Really weird story.. This all started Sunday morning when I left for work.. I noticed that I was only pulling 3g, shrugged it off and went on about my day. It stayed solely on 3G all day Sunday, and hasn't connected to LTE once, with the one exception being while I was in a Sprint store, trying to resolve the issue, but of course they have their own repeaters.. As soon as I had left the store, I dropped back down to 3G. While I was in the store, they mentioned that they had updated the tower nearest my house to 800 mhz, which is supposed to be better for building penetration, on Thursday of last week.. The manager tried telling me that the tower will suffer weaker signal until other area towers are upgraded.. Has anyone else heard of this? I have tried updating PRL, profile, using the ## command, and nothing will give me 4G, and it's really damn frustrating!
sounds like another Sprint excuse; I couldnt take them anymore and dumped them for T-Mo, which works great in Chicago land..
Surprisingly enough, I received 4G about an hour after posting this.. Curiosity got the best of me, and I ran a speed test
https://scontent-a-ord.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash3/t1.0-9/1794811_10152107763152753_74284180_n.jpg
I have NEVER pulled speeds like that on Sprint, thought it was kind of awesome actually lol.. There may be hope for us yet!
Decent speeds for Sprint. Speaking of speeds, compare my WiFi to my 4g...
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I have a box stock Tilt (AT&T)that I just got last Monday and I am getting lousy reception. I have lived in the same place for 3 years and this is my 2nd Tilt. I don't remember my first one having this problem. I get the H symbol all the time , but usually only 2-3 bars most of the time. I have a Touch Cruise that gets excellent signal.
I would like to know which radios you guys are using and why. Maybe we can figure out which one works the best.
What side of town are you on? I get full bars on my tilt and have no issues.
In Northeast Florida, the Jacksonville 3G area stretches west to Baldwin, north as far as Yulee in Nassau County, and south to the northern part of St. Johns County. However, St. Augustine doesn't have 3G coverage. Gainesville does.
For WM 6.0 => 1.58.16.27
For WM 6.1 => 1.58.25.17 for great battery life, 1.65.20.29 for great GPS but a little less battery life
All of the above radios give me great reception
Jax phone coverage... dark orange is best
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Jax 3G in blue
I'm all over Jax, Orange Park, and Middleburg and I rarely ever have a problem with reception. Just the occasional dropped call or hard to hear call whenever in a big building.
And I'm using the AT&T rom loaded from the factory.
If you don't already know, the unlocked Bell HD7's 3G bands are the needed bands required for AT&T (850,1900). I received my unlocked Bell HD7 from Negri Electronics today and I was super excited to get it going on AT&T here in The States but ran into a very weird problem...
Basically, I can't connect to 3G/HSDPA/EDGE internet. Now, the weird thing is that it SHOWS I'm using AT&T and that indeed I am on HSDPA (see pics below). Calling and messaging work fine BTW. If I want to do anything requiring data, the 3G/HSDPA/EDGE connection won't work and I'm forced to use wifi.
I'm tired of hard-reseting and flipping switches on and off... I just hard-reset the bastard one last time and now I wait for your advise. What do I do? Thanks in advance
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Since it runs on the Bell firmware you must enable the data roaming. In the first pic that you posted it looks like you have it off. Give it a try and report.
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can you post the "More Info" result ???
try downloading "connection setup" from the marketplace in the htc apps section, run it and you should be good to go.
B"H
Seems silly, but did you actually setup your APNs?
Not sure I saw that in the pics.
Good Luck,
Dovid
Look at these horrible speeds i was dealing with while working out of town in the east tennessee mountains....
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Looks like you were on 3G. What's the problem? You won't get LTE in the mountains right now.
thats his point He's back IN a 4G service area and he's rejoicing.
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Looks like you were on 3G. What's the problem? You won't get LTE in the mountains right now.
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that's an "ahh...." of relief in the title, not an "ahhh!" like frustration from getting c**kblocked . I was confused at first too haha
4G is a great thing on these phones..for me..being an RDS--remote desktop support agent..works great and really quick going back n forth..but ohh man where in GB and or 2.2.3 for using FFC
4G in Houston!
I tried my revo in Houston today and I was truly impressed by the speeds. Avg DL/UL was 6 M/sec and the Netflix streaming was smooth as can be given hardware limitations. When is someone going to step up and provide a true high end video package like Coreplayer on my previous Win Mo phone?
4g up and running in worcester county, ma...... And it's great!!z!
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Boo for all of you!!! I have to go to work to see 4G speeds. Not available within 30 miles of my house, and seeings how we were one of the last markets to see 3G, I'm guessing I may get 4G at my house by end of 2013.
I am having trouble ever since the December update where my phone is basically useless except for calls if there is no wifi connection. I live in downtown San Francisco, and even when I full signal LTE, if wifi is off I cannot get much of a connection at all for any apps like maps or lyft.
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this is typical of speedtest (144ms ping, 0.24mbps down, 2.15 mbps up) on the rare occasion it doesn't report network connection issues. I have a N950U with the current BQLA version. I have tried all the suggestions I can find, including cache wipe, trying every imaginable APN name settings like IPv4/IPv6, alternate apns like ecn.t-mobile.com or fast.tmobile.com, all to no avail. If anyone has any suggestions I'd be eternally grateful. It is horrible having a phone that is basically a wifi only device. I can get in a lyft or uber, and get to my destination on the other side of the city and it still will say "picking you up" so I know it is not a tower problem in one area or overloading or buildings downtown. Help!
Do a full data wipe/ factory reset. If that doesn't work, call Samsung for a warranty replacement.
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Do a full data wipe/ factory reset. If that doesn't work, call Samsung for a warranty replacement.
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Or try resetting your network settings first.
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So I recently bought this Xperia 1 Mark 2 and to be honest it's the best phone I have used apart from the battery life.
When I bought it, it was in Taiwan Firmware region which gave me bad network reception like 3 bars on 4G LTE+ or LTE and no 5G at all.
So after searching online I finally changed to SEA which is much better improvement.
But the issue is now I am getting full bars everywhere which is a good thing but no 5G and still slow speeds with full bars I just don't understand.
If anyone can help me understand that would be great.
The bars are pretty pointless: At best they would indicate your reception. In the worst case they show utter garbage.
You should look instead for ASU, on my LOS it's in settings:
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Mobile phone signal - Wikipedia
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That value is quite meaningful, and if I remember correctly, it is the base for the reception bars (and every dev can freely assign the ASU value to any number of bars).
However, reception can be good but traffic is still very slow. How? For example one provider in Germany (Telefonica) was infamous for such thing: You had 5 bars and even a good ASU but still very spotty traffic due to overcrowded and badly connected cells.
Perhaps that helps you to figure out your bottleneck (or to provide more info here).
PS: Found a nice overview - sry, it's german only but there's always google translate, right?
https://www.lte-anbieter.info/technik/asu.php
How has your phone been since flashing SEA firmware?
Also does wifi calling work?