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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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?
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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.
I've been checking around for a few days with no luck, but i'm looking for just a simple black theme for the cell signal strength bars, not the wifi bars. I want them to disappear over the black status bar background so it needs to be a pure black or maybe just blank PNGs? Compatible with CM9(ParanoidAndroid)
Thank you so much for your time!
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I'm not too sure about what you're requesting. Just blacking them out wouldn't work. You'd still have the grey that is visible when you lose signal strength, bars, etc. The only ROM (that I know of) that has the ability to actually hide the signal (data) bars is AOKP. But note, there is a blank space where the signal bars are supposed to be when they are hidden. If I could, I'd pull the source code from AOKP, take a look, and make a flashable zip file of a mod for you. But I cannot, for I'm no developer. I'm pretty sure someone on this forum would be willing to help you, you might not be the only one who wants this.
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Thanks for your input.
So I was messing around with the settings, I knew the option to hide the signal bars was available in phone mode but not in tablet mode.
1. So first I hid the signal bars in phone mode
2. Then changed it to tablet mode and what do you know it worked hah
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
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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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So, I got the unlocked S6 off of eBay, SM920-F model. I made my research, it should work with the t-mo's LTE and all but so far it has not been playing ball with me.
First of all, even when I am on LTE on this phone, it just shows as 4G which is not a big deal, I can live with that but when I am on LTE, as you can see on the screenshot below, it does not show anything as to how strong my signal is,etc...If I am on H+ though, it does show my signal strength.
And my LTE(4G Signal) is always at about 2 bars at best, no matter where I am, even if I am in the T-Mobile store. I checked my APN settings but I don't think that's the issue.
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Anyone has any suggestions?
Thanks
Someone posted in another thread regarding LTE Discovery and the like apps don't work on the international models. I have the SM-G920I which is also International minus a couple of bands from your "F" global. Anyhow, with my Cricket Wireless sim the network status (not the lte discovery app) shows signal reception and movement however with my T-Mobile sim the network status does not move at all. Always shows -113. But if you use *#0011# the RSRP will show the true results of your reception. Oh and someone also mentioned that not all Global/International phones will display the "LTE" icon in the notification section even when you are connected to LTE. I believe it was carrier or tower/band specific.
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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