My reception is poor on the phone. If I stick a piece of wire into the antenna port, it improves. I have flashed to the Windows Mobile 6.5 ROM which I believe has an upgraded radio version and am still having problems. Does anybody have any suggestions?
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Enter to the Universal Wiki and go to the fttp site, then you can download several radios.
The best way is to test the more you can till you get the one with best reception.
What version do you have?
Most recommended are 1.15, 1.17 and 1.18
Good luck,
Most ROMs don't have the radio included, you need to flash it separately. So, no, don't think your ROM came with upgraded radio included. Speaking opf upgraded radio - sometimes upgraded, as in higher in number/date of issue is not necessarily the best for your particular location/ROM combination, so my advice would be to test a few different versions and see which one performs the best in your location.
Thank you kindly for the assistance. It was this issue that led me to put my Universal away and get an Advantage, but once I found this website I decided to see if I could get some help in fixing the Uni. I was missing it
whelp I put the Radio 1.18 on and it did no good at all. I attempted to put the Radio 1.15 on, but the flash utility is showing a picture of a device that is not a uni and it is not working when I try it. I have downloaded the file from a couple of different places on here and it is labeled as Universal_radio-1.15.00
any assistance will be greatly appreciated up to and including my willingness to bear your child. As I am a male, this would be no easy feat so it should show the depth of my gratitude
I have 4 years with my Uni and tested a lot of ROM´s and radios and still have the bad reception problem.
Is something I can live with..., but in some areas reception is so bad.
Some are better than other. I discovered on my personal case that radio 1.08 and 1.18 are the ones that give me better signal and are not a battery eaters.
This must be also something to do with cell provider, on my case, Telcel sucks in terms of reception, and prices and, and....
problem is that it does not work at all in my office. maybe i can rig up an antenna that is on the inside of the phone
DerUbermench said:
whelp I put the Radio 1.18 on and it did no good at all. I attempted to put the Radio 1.15 on, but the flash utility is showing a picture of a device that is not a uni and it is not working when I try it. I have downloaded the file from a couple of different places on here and it is labeled as Universal_radio-1.15.00
any assistance will be greatly appreciated up to and including my willingness to bear your child. As I am a male, this would be no easy feat so it should show the depth of my gratitude
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Yes, some ROM upgrade utility apps will show Magician. If you downloaded a file labelled as Universal_radio - go ahead, it's all good and it is for your device, don't worry about the picture, however, follow the reset instructions for Uni, not the ones shown. Should work, don't see any reason not to. What is the message you are getting?
Rigging up an antenna should be the last resort. As far as reception is concerned, I can have only 1 bar showing or none at all, but that means I still have the reception, it's when I don't see 3G or the data connection attempts to connect and fails, I know there is a problem.
Interesting thing: we have a large mall and part of it has no reception whatsoever for my Uni, yet has some on other cellphones I use, but barely. So when I enter that area my GPRS and 3G connection disappears completely and restarts when I leave, I know exactly the location of the 'communications black hole'.
Can it be that your office blocks the GPRS? Can it be that your internal antenna is malfunctioning? What are the exact symptoms?
As for bearing children for me, I think it's the job better left to the professionals (women)
Forgot to mention, I don't have reception in my very own garage of all places! Drives me nuts!
that probably for the best since I wasnt sure where to begin. I went home and googled it and surprise surprise it's supposed to be darned near impossible (edit: me giving birth, that is)
my whole building is a blackout zone for my phone. other phones are weaker, but my uni is the only one I have seen that has no reception whatsoever. I got the radio 1.15 working and still no go.
I got the uni because I really need a phone that I can realistically work with Word and Excel on to save me the hassle of carrying around a laptop. I don't think anything will work besides a 'custom' internal antenna or maybe I just stick with the Advantage until the new rumored HTC clamshell comes out (assuming I can afford it)
DerUbermench said:
until the new rumored HTC clamshell comes out (assuming I can afford it)
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What you mean with this?
Please share your info about this!!!
orb3000 said:
What you mean with this?
Please share your info about this!!!
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=544734
don't get your hopes up. It's all a part of the rumors swirling around about the Leo and the Thoth since it looks like the Thoth will no longer be of the Advantage line
Thanks for that
Hopefully they really launch something similar to Uni!!
Alright, as a very last suggestion - try factory ROM, it comes bundled with Radio and Ext Rom, see what happens.
it's all a no go
looks like I am going to have to go to work on it.
Now all I need is a plasma torch, 50 feet of nylon rope, a hydraulic press, 17 ferrets, and a bible
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Just wondering, I've heard mumbles here and there that wifi on the 8525 is quite poor. The reason I want to make sure is because I recently updated my ROM and stuff from the factory installed cingular ones to the newest ATT ones offered on HTC's site. For the short time that I had the factory ROM, i could get a fairly good signal, but now that i have the newest rom and radio and all that, I can barely get a good signal practically anywhere. I'm one floor, directly above the router and I can get a 'very good' signal with my computer and my other pda, but i can hardly get one bar with my 8525. is the wifi really THIS bad? i have the settings set to best performance and i've tried nearly everything on this forum.
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Just wondering, I've heard mumbles here and there that wifi on the 8525 is quite poor. The reason I want to make sure is because I recently updated my ROM and stuff from the factory installed cingular ones to the newest ATT ones offered on HTC's site. For the short time that I had the factory ROM, i could get a fairly good signal, but now that i have the newest rom and radio and all that, I can barely get a good signal practically anywhere. I'm one floor, directly above the router and I can get a 'very good' signal with my computer and my other pda, but i can hardly get one bar with my 8525. is the wifi really THIS bad? i have the settings set to best performance and i've tried nearly everything on this forum.
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This has been dealt with before - generally the range is 10 to 15 metres with perhaps 1 to 2 interior walls between. Beyond that is very dodgy.
Mike
if i went back to the original radio do you think that would make it work better again? if so, how would i do that?
Hi all. Sorry to start another thread about wifi on the Universal, but there seems to be no resolution in any of the others;
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=322054
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=292210
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=321872
... and these are just the recent ones. It seems there are a lot of us having problems with wireless range/reception. I think the basic questions we're asking are:
1. Is it a problem with the router/ap or the phone?
2. If it's the phone, can it be resolved with a software fix?
3. If it's the phone, is it another problem in the vein of SD cards (some work, some don't, depends on your phone)?
4. Do any of the more experienced members have these issues, and if so, what did they do to overcome/circumvent them?
I know i'm asking a lot here, but I think we would be grateful of even a sticky thread saying "There's nothing you can do about poor WiFi range" - at least then we'd know.
Many thanks in advance,
Gurney Man
Okay - might be onto something...
As stated in another thread, I just installed Radio 1.18 to see if that'd help. Uni said I had a Wireless connection to my network as I was rebooting it... i'm in the other room, so that's promising. However, I now get a nice SDDaemon error on boot...
More on this exciting story as it happens folks.
*edit*
Next on the list - ActiveSync has decided it doesn't like the phone now. No contacts sync-ing... Ugh.
I think it becuase if speed
i checked the AP(router) when the ppc(universal)connects to it,and i realized that it connects only with 11mbps speed even when the signal is low but with laptop i can connect with other speed like 5 2 1 mbps i think if we could configure universal to connect with 1 mbps we can get the most range. does someone knows how to set the speed to 1 mbps?
Radio upgrade doesn't seem to have helped.
It's an idea at least. Could we not change the connection settings on the router itself? Probably a daft question, as I imagine we've tried the Universal at other APs and still got poor reception.
Continuing my voyage of discovery, after upgrading to Radio 1.18, my comm's manager doesn't work properly, and wireless still doesn't work very well. Should I try an earlier Radio version (1.15) before I put all of my contacts n' settings back on the device?
Regards
Gurney Man
My friend have a nokia N80 and I did some tests, some time ago.
The reception is better. for example universal couldn't connect to wireless AP and N80 it's able to surf on Internet. At the same distance.
What I remener is that the N80 was able to connect at slow perfermormance , connected at 1Mbps and Universal was 11Mbps or nothing...
As you now slow performance is better distance... But I can't tell this to my universal , it always try to get higher performance and not higher distance...
do you know any solution to get connected with 1 Mbps?
Louder!
lol - still don't think we'll get any help. I assume now that there's no fix to this issue. The senior members here jump all over solveable problems - they haven't even corrected our grammar
Regards
Success!
okay, so this is probably I couldn't connect. All I had to do was change the settings on the router to only use wireless B, and I got reception. I felt ballsy after that, so played with the channel settings too, and guess what - changing the channel gave me even better reception. I would recommend any of you guys having the same problems to tinker with your router settings - if you don't have a 'puter wired to the router be careful, you might end up having to hard reset it, but otherwise go for it!
... now to reflash everything and get all the settings back... and get a better browser.
Regards
and then...
when I re-flashed, I assumed radio 1.18 was the cause of the issues I was having, aside from the wifi. Re-flashed to 1.15... no wireless. Going back to 1.18 again. Sheesh.
is 1.18 better than 1.15 in wifi?
I think so...
I seem to get an extra couple of metres with 1.18 - still not exactly the free roaming wireless I was hoping for, but better than just putting the device next to the router to get a weather update for Spb and nothing else.
Very Strange. Mine work well
Radio 1.18. WM6 2.02.02
2 walls (30 cm). No poblem. I've not encoured such problem. (thanks god). In open space, I've got even 50 meters reception (from hotels). So, I'm kind of an alien here no?
Regards,
Cristian Nica
i thought 1.18 was weeker....
nlcluigi , did you always have that good reception, or did something fix it?
I've been playing with the bad reception on my X1.
I've found out that the reception is actualy pretty good when the power is connected to the phone.
Like when either the usb cable is connected, my car holder is connected or when the charger is connected.
Can someone with bad reception try to see if this works for them to?
Maybee it's just my phone and it needs servicing, but it could also be a design flaw because the charge voltage is bit higher then the battery voltage.
I'm sorry if this is posted elsewhere already, but i couldn't find it on the net.
Btw, my phone has radio 1.14.25.55 something and i had 1.16 something, both times the reception improved with power applied.
I have rom version 1.05.172.13 but also with the original release firmware it whas the same.
My phone is a 09w13 production.
So if people could verify this and post theire findings and information, maybe we can find a common cause in the bad reception problem.
never had any such problems
but if you live in a place with very poor reception I suppose it would make sense
Rudegar said:
never had any such problems
but if you live in a place with very poor reception I suppose it would make sense
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I have a x1 that is only 5 months old but is not connecting at all in the exact same spot my old ipaq 910 has 3g reception right now. I am running the 1.14.x radio and updated ROM. But even after factory resetting the phone and before the upgrades the x1 was not connecting. It did work more or less fine in the beginning, but now it is totally useless.
I'll keep looking for a solution. I hope I don't have to trash a phone that I was so amazed by.
I'm on the 3 network in Australia and I find my reception is quite poor.
I understand 3's network coverage isn't as amazing as Telstra or Optus, but it is meant to be strong around the CBD, which mine isnt. Other friends on the network using non-htc handsets have perfect reception in places I don't. This leads me to believe it might be my radio. Even when roaming reception will drop out occasionally.
I have Radio-3.22.20.17. Are there any other Australian 3 users here? What radio are you using? How is your reception? Would a 6.35 radio be better? I've searched XDA, Google, etc and couldn't find decent radio information for the Magic, only found some for the Hero.
Thanks,
Anyone able to help?
i don't know much about the radio side of things, but is there anything else that could be affecting your reception?
do you have a cover on your phone?
does reception improve if it's removed?
have you contacted 3 to see if there might be a fault with your phone?
I have a cover, but reception isn't affected with it on or off. I've also had the phone checked and its fine.
I want to test a new radio/rom to see if it improves but I don't want to go back to Android 1.5 and there are no 100% working 2.1 roms, so I'll have to wait.
Are there any threads similar to this one? http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=563757
Hi there,
I'm from Australia as well. I used to use the new radio to be able to flash the cursorsense rom and it works great. Inside my office, most of the time I didnt get any reception at all but with the new radio, it did.
i switched back to the old radio to use another rom though. (at that time, rom for the new radio is not that much). at the moment, my mobile phone is roaming
you might want to try the new radio (I believe this takes more space than the old radio as my internal space just disappeared). however be careful with that, i think it's the error in flashing of radio n spl that can cause you to brick your phone.
lagu805 said:
Hi there,
I'm from Australia as well. I used to use the new radio to be able to flash the cursorsense rom and it works great. Inside my office, most of the time I didnt get any reception at all but with the new radio, it did.
i switched back to the old radio to use another rom though. (at that time, rom for the new radio is not that much). at the moment, my mobile phone is roaming
you might want to try the new radio (I believe this takes more space than the old radio as my internal space just disappeared). however be careful with that, i think it's the error in flashing of radio n spl that can cause you to brick your phone.
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I ended up trying CursorSense. I hate Sense UI so I removed it, but I didn't notice any signal difference. I also ran Before and After speedtests numerous times and averaged them and the new radio was slower for me
so sorry to hear that...
well, at least i finally found someone from australia using magic and a member of xda as well..
I've not used my Magic on 3, but I can relate to your signal issues on their network. The only contract phone I ever had was with them and I regretted it, call drops and poor signal no matter where I was, I used to work in the stock exchange building, you'd think a phone would have awesome signal there but I'd be stuck on 1-2 bars Sorry to say it, but I think you can blame 3, not your phone.
I purchased this phone on Ebay and didnt realise at the time that it came pre loaded with Telstra software which prevents me form accessing the net etc. I am with "3" and would prefer to keep the phone - can anyone help solve this issue?
your quick fix would be to Flash a new Rom
Thanks for that. Next question - is how do I do that, where do I go, do I need to do via computer/net or phone/net - never done anything like it. Cheers
Oh dear
ok well you will have some fun then, most important is take your time dont rush
here is a link to get you started http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=609477 read this first
here is a link for a video to show the steps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=621930
It looks very complicated at first glanse but it is pretty simple
you can always ask here and many people will help you
Enjoy
Wow. Could probably do this.
This is all about getting a phone for my sister who has vey poor reception at her farm in the country but where my HD2 works great. None of her three children who all have different types of phones gets as good as reception has the HD2. She wants to buy a phone doesn't want to get it home and find the reception is poor and having wasted her money. I could sell her mine (as I quite like the look of the Desire) and try to tweek it - or she could get one of her own from ebay (item 300447152858) which has already been done. Question then is, will it have the same reception - what part of the phone tells me that sort of info.
ozmoran said:
Oh dear
ok well you will have some fun then, most important is take your time dont rush
here is a link to get you started http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=609477 read this first
here is a link for a video to show the steps http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=621930
It looks very complicated at first glanse but it is pretty simple
you can always ask here and many people will help you
Enjoy
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the very first thing that you're gonna have to do is flash an older Telstra ROM after you HSPL it. then you can flash whatever ROM you want. i speak from experience. good luck!
no no no... The Telstra phone doesn't prevent you from connecting to the net, it simply doesn't have the settings to connect to 3...
Ring 3 and get all the settings and create a new connection on your HD2...
argentocruz said:
no no no... The Telstra phone doesn't prevent you from connecting to the net, it simply doesn't have the settings to connect to 3...
Ring 3 and get all the settings and create a new connection on your HD2...
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Actually, whilst you'll get your 3 sim working, you'll have problems getting any desent net connection
Advise, actually flashing HSPL & then custom rom. It all takes a bit of time reading & understanding how it all works but trust me its the best thing to do.
I had probs getting my 3 sim working properly but eversince I started using custom roms, on 1st boot the device picks up the 3 settings automatically & runs perfect
elinoc said:
Wow. Could probably do this.
This is all about getting a phone for my sister who has vey poor reception at her farm in the country but where my HD2 works great. None of her three children who all have different types of phones gets as good as reception has the HD2. She wants to buy a phone doesn't want to get it home and find the reception is poor and having wasted her money. I could sell her mine (as I quite like the look of the Desire) and try to tweek it - or she could get one of her own from ebay (item 300447152858) which has already been done. Question then is, will it have the same reception - what part of the phone tells me that sort of info.
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As far as reception goes, your best bet is to stick to telstra. Or 3 as a second option, which runs on the telstra network when roaming.
Cheers
harry655 said:
I had probs getting my 3 sim working properly but eversince I started using custom roms, on 1st boot the device picks up the 3 settings automatically & runs perfect
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that's actually more because the cooked roms generally contain the.global connectionsetup program that includes settings for most carriers than the rom itself. you can find it as a cab, which should work on the stock Telstra rom.