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Sprint's 4g connection not stable...

Im in the northern chicago area and I'm able to connect to 4g but the connection is slow and unstable...(even with 4 bars). Ive extended the idle time using ##data# but still I have the same issues??? Anybody with a solid connection care to share their ##data# settings? Im thinking the issue might in the settings......
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I'm in Seattle and see similar 4G behavior. Usually 2 bars or so and not great performance (marginally better than 3G). I'd be interested to see if this can be improved by tweaking the settings also.

the 4G antenna in the EVO is half the size of the USB one, I don't even get signal at my house on my EVO, yet I get 1.5MBs on my USB stick. Size matters.

Idk about 4G but i just moved into a new house and i have TERRRIBLE reception no matter where i am. If im not outside, it sucks. Its funny though, as soon as i step out the door, 5-6 bars. Im keeping the phone in hopes that as soon as they get 4G around here (Elmont, NY... Long Island), things will change. =\

sprints 4g is in a horrible part of the spectrum. it's frequency is too high to pass through anything

This thread does not belong here. Take this drivel to the appropriate subforum.

unless you are a running a stock rom with the latest updates, i don't think you can make any of these complaints that you all are unless 4g isn't fully up and running in your city. My girlfriend just got the white evo and we installed the latest updates and she gets a very good 4g signal, i have the black evo running fresh 0.5.3 and i get a pretty good signal myself. Not to mention we live in mpls and 4g isn't even officially here yet. A lot of these problems people are having are user errors, flashing things with no knowledge of what they are doing. I would say go back to stock do to ota update with the new radio and wimax enhancements then tell me what type of 4g coverage you are getting. otherwise you are just trusting the chef that everything is set up right which i would take with a grain of salt because non of them seem to understand exactly how the wimax radio works as of yet. Proof of this is all the problems people are having after trying numerous roms

BB15 said:
I'm in Seattle and see similar 4G behavior. Usually 2 bars or so and not great performance (marginally better than 3G). I'd be interested to see if this can be improved by tweaking the settings also.
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That's not very encouraging, I am very disappointed by Sprint's 3g speeds. I have yet to see over 1mbs, and over the 4th of July weekended saw .2-.7 mbs. Yes, .2 as in 192kbs. This was in Miami.

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This thread does not belong here. Take this drivel to the appropriate subforum.
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I started this thread with the intentions of looking into the settings of the wimax ##data# menu....not too rant about the service. I believe with the good signal I'm getting and the fact that I do connect shows that there's an issue with either the roms were flashing or the setting mentioned above. Anybody care to post their settings?
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Changing the wimax idle sleep time from 10 secs to 300 secs could help. My 4G stays on pretty much constantly now instead of switching back and forth between 4G and 3G. You would need your MSL to edit the settings though.

I have similar issues in the chicago land area as well. Very frustrating. I am using a stock rooted rom, but I am using an older OTA update. When I'm outside I always have a strong 4G signal. However, as soon as I go in doors I either loose the signal or have a very weak one. Before you say anything about updating, my GF's EVO is completely stock with the newest OTA update and her 4G behaves very similarly. I actually pick up a better signal at times. It just sucks because if the signal was just a LITTLE bit stronger I would be really happy.

Thats just due to the spectrum used for wimax is at such a high frequency that it does not penetrate walls very well. I'm not sure how sprint will try to remedy this problem, I'm not sure but I get strong signals at my work office and thats inside a building. At home I can get 4G if I am outside once inside I cant seem to get it at all.

What's "##data#" ? I would search it but haven't quite figured it out yet on the app. Google didn't help either (surprisingly).
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jrpointer said:
Im in the northern chicago area and I'm able to connect to 4g but the connection is slow and unstable...(even with 4 bars). Ive extended the idle time using ##data# but still I have the same issues??? Anybody with a solid connection care to share their ##data# settings? Im thinking the issue might in the settings......
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jr - I am in Gold Coast and recently noticed the 4G signal was junk. It used ot be great inside my 13th floor apartment. I went to the sprint store and they said one of the towers was being serviced (they called a tech. and he said this while I was there). They said end of this week it would be fixed. I was going to give them another week or so and see what the deal is then.

IMO it kind of defeats the purpose of having 4G then. 90% of the time that I want to surf the internet or use 4G I'm indoors, and I would imagine that goes for pretty much everybody. I know this isn't a problem for everybody so it seems, but I think for a lot of people it is.

interesting you say 4 bars of 4g. when i look at my phone i can get up to 6 vertical bars for 3g's signal strength, but with 4g on, and outside i can get 3 "bars" more like "upper wifi arcs" above the 4g signal. and inside my 4g doesn't even register anything, it just shows 4g with no arcs...
however my technique is to put the phone right next to the window and run my micro usb cable from there to my computer. and i then get great data connection...
still experimenting, (had the phone for less than a week) but i think it might work better to go to menu/settings/wirless&networks/ and uncheck mobile network so the phone doesn't use the 3g for data connection when 4g isn't there...
thus if the 4g signal is low, it doesn't drop it to grab the higher signal 3g...
lastly. i'm heading to the store to try to pick up a 2 buck plastic soap dish with a suction cup for the "high tech holding station" on my window. that and a 10 foot micro usb cable i think that will help even more...
best of luck.

I have figured out where in my neighborhood I can get a 4G signal (and I too keep my phone near the window when I want to use it at home). However since the OTA, I noticed that if my 4G signal drops it won't come back unless I toggle the 4G radio. It will just sit in "scanning" and use 3G.
Anyone else noticing this problem?
I would assume that one of the settings/timers need to be tweaked, but I have no idea what my those values were before the OTA.

oreoOozZz said:
Idk about 4G but i just moved into a new house and i have TERRRIBLE reception no matter where i am. If im not outside, it sucks. Its funny though, as soon as i step out the door, 5-6 bars. Im keeping the phone in hopes that as soon as they get 4G around here (Elmont, NY... Long Island), things will change. =\
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4G has nothing to do with 3G. Clearwire maintains the 4G network and Ericsson maintains the 3G/1X network do if your 3G is bad now, it won't be any different when 4G launches unless Ericsson improves the situation.

If I'd got this device predominantly for 4G...Id've returned it in day one...(IN Chicago also). In fact wouldn't have bought it going in knowing what I knew about the spottiness of tapping into 4G frequency wirelessly.

that makes absolutely no sense.
per your words, 4G has nothing to do with 3G as in Clearwire has nothing to do with Ericsson so what would it matter if Ericsson decided to step its game up if Clearwire is the 4G company?
4G is on a whole different frequency not to mention a whole different tower technology and tower location possibly so there's definetly a good chance that I can maintain a great 4G signal once it arrives in my area compared to the terrible 3G coverage I get.
well see what happens... my luck they will never put 4G by me lol.

Weak WiFi Hotspot and 3G

Is anybody else experiencing weak WiFi signal in hotspot mode? Any way to boost the signal or change the WiFi channel?
I just got my EVO Shift last week. I really like the speed and funtionality much better than my old Hero.
My 3G signal seems much weaker than I had with the Hero. I'm dropping calls and data connections in loacations where I never have before.
I guess I should take the phone in to a store and have the Techs check the radios. 4G radio works pretty good, though it too doesn't get the throughput that my Sprint Overdrive did.
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jddalrymple said:
Is anybody else experiencing weak WiFi signal in hotspot mode? Any way to boost the signal or change the WiFi channel?
I just got my EVO Shift last week. I really like the speed and funtionality much better than my old Hero.
My 3G signal seems much weaker than I had with the Hero. I'm dropping calls and data connections in loacations where I never have before.
I guess I should take the phone in to a store and have the Techs check the radios. 4G radio works pretty good, though it too doesn't get the throughput that my Sprint Overdrive did.
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Is the PRL up to date...when I got my shift there was already a new PRL..check settings>system update>update prl
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I did a PRL update when I recieved the phone, but it did do a new update just now. There may be a slight improvement... I think that I'll still get the radios checked today.
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I finally got my phone in to the Sprint shop so they could run some diagnostics on the radios and they tell me its fine... I know its not, but I'll try to be patient and wait until at least the first major update to the phone before I make a rwal stink about it.
Is anybody else experiencing weeker signal levels for voice & data with the Shift? I'm dropping calls and data connections in places I never used to. Plus the signal output in hotspot mode is weak as well. I can be 10 feet from it with my tablet and only get 2 or 3 bars on my wifi signal level.
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jddalrymple said:
I finally got my phone in to the Sprint shop so they could run some diagnostics on the radios and they tell me its fine... I know its not, but I'll try to be patient and wait until at least the first major update to the phone before I make a rwal stink about it.
Is anybody else experiencing weeker signal levels for voice & data with the Shift? I'm dropping calls and data connections in places I never used to. Plus the signal output in hotspot mode is weak as well. I can be 10 feet from it with my tablet and only get 2 or 3 bars on my wifi signal level.
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I compared mine to my wife hero, her is more than double my speed. not sure why, I will think a newer phone should be faster. anyone has any ideas?

dumper1234 said:
I compared mine to my wife hero, her is more than double my speed. not sure why, I will think a newer phone should be faster. anyone has any ideas?
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If all you want to do is bring up your 3G speeds. Do the mod on THIS post. It should fix the issue for you.

Anyway to improve 3G speeds on AOSP?
Evo SHIFT

Just flash back to a Sense rom. Make the changes, then flash back to AOSP.
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I do believe if you flash to sense, then go back, it has to be a new rom flash, not a nandroid, otherwise it restores those settings from the nandroid, not the changes you made in the sense rom.

You are correct . See now that I forgot to mention that .

Ahh, I'm guessing there's no way around that?
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Enraged21 said:
Ahh, I'm guessing there's no way around that?
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sprints wifi tether is dependent on the signal strength.
on 3g avg dl speed is 45k upload 13k
4g is 950+kb 720 upload
IF your PRL is up to date AND you aren't fair from a tower

Nexus s 4g signal

I thought I had seen something about radio issues one time but now I can't find the thread. I've noticed that in places that my evo would have great reception the nexus goes between 3g and 1x alot. Also the wifi is a little strange every once and a while I have to reset the router so the nexus will see my network. All computers connect fine but the nexus doesn't even show my network in the list.
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Where you using a sense rom?
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I thought I had seen something about radio issues one time but now I can't find the thread. I've noticed that in places that my evo would have great reception the nexus goes between 3g and 1x alot. Also the wifi is a little strange every once and a while I have to reset the router so the nexus will see my network. All computers connect fine but the nexus doesn't even show my network in the list.
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I noticed the same thing. I had both a Evo which was on stock HTC Sense, and I also had a Dell Netbook with built in WiMax. Both the Netbook and the Evo had 2-3 bars for 4G WiMax. 3 being full signal.
On the Nexus in the same locations, I only see 1 bar for WiMax 4G. I never loose connection though just the signal appears to be weaker then the Evo / Dell Netbook.

No was on cm7 on the evo. Also when I do the *#*#4636#*#* I see that unknown network is selected.
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I have a sprint tower not more than 300 feet from my shop and inside it goes 3g to 1x Constantly. I go outside and I can get 3 bars 3g. Maybe this radio just doesn't play nice.
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i have the same problem too. Also came from evo running cm7. had great reception everywhere. now i notice a lot of 1x and roaming, i never roamed on the evo.

Same I came from an Epic and signal strength was much better. Not just an indicator. Have you noticed when you are on 4G and run wifi hotspot it knocks you back to a 3G conn?

Haven't been around 4g yet so I haven't seen what that does
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Paleryder said:
Same I came from an Epic and signal strength was much better. Not just an indicator. Have you noticed when you are on 4G and run wifi hotspot it knocks you back to a 3G conn?
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4g is a 20 minute drive away. i'll see if i can confirm this later today.

drtdiver83 said:
No was on cm7 on the evo. Also when I do the *#*#4636#*#* I see that unknown network is selected.
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Yup noticed that too. It should be set to cdma auto prl. There is no way to change the setting. I also notice when i update my profile i get no phone calls or acess to rhe net until i restart the network connection. I hope a dev can figure out a fix.

wow really odd, i have amazing signal.. -65 to -78 at all times are you guys looking at the bars or at the numbers?

Yeah I noticed Having to reset the data connection too. i spent an hour on the phone with sprint trying to figure it out and they had no clue about it. They were confused why # codes don't work. Lol had been put on hold numerous times so the tech could call someone else for info.
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fixxxer2008 said:
Yup noticed that too. It should be set to cdma auto prl. There is no way to change the setting. I also notice when i update my profile i get no phone calls or acess to rhe net until i restart the network connection. I hope a dev can figure out a fix.
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If you watch the "unknown", it goes to WCDMA preferred. Back and forth.
Uncle Jimmy says hello

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If you watch the "unknown", it goes to WCDMA preferred. Back and forth.
Uncle Jimmy says hello
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Yeah noticed that too. My evo was set to cdma prl.
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Getting anywhere from. -96 to -101 indoors and -86 outside looking right at a sprint tower.
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Paleryder said:
Same I came from an Epic and signal strength was much better. Not just an indicator. Have you noticed when you are on 4G and run wifi hotspot it knocks you back to a 3G conn?
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I have the same problem. I can see the sprint tower from my house and can't connect to 4g.

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wow really odd, i have amazing signal.. -65 to -78 at all times are you guys looking at the bars or at the numbers?
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It is weird I have very strong signal hovering around -65 to -76 but my data transfer speeds on 3g and 4g are about half of what they were on my Evo running CM7.

Anyone know the other *#*# codes that work on the nexus that allow u to actually edit the settings
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Yeah same thing here came from the evo just activated the ns4g today and I was on 1x at work where I'm normally 3g. But I would not sweat it the phone just came out maybe a sw update will fix it. On the other hand my 4g also seems to have a lower signal also but the speed is good.
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Yeah, I think this is causing battery drain for me as well. I'm pretty disappointed but I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and attribute it to a software issue.

Do signal boosters work?

Hi guys.
My dad moved to miami recently and he took his htc evo over there.
The phone works great except in his apartment, he can get almost full bars outside but 1-2 inside and calls drop out or don't go through all the time.
He doesnt have home internet so the airave is not an option.
Im looking for something preferbly under $100 to boost his signal inside.
I checked his PRL and its up to date and i also thought oof forcing the phone to roam on verizon but he may get caught and have his line terminated.
I went to visit him the other day and noticed on my sister's iPhone 4s(sprint also) that the signal was so weak that her battery took a 25% hit in 1 hour after unplugging it from the wall. He also got an extended battery for the phone since it wouldn't last long on the stock 1500mah one.
All suggestions are welcome thanks guys

I used to have damn near zero signal in my house till I switched to the swagged out stock rom and lionfish kernel. Now its just moderate. Battery got better too

gab2012 said:
Hi guys.
My dad moved to miami recently and he took his htc evo over there.
The phone works great except in his apartment, he can get almost full bars outside but 1-2 inside and calls drop out or don't go through all the time.
He doesnt have home internet so the airave is not an option.
Im looking for something preferbly under $100 to boost his signal inside.
I checked his PRL and its up to date and i also thought oof forcing the phone to roam on verizon but he may get caught and have his line terminated.
I went to visit him the other day and noticed on my sister's iPhone 4s(sprint also) that the signal was so weak that her battery took a 25% hit in 1 hour after unplugging it from the wall. He also got an extended battery for the phone since it wouldn't last long on the stock 1500mah one.
All suggestions are welcome thanks guys
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signal boosters only work four analog signal our else someone would adopt them into design of a phone. .. and plz tell me how to force roam on Verizon! !!!!!!!!!! dying to know because my serve sucks bouncing between nothing then roaming full signal. ....
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I'm going to check other PRL's and check the signal aswell.
to the second poster, the verizon roaming thing was on a thread i saw a while back and i remember members saying that sprint could penalize you for excessive roaming. do a search and check because i dont even know i its still possible even today.

It still is possible all you need us a windows computer the HTC DIAG drivers CDMA workshop and root
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how boot for motorola on us cellular? only time I'm not roaming is when I'm at work
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moparfreak426 said:
signal boosters only work four analog signal our else someone would adopt them into design of a phone. .. and plz tell me how to force roam on Verizon! !!!!!!!!!! dying to know because my serve sucks bouncing between nothing then roaming full signal. ....
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There are some ROMs that allow you to force roam right from the network settings.
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MikeWjF said:
There are some ROMs that allow you to force roam right from the network settings.
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STUPID MOTOROLA AND THEIR LockING MY BOOTLOADER!! !!!!!!!
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[Q] 4G LTE Connection Issues?

I just got the S4 upgrading from the Epic (still a good phone) and it is phenomenal. I live in a part of Austin that has Sprint's new 4G LTE area so I am able to get on the network. I have seen that it is able to connect to the network, but I am unable to recieve data or send data even though it shows it is an active working system. Anyone else??

bowling88 said:
I just got the S4 upgrading from the Epic (still a good phone) and it is phenomenal. I live in a part of Austin that has Sprint's new 4G LTE area so I am able to get on the network. I have seen that it is able to connect to the network, but I am unable to recieve data or send data even though it shows it is an active working system. Anyone else??
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Are you completely stock? Have you done anything to your phone that may affect it?
And are you getting multiple bars? I remember when I was in SF and I'd be right at the edge of the network, so I was connecting to 4G but I was hardly doing it, and I wouldn't be able to use data.
You might have a faulty radio? Check to make sure your within range, and does 3G work fine for you?
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inlineboy said:
Are you completely stock? Have you done anything to your phone that may affect it?
And are you getting multiple bars? I remember when I was in SF and I'd be right at the edge of the network, so I was connecting to 4G but I was hardly doing it, and I wouldn't be able to use data.
You might have a faulty radio? Check to make sure your within range, and does 3G work fine for you?
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If you are stock, I would also try updating your profile and PRL. Menu>Settings>More>System Update>Update Profile and then the same for PRL.

remember lte is still being worked on and you could easily be trying to connect to a tower that isn't fully operational yet.