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Heya all ! I'm a little pissed at my phone , had to wait 5 hours in a line yesterday to get my parking card. My phone had a no signal for the entire time while other students blackberries and iphones had full signal
i have 4 bars on my lg shine and some older phone
i had 1 bar on my g1 and now 2 bars after sanding the antenna ( yes i'm crazy uh )
So anyone know any other trick to boost this wonderful phone antenna reception ?
( I'm using a rogers rooted phone )
thx in advance
Did you update your radio?
"sanding the antenna"
Dude, not sure you can blame the phone here. Good luck, hope you can get it working better.
HELP!!!
Basically I have the same issue. I get like a phantom signal on my phone in my office so I know it works but I would like to increase the phones signal reception so that I can get that signal and keep it. I saw someone mentioned updating the radio how is that possible?(I just got my phone two weeks ago I have read a little on jailbreaking buy haven't tried it because I saw no huge reason to do so.) Also is there any other way, other than updating the radio? (And no I cannot get a repeater in my office). Thank You So Much.
See my sig for the download of the newest radio.
PS: It's called rooting, not jailbreaking.
evilkorn said:
See my sig for the download of the newest radio.
PS: It's called rooting, not jailbreaking.
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I'm in the same boat and I have the newest radio. I get 0-1 bars AT HOME. Its rather annoying to get such a poor signal inside my house.
evilkorn said:
See my sig for the download of the newest radio.
PS: It's called rooting, not jailbreaking.
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I already have that radio, is there anything else I can do?
You can try the even newer one in the dev section. But I'll wait till HTC/T-Mo has an official update.
Latest Cyanogenmod nightly number 97 (10/3/2010) has the new ril baked in. No need to use this patch if you are running it or a newer one.
Back Story
Long story short, the Chinese group Miui mananged to get / build (not really sure) a new Radio Interface Layer for our HTC devices... I pulled this file out of the Nexus one build that they released and it works perfectly. Link to the Nexus1 version
Over in the Nexus one forum a few people have questioned where this Chinese group got some of the files they're using, as they're really bleeding edge (at least thats what they say in the N1 forum). This newer / different RIL file seems to fix the issues we're facing with random phantom reboots while wifi is on. Also included in this is the issue where the signal bars show an "x" for a second or two after connecting to a wifi hotspot. Also fixed are issues where the radio signal drops before / after receiving a call that plagues AOSP builds (ruby and CM for sure).
Cyanogenmod 6.xx
This works on the 6.xx versions as well as the Nightlies.
NOTICE: As of Oct 2nd this has been "committed" so I assume the nightly that comes out this evening will have the fix built in. Check it out
Latest nightly number 97 has the new ril baked in. No need to use this patch.
Ruby 1.1.1
This works for Ruby. If you are wanting the BT Media Streaming audio fix as well, please see this thread. They are two separate installs.
Shadowrom
It has been confirmed that this also works for Shadowrom.
Bugs
I honestly don't know of any yet... but that doesn't mean there aren't any. Only a handful of us have been testing this thing out on the inc so far. Figured more people might want to check it out.
Credit
I take no credit for the fix. The Miui group built/got it(not sure which), I simply happened to be playing around with some files and noticed the side effects. Thanks again to Jermaine for letting me know more about the rom (and the fact that they weren't plagued by our reboot issues) in the first place so I could start digging...
Of course thanks go out to the entire ruby and cyanogenmod teams, without them we wouldn't have these fun roms. Lastly, IncredibleDoes for doing the Inc port of miui that opened our eyes to it.
Installation
- Download the file and place it on your SD card.
- Load up Rom Manager and hit "Install rom from SD card," select the file.
- I'd probably make a nandroid backup if you haven't recently just in case... no wipe has been needed.
Disclaimer
If this messes up your phone, not my fault Was tested by about 30 people so far, and no issues that we've seen. Please make a nandoid backup just in case.
THIS IS FOR AOSP roms listed above ONLY. Please do NOT install it on any sense based roms.
Downloads
see below
Latest Cyanogenmod nightly number 97 (10/3/2010) has the new ril baked in. No need to use this patch if you are running it or a newer nightly .
dnoyeb said:
Also included in this is the issue where the signal bars show an "x" for a second or two after connecting to a wifi hotspot.
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Isn't this just cosmetic? Or because the phone is switching from 3G to 1x? I've never dropped a call while toggling WiFi on...
larsrya8 said:
Isn't this just cosmetic? Or because the phone is switching from 3G to 1x? I've never dropped a call while toggling WiFi on...
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Not that I can tell... so far the mere fact that the wifi isn't causing reboots anymore is the main reason I'm putting this out there...
anything else is just gravy.
dnoyeb said:
Not that I can tell... so far the mere fact that the wifi isn't causing reboots anymore is the main reason I'm putting this out there...
anything else is just gravy.
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Fixing the WiFi reboots would be great. Though, strangely, I'm at 110 hours uptime with the WiFi on... I guess it'll take a while to verify this fix works.
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Fixing the WiFi reboots would be great. Though, strangely, I'm at 110 hours uptime with the WiFi on... I guess it'll take a while to verify this fix works.
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sounds good. in all reality the one person who can really verify is koush... sending him the idea as well...
(wish I could make it 110 hours! hah... at my office i'm lucky if I get more than 3 hours) so today will be a major test of it. so far so good.
dnoyeb said:
sounds good. in all reality the one person who can really verify is koush... sending him the idea as well...
(wish I could make it 110 hours! hah... at my office i'm lucky if I get more than 3 hours) so today will be a major test of it. so far so good.
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Good job! I hope that solves it since we've determined the kernels don't.
jermaine151 said:
Good job! I hope that solves it since we've determined the kernels don't.
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all thanks to you bud will update credits with backstory if all goes well.
dnoyeb said:
all thanks to you bud will update credits with backstory if all goes well.
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Totally thanks to you! I'm just glad that you were persistent on resolving it.
Please please let Koush know about this, too. Nice work man.
Asterdroid said:
Please please let Koush know about this, too. Nice work man.
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if it works, sure going to send out the links shortly... testing the installer on another phone really quick.
YGPM.
I'll guinea pig my phone for a few days if it means getting CM running w/o locks or reboots.
I'll try out the ruby one!
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
I'd be more than happy to help test either CM or Ruby (Ruby preferred). Just PM me the info!
Installed the fix on Ruby 1.1.1. Running stock Ruby Kernal (This kernal has been the best overall performance Kernal for me on Ruby). Will report back results
I've installed the file you sent me... and holy crap. It seems to work. Really hope this does it or at least puts koush in the right direction.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
ncwildcat said:
Installed the fix on Ruby 1.1.1. Running stock Ruby Kernal (This kernal has been the best overall performance Kernal for me on Ruby). Will report back results
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I am very interested to see the results on the stock one... I forget, does the stock kernel have working wifi tether?
I am packing up a BT-Fix for Ruby right now but will keep it separate, to not complicate things.
camalus said:
I've installed the file you sent me... and holy crap. It seems to work. Really hope this does it or at least puts koush in the right direction.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
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You and me both man... if most testers go a good 24 hours with no wifi caused reboots / drops etc, maybe he'll look at it...
Keep us informed of the progress! thanks for testing.
Just in case you are curious.. I'm running koush test 2 kernel. No setcpu installed.
Sent from my ADR6300 using XDA App
I have had good luck with wifi teather on the stock kernal...didn't work on any of the king kernals.
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I really dont believe its the wifi. Its when the 3g turns on or off when the issues happen, which is when you leave or enter a wifi area. I turned 3g off and didnt use it for 2 days with wifi on the whole time with no reboots. I've have the lockup with just 3g on as others have noted. Also I believe that the lockups and the reboots are a separate issue. I have yet to see where any dev said it was the wifi directly, and with the known issues of 3g+froyo it points to 3g not wifi.
So, if you turn wifi off and are in a good 3g area then you will unlikely lose 3g much if at all, but if you have signal issues then the reboots still exist.
If we are going to find out what the problem is we need to setup test groups.
1 - no wifi, no 3g
2 - no wifi, 3g on
3 - wifi on, no 3g
4 - wifi on, 3g on
Make sure everyone is using the same rom/radio.
nfiniti9 said:
So, if you turn wifi off and are in a good 3g area then you will unlikely lose 3g much if at all, but if you have signal issues then the reboots still exist.
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That's a possibility, but I think I'm in a good 3G area, and the majority of my movements are in a pretty small geographic area. I'll get reboots when my phone is just sitting on a table or in my pocket though in an area w/ strong signal.
Make sure everyone is using the same rom/radio.
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I think what we'd really need is for the testers to check all 4 combinations. There's too much geographic variance to have a bunch of different people testing these combinations unless some lived very close to each other.
Created a CWM zip with the Bell OTA GB radio and successfully flashed it.
if you use this feel free to let me know if it works for you.
Thanks to NFHimself as I believe it was his leaked radio zip (correct me if I am wrong as I can't find the thread I got it from) that I simply updated.
http://www.4shared.com/file/Jcy5-1du/Bell_OTA_GB_Radio.html
Just installed it over Alien ROM. Download speeds are comparable to .30P, upload speeds are a bit better. One noticeable improvement though is that it takes less time to achieve a data connection when the phone wakes up.
can this be flashed onto AT&T?
kshiuan said:
can this be flashed onto AT&T?
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You can, but if you're on the ATT network and have an ATT phone, then you should probably stick with the ATT radio.
Why is that?
Sent using my Home Base Atrix 4G.
kshiuan said:
Why is that?
Sent using my Home Base Atrix 4G.
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I believe it's because the ATT baseband version has been optimized to work with the ATT towers.
For sweets and giggles I flashed this on my phone running CM7 Pre Beta 4 on AT&T and I am getting .5mbps faster download and upload all around.
*NOTE*
Seeing as how we all live in different areas of the world everyone's results are going to differ tremendously. What works for me might be sweeter for someone else. So this is just a little word to the wise.
I am NOT telling anyone to flash this on their phone. I am simply saying IF you decide to flash it, you'll most likely get way different results than I did.
It's not my fault nor the guy who made this thread if you sweet your sweet up
could i test on International with Cm7 Pb4?
now i'm running 1.00
on cyano signal in italy with h3g. i use at&t version no international. For me reception is worse to previous version. Internet is better
pagapervedere said:
could i test on International with Cm7 Pb4?
now i'm running 1.00
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I am using a bell atrix with cm7 on it right now.
I did have speed trouble on first boot, second boot took care of that. - food for thought.
Glad its working for you.
y2whisper said:
Created a CWM zip with the Bell OTA GB radio and successfully flashed it.
if you use this feel free to let me know if it works for you.
Thanks to NFHimself as I believe it was his leaked radio zip (correct me if I am wrong as I can't find the thread I got it from) that I simply updated.
http://www.4shared.com/file/Jcy5-1du/Bell_OTA_GB_Radio.html
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Is it actually different from his leaked version though?
yes the leaked version was 1.77.30s.qn
y2whisper said:
I am using a bell atrix with cm7 on it right now.
I did have speed trouble on first boot, second boot took care of that. - food for thought.
Glad its working for you.
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Tested today....
jump from 3g to Hspa many time...
Cm7 on Europe Atrix...
Now this night i'm testing1,97...flashed with sbf...
this is running perfectly for me... my phone used to run really hot, surprisingly since ive flashed this its been running comparatively cooler... havnt really measured the d/l speeds but it seems a bit faster. all is well
Same here, I'm on ATT... seems to be better reception and everything including faster speeds. I recommended this now for USA ATT... (Atlanta GA Location)
anandsamuel said:
this is running perfectly for me... my phone used to run really hot, surprisingly since ive flashed this its been running comparatively cooler... havnt really measured the d/l speeds but it seems a bit faster. all is well
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Sent from my MB860 using XDA App
I haven't done extensive testing but when I first flashed this the reception at home was MUCH improved. Never ran any speed tests to get numbers.
Here at work where signal is quite poor due to radio equipment my signal is also quite a lot better. Speed tests were great from a relatively dead zone in the office too. Awesome!
I'm using a Bell Atrix on the Rogers network.
bongd said:
I haven't done extensive testing but when I first flashed this the reception at home was MUCH improved. Never ran any speed tests to get numbers.
Here at work where signal is quite poor due to radio equipment my signal is also quite a lot better. Speed tests were great from a relatively dead zone in the office too. Awesome!
I'm using a Bell Atrix on the Rogers network.
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2 questions, how is your phone's temperature? Specially when playing games or been using the phone for long time or multi tasking?
and if I didn't want to use it after flashing it how can I undo it?
Thx
creativedevil said:
2 questions, how is your phone's temperature? Specially when playing games or been using the phone for long time or multi tasking?
and if I didn't want to use it after flashing it how can I undo it?
Thx
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The temperature's been fine but I haven't been paying a close eye. If it were anything out of the ordinary I'd pick up on it though.
You can flash a different radio if this isn't working out. N_01.11.30P is fantastic as well, but I think this may edge it out. If I'm not mistaken it sounds like the voice quality of calls have improved by quite a bit.
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The temperature's been fine but I haven't been paying a close eye. If it were anything out of the ordinary I'd pick up on it though.
You can flash a different radio if this isn't working out. N_01.11.30P is fantastic as well, but I think this may edge it out. If I'm not mistaken it sounds like the voice quality of calls have improved by quite a bit.
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I just flashed this radio after i posted my question. Reception was never an issue for me anyways, so don't know if it has changed. I played HD game for a bit and same result as others, my phone's temp went up to 40 C in less than 10 minutes. I have not seen any radio which can fix this stupid heating problem. With Stock Froyo, never had to worry about temperature issue at all, ever since I have flashed different ROMS and kernels and radios, I haven't found any which is as good as the stock bell froyo.
Voice quality seems clearer and download speed seems a lil higher though.
I just got off the phone with my wife and this call quality has definite, definitely improved.
I talked to her at work in a relative dead zone and the call was quite clear as well. Thanks for sharing this radio!!
I hope that is enough info. A buddy flashed my captivate up to ICS but the mobile data didn't work, could not get an internet connection. Someone reccomended trying a different modem. I'm with Rogers in Ontario, but when I boot the phone is shows AT&T. What is the best modem and where do I get??
Thanks!
I've been using the JK4 modem ever since I flashed my first custom from and its never let me down! Although it all depends on your location I believe, try a few out!
Sent from my Rogers i896 running Miui V4 Port or CM9!
Thanks, but any idea where to find it?
KG3 has also worked pretty good to me, a little searching will help you find the modems my friend. As for the internet etc not working, check your APN settings under 'mobile networks', again search is your friend.
kp1 is stellar for me...youll only get att if your in the gta area and have roaming turned on...sometimes it bounces to att towers.
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OP, sorry to hear that... I have a Rogers i896 too, and I did a flash to ICS 4.0.3 today as well without having too much glitch <knock, knock>.
After flashing done, I went into the APNs setting and noticed that Chatr Internet was being selected and it was selected when I went into the APNs setting screen.
I then selected to Rogers one, and sooner after I tested the mobile data and confirmed phone was able to surf the web.
Hey I'm rogers in southern Ontario too and after switching to any ics rooms my signal went to crap! I tried a ton of different modems and in the end the UKG3 modem was the best by far and it appears that most Canadian users swear by it as well. I get great signal even in spots where I was poor before. Data is great. Speaker and sound is great so I use that and reflash it on any from upgrades or changes.
If u go to the captivate forum and android development and then to the stickies there...its one of the first pages that has a huge list. Can't miss it.
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is your guys data always say H in the status bar?
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g-ho said:
Thanks, but any idea where to find it?
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captivate development section sticky. also it would really help if you said WHICH ics you have. some of them are really buggy. that might explain your problem... they are all still in beta stage. also might want to check your APN settings. make sure they match these
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is your guys data always say H in the status bar?
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3G <-> H depends on the connectivity and signal strength in the area.
JDM STi said:
3G <-> H depends on the connectivity and signal strength in the area.
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so if your in an area with strong H, is your H always in your status bar regardless of if your using data? because i am seeing different behaviour with different modems...
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ptesmoke said:
so if your in an area with strong H, is your H always in your status bar regardless of if your using data? because i am seeing different behaviour with different modems...
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Not always H though. It switches to 3G whenever there is a need to. I also started experienced another problem (posted in ICSSGS Q&A thread, waiting for clarification and help).
When I am on wifi at home, after a period of idle, both wifi and phone signal bars greyed out. Yes, both greyed out. From what I've read on this forum, greyed out bars on wifi and phone signal doesn't mean you're disconnected. While both icons were greyed out, I tried the following:-
make phone call: passed
receive phone call: passed
surfing on the web: failed
attempt to send a Whatsapp mesg: failed
In this case, I would have to turn off then turn on its wifi to get connected again.
That's enough frustration tho :S :S :S
JDM STi said:
3G <-> H depends on the connectivity and signal strength in the area.
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well.. you need to be on an i9000 based rom with i9000 modem to get H (hspa) speed...and signal strength, and depends if your phone is trying to do anything....
TRusselo said:
well.. you need to be on an i9000 based rom with i9000 modem to get H (hspa) speed...and signal strength, and depends if your phone is trying to do anything....
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Fair enough... my phone (Rogers i896) has been flashed to ICSSGS 4.0.3 with KG3 modem. Does it mean it's on i9000 based rom with i9000 modem? Baseband version is I9000UGKG3.
Any comment would be helpful as I am still learning you all big bros.
yup all our ICS roms are based on an i9000 CM9 kernel, and usually packaged with an i9000 modem.
even dark night, which is ported from galaxy nexus runs on our phone with the i9000 CM9 kernels..
CM9 is ICS based cyanogenmod rom... thats a whole other discussion..
Little OT (excuse me) about modem... to get the best fit modem to your phone matching the area could improve data or voice or both capability?
each user swears by a different modem in different places around the world...
but see this page..
sticky top of dev section... lots of information, some is only opinion..
【MODEMS】【100+ Captivate I897 ♦ I9000 ♦ CM7/MIUI ♦ ICS】+【Google Location Map】
click the map to go to another page with interactive info map of what users claim they get in area...
TRusselo said:
each user swears by a different modem in different places around the world...
but see this page..
sticky top of dev section... lots of information, some is only opinion..
【MODEMS】【100+ Captivate I897 ♦ I9000 ♦ CM7/MIUI ♦ ICS】+【Google Location Map】
click the map to go to another page with interactive info map of what users claim they get in area...
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Yup... looked at the page of list of available modems and tried all possible ones for my area, and chose the best one I think it's the best after installed all 3 listed.
I think I have some good speed in the area where I am in now. However, the new modem DOES NOT help the wifi icon/data bars greyed out issue :/
Does anyone have ICS with Data working with Rogers Captivate
Hi,
I ported ICS (ROM WeUI) on my Captivate. Everything works great except that I can barely connect to Rogers Network in Toronto. No data, no calls, no mms.
Does anyone have a solution? I have tried most modems jk4, kc1, kp1, jl2, kg3.
If you have a good combination of ROM+kernel+modem please tell me.
I would hate going back to Android 2.3
Samsung Captivate. Rooted.
Kernel. Semaphore 3.0.8.
ROM. WeUI v0.9.8 by NightShack
Modem. I9088ZNKP1.
Is there anyway to be able to tell when I am using H+ and not just H?
knitler said:
Is there anyway to be able to tell when I am using H+ and not just H?
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in aosp roms sometimes they will enable the H+ indicator. Xposed doesn't work right yet, only way i know right now is probably through a widget on the desktop or going to settings/status/cellular network type will show whether its hspa or hspa+
Mine says E,H,H+,LTE depending on where I am.
Pilz said:
Mine says E,H,H+,LTE depending on where I am.
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Odd I have NEVER seen H+ but know my area gets H+.
knitler said:
Odd I have NEVER seen H+ but know my area gets H+.
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I'll take a screenshot the next time that I have H+ for you. I have LTE right now but I'm sure I can find an area with H+ relatively fast because I live in the middle of nowhere.
Here is the elusive H+ that I mentioned earlier.
It wont show in the statusbar anymore which is what i assume u would prefer. The dropdown and the status screen in settings is about it anymore.
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Cy_n_ic said:
It wont show in the statusbar anymore which is what i assume u would prefer. The dropdown and the status screen in settings is about it anymore.
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Yes it does here is a picture of it
Cool. I know im getting H+ at times but never shows there on any rom iv been on so far. Also i see u have network traffic indcators, also not on any rom iv been on so far. Are u a wizard!?
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I know my house gets Tmobile LTE and H+ if i disable LTE I do NOT get H+ it just goes to H... hmm.
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Cool. I know im getting H+ at times but never shows there on any rom iv been on so far. Also i see u have network traffic indcators, also not on any rom iv been on so far. Are u a wizard!?
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I know my house gets Tmobile LTE and H+ if i disable LTE I do NOT get H+ it just goes to H... hmm.
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I usually get LTE unless I take a call, then it will stay on H/H+ for a while before going back to LTE.
It doesn't stay on H+ for that long which is why it was hard to take a screenshot. It maybe stays for st most 10 seconds then drops to H before going back to LTE. When I had ATT it would stay on H+ for lo get periods of time.
Man, still not able to see H+. Only H and LTE... so weird.
knitler said:
Man, still not able to see H+. Only H and LTE... so weird.
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op, H+ isnt enabled in stock. only a custom rom will enable H+ so that it can be seen in the status bar. otherwise, H means both H and H+.
So I'm not crazy, that guy was just wring lol. Thanks.
knitler said:
So I'm not crazy, that guy was just wring lol. Thanks.
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no, youre not crazy. hes just using a custom rom.
simms22 said:
no, youre not crazy. hes just using a custom rom.
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Its sad that this never occurred to me as the reason.(the holidays and finals have clearly made me forget things) As Simms22 said I'm using a custom ROM (liquid smooth) so that's why its there.
Pilz said:
Its sad that this never occurred to me as the reason.(the holidays and finals have clearly made me forget things) As Simms22 said I'm using a custom ROM (liquid smooth) so that's why its there.
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its been like jelly bean since its been like that, the H doubling for both H and H+. and its been since jelly bean since weve been enabling H+ in custom roms
simms22 said:
its been like jelly bean since its been like that, the H doubling for both H and H+. and its been since jelly bean since weve been enabling H+ in custom roms
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My first Android phone has ICS when I bought it but it was a Samsung so it showed 3g instead. I didn't know this was a ROM feature until now. Its good to learn new things.