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tmonews dot com/2011/01/samsung-vibrant-plus-will-offer-21-mbps-4g-speeds/
Its going to have a ffc and 21 mbps hspda+. The gps will probably work. Anyone else feel buyers remorse?
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tmonews dot com/2011/01/samsung-vibrant-plus-will-offer-21-mbps-4g-speeds/
Its going to have a ffc and 21 mbps hspda+. The gps will probably work. Anyone else feel buyers remorse?
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Also going to have 2.2. I actually think this will help out the devs for our phone. Maybe a solution to ffc mod camera banding and a stable 2.2 release.
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Should allow us to exchange at least for a lower price
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So what will come first this phone with 2.2 , or us getting official 2.2 on are phones? I think this phone will come out an they'll delay are long awaited update to boost the vibrant 4g freaking sales, f%!kin c+ck suckers
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Not so mad since this is what happened when the Blackberry 9700 refresh came out
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LOL I bet as soon as it is out within 2 weeks there will be a work around hack to their 4g and maybe not 21 mg download (that is under perfect conditions) but I bet we can get 50-75% of that ...........
Whoa, big difference. This is the first two year I ever signed, won't do that again.
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http://www.androidcentral.com/t-mobiles-samsung-vibrant-4g-leaked-does-over-21-mbps-hspa
check it out people
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To top it off, MyTouch 3G w/ 3.5mm jack will get their Froyo on the 12th! Damn TMO and Samsung!
Grrrrr...
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other than for tethering I really don't see the need for more than 4-5 mbps speed... sure is good to say you have it but on a phone? I'm currently very happy with the speed of my vibrant, Pandora works well, music downloads are fast, pocket cloud works well on 3g, voip calling... I wonder if 4g is more of an energy hog than 3g... that would be awful, last time I checked we were still using li-ion batteries...
1g internal memory
im jealous of the 4g internet speed and slightly about the fcc. but it has 1gig memory on board.. thats stupid lame. might find a way to get one .
I agree with MTC44 that having this new phone out can only help the devs get us better 2.2 and a better FFC mod. I am content reaping the benefits of this new phone without having to shell out the extra cash. I am also fine with the small speed boost that I already have from the HSPA+ network without having to buy a whole new 4g phone. There's always going to be something new and bleeding edge out there. Why get upset because it's an upgraded Vibrant? If it hadn't been that, it would have been something else. At least we can use some of the advancements from this phone.
That being said, if Samsung & TMo don't get us original Vibrant owners a stock 2.2 release before Vibrant 4g is released, that would show that they have abandoned us and that they have a very high disregard for current customers. I would be disappointed at the lack of official support, but as long as we have our devs, we're golden.
Also, if Samsung & TMo do fail us on Froyo, I imagine they're going to fail Vibrant 4g owners later on as well. The ranks of the disappointed will only grow with the addition of a new phone if Samsung continues to stay on the back end of progress.
this BS.
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To top it off, MyTouch 3G w/ 3.5mm jack will get their Froyo on the 12th! Damn TMO and Samsung!
Grrrrr...
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I know what you mean. I have a left over mytouch 3g that used to be my wife's and its getting 2.2.1 OTA starting tomorrow.... sigh.
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This is why I turned Nexus. And you should too.
Wow are you kidding me, First almost all the Developers leaving for the NS, and now this? Were just getting screwed over..
Unbelievable.
If you have insurance wait till the vibrant isn't sold and lose your phone
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I'm pretty sure they can be a class action lawsuit. Not only were the phones sold with GPS that does not work.. but the phone has been advertised as 2.2 a bunch of times, I'm sure the ads can be found. There is also the lag issue with it being stock.
One way at looking at it is they made the proper fixes to this phone instead of making a recall/fixes to the original Vibrant, like a true fix with the GPS... not a crappy software they stole form us... upgrading the OS... and fixing the lag issue (altho that is a "non" issue according to tmobile).
I have been in class action lawsuits over less.....
And if that wont work... ill wait for the new one to come out.. buy it and sell my modded one in the box to someone on craigslist! (jokes)
Ugh. Definitely never getting another Samsung phone again. I was skeptical about the slow updates when I heard about the Behold 2 debacle, since the Galaxy S series was going on all major US carriers, as well as sell internationally. I thought, "There's no way they would deny ALL of us good timing on updates, customer support, etc."
I was wrong.
Screw you Samsung.
I don't care how great your screen is. I don't care how great your processor is. I don't care how many more you sell. You are not getting anything else from me.
/endrant.
Sorry, guys. Had to rant somewhere. Pisses me off that they just now decide to sell what we were supposed to get in the first place. 4g, FFC, 2.2.
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Whoa, big difference. This is the first two year I ever signed, won't do that again.
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Feel the same way. Just going to buy phones out right, and probably never go with a Samsung phone again.
I like my nexus...but I cant really deal any more with the "wackness" of the phone. Im going to pick up the photon. yea I know its not unlocked, blah blah blah. It is rooted, so thats fine enough at the moment.
Thanks for letting us know..?
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I like my nexus...but I cant really deal any more with the "wackness" of the phone. Im going to pick up the photon. yea I know its not unlocked, blah blah blah. It is rooted, so thats fine enough at the moment.
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What do you mean by the "wackness" of this phone? not sure what you could even mean by that lol..
Even after the "radio" update. Signal issues, wifi issues, slow data issues, low volume, just over all the little quirks.
I got to play with the photon, the reception is 1000% better, data speeds better, wifi works 4g is awesome.
If i had radio issues i would have moved too, whats a phone if there are connection issues? Im just glad mine has an awesome radio.
Yes it's tempting to get a photon. I don't like motoblur and how dickish Motorola can be at times.
Cool, thanks for the blog post. Go over to the Photon forums.
Not sure what your objective of this thread is to do. Convince more people to get a Photon? Troll? Etc?
Have fun with the Photon though. In a couple of months, I'll be enjoying Ice Cream Sandwich while you're a milestone behind
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Cool, thanks for the blog post. Go over to the Photon forums.
Not sure what your objective of this thread is to do. Convince more people to get a Photon? Troll? Etc?
Have fun with the Photon though. In a couple of months, I'll be enjoying Ice Cream Sandwich while you're a milestone behind
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Nah...no troll. Just trying to see what people think.
I think that if you go look at some of the Photon forums you will see that things aren't all peachy over there.
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Cool, thanks for the blog post. Go over to the Photon forums.
Not sure what your objective of this thread is to do. Convince more people to get a Photon? Troll? Etc?
Have fun with the Photon though. In a couple of months, I'll be enjoying Ice Cream Sandwich while you're a milestone behind
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LOL @ milestone, did anyone see the "leak" of ICS?
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I think that if you go look at some of the Photon forums you will see that things aren't all peachy over there.
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I did but it seems like things are better there than the hardware i have here. This is my 3rd nexus with problems.
have you seen the root method? hopefully a new exploit comes out soon, id hate to have to buy that hd dock just so i could root
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have you seen the root method? hopefully a new exploit comes out soon, id hate to have to buy that hd dock just so i could root
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Some ppl have been rooting at sprints stores using their instore dock. It takes about 3 mins to root.
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read other areas...looks like 99% of people who owne other modles of phones, also complain and want something different...the ns4g is a fast ass phone, need i said PHONE, NOT laptop, pc, video card ect... and some of the problems you read about are caused by user error.. flashing, rooting, wiping.. ect.. and in many cases signal problems are due to location.. think about it.. bob who lives in atlanta downtown gets a steady 5 bars w/ 4G.. vs . tim who lives in UTAH country side gets 1 or 2 bars w/o 4g... make sence?
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I have to admin I have had the Nexus for 3 weeks and even after the root and update and trying every rom/kernel combo I still get 2 bars and poor wifiand Im thinking about switching as well. This is a big disappointment because I cant stand Sense and the only other real option is Photon. But if that phone isn't rootable yet IDK.
You'll come back eventually, watch!
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I have to admin I have had the Nexus for 3 weeks and even after the root and update and trying every rom/kernel combo I still get 2 bars and poor wifiand Im thinking about switching as well. This is a big disappointment because I cant stand Sense and the only other real option is Photon. But if that phone isn't rootable yet IDK.
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I've only had my Nexus for a few days, but the signal quality I've been getting with it has been on par with every other phone I've had on Sprint. I think that part of the problem is that the EVO...lies...for lack of a better term, about its signal strength.
I used to flash AOSP ROMs onto my EVOs primarily (both a 4G and Shift), and while on stock Sense showed two or three bars where on an AOSP I got one or none, the real signal strength (dBm/asu) was the same. At work I used to get between -98 to -106 dBm on my EVO, whereas with my Nexus I get a steady -96 (still not great, but better). I see one bar on my indicator, but my EVO would be showing three bars right now.
I could be wrong and other people could be seeing exactly what they're reporting, but so far I have no complaints about the signal strength on my Nexus.
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I've only had my Nexus for a few days, but the signal quality I've been getting with it has been on par with every other phone I've had on Sprint. I think that part of the problem is that the EVO...lies...for lack of a better term, about its signal strength.
I used to flash AOSP ROMs onto my EVOs primarily (both a 4G and Shift), and while on stock Sense showed two or three bars where on an AOSP I got one or none, the real signal strength (dBm/asu) was the same. At work I used to get between -98 to -106 dBm on my EVO, whereas with my Nexus I get a steady -96 (still not great, but better). I see one bar on my indicator, but my EVO would be showing three bars right now.
I could be wrong and other people could be seeing exactly what they're reporting, but so far I have no complaints about the signal strength on my Nexus.
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ding ding ding
winner winner chicken dinner
let me start off by saying sorry if i am posting this in the wrong section. I am just calling of for help from my xda friends.
By saying that, i am looking into buying another Evo 4g for my GF witch has a ****ty blackberry for verizon i was wondering if anyone has found out how to flash it over to verizon. now i have done some research and have seemed to get no where. many people said its illegal to copy the esn. that maybe yu can mirror another verizon phones prl. im just stumped on the whole situation. quite frankly idc what kind on htc or android phone it is i would just like to be able to flash to verizon to make her happy. i would really appreciate it if someone would help me out with this.
Why use a evo on verizon? ThunderBolt would be much better and should be able to get for the same price.
Yeah, my boyfriend wanted a phone "like mine" but refused to switch to Sprint. He travels a lot and needs decent speeds. He got the Thunderbolt & it's similar to the Evo. Comes stock with Sense 2.1, but it's still on FroYo. There are Gingerbread roms for it if that's what you're looking for.
It's a newer phone than the Evo but has about the same specs as the Evo. His phone stock matches mine rooted performance-wise, but his battery life is worse than mine.
I think getting a Thunderbolt would be a lot easier than trying to use an Evo on Verizon.
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Verizon will NOT activate a non-Verizon device on their network. Period. If you choose to clone esn and such illegal measures, you do it at your own risk. Why go through all this trouble and risk being prosecuted for breaking the law when you can just buy a Verizon phone instead? Doesn't make much sense.
Honestly don't like the thunderbolt and the illegal stuff there are ways around our ii kno it. Was just looking to see if anyone knew them.
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Thanks for the comments tho everyone. I sill will be looking.
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http://phandroid.com/2012/02/29/spr...e-first-cities-to-receive-4g-lte-by-mid-year/
Who lives in Atlanta? How's the speed?
Thats funny, I was just complaining to some friends about the signal the last 2 days, it as turned on the 27th.
http://db.tt/i4iY041F
http://db.tt/q5sKEqqP
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it would be great if anyone in Atlanta could post up some speed test results substantiating these claims.
I have been waiting patiently for sprint to finally make a move and if people ate really seeing better speeds it may be worth keeping.
So anyone from a great data area able to share?
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Thats funny, I was just complaining to some friends about the signal the last 2 days, it as turned on the 27th.
http://db.tt/i4iY041F
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If you're in the affected area, maybe update your PRL and see if that gets it back on track? Or maybe it's just all the new speedy users in Atlanta sucking the bandwidth from the rest of us ;]
Heres the thing I live in McDonough (metro ATL) and work in ATL, since this service has been turned on, it seems like the penetration is so much worse, no signal in any building. I'm no noob, so I have done everything I know how to reset the signal, nothing works, 3 phones. And many other friends have the same problem. I'll be complaining to Sprint soon. Now when I'm outside I get a great signal, with the same speed as before this service was turned on, so take that as you will.
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What modem are you on? Try FB15
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Good to see they are actually catching up with their 3G network also
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What modem are you on? Try FB15
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Actually I have all the modems on my sdcard, and now the fb27 thanks to calkulin. Ive always had the best results for signal strength with eg31, best speed with fb21. Just installed fb27, but it hasnt helped the problem Im seeing, this is with my touch and 3 og epics (brother, mom, my og epic). Im also seeing when indoors and use an internet speed test app its choosing out of state servers, but when outside and I have a signal it is choosing a close location, but still jumps from 3/4/5 bars to no bars, and internet speeds drop out about every 15secs for 5 secs. Everything Im saying is well tested on 4 phones, and 1 in 2 places by me, still seeing the same thing. This is either being worked on or just the way the new signal is pulsing.
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Actually I have all the modems on my sdcard, and now the fb27 thanks to calkulin. Ive always had the best results for signal strength with eg31, best speed with fb21. Just installed fb27, but it hasnt helped the problem Im seeing, this is with my touch and 3 og epics (brother, mom, my og epic). Im also seeing when indoors and use an internet speed test app its choosing out of state servers, but when outside and I have a signal it is choosing a close location, but still jumps from 3/4/5 bars to no bars, and internet speeds drop out about every 15secs for 5 secs. Everything Im saying is well tested on 4 phones, and 1 in 2 places by me, still seeing the same thing. This is either being worked on or just the way the new signal is pulsing.
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****, its similar to my town. I'm outside chicago and the network has just been **** for me. Its been getting worse like they have been taking transmitters down each day or something.
Where did you get the other modems? i thought we only had fb15?!?
jeeps, I hope they increase their 3g speeds because this has been hard to deal with. Sometimes I wonder how they get off charging people so much a month for utter crap.
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****, its similar to my town. I'm outside chicago and the network has just been **** for me. Its been getting worse like they have been taking transmitters down each day or something.
Where did you get the other modems? i thought we only had fb15?!?
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You can use any of the modems we have for the og epic, around 11, I didnt count, but close to that. Look for the modem thread qbking77 has on the dev page.
Edit, sorry, forgot this was the og epic thread for a minute lol
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You can use any of the modems we have for the og epic, around 11, I didnt count, but close to that. Look for the modem thread qbking77 has on the dev page.
Edit, sorry, forgot this was the og epic thread for a minute lol
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Yeah, I've used the modems. sadly EC05 and EI22 are the best for me. This F series modem has been an overweight blind date for me.
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Yeah, I've used the modems. sadly EC05 and EI22 are the best for me. This F series modem has been an overweight blind date for me.
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I always loved the dk28 modem.
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So I was at the Chiefs / Raiders game yesterday in Kansas City (lets all leave the "Why would you subject yourself to 'entertainment' of such a questionable nature?" jeers for another thread). My wife and I go to a lot of games here and we always show up several hours before kickoff and tailgate in the parking lot just outside the stadium. I've always had really good luck with the Sprint 4G WiMAX network here in town and near the stadium is no exception. I'm always zipping along with my Epic while others nearby are complaining of lack of bandwidth even with a full signal meter. I always get a good laugh.
Everyone I brought with me this weekend of course had their own smart devices. A Sprint iPhone 5, a Sprint EVO 4G LTE, a Sprint iPhone 4S, ... among others. No one (LTE folks included) was getting any bandwidth. So I became the afternoon hero when I kicked on my hotspot for a few minutes (Thanks, Necrosan!) and allowed folks to update their facebook pages with pictures of our tailgating extravaganza and check their fantasy lineups and such and so forth.
Funny. My Sprint account has been eligible for upgrade for a while now ... but I keep dreaming up reasons to hold onto this Epic. I think this weekend drug me back quite a few steps from jumping over that upgrade cliff. It's sure nice to play with CM9 and CM10 on this thing. But mostly I enjoy the stability of my Epic running mature FC09 and EL30 stuff. And when I can haul in the kind of bandwidth I did the other day when even the newest, flashiest devices fell flat on their faces, it makes me even more satisfied with my setup.
Thanks to all the developers who helped make this device what it is. And an extra special thanks to those still around who continue to improve upon it.
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So I was at the Chiefs / Raiders game yesterday in Kansas City (lets all leave the "Why would you subject yourself to 'entertainment' of such a questionable nature?" jeers for another thread). My wife and I go to a lot of games here and we always show up several hours before kickoff and tailgate in the parking lot just outside the stadium. I've always had really good luck with the Sprint 4G WiMAX network here in town and near the stadium is no exception. I'm always zipping along with my Epic while others nearby are complaining of lack of bandwidth even with a full signal meter. I always get a good laugh.
Everyone I brought with me this weekend of course had their own smart devices. A Sprint iPhone 5, a Sprint EVO 4G LTE, a Sprint iPhone 4S, ... among others. No one (LTE folks included) was getting any bandwidth. So I became the afternoon hero when I kicked on my hotspot for a few minutes (Thanks, Necrosan!) and allowed folks to update their facebook pages with pictures of our tailgating extravaganza and check their fantasy lineups and such and so forth.
Funny. My Sprint account has been eligible for upgrade for a while now ... but I keep dreaming up reasons to hold onto this Epic. I think this weekend drug me back quite a few steps from jumping over that upgrade cliff. It's sure nice to play with CM9 and CM10 on this thing. But mostly I enjoy the stability of my Epic running mature FC09 and EL30 stuff. And when I can haul in the kind of bandwidth I did the other day when even the newest, flashiest devices fell flat on their faces, it makes me even more satisfied with my setup.
Thanks to all the developers who helped make this device what it is. And an extra special thanks to those still around who continue to improve upon it.
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Well simply There probably weren't any LTE available in that area. i'm sure they had 3G they were just complaining it was slow most likely.
XxLostSoulxX said:
Well simply There probably weren't any LTE available in that area. i'm sure they had 3G they were just complaining it was slow most likely.
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Oh there is most certainly LTE in the area. As evidenced by the icons on there phones. Just not built out enough yet to handle any kind of capacity.
As for 3G ... yes it was slow. Very slow due to congestion.
I agree with you, OP. When I was in SF for Pride I couldn't get 3G for anything, too many people for the available network to handle. (Hundreds of thousands in downtown)
Wimax was flawless though.
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Are you all still getting a solid connection? I live in Blue Springs and work in Grandview, I used to get very solid 4G connection at work and a little bit of one at home, but in the past two weeks or so I got nothin.....
Thought maybe it was my phone, but the local sprint shop ran some tests on it and its not, they said there were upgrades going on to a bunch of towers around KC so the service may up and down for a while.......
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I live in Lenexa and work in Mission and haven't seen any problems. Was at Arrowhead this Sunday and didn't have a problem there either.
Bad luck?
I don't know......I'm about to give sprint an ear full though LOL
What are you running and the settings?
I still think I did something, but I have no idea what.
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I don't know......I'm about to give sprint an ear full though LOL
What are you running and the settings?
I still think I did something, but I have no idea what.
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I used Odin to flash the stock FC09 tar -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592994
I rooted according to qbking's instructions using a deodexed FC09 (MTD) stock ROM from kennyglass posted here -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1580931
Then flashed the latest Shadow Kernel from bbelos (no over clocks or undervolts) -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668491
I do have my own short list of mods that I've made to it since then, but nothing that would affect performance.
Thats really not much different from I've done.....but I start from your beginning and go from there, can't hurt. Thanks a lot for your trouble, I appreciate it.
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No worries. Hope it helps.
DurhamHusker said:
I used Odin to flash the stock FC09 tar -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1592994
I rooted according to qbking's instructions using a deodexed FC09 (MTD) stock ROM from kennyglass posted here -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1580931
Then flashed the latest Shadow Kernel from bbelos (no over clocks or undervolts) -
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1668491
I do have my own short list of mods that I've made to it since then, but nothing that would affect performance.
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So you don't use the Nexus S 4G modem, just the FC09 stock modem?
If not, I really think thats where I screwed mine up at, not sure how but anyway....
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So you don't use the Nexus S 4G modem, just the FC09 stock modem?
If not, I really think thats where I screwed mine up at, not sure how but anyway....
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Yes, stock FC09 modem. It gets put in with the clean flash of the stock tar using Odin.
The only NS4G modem I know of supports CyanogenMod ROMs only.
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Yes, stock FC09 modem. It gets put in with the clean flash of the stock tar using Odin.
The only NS4G modem I know of supports CyanogenMod ROMs only.
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Ohhhhh, I didn't realize that, I've been lovin CM10 for a while now
Well I don't know what I may have done, but I've got another Epic here and it has a solid 4G connection and mine DOES NOT
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Im in San francisco and the wimax here is very inconsistent. Im now on to a samsung gs3 and lte is great
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Well I don't know what I may have done, but I've got another Epic here and it has a solid 4G connection and mine DOES NOT
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I wonder if updating PRL and Profile might have any effect?