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Interesting "Glitch"? Att on HD2 showing as "G" now after radio update and NRG.

Interesting "Glitch"? Att on HD2 showing as "G" now after radio update and NRG.
Hey all thought I would post this for you all.
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What did I do? Well I just updated to July 30th of NRG rom for the Leo. Also upgraded from 2.08 to 2.12.50.02_2 radio rom. after the reboot.. it changed from E (Like it normally had) to the G which I know isnt the normal 3G icon, but that its showing up as G period is making me wonder if this is a glitch where nothing comes of it.. or if this could be something more that happened unexpectedly.
Who knows.. maybe Att can use 3g on the hd2 sometime

so, that'l be G for GPRS then, , , not 3g.

Well Ive seen my G1 do that on Tmobile too.. Where when it is on Edge, then it goes G, then finally into its 3G icon. So are you saying that the G is only meaning GPRS? Cause if thats so, then that one is new to me.. (havent seen a G since my Nokia s60 days, pre edge)
But still its a odd change that forever I had E up there, now its G, which if its GPRS, that means its even worse off with that radio.

i get G all the time, office is in the cellar, E upstairs, G downstairs. (I have 3g turned off)

What exactly are you trying to ask? Are you curious to know what the "G" stands for or are you questioned whether you'll get AT&T 3G on a tmoUS HD2?
G means it's on GPRS, worse than Edge. If it's staying at a constant G, then it means you're in a crappy zone or the band setting of the new radio is not set correctly.
And just in case it's lingering in the back of your mind, the answer is no. You will never see the AT&T "3G" or even "H" on your TmoUS HD2. Period.

Yea guess I didnt think about GPRS, was late when I posted. Didnt even think of it. Been ages since I even used gprs lol.
But yea, then that might indeed mean that HD2 unlocked on ATT that the 2.12 radio rom sucks. =/ (Least for ATT)

GSM signal dropping and then disappearing?

I have had my HD2 since March 2011. It is unlocked, HSPL 2.08 and radio 2.15.50.14. Apart from the known issues with the Phone Canvas with later WM6.5 builds it has been fine. I have been cooking ROMs since my Wizard and then the Blackstone so I am reasonably experienced. I currently have my own custom build installed based on 5.2.23568.
For about a week now it seems to have developed a fault in that the GSM signal just drops off and then goes 'searching'. If I soft-reset the phone it will usually come back and then start to drop off again. If I disable the GSM radio and then re-enable it sometimes it won't enable immediately and might take three goes at the slider going green and then it asking for my PIN.
I have hard-reset, installed various different radios and recently re-flashed but the issue remains. I have also taken the case off the phone and ensured the 'touch' connecters are making contact with the antenna in the case housing. I ahave also reflashed te stock ROM and still the issue remains.
I have now reverted back to my Blackstone as it has become intolerable.
At the moment I have the Blackstone and the HD2 sat next to each other (both with Vodafone SIM cards installed) and the Blackstone has all 4-bars displayed and the HD2 has the 'Martini glass' searching symbol displayed.
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Its an eBay purchase but is more or less immaculate - it isn't something I can get my carrier to repair if it is a hardware fault.....
Any ideas

First (not trying to be rude) have you swopped sim cards to ensure its not a sim issue?
Next (I read on you trying different roms) task 29 and reinstall a stock win mo rom, its been known that on occasions failures are resolved by doing this, if it works they put your rom back on.
sadly thats the best I can offer

Like above check sim card fully & network for issues.
I had a very similar issue on my old Touch Pro, signal would go weak & sometimes overnight would loose conection & I would need to toggle flight mode & then all would be ok.
I started think that was likely hardware after calling network & tech support was convinced my device, well turned out was network prob & only linked to that one sim & how it registered to tower !
So check it out well.
Also you could try padding the back of the sim with some tape in case it is a sim contact issue ... & perhaps flash a stock ROM from SD so everwrite HSPL,Radio & also rilphone.dll will all be paired as should be !
All long shots but not much else left ... Good luck ...

I have similar problem. The phone has weak signal and it looses signal on weaker spots where other phones have full signal.
I have HD2 from US and I am in Europe. Maybe I should put some Europe RAdio?
Also sound is very low.

hrga said:
I have similar problem. The phone has weak signal and it looses signal on weaker spots where other phones have full signal.
I have HD2 from US and I am in Europe. Maybe I should put some Europe RAdio?
Also sound is very low.
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Take CARE when flashing radios as non compatible versions on a US T-Mobile HD2 could result in HD2 paperweight.
My HD2 seems on par with other devices I have compared it for reception strength & I use it in some weak areas without issues.
Have seen a few posts on weak reception so it is either a particular SPL Radio & ROM combo is to blame or hardware issue if unlucky ...

Thanks for the replies it's much appreciated.
Firstly I have swapped SIM cards around (Vodafone Contract SIM & Vodafone Pay&Go SIM) and the fault follows the HD2. I think it has to be hardware or somthing 'unique' with my IMEI number and it registering?
It seems bizzare as I can sit here and watch the signal bars gradually drop off and then it go to 'searching' whilst the Blackstone just sits there happily with 3-bars and never budges.
I am unsure how to approach Vodafone about it as its my own phone (not supplied on a contract) and I think they would be able to give me some technical information as to what's happening with the registrations.
Andy

ADB100 said:
Thanks for the replies it's much appreciated.
Firstly I have swapped SIM cards around (Vodafone Contract SIM & Vodafone Pay&Go SIM) and the fault follows the HD2. I think it has to be hardware or somthing 'unique' with my IMEI number and it registering?
It seems bizzare as I can sit here and watch the signal bars gradually drop off and then it goe to 'searching' whilst the Blackstone just sits there happily with 3-bars and never budges.
I am unsure how to approach Vodafone about it as its my own phone (not supplied on a contract) and I think they would be able to give me some technical information as to what's happening with the registrations.
Andy
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I would recommend try other network sims or a foreign sim & you can then connect to various networks (roaming) & test signal reception.
That is how I got evidence that it was my network (DTAC) at fault, luckily my network main Office is near my work office so I turned up & pushed the issue until they produced a technical individual with the required knowledge & gumption to help resolve the issue.
The Phone Techies are useless unless you get lucky & we are talking national lottery lucky here.
Chances of hardware are quite high too as a few threads along same issue as yours are around on HD2 reception.

It gets more bizzare - Since the Leo is just better than the Blackstone I decided to take both with me and keep the Blackstone as 'fallback'. Tuesday & Wednesday I worked in Hull and the Leo worked just fine. Went out to the pub last night and the Leo just wouldn't register. Over a period of about 15-minutes I tried soft resetting, taking the battery out etc but nothing. I gave up and left the phone on the bar whilst I was talking to someone and then 5-minutes later I get a text - check the phone and its got 3-bars of signal? I sent a text reply and then the phone seemed to be OK.
Today the phone has been in the same position at home where I took the photo above and its not lost connection all day (so far).
I don't know what to think but I still believe it isn't fixed....
Andy

Xperia SP faulty wifi indicator + wrong wifi indication

Hi all,
This morning I was investigating the common wifi issue on our phones. We all know some devices have this issue.
I did a small research with the app Wifi Analyzer and I found this small "bug"..
In systemUI (statusbar) you have the indictors for wifi, nfc, bluetooth, mobile network, time.
When you connect to wifi you get an ammount of bars. I discoverd the following:
(please focus on the statusbar)
Both phones use 4 bars (dot included) to indicate the wificonnection
First picture is from my Samsung Galaxy S Plus Running latest Stock Gingerbread 2.3.6
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The second picture is from Xperia SP running latest stock 12.0.A.2.254 (non rooted)
BOTH PHONES WERE ON THE TABLE APROX 2 METER FROM OUR WIRELESS ROUTER!
For some unknow reason the indictator tells a diffrent story than the app Wifi Analyzer..
To be honest i think we all get fooled here. Both phones are having (in my case) a decent but not perfect connection and my Sony still thinks it is a crappy one. ( The option avoid bad connections is off in my case)
So perhaps this is also a bug in Sony roms?
Regards

mrjraider said:
Hi all,
This morning I was investigating the common wifi issue on our phones. We all know some devices have this issue.
I did a small research with the app Wifi Analyzer and I found this small "bug"..
In systemUI (statusbar) you have the indictors for wifi, nfc, bluetooth, mobile network, time.
When you connect to wifi you get an ammount of bars. I discoverd the following:
(please focus on the statusbar)
Both phones use 4 bars (dot included) to indicate the wificonnection
First picture is from my Samsung Galaxy S Plus Running latest Stock Gingerbread 2.3.6
The second picture is from Xperia SP running latest stock 12.0.A.2.254 (non rooted)
BOTH PHONES WERE ON THE TABLE APROX 2 METER FROM OUR WIRELESS ROUTER!
For some unknow reason the indictator tells a diffrent story than the app Wifi Analyzer..
To be honest i think we all get fooled here. Both phones are having (in my case) a decent but not perfect connection and my Sony still thinks it is a crappy one. ( The option avoid bad connections is off in my case)
So perhaps this is also a bug in Sony roms?
Regards
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From what I've read in the past, there is no industry standard to what "one bar" actually means.
That is for the phone network signal though.
I assume there is no standard for Wi-Fi bars either

yo-meister said:
From what I've read in the past, there is no industry standard to what "one bar" actually means.
That is for the phone network signal though.
I assume there is no standard for Wi-Fi bars either
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Which is my conclusion here. When you see only the dot in your status bar. It does not mean it is a crappy connection

It shows that xperia sp wifi cannot catch the signals properly... maybe

Note 3 reception and wifi

i know this has been mentioned before but i cant believe the difference can be this much. i have an s4 and a note 3. i did side by side speedetest's same server, same time (10 times btw) and the results are the same. the s4 is almost 3 times faster. Also i did go in to the service menu and make sure wifi power saving was enabled in both and then disabled, no change. (*#0011# menu key the select wifi to see wifi). i have noticed a difference in reception as well. not as significant but the s4 is always 10-13 db better and gets into lte much faster. fast dormace is enabled on both phones as it is supported by Telus here in canada. any thoughts guys? i ve attached a pic but i can upload a video as well, excuse the quality i had to use my tablet
thank u

looks like i am joining the club.
on three uk 3g sppeds MUCH better on s4 than on note and wifi speeds better on s4 and keeps disconnecting and buggy on N3 compared to s4 and any of my older phones even obsolete old phones like the HTC desire! Hope samsung cant sort this out with updates or have an expensive brick.

Same results here, N3 does half the wifi throughput then my other devices.

Probably what you're all experiencing is Wifi dropouts. It was bogging my internet down on the Note 3. Router was to blame, or really Samsung's chosen Wifi chipset. Either wait for Samsung to fix it or tryout another router model, which will be hit-and-miss unless through people here or at friends, hotspots etc. you bump into a good one.

This will probably be fixed in a future update...
I got 3 rom updates since I bought my device... And the last one fixed the speed problem on wifi... I'm getting the full speed now (60 down and 10 up with Vidéotron) connected to a wifi AC router.
Sent from my SM-N900 with Tapatalk

Strange: my WiFi-speed this morning (router Linksys EA6500)
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[Q] N4 - No 3G signal - at all

Hey everyone,
first post here. Been hopping over to a N4 I snagged from eBay just recently from a Razr I.
Solid phone, one thing that friggs the hell out of me, I cannot get 3g/H/H+ to work, been turning the internet upside down, the only things so far that I didn't try are flashing a different radio or ROM...
Device Info:
Nexus 4 - 16GB black
Running Stock 4.4.4 Build KTU84P (rooted with towel...)
Kernel 3.4.0 (stock?)
No custom recovery, no fancy rom experiments yet.
As long as I prefer Edge, I have full reception. Once I switch out to WCDMA, the device gives me the finger. No signal. No phone calls possible. No data connection.
SIM card is okay, came directly out of the rI working fine. Tested the card in my wifes phone, checked her sim in mine, all no change. I've been doing the *#*#4636#*#* thing, didn't help either.
Yelled at my providers support (o2 Germany) for about an hour because they claim it's the device. Been in contact with the seller, he claims it was working with o2 and t-mobile.
I'm all out of ideas. Google, and the forum search didn't help either.

APN settings?

Here you go.
-Edith says: They were crosschecked with o2.de website. And they match. Automatic configuration fails with 'Device not compatible'
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Flash full factory image and report back. In your situation though I'd probably return the device. It's definitely not your apn settings (you would still get signal). It clearly is the device too, as the sim works fine in another phone.

DrFredPhD said:
It clearly is the device too, as the sim works fine in another phone.
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actually, it Seems to be the Provider in question.
After a lengthy and 'friendly' Chat with their mobile data Team They some what admitted to have issues with the n4 and n5 in particular, which stem from frequency Problems...
Contract is overdue for cancellation anyways... T-mobile has some pretty nice Plans either...

Have you tried a SIM from another provider? There shouldn't be any oddities with frequency for the nexus 4 as it is the same device all around the world with support for most countries.