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What kind of reception are y'all getting

On jb ROMs vs. Stock ROM? My reception indoors is horrible. And outside it drops sometimes to nothing then comes up back down. You just never know
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Ummmm it should be the same
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Gotta disagree here. No problems for me.
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I know its like cursing someone's mom but I'm seriously thinking about a iPhone 4s I'm tired of this ****
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I'm not sure if that's the phone's fault. Because I always get full bars unless im in a rural area with not much around. Even in basements I get 2-3 bars when my friend's have zero signal

PhoenixBlitz said:
I'm not sure if that's the phone's fault. Because I always get full bars unless im in a rural area with not much around. Even in basements I get 2-3 bars when my friend's have zero signal
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What modem you running
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I just flashed to cm10,but I was using stock firmware all last week and I think reception is great both indoors and outdoors. I use to get no reception in certain elevators with my nokia and xperia play. With the Samsung, in those areas I get 3to4 bars.
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What modem you running
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I'm on stock, so whatever that is, I'm using it. Although I can confirm that using JB roms (such as CM10) on and s3 has no effect because my friend has the identical model I do (Both of ours were locked to Rogers before we both unlocked them to use on Telus) and the signal is always the same

Sometumes my bars drop to nothing and there is a black signal bars with grey out line and it will do that for a couple minutes then jump up to 4g or what ever reception I get at the time. Then out hers I'll get full bars. Sometimes I get no data at all just call with no internet. Maybe I got a NAD phone or something
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Getting really slow data...

For some reason lately I've been getting only Edge in my area when normally I get extremely solid H+. I don't know if my phone is acting up (completely stock on 4.1.2) or if AT&T may be upgrading their network in my area, possibly adding LTE. Any ideas why?
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Sometimes when I get this, I just airplane mode cycle. Sometimes im stuck on far away towers.
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Sometimes when I get this, I just airplane mode cycle. Sometimes im stuck on far away towers.
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Oh really? I'll have to try that from now on. Thanks!
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Let us know if it doesnt work. It happens. If youre getting it a lot. Thats not usual. Or if it happens in your house fron 4g down to edge. It could be an issue with your tower. Or location. Maybe the tower is overloaded and they kick you to another?
This has happened to me once on this phone. And it was on either stock rom or blackout. Cant remember
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Well where I work I get full signal. Averaging 10 Mbps down on H+. But recently I've only been getting Edge. It could very well be what you said about too many users on one tower. I'll try tomorrow and let you know.
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A few months ago when I had my Galaxy S3 I got this problem out of nowhere. I never found a solution even tho I tried going back to stock and several other "fixes". Ended up having to send the phone back and getting another one. Idk if the antenna went bad or what but even on Edge it was unresonble slow

Well I couldn't hold myself back the other night and I flashed Jedi X. Haha. Having no data issues now.
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I'm forced to use HSPDA due to the LTE network being overloaded here in SoCal.
Funny thing is, with LTE on, I avg about 3down/10up....with HSPDA, I get roughly 6down/1up. Quite frankly, I care more about download than upload anyway so it's actually better for me

My data is horrible recently!

At home my data is usually always 7mbps-15mbps.. This past week it's been horrible at home. At about 40kbps...
At work and everywhere else it's fine, but once I get home it's horrible! Even 2 miles away from my house, it's fine.
I called tmobile and they filed a ticket to look into the tower but could take up to 10 days.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Mftek1 said:
At home my data is usually always 7mbps-15mbps.. This past week it's been horrible at home. At about 40kbps...
At work and everywhere else it's fine, but once I get home it's horrible! Even 2 miles away from my house, it's fine.
I called tmobile and they filed a ticket to look into the tower but could take up to 10 days.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Have any friends using the same tower?
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Have any friends using the same tower?
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I'm going to ask a couple friends right now, my wife's phone is always getting the same speeds 20-40kbps download
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Mftek1 said:
At home my data is usually always 7mbps-15mbps.. This past week it's been horrible at home. At about 40kbps...
At work and everywhere else it's fine, but once I get home it's horrible! Even 2 miles away from my house, it's fine.
I called tmobile and they filed a ticket to look into the tower but could take up to 10 days.
Anyone have any ideas?
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Depending on where u live ur tower by ur house can be old and not updated so it slower or it can be a borrowed tower. The one by ur job must be in a city which they update first. For me the new lte modem sucks I went back to the old modem. It is more reliable.

BACARDILIMON said:
Depending on where u live ur tower by ur house can be old and not updated so it slower or it can be a borrowed tower. The one by ur job must be in a city which they update first. For me the new lte modem sucks I went back to the old modem. It is more reliable.
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Did you notice an improvement when you went back to the old modem?
What I don't understand is after the lte update, I was still getting good speeds till recently.
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Looks like none of my friends in my area have tmobile.
I'm still getting roughly 50kbps at home and 15mbps at work.. Smh
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I get horrible speeds as well and always have. I live in in a crowded area....Brooklyn, New York
Also, it's not like I'm underground or hidden from the outside world, I'm sitting right next to a window in a 6 story building. I've honestly had enough of t-mobile.. they always mess up my contract and have such ****ty speeds in my area. Not to mention, they directly lie to you over the phone and barely keep any promises. Oh and New York being one of the biggest cities isn't even one of the LTE cities that was upgraded. Sorry for this rant but I'm just kinda pissed with TMO.
Does anyone know if I can somehow check if my phone is set on the right antenna?

Mftek1 said:
Did you notice an improvement when you went back to the old modem?
What I don't understand is after the lte update, I was still getting good speeds till recently.
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Yes a big difference. I mostly use WiFi tho when out cause I have WiFi hot spots every place by me. But the lte modem is use less by me till lte is around here.

Use the old apn if you're having issues. There's already a thread on this. Search for it.
I have a feeling the new apn is speed limited so when lte fully rolls out the hspa network isn't overloaded. Most people don't notice a difference between 8mbps and 11mbps. Which was my difference. But if your difference is between 3-5mbps and 55kbps then it's probably a tower issue as well.
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GN2Rabbit said:
Use the old apn if you're having issues. There's already a thread on this. Search for it.
I have a feeling the new apn is speed limited so when lte fully rolls out the hspa network isn't overloaded. Most people don't notice a difference between 8mbps and 11mbps. Which was my difference. But if your difference is between 3-5mbps and 55kbps then it's probably a tower issue as well.
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Already tried the old apn in the other thread. No luck.
I'm thinking a tower issue, but I guess it's not? Tmobile contacted me today saying the towers around my area look good. So, there going to recheck since I get great data speeds everywhere else
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BACARDILIMON said:
Depending on where u live ur tower by ur house can be old and not updated so it slower or it can be a borrowed tower. The one by ur job must be in a city which they update first. For me the new lte modem sucks I went back to the old modem. It is more reliable.
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I wanted to go back to the old version 4.1.1, im not rooted and just updated via kies and noticed the slowness also. Any chance u could help how to revert to old version. Thanks
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jhobert said:
I wanted to go back to the old version 4.1.1, im not rooted and just updated via kies and noticed the slowness also. Any chance u could help how to revert to old version. Thanks
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Hey bro where bouts in Los Angeles do you stay? Cause I'm close to there. What kind of speeds do you get?
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jhobert said:
I wanted to go back to the old version 4.1.1, im not rooted and just updated via kies and noticed the slowness also. Any chance u could help how to revert to old version. Thanks
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Believe it or not but a easy way would be to root and then revert back to stock 4.1.1. It will get u back to normal u will just have to not update till they fix all the bugs

If you're in a refarmed market just manually select the 1900 band as AWS might be too crowded. I have to do the same when I'm at my house as on AWS I get 500kbps while on 1900 I get no less than 12mbps
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minhajmsd said:
If you're in a refarmed market just manually select the 1900 band as AWS might be too crowded. I have to do the same when I'm at my house as on AWS I get 500kbps while on 1900 I get no less than 12mbps
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How do I do this?
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Try add old tmobile apn and chose auto 4g/3g/2g they change data speed on mine.
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Mm

Yes. Because we don't change the modem, just switch back and forth apn if in the are have lte tower just switch to lte apn (the original one).
This just my experience though.
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Mftek1 said:
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Hey bro where bouts in Los Angeles do you stay? Cause I'm close to there. What kind of speeds do you get?
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Im mainly on LAX area, speeds varies but usually I get 18 to 20 now ita down to 10 and lower, even if I change the apn and not use lte same slow speed compared to the old radio.
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Mftek1 said:
How do I do this?
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Dial *#2263# and then under WCDMA choose the 1900 band.
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Poor signal/reception

I live in LA, close to the LAX airport and I just noticed that my signal is only 1 bar. My note 2 is always full bars. Do I have a defective unit.
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jhobert said:
I live in LA, close to the LAX airport and I just noticed that my signal is only 1 bar. My note 2 is always full bars. Do I have a defective unit.
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Both my wife and I always had lots of bars. Ever since we bought LTE devices we now have 1-2 bars. Was your bars full with an LTE plan and device prior? If so then its faulty.
If you take the back cover off and flick the back area the signals get stronger? LOL Just like a gas guage on an old car.

Limeybastard said:
Both my wife and I always had lots of bars. Ever since we bought LTE devices we now have 1-2 bars. Was your bars full with an LTE plan and device prior? If so then its faulty.
If you take the back cover off and flick the back area the signals get stronger? LOL Just like a gas guage on an old car.
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I assume tmobile put me on lte plan since I bought the note 3. This is only when I use the lte mode on mobile network settings.
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jhobert said:
I assume tmobile put me on lte plan since I bought the note 3. This is only when I use the lte mode on mobile network settings.
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Yes, I understand on GSM I have 4-5 bars on LTE 1-2 bars. One mostly though.

Heh you're not the only one. T-Mo LTE is pretty bad for me in the parts of LA/Riverside Counties that I frequent the most. Sometimes I get a good pocket of LTE signal where it's like 20/5, but even then it's very inconsistent and times out a lot. I'm a mobile gamer and (planned to) do a lot of downloading away from home, so an inconsistent connection is useless to me. I even time out downloading from Google Play. Pretty bad service IMO. I can only hope our area is flushed out more in the future.
I just changed my settings to GSM/WCDMA and went back to HSPA+. It's a lot slower, but at least it's consistent enough for gaming/streaming.
Is the T-Mo Note 2 an HSPA+ only device? Or was that LTE too?

rawrfische said:
Heh you're not the only one. T-Mo LTE is pretty bad for me in the parts of LA/Riverside Counties that I frequent the most. Sometimes I get a good pocket of LTE signal where it's like 20/5, but even then it's very inconsistent and times out a lot. I'm a mobile gamer and (planned to) do a lot of downloading away from home, so an inconsistent connection is useless to me. I even time out downloading from Google Play. Pretty bad service IMO. I can only hope our area is flushed out more in the future.
I just changed my settings to GSM/WCDMA and went back to HSPA+. It's a lot slower, but at least it's consistent enough for gaming/streaming.
Is the T-Mo Note 2 an HSPA+ only device? Or was that LTE too?
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They said the note 2 has a chipset thats lte capable and with the latest update Im getting the lte service which is better than what my note 3 has now.
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Now im torn between should I return this note 3 and stick with note 2 til they figure out whats wrong with it because signal is not the only problem I have with this phone
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I have the same issues with my Note 3, 2-3 bars of LTE with my S4 just one bar with the Note 3

MEGABYTEPR said:
I have the same issues with my Note 3, 2-3 bars of LTE with my S4 just one bar with the Note 3
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Drop calls?
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Once,
Also I exchanged my Note yesterday and it has the same problem. Im thinking of flashing the stock firmware to see if it helps anything. I will let you know.
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Once,
Also I exchanged my Note yesterday and it has the same problem. Im thinking of flashing the stock firmware to see if it helps anything. I will let you know.

Who noticed a Great gain when flashing the fnb4 modemn such as better signal, faster

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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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