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Incredibly slow 3g with full bars!!!

I just recently purchased an epic 4g touch on sprint with their unlimited plan and every where I go I usually get full bars but still can't go faster than 9kb/s once I hit around 30 but over been hearing people get around 200-300 anyone know what I can do to increase my speeds. Also note I don't have 4g in my area so that's not an option
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That is normal Sprint speed....
But seriously, try going to a Sprint store. Checking your phone side by side with their model Epic 4G Touch.

Thanks I might try that gotta revert to a stock rom tho. Also my parents had crappy Samsung intercepts and i saw about 100-150 KB/s so it might be my phone
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I think the signal bars prioritize 1x (aka 2G) for phone signal, rather than actual data speeds. I also heard signal strength isn't as big of a concern with CDMA as it is with GSM. (Meaning CDMA can reach farther, I think.)

Well is there anything I can do cause phone calls and texting work great its the data connection that slows down it took 2 solid days downloading to get grand theft auto 3 lol I really want this to work better for tethering I don't have wifi
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Tapatos said:
Well is there anything I can do cause phone calls and texting work great its the data connection that slows down it took 2 solid days downloading to get grand theft auto 3 lol I really want this to work better for tethering I don't have wifi
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Has Sprint's signal always been...lacking there? Or has it suddenly gotten that bad? My guess if it you used to have good speeds, then there must be an outage somewhere. You can try all of the 3G and 4G modifications to see if they work better. Also flashing each modem 1 by 1 and testing each one can help some. But overall, you wont see much of an improvement because signal usually has to do with Sprint's end.

Haven't tried flashing each modem but ive done modifications to my 3g settings ive even tried going into data programming and changing the port it connects to. Sprints coverage might have degraded out here it wasn't too great to begin with I get stuck in roaming alot lately
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Yep that's sprint for ya. They will tell you its because they have so many customers and all of them are abusing the network.
So I wonder how att and Verizon manage to have better speeds.
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I just remembered. Sprint offers airaves to people with bad signal at home. An airave hooks up to your riuter or modem and broadcasts sprint signal within a few hundred feet. I'd suggest asking Sprint for one. I also heard you can use them as an upgrade line when you want a new phone. Lol
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I can tell you why your getting terrible speeds... Its the people who tether their phones to play call of duty and for their daily internet connection on the computer.
Nothing we can do about it until sprint terminates some contracts early for violating the terms of service and refusal to comply.
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You can check the following thread, see if tweaking your system settings can help you out :
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=22782739#post22782739
You can just download the file to SD Card and flash it in CWM ... very easy.

Mattix724 said:
I can tell you why your getting terrible speeds... Its the people who tether their phones to play call of duty and for their daily internet connection on the computer.
Nothing we can do about it until sprint terminates some contracts early for violating the terms of service and refusal to comply.
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Yeah sure buddy, tell me what year sprint had great speeds because I been with sprint for 11 years and they were always crap. Stop believing the hype
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Lol seems like everyone's having a bad time with them ill try asking for one of those airave things but will they charge me out the ass for it?
EDIT: Just tried that flashable cwm file and it helped a little combined with a proxy tweak I'm getting around 20-50kb now
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This is a big part to it
Mattix724 said:
I can tell you why your getting terrible speeds... Its the people who tether their phones to play call of duty and for their daily internet connection on the computer.
Nothing we can do about it until sprint terminates some contracts early for violating the terms of service and refusal to comply.
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Well I don't see how they can play call of duty with 3g lmao but I do see the point about using it as a permanent internet connection I guess I have to wait for sprint to get 4g out here but that probly wont be for a while
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Thanks for noting Sprint!

I'm at the Austin, TX ACL music festival, and and Sprint is worthless! Sure I have signal.... But I can't text, and can't make calls, and the internet does NOT work on 3g or 4g LTE. My friends have a mix of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile... They have no problems with anything... Except for the AT&T... They have intermittent problems....
When you walk around and look around, everyone BUT Sprint brought in temporary towers to provide service for the festival. Sprint has a nearby tower that gives me 3-5 bars, and but it's FAR overloaded. There are 75k people here today, give or take...
All I'm saying Sprint, is would it kill you to bring in a temporary tower or 2 for the 3 day music festival of 100k people or so...?
Ok...... Sorry for my rant..... I'm getting fed up with nothing working...
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Do they have a first aid station? Sounds like you need to find the waaaaaahmbulance.
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Lol! Ya, they do.... Maybe they have some kotex
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Orrr change carriers. Reading all these "Boo Sprint" threads are getting old. If you don't like it, move on!
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I'm at the Austin, TX ACL music festival, and and Sprint is worthless! Sure I have signal.... But I can't text, and can't make calls, and the internet does NOT work on 3g or 4g LTE. My friends have a mix of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile... They have no problems with anything... Except for the AT&T... They have intermittent problems....
When you walk around and look around, everyone BUT Sprint brought in temporary towers to provide service for the festival. Sprint has a nearby tower that gives me 3-5 bars, and but it's FAR overloaded. There are 75k people here today, give or take...
All I'm saying Sprint, is would it kill you to bring in a temporary tower or 2 for the 3 day music festival of 100k people or so...?
Ok...... Sorry for my rant..... I'm getting fed up with nothing working...
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At the big golf tournaments here in Florida or at any Football stadium, the towers are always oversaturated. In some markets, AT&T provide Sprint's backhaul so it's possible those were related.

I have nothing against sprint. I love them and have had them ever since the early 90's. I just think they could have been a bit more proactive..... Like there competitors were...
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Wait... so you are on XDA and on the SG3 with Sprint and you didn't think to change your PRL to a Verizon PRL to get signal and 3G? You deserve to have the issues you have cause you had every opportunity to address the problem before hand and during the festival.
This is a big FAIL!!!

phqchevys said:
I'm at the Austin, TX ACL music festival, and and Sprint is worthless! Sure I have signal.... But I can't text, and can't make calls, and the internet does NOT work on 3g or 4g LTE. My friends have a mix of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile... They have no problems with anything... Except for the AT&T... They have intermittent problems....
When you walk around and look around, everyone BUT Sprint brought in temporary towers to provide service for the festival. Sprint has a nearby tower that gives me 3-5 bars, and but it's FAR overloaded. There are 75k people here today, give or take...
All I'm saying Sprint, is would it kill you to bring in a temporary tower or 2 for the 3 day music festival of 100k people or so...?
Ok...... Sorry for my rant..... I'm getting fed up with nothing working...
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Its ok. Sprint defence force is out and about today. Sprint sucks..I have to flash a roaming prl for decent speeds. Def waiting for that letter.
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I just wanted to make a funny joke, not being insulting. I will note that at a recent major sporting event in an LTE market I was getting 1mbps down on my GS2 on 3g (unfortunately was there a week before I got my GS3). Others in my group on other carriers were getting the typical sporting event zilch. I am hoping this is a sign of things to come.
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Sounds like its your device. You wrote "My friends have a mix of Sprint, Verizon, AT&T, and T-Mobile... They have no problems with anything... Except for the AT&T... They have intermittent problems"
So your friends with Sprint didnt have problem. But yet you did.. So seems to be your device and not Sprint.
Unless you meant to say your friends with Sprint ALSO had problems.. in which case the network operated normally. It was a festival with over loading. It happens.

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Wait... so you are on XDA and on the SG3 with Sprint and you didn't think to change your PRL to a Verizon PRL to get signal and 3G? You deserve to have the issues you have cause you had every opportunity to address the problem before hand and during the festival.
This is a big FAIL!!!
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Lmao
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Data issues.

If you are on tmibile with the note 2 and having data issues. You are not alone. It's tmobile side. I would advice people to call and let them know. My data has been max 300kbps inside my home and now since yesterday at work the same. I have to step outside to get full speed never happened before. And I dont think its because of root.
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Its allngood here full speed
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Does your 4G even work? Mine is stuck on Edge since yesterday. I live on the 4th floor of my house (roof-ish) so really shouldn't have problems up here. In fact, I never did, until literally yesterday morning.

I live on the 3rd floor apartment with nothing behind my building and the tower is visible from my patio. Yes my says 4g all day long.
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I had similar issues when T-Mobile was refarming their towers in my area to add 3.5g via 1900 mhz, especially midnight to morning. Not sure if that's your issue, though.
Signal would get weak, speed slow, sometimes only edge. Lasted about a week or so.

same here
Galaxy s2 and wife's amaze still running perfect 4g speeds. This Note 2 gets stuck in EDGE all the time. Can't even use it. anyone have any luck flashing another rom and getting up to 4g speeds?

oopewan said:
Galaxy s2 and wife's amaze still running perfect 4g speeds. This Note 2 gets stuck in EDGE all the time. Can't even use it. anyone have any luck flashing another rom and getting up to 4g speeds?
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Same over here. Already called tmobile they didn't do anything at all.
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My data is light years better than it was on sprint.
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I have pretty good 4G service on my Note 2 right now. Sometimes it'll get a little slow but more times than not, it's very fast.

The high speed are just two steps outside on my patio and the low ones are on my couch and the tower is 5 miles away.
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Alright guys my data speeds seem to be fixed. If you have issues call tech support.
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I'm not sure whether it's because of root or not, but it has to be the phone. My girlfriend has a different phone than mine and hers was working perfectly inside and outside, whereas mine would not want to load anything, it would drop to edge and then to no signal at all. After getting a replacement phone, it's working fine.
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Alright guys my data speeds seem to be fixed. If you have issues call tech support.
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What did they have you do?

iamtimmah said:
I'm not sure whether it's because of root or not, but it has to be the phone. My girlfriend has a different phone than mine and hers was working perfectly inside and outside, whereas mine would not want to load anything, it would drop to edge and then to no signal at all. After getting a replacement phone, it's working fine.
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What did they have you do?
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Just called 611 asked for tech support on the automated system. When you get the tech you will have to do a new apn but not to worry if you tether it wont affect it. They will do a number of other trouble shoot things. Just tell them its been happening to you for a couple weeks. If they say call us back tell them no. Ask to open up a service ticket. All is well in my home now. Let me know if this helps. And you can also call customer care first and tell them that im not happy with my data speed connection and see if they give you credit like they did to me. Be nice of course. Good luck
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oopewan said:
Galaxy s2 and wife's amaze still running perfect 4g speeds. This Note 2 gets stuck in EDGE all the time. Can't even use it. anyone have any luck flashing another rom and getting up to 4g speeds?
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Funny you should ask, I totally recommend the following ROM: Build number Jedi Master 5 (Rocks)

I think im getting a replacement also. How long did your guys take to ship?
Edit :Gave Samsung a call and they said its the device itself so their replacing it free. To anyone with this problem call Samsung you have a 1 year warranty I thought it was going to cost me money
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Jaimesco12 said:
I think im getting a replacement also. How long did your guys take to ship?
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I ordered mine on a Saturday and received it Monday night. That was pretty quick in my opinion. Especially because I'm so impatient.
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If t-mobile hasnt refarmed my area, wouldnt that mean I am in a 3G area? Isnt utms:3 technically 3G? Thats what I show in settings, getting 12mb max downloads.
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No issues over here. I can tell you, I don't need 42mbps, and I'm 100% satisfied with my speeds after Sprint's garbage. Getting 7.72mbps now, and I've had them for 20 days and already used 10gb. When
I forced my device to run 3g and Edge, it was frightening, similar to what I would get with Sprint, but I've never had issues with 4G or staying on 4G in my area.
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You guys aren't alone, but I think this is a tower issue not a phone issue. Possibly a new modem might fix this.
Why do I say that?
Well at home, by San Francisco, I get 15-23 Mbps download speeds, and now I'm in Las Vegas for business, and am only getting 100-500 Kbps.
I called and let them know of the issue, and they were going to do a field ticket where they actually take out the phone and test it on that tower to see what is going on.
I think anyone else having this issue should do the same. My guess is it has something to do with the refarming of the 1900 Mhz band.

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You guys aren't alone, but I think this is a tower issue not a phone issue. Possibly a new modem might fix this.
Why do I say that?
Well at home, by San Francisco, I get 15-23 Mbps download speeds, and now I'm in Las Vegas for business, and am only getting 100-500 Kbps.
I called and let them know of the issue, and they were going to do a field ticket where they actually take out the phone and test it on that tower to see what is going on.
I think anyone else having this issue should do the same. My guess is it has something to do with the refarming of the 1900 Mhz band.
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Agreed. Like I said earlier just call them. They will take care of the issue. Takes a little bit but they get it done. And when speaking to tech support be detailed of where the issues are. Street names and such.
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3g able to connect to internet while on phone (los Angeles)

Anyone else notice they could be on a phone call and browse the web?
Just noticed this today...
Is this part of nv?
And yes... I verified it wasn't 4g.
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dual antennas , this was mentioned somwher else too forgot what thread

Dual 3g antenna?
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No, voice is 1x, data is 3g. Dual antennas. 1 for the voice channel, 1 for the data channel.

Every new sprint android phone pretty much does that, nv or not...
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Yeah its awesome. Now ATT can't say they are the only company that can do that!
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Noticed this the second day I had the phone. Its called SVDO
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Not exactly. . The note 2 doesnt do it..
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i've been waiting for this since evdo rev a or whatever was supposed to enable this but never did... finally! i feel like i'm on att or something

You just noticed what has been present on Sprint's GS3 since it launched. :victory: Keep in mind though that it's a network AND hardware feature. As of now, the only Sprint phones that support this feature are the GS3 and HTC Evo LTE (Sprint's HTC One X variant).
Even though I've been in a position to use this feature sparingly (but often enough that i was glad it was there), it's made me hesitant to leave my GS3 for a Note 2.

LordLugard said:
You just noticed what has been present on Sprint's GS3 since it launched. :victory: Keep in mind though that it's a network AND hardware feature. As of now, the only Sprint phones that support this feature are the GS3 and HTC Evo LTE (Sprint's HTC One X variant).
Even though I've been in a position to use this feature sparingly (but often enough that i was glad it was there), it's made me hesitant to leave my GS3 for a Note 2.
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I just got my phone a week ago... so ya, just noticed

I noticed the ATT commercial said they were the only network where you could browse and talk on your iphone 5 at the same time. I'm surprised the note 2 doesn't have the dual antennas. I wonder why they didn't continue it.

The dual antenna was an origanal requierment of 3g and 4g. Shouldve been stock for years now.... nice they kicked in though
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LoL I just noticed it today while browsing the internet and then all of a sudden I get a phone call and bam what... this is awesome and surprising... this phone is pretty cool.
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question about 3g speed and 4g connectivity

Hello,
I have been around for a while, since my htc hero. And I've trusted xda to fix the many issues that manufacturers leave in. However the are a few issues with my new Galaxy S III that are driving me mad and if I can't fix them I may have to return it.
So far my speed is terrible. My 3g speed is half that of my wife's Epic touch. My 4g speeds are fine but will randomly switch to 3g (and with lte there is no refresh button like wimax, so I have to use airplane mode). And 4g is slower than 3g when I try to download from the play store but fine in the browser.
If anyone can help that would be great. I can't search all that well from the app and I am on stock tw 4.1 just rooted. I already fix all of the prl updates and stuff.
Also sometimes a green checkmark appears in my notification bar and says preparing network.
Other than this annoying network issue I really like this phone. I would hate to have to return it for the lg optimus G
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I had that same problem....I was averaging .8-1.3mbps. Its not the phone its the location your in. Finally sprint turned on lte tower 14 in roanoke tx. Data faster than home internet.
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That's what I would think. But my wife's phone was working fine. I just returned it today. now Sprint still wants to charge me an activation fee. Sigh
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Censura_Umbra said:
That's what I would think. But my wife's phone was working fine. I just returned it today. now Sprint still wants to charge me an activation fee. Sigh
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Your wife's phone us on wimax yours is on lte. What you explained sounds like lte towers are being worked on and upgraded near you. Lack of signal going into and out I went through that for about 4 weeks then lte lite up perfectly after that.
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Yes I know that. I was comparing their 3g service
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