I'm operating on the Chinese Radio and on AT&T's network. In my area the coverage is great. Even in my basement I consistantly have 4bars. Outside 4 bars. In my school, no service - 2bars on 2G! Sometimes I can get 3G. The building has a steel flat roof and concrete walls, but I still had great signal on verizon. Is their any tweaks I could do? My build.prop I will list in a moment.
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I've seen alot of posts about people doing this. Why would you want to slow down your speed?
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Switching that only slows down internet transmission speed, so if you weren't using your data, or had no immediate plans to you could switch to EDGE- there's a significant difference in battery drain while using 3G
O ok. That makes sense. Think I'll look into that for when I'm at work. Thanks
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Some of us don't have 3G available anywhere near us lol
I keep mine on EDGE because there is a 3G tower just close enough to my house that my phone wants to switch to it constantly. I get about 0-2 bars off that tower but the non-3G tower 2 miles from my house gives me 5 bars. Battery life is nice, too.
Because some people get crappy 3g service but good 2g or edge and the captivate always uses the 3g when available so it can slow your phones internet down
I have cognition rom and instead of having 3g I have this H internet. It sits on 3g for a milla second then switches to H. My buddy with iphone four is getting way higher speed tests than me, why can't I get 3g and get better speeds?
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Since this has only been answered 100 times in the past three weeks...
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=H+instead+of+3g+XDA
AND as far as the better speeds for the Iphone go......you can Google that as well............ I'm guessing your on At&T?
I don't know why but my buddies 3g was consistently hitting 300-350 kbs. The max I was hitting was like 150. We were right next to each other when we were testing this, I guess that the iphone blows the captivate away in 3g reception and speed. Also in the spotty areas he was keeping his 3g and I was dropping down to edge. Kinda disappointed . Had anyone else noticed that the 3g reception isn't that good our is it just my area?
jamezz23 said:
I have cognition rom and instead of having 3g I have this H internet. It sits on 3g for a milla second then switches to H. My buddy with iphone four is getting way higher speed tests than me, why can't I get 3g and get better speeds?
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this is why i hate american cell providers, they want you to remain ignorant. it's not your fault but it is funny that people arent familiar with grps, edge, hspa, and hspa+ it is like they are telling you that you are too stupid to understand so you dont need to know.
the cdma providers are the worst. but att should be proud of having hspa, but i think they want to hide the fact that it is not available in all 3g areas. instead they advertise the hspa speeds as there 3g speeds as hspa works on there 3g network. they dont distinguish the two so you think there network is so much faster in so many places
meanwhile verizon advertises the hspa coverage for att as 3g coverage to make att's coverage look smaller. they say they have so much more coverage, if they showed a current 3g map for att instead of the hspa coverage you would not see a big difference at all. also cdma 3g is totally different from what att has and is not a fair comparison in the first place. how can you compare coverage if the speed is not comparable?
Comparing phones side by side with speed test is also not the best way to test which device is faster, especially if they are on the same network. I am annoyed by the input on this device or Id go in depth. Use some google-foo and read on cell phone signaling and theory and youll see what I mean.
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I live in Southeast Missouri and it seems that when I'm at work (full bars of H signal) I get horrible data speed. My phone won't even load the Xda app. I've been through about 3 different modems and still get the same result. Is there anything I can do or is Att just f###ing us Android users again?
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The Bars indicate the signal strength and not necessarily the quality of your data connection. It is possible to have a good signal but still have slow speeds / poor data quality. It's like that where I work too. I've go good bars but the speed is slow. My coworker called ATT about it and they said they were in the process of getting new towers installed, or upgrade the old ones or something like that, in our area in order to increase the speeds available in the area. ATT told us that they do not throttle speeds but that it was an issue with the quality of the data connection in our area due to the towers in the area and how many people were using them versus the amount of bandwidth the available towers were capable of providing. I hope that gives you a better idea of what is probably going on for you.
I've had a DROID Bionic since just about when it came out (I got it on Sept. 15th) and recently I've had reason to suspect that my Bionic has reception issues. At work I mostly end up on 3G, getting 4G occasionally. I didn't think much of this at first, thinking that perhaps the 4G signal in the area wasn't that strong. I now think otherwise.
Since I got my Bionic, three other employees at my work all got Verizon 4G phones. Two of them have the Thunderbolt and one has the DROID Charge. From asking them and looking at their phones, they seem to have a 4G connection the majority of the time while my Bionic is stuck on 3G. They get consistent, steady 4G while my phone switches back and forth between 3G and 4G, mostly ending up on 3G.
This discovery prompted me to check Verizon's coverage map. According to it, my work is very, VERY clearly in a Verizon 4G LTE coverage area (not the LTE extended coverage, but full LTE coverage). That seems confirmed by the fact that the Thunderbolts and the Charge here are almost always on 4G. This has be worried that my poor little Bionic is having some issues.
Anyway, to cut the exposition here and get to the point, I was wondering if anyone else has noticed poor 4G reception on the Bionic. I'm curious to see if perhaps I just have a bad phone or if the Bionic, in general, is poor in the reception department. I have tried toggling airplane modes and rebooting the phone. That helps me get back on 4G momentarily, but I end up back on 3G shortly thereafter.
In the same boat
I work in Pittsburgh and mine wont hold a steady signal either, unless I set in on this metal canberra by the radio in my room. Kinda weird really.
I have a wilson sleek signal booster I was using with the 3gs. Cell phone reception in north-eastern NY state is kind of weak. So whenever I go to the camping, I can kiss Bell mobility goodbye and forget about roaming to ATT or T-Mobile as the cells towers are too far away.
So with the AHD in Wilson sleek craddle and the external antenna on top of the trailer, the signal goes from nothing to a solid 4bars signal.
So if you are traveling a lot or need your phone in difficult area, this 85$ booster might be what you need.
Reviews on the internuts are quite good too.
Note: I have the older 800/1900 gsm version of the craddle , not the newer LTE.