I'm visiting the family in SE Kansas for the holidays and have yet to get ANY signal on my Epic 4G Touching running Re-Calked FI27. 3G signal is decent back home in Austin but I get the "no signal" icon here pretty much all the time.
I checked Sprint's coverage map for the area and we're definitely off-network. FWIW, my wife has a Sprint iPhone 4S that gets decent signal around these parts, though it usually says she's on the "Extended" network.
What gives? Is this a modem issue? (I've flashed through a few that have done well back in Austin) Is it a limitation of the device not being able to connect to the wireless band supported by the towers around here? I can't even get signal to do a PRL update, but I'm not sure it would matter. Would the Roam Control app be worth buying?
I'm stuck. Thanks for reading.
I think I might've "fixed" it by toggling the roaming options off and then back on. I now have the bar icon w/ the triangle above it, although the signal is pretty low. I'd still like to discuss this problem further, though.
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I don't use Roam Control. I uploaded a Verizon PRL to the phone. Check this thread for what you need.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1267893
I have the 00002 PRL on my phone. You can do a PRL update to return back to Sprint whenever you get back home.
That's all I know. Hope it helps...
How's the 00002 prl working for you?
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Wondering if there are any radio updates for the regular 3G mobile network and wifi radios?????
This phone has the absolute worst reception of any phone I have ever owned.
I am on Long Island in NY, so 4G and 4G LTE is non existant.....Sprint has no towers or plans to put them up according to CS.
Side by side, my EVO 4g has a pinned wifi signal and pinned 3G while in my room where I have my router and I had to get an Airrave from Sprint for regular calls....Yes it's that bad. At the same time on my new Galaxy Nexus in the same place I have 1 bar cell phone, no 3G and 1 bar on Wifi
So I am assuming the radios suck.
I constantly drop calls on the Gnex which never happened on the HTC EVO.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Steve
Anybody home????LOL
Is it that bad of a question????LOL
I simply can't find an answer.
Is there another forum that will answer this?
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Steve
Dude check out the development forum. Tons of new flashable radios in there. I just got done flashing fg01 myself
Here in north houston i had the best LTE experience but at my work by 290 and beltway 8 experienced data problems. 3g one minute 4g another minute then nothing. Called sprint they said for me to switch to cdma for now til tomorrow because they where working on towers and should be done thursday. The lady specified that on thursday to turn back to LTE/CDMA and update prl and profile and call back and they will credit me back. I was too much of in a hurry to ask what kind of credit anyone have a idea whats there meaning or "Credit"?
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Here in north houston i had the best LTE experience but at my work by 290 and beltway 8 experienced data problems. 3g one minute 4g another minute then nothing. Called sprint they said for me to switch to cdma for now til tomorrow because they where working on towers and should be done thursday. The lady specified that on thursday to turn back to LTE/CDMA and update prl and profile and call back and they will credit me back. I was too much of in a hurry to ask what kind of credit anyone have a idea whats there meaning or "Credit"?
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I live in cypress and i have the same issue when getting close to the beltway.
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Hows your 3g speed?
I live in Atascocita and I've experienced hit or miss 4G. Strangely, when I go to work (Baytown), it pops up fairly frequently.
i get solid LTE in Cypress... particularly around Louetta nd Grant... I got decent LTE over on Westheimer just west of the Galleria... Oh and also got solid LTE around Tidwell/Hollister and 290... these were all places where i was inside a building not driving thru...
Im guessing 290 and beltway 8 is just a bad area slow 3g by my work even though i see all these phone towers
Maybe they will be releasing LTE in Maryland soon then.
Waiting for LTE in New Jersey and all of New York state/city. Im hearing a lot of good things about it and from the screen shots in the other threads it seems like our phones are gonna be pretty fast. Cant wait for 800mhz and Clearwire TD LTE to be launched.
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So I just update to the JB rom supposed to be released today and now I am not getting 4g LTE. Didnt notice until I left to goto the store and out of range of my wifi, but I have went back and tried older updates of ICS and JB and nothing.
Just wondering if anyone lives in/around Baltimore having issues?
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I live in Dallas tax and according to the coverage map lte is all over. When my preferred network settings are set to lte/ cdma it never connects to lte goes to 3g for a few minutes then disxonnexts. Switch my preferred network settings to cdma and 3g is always connected. Could this be a cyanogen issue or do most people deal with this? Any help would be appreciated.
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Sprint's marketing department figured it'd be better to show LTE coverage of completion. Unfortunately, your area is probably not covered yet, but will be once the city is completely upgraded.
So basically I need to leave it in CDMA preferred network mode to keep it connected?
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So basically I need to leave it in CDMA preferred network mode to keep it connected?
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LTE coverage would be a Sprint problem - the random disconnects are timeouts through eHRPD via Cyanogenmod RIL issues. It wont timeout on you on other ROMs, but if you place it onto CDMA only, you'll be fine.
Until Cyanogenmod fixes the problem, the random LoS (Loss of Service) issues will continue.
If you download and use Sensorly, it shows actual coverage, where actual users have picked up LTE coverage.
Anybody know of good ROMs that don't have this issue? My friend said aokp is good but he's on a different carrier, any thoughts?
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I was using AOKP and was having this same issue... assuming it's because they get a lot of their code from the CM repos.
I ended up trying out a few different TW ROMs and my signal strength was amazing with any of them. Currently I'm using FreeGS3 ( http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1748818 ) and have no real issues.
The only thing that bugged me about the TW ROMs is some of the default apps like Email/Exchange, but I just replaced those with the APKs from AOKP and everything is fine.
If the signal issue gets fixed in CM/AOKP I would be more than willing to jump back, but the massive difference in signal strength is too much for me to not use a TW ROM.
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Anybody know of good ROMs that don't have this issue? My friend said aokp is good but he's on a different carrier, any thoughts?
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All AOSP roms are based off CM10 github, so they're all going to have the issue. AOKP is a little dated now 11/10 build doesn't have LoS, but it doesn't connected to Ehrpd either. The issue is, once LTE connection is established, and you move outside an LTE area, you go LoS for a bit (some say 20 seconds, others say 5 minutes). But it wont lose signal until LTE is dropped.
EDIT: the cm10 timeouts were after the LJ7 blobs were implemented, which I believe were 11/11 and after.
This is also happening on stock jb.
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thanks for the info, going to flash the tm rom when I get home.
Im in Dallas as well and its still being built out.
I get 3G at home, closer to down town. I get stable and steady 4G LTE at work, near Abrams and NorthWest HWY. In fact at my office on the 4th floor im on 4G LTE all day, ride the elevator down and by the time i get to my truck in the parking lot back to 3G. Drive a minute down the road and it might go back to 4GLTE again.
Luckily for me at my office on the 4th floor i get 4G LTE strong enough it holds the signal and isnt constantly switching.
The odd thing is a couple times a week my phone will switch to 4G LTE at my residence but when this happens i get no data on my device. I have to wait for it to go back to 3G to get data back. I think its a tower issue.
I'm having the same experience. LTE usuallys drops quickly. I get it in my apt and it is pretty fast. I live in Richardson. I experience LOS when I try to go from 4g to 3g. It drops the call everytime.
Well damn, hopefully they hurry and build out the network around dallas
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Well damn, hopefully they hurry and build out the network around dallas
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I think thats the sentiments of everybody on Sprint with an LTE device.. No matter where they are..
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I've had my Note 2 for a little over a month now.. this phone is amazing. Period. I came from Galaxy Fascinate, its like I switched my Cavalier for Jaguar CX-6!!
I'm with Telus in Newfoundland.. St. John's to be exact. Off course, like most of you here, I didn't have the phone an hour and I was flashing roms, kernels, and modems. I've tried them all, and like the CleanROM 4.5 w/ Perseus Kernel and MA3 modem. This is an awsome combo, wicked battery life (3+ days, easy), and everything runs fast an smooth.
The only minor issue I'm having is the LTE service. Telus say that LTE is available here, and should work everywhere. It does work, but only when I'm outside.
When I'm in my house, I get H+, never LTE. I can take my phone and hold it out the window and it will get LTE. This has been the case with all Roms/kernels/modems; stock included.
So, is this a bottleneck with LTE, is the single that weak it can't go through a house?. Not a brick house, your plane jane wood. Is it a limitation of the hardware?
When I do a speedtest when inside, I avg. 4-7mbps down, 2-5mbps up. If I go outside, test again from the same server I get 17+mbps up/down.
Anyone have any suggestions?? if in the same area as I, what has your experience been?, maybe their is something I might be missing.. a settings I can try etc...
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Posted in the wrong section really.......
But, to answer your question, LTE and the other 4g signals tend to be fall off faster, so you may be in a low zone or at the outer reaches of the 4G signal where the signal is just weaker, I have had the same issue and bought a signal booster for the house and that solved the not getting 4G in the house.......
Good luck,
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Posted in the wrong section really.......
But, to answer your question, LTE and the other 4g signals tend to be fall off faster, so you may be in a low zone or at the outer reaches of the 4G signal where the signal is just weaker, I have had the same issue and bought a signal booster for the house and that solved the not getting 4G in the house.......
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thx... answered my question. I got to get me one those signal boosters now the once.
Sorry bout posting in the wrong section.. won't happen again.
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