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3g service issues in my area!

Ok so for some reason lately my 3g service seems to be really really slow or not working at all. Gives error when going to the market or using the web.says no service accessible.please try again. What the hell is going on? I live in the renton/kent Washington area. And no I have not reached 5gb cap yet.my month just started. Some times it works and gives me up to 4mb to 6mb speeds if I go to a friends house. But wont work 90% of the time in my area. Use to work great. But now it sucks balls! Thanks for any ideas!
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If you have had good 3g up until now, call TMo. If it is not a currently known service issue, have them open a service ticket. They did it for me (although edge was working) and I was back in business in about 4 days, and they even called me back to make sure everything was cool.

Yea already called them.told me I should upgrade to the Myslide 4g. Lol I just got the Vibrant. Also told me it should be working fine.made a trouble ticket but that was last week.still having major issues with 3g service. Stupid thing is they told me if I added the $15 extra tethering plain.my 3g would be faster.what a load of crap! Lol
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you're not alone, my 3g is gone too though i have a good reception here in my place in the past.

Just ran the Speedtest.net App and only got 0.15kb download speed but got 1.75mg upload speed. That doesn't seem right to me!
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what rom are you running?

i think the vibrant has weak reception in general, mine is always switching between 3g and edge everywhere where my tp2 could hold a 3g connection and sometimes my vibrant will search for a signal where my tp2 would have at least edge.
also the wifi bars will go to 1 or 0 on the vibrant when i am one room over from my router but my tp2 and bb bold will have full bars.
maybe this is caused by the battery saving algorithm?

happened to me the other day in myrtle beach for like 15 minutes i had like crappy 100 kbps download and like 2 mbits upload.
i think some ****er is just hogging all the bandwidth from the tower you are on.
sorry if we cant cuss im new.

Running just the offical ROM with JI6 update. Also Rooted. Starting to get pissed off here.plus GPS is non working taking like 10mins to even find me.and its jumping all over the place on google maps! WTF!! ;(
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I came from the G1 and I noticed the Vibrant doesn't get nearly as good of reception. It was a pretty rare thing to ever be on anything but 3G with the G1 but the Vibrant spends quite a bit of time on Edge. Same locations...
For what it is worth the JK2 modem has given me the best overall performance/battery life. Could be worth a try putting a JK2 ROM on there if you haven't already. But yeah the Vibrant overall doesn't get as good of signal as some other phones.

I've been having reception issues since T-mobile announced Louisvile was live with 4G. getting similar errors saying no service accessible.please try again. or it will just say network error.

Ok so I just installed the lag fix from the market and I got to say wow. Phone is lighting fast and gps seems to be better and 3g. Almost like a new device! Crazy
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you sure the lagfix fixed it? can you run a speedtest?

Yeah all same here. 3g issues for 3 days now, speed test was 67 kbs. Usually 4000 + Idk what's happening but its good to know I'm not alone. This is pissing me off.
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Yea ran new speedtest and got like 1.12mg but probably would be faster if the weather wasn't so crappy outside 60 mph winds!
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Ok just ran the speedtest app again and got 1.98mg download and 2.65mg upload speeds.so seems faster with the lag fix. And gps seems to work better too.
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Also got Quadrant Standard score of 2096 instead of the normal 890! Wow what a difference!
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It won't work that well around the area of Kent, East Hill area.
I am experiencing the same matter as you, and live in about the same area.
From my observation, general east hill area has bad 3G,data packet connection.

I've been having the same problems as u guys. I live in philly, and 3g had always been pretty good. I called tmo and got to upper level tech support, and they said out might be a network merging issue (whatever the hell that is). So, I starting playing around with the settings and I found a short term fix for me. Do this only if u know u have 3g signal, go to wireless and network, then network mode and click wcdma. if u go into edge area u will lose signal completely.

ultraman69 said:
i think the vibrant has weak reception in general, mine is always switching between 3g and edge everywhere where my tp2 could hold a 3g connection and sometimes my vibrant will search for a signal where my tp2 would have at least edge.
also the wifi bars will go to 1 or 0 on the vibrant when i am one room over from my router but my tp2 and bb bold will have full bars.
maybe this is caused by the battery saving algorithm?
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Dude I think you should replace your phone
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No 4g...need help

My girlfriend has a mt4g, and since she got it about a year ago, never seen it go into 4g. Our area is completely 4g covered.
I went into phone settings via *#*#4636#*#* checking its connection. Seen 3g(Umts) H(hsdpa)[3.5g...] but never no matter what do I see it go to 4g(hspa).
Any suggestions? I got a new sim for it today since I've heard about that whole thing, and the phone is rooted. I'm out of ideas.
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H = HSDPA = 4G for you. The difference between HSDPA "3.5G" and "4G" is only the speed, the protocol is the same. Marketing...
HSPA is only a "friendly" name for HSDPA+HSUPA. It doesn't actually mean anything separate from both of those.

Weird...
My phone (nexus one) gets hsdpa though.
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Nexus can't get more than 7.2Mbps HSDPA.
MT4G can do 14.4Mbps.
That's the "3.5G" and "4G" difference. For marketing.

Oh I get it. Weird, haha.
Really odd though, doing speed tests I pull around 5mb/s dl. MT4G pulls around 2-3.

thats more wierd, cuz i buy my MT4G to a friend. it comes whit the original firmware 2.2.1 mysence ( never rooted modded or anithing ) and it says 4G, now i rooted it and install cm7 ( from cyanogenmod ) and now it only stays in 3g and H(3.5) in stock rom it shows 3g H and 4g, so what is the diferense?

Any ROM for MT4G either shows 3G and H, or 3G and 4G. It will NEVER show 3G, H and 4G together, because it can't differentiate between HSDPA modes. You can return it back to stock and see for yourself.
These things have been explained to the bones about a year ago. Please run a quick search, if you want more info.

Fron my understanding those are just icons to be user friendly and give it the appeal that it is 4g, when in reality its just how much more speed the phone can actually handle over 3g. If I got that correct t. Males sense. Though I still don't get why my browsing is faster than the "4g".
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Like my n1 gets better speeds than mt4g.
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Yes, you got it just right. And the speed will vary, depending on towers, exact position of the phones, the way you're holding them, etc etc. The top speed for MT4G that it can pull near the tower that can actually support that speed (and most of them most probably can't yet), is much higher. The actual speed will be just about the same most of the time.

it comfusing ubt ill have my dubt lol!

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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Aaaargh fecking signal!!

Why does my phone show full signal yet all apps that use mobile data either run shockingly slow or not at all!! My steam app is constantly reconnecting yet signal is constant! In BBS it's showing i have good signal for a matter of minutes and is mostly showing poor or unknown signal nearly the whole time the phone is on!
My set up is the latest AOKP rom and faux's kernel
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nuclearmonkeyuk said:
Why does my phone show full signal yet all apps that use mobile data either run shockingly slow or not at all!! My steam app is constantly reconnecting yet signal is constant! In BBS it's showing i have good signal for a matter of minutes and is mostly showing poor or unknown signal nearly the whole time the phone is on!
My set up is the latest AOKP rom and faux's kernel
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Could be you only have full bars of 2G data speed. You are either being throttled for excessive use from your carrier or your carrier only has 2G speeds where you live. Where I work the entire county only has 2G Edge speeds from AT&T even though their coverage map shows 3G for the area. Check your data type and speeds with an app like Network Signal info.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=de.android.telnet&hl=en

Happens to me a lot as well. I show full 4g and yet everything times out and wont load because data is so slow. I'm also in a good coverage area where i get 12-14 Mbps speed with other phones and when this one is acting normal.
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The towers you are connecting to are probably overloaded. Thin of them as a wireless access point at your house with 1 internet line. If too many connect to and use that line, the connection gets slower. Would be nice if cell providers posted tower stats in your area. Would save a lot of angry calls

stretched said:
The towers you are connecting to are probably overloaded. Thin of them as a wireless access point at your house with 1 internet line. If too many connect to and use that line, the connection gets slower. Would be nice if cell providers posted tower stats in your area. Would save a lot of angry calls
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I think in my situation it is not this. My wife has an HTC one s and my brother a sgs2 and they will have great data speed while i have dead slow even though we are on the same carrier and in the same room.
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Got the same problem
My pbone is acting wired showing full signal but no traffic gets through
Also sometimes the signal just greys out and i dont get any connection until switching flightmode and back
Im at aokp to... Maybe its relaxed to the rom
Im on Stock kernel
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MoooN said:
Got the same problem
My pbone is acting wired showing full signal but no traffic gets through
Also sometimes the signal just greys out and i dont get any connection until switching flightmode and back
Im at aokp to... Maybe its relaxed to the rom
Im on Stock kernel
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Happened to me on stock, cm, aokp, and now pa. I don't know what it is. I just hope an update will fix it.
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Glad im not the only one suffering.. I didnt really have the problem on stock so much.. just since unlocking and flashing new roms.
To the person who mentioned carrier throttling, its certainly not that as one minute i'll get full speed and the next (youtube for example) will just stop and start saying no signal retry and then if i turn the phone off and back on again it will work. How can a carrier throttle you when you only have a 2Gb usage limit and then they charge you afterwards that makes no sense.
Also its not a 2G problem as Signal checker shows 3G and also now EE all around my area. Besides my wife's S3 on the same network is getting full speeds where im not or anything even though im apparently at full strength H
I hope this gets sorted soon as its also affecting calls.. I'll have what looks like full signal while playing a game then suddenly a text to say someone tried ringing me like 3 minutes before!!

probably switching from HSDPA to HSPA+.
did you notice a H on top of your signal bar, that switches to H+ when the lag is over?

I have had this problem for a long time, since I got my Galaxy Nexus and now again on my Nexus 4, and finally got so fed up that I have been testing it all day and getting screenshots ready to make my own post about this so I am pretty relieved to see this post!
I live in Philadelphia and use T-Mobile. I have had T-Mobile here for years and never had this problem before. When they upgraded to 3G I had amazing speed boosts and when they did HSPA+ it got even better but that was on a G1/G2. On my Nexus phones the internet is damn near unusable in center city but what is so odd about it is that in my Google searches about the problem I can only seem to find posts raving about T-Mobile in the city and how Philly keeps getting improvements including the new improved 1900Mhz HSPA+42 but I have never even seen my Nexus 4 on the +42 network the best it goes to is +15 and even that makes no difference because the internet is so slow and unrelaible that unless I am on Wifi, my phone just sits in my pocket useless.
I'm really at my wits end about this and no one, Google or T-Mobile seems to take responsibility or have any advice on how to fix it except the pointless factory reset.
I've seen a brief mention on XDA about a fast.tmobile.com APN and I changed to that and I'd like to imagine that it showed some type of improvements but certainly not with data speeds/latency/integrity of connection. If anything, it may have improved signal 'strength' (used lightly because regardless of what my strength is listed as the connection sucks.
To be clear, I am connected to HSPA and HSPA+ when the connection is being used, like it should, but these are the best speeds I managed to get throughout the day today as I moved around campus trying different spots.
Please, someone have advice!!

Could it be kennel related? Did you guys try just being on stock ROM?
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ftarules said:
Could it be kennel related? Did you guys try just being on stock ROM?
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I am using the stock kernel, stock radio although not the stock ROM. I am pretty sure I had this problem before I rooted (I say pretty sure to be conservative with my answer since I am not 100% sure but I am definitely 90%)
Is anyone confident about their knowledge regarding APN settings? I have seen like 15 different configurations for T-Mobile's APN and have no idea which one to try and would prefer not to just go through them one by one -- I've got things to do!

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Could it be kennel related? Did you guys try just being on stock ROM?
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Again.. I'm pretty sure i didn't have this problem while on stock but i could be wrong. My GNex was exactly the same. And I'm on orange UK so completely different network to the T-Mobile USA so surely can't be random that we're both having the same problems
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I had the same slowness over cellular, 9kbps or so. I changed APN's, rebooted and just got 2463kbps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1791526

drdjr said:
I had the same slowness over cellular, 9kbps or so. I changed APN's, rebooted and just got 2463kbps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1791526
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Will this only work for at&t users though?
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I'm on stock 4.2.1. Phone is rooted and boot loader unlocked. For about two days now I'm having signal drops from 4bars, then greyed out 4 bars and jumps between H to 3G. Settings for LTE revert to WCDMA every time I lose reception. Also dialer crashes/ force closes if I have an incoming call and sends all calls to voicemail. I can dial out but at the end of my calls when I go to hang up I see the popup that phone process crashed.
My carrier is Bell Canada and the phone worked fine for about 10 days before this started happening.
Any tips or advice to help me out is appreciated. Thanks.
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Loosing data

I have been loosing data more and more its like in the really like old days of holding antennas to get the best signal. I have always had 4g in my house everywhere until you got the nexus 4. I have tried different Sims,apns and networks my bars go from blue to gray as does the h for 4g and 3g but it still says 4g and 3g even though it is no g. I really don't want to put a rom on this phone cause if I start down that road again let's just say its addictive. Any other ideas? Doesn't matter where I am either and I have called T-Mobile on it to they keep telling me to swap out the Sim again
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