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I'm going f'n mad. How can my 3G be so slow with over half my bars lit up...
Accessing websites is slow, downloading is slow. I don't get it. I can barely break 30 KB/s. I'm ready to throw this POS in the trash, it's a waste of money paying for data and premium data at that when it's slower than snot.
Anyone experiencing the same? In OKC.
Yep, phone is a POS.....
Have you tried updating your PRL / PRI?
How about you give some details?
PRI?
PRL?
Hboot?
ROM?
Kernel?
Signal strength (in -dB)?
Do you get the same results on another ROM?
Do you get the same results in another area?
How much data have you used this billing period?
Same issue with me. Called Sprint tonight andsaid I was going to leave for t-mobile. Said I would sell evo for 300 on ebay to pay for cancellation. They covered next months bill (150) and an airave. I am now using the roaming hack (prl 31005) and if they kick me off then I will go to T-Mobile.
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Mine is going bad lately
crisbv said:
Mine is going bad lately
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That's exactly how mine looks, it's completely ridiculous...
Bielinsk said:
Yep, phone is a POS.....
Have you tried updating your PRL / PRI?
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Yea, I've updated everything... and tried a multitude of different ROMs...
Pri:1.90_003
Prl:60674
Hboot:
Kernel:2.6.32.17-gee557fd
[email protected] #15
ROM: I think Sprint lovers
Hardware: 0003
Baseband: 2:15.00.11.19
Build: 3.70.651.1 CLUB294884 release-keys
I just rooted using: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=838448
I used the first method presented, and now I am having this exact same problem! Never did before.
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r u runnin any ad free software or is it cooked in your rom, if it is download the ad free app from the market and just click revert, ( then uninstall if you like I did) then reboot, this puts your host file back to normal and internet will be fast again (if this is the prob)
click thank you if i helped!!!!!!!!!
fldash said:
I'm going f'n mad. How can my 3G be so slow with over half my bars lit up...
Accessing websites is slow, downloading is slow. I don't get it. I can barely break 30 KB/s. I'm ready to throw this POS in the trash, it's a waste of money paying for data and premium data at that when it's slower than snot.
Anyone experiencing the same? In OKC.
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Call them. It's the network. I'm days into it with an executive. Basically been field testing and reporting areas that suck. Contact sprint otherwise they'd never know
I haven't experienced any problems here. Love my rooted Evo!
At my home I get pathetic 3g speeds, maybe 100 kbps or so, but for whatever reason the 4g is stronger than anywhere else in the country I've been. Consistenly 8-9 Mbps. Is that common, an almost non-existent 3g connection but an awesome 4g connection? Needless to say I'm on 4g all the time at home.
I need help!! I have flashed myns Fls5 and the 4g connects but doesn't load web pages . It gets stuck all the time . I've downloaded adfree and have the updated radios. 3g works great . I've tried to search for this but no help so far thanks
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Try opera mini it works faster on myns
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Might be a long shot but do the 3G connection fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10781368#post10781368
Also I had this issue in NYC where it slowed to a crawl on 3G to the point where it wouldn't even load google.com
I flashed another ROM and everything was good but one thing I did notice was when I did a speed test using Speedtest it said the closest server was in the UK for all the tests I ran that day. I was pretty baffled by that.
So unless Sprint is routing all of their connections to the UK, they are just lagging. Try another ROM and if its the same deal and you have everything updated, call and flip out.
Do the 3g connection fix a couple posts up/back.
Check what rom you have. If you have a rom with adfree in it, then install it and uninstall the application from the market. Then reboot.
I'm actually getting better speeds now that I moved to a different rom. Weird, eh?
Myn's was giving me trouble with that because of adfree.
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Call them. It's the network. I'm days into it with an executive. Basically been field testing and reporting areas that suck. Contact sprint otherwise they'd never know
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I've been having this problem for months now, while my friends evo doesnt have this problem, and none of the evos at the sprint store do. But mine does, along with many people here. Ive had the phone replaced 6 times, so obviously its not a hardware problem.
I have spent MANY MANY hours on the phone with sprint, and the executives have basically told me, unless 100 people or more have the same problem in the area, they wont send anyone out to check the network. Since apparantly I'm the only one in my area with this problem, they refuse to send anyone out.
Have you tried the profile reset, and changing the settings so you are no going through their proxy server
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Have you tried the profile reset, and changing the settings so you are no going through their proxy server
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Yes, everything. I have done everything the techs on the phone and in the store can do. I have gotten 3 refurb evo's and 3 new ones, all have the same problem. When I roam on verizon (using the verizon prl) even with 1 bar of verizon service I get 10 times as fast as I do with 6 bars on sprint.
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Might be a long shot but do the 3G connection fix.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=10781368#post10781368
Also I had this issue in NYC where it slowed to a crawl on 3G to the point where it wouldn't even load google.com
I flashed another ROM and everything was good but one thing I did notice was when I did a speed test using Speedtest it said the closest server was in the UK for all the tests I ran that day. I was pretty baffled by that.
So unless Sprint is routing all of their connections to the UK, they are just lagging. Try another ROM and if its the same deal and you have everything updated, call and flip out.
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it does this to me all the time on 4G on any sense rom, and the CM6-7+4G roms. There are days it tells me I am in the UK.
I have a rooted EVO 4G with the stock Rom and I have been experiencing slow speeds lately. I've tried searching the net and have found numerous articles that contradict one another at times. Most pages sujjest to change the prl so I've tried that and have had no luck thus far. I do not want to do the prl hack where I would use verizons towers because ay the moment I do not want to get terminated from Sprint. I just do not like the speeds I've been getting lately. Had anyone had any luck with some type of modification to their phone that has helped speed their data up??
I live in new York city and almost always have 3 to 4 bars of reception. So I don't think that's the problem.I'm attaching 2 screenshots of my speed results. Obviously the faster one is where I was using 4G. I have tried multiple prl files and the speed is around the same with each. Any help would be greatly appreciated
Most pages sujjest to change the prl so I've tried that and have had no luck thus far.
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PRL has nothing to do with sprint. The prl update just updates the towers you connect to when roaming.
Had anyone had any luck with some type of modification to their phone that has helped speed their data up??
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There is no mod you can do, Sprint's speeds just suck right now. I personally got the evo in June of last year on launch day. For a few months, I got perfectly normal speeds, around 2mbps. In November of last year, my speeds went to about 100kbps, and I haven't gotten above 150kbps on sprint's network since then. Nothing you can do about it, Sprint just needs to majorly update their network, and we all know that isnt going to happen anytime soon.
Try the ##3282# option fix...it can help in some cases...did for me...
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Try the ##3282# option fix...it can help in some cases...did for me...
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By how much?
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PRL has nothing to do with sprint. The prl update just updates the towers you connect to when roaming.
There is no mod you can do, Sprint's speeds just suck right now. I personally got the evo in June of last year on launch day. For a few months, I got perfectly normal speeds, around 2mbps. In November of last year, my speeds went to about 100kbps, and I haven't gotten above 150kbps on sprint's network since then. Nothing you can do about it, Sprint just needs to majorly update their network, and we all know that isnt going to happen anytime soon.
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Same exact thing happened to me. Was 2 up 1 down til about November, then 150kbps.
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You can try the 3G Turbocharger, it's in the V6 Supercharger thread. I'm pretty sure it just makes some changes to your build.prop to help with your connection.
I honestly didn't see much of a difference using it, but I rarely use 3g. A lot of people claimed that it helped, so it may be worth a shot.
The bottom line is that Sprint's service sucks. With the new influx of heavy data users, there's even more strain on the network. I'm lucky, I still get usable speeds, but some people get just awful speeds. If Sprint doesn't step it up and do something, they're going to lose customers.
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Try the ##3282# option fix...it can help in some cases...did for me...
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What option are you talking about? What modifications are you suggesting to make?
your posted speeds are faster than mine lol
Those speeds are better than my 3g, and I don't even have 4g to compare.
My 3G used to be good until earlier this month. I could sometimes snag 1000kbps but now I pull dismal numbers. It seems that the bad 3g speeds are because of heavy network traffic. When I speedtest at around 1am, my speeds go back up to the 1000kbps range.
I suspect the iPhone 4S had something to do with this, and also the S2 was released fairly recently.
I've noticed spotty and inconsistent data/service on my phone. Even with full bars I get data speeds like shown in the attachments. When using the phone it will sometimes say I have no data connection and ask me to retry. I retry a few times and it finally loads whatever it is I'm loading. I've also noticed that my phone sometimes gets a little warm while in use. I've tried different modems with the same results and I'm about ready to just take it to the sprint store and get it swapped. Any suggestions on what might fix it? I can confirm that it is something with my phone because I've run side by side speed tests with my friends OG epic and their speeds are normal. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Make sure you have the HA/AAA passwords and also i figured out that in QPST in the PPP tab then click Um make sure the user ID and tether NAI are both Nulled
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I've noticed spotty and inconsistent data/service on my phone. Even with full bars I get data speeds like shown in the attachments. When using the phone it will sometimes say I have no data connection and ask me to retry. I retry a few times and it finally loads whatever it is I'm loading. I've also noticed that my phone sometimes gets a little warm while in use. I've tried different modems with the same results and I'm about ready to just take it to the sprint store and get it swapped. Any suggestions on what might fix it? I can confirm that it is something with my phone because I've run side by side speed tests with my friends OG epic and their speeds are normal. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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Thats about what I get too. Its a combo of this phone and Sprints crappy network! My evo got better speeds as well.
I am getting the same thing too. Funny thing is that it just started being this way recently, it wasn't always slow. It is not just the data speeds, I am getting no service in places where I used to get service.
I have been seriously thinking about switching carriers and moving to t-mobile but a little afraid because I have been with sprint forever.
If something don't change by the end of the month, sprint may be losing another customer since the GSIII is on ALL carriers.
I am in Raleigh/Durham NC by the way.
I agree... it didn't feel so bad until I got my ET4G, but I just figured it was a network issue. I'm trying the EL29 modem on my Calks 1.6 now. If anything I'll try going fully stock and see if that helps.
Welcome to the Sprint network
Some people are experiencing network issues in places where Sprint is upgrading to LTE. I don't know how far-reaching the effects are but could possibly have something to do with it.
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Make sure you have the HA/AAA passwords and also i figured out that in QPST in the PPP tab then click Um make sure the user ID and tether NAI are both Nulled
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lol wtf
Yes, I notice the same thing lately with Sprint Wimax, I may have to dumb Sprint later. Sprint data speed gradually slows down from time to time, some area, Sprint shows only 1X, I look at friends' phones with Verizon, ATT and Tmobile, they have very good speed. My brother has Verizon LTE phone, I speedtested at the same location, he got like 17mbps download and upload is about 15mbps, mine is 1X speed. Suck, I gonna say goodbye to Sprint later.
Welcome to the Sprint network with the New iPhone4s d-bags. Seems like things were great till they showed up. Even my Evo got slower.
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Maybe your phone is stuck in 1x..
What i do is i go into debug (##debug# in dialer) and i go to others, and then i select hdr/1x and i click on evdo mode. Try doing this but you need your msl.
Caution: ive tried it on ics roms and its really weird. Try going on a GB rom and do that. Oh and on EVDO, you wont be able to recieve messages, so when you are done change the setting back to hybrid.
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I am getting the same thing too. Funny thing is that it just started being this way recently, it wasn't always slow. It is not just the data speeds, I am getting no service in places where I used to get service.
I have been seriously thinking about switching carriers and moving to t-mobile but a little afraid because I have been with sprint forever.
If something don't change by the end of the month, sprint may be losing another customer since the GSIII is on ALL carriers.
I am in Raleigh/Durham NC by the way.
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NC market has some EVDO issues affecting certain users.
I was just told this after getting off the phone with them earlier today for a different issue.
Still incredibly slow, but I'm hoping the network update fixes some things. Thanks for the information though!
Hello XDA.
I have a Samsung Galaxy III and I get very low speeds on 4G LTE. My phone is completely stock. No roms, not unlocked, nothing. It sometimes takes me up to 3-4 minutes to open up www.google.com on my phone. I ran some speed tests and come up very short to what LTE should be. My data usage is only about 1 GB a month. I am not being throttled. I have no clue what to do. Please help? I have included a picture of my speed tests... (I had 3 bars when I ran the test)....
Thank you.
*EDIT: my attached picture is not showing up. It shows 0.08 down and 0.16 up. Not cool!
What modem are you on? If you're not in the newest I'd flash the newest modem. If it constant no matter where you go then I'd say its bad hardware that your internal antenna is bad and you should take it in, but you can call your service provider firat and have them refresh your network on your phone for you. That's WAY below AT&T's threshold and would deem that faulty if they can't fix it with a refresh.
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What modem are you on? If you're not in the newest I'd flash the newest modem. If it constant no matter where you go then I'd say its bad hardware that your internal antenna is bad and you should take it in, but you can call your service provider firat and have them refresh your network on your phone for you. That's WAY below AT&T's threshold and would deem that faulty if they can't fix it with a refresh.
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I'm on LK3 modem.
I called AT&T yesterday, was on the phone for over 1 hour, they reset everything and tried but nothing. It's not always this bad. I have noticed after 2am it goes up to 4mbps. They did not fix it with a refresh. After about an hour they put in a ticket for me. They said it should be good in a week. But I doubt that.
Thanks for the reply. I really do want to get this fixed.
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I'm on LK3 modem.
I called AT&T yesterday, was on the phone for over 1 hour, they reset everything and tried but nothing. It's not always this bad. I have noticed after 2am it goes up to 4mbps. They did not fix it with a refresh. After about an hour they put in a ticket for me. They said it should be good in a week. But I doubt that.
Thanks for the reply. I really do want to get this fixed.
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Yeah you could flash another modem and see if that fixes it or you could just call it faulty and go up to att and show them. They probably will send you to a warranty location and you'll get a new device but usually its a drive to get there atleast for me it is. At this point I'd just take it back and to hell with the bs they feed to so they dont have to replace the device. Good luck hopefully you can get it resolved.
After more tests, 4G which is HSPA+ is faster than 4G LTE.
on 4G I got 5mbps, which I am happy about. with LTE I get 0.08 mbps. weird.
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After more tests, 4G which is HSPA+ is faster than 4G LTE.
on 4G I got 5mbps, which I am happy about. with LTE I get 0.08 mbps. weird.
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I'd def take that it because if that holds true then with lte you should be getting amazing fast speeds like 10 to 15mbps higher than 4g. When I'm in Chicago I'm at 32mbps download on lte and 18mbps on non lte and when I'm in my hometown its only 5 to 10 Mbps on lte and maybe 1 or 2mbps on non lte.
This was when I just in the city for work. It was wondeful but I pretty much blew through my 3GB data package with it.
Thank you DamageSource. I'm glad you replied. I am going to take it in today to an AT&T store. I noticed when I was at the bank today I got 20 mbps!!! am I crazy? is my phone acting up? How can service be really ****ty where I work and where I live but the bank is ok? My area has full LTE coverage. I'm gonna try a SIM card switch first, and then see what happens.
EDIT* Another thing I noticed, my network is not LTE it says "cell"
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Thank you DamageSource. I'm glad you replied. I am going to take it in today to an AT&T store. I noticed when I was at the bank today I got 20 mbps!!! am I crazy? is my phone acting up? How can service be really ****ty where I work and where I live but the bank is ok? My area has full LTE coverage. I'm gonna try a SIM card switch first, and then see what happens.
EDIT* Another thing I noticed, my network is not LTE it says "cell"
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Yeah that's definitely a problem. Let me know what happens after the sim card I'm curious about this signal thing.
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Yeah that's definitely a problem. Let me know what happens after the sim card I'm curious about this signal thing.
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*Update: Got my sim card replaced, of course when I was in the store I had 4G LTE and 4 bars of signal and I got 6 mpbs download. I said sure I will take that for the meantime, however as soon as I stepped out of the AT&T store I get 1.5 mpbs. I think it might be my antenna or phone? This is so weird. I have never had this problem before. I seriously cannot use my phone for anything besides text and calling.
What should I do? I doubt they will replace it for free. They will say some bull**** about how I dropped it in water or on the ground or something. My phone has never touched water and has been in an otter box case the whole time.
I honestly feel trapped. Do I have to dish out $$$ on a brand new phone?
Sorry for the rant, just tired and frustrated.
1.5mpbs be thankful about that in los angeles with so many people using LTE espically where i live & work I usually get around .15mps. As soon as I go out of LA area i get 15mpbs+.
Imo AT&T should put more towers and upgrade the towers that is being used most frequently, and not advertise LTE EVERYWHERE where the population might be 100 people.
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*Update: Got my sim card replaced, of course when I was in the store I had 4G LTE and 4 bars of signal and I got 6 mpbs download. I said sure I will take that for the meantime, however as soon as I stepped out of the AT&T store I get 1.5 mpbs. I think it might be my antenna or phone? This is so weird. I have never had this problem before. I seriously cannot use my phone for anything besides text and calling.
What should I do? I doubt they will replace it for free. They will say some bull**** about how I dropped it in water or on the ground or something. My phone has never touched water and has been in an otter box case the whole time.
I honestly feel trapped. Do I have to dish out $$$ on a brand new phone?
Sorry for the rant, just tired and frustrated.
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Well they can see if its water damages by a sticker so if its never been wet don't worry about it. Also just keep the speed test data and go up there later and show them. I was once told the att stores have tower amplifiers at the stores to give you better speeds when you're looking at them in the store. Just show them and demand it. That's what I did before when this thing had no data and full bars.
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Well they can see if its water damages by a sticker so if its never been wet don't worry about it. Also just keep the speed test data and go up there later and show them. I was once told the att stores have tower amplifiers at the stores to give you better speeds when you're looking at them in the store. Just show them and demand it. That's what I did before when this thing had no data and full bars.
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Damage you had the same problem before?
What was the issue? How was it resolved.
You've been so much help through all this, thanks man!
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Damage you had the same problem before?
What was the issue? How was it resolved.
You've been so much help through all this, thanks man!
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I wounds up getting a new phone which seems to help a ton and no problem glad I could help
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I wounds up getting a new phone which seems to help a ton and no problem glad I could help
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I got a email saying my issue has been resolved. However I get 0.26 down/ 0.15 up.
I called back and they reopened the issue and will send it higher up. and it should be fixed by February 2nd. I feel like they are dicking me around. It sucks when my friends get around 20 mbps and I get 0.04 - 0.64 mbps down. I told them about how you got a new phone that fixed the issue but they didnt even mention is and told me to "turn off and turn on my phone". BS!
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I got a email saying my issue has been resolved. However I get 0.26 down/ 0.15 up.
I called back and they reopened the issue and will send it higher up. and it should be fixed by February 2nd. I feel like they are dicking me around. It sucks when my friends get around 20 mbps and I get 0.04 - 0.64 mbps down. I told them about how you got a new phone that fixed the issue but they didnt even mention is and told me to "turn off and turn on my phone". BS!
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You're better off going up to the store. On the phone you can't get anything done. They just feed you more and more crap until you either go up there or just stop caring. Like I said, keep the speed test logs and show up there and don't take no for an answer. You are a paying customer paying for lte not 2G speeds.
hello, I am a sprint user since January 2015 once I got the phone I immediately rooted it and installed galaxy tools so I will be able to activate the native hotspot feature. for 2 months now my speeds where fantastic bUT for one week now my speeds on the phone R the way the where but tethering speeds have gone down to 0.5 Mbps .
I contacted sprint and asked for my MSL code number and I was able to get the code.I have changed the dss and all the throttle and my speeds on the phone have improved but nothing happened for the tethering speed.
my question is is sprint able to throttle down only the hot spot speed and if so what can I do to get my old speeds?
Pay 4 tethering....[emoji23]
Maybe they are catching on people stealing a service
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I suspect throttling myself but if you reboot your phone the connection usually improves. Each time the data flow chokes... REBOOT. Other than that, Sprint is working on the network/cell sites all the time and you might have to give it a few days for it to go back to normal. For example the last couple of days I have had trouble keeping a LTE signal and tethering has been acting up as well. At times it's great and other times it's not. It's been this way for me for a long time... not just the note 4 but also with the S3 and the Note 2 as well. Ofcourse the Note 4 works with the Sprint Spark network and they're constantly working on the network everywhere. I've yet to figure out how come Sprint isn't able to "fix" the network and make tthings work dependably after a few years now. You'd think after "working on the network" for three years, they might have something respectable accomplished... but that's not the case. They can work on the network for the next ten years and it will still be subpar to pre-paid data service. That's just a shame. But when it does work well, it's definetely good enough for me especially with an unlimited plan. LOL
I've personally haven't had issues with throttle. I did however get a termination letter for using a lot of data. Which i called them about, nothing happened. I did have the unlimited all plan.
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I've personally haven't had issues with throttle. I did however get a termination letter for using a lot of data. Which i called them about, nothing happened. I did have the unlimited all plan.
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If you don't mind how much data did you use? Typically the only time you get a termination letter is when you use excess of 800mb of data while roaming. I have used over 200gb of data on my note 3 for months in a row (was over the summer in florida where LTE was amazing) and never gotten said letter. However someone I knew had used about 1.2gb while roaming (the contract I believe says 800mb allotted while roaming domestically) and got the same letter a week later.
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If you don't mind how much data did you use? Typically the only time you get a termination letter is when you use excess of 800mb of data while roaming. I have used over 200gb of data on my note 3 for months in a row (was over the summer in florida where LTE was amazing) and never gotten said letter. However someone I knew had used about 1.2gb while roaming (the contract I believe says 800mb allotted while roaming domestically) and got the same letter a week later.
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I think it was around 300gb, but not roaming. It was all on sprint network. They knew they were wrong to send that, they didn't act upon the letter. Last year the service around my work place gotten real bad. I was pretty angry about it. So I flashed the Verizon prl and used about 100gb of roaming 3g data. Never got anything either, I was trying to get kicked out. So, long story short, I am still with sprint. Actually their service has improved greatly in Chicago land area.
I tether all the time multiple devices, never slows down. Tethering at LTE speeds when I need it. I use a ton of data, we all do, all 4 lines. Never had a letter, notice etc. Sprint rocks in my area!
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hello, I am a sprint user since January 2015 once I got the phone I immediately rooted it and installed galaxy tools so I will be able to activate the native hotspot feature. for 2 months now my speeds where fantastic bUT for one week now my speeds on the phone R the way the where but tethering speeds have gone down to 0.5 Mbps .
I contacted sprint and asked for my MSL code number and I was able to get the code.I have changed the dss and all the throttle and my speeds on the phone have improved but nothing happened for the tethering speed.
my question is is sprint able to throttle down only the hot spot speed and if so what can I do to get my old speeds?
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You could speed up your data speed? Could you tell me how ?
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You could speed up your data speed? Could you tell me how ?
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Speed up the data? I want to know TOO!
I never seem to have LTE Hotspot throttling issues here. Using Speedtest.net I actually get consistently faster results on my tethered devices than I do on the Note 4 alone. I usually see between 6-9mbps on phone, and 12-17 mbps on tether! And these results are only with 2-3 signal bars LTE service at my home. This Note 4 with spark puts my old S3 to shame. I think Sprint has actually improved their network in Southern California quite a bit! Spark is much faster than the old regular LTE and seems to hold a lock on the signal much better.