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Inc 2 - poor data speeds?

for the hell of it i just did a speedtest on my Inc2 and these were the results:
Ping - 219ms
Download Speed - 0.29 Mbps
Upload Speed - 0.26 Mbps
my phone is currently showing 3 bars.
when i had the Thunderbolt it was showing like 7 Mbps DL & 2 Mbps UL in this area(without 4G).
does anyone else have crap speeds to?

You are comparing a 3G phone (Inc2) to a 4G phone (Thunderbolt)... Ofcourse its going to be slower...
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he said without 4G... should be the same.

I find it highly suspect that a 3G connection was generating 7mbit. The maximum burst rate (meaning: not streaming rate) is 3mbit for EVDO Rev.A. Both the Thunderbolt and the Incredible 2 have 3G radios using Rev.A, not Rev.B.
I've noticed sometimes the connectivity indicator has a delayed update and I can be connected to 3G before the icon changes from 1x to 3G coming out of the parking garage at my office (I can tell because streams that don't work on 1x would start up fine).
I've been able to get over 1mbit consistently on my Inc2, and have been able to exceed 2mbit in some areas.

voxigenboy said:
for the hell of it i just did a speedtest on my Inc2 and these were the results:
Ping - 219ms
Download Speed - 0.29 Mbps
Upload Speed - 0.26 Mbps
my phone is currently showing 3 bars.
when i had the Thunderbolt it was showing like 7 Mbps DL & 2 Mbps UL in this area(without 4G).
does anyone else have crap speeds to?
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yea... mine has been annoying me too. I always seem to get a higher upload than I do download speed.
This is after 4 tries back to back, all of them upload speed was higher.
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Even though Tmobile sucks when it comes to coverage area, I kind of miss the 3g speeds I had with them. My Vibrant would hit 5 mbps constantly

Just used the same SpeedTest.net app, after three back to back tries:
Down: 1742, 1192, 1894 kbps
Up: 589, 675, 543 kbps
Ping: 185, 140, 220 ms
Full bars in northern NJ

Full bars
signal around -71 dBm
Ping: 211ms
Download: 884kbps
Upload: 699kbps

jrizk07 said:
yea... mine has been annoying me too. I always seem to get a higher upload than I do download speed.
This is after 4 tries back to back, all of them upload speed was higher.
Houston, Tx by the way
Even though Tmobile sucks when it comes to coverage area, I kind of miss the 3g speeds I had with them. My Vibrant would hit 5 mbps constantly
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what rom are you on?

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what rom are you on?
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Stock rooted Gingersense, I took a screenshot back at my desk where I have no bars but was outside when I ran the test.
Had full bars and i'm on the new radio.

You need to turn on Roaming I know it doesn't make any sense
Wireless & Networks - Mobile Networks - Data Roaming Checked & CDMA Options - SYS select automatic. There I bet it's fixed.
I live in Philly across from a major hospital with thousands of people inside.
I have 3 bars at my house usually. When I first got my OG Droid it was faster than my DSL at 2200k. Then after I guess more people got smartphones it got slower and slower.
I was getting max 200k oftentimes 80k at my house since Fall '10. At work it is much better around 1200k stable but at 5pm at work used to kick me off the network. No biggie right I have wifi at home. Well it is a pain if you take a walk outside and there is a dead zone around your house.
So I decided to try a friends Sprint phone. SAME EXACT signal readings same speed. Got an Inc 2 finally I thought my droid was crap. Same thing with new phone.
Then I started trying everything. Turned on Roaming as noted above bingo!
I have a feeling Sprint / Verizon towers are used jointly? Like you need roaming for things to work properly in downtown philly. I don't know but I don't loose connection anymore whenever I have bars showing. Where in areas that there are a large number of people I had problems previously at peak hours. Now everything is stable now.
It doesn't make any sense to me at all. It is turned off by default on all phones?? But the difference is like night and day. I mean I know Verizon/Sprint share networks but that should only be in the boonies? I would love an answer. Just don't go overseas with that enabled.

i am satisfied with my inc2 data speeds. i put my inc2 next to an evo 4g (running in 3g mode because there is no 4g in my area)...and the inc2 loaded all the websites i tested quicker than the evo.
the inc2 was showing 1 to 2 bars, the evo showing full bars... i would click on a link at the same time on both phones and inc2 won everytime.

I average a MB up and down, zero complains. Running 2.3.3 (recent upgrade).
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I used to get atleast 1MB with 3+ bars on stock froyo before S-OFF, but after I installed CM7 Beta 1 I'm getting lower bars than I did before, is that happening with anyone else, or is it one of those things you just randomly notice?

pinakaeus said:
I used to get atleast 1MB with 3+ bars on stock froyo before S-OFF, but after I installed CM7 Beta 1 I'm getting lower bars than I did before, is that happening with anyone else, or is it one of those things you just randomly notice?
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Don't look st the bars. They are set to show so many based on signal and that changes from Rom to Rom (why a dx can show 4 bars but I have 2) go to settings about phone and look at your signal strength.
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Yianaki said:
Wireless & Networks - Mobile Networks - Data Roaming Checked & CDMA Options - SYS select automatic. There I bet it's fixed.
I live in Philly across from a major hospital with thousands of people inside.
I have 3 bars at my house usually. When I first got my OG Droid it was faster than my DSL at 2200k. Then after I guess more people got smartphones it got slower and slower.
I was getting max 200k oftentimes 80k at my house since Fall '10. At work it is much better around 1200k stable but at 5pm at work used to kick me off the network. No biggie right I have wifi at home. Well it is a pain if you take a walk outside and there is a dead zone around your house.
So I decided to try a friends Sprint phone. SAME EXACT signal readings same speed. Got an Inc 2 finally I thought my droid was crap. Same thing with new phone.
Then I started trying everything. Turned on Roaming as noted above bingo!
I have a feeling Sprint / Verizon towers are used jointly? Like you need roaming for things to work properly in downtown philly. I don't know but I don't loose connection anymore whenever I have bars showing. Where in areas that there are a large number of people I had problems previously at peak hours. Now everything is stable now.
It doesn't make any sense to me at all. It is turned off by default on all phones?? But the difference is like night and day. I mean I know Verizon/Sprint share networks but that should only be in the boonies? I would love an answer. Just don't go overseas with that enabled.
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if I enable roaming though it gives me a warning about extra charges. is that true?

voxigenboy said:
if I enable roaming though it gives me a warning about extra charges. is that true?
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well yes, if you're roaming.

voxigenboy said:
if I enable roaming though it gives me a warning about extra charges. is that true?
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Verizon has a roaming agreement with sprint. I think it would only come into play overseas. In Europe that setting could get you in to trouble.
Had Roaming on from NY to SC not a peep from Verizon billing.
It's much faster right less data drops too.

Yianaki said:
Verizon has a roaming agreement with sprint. I think it would only come into play overseas. In Europe that setting could get you in to trouble.
Had Roaming on from NY to SC not a peep from Verizon billing.
It's much faster right less data drops too.
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It's true
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Yianaki said:
Wireless & Networks - Mobile Networks - Data Roaming Checked & CDMA Options - SYS select automatic. There I bet it's fixed.
I live in Philly across from a major hospital with thousands of people inside.
I have 3 bars at my house usually. When I first got my OG Droid it was faster than my DSL at 2200k. Then after I guess more people got smartphones it got slower and slower.
I was getting max 200k oftentimes 80k at my house since Fall '10. At work it is much better around 1200k stable but at 5pm at work used to kick me off the network. No biggie right I have wifi at home. Well it is a pain if you take a walk outside and there is a dead zone around your house.
So I decided to try a friends Sprint phone. SAME EXACT signal readings same speed. Got an Inc 2 finally I thought my droid was crap. Same thing with new phone.
Then I started trying everything. Turned on Roaming as noted above bingo!
I have a feeling Sprint / Verizon towers are used jointly? Like you need roaming for things to work properly in downtown philly. I don't know but I don't loose connection anymore whenever I have bars showing. Where in areas that there are a large number of people I had problems previously at peak hours. Now everything is stable now.
It doesn't make any sense to me at all. It is turned off by default on all phones?? But the difference is like night and day. I mean I know Verizon/Sprint share networks but that should only be in the boonies? I would love an answer. Just don't go overseas with that enabled.
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It is often the case that providers will share towers. Many communities hate the sight of towers in their area (they're ugly...yes, this really does happen) so they are forced to keep them to a minimum. They share towers but not necessarily radio equipment, so you may not be necessarily be running through Sprint on a Sprint tower.

Not terrible. Houston

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Anyone else having an issue with their signal. I'm coming from a s2 I had signal at home and always had 4g. I'm in the sonic rom. I loose 4g and signal at home often.
Update: This works for some. Dial *#*#4636#*#* and choose (wcdma only) for the signal
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Youre not the only one. The problem is there seems to be more interference when holding the phone at the bottom where the antennas are in particular with your left hand. When there is more skin contact to the bottom left of the phone is where the problem starts. If you go to Settings> about device > status you can check the db signal as you hold the phone. You will notice a huge spike at the minimum of 10dbm (higher the dbm the worse the signal) which is enough to cause 4g signal loss and down to edge if you're already in a low signal area. Now try holding the phone upside down and to where the bottom of the phone is exposed and not making any skin contact and you will barely see any dbm change and 4g acquisition is better. You can try to perform the same test with you s2 and you probably wont see the dbm go up as much as the s3.
The only other option maybe is to get a case. There are other threads about this already but I'm using tapatalk app so I cant go to my subscribed section to repost them without discarding this reply.
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I noticed this too since I got the phone over a week ago.
I think maybe it's the micro sim card because I've never had this problem with any other phone.
And I don't know if it's the death grip because I'm always on my blue tooth.
I went to Tmobile today and they didn't really do much, they said to exchange the phone.
I don't know if that's gonna do much good.
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ThC23 said:
I noticed this too since I got the phone over a week ago.
I think maybe it's the micro sim card because I've never had this problem with any other phone.
And I don't know if it's the death grip because I'm always on my blue tooth.
I went to Tmobile today and they didn't really do much, they said to exchange the phone.
I don't know if that's gonna do much good.
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Let us know how the replacement is. I never tried to exchange as the sales rep at costco had the same issue but didnt seems like he cared much and just wanted to brush me off. Heres my updated video
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aznmode said:
Let us know how the replacement is. I never tried to exchange as the sales rep at costco had the same issue but didnt seems like he cared much and just wanted to brush me off. Heres my updated video
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Yeah, like I said I don't know if that would help. I got a couple more weeks to exchange it, so Ima see how it goes.
I'll let you know as soon as I do.
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I lost my 4g altogether today...anyway to get it back.
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I'm fine at my apartment. My parents are in a valley. We use a cellular repeater
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I think it's all the new T-Mobile customers. They are racing to catch up
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Android_Monsters said:
I think it's all the new T-Mobile customers. They are racing to catch up
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That could be it. My previous phone with T-Mo had been acting weird the past month. All bars but couldn't make calls or text, and no internet from home, mostly in the mornings. Had to switch carries.

Madblaster6 said:
Anyone else having an issue with their signal. I'm coming from a s2 I had signal at home and always had 4g. I'm in the sonic rom. I loose 4g and signal at home often.
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I can confirm that my SGS2 has a better signal than my SGS3. It is about 5dBm weaker. At least that is what the signal strength says. The key thing is the the SGS3 switches to EDGE because of a perceived weak signal (-110dBm) and it does switch back until you are in a stronger signal area. I was able to have a decent 4G signal even if my signal was -101 to -110 dBm. I could get a 4mb/s download and 1.5mb/s upload connection on speedtest. So the SGS3 does not need to switch to EDGE. My SGS2 shows a stronger signal so it doesn't switch at all. I suspect if I could lock my phone to 4G only I would be able to have similar reception as my SGS2. Maybe a future radio update will fix this. On my side I redecided to return the phone and get a replacement SGS3. Maybe that will work better.
Check post 39 of this thread for more details. Maybe we should consolidate the discussion there so that we get more visibility for this issue. Been chatting with aznmode on that thread. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1756280&page=4

We should all contact Samsung. Peoplenwitht this issue please call with me. I will call in the morning.
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Madblaster6 said:
We should all contact Samsung. Peoplenwitht this issue please call with me. I will call in the morning.
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Do you know any upper level support or management? I doubt well go anywhere with customer service. I already tried once and they just suggested I call tmo
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Okay so I have a quick fix. Dial *#*#4636#*#* and choose (Wcdma only) to signal.
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Madblaster6 said:
Okay so I have a quick fix. Dial *#*#4636#*#* and choose (Wcdma only) to signal.
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Hmmmm..sounds alot like what's going on in this thread.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=28819250
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I had to do this with my LG g2x. This phone is so similar to it.
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I took the liberty of e-mailing the president of Samsung about this issue. I called Samsung and they provided me with this e-mail after I professionally told them about the issue and how more then a few people were having this issue. I will be informing about any updates.

Madblaster6 said:
I took the liberty of e-mailing the president of Samsung about this issue. I called Samsung and they provided me with this e-mail after I professionally told them about the issue and how more then a few people were having this issue. I will be informing about any updates.
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That is the only way to fix this issue. It is more then just loosing the signal by holding the phone wrong. I live in a very fast T-Mobile area and getting around 20 MB down and 5 MB up. I will see all my bars drop without even touching the phone. This does not happen with any other of my T-Mobile phnes. I always hav e all bars all the time at my house. This is a serious problem that needs to be fixed.
I am sending my phone back in the AM and if the new one has the same issue I will not keep it. Too bad this is a killer phone with a lousy problem.
Vinny

We'll see what happens. I was told they're gonna look into it.
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vinnyjr said:
That is the only way to fix this issue. It is more then just loosing the signal by holding the phone wrong. I live in a very fast T-Mobile area and getting around 20 MB down and 5 MB up. I will see all my bars drop without even touching the phone. This does not happen with any other of my T-Mobile phnes. I always hav e all bars all the time at my house. This is a serious problem that needs to be fixed.
I am sending my phone back in the AM and if the new one has the same issue I will not keep it. Too bad this is a killer phone with a lousy problem.
Vinny
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I have the same problem... Mine actually loses 4g and loses entire signal in the middle of street where I should have 90% signal. This also disconnects any active calls and after a minute or two, signal is back. Then again the cycle repeats every 5 minutes for all day...

I blame the modem. I live in an area where we actually have pretty damn strong and fast reception (Southern Cali..). But I too have noticed that it like to flip a lot for no apparent reason. But my Samsung Vibrant did the same thing depending which modem you used. And the modems that performed the best with that phone were impacted greatly by the region in which you were trying to use it. For instance, here in Southern Cali I felt like overall KB5 had the most consistent, and data powerful signal. But in some areas of Boston I felt that KA7 was a clear winner. It's brand new. Just be patient and give them a few weeks to kinda analyze and address the most pressing issues. And I'm sure that they'll roll out a new modem with that update. I believe there were 12 total when they stopped officially updating the Vibrant.. So there will be options ;]

Lack of 3G ? About to return my SGS3 for an iPhone

So is there a "3G" on the SGS3, because I either get full bars and "Edge" or I get "4G"(which is HSPA+) but I never have just plane jane "3G"?.....its starting to bug me because my friend has ATT as well and we will be standing in the same exact place and his iphone will get 3G while my SGS3 will only have edge.....I don't understand why this is? Does the iPhone have different antennas or something? I don't really want to trade my SGS3 in for an ios device, but all the features on the SGS3 become somewhat pointless when I can't really do anything because edge blows ass... So can anyone give me some insight into the matter?

Jaskwith said:
So is there a "3G" on the SGS3, because I either get full bars and "Edge" or I get "4G"(which is HSPA+) but I never have just plane jane "3G"?.....its starting to bug me because my friend has ATT as well and we will be standing in the same exact place and his iphone will get 3G while my SGS3 will only have edge.....I don't understand why this is? Does the iPhone have different antennas or something? I don't really want to trade my SGS3 in for an ios device, but all the features on the SGS3 become somewhat pointless when I can't really do anything because edge blows ass... So can anyone give me some insight into the matter?
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Have you looked in wireless and settings > mobile networks > Network Mode?

Hsdpa and hsdpa+ are 3g homie. The phone calls it 4G however as a marketing tool. If your on true 4G it will say 4G lte.
Check what user above said. And have you run a side by side speed test?
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Maybe you got a lemon but some of my coworkers have iPhone and in downtown area they get edge and I get 4G lte. I came from an iPhone also and I can tell you sgs3 has better signal everywhere and lte is the reason why.
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I would recomend getting a replacement S3 first to see if you have any improvements. If the phone doesn't use 3G or 4G(HSPA+) at all then that is not normal behavior. I have not once been connected to Edge since i got my phone a month ago.

NightSkylar said:
Have you looked in wireless and settings > mobile networks > Network Mode?
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corythug said:
Hsdpa and hsdpa+ are 3g homie. The phone calls it 4G however as a marketing tool. If your on true 4G it will say 4G lte.
Check what user above said. And have you run a side by side speed test?
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Maybe you got a lemon but some of my coworkers have iPhone and in downtown area they get edge and I get 4G lte. I came from an iPhone also and I can tell you sgs3 has better signal everywhere and lte is the reason why.
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I don't have any of those network settings you are talking about. There is no wireless and settings? I have More settings and then network modes, but there isn't any selection for like 3G 2G LTE etc....
I ran a side by side speed test, and he got like 1.4MBPS and I couldn't even get the speed test to load, but after trying I did and it was like .3 MBPS...
I understand the LTE signal thing, but there is no LTE here and I don't think its coming anytime soon, I am in the military and currently operating out of Watertown, NY so yea... middle of no where.
I think I might have to try and replace it I suppose..I am within my thirty days, but unfortunately I didin't have time when I purchased it so I bought it at a wireless kiosk and they are a bit more of a pain to deal with when it comes to exchanging phones... Thanks for the input guys.

Not sure what's going on with your device. I'm either on H / 4G / 3G and on my iPhone 4 I was always on 3G. Completely different location/network than you, but it definitely sounds like your device is doing something strange.

Try toggling airplane mode on/off. For some reason, ics trends to drop to edge if you don't have a super strong signal.

mrhaley30705 said:
Try toggling airplane mode on/off. For some reason, ics trends to drop to edge if you don't have a super strong signal.
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Actually I have been doing this sometimes, it seems to work sometimes, but not always...
Question : Is there even a "3G" signal icon? Or It always just shows "4g" when you are on 3G and up?

Jaskwith said:
Actually I have been doing this sometimes, it seems to work sometimes, but not always...
Question : Is there even a "3G" signal icon? Or It always just shows "4g" when you are on 3G and up?
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Yes, there is an a 4G and 3G icon.
Long shot, but if you dial * # * # 4 6 3 6 # * # * in the keypad and choose Phone Info, what do you see under 'Set preferred network type:'?
Default is WCDMA preferred, I believe.
(Also be careful in here and DO NOT click the Update button.)

Dialer code didn't work for me. I had to use an app called Device Info. Under device information:
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don't get an iphone, those things are boring and lame

Jaskwith said:
So is there a "3G" on the SGS3, because I either get full bars and "Edge" or I get "4G"(which is HSPA+) but I never have just plane jane "3G"?.....its starting to bug me because my friend has ATT as well and we will be standing in the same exact place and his iphone will get 3G while my SGS3 will only have edge.....I don't understand why this is? Does the iPhone have different antennas or something? I don't really want to trade my SGS3 in for an ios device, but all the features on the SGS3 become somewhat pointless when I can't really do anything because edge blows ass... So can anyone give me some insight into the matter?
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It also depends on where you live, the area and the service providers radio towers connection to your device specifically

TheFiveDots said:
Yes, there is an a 4G and 3G icon.
Long shot, but if you dial * # * # 4 6 3 6 # * # * in the keypad and choose Phone Info, what do you see under 'Set preferred network type:'?
Default is WCDMA preferred, I believe.
(Also be careful in here and DO NOT click the Update button.)
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Depends what phone on at&t siii there us No 3g icon. OK there is one in systemui but it us not used. The phone always shows 4g when on 3g umts or hspda or pseudo 4g hspda+. it also shows edge and 4g lte. I am on a micro cell at home which is 3g and it still shows 4g. The way to really check us to go to system then about device then status and see what network mode you are on. Here in the screenshot you can see 4g but also that the phone is using hspda which is normally 3g in any other phone
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Depends what phone on at&t siii there us No 3g icon. OK there is one in systemui but it us not used. The phone always shows 4g when on 3g umts or hspda or pseudo 4g hspda+. it also shows edge and 4g lte. I am on a micro cell at home which is 3g and it still shows 4g. The way to really check us to go to system then about device then status and see what network mode you are on. Here in the screenshot you can see 4g but also that the phone is using hspda which is normally 3g in any other phone
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Interesting, thank you for your time and input
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If you are on "normal" 3G it will show umts instead of hsdpa.
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Just to be sure... your friend has an AT&T iPhone correct?
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If you use an AOSP from such as cyanogenmod 9, it will show 3g, 4g (LTE), h, g, and e.

SGS2 3G Network Slow Downloading/Streaming

ive tried rtn reset
ive tried scrn reset
ive tried data profile resetting
ive tried pulling battery
ive tried adjusting build prop
ive tried calberating signal
ive tried goig back to stock EL's-FI
ive tried updating prl and profile
ive tried wiping cache
ive tried clear data from google FWS
According to this video google has enabled ipv6 for android 4.0 devices, i just dont know forsure if the sgs2 Sprint has support for it. Anyways check out this video it has to also have more valid packets in the traceroutes as well. And here is a link to get you going with sprints IPV6 i guess you have to call them to get it switched over https://www.sprint.net/index.php?p=ipv6 Sprint tec support has no idea what to do with switching im gonna try another tec LOL if you visit that link on your mobile phone you will see it at the top if your on a IPV4 or IPV6 and my phone says IPV4
here is explanation of ipv6 on utube.
http://youtu.be/-Uwjt32NvVA
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Tmobile got this update with there ICS 4.0.4 And i just got off the phone with sprint mobile broad band tec and he said that our phones should be on a IPV6 as well with the ICS update and to call this number 18007267864 if your phone is running on ipv4, its samsungs tec support line and theyre able to resolve the issue, im checking into now........LOL just as i suspected well the only thing we can do is have you ship the phone to us.....bla bla........only or repair center would have those kinds of answers to your questions......no you cant talk to them theyre our secret phone scientists, we dont offer them to the public......LOL...

What's your location?
At home i get 4 bars, which is a beast connection to me nd when i'm at school(Jobcorps) i get 1 bar and i can barely get on facebook

i get 4/5 bars at my location. Ive always had good signal throughout NorthCounty SD until now. IDK if i messed up some deep internel setting or maybe fried my antenna because sprint says theres no network issues in the area so hope i can get some help.
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what ive also noticed is when i get a solid connection on 3g it will run all day and night i just do my little calberating signal dance and the bad is if i switch to wifi and then back to 3g my 3g will start acting the way the logcat logged phone responding in previous post.
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I also live in north county. My signal is never really excellent, but I have horrid 3g speeds in most places. Especially in Esco at my house. But when I was at Palomar my speeds weren't bad. My wife has an evo that seems to load things faster than me.
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that sucks
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Its likely just a network thing. Same this happened last Spring when I was in Austin. They were doing some network updates and 3g was plain garbage for a few months in areas where it was previously good, worse in others. Then all of a sudden it was fine again. Still Sprint though lol
I guess you could try other modems. Have you done this yet.

The bars are no indication of Sprint 3g reception. The bars indicate VOICE reception. You'll need to go to settings and look at the signal strength in dbm in order to check it out.
Also ... Sprints network is almost universally slow (sub 100 kbps) except in low demand areas, areas where there has been band aid fixes (extra T1 lines), and areas where network vision upgrades have been completed (1.5mbps -> 2.0 mbps on average).
As stated, if you're in an area undergoing NV upgrades then 3g and reception can be wonky as they fix up the towers.

I agree, sprint is slow. I don't think its any specific device/radio/rom. Slow is slow. Even if a speed test app says I'm getting blazing fast 3G, I still can't browse fast worth a damn.

Apk07 said:
I agree, sprint is slow. I don't think its any specific device/radio/rom. Slow is slow. Even if a speed test app says I'm getting blazing fast 3G, I still can't browse fast worth a damn.
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That's cause of all the iPhone people... they're clogging the network.
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I live in north county. My speeds here aren't great. But using sprints proxies and the fc15 modem I can stream youtube unless I go past rancho penasquitos. Miramar is bad too.
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lol, the iphone invasion. maybe these logcats can help find what can be added to a build.prop code so jumping between wifi and 3g wont kill the 3g data transfers, idk, what i do know is that this has to mean something.
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welcome to sprints crappy network
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welcome to sprints crappy network
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Well that depend on location... Here in Arecibo, PR service is exelent. :beer:
3G up to 2.75Mbps (30.6GB in 22 day)
Reception:
Inside home 2 - 3 bars
Outside 4 - 6 bars most of the time Full
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I found out another way to tinker it and it seems to be working so far ive done it a couple times now. I had it on wifi and then switched to 3g. i couldnt get a horrible signal even. all i did to fix was turn on airplane mode then rebooted phone waited until my phone loaded up and then turned airplane mode back off and now all of a sudden 3g is good. Ive tried this twice and it works im gonna try it maybe 10 more times just to see if thats it. Please if you try post your results as well
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lol. if you have to try that many times your phones either messed up or its sprint.. but your theory doesnt have any hard evidence besides you have airplane mode on and reboot n turn it off.. i can only pull 1x speeds with full bars.. definately cant watch any video and like your name.. No 4g For Me lol
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Well that depend on location... Here in Arecibo, PR service is exelent. :beer:
3G up to 2.75Mbps (30.6GB in 22 day)
Reception:
Inside home 2 - 3 bars
Outside 4 - 6 bars most of the time Full
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PR is a NV market and deployment is going pretty rapidly. LTE is popping up in a lot of places and fiber/micro back haul has dramatically increased 3g speeds. Won't be suprised if they finished upgrading the entire market by early next year.
Anyways...this is what sprints 3g network will look like once they finish the NV upgrades... not the sub 100 kbps connections we get ...

Updated Original Post with some more Info on ipv6 and linked video to googles june 6 2012 open ipv6 deployment and explaination about pastebin links.
Makes me wonder if sprint and samsung are gonna be on the same page, maybe it will show in the Official JB update
thanks again

Omar04 said:
Well that depend on location... Here in Arecibo, PR service is exelent. :beer:
3G up to 2.75Mbps (30.6GB in 22 day)
Reception:
Inside home 2 - 3 bars
Outside 4 - 6 bars most of the time Full
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That is great and what I expected by now for 3g speeds in major USA cities. The best 3g I have seen is about 1.25Mbps

Ive had my issues with this phone also. The questions i had was 1 Sprint? 2 The phones radio 3 rom/kernal/modem. I live in a real good sprint area. i usually run 1-2.5mb down. I do notice that all 3 epic touches ive owned had wacky radios. Signal goes up and down. That is part of problem. Ive had some roms/ kernals that WOULD not have any good speed at all. I was just on a rom and source kernal and Speeds were terrible. At the same same location i flashed back to stock and used kies to update to bone stock fi27 and poof 2mbps down where it was 200k max. Try stock and see. Also the speed test app IS a joke. its awful. Try this test it seems to be very reliable. http://i.dslr.net/tinyspeedtest.html The screen shot below is in my house for some reason i get very low signal but outside its 4/6 bars. Still 1.4 mb down! I blame the ****ty at&t EDGE tower 100 ft from house.
I notice the fi27 modem goes to sleep and has trouble waking up. Not an issue with fh13 which is neck n neck tie for best modem with el29.

new to tmobile and in a dilema.

i left verizon yesterday and switched over to go gsm but also to save money and get unlimited data back. i got the note 2 and my wife got the gs3. great phones and they work fine except my data speeds are horrid. i live in a superb coverage area to, i get 3-4 bars constant but cannot pull even close to 1 meg down on 4g or edge. this is happening on both phones. :crying:
i called tmobile today and they say it sounds tower related as i live right by it. they opened a ticket to have it looked at but im fearing if i wait this out and it doesn't get fixed im stuck, i believe i can return the phones and cancel the contract within 14 days. do you guys think i could have a couple bad sims cards or does this sound tower related? i did port our number over from verizon too. both phones are rooted with the toolkits and unlocked bootloader if that makes a difference.
i need advice as i hate to leave and go to at&t or sprint which is far worse.

fix-this! said:
i left verizon yesterday and switched over to go gsm but also to save money and get unlimited data back. i got the note 2 and my wife got the gs3. great phones and they work fine except my data speeds are horrid. i live in a superb coverage area to, i get 3-4 bars constant but cannot pull even close to 1 meg down on 4g or edge. this is happening on both phones. :crying:
i called tmobile today and they say it sounds tower related as i live right by it. they opened a ticket to have it looked at but im fearing if i wait this out and it doesn't get fixed im stuck, i believe i can return the phones and cancel the contract within 14 days. do you guys think i could have a couple bad sims cards or does this sound tower related? i did port our number over from verizon too. both phones are rooted with the toolkits and unlocked bootloader if that makes a difference.
i need advice as i hate to leave and go to at&t or sprint which is far worse.
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Goto settings>About Device>Status and post your Signal Strength data. With -83dBm and 15 asu I get a constant 11mb down with speedtest.net.
Where else have you tested your data speeds?

mdt73 said:
Goto settings>About Device>Status and post your Signal Strength data. With -83dBm and 15 asu I get a constant 11mb down with speedtest.net.
Where else have you tested your data speeds?
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i have not tested it anywhere else but will tomorrow.
im getting 89 dbm 12 asu on 4g. i cannot even get close to 512 on speedtest.
does it take time for data to provision or something? i know he told me it could take up to 24-48hrs for my number to be ported. but that happened late last night.

Deleted. shinkinrui you were right. Thank god I use titanium backup.

It sounds like a bad tower
-81 dBm 18 asu here
15.06 mbps down 1.71 up
You should go out and see if you get better speeds around where you are. If you go a few miles away and get great speeds then it's the tower for sure

Agree, it could be a bad tower. They were working on a tower near my office, exact same scenario. A week later, works like a charm.

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Not sure. You can try to enter *2767*3855# in the dialer and reprovision. Might have to do it two times to get it to stick. That will force a reprovision.
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This code is the factory data reset code for most Samsung devices. It doesn't have anything to do with provisioning.

my money is on bad tower too. just switched yesterday from sprint. i got the note 2, girlfriend got the s3. our speeds are INSANE compared to sprint

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my money is on bad tower too. just switched yesterday from sprint. i got the note 2, girlfriend got the s3. our speeds are INSANE compared to sprint
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My dead cat can transfer data faster than Sprint...

Drive somewhere else in their HSPA+ coverage area and run the speedtest again to verify.

It's T-mobile, when I get on train station I get constant -53dBm and below 0.05Mbit, Wanna proof ?

Try the app "fresh network" , and look at your speed test app to see that you are on HSDPA, and not umts.
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fix-this! said:
i get 3-4 bars constant but cannot pull even close to 1 meg down on 4g or edge. this is happening on both phones. :crying:
i need advice as i hate to leave and go to at&t or sprint which is far worse.
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It's the tower. The T-Mobile tower near my house has line of sight and it went down to edge speeds (like .12Mbps down, .002Mbps up) last month. I called them on the 15th and it took them about two weeks to fix it. My speeds are back to normal now, so my advice would be to notify them that the tower is FUBAR, and wait it out. That is of course assuming you get normal speeds other places too, but it would be a moot point if your home has crappy speed. Here's my latest ST:
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Different areas different speeds me and my wife got the same phones and we get average 8mbps down.
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The cause of slow speed might be the fact that T-mobile is restructuring their 1900 band on certain towers. Here in California, I happen to live in an area where they are restructuring the cell tower I am using, so I get download speed of 0.01mbps to 0.15mbps. However, as soon as i walked out of the range of that particular tower, my download speed goes up to 12mbps to 15mbps.

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The cause of slow speed might be the fact that T-mobile is restructuring their 1900 band on certain towers. Here in California, I happen to live in an area where they are restructuring the cell tower I am using, so I get download speed of 0.01mbps to 0.15mbps. However, as soon as i walked out of the range of that particular tower, my download speed goes up to 12mbps to 15mbps.
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I hope this is true. I'm a new T-mobile customer and have had the spottiest reception in the bay area. I've read this article (http://blog.t-mobile.com/2012/11/20...-metro-areas-just-in-time-for-holiday-travel/) and am crossing my fingers. I'm constantly stuck on EDGE when i'm indoors as well.

Same here, I pop in the TMobile sim and I get 1.5Mbps and .3 up. Pop in ATT and I get 6Mbps and 1.2 up. So it's not the phone. I'll try different areas. So far I'm not impressed with their Customer Service and Data. I was happier on GoPhone.

haha438 said:
The cause of slow speed might be the fact that T-mobile is restructuring their 1900 band on certain towers. Here in California, I happen to live in an area where they are restructuring the cell tower I am using, so I get download speed of 0.01mbps to 0.15mbps. However, as soon as i walked out of the range of that particular tower, my download speed goes up to 12mbps to 15mbps.
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yeah that's what was causing it as i called tech support. the issue was resolved within 24hrs. i have decent speeds again now.

I had a similar issue when I first bought my note 2 on release day. Was getting on average about .22 down speed and the up speeds where so slow the speedtest app could never finish running it. Called tmobile and they opened a ticket and got it working within the week. Now I get anywhere from 14-16 down at home and roughly 3 up. Guve it some time if they say they are working on it its just a matter of time.
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fix-this! said:
yeah that's what was causing it as i called tech support. the issue was resolved within 24hrs. i have decent speeds again now.
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Glad to hear your problem is fixed. I've found T-Mobile to be iffy sometimes. But 99% of the time my phone has very acceptable data speeds.