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Sorry for misspeaking for the masses when saying chicagoland area, although my observations for SOME of the area seems to be right, according to this thread it may not be entirely accurate for the entire area. However NWI - Portage and surround areas to the west seem to get this good signal. Sorry guys =(
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Hey guys! I can hardly contain myself. Since launch day I was plagued with HORRIBLE cell reception and had the 3g/edge switching issue. New radios always seemed to help little by little as they were rolled out, and eventually I just gave up and went to WiFi at home all the time. Dropped calls and such happened frequently.
The cell signal for the past 3 weeks-ish has been weird and flaky. I've never since January have been able to get more than 800kbs and that was full bars. More times than not it was 300-400kbs.
As of this week.... 1700kbs!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesus Christ this thing flies now. I've been missing out on a lot. THANK YOU TMOBILE!
If anyone else has some awesome success stories with the N1, post in this thread =)
congrats, hope they upgrade the Las Vegas area soon.
do you get a different icon on the home screen when on HSDPA? Like instead of 3G?
twflys said:
do you get a different icon on the home screen when on HSDPA? Like instead of 3G?
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no you will not get a new icon unless you are using a modded rom.
twflys said:
do you get a different icon on the home screen when on HSDPA? Like instead of 3G?
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I'm currently using the stock Froyo test build so no icon. I love moving about the town and have steady 5 bars though. =)
Hitorii said:
I'm currently using the stock Froyo test build so no icon. I love moving about the town and have steady 5 bars though. =)
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What part of town are you in? I never had any problems with reception in Lincoln Park, through max download speed was around 800 kilobits.
Edit: Just saw that you said Chicagoland..never mind.
im in the chicagoland area. I just got 450kpbs down on my speedtest.
Talcott and Harlem pushing 1300kb myself
I wonder how long it will be before it hits down here in Bloomington/Normal
Although were not that big, we have a lot down here. Illinois State University, Illinois Wesleyan University, State Farm Headquarters, Country Companies, Nestle, Mitsubishi Motors
Hitorii said:
Hey guys! I can hardly contain myself. Since launch day I was plagued with HORRIBLE cell reception and had the 3g/edge switching issue. New radios always seemed to help little by little as they were rolled out, and eventually I just gave up and went to WiFi at home all the time. Dropped calls and such happened frequently.
The cell signal for the past 3 weeks-ish has been weird and flaky. I've never since January have been able to get more than 800kbs and that was full bars. More times than not it was 300-400kbs.
As of this week.... 1700kbs!!!!!!!!!!!!! Jesus Christ this thing flies now. I've been missing out on a lot. THANK YOU TMOBILE!
If anyone else has some awesome success stories with the N1, post in this thread =)
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so now that you have solid service, do you look back and maybe were you one of the people who complained about the nexus one poor reception and all this, and now you got solid coverage so you see how those of us with great sesrvice dont have those issues!
uansari1 said:
What part of town are you in? I never had any problems with reception in Lincoln Park, through max download speed was around 800 kilobits.
Edit: Just saw that you said Chicagoland..never mind.
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I was in Roger's Park and my downstream was 800kbps~. I recently moved to River West, (like Grand/Halstead), and my speed was around 2.7mbps. My upstream is the same as before 350kbps~.
In westside Los Angeles, getting around 2.8mbps down. It's damn nice that TMO is stepping it up.
Just checked, I'm getting ~50KB/s down up. Slower than before.
I'm in the western suburbs.
In the Oak Lawn/Alsip area and speeds are the same as always 800kbps is peak but usually slower.
Well I live in Portage area and took the SS in the other day and was fairly consistent on the way. Perhaps I should get this edited. Sorry guys, I could of sworn it was rolled out for the rest of ya.
As for the complaints and such about low speed/choppy speeds. Its night and day. I had it and now I don't, ever. So I can see how big of an ordeal it would have been to straighten out this signal issue from tmobile-google as its not consistent
Where are you in Chicagoland area? I don't notice a difference. I frequent Chicago/Buffalo Grove/Highland Park areas.
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In westside Los Angeles, getting around 2.8mbps down. It's damn nice that TMO is stepping it up.
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Sure you weren't on WiFi?
I haven't seen speeds like that anywhere in LA.
mortzz said:
Just checked, I'm getting ~50KB/s down up. Slower than before.
I'm in the western suburbs.
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Are you on the 2.2 test ROM by chance? The test rom was missing some info in its build.prop file which may leave your phone unoptimized for cellular data.
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Are you on the 2.2 test ROM by chance? The test rom was missing some info in its build.prop file which may leave your phone unoptimized for cellular data.
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im on froyo maybe thats why im not seeing hspa+ then
This is the best I've seen in Austin:
Connection Type: Cell
Download: 4921 kbps
Upload: 1500 kbps
Ping: 76 ms
I can consistently get over 3mbs down.
Guys please help me understand I'm running DC Rom 3.2.3 with the old radio and just updated to the newest radio and still getting slow three g speed. However I do get good 4g speed around 4.3 mbps. But what I donot understand is why my upload speed is higher than download speeds. I took a snap shot. Is it because I'm In a 4g area or could it possible be that the network is having problem.
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From what I have been reading about radios, it seems that some radios work better in some places, and the latest may not be the best for everyone. Try different radios to see what different speeds you get.
thats horrible. i just tested 1604 down and 692 up. not too shabby. ive gotten 2000 before though.
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From what I have been reading about radios, it seems that some radios work better in some places, and the latest may not be the best for everyone. Try different radios to see what different speeds you get.
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The radio I had before worked great until few days ago I just update to new radio so I figure I upgrade to the new radio to see if it fixes the problem. Do you think sprint is forcing 4g people that are in 4g area to use 4g? 4g is great but runs battery down for just surfing and textin.
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hockey4life0099 said:
thats horrible. i just tested 1604 down and 692 up. not too shabby. ive gotten 2000 before though.
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I'm in greensboro nc where you located. Are you rooted
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The problem is that you are using the speedtest.net app I presume. If I am not mistaken it is fairly inaccurate. Try using the xtremelabs(sp?) speedtest app in the market or try using the speedtest.net website.
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ewilson said:
I'm in greensboro nc where you located. Are you rooted
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I'm rooted in the metro detroit area.
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I have the same problem sometimes, and I am fairly sure it isn't your radio, it is Sprints network. Last night for the first time I experienced the same thing as you did with the uploads being higher then the downloads, weird. I have been testing it at random times daily and it is just really inconsistent. Here are some screen shots of my tests for the last few days. As you can see from the shots, I have almost full 3g signal (the red bars at the top of the screen) when I did these screen shots, yet two hours ago I had no 3g at all in the exact same spot for about an hour.
thats crazy, i live just out side a tiny city where most folks have dial up yet the whole area gets sprints 3g. my tests are usually 1.2mb down and 700kb up.
on a side note, i had no idea sprint had such sweet speeds even in areas that you just wouldnt think they would spend the money on. maybe att had me bamboozled all this years.
Somebody should start one of those Google maps that we can all put pins in with notes about the most reliable radios in our region. I bet we could populate it pretty fast if a few root users would be willing to flash a few versions and test each one. I'd do it, but I'm in the middle of another project.
Sprint lit up little ole RI along with Boston, wooohooo! Will post some numbers later.
How's it working? Any idea what the range its like out of providence?
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How's it working? Any idea what the range its like out of providence?
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You can check the sprint site for the coverage map. I get about 6.5-7 down and 1 up at my work. But i've also been getting 4g since the release of the EVO. It just went official last week but there was a few towers in Providence that have had it for a while.
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You can check the sprint site for the coverage map. I get about 6.5-7 down and 1 up at my work. But i've also been getting 4g since the release of the EVO. It just went official last week but there was a few towers in Providence that have had it for a while.
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Wow, I thought I checked that coverage map after they went official and it showed nothing. Its up now though. Thanks. I wasn't sure if I wasn't getting 4g because it wasn't here or because I screwed up my phone. I guess I screwed up my phone.
Miss Providence so much...............JWU
Is anyone else experiencing slow 3g speeds? Iam talking about speeds like 15-70kbps down. Ever since two weeks ago the data speed here in Wisconsin is so slow its retarded. Just wondering if this is happening elsewhere.
Yes I've tried different roms, kernnel, and phones. Pri,prl,radios are all up to dated also.
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Is anyone else experiencing slow 3g speeds? Iam talking about speeds like 15-70kbps down. Ever since two weeks ago the data speed here in Wisconsin is so slow its retarded. Just wondering if this is happening elsewhere.
Yes I've tried different roms, kernnel, and phones. Pri,prl,radios are all up to dated also.
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No issue noticed in Michigan.
I would call *2 and let them know your issue and they can check if there's any outages.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890158
My speeds from last night.
Yea!!!!
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mattykinsx said:
No issue noticed in Michigan.
I would call *2 and let them know your issue and they can check if there's any outages.
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yes I tried. They hung up on me once and I got disconnected a few times after that. So I went in to the sprint store and ask, they said that their 4g is down and everyone on 4g is pushed over to the 3g network so that's why its slows. But it sounded like BS, cause Theres no 4g hete in Wisconsin
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=890158
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119mb down. ? I call BS
Yea!!! I'm on Milwaukee area and my 3g really sux with full bar, my friend G2 her speed test go from 3.5 to 4.11 Wtf
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What part of michigan I'm in detroit añd get his speeds.
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No issue noticed in Michigan.
I would call *2 and let them know your issue and they can check if there's any outages.
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Swyped From Eva Running Myn's RLS4.95 On The Now Network!
Glockshooter said:
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That's not your speeds. That's how much you've downloaded. Wirless/wired tether app, right?
Lmao Wtf its not 4G in Wisconsin they don't know wat they talking about they bs bro
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I'm in wisconsin and I get around 700 down and about 1000 up consistently
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What part of michigan I'm in detroit añd get his speeds.
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I'm gonna change my comment I just ran a speed test and it went to the 2g icon for the first time in a long long time.
Just 1 time I got 2.0 mbps at 6am lol after that 0.80 mbps or 0.50 my friend t-mobile speed test 4.00mbps n up smh
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Glockshooter said:
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twiz0r said:
I'm in wisconsin and I get around 700 down and about 1000 up consistently
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if that's the case then it might just be the Milwaukee area that's effected or is it all big cities that's effected
I was on Chicago I did a speed test on 4g n I got 5.10 mbps super nice drive back to Wisconsin .80 mbps lol smh
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shif7i7down said:
if that's the case then it might just be the Milwaukee area that's effected or is it all big cities that's effected
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I been having 3G issues all day too here in Delaware, but strangely 4G has been working flawless for me
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I'm by the Michigan Ohio border, and I have had this problem for over 2 months now. At home and where I work, I'm less than a block from a tower at both locations, and used to get about 2000kbps down and 1500kbps up consistantly. About 2 months ago, it got horrible. On average, I get around 40kbps down and 10kpbs up. Sometimes it doesnt work at all. This happens anywhere I go. But, once in a while I would get normal speeds, usually only early in the morning, then the rest of the day/night it would be bad again.
After spending hours on the phone with sprint, refreshing the network, and doing 2 factory resets, they decided it was a hardware problem. I took the phone in, they agreed, and gave me a brand new evo. For a few days, it worked better, not as good as it was, but better at least. Then a few days later it got worse again.
I have since done 3 factory resets, had engineers from sprint come out, and they say everythings fine. Whats weird, the other day I was at a friends house, who only gets verizon signal at his house. While roaming on the verizon towers, I got normal speeds again, around 1800kbps down. So obviously there isnt a problem with the phone again, as the 3g seems to work fine there. I have been calling sprint every few days, and they have no clue whats going on, they say nobody else in the area has called in about this.
I'm giving this another month, and then I'm permanently leaving sprint. Data is the main thing I use my phone for, and I cant load webpages or stream pandora.
Sorry for the long rant haha but I thought I would let you know I'm having the same problem.
socal here
me and my gf's epic are having HORRIBLE 3g speeds..100-200 kbps...I used to have ~800..its been like that for around 2 weeks now...last saturday i went to la puente california and speeds out there were ok..~600kbps...but where i live and where I work..3g speeds are pure crap...
No problems here in Sacramento, getting 100-140KBps d/l, 100KBps u/l.
Ok for the past 7 days me been getting slow speeds like rev o my ups wont go over 150kb and down wont go higher then 1mps no more use to get like 2.4mps stable then i heard from sprint engeniers that there gonna realease ev do rev b and wimax wave 2 on new years or on jan 6 when dan heeae anccounce it and that y 3g been caps atm
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I have been waiting for this since I got my Evo the first day that got release from sprint
I been with cyanogemod since 6.1 rc1 until now but it look like its not ready 4G yet.
What rom should flash for now? should I get the fresh rom ? what do u guys think any suggestions ?
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I have been waiting for this since I got my Evo the first day that got release from sprint
I been with cyanogemod since 6.1 rc1 until now but it look like its not ready 4G yet.
What rom should flash for now? should I got with the fresh rom ? what do u guy think any suggestions ?
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Personally I am using myns rom but best thing for you to do is look at them and decide for your self.
thanks man I am going to try some roms and see wich one I like the best
SF really doesn't have 4G yet? There's 4G across lots of the Bay Area already, been that way for several months at least. I'm in Fremont and have 4G, and know there's 4G in oakland, hayward, and many other areas. I have noticed that buildup though, because I'm getting 4G in places I didn't before, so I'm excited haha
It was "officially" released today
It's still pretty spotty as of 1:30AM. Hopefully it'll be in full force when I wake up.
As for ROMs, I really like Sprint Lovers.
will see what happend later :} 1:40 and nothing yet
I just tried it a little. It worked for a little while in my living room at 1 bar out of 4 but cut out pretty quick. It's not working down in my room at all.
Myn's Warm TwoPointTwo is the best rom!
I've seen 4g in sf for like a month now?... is there gonna be more coverage? Also many more citys have had it like san jose, palo alto, redwood city, san leandro. So what's the news really about? Just announcing it?
Really??? It didnt officially launch here untill hours ago and I had tried a couple days ago and it didnt work.
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It hasn't covered the whole city. Its kinda spotty everywhere. Try other parts of the city.
rican408 said:
I've seen 4g in sf for like a month now?... is there gonna be more coverage? Also many more citys have had it like san jose, palo alto, redwood city, san leandro. So what's the news really about? Just announcing it?
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you named 5 cities out of how many?
im in oakland and dont have it as of 7AM
I don't care about the rest of the world im just asking why announce it a month late?
still nothing sucks
I live in the city by bayshore and i still don't have any 4g what's up with that.
sucks.
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yes. even "old" 4G cities like chicago and atlanta are still getting new/upgraded towers, so right now SF is just getting the foundation and will be expanding as the month goes on.
So what's the news really about? Just announcing it?
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obviously. anybody who follows 4G news has known about the development/test towers, but the general public is mostly clueless.
and for anybody wondering about coverage, it's heaviest along the inner edges of the bay, plus a little along the 680 between pleasanton and concord. more will come - just be patient.
you can view pretty much exactly where 4G is by downloading Sensorly Map Viewer from the market. I have gotten up to 9Mbs down and around 1Mbs up downtown for months now.
I use CM6.1.1 but when I use a sense ROM it is Myns all the way. Best sense ROM, IMO.
I just went went around SF; mission, haight, union square, and I couldn't connect anywhere. It just says Scanning... and then it'll say disconnected. I live near Panhandle park and its not working either. Just checked my mac address and wimax address and everything seems fine. Either 4g is down or my phone is busted, which sucks because the mac address and wimax address is fine ....anyone else have any luck?
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I just went went around SF; mission, haight, union square, and I couldn't connect anywhere. It just says Scanning... and then it'll say disconnected. I live near Panhandle park and its not working either. Just checked my mac address and wimax address and everything seems fine. Either 4g is down or my phone is busted, which sucks because the mac address and wimax address is fine ....anyone else have any luck?
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Try around Market and Hayes. I have been getting a strong signal around there for the last 2 months...
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It's still spotty here in the Sunnyvale area, but it seems 4G is available in more places in the area now. I'm sure the reception will improve over then next couple days. Nevertheless, I'm excited.
I live in Newark and get slim to none 4g. But soon as I drive 1 mile from my residence, I will get 2- full bars.4g is coming, just not at full throttle like everybody was hoping for.
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