I have prepaid 30/mo with T-Mobile. My phone had issues with 3G for some reason so I run on Edge all the time. Certain places in my house my signal drops but a foot over its there. I tested with my sisters phone, also a p880, and she has 2bars+ in those areas. She's running stock ics(maybe JB idk) and I'm running Omnirom KitKat. Any reason for my phone sucking? Any fixes?
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My xperia seems to have developed a very odd issue. It will connect via edge and get a full signal. The, after a minute or two, it will flip to 3g, but drops to no more than two bars, generally one, and sometimes, it drops the signal altogether. It will generally come back with a full signal and edge, only to drop the signal to just a couple of bars (at most), and repeat.
If anyone could offer any suggestions, I would appreciate them very much. I'm running the stock, latest xperia ROM (to my knowledge; ROM 1.0.3.948.8, Radio 1.14.25.55)
I also tried a friend's SIM. I didn't want to use data on his plan, but his SIM seemed to exhibit the same behavior.
My phone(XV6900 Verizon) recently decided it wanted nothing to do with 3G towers or connections. It also started burning through batteries twice as fast. The radio seems to be malfunctioning, 3G will show every once in a while....but just for a moment before it switched back to 1X or E. This all started randomly while running Myn's rls 5. Although it is pervasive and I get the exact same results even after flashing back to stock Verizon ROM and upgrading to 3.77.78 radio from 3.77.77 I was running. I have driven from Washington D.C. to Florida while streaming Pandora and never lost 3G signal. My town is fully covered and my house never used to have anything less than 3 bars of 3G signal.
What could be causing this sudden refusal to work with 3G?? I've been trying everything I could think of for a few weeks now. All sorts of flashing of ROMs and all have the same problem. Here's to hoping you guys have some insight....
I am near the DC area and have found that lately (past couple of weeks) I get more dead spots and/or Extended area coverage than I used to. My buddy that I carpool with has an Incredible and his overall coverage problems are not much better than mine (he just switched from an Eris, which also had these issues lately). That battery drain may most likely be from searching for 3G signal. I also recently drove from this area to southern VA and back using Pandora without problem. Hate to say it may be just Verizon mucking things up around here.
Jiggity Janx said:
I am near the DC area and have found that lately (past couple of weeks) I get more dead spots and/or Extended area coverage than I used to. My buddy that I carpool with has an Incredible and his overall coverage problems are not much better than mine (he just switched from an Eris, which also had these issues lately). That battery drain may most likely be from searching for 3G signal. I also recently drove from this area to southern VA and back using Pandora without problem. Hate to say it may be just Verizon mucking things up around here.
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My 3G isn't spotty, it's non-existent. When the phone finds a 3G tower and I force a data connection it will try and fail. Then it will eventually make a 1X connection.
My brother-in-law gave me an S5 Active (5.0) last week . I played around with it on Wi-Fi and decided to put my SIM card in and try it out for a while. I'm really trying to like this phone, but it's got some issues that are terribly annoying. The cell signal is terrible just about everywhere I am it seems. It's mostly stuck to 4G, but frequently switches between 4G and LTE. I came from a Lumia 640, and I had LTE and excellent signal everywhere the S5 struggles to even get 2 bars of 4G. My mom lives in a rural area and my 640 had LTE in several parts of her house while the S5 cant obtain a signal to save it's life, let alone it's battery. When it loses its signal or I switch on Airplane Mode to reset it, it takes forever to get a signal back, sometimes I have to reboot the phone to get connected again.
I would really like to root it and flash a different radio if that is even an option. But from what I've seen on the forums you can't downgrade from 5.0. I'd also like to change the DPI because Lollipop really knows how to make a 5" screen look small.. But doing this requires root also.
Does anyone else have signal issues like this with their S5/Active? Anything I can do to fix it? Btw, I'm on Cricket and my location is Southeast Michigan.
Bought this device 3 week ago. Went for a train ride over a route that I used to use my Sony Xperia Z2. Using the same sim, I noticed the T815 LTE was constantly losing its signal both data (H+ etc) and GSM. I gave it a few week, just in case EE (TPO) was playing games with its signals and masts but no change was noticed. I had rooted the ROM but reverted back to stock, still with no change in the problem. I took it back to the Samsung shop where they replaced the tablet. The replacement is working correctly.
I have an unlocked At&T Samsung Note 3 (N900A), that is currently having problems with strong connections to T-mobile networks.
It does occasionally connect to the network but it has a constant drop off and unbelievable slowness when out calling. The averages 2 bars out of the 5, and the system barely even connects to data (but when it does it is 4G LTE, usually when standing still or near a cell tower)
I have set the APN according to t-mobile's instructions (for the N900T) support.t-mobile.com/docs/DOC-27711
I am currently limited to an original T-Mobile Prism (3G) at the moment, and I really want to start using this phone as my daily driver, but if I cannot have even working calls, whats the point.
Does anyone have any solution to increase the connection fidelity? I really want to start using this phone as my daily driver, but if I cannot have even working calls, whats the point.
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I have an unlocked At&T Samsung Note 3 (N900A), that is currently having problems with strong connections to T-mobile networks.
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Might be the network don't like the N900a as I'm on Metropcs with my N900a and signal is bad too. I have tried different APN settings with no luck. I have tried stock NC2 Rom and rooted and currently on [ROM]AryaMod V8.3 TW Lollipop For ATT [Port] and no better signal. I'm only quarter mile from cell tower.