Hi all,
I'm on Vodafone in London, and i'm finding i'm getting really poor reception and dropped calls.
After trying out a few ROMS i settled on Energy 21903 build as i've found its the most reliable ROM. I've also tried Artemis and Energy 23569 builds but just found they weren't as stable and crashed at some point.
At the moment i've installed 2.07 Radio.
My problem is that it seems to take ages to detect a signal and sometimes it comes and goes. I also only get one days battery.
Has any other Vodafone users experienced similar problems and whats the best radio for Vodafone in London?
Cheers
bobtastic said:
Hi all,
I'm on Vodafone in London, and i'm finding i'm getting really poor reception and dropped calls.
After trying out a few ROMS i settled on Energy 21903 build as i've found its the most reliable ROM. I've also tried Artemis and Energy 23569 builds but just found they weren't as stable and crashed at some point.
At the moment i've installed 2.07 Radio.
My problem is that it seems to take ages to detect a signal and sometimes it comes and goes. I also only get one days battery.
Has any other Vodafone users experienced similar problems and whats the best radio for Vodafone in London?
Cheers
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Surprised you say Artemis is unstable, did you do a task 29 before flash. I found this ROM on Vodafone to be excellent. Try the radio in my signature, it seems ok for me but to be honest the best advice I can give is flash one and try it for a few days.
bobbyball said:
Surprised you say Artemis is unstable, did you do a task 29 before flash. I found this ROM on Vodafone to be excellent. Try the radio in my signature, it seems ok for me but to be honest the best advice I can give is flash one and try it for a few days.
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I found that Artemis works ok for a few days then i start getting problems like system hangs. I found the same thing with Energy at first but then switch to the older windows build and haven't had any problems since.
I'll give you the radio a go, but i just want to know if its my phone thats poor on reception or just that Voda are not as good as they used to be
i left voda at the start of the year as after 3 years with them the siginal strength was dropping everywhere and became none existant at my house on diffrent handsets
colinp said:
i left voda at the start of the year as after 3 years with them the siginal strength was dropping everywhere and became none existant at my house on diffrent handsets
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I'd love to leave them, but unfortunately took up an 18 month contract on November, thinking about my past experience with them was good. What a dope i am.
HI Guys
I have got exactly the same problem with the battery/reception on Vodafone.
I am using Energy May 13th 23569 GTX, with Radio 2.10.50.28_2, and also get 1 day of battery tops.
I have noticed the Phone stays in flight mode sometimes after losing the signal, which is quite annoying.
yo
i live in a complete 2g area and use the radio RADIO_2.10.50.19_2
but as you are london and probably get alot of 3G and H symbols on your HD2 it will probably help but as soon as i visit my girlfriends in lincoln and get H, my phone lasts 1.5 days ish but i am used to charging nightly
its something we have to live with man with these power hungry phones
Im on voda in uk - midlands
I use radio 2.10.50.28.2 and it seems the same as every radio i have tried - at home constantly dropping in and out, from 3 bars 3G - to flight mode and back again.
In work i have almost full signal and H 3-4bars.
Im not too worried about the battery its just the signal at home that pees me off!!
Ive tried (i think) every radio apart from the .51. ones - does anyone know which radio vodafone HD2 shipped with??
If you have bad signal at home, get yourself a SureSignal booster (check it out here)
I use the 2.10.50.28 up here in Glasgow, and I get occasional drops at home, but out and about it's usually always very good. Sitting right now with H at 2-bars.
We had Vodafone for our corporate phones at my last work, they changed to O2 after a month as so few users managed to get decent signals. That was UK-wide.
rp-x1 said:
We had Vodafone for our corporate phones at my last work, they changed to O2 after a month as so few users managed to get decent signals. That was UK-wide.
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Vodafone and O2 share masts, so signal is generally the same in all areas of the UK for both networks. Of course it does vary slightly from area to area, and radio and make of phone matter too.
I think Voda just aren't as good as they used to be with reception. I think the phone must have something to do with it as well, but the general picture i get when asking around is that they're just not as good as they used to be.
Oh well, gonna try 2.10 and see if its any improvement.
Vodafone reception has been fine for years in all of my Nokia handsets but was so rubbish on the HD2 I was beginning to regret my purchase. Switched to O2 and reception is now fabulous, no regrets now!
Voda signal
Have to agree with most of the people who have posted on this thread. Voda reception is patchy at best.
At times I can be on full strength HSPDA, then for no apparent reason, I'll be in exactly the same spot and the signal just disappears altogether.
Though to be fair, I'm not sure whether to blame it on voda as I came from Three which got a brill signal in all areas, but that's all I really have to compare it too. We do use Voda 3G dongles on laptops at work...and they are absolute crap...lucky if we get a signal, and when we do they're slower than Slowy McSlow on the slow train from Slowsville!!
Voda reception seems to have got really bad this last 2 years they are even offering a home router to boost reception!!??(I think they missed the MOBILE phone part!),
having said that my TP2 had much better reception than the HD2..
I have also tried alot of different roms and Radios I am in Hampshire so not too far from London.... I am using 2.09.50.29_2 along with the cab for call quality fix it is a US Tmo radio, so you need to use with a TmoUS compatible rom.
I know alot of people are using the 2.10 radios but after many trials I have found 2.09 the most stable and best all round for data, reception and battery,
Hope this helps
The whole point of the router is to boost your signal at home. A lot of people live in bad signal areas, but have no problems elsewhere, so that is designed to help me get better signal at home, the one place you can at least do something about it. And apparently, it works very well.
Okay, so I'm on the T-Mobile USA network. I've had a Dash 3G for a long time, and I've recently picked up an HD2. My Dash 3G gets full bars in my house, no matter where I am. But when I put the SIM card in the HD2, I'm lucky if I get any service at all. If I so much as LOOK at it the wrong way, the signal dies completely.
Is there a definitive way of increasing the antenna reception, or is the HD2 just like this all the time? Or is it just my phone? Is there a specific radio people have tried that have improved reception (I'm in Utah, if that makes a difference)?
Sorry, I'm still way new to all this flashing and stuff.
(I also posted this in the HD2 Q&A board, since I didn't know if the version of the phone would make a difference. It IS a TMOUS version.)
Im my experience...the HD2 actually has EXCELLENT recption compared to older HTC devices...so it may just be your phone. If it's fairly new, maybe ask T-Mobile for a warranty replacement.
same issue
I have had the same issue since i brought my HD2 home. My roommate has a new G2 and gets full signal as there are 3 Tmo towers within 1000 feet of my house. Yet I barely get 2 bars and most often, none at all. She gets "lol4g" throughout the house while I barely get it when outside, pointed at the tower holding onto my tinfoil hat.
HTC HD2 TMOUS
WinMo ver: CoreCell 4.2
Android: MattC leo + Froyo /w sense 1.8
Radio: 2.10.50.26
I have reloaded every version of the readio and nothing is making it better. When I went to TMO, I had full signal sitting in their store so they pretty much didnt do anything but soft reset the phone.
Hi,
I have been using my HD2 for more than a year and i ABSOLUTELY in Love with it.
Recently i moved to a new area where the Signal strength is not that great but existent.
I even changed my provider for better reception but HD2 just fails to catch any signal. Its fine when im in the middle of the city.
I tried the same Simcard in x10i and Perfect reception, A blackberry Bold and again No Signal Loss. Even in Iphone 4.
That really hurt my Pride
Been searching around threads. I know its all associated with the RADIO. I have tried almost every radio available. Still No luck.
Currently running Hyperdroid android Rom with 2.15 Radio.
Any suggestions? Should i Try those Signal booster stickers?
The contact points at bottom of phone may not be making proper contact with antenna.
but how do we determine the antenna contact loose or not ?
Ever since I got my DHD on 3 I've had dissapointing phone signal. My old Nokia 5800 has a pretty much constant full 3.5g signal whereas the DHD was shifting between full 3.5 to 3g to no signal at all. I flashed the 12.65.60.29_26.14.04.28_M radio and found no improvement so put it down to the phone and accepted its poor reception. I've also had problems with no internet on 3g only 3.5g and recently what made me search for a solution was at times even with full 3.5g signal the internet would stop working and would need mobile data toggling off and on again. After finding no conclusive solution I flashed the Radio_12.62.60.27_26.13.04.19_M.
Best thing I've done so far with the phone coz now 36hrs later I've had a constant stable 3.5g signal same as my old Nok 5800. I know radios are device and area specific but the results have been so great thought I should post for any others out there on 3 in the UK.
I used Leith51's radio.img method (link below) of flashing so thanks to him for making a difficult process noob friendly.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=896597
I'm using the radio with LorDclockAN's Ice cold sandwich v6.0 rom.
Hi, I have a Desire Z running stock ROM on Android 2.3.3. The software number is 2.42.161.20. I am on the Vodafone UK network and live in Mid-Sussex (southern England).
My Cell reception is quite frankly rubbish - most of the time I do not have enough of a signal to send a text, let alone make a call.
The weird thing is my Wife has an original Desire, also on Vodafone UK and has no problems at all.
To put this into perspective I am looking at the two devices side by side at the moment and her Desire shows 100% signal - my Desire Z shows zero!
I know the phone is generally OK as I work in the centre of London and pretty much get a 100% signal strength the whole time there (although everyone seems to get 100% signal in Central London regardless of Network!).
Does anyone know if this is a fault with my Desire Z (a bit of dodgy software/firmware perhaps)? If so is there anything I can do about it??
I am a big fan of physical keyboards so was hoping to hang on to my Desire Z for quite a while yet - my Contract runs out in November and I was going to move over to a 30day rolling SIM only deal, such as Three or GiffGaff, however there may not be much point if I can't make calls/send texts! (I'll have to sign up on another contract to get a new phone!).
Any hints, tips or tricks that anyone can suggest would be gratefully received.
root the phone so you can change the radio to the one she has, after this you should be fine
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Thanks for replying!
Sorry if this is a daft question - but how do I find out which radio she has?
As I said she has a regular original HTC Desire. It too is still running stock. It has Android Version 2.2, software number 2.33.161.2 and kernel version 2.6.32.15-g2633d94
I have never rooted a phone before (not through fear of messing it up - just never felt the need) so I am not totally up on the process.
I take it from your post that the 'Radio' is the bit that deals with the signal strength then and it is generic across numerous devices?
Thanks again.
there are maybe 10 diffrent cellular radios that can be used with our phones, you can compare yours and hers by powering on and holding the camera button
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