The USA 3G rollout for TMobile seems to have been pretty quiet... had a few questions if anyone out there has any info. I have a universal, I live in San Francisco, and I've been driven to alcoholism by the slow speeds of GPRS. I heard that T-Mobile's 3G network has been working here in SF for a month or so, NY had it a few months ago, and that today is the "official" launch of the nationwide(big cities only) 3G network for them.
I've been trying to get it working on my universal for a little while now with zero success. Has anyone gotten 3G working in the USA on their Universal? Is it even possible? I don't really know where to start.
I read this thread, and it wasn't very encouraging. I'm hoping that new information has come to light since then. I'd go into a store and ask, but store associates tend to be hit-and-miss(mostly miss) with their levels of expertise, and they're probably too busy selling G1s anyway.
Like another poster in this forum, in my current vocation I sell and activate Sprint cellphones.
The activation process is clear, and I do notice that data is "working" once the hands-free activation process is completed, but a puzzling issue has been occurring since the beginning of February that bears mention here, and perhaps some of you will have a solution.
Myself, I have a GSM Hero that I use on AT&T, I do not have 3G, but Edge works fine and my current city always shows the city that I am in, in this case, Columbus, Ohio. When I have activated these Sprint HTC Heroes, I have noticed that on the flipclock widget, as well as the weather application, that the time, weather, and location shown for 'current city' is Madison, a city in a state that is in the central time zone rather than eastern, let alone not even bordering the state that I am currently in.
Another odd thing to note is what appears to be the roaming legend in the notification bar along the top of the screen, which is there even when the phone is put into Airplane mode. The first time I saw this, I thought it was the phone itself, and even swapped the phone for another brand new HTC Hero, only to experience the same issue (let alone that every Hero since then has had this issue). On every Hero activation, I have called our Sales support, and through them transferred to tech support, trying just about everything they could think of only to give up and just put a notation on the account in case the customer gets any roaming charges on their bill.
I am wondering if any of you have experienced this, and if so, have you found a way to fix this?
You will be better off posting this in the 'Hero G2 Touch Q&A' forum since you are talking about a GSM Hero and not specific to any dev Rom
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You will be better off posting this in the 'Hero G2 Touch Q&A' forum since you are talking about a GSM Hero and not specific to any dev Rom
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No, in paragraph two he was referring to the Sprint Hero, and to OP i haven't seen the issue you speak of before, have you tried a PRL update? If that doesn't work try turning off an pulling the battery for a minute or two and power i back on, if nothing still i would try an RTN, hope this helps!
i live in columbus and i have never seen this issue. i have had 5 cdma heros so far between mine and my wifes. in fact mine usualy default to london ohio for some reason. ive never seen madison wisconson.
I have the Sprint Hero also, and when I travel from Fairfield, Ia to Iowa City, Ia, I go through Washinton. The phone thinks it is D.C. WTF?
I live just south of dayton and my phone will always shows madison, wisconsin, i have to force it to cincy just so the time doesn't get f'd up its pretty annoying at best.
Does GMaps also place you in Madison? If so it might be an error on sprint's end. I've had network location place me 200 miles off a few times.
If it's confined to the weather app it could be an error in the Geocoding data it uses.
I live in fargo, nd. I have traveled threw the state and never had location problems. It even gets the little **** towns right.. hmm..
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Does GMaps also place you in Madison? If so it might be an error on sprint's end. I've had network location place me 200 miles off a few times.
If it's confined to the weather app it could be an error in the Geocoding data it uses.
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No maps is always located, I fairly confident you are right that the geocoding data is wrong, funny thing is I live in Madison Twp, but it puts me in Madison Wisconsin. It's really more annoying than anything.
Yeah, I constantly forget what city I live in.... So glad mine works fine....
Is there a town nearby called "Madison"? Perhaps that's where your normal tower is, or the name of the location of the tower is "Madison".
The clock ends up using the name and connecting it to the major city of the same name, whether it's nearby or not.
Mine does the same thing when I drive through Rochester, MN (not far west of here), and it'll tell me I'm in Rochester, NY, giving me a time an hour off. Annoying, yes. Big problem? No.
Unfortunately for where my store is located, there is not a 'Madison' to speak of.
Yesterday I sold another Hero, in which it too, was saying Madison, and showing the time for Madison, Wisconsin. I updated the PRL while I was on hold with Sprint, and then went into the weather app itself and updated it. To my surprise, it updated to Columbus, Ohio.
It would seem like The weather app on the CDMA Hero defaults to Madison. Since I have had no Heroes returned on me I must assume that perhaps after the customers have left, their Heroes would update and show the correct city themselves.
Same issue
I've had my phone since November, but here recently when I use the Clock + Weather Widget, the location automatically gets set to Madison (My time shows 1 hr behind ). Now, I've checked with other smartphone users that uses location based information and they are not seeing this issue. I live South East of Columbus and am in the Madison Township area. So, I'm thinking some sprint tower is registered as being in Madison and not Columbus. Right now, I decided to switch to beautiful Widgets and have not had any problems.
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Unfortunately for where my store is located, there is not a 'Madison' to speak of.
Yesterday I sold another Hero, in which it too, was saying Madison, and showing the time for Madison, Wisconsin. I updated the PRL while I was on hold with Sprint, and then went into the weather app itself and updated it. To my surprise, it updated to Columbus, Ohio.
It would seem like The weather app on the CDMA Hero defaults to Madison. Since I have had no Heroes returned on me I must assume that perhaps after the customers have left, their Heroes would update and show the correct city themselves.
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I've sold quite a few Hero's for Sprint up in Cleveland, and I never have seen one default to Madison. It could be due to your proximity to Madison co.
Is anyone having issues with their 3G speeds?
I'm sat next to my colleague (iPhone 3G) and I'm on the 20th floor of my building which is in the middle of London (City of London).
We both have the Bandwidth tester from Speedtest.net
We are both connecting to the same server (London. Hosted by Namesco)
We test @ the same time ... He is getting about 850kbps and I'm getting about 56kbps
This is quite embarrassing because I've been going on about my new fone like a geek all week .....
I HAVE noticed that when I choose the servers (within the Speedtest.net app) it seems to think that I am 130 miles away from London!
I switched on the options under 'Location' from within the phone's settings so that it could find out where it was. (I normally have this turned off to save juice) Still the same result tho
Does anyone know how I can improve this???
(FYI...Phone debranded & running R1FA016 but on UK Voda)
Are you both on Vodafone ? Sounds like your phone is on Edge and not 3G. I guess the capacity of the network must be a little stretched in the centre of the City.
I am typically getting 3500kbps on 3G with 'Speedtest' where I am !
I did the exact same test against a friends 3GS, both on vodafone (in syd australia) at the same time, in the same room, with speedtest.
I got close to 900kbps, and he got high 400's
I'm running 016 also.
I've seen a little over 2mbps max so far (depends on location of course)
He's on O2!
I thought that 50 metres up in the air in the centre of London would be the LAST place suffering from bad 3G coverage! LOL
Any ideas on the '130 miles distance to the London Server' part?
thanks!!!
Just switched to '3G only' and got 603k!!!!
I think you sussed it! I can live with that!!!!
Thanks all
I noticed that when I was i Covent Garden last week, crap bandwidth, I was trying to use maps but gave up waiting and just asked someone which way to go lol.
I would have thought central London would be good for speed but I guess its just really busy and over subscribed.
I've got mine on Vodafone, got 2.5Mbps the other day, just tried it again and got 1.8Mbps
Figured some of y'all might be as interested in this as me.
I was in a Sprint corporate store yesterday and I talked to a techie. They said they're currently testing 4G in South County at one of the stores (don't remember which, sorry) and that it's live to everyone who drives by. They said they had a full launch slated for the metro area in about 3 weeks.
He went on to say that they will continue to improve 4G in the metro for the rest of this year, then around March or May of next year, they are gunna try and cover the outlying areas (think Festus, Arnold, etc. although probably not as far South as Farmington.)
Regards,
Jesse
Thanks for the update. I live in the Southwest Garden area, and I can usually get a 4G connection, but its usually not too much faster than the 3G so it's not really worth it yet (though sometimes it's much faster than other times). Hopefully as they continue to upgrade it the speed improves.
i live and work in Delphi Indiana, about 30 mind north east of Purdue and i have noticed today that i do not have any data and i am roaming in my city. normally i have excellant 3g speeds and good voice.
I havent called anyone due to not wanting to talk to "bob" over in india, inuit has been having issues today as well so i just gt off the phone with "amy", from india as well, so i have my crappy tech support quota in the the day.
i figured there is some kind of outage, i skimmed the first 2 pages of topics and i didnt see anything so here we are.
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i live and work in Delphi Indiana, about 30 mind north east of Purdue and i have noticed today that i do not have any data and i am roaming in my city. normally i have excellant 3g speeds and good voice.
I havent called anyone due to not wanting to talk to "bob" over in india, inuit has been having issues today as well so i just gt off the phone with "amy", from india as well, so i have my crappy tech support quota in the the day.
i figured there is some kind of outage, i skimmed the first 2 pages of topics and i didnt see anything so here we are.
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I was having 3g drop out for me before. Not total data coverage, but 3g. However, it seems to be back now. I'm in SW Ohio.
the only way to find out if there is an outage is to call sprint and ask
I am just out side of dallas texas and a few poeple are having issues around here as well.
I called sprint twice, they said its not their fault and here is the list of excuses in the order in which they gave them to me:
1 my phone is the problem, or something i did to it
2 interference from my building (despite no change when i step outside)
3 other carriers interference
4 user error
the tech person had me open my browser and try to load a page and of course it didnt load, then she had me turn on wifi and try the same page and of course it worked and she tried to say "its fixed now" "is there anything else i can do for you?" i laughed and said my wlan is not the issue i am calling about! what a joke!!
but they assured me nothing is wrong with their network and that i need to take my phone to a sprint store to have it checked out
interesting details:
1 other people with sprint in my area are having issues too, but most people dont care enough to call
2 when i drive away from my small town i start to get signal, i stop roaming, i can make and receive calls, i have good 3g.
3 when i drive back into my small city i start roaming and i loose all data
4 i always have had excellent voice and data in my small town
i believe there is a problem with the tower in my area but they want me to to drive 30 mins to have someone look at my phone. i can drive 5 mins out of my town hop on the next tower and my phone is fine.the badd thing is as soon as i get on a working tower its fine, so when i drive to the sprint store they are going to realize my phone is fine.
apparently the issue is limited to the tower in my area and apparently no one else has bothered to complain about it so i get to just deal with with.
i post in this thread to maybe help someone in the future and personal log sheet.
Actually I get about 3 to 4 bars in my house normally and lately i was having issues of getting no 3g or data and loosing all bars but still registering and not giving me the x of no signal. My phone has also been switching to roaming all lot (roaming btw gives me like 1x speeds never 3g speeds even though it says i have it on my mikG rom)
So I think the issue is in a few small towns and that they are fiddling with something.
Probbaly updating the tower .
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i don't want to keep this thread alive but i thought i should say that i called sprint back today and i told the tech if they expected me to leave my work to go have some one look at my phone i will instead travel to a store to cancel my service. i hate being a hard a$$ but i dont have time for other peoples problems when i pay them to deliver.
anyways, this tech was cool, nice, and helpful. he sent something to my phone and it fixed it!! i asked him what he did and he didnt seem to really know precisely what he was doing either. im guessing he was just following a flow chart but he did share some inside info about towers with me.
bottom line is my service is working so i will stop crying now!!
today has been nothing but terrible. im from florida