I signed up with tmobile about two weeks ago and have had no complaints until now. All of a sudden I am having trouble keeping a constant data connection at my place of business. Idk if its my phone or a problem with the local tower but the signal is all over the place while browsing the web. It looks like a strong signal until I go to use data then it drops to nothing. Last week this wasn't a problem at all.
Any tweeks or hardware I can buy to help remedy this?
My phone is completely stock and I am on the 30/month pre paid plan if that makes a difference.
Are there any better radios out that can be installed maybe?
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Is WIFI available at your place of business? If you are completely stock I'm assuming you are on GB. If that is the case use the WIFI calling feature offered by T-Mobile. If WIfI is not availiable you can try flashing the Blaze modem it improved my data speeds.
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Unfortunately WiFi is not available. I will look onto flashing the blaze modem. Thanks!
If ICS is indeed right around the corner will it come with different modems?
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busab said:
Unfortunately WiFi is not available. I will look onto flashing the blaze modem. Thanks!
If ICS is indeed right around the corner will it come with different modems?
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Well hopefully it is right around the corner and we can have the current crop of ICS roms rebased off the T-Mobile S2 stock build and not from our distant cousin AT&T SkyRocket's build. But to be honest I’m not sure if it will or will not but I’m assuming it will as the current set of radios needed to be tweaked to work on current ICS roms. Any who if you want Mr. X has a list of some radios that he has tried and reported working he listed radios for both GB & ICS which I will post a link to his thread below. Try them out and you might just find one that works for you.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426001
I called tmobile about what was going on. They said they were going to try to reset my data connection and that I should reboot my phone and of its not fixed in a couple hours then to call them back.
I did this and all is well again! I'm back to a good signal and have not had any data issues in the past couple hours!
Thanks for all your help though it was greatly appreciated!
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Glad to hear T-Mobile was able to help fix your issue
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I just spent the last 45 minutes on the phone with our lovely service provider. I spoke to initial CSR, her "supervisor" and then another tech. They all said the same thing, they are well aware of the connection and battery issues regarding the phone since the ICS update. There is "nothing else to do until/unless Samsung releases a patch". They offered to send me out another Epic, which I declined by asking if the issues are known why would they send me the same problems. No answer. I say anyone else who has time should call and write in. If we push hard enough we may ever get a patch sooner or different phones. Just a thought.
Going to Boost as soon as my contract is up... Good luck with your fight! I've already contacted them and raised hell about the same issues. Doesn't make a difference. They say there is no way to fix it, blah, blah... Sprint will never survive as a company like this....
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basketthis said:
Going to Boost as soon as my contract is up... Good luck with your fight! I've already contacted them and raised hell about the same issues. Doesn't make a difference. They say there is no way to fix it, blah, blah... Sprint will never survive as a company like this....
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You're jumping to Boost? That'll show Sprint :silly:
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You're jumping to Boost? That'll show Sprint :silly:
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Thanks for confirming this for me. I've had some serious trouble with data speeds on FF18/OTA. I've reverted back to EL29 for now.
You do know boost is owned by sprint and uses their service.
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If your ROM sucks, why not flash one of the many great custom ones?
You guys do know that the data speed has always been bad right. Right OK maybe you are just getting a taste of some network vision action and should continue being patient. Complaining to sprint is just a waste of your time IMO they already know.
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If the update has any effect on data speeds its because Sprint is pushing it out OTA over their already super slow network. For months everybody complained about not having the ics update now everybody is coming out of the woodwork complaining about it and blaming it for everything. Oh no I stepped in gum today, this never happened on GB ... ICS sucks.
This is xda where you come to customize your phone so download a custom rom already and try different modems. Sprint forums are the place for complaints.
daniel4653 said:
You do know boost is owned by sprint and uses their service.
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he he
riggs170 said:
You guys do know that the data speed has always been bad right. Right OK maybe you are just getting a taste of some network vision action and should continue being patient. Complaining to sprint is just a waste of your time IMO they already know.
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Speak for yourself, this is on gb I don't get these on no custom ics roms
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If the update has any effect on data speeds its because Sprint is pushing it out OTA over their already super slow network. For months everybody complained about not having the ics update now everybody is coming out of the woodwork complaining about it and blaming it for everything. Oh no I stepped in gum today, this never happened on GB ... ICS sucks.
This is xda where you come to customize your phone so download a custom rom already and try different modems. Sprint forums are the place for complaints.
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You don't know what you're talking about....
All from one location. I run a speedtest using stock EL29 and get 12+mbps down/2+ mbps up on 4g. Flash the FF18 OTA which was pushed to me from Sprint and then run a speed test. On FF18 I receive .5mbps down and 1.5mbps up.
I've done EVERYTHING I can think of to isolate the problem and it is most definitely an ICS issue. I've flashed multiple modem while using the FF18 ROM, including the EL29 modem but still receive awful speeds. I've tried updating PRL and profile, I've tried changing the Wimax settings to connect to a weaker signal, but nothing changes the speeds that FF18 allows. I flash a stock EL29 rom back and immediately get normal 4g speeds again.
Now, what was that about it not being an ICS problem?
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You don't know what you're talking about....
All from one location. I run a speedtest using stock EL29 and get 12+mbps down/2+ mbps up on 4g. Flash the FF18 OTA which was pushed to me from Sprint and then run a speed test. On FF18 I receive .5mbps down and 1.5mbps up.
I've done EVERYTHING I can think of to isolate the problem and it is most definitely an ICS issue. I've flashed multiple modem while using the FF18 ROM, including the EL29 modem but still receive awful speeds. I've tried updating PRL and profile, I've tried changing the Wimax settings to connect to a weaker signal, but nothing changes the speeds that FF18 allows. I flash a stock EL29 rom back and immediately get normal 4g speeds again.
Now, what was that about it not being an ICS problem?
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Just my opinion but I started noticing bad data speeds after sprint released the updated PRL maybe you could try going back to the previous PRL
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When did this place turn into sprintusers forums? You guys know sprintusers exists right? Because xda is mostly for customs roms, so what does/doesn't work in the ota shouldn't really be a big deal here...
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yellowman82 said:
Speak for yourself, this is on gb I don't get these on no custom ics roms
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So you're saying that you do get those speeds on custom ics roms then?
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So you're saying that you do get those speeds on custom ics roms then?
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No I only get them on custom gb roms as for ics my speed decreases big time even if I try different modems ics speed just sucks.
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You're jumping to Boost? That'll show Sprint :silly:
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Boost ? Good luck getting a signal while your taking a dump- never mind getting 4g or 3g. I had metro Pee See ess...crap and as soon as I entered any store- no signal.
You either get robbed every month by Verizon, Hijacked by AT&T or pickpocketed by Sprint.. pick your poison.
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Boost ? Good luck getting a signal while your taking a dump- never mind getting 4g or 3g. I had metro Pee See ess...crap and as soon as I entered any store- no signal.
You either get robbed every month by Verizon, Hijacked by AT&T or pickpocketed by Sprint.. pick your poison.
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Tbagged by Tmobile
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Boost ? Good luck getting a signal while your taking a dump- never mind getting 4g or 3g. I had metro Pee See ess...crap and as soon as I entered any store- no signal.
You either get robbed every month by Verizon, Hijacked by AT&T or pickpocketed by Sprint.. pick your poison.
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AT&T!?!?!
See my sig...
Ics ota is trash back to gb
Boost is sprint so good idea
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Everybody keep saying it's a dumb move going from sprint to boost but actually my friends boost Android phone kills my E4GT in 3g speeds. I still don't understand it aren't we using the same towers?? Smh
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I just moved and I'm kinda pissed. At my old house I was getting over 14 mps down, now I'm getting around 8mps yea its still good but in some parts of the new house I don't get any service
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try all radios.
We eagerly wait on your report on your findings.
Nobody can tell you what radio to use unless they live in your house. We all get different coverage with different radios. Some people love the blaze 4g radio, others use stock ics uvle1, and others have had success with the galaxy note radio. Play with them all and see which works best for you
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Thank you very much. Now, should I remove a radio in order to flash another one or just flash the new one?
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Thank you very much. Now, should I remove a radio in order to flash another one or just flash the new one?
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Flashing the new one will overwrite the old one. And I would recommend the radio from the galaxy note by T-Mobile. I never had service in my basement with any other radio, I get two bars of edge now.
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DiploDroid said:
I just moved and I'm kinda pissed. At my old house I was getting over 14 mps down, now I'm getting around 8mps yea its still good but in some parts of the new house I don't get any service
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ptmr3 just posted a new radio this morning and it works great here in Northern California.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1851688
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I just moved and I'm kinda pissed.
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You can enable wifi-calling on pretty much any plan from what I understand. I have it enabled and use it on a Monthly 4G plan with the same phone.
Try the different radios for each firmware update. Such as 4.0.1 ROMs need 4.0.4 Radios!
Having really tough time with my SGIII. After rooting stock ROM and even after update to the latest JB leak from Sprint together with radio updates I am still getting really atrocious 3G speeds.
I am usually getting 50K both ways at best in Boston of all places. Any tips how I should troubleshoot?
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Having really tough time with my SGIII. After rooting stock ROM and even after update to the latest JB leak from Sprint together with radio updates I am still getting really atrocious 3G speeds.
I am usually getting 50K both ways at best in Boston of all places. Any tips how I should troubleshoot?
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Welcome to sprint
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Frustratez said:
Welcome to sprint
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Well... that would be easiest thing to say, except that I am getting 600K both ways on my other HTC Sprint phone.
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Well... that would be easiest thing to say, except that I am getting 600K both ways on my other HTC Sprint phone.
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Is your s3 set to cdma only or lte/cdma
I have not tested it on the s3 but I caught a bug on the evo lte where it was connecting to the new enhanced 3g (not actIve yet)
On the evo it would only connect properly if on cdma only.
You may need the app "network" to further mess with it
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.mangelow.network
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Just curious if it is possible to swap to the '00002' verizon prl that has been floating around. I have flashed that on a few of my evos and it worked, just curious if it will play nice with galaxy devices as well since I am new to them.
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Just curious if it is possible to swap to the '00002' verizon prl that has been floating around. I have flashed that on a few of my evos and it worked, just curious if it will play nice with galaxy devices as well since I am new to them.
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Yes it will im running it on my galaxy s3 pretty good speed differences
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I guy that had my old phone used a prl like that and sprint terminated his contract. Said he was roaming to much. At least thats what he told us on here on xda
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I guy that had my old phone used a prl like that and sprint terminated his contract. Said he was roaming to much. At least thats what he told us on here on xda
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They definitely can, I have heard of it. I just get terrible reception in certain areas and I know verizon coverage is slightly better so in these areas I would like the speed boost
Also that bootleg prl does not have the records to enable lte and 800smr. Plus the author screwed it up and set all the international stuff as non roaming too. You could rack up a bill and never know it.
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