Related
So I got home from Irvine not too long ago where my signal strength was absolutely horrendous. Turned on my laptop and right as flicked the WiFi switch on my Evo, I saw a notification that read "4G Network Available" Needless to say, I freaked like a 15 year old boy at cheer-leading camp. Turned off WiFi and sure enough, two bars of 4G on my Evo pushing values that were in the higher end of 4MBs.
When did this happen?! I constantly am using my WiFi signal at home, so I'm just wondering how long I've been missing out on this 4G goodness.
Ok so I've been experiencing some wackiness lately that has kind of irked me a bit. Now I LOVE my Vibrant coming from Blackberry's in the past and most recently an iPhone i'm totally super impressed with the Vibrant especially the Galaxy series.
Anyway, the problem I've had is something that I've learned to deal with because I had a myTouch for a while is the whole ramdom apps running in the background so a Task Manager is cool.
The other thing is that i my job Tmo has horrible reception (not to mention that Miami still doesn't have HSPA but Ft. Lauderdale a smaller city 30min away has it. WTF Tmo!) so I soemtimes have to reboot my phone (i took the battery out) in order to pick up a signal, well the problem i had was that I rebooted my phone and it warned me i had less than 15% battery, i ignored it because i didn't have my charger so i just lowered the brightness and laid off the texting. 15 minutes later i once again rebooted the phone and now magically i had 85% battery life. now unless, the Vibrant magically charges it self by sheer awesomeness then no prob but that is seriously weirding me out. I feel like something in the innards of my amazing device is not right and its nagging me all day long! lol.
I'm Stock rooted, with the LagFix 2.0 by RyanZa and the MobileAP setting, installed, I also have LauncherPro, and beautiful widgets.
so is this something I should worry about?
ps. i've tried every way possible and my phone is impossible to put into download mode.
I feel like the battery indicator is kinda off. For my phone, the warning will pop up when the bar is 1/3 full, saying that I have less than 15% battery left. But I can still talk on the phone for a long time before it turns itself off.
I don't know which part of Miami you are at, but I'm getting pretty good signal.
MilkPudding said:
I feel like the battery indicator is kinda off. For my phone, the warning will pop up when the bar is 1/3 full, saying that I have less than 15% battery left. But I can still talk on the phone for a long time before it turns itself off.
I don't know which part of Miami you are at, but I'm getting pretty good signal.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
The battery indicator on the notification bar is indeed incorrect. There are workarounds this by flashing the following:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=758797
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=756441
Download mode: If you really want to get into it, type: adb reboot download
or reboot download in Terminal.. the manual way is to power off your phone, plug in USB, when the charging screen comes up... hold down the volume up and down, and press and hold power.. when the vibrant logo comes up.. let go of the power button but CONTINUE to hold the two volume buttons then a yellow android digging should appear. Tip: put the phone horizontally, it'll make this easier.
It happened to me once, my phone went down to 0% and shut off, I plugged the charger, let it sit there for about 15-20 minutes, when I turned it on the battery indicator (not the stock battery) said I had 65%.
Now I know that couldn't be accurate because there's no way my phone charged that much in just a few minutes when it usually takes a few hours to fully charge.
I have no clue what it could be and I haven't had this happen again.
-------------------------------------
Posting with XDA app from my Vibrant
Oh well I guess it's just one of those random things. I just wish I could create a log or something that would show people who know a little more about this kind of thing. Anyway, next time it happens I'll let you know and I'll look into that link.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
It has been working just fine for me. However everytime I start it up it does sometimes say I have 15% but then it shoots back up.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
!. No issues on mine regarding that....
2. Yes my battery indicator shows a different level then what the battery actually is, i've heard this will be fixed with update...
3. I live in FT. Lauderdale and no we do not have HSPA+, so far only Jacksonville is the only city is FL with it....
SSJ_Gomike said:
!. No issues on mine regarding that....
2. Yes my battery indicator shows a different level then what the battery actually is, i've heard this will be fixed with update...
3. I live in FT. Lauderdale and no we do not have HSPA+, so far only Jacksonville is the only city is FL with it....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Orlando also has hspa as I pick it up randomly about 28 miles away.
SSJ_Gomike said:
!. No issues on mine regarding that....
2. Yes my battery indicator shows a different level then what the battery actually is, i've heard this will be fixed with update...
3. I live in FT. Lauderdale and no we do not have HSPA+, so far only Jacksonville is the only city is FL with it....
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Well according to the Tmo website the cities in Fl with hspa are Jacksonville, Orlando, Ft. Lauderdale, and Tampa. So I don't know who is wrong there. You or Tmo. No offense.
Sent from my SGH-T959 using XDA App
I have given this modem several chances and it has disappointed me everytime. I consistently get 300 kbs less at home on my Airave on 3G. Out of the house it stops downloading in the middle. Speed is up and down. I lose internet off and on. All on 3G. 3G icon sits there but no blue arrows flash. Sometimes I have to toggle airplane mode several times to get 3G going again.
The only good thing I have found is that I can connect to 4G in my living room consistenetly where the EC05 modem was hit or miss. So if you use 4G all the time this may be a good modem for you. for 3G...throw it out.
I had problems with 3G (dropping out and not coming back) and GPS lock when I first flashed the EE03 modem. Second time around GPS locked and I haven't had the dropped 3G issue since that first flash. Not sure what's up with that, you'd think the problems would be consistent. However, im prolly not the best gauge as I have Wifi everywhere I go. I use 3G sparingly. I haven't compared speeds between the two modems though.
kennyglass123 said:
I have given this modem several chances and it has disappointed me everytime. I consistently get 300 kbs less at home on my Airave on 3G. Out of the house it stops downloading in the middle. Speed is up and down. I lose internet off and on. All on 3G. 3G icon sits there but no blue arrows flash. Sometimes I have to toggle airplane mode several times to get 3G going again.
The only good thing I have found is that I can connect to 4G in my living room consistenetly where the EC05 modem was hit or miss. So if you use 4G all the time this may be a good modem for you. for 3G...throw it out.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
p3dr0maz said:
I had problems with 3G (dropping out and not coming back) and GPS lock when I first flashed the EE03 modem. Second time around GPS locked and I haven't had the dropped 3G issue since that first flash. Not sure what's up with that, you'd think the problems would be consistent. However, im prolly not the best gauge as I have Wifi everywhere I go. I use 3G sparingly. I haven't compared speeds between the two modems though.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Yeah, that's why I gave it the best test possible with an Airave. I get 1.8Mbs with EC05 and 1.5Mbs with the EE03.
3g signal and strength seems a little stronger for me but not by a whole lot. I've been running it without any issues.
3g drops constantly with ee03. Can't wait for a stable gingerbread!
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App
EE03 speed up my connection quite a bit. No issues here, and paired with SRF 1.1.1, my phone is extremely fast.
I'm fine with it. Little difference
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
For those with EE03, does it write/change your Wimax settings. I changed a bunch of mine while using ED05, namely the min signal strength toconnect. Default was like -89 and I lowered mine to -94. Def able to connect more, but if it doesn't... u can just watch the bat guage spin. Just wondering if increased performance with the new modem may be due to tweaking the settings.
I had changed my 3G extensions... blanked them all out. They got set back to default while flashing a ROM. Never got a chance to evaluate a difference. Are the ports/proxies set up the same with EE03? Maybe try blanking the 4 entries and see if that helps.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App
No changes, just flashed the modem.
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA App
No way I love the ee03 modem. I used to have a lot of emails that I would send hang for the longest time. Haven't had a problem at all with ee03 modem. Also 3g speed is so much faster for me as well. Just my opinion.
Sent From My Evo Killer!
kennyglass123 said:
I have given this modem several chances and it has disappointed me everytime. I consistently get 300 kbs less at home on my Airave on 3G. Out of the house it stops downloading in the middle. Speed is up and down. I lose internet off and on. All on 3G. 3G icon sits there but no blue arrows flash. Sometimes I have to toggle airplane mode several times to get 3G going again.
The only good thing I have found is that I can connect to 4G in my living room consistenetly where the EC05 modem was hit or miss. So if you use 4G all the time this may be a good modem for you. for 3G...throw it out.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Have you ever seen this behavior on eb13's and ec05's modem? I have and also dk28's modem. I have this pop up from time to time on various rom/modem combinations and I'm starting to think its some sort of RIL bug or 3g handshake bug, maybe even some sort of permissions bug (really I have no clue tho).
I see this happen from time to time. I'm in a spot that always has 3g, but what happens, it just sits there loading, all the while my 3g icon is dormant, doing nothing. Then out of the blue it goes to 1x and starts working, but only with 1x, then when its done loading whatever, it will bring 3g back and it may or may not repeat the same thing again when I try to pull data. Note; occasionally it will retain 3g, but be hexa slow.....1~10kbps slow.....ouch, that's slow.
That was why I spoke of a modem binge in some other threads. Originally I thought it was sprints network taking a dump in my hand(set). Now after seeing an evo getting 3g right next to me, while mine was stalling and eventually dropped to 1x and also trying every decent modem. I have to believe the problem is in my phone some place.
Only thing I have recently discovered to work is to fix permissions in rom manager, I don't use rom manager for anything, except fixing permissions. The only reason I even tried fixing permissions in rom manager, was after fixing permissions in cwm (3.0.0.6) my phone would (sometimes) get stuck in a boot loop and the only way to fix it would be to clear cache and dalvik cache or restore a backup in cwm. However this modem bug/issue still pops up from time to time, mostly when the phone has been sleeping for 10minutes or more.
I actually think the ee03 modem is pretty good. Just my problems are not.
i wouldnt know lol ive been stuck on dk28 since the usb ports on my laptop are broken
I'm unable to connect to GPS and I don't like how switching from WiFi to 3g necessitates me enabling airplane mode
Sent from my fully armed and operational epic battle station
@Epic4gee...Yeah, I got those symptoms but only going to the EE03 modem. Maybe it is a tower/modem issue for me. But the biggest thing is that it is slower on an Airave which should be the best connection I could get with a 30Mbs broadband connection. I could pass off the connection drops as Sprint but not the speed difference.
Yeah 3g sucked for me too
Sent from my SPH-D700 using XDA Premium App
I'm calling malarchy on this thread since this morning I was getting 1.2 mbs/s on 3g, 7.45 mbs/s on 4g and 17.07 mbs/s on wifi with multiple attempts. I think like all devices thios varies by region, modem software and device hardware. It'll never hit that venn diagram where all 3 circles coexist at their highest points. I was probably in some mecca of coverage this morning.
The Root said:
I'm calling malarchy on this thread since this morning I was getting 1.2 mbs/s on 3g, 7.45 mbs/s on 4g and 17.07 mbs/s on wifi with multiple attempts. I think like all devices thios varies by region, modem software and device hardware. It'll never hit that venn diagram where all 3 circles coexist at their highest points. I was probably in some mecca of coverage this morning.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Did you put the EC05 modem back on and test it in the same area? You will get about 200-300 kbs more in speed on 3G. I consistently tested this on the fastest connection possible, an Airave with Broadband 30Mbs connection. EC05 is faster, EE03 connects to 4G better in low signal areas.
kennyglass123 said:
Did you put the EC05 modem back on and test it in the same area? You will get about 200-300 kbs more in speed on 3G. I consistently tested this on the fastest connection possible, an Airave with Broadband 30Mbs connection. EC05 is faster, EE03 connects to 4G better in low signal areas.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
I have 4g in my city, why would I ever use 3g unless I really had to? My 3g has always been jack unless in specific circumstances. I've actually noticed it to be zippier while lacking the download test results.
pjames said:
i wouldnt know lol ive been stuck on dk28 since the usb ports on my laptop are broken
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
christ man...i think i could negotiate a flash off a laptop at bestbuy/staples/officemax if i was that screwed
go get a library card or rent/buy a friend for a minute
hell go rent a laptop from rent-a-center for a week
i see people give away p3/p4 computers on craigslist like they are going out of style...oh wait...they are...but hell they still do work
consider broadening your horizons just slightly past your own living room
thats all i'm sayin
hell take a walk onto a college campus and have a seat or a high school
people will help you...you just gotta ask
I see a major improvement in the signal with the ee03 modem. I live in portland, and went from 2-3 bounding bars to a steady 4. My 4g still disconnects in my apartment, but it is stronger than it was outside my building.
Haven't yet seen a poll on this and I am curious to see if this is really affecting as many as it seems, here on XDA.
Edit: It would appear that it is indeed an issue for 9/10 NS4G owners.
I have poor WiFi reception. I had a Hero and Evo, and my GF has a Shift, and all those devices have gotten good Wifi in the bedroom. A desktop and laptop have good reception there too. The NS is hopeless unless I stand near the door and hold it gingerly with two fingers. I ended up adding another AP in another part of the house just to cover the NS.
3G signal acquisition is a little below the average set by the above devices, but not too bad. I have to be in a pretty marginal area not to get 3G, and the Evo and Shift last only a little bit past the NS' range.
I have only just recently acknowledged this as a problem. Since day one my WiFi cuts out and my time without a signal is always high. Not sure if 3G is just poor because of Sprint, but it has also been a huge battery drain.
What's funny is the OTA announcement does not seem to state that they are working on 3g issues. It is a little unclear, but that 5th bullet point seems to say they are addressing 4g radio issues only!
re:
Hopefully they increase its stability as a result of fixing other areas of the radio? Longshot, I know.
Wifi is the suck. I have had less than full strength 1ft away from the router.
Not sure if it is this phone or Sprints cup and string network but I constantly get random periods of no internet/data throughput. Mainly on 4g. Going through one right now. 4g connects but there is just zero data tranfered. All webpages time out etc. Now on Sprints totally awesome dialup on vitamins 3g network.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk
For me, all the above. Call me pessimistic but I'm kinda doubting that software will fix a poor radio. Has anyone ever actually experienced an update solving a bad radio? I was actually considering getting a new evo 4g with the extended battery and call it a day. As more days pass by, it seems my network performance gets worse. The times where I'm not getting any data throughput are getting longer. It was annoying for awhile but now this really pissing me off! Cycling airplane mode and rebooting the phone is getting to the point where it doesn't fix anything. Its a waste of time. Like many other people are saying, I love the phone but using it for its main purpose, a phone, it is utterly horrible! Most of the time I have very little signal on the tower, if any at all. I keep saying I'm not going to buy Samsung phones anymore but I still do and continue to get burned by them.
Weird. Now that you mention it I thought the same thing. It just gets worse.
When I first got this phone I could sit on 4g all day long and the internet was just there. 3g too. 100% reliable network activity. Then about a month ago the random periods of no data throughput started happening. First it was both 3g and 4g, now it is just 4g. The 3g speeds are a joke. You can't stream **** with this phone on 3g without skipping and buffering. 4g streams fine but you still have to worry about the data throughput hitting a 2hr or longer brick wall of uselessness.
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk
Luckily i keep my galaxy tab with me because my nexus will show no bars and no data when my tab will be close to full. I just end up using my tab for most of my data use.
Sent from my SPH-P100 using XDA App
If the next update comes and it doesn't fix anything, then we should be allowed to have the device replaced.
My guess is that it is a combination of our crappy radios and sprint is still having wide spread data issues. My gf has my epic and even though she gets more signal and less data loss than I do, she's still experiencing network issues. About an hour ago, I just got a bunch of responses from her that were morning and afternoon and they came in all at once. I sent an email and a text in both stock SMS and Google voice a little while ago and haven't heard anything back yet. Sprint must know they're having network issues. It seems like it has been going on for three weeks now and today is really bad. There are times that I think dial up is faster than the speeds I'm getting when it does work.
Woohoo. Just got 4g data throughput back. Only down for 4 and 1/2 hours today. All good till tomorrows outage. *eyeroll*
Sent from my Nexus S 4G using Tapatalk
I noticed I just got 3g back.
3G and 4G are great! only WiFi needs to be touched up. I use 3G at the home (averaging 2,000 kbps DL) so WiFi isn't needed unless I'm downloading huge ROMs or other files.
Still, I prefer having a working WiFi for friend's houses and other locations.
On T-Mo, stock with root and the phone keeps jumping from 3G to HSPA. Speed tests are reflecting the same also. It's not happening every few minutes, but every couple of seconds. I'm in an area with HSPA and my S3 never switched over to 3G at all.
Anyone else noticing the same thing? I imagine this is going to kill my battery.
Minker17 said:
On T-Mo, stock with root and the phone keeps jumping from 3G to HSPA. Speed tests are reflecting the same also. It's not happening every few minutes, but every couple of seconds. I'm in an area with HSPA and my S3 never switched over to 3G at all.
Anyone else noticing the same thing? I imagine this is going to kill my battery.
Click to expand...
Click to collapse
Mine seems to do this but tbh more it stays on 3G until i use it, then it switched to HSPA+ and give's me the speed i want to be honest i think this might save battery...
Remove pls
That is intentional, it disables HSPA when it is no longer necessary. (i.e. when not downloading anything)
The SGS3 does the same, it just shows the icon regardless of what the actual state is.
try disabling fast dormancy
I haven't once seen my phone show 3G. It shows HSPA when it's not downloading anything, and HSPA+ when it's uploading/downloading. I've seen it go to EDGE for a few seconds underground in a concrete building, but it soon switched back to HSPA.
I've heard this is intentionally done by T-Mobile, and mine does it too.
This is intentional as the previous readers have posted. Has been this way on all 5 htc phones I've had, and on my Galaxy Nexus. The phone idles at 3g until the request comes for more. Supposed to be battery saving. Make sense?
Sent from my MyTouch 4G using Tapatalk 2