-Mobile 3G/4G speeds

Hey guys i got a great offer for this beautiful Phone however i don'twasn't to leave T-Mobile, if I do this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7gMO_kRxyM&feature=youtube_gdata_playermod and then i root it will I lose the settings after? Like when flashing a new ROM would i loser this again?
Follow this guide. Works perfectly. I used my i-317 on T-Mobile for a while before I traded it and got great 4G speeds.
http://galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-n...3g4g-aws-bands-on-att-galaxy-note-2-sgh-i317/
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MikeySmikey said:
Follow this guide. Works perfectly. I used my i-317 on T-Mobile for a while before I traded it and got great 4G speeds.
http://galaxynote2root.com/galaxy-n...3g4g-aws-bands-on-att-galaxy-note-2-sgh-i317/
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Thanks for the reply but I already did the mod my question is will I lose it if I root the phone and flash a rom
Jess813 said:
Thanks for the reply but I already did the mod my question is will I lose it if I root the phone and flash a rom
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No, it permanently unlocks those bands, just like carrier unlocking a phone. Once it's done its done.
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MikeySmikey said:
No, it permanently unlocks those bands, just like carrier unlocking a phone. Once it's done its done.
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That's F**cken AWESOME!!!!!! WOW
Jess813 said:
That's F**cken AWESOME!!!!!! WOW
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Yeah, pretty sweet stuff. And like I said, I got really good data speeds. Before I did the mod I was stuck on Edge, afterwards I was pulling down like 15+ Mbps download and 3+ upload speeds.
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Yeah, pretty sweet stuff. And like I said, I got really good data speeds. Before I did the mod I was stuck on Edge, afterwards I was pulling down like 15+ Mbps download and 3+ upload speeds.
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I thought we could get 42+
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I thought we could get 42+
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No. The T-Mobile version, T-889, is a dual cell phone capable of supporting 42.2 Mbps data transfer. The AT&T version, i-317, is not and is limited to 21.1 Mbps. However the i-317 is capable of using more than one LTE band whereas the T-889 is limited to just one.
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MikeySmikey said:
No. The T-Mobile version, T-889, is a dual cell phone capable of supporting 42.2 Mbps data transfer. The AT&T version, i-317, is not and is limited to 21.1 Mbps. However the i-317 is capable of using more than one LTE band whereas the T-889 is limited to just one.
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OK so what how does using more than one LTE band benefit the end user?
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OK so what how does using more than one LTE band benefit the end user?
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Good question, I have no idea other than ones geographical area.
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Good question, I have no idea other than ones geographical area.
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Hey man so I just not got my Note, and the mod is in... and i have a maybe stupid question... i can only flash At&t roms correct?
Jess813 said:
Hey man so I just not got my Note, and the mod is in... and i have a maybe stupid question... i can only flash At&t roms correct?
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No, you can flash other carriers roms. The thing is you have to make damn sure what you're flashing isn't gonna brick you. From a software standpoint all Note 2's are the same, for the most part. You have to be careful not to flash another carriers modem or you'll have no signal. If that happens just flash an AT&T modem and you're good. The kernel is pretty much the same. There might be some minor differences but nothing to worry about. Just read read read. All the info is in the OP, and if it's not just ask in that thread.
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No, you can flash other carriers roms. The thing is you have to make damn sure what you're flashing isn't gonna brick you. From a software standpoint all Note 2's are the same, for the most part. You have to be careful not to flash another carriers modem or you'll have no signal. If that happens just flash an AT&T modem and you're good. The kernel is pretty much the same. There might be some minor differences but nothing to worry about. Just read read read. All the info is in the OP, and if it's not just ask in that thread.
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well to play it safe then i will stick to the At&t section
Thanks for all your help bro!
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well to play it safe then i will stick to the At&t section
Thanks for all your help bro!
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You can flash tmobile roms no problem. You'll also have access to wifi calling if you're carrier is tmobile. I'm using my at&t note 2 on tmobile. Lte and h+ on either carriers roms.
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jayb222 said:
You can flash tmobile roms no problem. You'll also have access to wifi calling if you're carrier is tmobile. I'm using my at&t note 2 on tmobile. Lte and h+ on either carriers roms.
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Thanks for the info! I haventbfound a AT&T ROM that I like LoL
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jayb222 said:
You can flash tmobile roms no problem. You'll also have access to wifi calling if you're carrier is tmobile. I'm using my at&t note 2 on tmobile. Lte and h+ on either carriers roms.
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I just tried to flash a Tmobile rom...failed was the TWRP message and I tried it twice with seperate roms
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[Q] No service at work. Any help?

Ive noticed since I moved offices, that in my office building I get absolutely no service whatsoever. And there is no wifi password available to use wifi via my phone. So today as I was leaving work and finally got service again, I had 12 missed calls, 5 texts, and 3 voicemails. Is there a better modem to flash that can help? Thanks!
Not exactly. Different locations have different best modems. You just have to try them and see.
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Could anyone suggest an updated modem, or one they have had luck with if they are from the Chicago-land area?
You could check the map in the modem thread too. I know its a jumbled mess now, but the info can still be useful.
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yeah, i was trying to find my way through it but it is difficult so it hasnt really helped
K. Sorry bout that. Ill be redoing everything in it soon though.
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Do you think you could message me about what modem/radio might work better once that forum is sorted out? It really sucks not being able to use my phone at work for 8 hours. Thanks
I may not be able to unfortunately. I messed around a little before and got nowhere. May have to start a new map.
Have you checked T-Mobiles coverage map yet? There just may not be a signal there in the first place.
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DocHoliday77 said:
I may not be able to unfortunately. I messed around a little before and got nowhere. May have to start a new map.
Have you checked T-Mobiles coverage map yet? There just may not be a signal there in the first place.
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I never had a problem with my Blaze there. Even at home with the S3 I get maybe 2 bars. Which leads me to believe its the modem. On my Blaze I had an updated modem that made data very fast.
Can I use UVLI6 which is a 4.1.1 modem on a 4.1.2 rom I am currently using? Would that be compatible? i cant remember which way compatibility goes :/
Any modem, any rom, any build. Only make sure you use the right models modems, which it sounds like you are
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Can I use UVLI6 which is a 4.1.1 modem on a 4.1.2 rom I am currently using? Would that be compatible? i cant remember which way compatibility goes :/
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It will work, but last time I did that I wasn't able to connect to hspa or hspa+ only umts.. If it gives you signal though I guess its better than nothing
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Can I use UVLI6 which is a 4.1.1 modem on a 4.1.2 rom I am currently using? Would that be compatible? i cant remember which way compatibility goes :/
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You can use any modem version as long as it's specifically for your phone.
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Can I use UVLI6 which is a 4.1.1 modem on a 4.1.2 rom I am currently using? Would that be compatible? i cant remember which way compatibility goes :/
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And just in case for some reason you need to hear the same answer a 4th time, yes you can do that! LOL!
serio22 said:
It will work, but last time I did that I wasn't able to connect to hspa or hspa+ only umts.. If it gives you signal though I guess its better than nothing
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This is just strange... in roughly a year of doing this I think you're the first to report that happening. 4.0.4 and 4.1.1 modems have always worked on 4.1.2, and any other combo has worked as well. There are people who still use the LH2 (ics) modem because it still performs better than any other for them.
I think you may have been seeing it function normally though. When idle, its supposed to drop to UMTS to save power and bandwidth. If you check while a transfer is occurring you will see it change to HSPAP.
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Has anyone else found another modem that they now use that gives them better signal/data speeds for their Tmobile T999? My work building is a complete dead zone for Tmobile, so I am hoping flashing another modem works. Otherwise, im not sure what else I can do.
I have to refer you to my initial response here. A modem that gives better speed and signal for me, might be one of the worst for you.
Just something to consider, you probably could test 2-3 different ones each day at work. Maybe more. If your main issue is signal, then flash, check service, if none then flash another right away. I could probably flash 5 different ones on a 15 min break if I was only looking for improved signal. Might be a better way than waiting for someone to tell you what worked for them, then testing only that the next day. Its your phone and your time though, so its your call. Just tryin to help
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I think you may have been seeing it function normally though. When idle, its supposed to drop to UMTS to save power and bandwidth. If you check while a transfer is occurring you will see it change to HSPAP.
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Nope I know all about that.. it would never get to hspa, always umts, ran it for days and as soon as I switched to a jb modem I got hspa back
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serio22 said:
Nope I know all about that.. it would never get to hspa, always umts, ran it for days and as soon as I switched to a jb modem I got hspa back
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So weird....figured you would know, but wasnt certain. Still, never heard of one doing that. Finicky huh?
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I use the UVMD5 modem and my signal is strong but my battery dies faster...
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So weird....figured you would know, but wasnt certain. Still, never heard of one doing that. Finicky huh?
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Yeah it is weird.. I tried with both touchwiz and aosp with the same result
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