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My 3g LITERALLY doesn't work

I was trying to do a speedtest, and it didn't budge at all. This has been happening for quite some time and I actually had a chance to try 3g since it wasn't switching at all. WELL it didn't work and there was almost a halt of data until 3.5 g kicked in.
Any ideas? And while we are on the topic, for some reason when i tried flashing the radio update image from modaco via RA, it gave me the android out of the box every time.

Bump. I'm on T-Mobile 3g.

where do you live?
if it didnt budge, do you even have an internet plan? like can you browse the web and stuff?
follow the wiki's... theres not much more to be said about flashing things... they are as straight forward as it gets... if you cannot figure them out you really should not be messing with your phone...

I am so pissed with this phone and Google's support,my 3G is worse than ever,right now I have a G1 and this **** called Nexus One on the table,the Nexus' 3G signal is sooooo bad,it does fluctuate so much and so often....if I turn it upside down the 3g signal becomes more stable.
I called Google customer service and they tell me to dial *#*#4636#*#* and go through some of the settings,it did not do any better,they guy ended up apologizing and saying....well you have 14 days to test the device otherwise you can return it....what an advice from Mr Google.
And this is the company that is going to release this piece of art for other cell companies and networks,hope they do a better job.I can see a bunch of these phones for sale all over....unless they do something.I have had the phone for 24hrs with the new OTA update.

yes. It works fine on EDGE and 3.5 G (H) I really have no idea how to fix it

No voice and data at the same time unless you have 4G coverage?

Tell me there is a way to get voice and data at the same time on the Evo with 3g. If not, I'm taking this beast back.

Nope, that's always been a limitation with 3g. You cannot do both on Sprint's 3G CDMA network. Same for VZW.

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Nope, that's always been a limitation with 3g. You cannot do both on Sprint's 3G CDMA network. Same for VZW.
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AHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Back to F'ing AT&T.

moosic said:
Tell me there is a way to get voice and data at the same time on the Evo with 3g. If not, I'm taking this beast back.
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I thought everybody knew sprint and verizon can't do that.
And being able to have voice ONLY with 4G has been talked about since the first day EVO was announced.

you can with WIFI on

I'm still lost as to why this is a deal breaker. I have needed that functionality only a handful of times over the last many years.
Some people really buy into the hype that at&t has been pushing these last few months

Wow, you just need to settle down. Having Data and voice at the same time isn't that important.

I just came from AT&T and I can count the number of times I have needed that feature. Most of the times has been when I am on a call and need to look for a phone number in maps or something like that.

hchavarria said:
I just came from AT&T and I can count the number of times I have needed that feature. Most of the times has been when I am on a call and need to look for a phone number in maps or something like that.
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same, if it comes down to it i'll just call whomever back.
i'm experiencing MUCH faster data (20-30% speed improvement over [email protected] in my area). so it's a worthwhile trade off for me.

I'm going to keep it for 28 days and see how it works out. I surf the web a lot while on conference calls. Also use it to look something up while talking. Typically, when I need it, I really need it.

I can't say I've ever needed that feature. My only Q for those with the phone, is the reconnect (to data) very fast? I'm assuming it's probably instantaneous.
I had a (long ago) Windows Mobile phone that had this slight inconvenience, only issue was that it took about 15 seconds to get a data connection again.

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I can't say I've ever needed that feature. My only Q for those with the phone, is the reconnect (to data) very fast? I'm assuming it's probably instantaneous.
I had a (long ago) Windows Mobile phone that had this slight inconvenience, only issue was that it took about 15 seconds to get a data connection again.
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The reconnection is not something you'll notice as far as time goes.

moosic said:
I surf the web a lot while on conference calls.
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This is the only reason that I have ever heard that makes any sense...but of course when I'm on a conference call I am also usually at my computer.
There are not many people in your exact situation (conference calls away from desk), so really this is a slight inconvenience for 99% of people.

The ONLY time this has bothered me is when im tethering and i get a phone call or text and even then it only really affected me when I was video chatting with someone or another form of stream. The fact that it goes off when I get a text momentarily is more annoying than the phone call one though, because I tend to get many more texts than phone calls. If i'm on a phone call, I don't need to be tethering anyways generally.

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The reconnection is not something you'll notice as far as time goes.
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It's also not exactly hard to test...make a phone call, then watch for the 3G symbol at the top of the screen.

I'm going to keep it for 28 days and see how it works out. I surf the web a lot while on conference calls. Also use it to look something up while talking. Typically, when I need it, I really need it.
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It really depends on the person. I used it all time (i am sure we can find these exact points in another thread) but the EVO is well worth the sacrifice for me.
Used it today on my EVO as a matter of fact, I was in WiFi country needless to say
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Sim. voice and data is really handy. Ever heard of Bluetooth. Browse the web and talk pretty easily. I can't say it is a deal breaker for me, but with no Wimax ( I refuse to call it 4G as it is not actual 4G) in my area their 3G speeds suck ass. AT&T I get 3.5mb down and 1.5 up. I tested on the Evo at Sprint store and was getting 900 down 900 up. Phone seemed pretty nice but don't think I want to ever go back to a CDMA carrier ever again.

You seriously walk around talking and surfing the web? I have had the urge 2 times in my entire life...

Nagrom Nniuq said:
You seriously walk around talking and surfing the web? I have had the urge 2 times in my entire life...
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thats twice more than me.

No, But I get a lot of breaks at work and play on the web etc. Like I said it is not a big deal breaker for me but when you get used to it you notice it more....
Bit the bullet last night and picked up one. Really like it so far...

[Q] Convince me NOT/TO get a VIBRANT (& Dump Epic)

So, I'm not very happy about the 150kbps upload, the crawling 3G overall and the crawling of the phone along with it. I love the phone itself, but I essentially hate the CDMA Golem that's attached itself to it. And I notice this has been the case with almost every one of my old CDMA devices. GSM has historically been slower but development was always MUCH faster for GSM devices, and GSM variants. And every time I get a new phone I go through this and end up back on CDMA with Sprint (plus cheap Verizon service, via roaming agreements) mainly because of the data speeds.
But T-mobile has an AMAZING new data network at least in my area (Chicago) that seems very impressive. Apparently the Vibrant can take advantage of HSPA+ up to 7.2MBPs which is faster than what I'm averaging now on wimax (although I understand the EVO got quite a boost in wimax speed with froyo as well). So the way I see it, Vibrant has the following things going for it:
+FROYO NOW (unofficial, but still its progress)
+Same data speeds
+Better overall developer community
+Gets 4G speeds IN BUILDINGS (to me, this is a HUGE advantage. Yes I understand there is still signal loss and therefore speed loss, but I'd imagine this is still much better than wimax dying after 2 inches of concrete or evdo's lower speed)
+TV Out
-No Keyboard
-No Front Camera (although supposedly this can be fixed if you're really risky)
-No Flash
-Entire network not 3G like Sprint's is, only some
-5GB "soft cap" (edge-only after 5gb)
I'm hoping the upload speed issue gets resolved. Also, I can't help but think the Epic MAY get left behind like the moment was in terms of updates. My friend has had a motorola cliq for about a year now and he's still stuck on 1.5-1.6 (they promised 2.1). I really don't want to commit to a phone for a year that may not be supported past a few months.

Not this topic again.

Please go get the Virbrant. It's a much better phone. It will make you much happier. Then you can talk of your love for the phone on the vibrant thread.

Yup. I say go get the Vibrant.

Sorry, I didn't necessarily see a thread (made AFTER both were out on the market for a week or so) actually comparing the two. This is not meant to slam the Epic (my current and possibly will remain my current) phone. If you notice there are both advantages AND disadvantages listed. I'm simply trying to get people's opinions, especially if there is something I missed. I think they are both great phones, just trying to decide between them. I don't generally get "attached" to hardware to the point that I'll try and "defend" or "attack" it, just trying to discuss it. If this thread still bothers you, by all means, there are many others.

Id say go for the Vibrant, because you are correct about the 3g data speeds, also even though we have wimax, it seems in alot of areas you need a damned directional antenna to get a signal, and you can pretty much forget about inside the house service. With tmobiles 3g, you dont have to worry about bad spots in a metropolitan area for the most part, and it penetrates houses MUCH better. Also, while the epic has great hardware, the battery life is horrendous, and the vibrants is a bit better.
Cons for the vibrant include no ffc, no flash, no keyboard (con for some), and no notification light. The absence of the latter is pretty stupid in my opinion.
Also, its not a 5gb cap, you have up to 10gb till getting throttled.

Thanks, I didn't know about the notification light missing. Also I've ONLY ever had CDMA phones. Quite a few of them on many different OS'es, but its hard to try and make an informed decision when you have no experience with the service. Not sure exactly what attributes about signal and penetration will change based on where I live and work. That's why I've got you guys/gals!

Go get a vibrant and make yourself happy. I am currently happy with the Epic and those issues that you have means that you must be extremely picky. Good luck.

I really don't care what you do but there's not an option for that in your poll.

please do.

go buy a vibrant and return your epic

There is a wonderful DEV team here that works their butts off to make these devices "all devices" better. Instead of throwing in the towel why don't you try their ROMs out, and donate if you can. Looking at the vibrant forums I see folks complain about other stuff so it doesn't much matter what you go with. Like I said not all phones are perfect.

agonzalez1010 said:
There is a wonderful DEV team here that works their butts off to make these devices "all devices" better. Instead of throwing in the towel why don't you try their ROMs out, and donate if you can. Looking at the vibrant forums I see folks complain about other stuff so it doesn't much matter what you go with. Like I said not all phones are perfect.
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That's the point everyone else is making albeit a bit less verbose. Sometimes people just need to go to the other side of the fence and see that even if the grass looks greener, it's still just as bitter.
And the Devs are terrific at what they do and it's awesome to see so much support for a phone less than a month old.

yeah the Epic community is not as large.. but i'm sure it will grow.
Do what makes you happy.. even if I vote it won't make a difference.
They are both good phones.. just don't get the facinate.. yuck.. lol

The problem with giving an answer to this question is that everyone's needs are different. My wife and I both plan to get an Epic in about a month or so (when our AT&T contract is up). The 3G upload cap will affect her much more than me because she likes to take pics/video and send them to Facebook, where I don't do that very much. I also work in a large metro area that will have 4G coverage, where my wife will (mostly) be in our home town that will not likely get 4G signal for quite a while yet. So I won't be as affected by the 3G cap as she would be. But this could be a deal-breaker for her.
My one gripe with the Vibrant is lack of flash for the camera. I don't mind the lack of the front facing camera or the keyboard. Those are "nice to haves" in my opinion. But I will never understand why a phone manufacturer would bother to put a 5MP (or higher) camera in a phone and not include a flash. It just baffles me. Surely, a flash doesn't add THAT much cost to the phone? It's the one downer about that phone for me, and it's something I will have to live with if things don't work out for us with the Epic. If it wasn't for the fact that I get a Sprint discount through work we'd likely be going with T-mobile, as their coverage is very good in our area.
I suspect that Sprint/Samsung will sort out the upload cap in the next month or two. It's a shame that this was even a problem upon release of the phone, but I think they will right this ship. Unfortunately, this means that folks who have their 30-day trial coming to an end soon will either have to jump ship or take a leap of faith. I feel bad for those people and am glad that I and my family have to wait a while to switch to Sprint so we don't have to be faced with the decision for a couple of months yet. Hopefully the fix will be out by then.
Good luck, whatever you decide!

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Cons for the vibrant include no ffc, no flash, no keyboard (con for some), and no notification light. The absence of the latter is pretty stupid in my opinion.
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The absence of a notification light would be a 100% dealbreaker for me. I had an iPhone for a single day and took it back immediately in part because of this, which I didn't realize ahead of time. I use my phone for both personal and business emails, and if I have to keep turning on the phone every ten minutes to manually check my email, then it's not worth having that phone...
This really should be a basic, required feature on any phone.

badasscat said:
The absence of a notification light would be a 100% dealbreaker for me. I had an iPhone for a single day and took it back immediately in part because of this, which I didn't realize ahead of time. I use my phone for both personal and business emails, and if I have to keep turning on the phone every ten minutes to manually check my email, then it's not worth having that phone...
This really should be a basic, required feature on any phone.
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This is exactly what I meant by my previous post. Everyone has their own needs and none of us can really answer his question for him because of this. You need the notification light for your own reason, while I am used to not having a notification light and can live without it on future phones.
I don't think anyone but the OP can realistically answer the question because our answers will always be biased towards what we think is necessary on our own phones.

othan1 said:
That's the point everyone else is making albeit a bit less verbose. Sometimes people just need to go to the other side of the fence and see that even if the grass looks greener, it's still just as bitter.
And the Devs are terrific at what they do and it's awesome to see so much support for a phone less than a month old.
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Yes, and I think this is mostly my issue. I've never been on the other side of the fence. I'd almost like to get a 2nd line for a month just to try it out... I have been coming to this site for years and if it wasn't for these wonderful developers (and the testers that provide useful feedback) these devices wouldn't be half as attractive as they are.
I too hope they get the upload issue sorted out, otherwise I do love this phone. I appreciate everyone's input (well, at least those who were helpful) and it will help me about when my 30 days is up and I have a decision to make (unless they fix it, PLEASE sprint!)
I'll consider the issue closed as I know have all the information I believe I need to make my decision, whatever it ends up being. Plus, something tells me if this goes on anymore I'll end up with more people who just get annoyed that I asked...

Another thing to consider, especially since you're in the midwest: WiMax might or might not have good indoor coverage today, but EVDO has pretty reliable coverage just about everywhere I've been (including Ohio and Pennsylvania). I'd seriously recommend asking some T-Mobile users who live in areas where you go a few times a year (parents, vacation spots, lakeside resorts, campgrounds, etc) how their 3G coverage is THERE. From what I've seen, T-Mobile has decent 3G coverage in Florida and California, but the more miles between you and the Atlantic or Pacific, the less likely you are to get reliable UMTS 3G from them. In many parts of the midwest, you'll be lucky to get EDGE. In quite a few shockingly non-rural areas, all you'll get is GPRS.
Don't just look at official "coverage" maps... get the Sensorly map viewer (which uses crowdsourcing to have users voluntarily sample signal strength in various areas and report it to them) and check the 3G coverage in specific places where you're likely to spend time (including malls, shopping centers, homes of friends and family members, etc). Sprint is far from perfect, but T-Mobile's 3G coverage looks horrifyingly ragged once you start zooming in to specific neighborhoods, regardless of how good it might look when you're zoomed out so a city the size of Chicago fills a 320x480 screen.
It's been years since Sprint has even *had* meaningful service as slow as GPRS (as in, Samsung SPH-i300 circa 2001-2002), but I can tell you... GPRS is about as close to useless as you can get. It's almost worse than no service at all, because at least when there's no service at all, you won't waste your time bothering to even try using it.
GPS wise, a stock Vibrant will never be more than a week or two ahead of a rooted Epic -- the moment any real fix gets released for the Vibrant, it'll get ripped and grafted onto Epics anyway. The same holds true in the other direction as well. How many hours did it take for Epic's GPS improvements to make their way onto rooted Vibrants? Like, maybe... 6?
The 150k EVDO cap is a bug, and I suspect the only reason it hasn't been fixed YET is because it probably requires taking a cell site down for maintenance, so Sprint is loath to do it outside of a regularly-scheduled maintenance window. Whatever phone you go with is going to be with you for at least another 10 months... do you really want to commit yourself to 9 of them based on a problem that's likely to resolve itself by the end of next month?
Also, don't forget that the Vibrant has only a small amount of "fast" flash, and relies on an internal microSD card for the other 16gb. On an Android phone, the only place slower than MicroSD for storage is a remote server accessed over the 'net.
In short, don't cut off your nose to spite your face... at least, not without spending some serious time researching what T-Mobile is like in the specific square blocks of land you care about. T-Mobile's best areas might be better than Sprint, but it's a lot worse than Sprint in quite a few more (especially the middle parts of the country, and more than a mile away from a transcontinental interstate highway). You'll be able to make voice calls & do text messages just about everywhere, thanks to roaming agreements with AT&T... but AFAIK, you can't roam on 3G, and I'm pretty sure AT&T won't allow you to roam on EDGE either. In contrast, Sprint can roam on Verizon and enjoy at least 1xRTT speeds anywhere Verizon has service. 1xRTT isn't fast, but there's a blurry line somewhere between "annoyingly slow" and "unusable" -- 1xRTT is somewhere on the good side, and GPRS is absolutely on the bad side of it.

Yes, the speed vs coverage issue is definitely something I'm weighing in my decision making. I don't travel OFTEN but when I do its most likely for work which means both voice AND data matter. Its very rare that I can't get EVDO even in the middle of nowhere (do they even HAVE 1x towers anymore?), only 1x when I have like 1 bar and the SNR is just too poor for EVDO. I am going to "do my best" to stick it out with sprint. Hopefully they can make up my mind for me before the 4th

4G....How about you get 1x coverage completed first

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Ok as me and three others have spent the last 24 hours in a car driving from AZ to MN, I must say there were a few times, that no phone had any coverage of any sorts, and these are major highways. We went through a majority of Colorado, and various parts of Kansas, New Mexico coverage from att, vzw, or sprint. And at times we had 1x other times we had 1X than some times we had 3G. Never got any 4g.
I really think the carriers should focus on providing service in general first. You know how the government always talks about x% of people with out highspeed internet. Yea I can tell you exactly where that is!!! The middle of the country.
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Oh, so you're volunteering to pay for it?

Would be nice for sprint to expand the 3g by about 3 miles so I could have it at my house >.>
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Baffles said:
Oh, so you're volunteering to pay for it?
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dont be a smart ass to a legitimate complaint that has plagued Sprint for a very very long time.
sprint is the worst, ok well t-mobile is worse....
you should never expect to have great or even sometimes good coverage when you are out driving.
really... this is sprint we're talking about.
i dont know why they abandoned their networks in favor of 4G (realistically they didnt, but they are sure ignoring problem areas) instead of helping their userbase grow and make more money by improving their existing infrastructure, and adding to it. adding to it .. and then adding to it.
4G is nice but its not cellular, it's wimax/data. even though the voice could be going over the 4G, i just dont know.
the cost isn't in the 4G gear, hell an ASN Gateway (used for authentication and allowing mobile devices to jump towers without loosing a signal, costs 10x or more what a 4G base station cost), the cost is in the labor of tower climbers, builders, etc. or and tower rental space.
if you have never heard what tower climbers cost per day or even per hour.. research it.. you'll sh|t yourself.

Yea even though this is in the evo forum and it started as a rant about sprint, its not just them, its vzw, att, and sprint.
No joke right now im tethered, I have 3g(roaming) in the middle nowhere iowa...ok cool,
but my buddy next to me, att has nothing in the past hour or so and my other buddy is vzw and has 1x on his blackberry for those who dont recall that is legacy digital service and isnt even 1X. He can send text messages thats it for get a voice call the signal is that poor, hes bouncing between 1x-3g.
The reality is data is nice, but when count on your phone and your a national carrier, perhaps you should focus on being able to actually make a call first.

Oh yeah, this is incredibly frustrating, and rarely use my phone to talk. I mean, I understand why they decided to start spending virtually all of their resources on 4g. They were dying - they had to do something drastic not just to come out on top, but to stay afloat at all. Ok. I get it. But goddamit, we went for a drive up in north nj, into pa, and even hit a bit if rural ny, without paying any attention to where we were going to end up. Had lunch down by the river, hit some little towns along the way. All in all, a nice day. Until I tried to use nav to get us home. No signal. At all. So no nav. Let's just say it took a bit longer to get home than we expected.
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Had motorola not sold the iridium project to the government and then lied to the public saying they lost investment and that it was a failure back in the 90's then this probably wouldnt be an issue today. (they still are very actively involved supporting and developing it and is very very much alive)

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Oh yeah, this is incredibly frustrating, and rarely use my phone to talk. I mean, I understand why they decided to start spending virtually all of their resources on 4g. They were dying - they had to do something drastic not just to come out on top, but to stay afloat at all. Ok. I get it. But goddamit, we went for a drive up in north nj, into pa, and even hit a bit if rural ny, without paying any attention to where we were going to end up. Had lunch down by the river, hit some little towns along the way. All in all, a nice day. Until I tried to use nav to get us home. No signal. At all. So no nav. Let's just say it took a bit longer to get home than we expected.
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which is exactly why i use copilot, data independent but see we recognize this fact. i knew there would be plenty of spots with out data, i knew gsm phones would have issues. but not even having 1x on a CDMA network is just wild especially when your driving established routes.
People rely on their phones from voice to nav. Alot of good, sprint nav, google nav, vzw nav do when you dont have service

Sprint sucks. I only switched to them because it would be cheaper for 3 lines than I was paying for AT&T ($200 plus). I only switched because I really dont go anywhere but my immediate area. God forbid if I have to rely on service while traveling cross country.
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Sprint is sending me an air rave, should I use it?

Seems like some people have said they are more trouble than they are worth. I have two Evo's in the house. I don't really have signal issues but the support dude said he would send it for free so I bit.

I have one. Its awesome. And why are they sending you one if you dont have signal issues?
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can you use the airraave as a wifi router as well and connect it to a cable modem for internet access, or does it only work for Sprint's network? I would love one if it was like an all in one broadband/mobile network hotspot.

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Seems like some people have said they are more trouble than they are worth. I have two Evo's in the house. I don't really have signal issues but the support dude said he would send it for free so I bit.
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Support can't even send one. Did you get an order number? Are you sure you weren't speaking with retention?
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can you use the airraave as a wifi router as well and connect it to a cable modem for internet access, or does it only work for Sprint's network? I would love one if it was like an all in one broadband/mobile network hotspot.
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Nope.
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It's fantastic if you have real signal issues in your house. I would be a very frustrated customer without one. I can't imagine what trouble people have with theirs; I don't even think about the damn thing 99% of the time.

Jason Black said:
I have one. Its awesome. And why are they sending you one if you dont have signal issues?
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I'm pretty sure my problem is this....Calls placed with google voice cut off after 30 minutes
so the support guy reset all my crap, new prl, redid the activation, all the normal stuff they do. I doubt it will fix it, and he connected me to the other dept that is going to send out an air rave. I don't have great signal, but I don't think this is the issue. Sounds like it is worth trying out though.

seeing issues with ROM's
works great with stock firmware; seeing issues with CM7.0 and CM7.1 where it doesnt automatically find the air rave without my typing in *99

I used mine for a week or two, then got rid of it, too many problems. First off, the damn thing is a total bandwidth hog. Since there is no way to control what phone numbers get to use it, ALL my neighbors were apparently on it, using all my bandwidth all day long. Second, texts on both of my phones would randomly not send and not receive. Third, your phone's gps will be off. The airave puts out it's own gps signal, which is over a mile away from where it actually is, therefore your phone thinks you are a mile away, which makes using google maps to navigate somewhere a pain.
I spent hours on the phone with airave tech support, these are all "features" of the airave...I.e. the airave is programmed to give your phone a false gps reading.

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works great with stock firmware; seeing issues with CM7.0 and CM7.1 where it doesnt automatically find the air rave without my typing in *99
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I never had that problem. Hmmm...

sitlet said:
I used mine for a week or two, then got rid of it, too many problems. First off, the damn thing is a total bandwidth hog. Since there is no way to control what phone numbers get to use it, ALL my neighbors were apparently on it, using all my bandwidth all day long. Second, texts on both of my phones would randomly not send and not receive. Third, your phone's gps will be off. The airave puts out it's own gps signal, which is over a mile away from where it actually is, therefore your phone thinks you are a mile away, which makes using google maps to navigate somewhere a pain.
I spent hours on the phone with airave tech support, these are all "features" of the airave...I.e. the airave is programmed to give your phone a false gps reading.
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Used mine for a day and got rid of it for that very reason, I could not connect to the internet to save my life.

sitlet said:
I used mine for a week or two, then got rid of it, too many problems. First off, the damn thing is a total bandwidth hog. Since there is no way to control what phone numbers get to use it, ALL my neighbors were apparently on it, using all my bandwidth all day long. Second, texts on both of my phones would randomly not send and not receive. Third, your phone's gps will be off. The airave puts out it's own gps signal, which is over a mile away from where it actually is, therefore your phone thinks you are a mile away, which makes using google maps to navigate somewhere a pain.
I spent hours on the phone with airave tech support, these are all "features" of the airave...I.e. the airave is programmed to give your phone a false gps reading.
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I'm assuming you tried using the online option that allows you to restrict all phone numbers besides the one on your account & weren't successful with it?
The difference has been night & day since I did that, speed wise on the rest of my network. It still goes out every once in a while, but a reboot usually fixes it & I literally would have no service if not for having mine.

I'm assuming you tried using the online option that allows you to restrict all phone numbers besides the one on your account & weren't successful with it?
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Yes, I tried that, but it wouldn't work. I then called Airave tech support, and was told they stopped letting you do that because they were having problems with it.

ncadden said:
I'm assuming you tried using the online option that allows you to restrict all phone numbers besides the one on your account & weren't successful with it?
The difference has been night & day since I did that, speed wise on the rest of my network. It still goes out every once in a while, but a reboot usually fixes it & I literally would have no service if not for having mine.
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How do you do this? I have noticed that when noone is using the phones, the signal light on the Rave is blinking like someone is on it and I didnt know what that was. Also the bandwidth in my house no is horrible. I cant even watch a video on Youtube without it stopping to buffer. If you can help me with this so I can change the settings that would be great, Thx.

That really sucks, I just moved and get horrible signal but I do not want to use an Airave if it basically means all my neighbors will bog my network way down!

Signal is horrid where I live (for any service) so having the airave is a must.

How do you do this? I have noticed that when noone is using the phones, the signal light on the Rave is blinking like someone is on it and I didnt know what that was.
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If you read my post just a half inch above yours, you would see you can't do it anymore, airave blocked that feature.

I love mine, we could not use our phones in our house at all until we got ours. our neighbors live far enough away that we never have anyone using our signal, and I have pretty good internet so I doubt it would do much anyway.

Sprint offered me an Air Rave a while back ago, what exactly does it do though?
Enhance your 3G? does it work with 4G?

I have an airrave and it works great! for the most part. Lol.