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My first evo got its rsa keys fried so i just recieved a new one today and was super excited to test 4G. Well, in emryville, i got consistantly between 7-11mbs down and 1.3 up.
I know 4g isnt official in sf yet and to my knowledge no towers in the east bay and i have 1-2 bars of signal with amazing speeds.. wow im stoked for the official release! Maybe this is just lack of cell traffic but im really pleased with sprint on this one.
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I'm getting 7-8meg in SOMA. I'm curious to see what its like at the giants game tomorrow. Will test capacity, maybe. I know one thing for sure, my iPhone won't work.
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I'm getting 7-8meg in SOMA. I'm curious to see what its like at the giants game tomorrow. Will test capacity, maybe. I know one thing for sure, my iPhone won't work.
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hahahaha at&t will be swamped.
GO GIANTS!
make sure you hold it correctly though, thats always the key
in Berkeley I cant even cop a 4g signal. I should try from Sather Tower.
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Anyone near Dublin? I'd love to hear if it reached there.
Anyone know how to increase network reception within the phone? My messaging is always shotty and it drives me nuts! Messages wont send on first attempt. I have to retry them and the person gets them twice. I always reboot or jump into airplane mode but its annoying as ****. Apparently the service on amy home isn't too good since it happens to my sisters intercept and her boyfriends evo but not like it hits me. Help!!! O usuallu undermind it thinking its sprint but im starting to suspect the radio now.. my old nokia candy bar pos had better reception 10 fold compared to these devices nowadays.
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Btw gingerbread kb sucks compared to eclair kb lol sorry for all the typos above.
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There is a thread on here for how to make 4g reception better. If I recall it had tips for 3g too. Your nokia was a gsm phone most likely. Way different from your sprint cdma phone in penitration of buildings
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Call up Sprint and complain about coverage and tell them you are going to cancel. They will send you a free Airave that you hook up to your router. Basically a small cell tower that covers the inside of your house and some outside. I've had one for over 2 years and it wouldn't go without it.
I will tell you one thing about the Airave that you have to get used to. There is a small (but noticable) delay when you are using it. You say hello, and it takes a second to a second and a half for the other party to hear you. Sometimes I say "hello?" twice just as they answer me once.
If you're rooted you can purchase roam control from the market. That'll put your phone on constant roaming and hopefully give you better reception
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Djinn23 said:
There is a thread on here for how to make 4g reception better. If I recall it had tips for 3g too. Your nokia was a gsm phone most likely. Way different from your sprint cdma phone in penitration of buildings
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I can't find that thread... any help?
Network Vision
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Network vision can't be implemented any faster! I getting better radio signal but still hit 1x with eg22
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Fatonuseni said:
Network vision can't be implemented any faster! I getting better radio signal but still hit 1x with eg22
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I can't find that thread... any help?
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Few threads down in the dev section.
You need to have your MSL number to edit wimax settings.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=833332
[Tutorial] Reconnect to 4G much faster!!!
- Ron
Its definitely thhe radio. On my hero I got 3g speeds of 3-5mb/s and always hadservice. Now I get 2 bars where I had 5. And sometimes I'll have allvmy bars until I make a call or send a text, then suddenly I'll have no service and everything fails, but when I hang up or back out the message app I get all my service back -_- sprints really annoying me. Everyone gets servicein my house but me.
My friend has an iphone andhe gets 3g full bars att
My friend with a MT3G (yes the original non 3.5mm having one) gets HSPA with full bars! As well as my friend with his HD2 and another with a droid x. I'm always told how great the service is in my house until they see MY signal
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Does anybody want to trade their Nexus S 4G for an Evo 4G? Thought I would ask...gf likes the nexus better because it's smaller. Evo is mint btw.
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What color?
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Eddiepapi said:
What color?
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Black. It is in mint condition.
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Black. It is in mint condition.
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I've heard that before... the next morning I woke up without a kidney. -.-
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You would have to be crazy to trade a nexus s for an Evo.
Well I'm hoping to meet a crazy person.
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As much as I love my NS4G, I would be willing to trade it for a EVO in a few months, based on these things:
If there isnt any sort of update to address reception issues.
If the Photon's bootloader is locked
How many issues the 3D ends up having.
I obviously dont want to take a step back going to the EVO, but I really dont want to be stuck with a POS either. I have a sprint tower a few blocks from my house and have to have my airave plugged in for my phone to work in my house. Thats unacceptable. I was a little more ok with it a few weeks ago when I figured an update would be right around the corner. Every day that goes by makes me doubt that it is anything an update can fix. I really want the Photon, I love Moto devices. I had the Droid 2 and the Droid X and both were very solid phones with great radios and battery life. I expect more of the same from the Photon. But if its locked I dont think it will work for me. The 3D will be a buggy device for quite a while and I dont really want to deal with that, I just sold my Thunderbolt because of the issues it had.
I guess my point is to be patient, someone will want to make that trade eventually, maybe with some cash included also
A tree took my cable wire out yesterday. I had no internet, so no airave. Well, my NS4G was completely useless til they came and fixed the internet. I had to sit outside to use the phone. Wouldn't even send a text.
You sure you want this phone?
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I too have noticed slightly lower signal reception... however at work I would be stuck on 1x or no service on my EVO... with the NS4G I always have service, even if it's roaming.
Yea, don't get me wrong, I live in a basement apartment so every phone sucks down here. But I didn't have the airave til about a week before I got my NS4G and my Evo and epic both worked, the Evo better than the epic. NS4G won't work at all down here. I left for work this morning and got flooded with emails and text messages that weren't coming through because I had no service.
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I too have noticed slightly lower signal reception... however at work I would be stuck on 1x or no service on my EVO... with the NS4G I always have service, even if it's roaming.
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Not even gonna discuss speed and bytes per second. I'm lucky if I stay connected rooted or not rooted. How can sprint be.proud about their 4G network if its not stable. Anyone have a steady 4G connection. I'm in NYC.
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Not even gonna discuss speed and bytes per second. I'm lucky if I stay connected rooted or not rooted. How can sprint be.proud about their 4G network if its not stable. Anyone have a steady 4G connection. I'm in NYC.
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Steady 4g right here in the bay area ca.
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Dallas TX. when i get to my apt near down town i am able to connect to 4G and leave it on all night..
I did this with my EPIC and now my 3D. No disconnects.
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Steady 4g right here in the bay area ca.
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Also in the Bay Area, CA. Pretty stable. Constantly 9-10 mbps. Not trying to rub it in the author of this threads face, just saying it might be your area buddy. Hopefully that changes soon.
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Also in the Bay Area, CA. Pretty stable. Constantly 9-10 mbps. Not trying to rub it in the author of this threads face, just saying it might be your area buddy. Hopefully that changes soon.
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That could be it.
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I live in the San Fernando valley CA and my 4g is greatcoat here inside and out
I have steady 4G, in suburbs of LA.
I have a tower outside my office, and if I'm outside, 4 bars. Once I go inside, the building....poof it is gone. Which is normal for the very high frequency WiMax is on, it just does not penetrate walls very well. Connection speed during the day is horrible, but goes up when normal people are still sleeping 4am, it might hit 5 mbps.
I'm in STL
KJ
jasonb1108 said:
Not even gonna discuss speed and bytes per second. I'm lucky if I stay connected rooted or not rooted. How can sprint be.proud about their 4G network if its not stable. Anyone have a steady 4G connection. I'm in NYC.
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Depends on where you are. On my 3D i get a connection on the edge of my bed lmao. Whenever I travel to central west palm my 4G is kicking ass.
I Haz 3D!
I have decent coverage when traveling around Nashville TN but when I'm inside a building, or my house, I'm lucky to stay connected and have more than 1 or 2 "curved bars". penetration sucks with Wimax.
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Not even gonna discuss speed and bytes per second. I'm lucky if I stay connected rooted or not rooted. How can sprint be.proud about their 4G network if its not stable. Anyone have a steady 4G connection. I'm in NYC.
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I have a steady 4g and I live in NYC as well, specifically Williamsburg. I get about 4 bars outside, one to two bars while inside.
When I lived at my parents house in the Bronx, I got full signal from inside their apartment and it was great.
Where do you live that you get bad coverage? I always considered NYC to have great coverage, but so never tried it in Queens. It may be worst there.
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I'm in St. Louis, and I find it to be pretty thin. As others have mentioned, the frequency means that it just doesn't work well indoors. And it destroys my already terrible battery life. However, if I can get a signal, and if I'm near a charger, the speed is very nice.
Overall I'd say my WiMax experience is a C-.
HERE IS A FACT. this is A FACT! Sprints 4G network is a joke. They have no real workable 4G network. Having a tower here and there doesn't work! Sprint HAS NO PLANS IN ANY FORM OR WAY TO INCREASE THEIR WIMAX 4G NETWORK! They are coming out with LTE phones for a reason. because they are stupid and don't know how to run a company. Other companies LTE networks were LARGER than Sprints ON THEIR FIRST DAY TURNED ON!
My biggest annoyance with 4g is that sometimes it won't load a webpage. With 2-3 bars of 4g even. The progress bar will get about halfway, then stall out. It downloads files quick, but for some reason just has issues with webpages.
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Not even gonna discuss speed and bytes per second. I'm lucky if I stay connected rooted or not rooted. How can sprint be.proud about their 4G network if its not stable. Anyone have a steady 4G connection. I'm in NYC.
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I had the same problem when i first got my Evo and I was pissed, when I called Sprint, we went through all kinds od procedural BS, but after a month of calls to Sprint and HTC, we came to the conclusion that it was a hardware issue and could not be repaired, so they gave me a new phone. Then I was getting 5 Mb per second. I advise you to let Sprint know and do not give up, they will replace your phone with whatever you want, make sure to let them know how pissed you are, it helps
Running Awesome 4Gs out in ol' West Texas.. Amarillo to be exact including Lubbock as well as Dallas, Austin, San Antonio, and good ol' Houston! Yipee kai Ay "mother truckers" haha just saying
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No 4g in va. Got six bars on 3g...
I'm on vacation and in Vegas right now i get 4g just about everywhere. Indoor,outdoor dont matter this place is blanketed in 4g.
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I'm on vacation and in Vegas right now i get 4g just about everywhere. Indoor,outdoor dont matter this place is blanketed in 4g.
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Indeed it is. I love living here! 4G everywhere.
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Stable In seattle wa nothing in seatac wa
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I honestly don't know what's causing this, I get solid 3.0MB/s at home(not Mbit/s) and at work I get 7-15kB/s. I walk around the house I work in, inside and out to no avail, any tips and help would be greatly appreciated.
Dhero
Also called T-Mobile they said there was good HSPA+ coverage where I am. Interference? Neighbor running a jammer?
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I honestly don't know what's causing this, I get solid 3.0MB/s at home(not Mbit/s) and at work I get 7-15kB/s. I walk around the house I work in, inside and out to no avail, any tips and help would be greatly appreciated.
Dhero
Also called T-Mobile they said there was good HSPA+ coverage where I am. Interference? Neighbor running a jammer?
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Noooo, it's not your neighbor. LOL.
Has this happened to your before you got the n4?
If you work in a office building, walls could be the culprit that you are not getting fast down speeds. Maybe t mobile is refarming the area where you work. There are dozens of possibilities why you're not getting speedy down speeds. Do not rely completely on t mobile's coverage map, no carrier's coverage map is 100 percent accurate.
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It happened to me last week but I am on straight talk at&t sim card.too days after refilling up service I was getting 120-190 kbps /when I was getting before with s2 was 5000mbps -7000mbps so I called straight talk and they refresh my service and now I'm getting good speeds again
Don't take T-Mobiles word for it. Look at the coverage area map on their site and see how coverage is in your area compared to where you work, then troubleshoot from there. Could be walls of the building or just coverage issue. Compared to average speed on the N4 3Mbs is petty slow. I get that for my upload for example.
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Don't take T-Mobiles word for it. Look at the coverage area map on their site and see how coverage is in your area compared to where you work, then troubleshoot from there. Could be walls of the building or just coverage issue. Compared to average speed on the N4 3Mbs is petty slow. I get that for my upload for example.
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He said 3MB/s which is different than 3Mbps. (i've started using the switches now AND case sensitive Bs because people still don't notice the difference Maybe we should just go 3MiB instead now as that would stand out more )
Then again getting 3MB/s would equate to about 27Mbps straight.... even DC-HSPA+ might have a tough time doing that other than for a burst here and there.
Definitely not a building issue, as its a small house where I watch clients. Even walked around the house to see if I could get better speeds. My bars are full, T-Mobile is just spotty I guess. Also never happened on my defy, guy at tmobile said it was my phone, I lol'd hard and walked out of the store.
And thank you for noticing that I used MegaByte rather then Megabit. For those unknowing, there's eight bits in a byte
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Go outside your work and see if speeds are improved. I'm thinking that the walls of your building are made up of something that's brutal on RF penetration.
I'm having a similar issue. I get great speeds at home and at work. But it's pretty much unusable at my school. I know it was working fine before the winter break so it leads me to think that the issue started after they enabled the 1900 band here in San Antonio.
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Go outside your work and see if speeds are improved. I'm thinking that the walls of your building are made up of something that's brutal on RF penetration.
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Like aluminum siding, it's kryptonite to T-Mobile's signal.
Just seems like a hole in the signal, probably a temporary thing, but data speeds don't pick up for around a mile radius.
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Just seems like a hole in the signal, probably a temporary thing, but data speeds don't pick up for around a mile radius.
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Typical T-Mobile, I have the same type of signal black hole around my house and its been there for over 10 years.
Good news, flashed Franco kernel and can see an increase from the 7-10kB/s to about 50-130kB/s strange thing is, upload speed is up to par at 1.3MB/s
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