For the love of god, someone please help after I explain wth is going on.
Ive been running Infamous Rom for a while & a few days ago, my 4g startef acting up. I tried a different rom but no real change. I went back to Sonic FreeGS3 which had previou as ly ran fine but my 4g still sucks. Most apps are ok but Play Store & my web browsers refuse to load 9/10 times. I tried flashing UVLI6 & 5 modems but nothing. Do you guys think my 4g antenna went out? My wifi works flawlessly.
I live in NYC & most people had said UVLI6 was great here but not for me. Please help
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Did you check your imei?
Settings, about device, status.
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Still got my imei, flashed a different modem late last night & so far so good. I had the same problem with my wifes phone after I rom'ed hers but I restored it & it was fine after. I guess T Mobile changed something and I was on the wrong frequency to get a signal.
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Maybe you're in an area that was recently refarmed/upgraded.
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Im in brooklyn ny so its possible. I used a trick I saw online about keeping the ohone in wcdma only & that had worked from the day after I made this post til now. Is there an updated radio available or would I have to flash back to the latest stock rom? This is really starting to annoy the hell out of me
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Same thing has been happening to me. I'm in the upper Manhattan area and getting really poor 4g in my apt, like 1 or 2 bars, and dropping to 2g. I started noticing it yesterday. I'm calling T-Mobile tomorrow to see what's up.
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Sounds to me like they may be doing maintenance or upgrades.
Call T-Mobile though and they should be able to tell you for sure.
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I never have more than one bar of service on my evo, at best two bars. My reception is -84 dBm. I live in Houston so the area is not the problem. Everything else is working great. Any advice on fixing? Though I would try here before calling sprint.
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Did you update the radio recently?
Yeah I updated my radios and everything else from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=715485
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Yeah I updated my radios and everything else.
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If that's when it started you should revert back to a previous version.
Its also true that after you update a radio you should update your prl and data profile
No this has been going on for a while now, I was hoping the radios would help and they did for 3g speed. Just my service blows. What is considered a good dBm?
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No this has been going on for a while now, I was hoping the radios would help and they did for 3g speed. Just my service blows. What is considered a good dBm?
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You mean it's always this bad with that phone or it's always this bad no matter which Sprint phone you have?
I have a HTC evo 4g, I think I noticed right after I rooted it last November. Running cm7 rom.
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I have a HTC evo 4g, I think I noticed right after I rooted it last November. Running cm7 rom.
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Rooting won't do anything related to that...
CM7 tends to be more accurate on displaying your real reception.
You may just be at the edge of a tower.
In my settings, (Mobile network state: disconnected). Could that be it?
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you wanna talk about bad service!!
I just pray to God none of you are from west Michigan... our network has been over its capacity since December 22, 2010.. I know this cause I work at a service and repair store, makes me want to hurt a child.
texts come in hours/days late and if they do come in.. it comes in 5+ times... calls take 45-50 seconds to connect, voicemails come in DAYS later, you will have a missed call and your phone never rang.. internet is almost impossible. makes me hate my job!!!
Hi guys.
I don't know if its my phone or if this is the way the phone is meant to be, I have an extremely weak wifi signal. I am literally right next door to my router and I only get 3/4 bars for signal strength. As soon as I go up to the second floor, I get nothing at all unless I'm directly above my router. This is extremely frustrating at the moment. I decided to lurk around the forum to see if installing a custom rom would help and I ended up installing Jedi Invasion 2; it did not help at all.
It's just so frustrating that I have to use my mobile internet when I'm in bed instead of using my home internet. I don't understand this at all. Why is it so weak? Does anyone else have this problem?
Thank you.
Im with you on this......im staying tuned..
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Have you tried updating your modem to the latest version that was just released?
My modem is perfectly fine. I just dont understand how my old crappy blackberry had a better and stronger connection than my s3.
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I found the Wi-Fi performance increased a fair bit when I upgraded to 4.1.1. I can go a fair ways in my house before dropping bars. Wish I had run WiFi Analyzer before the upgrade so that I could actually compare RSSI.
Depends on the router freq. 2.4ghz and 5ghz. 5ghz can cause crappy WiFi strength issues. Change the settings around to 2.4 only and see what happens.
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My router does not support dual band. Like I said earlier, my blackberry has a stable connection while my s3 struggles.
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I had the same problem in 4.0.4 ICS but now on 4.1 JB it is working perfect. Before on ICS I had like 3-4 bars when I was 2ft away from the router. Now on JB I have full 5 stable bars no less with higher distance.
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My modem is perfectly fine. I just dont understand how my old crappy blackberry had a better and stronger connection than my s3.
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The modem he is talking about is a radio for the phone. Not the modem that connects you to the internet through your ISP.
Oh. Im still relatively new to this device so I never knew. How do I update the modem?
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Oh. Im still relatively new to this device so I never knew. How do I update the modem?
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Well first thing your going to have to do is root the phone before you can update your modem.
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Att is rolling out jelly bean now through kies. Id just do that before you hit the modding route. Jelly Bean will update you too there latest and greatest modem and boot loader updates. Then root it and never look back
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So I went ahead and installed the latest modem. It made my signal even worst somehow. How do I restore back to the one I had?
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So I went ahead and installed the latest modem. It made my signal even worst somehow. How do I restore back to the one I had?
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Download it and flash it.
Im not exactly sure which modem it was.
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There's only three modems for each carrier. Try them all.
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I just recently recieved my airwave and noticed that if im running on prl 00001 the bars are constantly jumping from full to two and sometimes none. Even if I have full bars the data still runs slow. If I update my prl it goes into full bars and data runs properly but prl 00001 gets me better service with no dropped calls while on the go. What shoukd I do?
You have have full bars but you can be on 1x
Most custom roms tell you if your on 3g or 1x
Also you can use the speed test app and it'll tell you on what you are on
And I'm not to sure on this but I don't think air wave does data
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You have have full bars but you can be on 1x
Most custom roms tell you if your on 3g or 1x
Also you can use the speed test app and it'll tell you on what you are on
And I'm not to sure on this but I don't think air wave does data
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If you are on 00001, you likely are not connecting to the airave since that is looked at as a Sprint tower.
My cousin has an airave, and it seems to do data as well.
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Dial *99 to see if your connected..
I have SENSATIONS and its WICKED!!
I dialed *99 and it said I am connected to it but the voice was very choppy you coukd hardly hear but I do get service throughout the house now just twwo to three bars not full bars like I would get if I was on a regular prl
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So what tower does prl 00001 connect to if it reads airwave as a sprint tower? And does this mean any manual uodated prl wont connect to airwave?
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I talked to a sprint tech today and he said there is been lots of people reporting about the gs3 not playing nice with the airwave. He changed some setting. On there end for my airwave and so far so good.
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I talked to a sprint tech today and he said there is been lots of people reporting about the gs3 not playing nice with the airwave. He changed some setting. On there end for my airwave and so far so good.
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I just got 2 GS3's & have a GS2, my GS3 is on PRL 25009, the GS3's never link to my Airave & the GS2 will every once & a while, are you saying they can correct this issue on their side?
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I just got 2 GS3's & have a GS2, my GS3 is on PRL 25009, the GS3's never link to my Airave & the GS2 will every once & a while, are you saying they can correct this issue on their side?
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Yes. And no. My phone still bounces. But. If I unplug the airwave then plug it back in. Then it usually will work. But. Today nothing is working so back to calling sprint I go.
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monke30butt said:
I just got 2 GS3's & have a GS2, my GS3 is on PRL 25009, the GS3's never link to my Airave & the GS2 will every once & a while, are you saying they can correct this issue on their side?
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I'm on 25010 and I connect to the Airave just fine every time.
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Yes. And no. My phone still bounces. But. If I unplug the airwave then plug it back in. Then it usually will work. But. Today nothing is working so back to calling sprint I go.
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What area are you in?
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What area are you in?
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Portage Michigan
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notsosmrtgeek said:
Portage Michigan
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Definitely not a 800smr issue.
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Well after trying everything and failing this weekend to send messages. I called and they are gonna send me the 2.5. So I will. Chime in after I get that hooked up.
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So far day 1 with the 2.5. And I haven't had a single issue
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For the past few days my data has been real slow well when downloading it starts off at good speeds but after a few minutes it slows down big time and for it to go back to normal i have to switch off my data then on and repeat that process any ideas what it could be or how to fix it cled tmobile support they were no help thx
Give a little more info
Are you rooted?
If so, are you running stock?
Custom rom name if any
Baseband version?
Yes im rooted running wicked v10 tmobile baseband version t999uvlh2
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Well, how much data have you used? You could be getting throttled especially if you've used lots of data in short amount of time.
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Yes im rooted running wicked v10 tmobile baseband version t999uvlh2
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And you have the unlimited data plan i assume?
Yes im on the unlimited plan and not sure about the throttling would have thought the tmobile rep would have mentioned that if that was the case
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Yes im on the unlimited plan and not sure about the throttling would have thought the tmobile rep would have mentioned that if that was the case
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T999UVLH2 is your baseband version. Then i would try flashing the T999UVDLJC baseband and test it out.
There is a new mdm5 baseband out. Im sure you cant search and find it here.
I flashed wicked v10 on my friends tmo s3, were getting slow speeds as well. Gonna try a different radio
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I have the same problem in a certain part of Seattle where my hspa+ speed is around 4 - 10 kilobytes per second download..
Guess to many people using it
I don't think it's the rom itself. Try a different modem and report the findings. I'm on Wicked v10 in souther cali with latest modem and I'm getting great speeds. Can it be on tmobile end updating/refarming towers?
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Yeah i dnt know wat is wrong with it its been a few days now and same thing when i run a speedtest i get geood speeds but as far as downloading anything it starts good then goes down to like 650b and downloads always fail thx for the help tho
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Have you tried any of the other modems?
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No kind of new at this wouldnt no were to start open to any suggestions tho thx
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Click the link for Basebands/Modems thread in my sig. All flashable modems and a plethora of info about them is there.
Feel free to ask if you have questions. The thread is stickied in development if you need to find it later.
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Wow I was just trying to find out if others are having the same problem and Bam I see this. My download speeds start high then go slow. Hopefully it's the modem
I noticed it didn't start until I used the new T999UVDMD5
Edit: nope tried other modems and problem is still there
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Do you get different results during different times of day? Could be network traffic. Or if they're doing work on any towers it could also cause problems like that.
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Do you get different results during different times of day? Could be network traffic. Or if they're doing work on any towers it could also cause problems like that.
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Indeed tmobile is upgrading their hardware and adding towers now that their LTE is spreading to more cities. Also since the merger didn't go through with At&t they are upgrading to compete in general.
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No same results at any time of day and i also noticed it did start happening until i flashed the t999uvdmd5 but since then used different ones but same results
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Call support to see if they are working on the network in your area.
If not, try the other modems in my baseband thread.
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Im on the mk2 modemn and Im lucky to get 1 or 2 signal bars.
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Me definitely. Before I used to get like 1 to no bars or service in my room but now I get 3 at the least. Call quality is so much better as well
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I noticed my LTE speeds jumped up about 5mbs but my battery life was reduced to about 4 hours using Hyperdrive.
It's definitely been an improvement for me. Less call drops with the people I call most.
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The first time I tried it, I only got Edge, and had many problems.
reverted to stock and rooted and reloaded my nandroid backup and tried again....
Wow! there is a DEFINITE DIFFERENCE !!! I am now getting LTE with more bars, and also I see 4G where I hardly ever saw it in my house! Now, after the flash, I almost NEVER see EDGE anymore. I think this is a superb improvement to the GS4...
just for anyone's knowing...
I am on 4.2.2 and had upgraded the baseband to UVAMDL and it still shows that in "About phone" but the results are better than anything I have attempted before... I even got a Signal Booster from TMO lol... Now I don't need it!
Great find and fix guys!
Aloha !
O.k. I finally got my baseband updated to fnb4 and my signal Is awesome and I'm getting 4G Lte in alot more places now. Thanks
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Does this apply only to phone calls or is data faster, too?
Does this apply only to phone calls or is data faster, too?
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Yes my data is alot faster.
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Signal for me is stronger and for whatever reason LTE is faster too. I didn't update the LTE radio so I can't explain that but I'll take it.
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