Where I live we don't have 3g. Finally it is coming maybe within a month. I don't know if we have 2g or 2.5g now. How can I tell, what is the speed difference between 2g 2.5g and 3g? Will I have to change anything on my phone to connect to 3g?
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Is there any way to force 3G connection? I had that option in my Globtrotter UMTS card and it was very good solution to have 3g data transfer instead edge. It was especially valuable if I had weak 3G signal and my UMTS card wanted to change connection from umts to edge. I found something similar in nokia phones: type of connection (Auto, 3G, GSM).
Try bandswitch,commmgrpro or sharps commmgr
Check this thread & this post.
Hi, i'm on t-mobile UK. I've run some internet speed tests and i'm getting about 300kbps on both 3G and HSDPA. Is that normal - i thought 'H' was meant to be quicker?
nokmond said:
Hi, i'm on t-mobile UK. I've run some internet speed tests and i'm getting about 300kbps on both 3G and HSDPA. Is that normal - i thought 'H' was meant to be quicker?
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Not nornal because HSDPA (If configured and rolled out properly by the operator) gives up to 7.2 mbps
Might also depend on your contract. The more expensive your data contract, the higher the speed you get.
out of interest which speed test did you use?
check with t-mobile on your contract. in general, W7W £7.50 users do not get HSDPA included. You'll see the H symbol, but you wont get the speeds.
Also, depends on network traffic in your area, network capacity etc. etc.
I'm on the £12.50 W7W add on and get around 600kbps. not the full 7.2mbps, but that is a theoretical maximum, and you will never get that. same as ADSL is 'up to 8meg' , HSDPA is 'up to' 7.2meg.
is there any way to make the phone roam onto a 3g network over the others...i am in sweden where there is a good 3g network, but i am alsways on H & G, hardly 3G.
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Mina08 said:
is there any way to make the phone roam onto a 3g network over the others...i am in sweden where there is a good 3g network, but i am alsways on H & G, hardly 3G.
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You should not complain then, since H means HSPDA, which means 3G+ and is faster than 3G.
Regarding G, it is supposed to mean GPRS, which is indeed the slowest one.
Maybe your carrier didn't not bother to maintain the intermediate services such as (E edge, and 3G umts).
You get either the fastest or the slowest.
G means GSM
And yes, HSPDA is better than 3G
i know its HSPDA, and G means gsm or gprs, but with HSPDA meaning hi speed, i cant get video calls or streaming when its on H.....if you get me, but i can use them when i get a 3G connection
just tried again and now it works, strange....
I can't seem to figure out why sometimes I get a G connection vs a 3G connection based on the radio icon in the notification bar. Does anyone know what the difference is? G seems to be much slower then 3G.
G stands for GPRS which is a 2G connection and doesn't use the 1700MHz spectrum like 3G (HSPA) does. There are several reasons why your phone would switch between GPRS and 3G. Signal strength and 3G coverage area is limited in the US for TMO is the most common. Certain types of electronic equipment can interfere with 3G as well.
Thanks for the info, I wasn't aware of GPRS. Typically I get E (EDGE) or 3G but inside my office I get GPRS, chances are it's the equiptment. Explains why my connection is so slow inside.
For a while now my 3G connection has not been working but I have full Edge reception and I have had some intermittent H reception. I have flashed the ROM, changed the radio and switched my SIM card but nothing has changed this.
Is the phone made to have 3G and H reception from the same chip, (most posts seem to say this is a hardware issue, that a microchip has burned out on the motherboard)
Maybe someone knows how to get the phone to turn off 3G but retain H reception?
H icon means HSDPA this is part of 3G. So there is no option to disable 3G leaving HSDPA active. But I can be wrong ;d
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High-Speed Downlink Packet Access (HSDPA) is an enhanced 3G (third generation) mobile telephony communications protocol in the High-Speed Packet Access (HSPA) family, also coined 3.5G, 3G+ or turbo 3G...
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-Speed_Downlink_Packet_Access
And I had similar problems, but they solved themselves . I think they was caused by lack of range ( I have H under the table, but over Edge only...).
It might help to diable HSDPA using a program like kaiser tweak.