I hope somebody can help me with this. I have a T-Mobile Wing and I can't get a signal in my office. I have no office phone to use either, so its really annoying because I miss some important calls. I'm not going to be able to opt out of my contract either. So I was wondering if anybody knows of any tweaks that can boost your signal strength. I'm willing to try anything and I'm only a slight noob (I recently just flashed my rom, first time I tried I bricked my phone but I got it back up and the second time i worked like a charm). So if anybody knows of any hacks or anything like that, that could work I will thank you forever.
P.S. No those little stickers on the phone don't work.
What type of office building is it? Take a good look at the construction of it and a T-Mobile coverage map. If that building used a lot of concrete & rebar + steel in its construction then that will dampen your signal strength. It also depends on your location within the building. If a huge line of power cable is run near where you are that will cause a ton of interference screwing your signal over as well (depending on if they insulated that run).
Other things can cause interferance but primarily those are it. If T-Mobile doesnt have superb coverage in that area that ontop of the building can be brutal.
I dont know of any software tweaks that will help your signal itself, and most of those stupid gadget addon's are gimmicks anyway. If your building has it tap into the wifi and try some VOIP action.
Lastly, try the T-Mobile wing forum, since they use your phone they might have more options and things you can try. This is the s730 wings forum
Try this one, on ebay not so expensive and suitable for very small office (80 m2)
http://www.qx-tele.com/enpro_list.asp?BigClassName=Mobile Phone Repeater&ID=601
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Since i'm a gadget freak, I thought I would share my obsession with everyone and post new things as I find them. This one seems to be a pretty good idea. Especially if you run around and experience low signal quality in certain areas. I haven't bought it yet...not sure if I will but wanted to share in case someone else was looking for something like this.
http://www.everythingusb.com/mogo-wireless-port-14077.html
Dont get too excited, they claim a 50 db gain, which is impossible. At most an antenna that size might get a 2 or 4 db gain, and the largest gain Ive seen from a real antenna that I own is 12. You cant go higher with planar and yagi antennas, but not a multidirectional dipole. Im also curious how they plan to make a connection via usb - only phones with external ports like the Athena can utilize external antennas. To go through the usb port the phone would need a special driver and firmware designed to allow it.
Did you pick up one of these devices yet? It looks like they essentially set up a VOIP type relay and allow for the cell phone signal to be re-routed over another stable internet connection. There are several different ways of making this happen, but for us as athena users, it might generate some-type of feedback loop or not work at all if we are expected to see our internet signal improve our phone signal, with the full understanding and realization that if we have weak phone signal that we will also have weak data connections as well. The place where a solution like this could work is when we are in airports, close by hotspots that might not have good cellular reception or other ground based internet connection. IF you find out that the solution works with the Athena as a stand alone, let me know. For now, I use the adapter from Radio shack and it helps out for a bar or two normally and provides coverage when I travel to the country. I have also bought other car adapters and the like but can't see the difference in realized performance over the $39 dollar solution from Rat Shack...
Hope this helps and please keep me posted on your findings...
Hello All,
Been reading this forum for quite a while, 1st time posting. This community has helped me improve my life immeasurably in the past couple years.
I got an HTC Tilt a couple days ago. Unfortunately it's not able to be returned or warrantied. When I first turned the device on it saw the 3G network (or at least displayed the icon; I never had the chance to connect). I navigated to my sd card and went to delete Fieldtest.exe, which I had placed there for ease of use from my previous 8525 (I do some network testing for my job). I forgot and tapped it rather than holding down the stylus and opened the program; the 3G icon disappeared and went to E and I haven't been able to get it back. I've tried clearing the memory and have completely reflashed the device using the HTC retail ROM. Also tried kaisertweaks to enable HSDPA and the bandselect tool.
This is really bizarre. I don't think that Fieldtest.exe could have damaged just the 3G portion of the chipset.. but I'm running out of ideas. I've searched through this forum (finding wonderful nuggets of information as usual - can't wait to try Digitaltigre's method for using the Kaiser, or maybe old 8525, as DiNovo Mini) and others to try to find others with a similar experience and I've done the obvious (reflashing the radio I thought for sure would do it). Besides this the device works great - EDGE connects and is usable, voice calling works, tethering works, etc.
Any ideas you folks can come up with would be greatly appreciated,
Thanks,
Shoehopper
ROM: 1.62.502.0
ROM date: 01/17/08
Radio version: 1.27.14.09
Protocol version: 22.45.88.07H
And I'm in a very strong 3G area (-65 to -70 dBm typically)
did u try changing your rom or doing a clear storage?
I tried both. The ROM I reflashed was the same version as the ROM that was already on it however.
try a different one
are you sure your area is 3G enabled? or at least have decent enough 3g coverage.
try this one addon it's called band select. it adds a tab to your phone settings where it lets you pick auto, regular gsm (G,E), or 3G. You can then force it to be on 3G only. The problem is, if this doesnt work it may mean what you thought earlier that either your 3G chip is messed up or you just not in a decent coverage area for 3G.
i cant find it on my pc, if you do a quick search you may unveil it. hope that helps
using 3g off/on in comm manager works for me or if i wanna get serious i use bandswitch or comm manager pro www.commmgrpro.com
shoehopper said:
...Unfortunately it's not able to be returned or warrantied...
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Why is this? Even a secondhand Tilt will be less than 1 year old, and covered by AT&T's warranty.
I tried using BandSwitch, when I pick UMTS it constantly searches for signal (... under the antenna icon and x on the connection icon). Selecting Auto reverts to E.
I am certain of being in UMTS area (Redmond, WA HQ building of certain large wireless organization.. which is also why I cannot warranty or exchange he device).
Thanks,
shoehopper
errr nm i did some homework. Thought i had an answer.
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weird. I have some bugs depending where i am if the signals are real strong, i sometimes cant seem to leave my wifi on and stream info over 3g AND use my bluetooth. Are you running anything else at ALL. ? in the case i mentioned, i sometimes have to turn off my wifi to get my bluetooth to work.
Maybe some weird bug w/ something else your running?
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Why is this? Even a secondhand Tilt will be less than 1 year old, and covered by AT&T's warranty.
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Found on the side of the road?
fell out of the truck?
Stolen?
It was company provided, which means I'm not out anything personally, but it does have a $ value nonetheless. Being company provided but outside the retail channel, it is not able to be warrantied or returned. Sheesh.. people assume the worst.
I am not running any fancy connections. Haven't even turned on the Wifi or Bluetooth. No programs (besides the aforementioned kaisertweaks, and now BandSelect). It's not that it doesn't connect; it doesn't even SEE that there is UMTS coverage available, only EDGE.
Thanks,
shoehopper
I'd try a warranty exchange anyways, if I were you. (Once you've determined if there is a hardware problem...) Supposedly the warranty follows the device, no matter what channel it takes to get to the current end user. Anyways, that's what I've heard, and it wouldn't hurt to try. Just call customer service and ask for the warranty department.
Did anyone tried this out?
http://blog.whitesites.com/How-to-Increase-Reception-on-Sony-Xperia-X1__633958291637656250_blog.htm
Better try to flash an other radio version before doing this to your Xperia.
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At home i have just 2 bars of reception, but anyway it has a very good connection. Only HSDPA reception could be a little more.
If i am outside my house, i mostly have full reception even with HSDPA.
If you're getting a weak signal from your provider, there's no way to magically make reception better other than the provider giving better coverage.
Being that my Nokia's all have full reception in house and the Xperia loses connection in the same location...
rickysio said:
Being that my Nokia's all have full reception in house and the Xperia loses connection in the same location...
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Try to change U'r radio version, that's totaly work
xicloe said:
Try to change U'r radio version, that's totaly work
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I've changed 5 times already.
The issue is not whether it can be resolved or not, it is how slipshod the SE radio firmware is.
Nokia gets it right 100% of the time, so why can't SE?
The blogger on that link may be onto something (ie hardware related, not firmware) - but I'm not going to do that!
I changed the radio f/w to 1.16 - it's better than before, still not perfect in terms of the number of bars, and I sometimes lose the signal in the local supermarket...
X1 signal quality is poor/below average - but not poor enough to take the phone apart like that, or to actually change it for another.
I have already re-shelled my phone, so I have no fear of this. It is actually very easy to get to that part, but I would think that the rubberized coating would help to prevent corrosion on the copper antenna. Correct me if I am wrong, but wouldn't a cell signal have no problem passing through a millimeter of rubber compound?
I would be more than willing to mod this to get a few more bars, but I don't want to cause damage and not actually have any benefit.
If anyone here has tried it please post your results.
i just did this mod so far there has not been any noticable increases in reception but it seems to be more stable with less drop outs
Hello there,
I'm just wondering what the antenna port (or at least it looks like one) is on the back of the SGS and more specifically what it's connected to, I don't particularly want to start hooking up random length wires until I know what length would be optimal (requires knowing what it's being used for and the bands for that use) and whether there's any particular practice that'd kill something important.
(the usual whatnots)imgur.com/UngPL.jpg
If this is linked to any radio system/s apart from bluetooth it could be darned handy!
Apologies if this has been answered somewhere else, searching for "antenna port" just gave complaints about the GPS system or requests for ports of things.
Many thanks!
gsm antenna for sure.
for external antenna for better reception.
no link with gps or bluetooth...
medimel said:
gsm antenna for sure.
for external antenna for better reception.
no link with gps or bluetooth...
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Have you tested it?
It's apparently a MCX connector..
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=757487&highlight=mmcx
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=718233&highlight=mmcx&page=2
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=7573901&highlight=mcx#post7573901
But I'm not sure if anyone ever managed to confirm for sure..
So, from what I can gather from those threads you linked (thanks btw) it's not any sort of uniform port as the sizes don't quite match anything in use, they are however probably right in that this should be a GSM antenna port. I've got another phone on hand here with another antenna port and the two are not the same size.
Well, I'm always up for a bit of hackery so I think I'll carefully shove a wire in and use sticky tape or something else that's not hard to remove to keep it in, see what improves.
addition from about an hour later: Managed to pry open my SGS and according to the few teardowns I can find all of the antennas should be in the plastic that makes up the bit you see below the back cover, removed that and tried the phone, still works and picks up wifi, GSM and GPS signals fine so idk what's going on with respect to other antennas, all I can do is jam a wire in that connector and hope for the best.
oops !
Hey well i tried to jam a wire in it didn't do anything but after a few minutes i realized that now i have no signal reception the only way to get some signal is if i am close to an cellular antenna .I am not sure if it has to do with the wire i jammed or that it's just a coincidence because i am not even sure that it really when in the small hole and touched anything ...
So does any one have any idea what to do now ?
sent the phone to get fixed and got it back working !!! but i still wonder what it was....
Hi all,
Within the past week or so, I've noticed a fairly large drop in the signal strength from both my wireless lan and 3g signals. With the cell signal, it was even dropping to edge sometimes when I was outside in an area which used to give me full bars. Wireless isn't much better, and it seems to be fluctuating between 4/5 signal and 2/5 signal even though I'm close to my router. Again, I used to have full signal in the same location. Nothing really would have changed.
Yesterday I tried flashing Continuum (2.3.4) instead of running the stock 2.2 that I had before. The 3g signal seems to be *slightly* more consistent, although I'm still not at full bars, whereas I always was before.
Is this a common occurrence? Is it my hardware, and can I fix it myself, or do I need to send it in to Rogers? I've only had the phone for about 6 months now. I wonder if it's under warranty still (assuming I flash back the original ROM and bootloader).
If anyone has any suggestions it would be much appreciated. It's odd, but the wifi signal almost gets boosted when I'm trying to use the internet, but not to full bars even when I'm near the router.
Bump. Is this the wrong place to ask this question?
Cheers
My AT&T Captivate has similar issues. Mine started about a month ago. I haven't put any effort into figuring out the root cause.
Yeah, I'd really like to figure out what's up though. Does the hardware just crap out after a few months of use? Thanks samsung!
Lucky75 said:
Yeah, I'd really like to figure out what's up though. Does the hardware just crap out after a few months of use? Thanks samsung!
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This trend happened with my HTC Aria as well. I don't believe its anything related to Samsung hardware crapping out.
So, if it's software, what would be consistent across a ROM and kernel flash?
I recently fixed a network error effecting call quality by flashing a new modem. I know our issues are different, but since you did flash new ROM i dont think it could hurt.
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I896 using XDA App
Stumbled across this article on Toms Hardware today and felt like it was a good read for this thread.
http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/571-wi-fi-beamforming-networking.html
Unfortunately it's not just my wifi that has issues, but 3g as well.
Lucky75 said:
Unfortunately it's not just my wifi that has issues, but 3g as well.
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Have you tried flashing a different modem? The one that came with your current rom may be different than you had before which would account for your weaker signals. Different modems work better in different areas. Try something else and see if it doesn't help, such as JK4 or JL3.
I haven't yet, but I actually had the problem before I flashed the ROM.
Where are you located. I have absolutely ATROCIOUS reception in Atlanta, and ATT says they have some 50 towers down. Your area might be the same. In my basement where I used to have 3 bars consistently, i know have to run around the basement struggling to get one bar to send a text. ATT needs to get their act together or everyone might start switching to Verizon.
In Toronto, Canada. We usually have good reception. It's only recently that I have had issues.
check with other people such as your family and see if they have bad service too, if so call your service provider, there may be an issue on their end. Other than that all I can suggest would be a full reset to factory and a master clear and then restart from there. While that is annoying, it might be worth it to solve the problem.