My story begins when i got my new shiny D710 over a year ago. I loved the stock ROM that it came with (i wish i knew what version it was). Battery life was great! Signal was good inside my basement apt. i mean, i had 2 to 3+ voice bars and call quality was good in NYC.
updates kept coming through and then came the dreaded ICS update nightmare. every call was a dropped call or just no signal at all (stop sign). i gave the updates another month or two to see if anything got better, and it did not. i made a bold decision to wipe my entire phone completely and go back to GB EL29 stock, which came rooted. I was lucky enough to move into another decent apt. on an upper floor but STILL had really bad voice signal strength on EL29, 1 bar or no signal at all. it takes about 10 minutes for roaming to kick in, then it disappears after my call is completed. is it my phone or my ROM? Can anyone suggest a ROM that enhances the voice signal? it doesnt have to be GB, but i do enjoy it's battery life without having to install/tweak crazy battery saver apps. 4G data gets a full strength signal so i dont know what i am doing wrong.
My emergency flip phone from virgin mobile prepaid has full bars compared to this thing! both are CMDA!
I myself live in NYC and for me I was using Stock Rooted FL16. That gave me pretty decent battery life as well as pretty good signal. But battery life is different for everybody and every device. Hope that helps.. :thumbup:
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Try different modems. There is a sticky in the development section.
funny how i am getting full bars inside my apt. while voice roaming. is sprint limiting my call capabilities on purpose? roaming on another carrier is a no brainer. it doesnt seem like the phone is the issue. i might just give FL16 a shot. is there no way to keep voice roaming ON all the time?
There's an app called "Roam Control" by MrGreg for rooted phones where you can force roam. "Not roam control" is in Google Play Store, you can get Roam Control at the developer's website
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Try changing your prl. If concerned about battery life try a diff GB modem.
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someguyatx said:
Try different modems. There is a sticky in the development section.
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I absolutely agree with this. It sounds like your problem started when you received an OTA update that changed your modem.
If you flashed a rom zip file, it did not change the modem. The modem must be flashed separately. Try flashing a GB modem.
If you want to use a GB rom, I suggest Caukulin's v3.0. Everything works perfect and the battery life is the best I have ever had on this phone.
I was never able to get a good signal at home. I can go about 1/4 mile in any direction and get a good signal. I got tired of dropping nearly every call so I solved the problem by using a custom prl that uses Verizon's towers. Haven't had a dropped call since.
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I absolutely agree with this. It sounds like your problem started when you received an OTA update that changed your modem.
If you flashed a rom zip file, it did not change the modem. The modem must be flashed separately. Try flashing a GB modem.
If you want to use a GB rom, I suggest Caukulin's v3.0. Everything works perfect and the battery life is the best I have ever had on this phone.
I was never able to get a good signal at home. I can go about 1/4 mile in any direction and get a good signal. I got tired of dropping nearly every call so I solved the problem by using a custom prl that uses Verizon's towers. Haven't had a dropped call since.
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Thank you so much! I didnt realize that the modem would have not changed! You are awesome!!! If I use a custom prl, would that mean that my data is also roaming or just the voice?
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I know every epic is different. I know your modem deals with 3g speeds and 4g. I know we have different towers. I know this. But what i want to know is some of your opinions about your personal experiences with the new modem. How is going for you? Was it worth the "upgrade" from ei22? Experiencing any bugs? Performance?...I would have to go thru a lot to flash it so b4i go thru it all, i would just like to know what you guys think. Thanks!
On an Airave 2 I get about half the data speeds as I did on EI22 and EC05. YMMV
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On an Airave 2 I get about half the data speeds as I did on EI22 and EC05. YMMV
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Airave really that neccesary?... I'm getting 1-2 bars in mah house and with 2/4 I get 1.6mbs on 3g?.... also how'd you get one pay for it?
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Biggoron said:
Airave really that neccesary?... I'm getting 1-2 bars in mah house and with 2/4 I get 1.6mbs on 3g?.... also how'd you get one pay for it?
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Got a dead spot in my house where there was multiple murders...lol. They gave it to me for free as long as your credit is good enough for an additional line. There is like $2 additional taxes a month on the bill from it.
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I was not able to connect to 4g at all after flashin to EL30. Anyone else experience this?
I have wifi jumping on and off w el30 update. Not super happy. Never did it on anything other than el30. Yuck. I used Odin. Anyone else getting same thing?
Edit: after flashing different el30 rom's last night and having wifi issues w all of them I chose to Odin el30 today and much to my surprise...wifi problems. I reset my router and everything is fine. Very odd as no other Tom caused this issue and other phones and devices connected fine. Crisis averted haha
I had that with signal and 4G, my wifi was fine.
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WHAT???
Since I've made the jump to EL30, my 3g speed has been as good as 4g speeds(had I had it in my area), GPS is pretty good(alot better with GPS fix), With GPS Status, I got 10/11 locked Sats inside my house. 6/7 before installing that. battery life...considering i'm using the 1800mah from the touch, is great. Haven't tried with the 1500mah cause it's almost 2yrs old.
On another note, there was a issue that I'd like to point out. I checked my Market apps and found 2 weirdly named apps that's been renamed as 2 of the systems' apps...Video player and system updates. Which had a review of 1.5 because they were consider as spyware by 100% of reviewers. I had to use TB to first freeze, then uninstall them both to get them removed from my Market apps list. No other way would even work.
Other than that, Stock, Rooted, Doedexed EL30 Rom is great for me. As they say, YMMV.
I get higher TWS percentage with EL30 than with EI22 modem. I'm averaging between 5-15% TWS on EL30, whereas on EI22 I would average 1-5%.
There are many times when I wake the phone up and i'm at 0 bars, then it takes a good 20-45seconds to get between 1 and full bars. (Depending on my location at the time.)
Hmm...interesting..i just posted about this in another thread. i bricked my phone...brought it back..im rooted...and actually still on stock el30..the battery life is actually good...the signal is better..and im enjoying it actually...for the time being..thanks for everyones input...gotta love our community!!
So I constantly stay up to date with all the ics modems. My only question is are they really that different? It seems to me no matter which one I have speeds are the same, cell connection is the same does it really matter if I just use one and let it go at that?
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if you see no difference, than why do you keep flashing them?
If you don't see a difference go back or stay doesn't matter. For some the modems are night and day. I stay at fc15 because it works the best so far in my area. The later ones were giving me scratchy calls.
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For me, the signal for data up/down improved sometimes, but not consistently enough to say.
But most definitely, without doubt, the GPS was a night and day improvement, after FC18.
Yea I must admit I am not the jump on it because its new type of guy. I mean I was on UnNamed Rom which is EL13 until I flashed Gummy rom, so to me its a what works well for you type of thing. That being said I have only tried 3 of the ICS modems and must admit FC22 got a GPS lock right away. To date its the fastest in that respects so I will stick with it.
I change them in hopes that one will be awesome and my internet goes faster. I don't have 4g in my area. And to everyone else thanks for the input.
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My signal strength is jumping around like crazy...from -106dBm then back up to -64dBm...and everything in between, in a matter of seconds. This has been happening since FD24.
I have been using Sfhub's stock rooted nodata roms. I tried the FD02 kernel repack with rougue recovery on FD26 rom & modem, and it seemed to jump around alot less.
Could the kernels be the issue? Or the modem? or the Rom itself?
Update for FF02:
FF02 seems to be better for now...will do some tests later. I had it jump around only once yesterday.
Try throwing your phone at the wall, fixed mine
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My signal strength is jumping around like crazy...from -106dBm then back up to -64dBm...and everything in between, in a matter of seconds. This has been happening since FD24.
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If it is jumping fro -106 to -64 and back, it is probably scanning because it lost signal. When you first boot your phone, often it exhibits the same scanning behavior.
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If it is jumping fro -106 to -64 and back, it is probably scanning because it lost signal. When you first boot your phone, often it exhibits the same scanning behavior.
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That's what I figured...and that fact is absolutely murdering my battery life.
You think a data reset will help?
I wouldn't say there is a great chance, but the possibility exists.
The "cleanest" install possible is the following:
1) install Full ODIN OneClick
2) remove external sdcard, if any
3) from android, format internal sdcard
4) from android, perform ##786# reset (providing your MSL, which can be retrieved via "getprop ril.MSL" from terminal or adb shell)
If you format your sdcard, make sure you move your backups to your PC or other external storage.
What does the ##786# reset do exactly?
Rinzler said:
What does the ##786# reset do exactly?
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It resets NVRAM as well as your Android user data.
You dial ##786# in the dialer on a stock rom.
It will reset stuff like your phone #, your data login, and other values stored in nvram.
It will cause your phone to perform hands free activation at the next boot, which will populate that information again as well as update profile and prl.
Hands free activation only works on Sprint's native network so don't do it in a place where you can't reliably get signal.
Anybody else having this problem?
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Anybody else having this problem?
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happened to me right after i flashed fe07 modem. i moved back to fd26 to see if its the towers or modem. all seems fine, but i will be keeping an eye over the next day.
FE07 had absolutely abysmal 3G data speeds. It took so long to download the Facebook app update that I immediately flashed an older modem to check against it - FC24 runs like a CHAMP.
I tested fe07 for a day or so. I didn't notice much other than it would drop to 1x often. I ran a speed test 3/4g between fd26 and fe07. Fd26 clearly performed better for me. I went back.
Still rockin EL29 here. All the new modems sofar for me have sukt dik. And YES I let them settle in B4 pulling any test. SOOOO I dont want to hear the BS here, like whatwent on with my other post in a similar topic. Yeah got me sum points taken away..lol..
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Still rockin EL29 here. All the new modems sofar for me have sukt dik. And YES I let them settle in B4 pulling any test. SOOOO I dont want to hear the BS here, like whatwent on with my other post in a similar topic. Yeah got me sum points taken away..lol..
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Updating profile is what's important. there's no settling in. Im using ek02. It's the most stable (IMO)
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revamper said:
Updating profile is what's important. there's no settling in. Im using ek02. It's the most stable.
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Try ta tell that to some of the fools in here. Then bam a mod from a completely diff forum or wherever he is from hands me a infraction. Oh well. It is fun to flame. Fuk um.
Lol
I don't discuss modems because for every release 1/3 think it is better, 1/3 think it is worse, and 1/3 think it is the same.
No matter what you say, some people are in violent disagreement.
Just pick what works for you.
Fe07 is the best ever in history until the next best release!
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I got the "you roamed too much call" yesterday. I don't force roam ever because I'm in FL and force roam doesn't work here with sammy phones.
I was running several of the recent modems last month and used 5GB of data roaming. Almost 100% of my data. Was the first and only month this has ever happened....in 8-9 years. I reverted back to older modem and roaming stopped. This was on top of the fact that I keep wifi on at all tines at home because my house is a dead spot. I also have an air rave (whatever its called).
I only listen to music, email and surf web. Quite surprised by the call.
I explained to rep that I only go to work and home. That for whatever reason home and work are dead zones. Of course he checks and tells me coverage is great in my city. Then he says sprint can boot me, or I can ask to switch for free. Told him I didn't want either. His solution was for me to put setting for roaming sprint only. I asked him how I would use my phone if I only roamed sprint? No answer.
Very frustrating since I wasn't force roaming, have 6 lines and can't afford other carrier and I actually like sprint.
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My phone came with El29, and after seeing loss of signal often I started experimenting with modems. Tried fd19, fd24, fd26, and fe07, and I still get bouts of loss signal. It's not an issue of bad reception, because my OG epic has no signal problems.
Hows the signal on FE10?
I had the Evo 4g for about 1.5 years and it was a great phone. It started having problems so I decided to upgrade to the Samsung S2 on Sprint. Ever since I got it I have low signal most everywhere, can't connect to 4g unless I'm out under open sky, and my phone flips to roaming a lot. I have updated everything but still no fix. I'm rooted but on stock ATM. Please I need some suggestions for fixing this with tweaks or a better rom. Specs below.
SPH-D710
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All I can suggest is try all the modems,at most I get 4 bars,4g cuts out alot for me
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Ignore the low signal stuff. Our phone is just really accurate. Nothing wrong with our radios. You'll still be fine if its low signal usually
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locoboi187 said:
Ignore the low signal stuff. Our phone is just really accurate. Nothing wrong with our radios. You'll still be fine if its low signal usually
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A lot of times when I am roaming or have really low bars I can't make or receive calls at all. I seem to remember having similar problems with a Samsung device on T-Mobile. Is the hardware side of Samsung's weaker than HTC? If it was just low signal but I could still use the device as a phone I wouldn't care, but it is just an expensive toy a decent portion of my day as it is right now.
Try clearing your nvram and reactivating.
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Yeah I ignore my signal bar as well.. Even when it's low, my calls data sms are just fine.. But then again I'm in a area where sprint works great
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Try clearing your nvram and reactivating.
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How do you clear your nvram?
Part of my point in all this is that I am in an area that has good Sprint coverage, the only difference between my usage is the phone. I was consistently on 4G with my Evo now I very rarely can connect or stay connected, I always had cell service on my Evo, now lots of dropped calls and static and unable to send/recieve texts unless under open sky.
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I had the Evo 4g for about 1.5 years and it was a great phone. It started having problems so I decided to upgrade to the Samsung S2 on Sprint. Ever since I got it I have low signal most everywhere, can't connect to 4g unless I'm out under open sky, and my phone flips to roaming a lot. I have updated everything but still no fix. I'm rooted but on stock ATM. Please I need some suggestions for fixing this with tweaks or a better rom. Specs below.
SPH-D710
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Your best bet might be to try a bunch of different modems. [modems here = radios on other devices like HTC]
You'll have to root and add CWM to flash them. Modems are build 'independant'. Meaing you could be on EL29 and use an FG20 modem if you'd like. By far the best reception (both 3g an 4g) has been on the FG20.
If you want to keep your phone on EL29 stock use sfhub's 'Autoroot' and add EL29+CWM-Rogue. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1342728
Hit up the 'Modem repository by rwilco12 http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1662295
After each modem flash I suggest updating the PRL and Profile too.
Find one that gives you the best signal for your area.
There are also '3g/4g speed tweak' posts in this forum That will work on GB and ICS builds.
Good luck.
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How do you clear your nvram?
Part of my point in all this is that I am in an area that has good Sprint coverage, the only difference between my usage is the phone. I was consistently on 4G with my Evo now I very rarely can connect or stay connected, I always had cell service on my Evo, now lots of dropped calls and static and unable to send/recieve texts unless under open sky.
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You would think they would've mellowed this out of the all the phones by now, but you may be experiencing the infamous Loss of Service (LOS) issue this phone wrought when it was first released.
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How do you clear your nvram?
Part of my point in all this is that I am in an area that has good Sprint coverage, the only difference between my usage is the phone. I was consistently on 4G with my Evo now I very rarely can connect or stay connected, I always had cell service on my Evo, now lots of dropped calls and static and unable to send/recieve texts unless under open sky.
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You can either use odin or a dialer code + your MSL.
There are new PRL out and I get a better signal now and better 3g speeds. Update prl and profile first. Next try different modems, I like FE22
Thank you everyone. I just updated the PRL and Profile again. I'll see if that makes any difference and if not I will start running through the modems. If I find something that works I'll post back.
Stock non rooted. Did the md4 update last week and data speeds really blow now. Also, battery seems to drain faster. Anyone else have these issues?
If this has been talked about already sorry, I didn't find anything in a search.
AdRock02gt said:
Stock non rooted. Did the md4 update last week and data speeds really blow now. Also, battery seems to drain faster. Anyone else have these issues?
If this has been talked about already sorry, I didn't find anything in a search.
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I would say root it and flash the previous modem that worked better for you.
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You don't have to root to flash modems. He can flash whichever modem he wants via Odin. First he should find out if Sprint is doing Network Vision updates in his areas that could be the reason for bad signal and battery drain.
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I agree with Ed, I've mostly seen these type of slowdowns when Sprint is updating the towers in your area. I'd recommend calling them to see if there are any updates in your area. Even if it's not the closest tower that's being upgraded, your tower might be overloaded picking up the extra calls.
The good news is that a few weeks after I had these slowdowns, I was getting pretty good 4G speeds.
And if you're getting a poor signal because of the network upgrades, it would make sense that your battery life would suffer, since it's having to try more often to maintain a solid connection.
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