HSDPA on T-Mobile UK - 8525, TyTN, MDA Vario II, JasJam General

Hi All,
for about a month now, I have not been able to get H speeds for download on the T-Mobile UK network, I' flashed many roms, even got back to my Old WM6 room (k's rom) and still no High speed, it seems to me like it is a network problem but when taling to T-Mobile they say that everything is OK. is anyone else having these problems?

Go into start>settings>system>device information
what is the protocol version?

32.83.7020.20h

Hiya,
Just to let you know I'm replying to this thread on my laptop via T-Mobile UK, HSDPA on my Hermes...
I'm using a Schaps ROM (a full version but with TouchFlo turned off because it's a pig)...
Regards,
Rob.

Have T-Mobile got the HSDPA network coverage in the majority of places? I've only got it a few times and the same with a work colleague - only in certain places. Hasn't really bothered me but perhaps something to think about...
Oh I'm also using the Schap's latest ROM.

FactionOne said:
Hiya,
Just to let you know I'm replying to this thread on my laptop via T-Mobile UK, HSDPA on my Hermes...
I'm using a Schaps ROM (a full version but with TouchFlo turned off because it's a pig)...
Regards,
Rob.
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Do you use Internet Connection Sharing for this?

MrEdLancelot said:
Hi All,
for about a month now, I have not been able to get H speeds for download on the T-Mobile UK network, I' flashed many roms, even got back to my Old WM6 room (k's rom) and still no High speed, it seems to me like it is a network problem but when taling to T-Mobile they say that everything is OK. is anyone else having these problems?
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Are you on a contract with T-Mobile or Pay as you go?
The reason I ask is that I've been on Pay as you go with with T-Mobile for years! Last year I bought a 2nd hand Vario II off a friend who was on contract and had upgraded to a Vario III. Like you, I couldn't get H speeds with this phone no matter what I tried. My friend who'd had the phone before me had no problem getting H speeds with it... the only difference is that he was on a contract!
Later in the year I went on a P&O cruise around various european destinations and in several countries I managed to get H speeds, but once I got back in the UK I was again limited to 3G.
Anyway a couple of weeks ago I decided to change to one of their solo price plans and add the £7.50/month for internet use (It doesn't mention you can do this on their website, it only mentions it for flext and combi plans - but I asked them nicely and they gave it to me on solo )
Since then I've had H speeds practically all the time and it's not a different sim card either, I kept the same number and the same sim card - they just changed my account at their end.
So I reckon they don't let pay as you go users get HSDPA with a Hermes for some strange reason. Having said that my brother has a Sony-Ericsson WM890i on T-Mobile pay as you go, and he can get H's. Strange!

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I-mate & T-mobile help

hello all, i just got my I-mate XDA II today and it is a great phone - however i am having a small issue with it. You see i am Los Angeles Area on t-mobile and somehow the phone always conencts to the Cingular network in roaming mode. I tried changing the settings in the phone network - but it did not help.
can you kind fellows please help me out on this - i do not wish to return such a nice phone.
I was even thinking of loading the NL T-mobile 1.60 Rom, will that work??
thanx in advance
T-Mobile doesn't have its own network in California, it uses Cingular's. The network shows as "T-Mobile" in California only on sets that have T-mobile ROM. All others show "Cingular". I burned a European ROM on my MDA I a few months ago, and it was showing "Cingular" as the network. So, enjoy your new phone and don't worry about "roaming charges" in California.
MPD is correct about the T-Mobile network and I won't worry about myself
but installing the T-mobile 1.60 Rom is a good idea!
HTH
bah, replied to wrong thread somehow.
thanx a lot guys for the help

T-Mobile USA Users, How do you like it?????

For all those T-Mobile users, I am in Souther Cali and have been thinking about getting one of these. Can anyone let me know what they think about it??
Sound Quality
Signal Strength
Data Connection speed ( I know it's not EDGE)
Any other info.
Thanks
I had the PDA2K but got rid of it because I was thinking about getting the ETen G500 but wanted to check this out first since it is actually available from T-Mobile.
why not edge?
I thought t-mobile had finished the rollout of its edge network?
:roll: :?:
I swap between my tmo and cingular sim all the time.
both have edge...and the speeds are identical for me.
only problem i have is that i cant get to google.com from my home calling are (texas), but was able to get to google.com fine when i was in tampa, fl for vacation. very strange!
i called tmobile about it, and they said it's a problem with some of their mda users (i have the the imate kjam version). they were suppossed to have their engineers look into it and call me back, but i haven't heard back from them in over a week. I am able to setup my gmail account in outlook and pull mail down fine. and i have no problems accessing google from a wifi connection and an active sync connection.
other than that, tmobile is good. I can access google on my cingular sim, though. If i were you i'd try the 15 day (or whatever it is) trial period, and go from there.
so long as you run the rom upgrades you'll be fine....i'm in Los Angeles and pleased.
ppines01 said:
only problem i have is that i cant get to google.com from my home calling are (texas), but was able to get to google.com fine when i was in tampa, fl for vacation. very strange!
i called tmobile about it, and they said it's a problem with some of their mda users (i have the the imate kjam version). they were suppossed to have their engineers look into it and call me back, but i haven't heard back from them in over a week.
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Have a look at the comment from T-Mobile in this article. They have been trying to fix this for quite some time now.

please HELP! XDA EXEC service line problem.

I am a Cingular user, I was using Cingular for a long time and it worked fine for me. However, after this May, I found some problem by connecting Cingular service. On that time, I was using MDA II, at first I thought my PDA was broken so that I can't get the signal from Cingular and I bought a XDA EXEC from England.
However, problem still there. It is still so hard for me to get Cingular service. I have tried to put my SIM card to cingular phone, and it shows the connection well, at least 3 bars. Once I put it back to my XDA, the connection is very weak or most of the time, it doesn't work.
I wonder if anyone of you have the same problem with me? I have check that this XDA is an unlock phone and it works fine with other service, but not Cingular. I have no idea about what Cingular has done.
Please help, any solutions would be appretiate!
Nachogy said:
I am a Cingular user, I was using Cingular for a long time and it worked fine for me. However, after this May, I found some problem by connecting Cingular service. On that time, I was using MDA II, at first I thought my PDA was broken so that I can't get the signal from Cingular and I bought a XDA EXEC from England.
However, problem still there. It is still so hard for me to get Cingular service. I have tried to put my SIM card to cingular phone, and it shows the connection well, at least 3 bars. Once I put it back to my XDA, the connection is very weak or most of the time, it doesn't work.
I wonder if anyone of you have the same problem with me? I have check that this XDA is an unlock phone and it works fine with other service, but not Cingular. I have no idea about what Cingular has done.
Please help, any solutions would be appretiate!
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The signal is weak because the device does not support the most widely used frequency band among Cingular cell towers in the United States (850 MHz). You will find that as you travel into busier areas/cities/neighborhoods, it will significantly increase
Do you have any suggestion about what kind of service is better? I am considering T-Mobile, is it good?
Nachogy said:
Do you have any suggestion about what kind of service is better? I am considering T-Mobile, is it good?
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It is very likely that T-Mobile will work better in your area. I, myself don't get such great service with Cingular at my home because I live in the suburbs. Anywhere else I go, my signal seems to be fine though.
thefunkunfaked said:
Nachogy said:
Do you have any suggestion about what kind of service is better? I am considering T-Mobile, is it good?
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It is very likely that T-Mobile will work better in your area. I, myself don't get such great service with Cingular at my home because I live in the suburbs. Anywhere else I go, my signal seems to be fine though.
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I really appretiate your answer!

htc tytn with t-mobile rom

I am a t-mobile customer with an unlocked htc tytn. I wanted to know what woudl happen if I loaded my phone up with the t-mobile mda rom form the t-mobile site. If anyone knows please let me know. I have been trying to get the edge feature to work and im in a edge area but I still do not get the signal. Is there some sort of settings that I need in order to get edge to work. Thanks for the help
There is no t-mob rom upgrade available for HTC Hermes yet, probably the rom you are refering to is for another device. T-mob branded Hermes is called "MDA Vario II".
And yes, you need your operator settings for the data connection to work.
t-mobile settings
I am having problems with the tytn. I have a htc branded tytn and I am with t-mobile. I have all of my settings right. The internet works the mms works but the damn edge does not. What am I doing wrong. Whats going on here. Is there a t-mobile expert on this form that can walk me through getting this phone to do what its suppose to do.
probably a dumb question, but... are you on edge coverage?
pof said:
There is no t-mob rom upgrade available for HTC Hermes yet, probably the rom you are refering to is for another device. T-mob branded Hermes is called "MDA Vario II".
And yes, you need your operator settings for the data connection to work.
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Indeed, not yet, but as soon as it'll be made available it'll most likely appear on this site: http://www.tm-phonedownloads.com/mdas.html
Re: t-mobile settings
gordiejamz said:
I am having problems with the tytn. I have a htc branded tytn and I am with t-mobile. I have all of my settings right. The internet works the mms works but the damn edge does not. What am I doing wrong. Whats going on here. Is there a t-mobile expert on this form that can walk me through getting this phone to do what its suppose to do.
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Surely ringing them up and asking would be the quickest way of getting the right settings? You can just ask for them, write em down, and input them manually...
t-mobile rom
Yes I am in the edge coverage zone because I could be standing next to someone with a mda form t-mobile and they have edge and I done. Plus I live in an edge zone and I spoke with t-mobile and all of the settings are right and they told me I should be getting the coverage.
How do you have your connection set up? On my phone (T-Mobile UK), the T-Mobile Internet connection is set up as Cellular (3G, GPRS) in the dropdown box... I don't know what the options are for the US ROM, but I'm guessing they're similar...

Help getting faster than 'Edge' on an O2UK HD2?!?!

Hi everyone,
Wondered if I can get a little help from the masters on the forums.
I've got a TMob UK HD2 which connects to the net on H, a friend got an O2 UK HD2 but he cannot get an internet connection on 3G or H, only edge.
Is this something that O2 have locked down with the phone, a setting somewhere I can change for him or are we looking at putting a new ROM on his phone?
Any help (or shared grumbles!) much appreciated.
Dj
make sure he has a fairly recent simCard, the older ones are not 3G enabled .. I've just changed to t-mobile from O2 as I found O2s 3g coverage to be no where as good as t-mobiles ..
djac965930 said:
Hi everyone,
Wondered if I can get a little help from the masters on the forums.
I've got a TMob UK HD2 which connects to the net on H, a friend got an O2 UK HD2 but he cannot get an internet connection on 3G or H, only edge.
Is this something that O2 have locked down with the phone, a setting somewhere I can change for him or are we looking at putting a new ROM on his phone?
Any help (or shared grumbles!) much appreciated.
Dj
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Has he got a 3G enabled SIM?
Has your friend got a 3g sim card? I had the same problem with my x1 and got O2 to give me a sim card (they should swap it for you free of charge) and voila H all over...
Genius - that would be it. On further quizzing, he suddenly volunteers that he has had the same sim card since 99/2000.
Thanks for the help shadow and rp!
Dj
...and now I shall beat my technologically backwards friend!
djac965930 said:
Genius - that would be it. On further quizzing, he suddenly volunteers that he has had the same sim card since 99/2000.
Thanks for the help shadow and rp!
Dj
...and now I shall beat my technologically backwards friend!
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Make him eat his SIM. Whilst still encased in his old handset.

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