So the first LTE Tower in Louisiana (New Orleans Metro Area) went active a couple days ago. My coworker with an iPhone5 drove past it yesterday morning and his phone switched from 3G to LTE almost immediately when he came within range of it. So on my way in, I took the same route yet my Samsung SIII did not make the switch at all. On my way home, I decided to go down the service road that the tower is located on and park right next to the tower. It literally took 5 minutes of sitting there before my phone finally switched from saying 3G to 4G. So I ran a few speed tests and it was blazing fast (see screen cap below).
The route to get back to the interstate from the service road would take me back out of range of the tower and then back into range when I got back on the interstate. My phone switched back to 3G immediately upon getting out of range but once back on the interstate and back in range, again it never switched back into 4G. I pulled over on the shoulder almost directly across the interstate from the tower and sat there for 3-4 minutes before it finally switched to 4G.
I'm just wondering if this is typical of the Galaxy S3's or if I'm having an issue? I find it odd that my coworker's iPhone switches almost immediately.
I'm rooted and running PhantomHacker's Blazer Rom version 2.0. No other mods done to the phone. And yes, I ensured that I have the "Preferred Network Mode" in Mobile Network Settings set to LTE/CDMA.
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Also, here's a screencap of the area coverage for the new tower. The red dot in the darkest purple shaded area is where the Tower is located and the yellow dot across the interstate is where I parked on the shoulder after I left from the tower.
Not sure about that rom. But on stock I think the lte scan time is 5 minutes.
By comparison the evo lte was 30 and I think HTC finally tweaked that to 5 minutes as well with their most recent update.
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Just coincidence. The S3 on Sprint currently has a 30 minute LTE scan timer (unless custom ROMs override this.) So when you went into a 4G area, 4G LTE was scanned approx. 4 minutes after. If you want to force an LTE signal, you can always cycle airplane mode.
Thanks for contributing it to Sensorly.
EDIT: Well, I heard the S3 had a 30 minute scan timer, maybe Sprint's LJ7 update reduced it to 5 minutes.
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I currently cant connect to 4g at my house, sprint and clear show im in a good spot for 4g but I cant seem to connect. About 3 weeks ago when I got the phone I wasn't in a covered area but it appears they just added a new tower and now I am. I didn't try to connect again before I flashed a new ROM however. Ive also tried standing outside on my deck to no avail.
Specs are attached as well as my coverage map. If we can get this fixed I'll paypal you a beer.
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The coverage map for my city is completely wrong. Using Sensorly to map for a couple weeks showed what I have already observed, massive holes in the coverage here despite Sprint showing solid coverage.
That doesn't mean that's the case where you are at. Find someone else who gets 4g and try yours in the same area.
Agreed, I believe that most coverage maps are for the most part utter BS. Try going back to stock to rule out rom issues. Were you ever able to connect to 4g in a known 4g area?
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I currently cant connect to 4g at my house, sprint and clear show im in a good spot for 4g but I cant seem to connect. About 3 weeks ago when I got the phone I wasn't in a covered area but it appears they just added a new tower and now I am. I didn't try to connect again before I flashed a new ROM however. Ive also tried standing outside on my deck to no avail.
Specs are attached as well as my coverage map. If we can get this fixed I'll paypal you a beer.
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if you've installed the latest OTA and wimax and you have your phone rooted, this might be the problem.
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Agreed, I believe that most coverage maps are for the most part utter BS. Try going back to stock to rule out rom issues. Were you ever able to connect to 4g in a known 4g area?
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Yeah I had connected a few times before I flashed just not at my house. Im going to be going to a place where I had service today and ill check if I can connect then.
What's the fastest speedtest? I've seen 9 on YouTube, has anybody got any faster?
My Dl speeds have been quite slow, but for some crazy reason the other night I was DL at 600kb UL at 6mb
i know.
i didn't typo that. i was uploading 10 times faster than i was downloading, and i was uploading faster than my home internet connection will go.
I've hit 7.2 download a week ago. I normally average between 4.5-6.
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Are you talking on the cell network or any speedtest? I can get 12mbit download and 5mbit on wifi but cell network i get nothing until hsdpa+ comes to chicago
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I've gone up to 4.5 Mbps. Haven't done many speed tests.
Let me preface this with I work at a Radioshack.
When we first got the G2's in, before the phone actually launched, I tested one out just to see what kind of speeds it could get. My store is in a 5 bar HDPA+ area. The first test out of the box I got 8mpbs, and the second I got 10.5mbps, every one after that was ~10. After the phone launched and a few weeks went buy I got mine and iv been getting between 4-7mbps in the exact same spot.
So the phone is capable of it, but now that tmobiles network is getting more hammered by HSPA+ phones its slowing down I think.
The highest I received was 5.8 and that was in Las Vegas....
fastest i ever got was 4.85 mb/s after the ota. but it wasnt on hspa+ just hspa 7.2.. still just "3G"...
Taken in Plano, TX. Don't really like the fact that my wife's Vibrant will go to the server in Dallas and my old MyTouch always went to the one in Dallas, but my G2 will not find it for anything.
I've gotten around 7 or 8 as my highest in Western New York. Pretty decent speeds.
i can't figure this one out.
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I would like to post my Speedtest result but cannot figure out how to paste it in a message. I feel like an idiot, help?
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Are you talking on the cell network or any speedtest? I can get 12mbit download and 5mbit on wifi but cell network i get nothing until hsdpa+ comes to chicago
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I tested out in aurora once, said I was >5 miles from the server and I got a whoppin 8.6 mbit down. It was about the fastest I've ever tested but I average around 3-5mbit anywhere else.
Hi, I've been having issues with my 3G speeds since the 4.24 update.
I'm on the stock rooted rom ...
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I'm new to Sprint and just thought that 3G was that slow, but I cannot get speedtest to even complete 60% of the time.
Things to check if you haven't.
Update radios to latest versions (Can be found in development section)
Be sure you updated your PROFILE and/or PRL (though I dont think PRL will fix anything unless you are roaming).
How long has this been going on? Is it possible that Sprint is having network difficulties?
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Ur internet shouldn't be that slow,,,,, but what area do u live in ,,, please leave a zip and the reason is that sprint is changing networks up a putting I den,3g,4g in one cell site and it will give a range of signal from 800mhz to 4.3ghz from one sit and they have 80,000
Cell sites
yestrue do check the updates or do a ##72786#,,,,, enter msl,,,,tap menu,,,,,select reset
this is not a factory reset. It is a scrtn ( service code return to new) and it erases the programming and does the hands free
I'm on 680 PRL. and everything is up to date on the phone according to all the update buttons(firmware/prl/htc)
this is a brand new phone and I have tested it in 5 different locations around northwest Houston and it is always crawling. when I switch 4G on I'm good to go, but 3G takes forever to get google.com to load even on full bars.
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I'm on 680 PRL. and everything is up to date on the phone according to all the update buttons(firmware/prl/htc)
this is a brand new phone and I have tested it in 5 different locations around northwest Houston and it is always crawling. when I switch 4G on I'm good to go, but 3G takes forever to get google.com to load even on full bars.
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exactly as reddragon said, everything is the latest as far as rom, radios, prl, even the latest hboot, which i know has nothing to do with it, but as soon as everything is updated i try to keep up with it.
the 4g is awesome when i'm on the 11th floor in midtown manhattan full blast i get close to fiber optic speed when i tether... but maybe it's just the area i work in but it has severely diminished since i got the phone. ongoing i want to say it's been about 3 weeks now that my 3G has been this bad.
I will try that reset and see if it gets better and post the results. Thanks for the contributions!
Ok, so here's the update:
I did ##72786#
Entered MSL
Pressed Menu
Reset...
and it went to .10Mbps d/l and .02Mbps u/l
tried retesting my speed when I got home and got 0.03 d/l and 0.02 u/l with a 990ms ping.
When I had did the 3G boost hack before the update, things were fine, it wasn't all that great but it was at least the speed of dial up.
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exactly as reddragon said, everything is the latest as far as rom, radios, prl, even the latest hboot, which i know has nothing to do with it, but as soon as everything is updated i try to keep up with it.
the 4g is awesome when i'm on the 11th floor in midtown manhattan full blast i get close to fiber optic speed when i tether... but maybe it's just the area i work in but it has severely diminished since i got the phone. ongoing i want to sayhouston is it's been about 3 weeks now that my 3G has been this bad.
I will try that reset and see if it gets better and post the results. Thanks for the contributions!
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Houston is down due to the upgrade I spoke of in earlier quotes <<< direct information
Can't tell of source but it is true and so chi town and few other areas next is new York
Hi all, I am a G2x user and the random reboots are killing me but everything else about my tegra 2 just rocks. Especially the GPS.. which is one reason why I jumped from samsung vibrant onto something else.. and the lack of camera flash was pretty annoying.
Not that you Sprint people would know but anyways..
My roommate just got this phone and a few of my other friends have nothing but good things to say about it, and as soon as I put it in my hand i was reminded of how bad the GPS was on my vibrant... well I downloaded the app GPS Test from Chartcross and compared his GPS to mine and I was instantly let down. Normally I would be psyched to defeat another phone with mine but with the sgs2 variant coming to T-mobile I was going to upgrade as soon as possible.
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That is what I got with my G2X. His E4GT only locked on to 3-4 sattelites and was accurate to at most 150 feet. The phones were side by side so location shouldnt have anything to do with it.
T-mobile sucks in my area anyways, while others get 3G im still stuck with edge (dial up) network. Thinking about just abandoning the network all together. And was possibly gonna wait for the Prime but since that is most likely going to be samsung it will probably have a crap GPS radio as well.
How are you guys experiences with your GPS? How about signal strength?
Bueller, Anyone?
I grabbed GPS Test and GPS Status. GPS Test picked up 7/9 satellites and narrowed down to accuracy within 36' in about five seconds. GPS Status got 8/9 in four seconds, accuracy within 52'. This was sitting in my bedroom, on the ground floor of a house built into a hillside. Not the greatest GPS reception scenario.
Thanks man!
These were done inside my house where I have 3/6 bars ATM... I will post outside results in a bit:
With wifi on:
With wifi off:
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what if you were getting this??
This really helped my GPS...
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1239713
Before it only worked good after a reboot. Now its ready 99% of the time. The other 1% is fixed by doing TaskManager/Ram/Clear Memory....Without having to reboot. Just putting this out there for others that stumble upon this thread.
Sitting inside of my Apt.
sitting in my apt, tons of radio activity around 10 wifi hotspots and an air force base across the field, no clue what they do over there but the gps is screwy on my gfs evo shift and was never more the
n 20 on my og epic, which had amazing gps that was usually accurate to one meter
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In my apartment with tons of stuff running as well. Numbers aren't as good as EC05 on OG Epic but I used navigation 3 times this week 1 hour each direction and it was dead on accurate and even rerouted me because of a traffic accident saving me at least 15 minutes
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Let me preface this by saying this phone was damaged. I had to replace the digitizer.
I just started using this, and flashed Pacman's latest nightly on the phone before getting my SIM, so I can't confirm or deny whether or not this works on stock. That would open up another question entirely.
My phone is completely losing all connection to the AT&T network almost anywhere indoors, and in a lot of places outdoors. I do however get complete, fully functioning connectivity in some locations.
For example I picked up my SIM from the AT&T store today, had no connection inside the store. Went outside and immediately got LTE connectivity, placed a call. After driving across the street to eat the connection completely dropped again. It returned as I got close to my job's office, stayed at full strength and then dropped off again once I went inside the building.
It did not return at any point while I was inside the building. After leaving it regained its full strength and remained at full strength, including through a speedtest, until I came inside my apartment. It has not come back since, including when I went out into the parking lot, where it previously had a strong connection.
This makes no sense to me whatsoever.
Went back to stock, so disregard the earlier part of my post about not knowing the best way to do that. I'm on raw 4.1.1 now. Still have the same issue. This is the phone status page.
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Are you on the latest stock build? My Note is starting to do the same thing now on the latest stock build
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Are you on the latest stock build? My Note is starting to do the same thing now on the latest stock build
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No, I reverted all the way back to the original shipped build, 4.1.1.
I was using the latest baseband though when I had AOSP on there. Both did same thing.
A few observations since my first two posts. The signal strength does change of course.
Going near windows in my apartment makes the DBM go into the -90s and the asu go anywhere from 2 to 8. If the asu goes above 10 I get 3G and brief connectivity. Yet to see what the signal strength is on full LTE.
Anywhere in my apartment with no connectivity though is between -110 and -115 dbm, all with 0 asu.