Edge data connection - myTouch 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

Anyone else having data connection issues on edge? More like no data at all. I can go into settings and change the connection from gsm/wcdma to edge, let it pick up the network then change it back to gsm/wcdma and it seems to work. But eventually craps out and I have to constantly do it.
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What city are you located? I live in houston, or more like outskirt of south houston and data has been terrible for the past 2 weeks

Im in va, no problems here that I have noticed.
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I've noticed that too on Edge. I'm in LA and most of the time have H, but Edge seems to give me no data at all.

Laguna Hills, CA
Weird. I'm wondering if it's the phone or the towers?

ExBuM said:
I've noticed that too on Edge. I'm in LA and most of the time have H, but Edge seems to give me no data at all.
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ditto, can we re-skin the "E" to an "F" (for fail)

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Hspa+ text

So, I just text from t-mo telling me that they're new network had made my phone faster, but so far I haven't noticed a difference. Anyone else get a text out notice some speed increases?
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Download the SpeedTest.net app, do a couple tests and post your speeds here. I work for Tmo and we have HSPA+ at the call center (very congested cell site), and I have gotten up to almost 5Mbps download speeds there. On regular 3G I get only like 1Mbps max.
1.46/d & 1.29/u best out of three, with full signal and 3G. I ran it earlier, right after I got the text, and it wasn't nearly that fast-
Stupid question- will the data indicator say something other than 3G when on an hspa+ network?
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zerolgk5 said:
Stupid question- will the data indicator say something other than 3G when on an hspa+ network?
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"H" if you're on the new radio
Ok, so the 'H' just means hspa. I think whether or not it says 'H' or '3G' depends on the rom you happen to be using.
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zerolgk5 said:
Ok, so the 'H' just means hspa. I think whether or not it says 'H' or '3G' depends on the rom you happen to be using.
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Yes, you are correct. I figure that T-Mobile made the hspa icon 3g was so that people didn't get confused between gprs, edge, and 3g. Some roms will have editted the icon so that it will show an h. It's something along those line.
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Where are these networks located? I barely get 3G as is, phone constantly changing from G to E and really pissing me off.
The new radio alone will not make it show the H. I didn't get the H until I flashed CM6, now I always see it. I don't have HSPA+ around my home, but at the Tmo call center, I have seen up to 4Mbps download, and it's pretty congested there.
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But yeah can't wait to have it around my house, as my Verizon DSL sucks and I'd love to have a nice backup connection.
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I work and live about 10 & 20 miles north of boston, respectively. The fastest speed I've seen was 2.4mbps, and I've only seen that once. Usually I get around .5/1.2mbps with full signal.
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zerolgk5 said:
I work and live about 10 & 20 miles north of boston, respectively. The fastest speed I've seen was 2.4mbps, and I've only seen that once. Usually I get around .5/1.2mbps with full signal.
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I'm in medford and don't get anything as good as this

When on 3g, data doesn't work?

I almost always have data on edge, except when its below two bars. Now when ever i get more signal then edge, it switches to 3g...the problem is that I get only about 2 bars of 3g inside buildings, and I never have data working at that point, not edge. I have no way to turn off 3g as I dont have the option in any setting.
What should I do I can't take this anymore. By the way I'm runing custom rom froyo.
Thanks for all the help, danny
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Bump help plz ?
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What rom are you running? I've not seen a rom that doesn't have that option under Mobile Networks (WCDMA/GSM). GSM would be EDGE and WCDMA would be the 3G option.

Help no 4g

I can't connect to 4g even thought I live in orlando. I only can connect to 3g. I'm using the newest royalmiui. I didn't have any 4g problems untill I flashed royalthunder then I only got 3g all the times. The speedtests I do show 3g speeds. Any help is much appreciated
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Try a full wipe including formatting system and boot and reflash your Rom. Also make sure that your Rom supports 4G
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I can't format boot in the new recovery. I have done a full wipe for every rom I flashed. All 4g roms. I'm gonna do it again when I get home to see what happens
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Maybe the 4G tower is down? I'm not sure if roms have to be specially made to support HSPA+ because a) HSPA+ is the same technology as 3G so it should be backwards compatible; and b) the HSPA+ chip in the mytouch is only 14.4 mbps which is the fastest HSPA(3G) chip, not 21 which is HSPA+. I think.
urmothersluvr said:
I can't connect to 4g even thought I live in orlando. I only can connect to 3g. I'm using the newest royalmiui. I didn't have any 4g problems untill I flashed royalthunder then I only got 3g all the times. The speedtests I do show 3g speeds. Any help is much appreciated
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check your coverage map on tmobile.com I have had the same issue and I almost started flaming rom cookers... even on cm7 I get 3g speeds. turns out the part of town I live in has low 4g coverages. Usually stock roms only have the H or H+ icon on the framework. so even when you're on 3g it shows H, even when you're on 4g it shows H. on custom roms notice you have 3 different icons. (or 4) H, 3g, EDGE, (GPRS)
H stands for 4g. mostly on custom roms this shows up when there is STRONG 4g signals
3g shows up all the time even though if a stock similar device such as another mytouch or a g2 shows H.
and edge/ gprs is self explanatory.
some roms may come with kernels that may have botched LIBS that prevent 4g connection (ie cooked roms from european phones like- desire HD etc...). get a friends phone that is similar IE a vibrant 4g, g2 or a mytouch and run speed tests using the OOKLA app on market. You will get the same results when his **** shows H and when your **** shows 3g.
Oh and they and you will be surprised at how much cell carriers lie to us about coverage
I live in North Houston and I can get full 4g speeds 2% of my usage times per month
I did this the other day with similar WHITE MYTOUCHES, one was bone STOCK no root, and one was root with cm 7- royal ginger 1.5
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check your coverage map on tmobile.com I have had the same issue and I almost started flaming rom cookers... even on cm7 I get 3g speeds. turns out the part of town I live in has low 4g coverages. Usually stock roms only have the H or H+ icon on the framework. so even when you're on 3g it shows H, even when you're on 4g it shows H. on custom roms notice you have 3 different icons. (or 4) H, 3g, EDGE, (GPRS)
H stands for 4g. mostly on custom roms this shows up when there is STRONG 4g signals
3g shows up all the time even though if a stock similar device such as another mytouch or a g2 shows H.
and edge/ gprs is self explanatory.
some roms may come with kernels that may have botched LIBS that prevent 4g connection (ie cooked roms from european phones like- desire HD etc...). get a friends phone that is similar IE a vibrant 4g, g2 or a mytouch and run speed tests using the OOKLA app on market. You will get the same results when his **** shows H and when your **** shows 3g.
Oh and they and you will be surprised at how much cell carriers lie to us about coverage
I live in North Houston and I can get full 4g speeds 2% of my usage times per month
I did this the other day with similar WHITE MYTOUCHES, one was bone STOCK no root, and one was root with cm 7- royal ginger 1.5
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I live in Orlando Florida so my 4g coverage is beyond great lol. I had the galaxy s 4g and I never seen 3g on it. I kno this is a older device so 4g won't be as great as the sgs4g but it dosent mean I shouldn't pick it up at all
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This is weird. I speed test on full 3g nd I get 9 dwn and 2 up. So its 4g just no Rom will say h
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Call it dial-up, call it hand signals, call it morse code. If you are getting 9 down 2 up you are making 99% of t-mobile users jealous. Simple as that.
Lol... I have to drive 1.5 miles just to get cell service to make a regular cell call. Wifi calling is the only way I can use my phone.
Living in the woods at the base of a mountain kinda kills your cell reception.
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darinmc said:
Call it dial-up, call it hand signals, call it morse code. If you are getting 9 down 2 up you are making 99% of t-mobile users jealous. Simple as that.
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Lol I love Orlando's 4G so fast
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I live in Miami Beach and since last week I no longer get 4g I have tried several roms and it never says H only 3g when I check phone info it says umts. But on my vibrant I get 4g
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I live in Miami Beach and since last week I no longer get 4g I have tried several roms and it never says H only 3g when I check phone info it says umts. But on my vibrant I get 4g
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I have the same exact problem but I have the speed of 4g just no H on my status bar
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Yep my speeds are 4g on the my touch even though it never says HSPA just UMTS. But on speed test my vibrant is faster not sure why.
It seems like the 4g issue is with custom roms not the stock rom. I flashd stock with root and I never seen 3g only H the whole time
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I have noticed that in east orlando by ucf I get a bad 4g signal more toward down town I get a much better speed.
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I live near metro west and apopka and I get like 10-11
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[Q] t-mobile nexus 4 wont hold hspa+

Just got my nexus 4 yesterday. Love it. But the phone is jumping wildly between 3g and hspa+ in a service area that my note 2 had no trouble holding a 4g signal. wondering if this is a Sim card issue, or if anyone else is having similar problems?
Yes, that is how its supposed to work. Carrier branded phone just don't show the change in the status bar. It is functioning the exact same way.
Nothing to worry about.
Just a heads up, the N4 doesn't show a H+ logo but just the H.
Dial *#*#4636#*#* and make sure your network says HSPAP
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It's jumping between hspap and umts. Driving me nuts!
It will only switch to HSPAP when needed otherwise it will stay on umts in order to save battery life. No worries this is normal
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Budo said:
It's jumping between hspap and umts. Driving me nuts!
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Your note 2 is doing the exact same thing. All gsm phones do this. It idles on 3g and when data is called it switches to hspa.
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T-Mobile makes the icon for both UMTS and HSPA+ the same icon that's why do you not see it change. Google makes the icons the way the network mode is.
That makes sense! Thanks so much for the help.

Lte problem

I had this problem with note 2 as well,
Maybe its bells network issue but
My phone is most of the time connected to h+ rather than lte.
I surf on the web or on youtube on lte then shotly after h+ kicks in. I live in downtown toronto.
Anyone else have a problem? Maybe i should change my device?
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choihan06 said:
I had this problem with note 2 as well,
Maybe its bells network issue but
My phone is most of the time connected to h+ rather than lte.
I surf on the web or on youtube on lte then shotly after h+ kicks in. I live in downtown toronto.
Anyone else have a problem? Maybe i should change my device?
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Does your carrier offer full LTE coverage at your current location? There should be a map for it online.
TehZam said:
Does your carrier offer full LTE coverage at your current location? There should be a map for it online.
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Hell they advertise themselves as canada's largerst lte network or something like that. Plus downtown toronto is pretty much covered by all carriers. I use bell mobility
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I checked the coverage map. You were right about that.
Why don't you go to a store around downtown toronto and try out a device. Compare yours and the display one.
Download Speedtest for comparison, make sure they are on the same server when you do check. Also check the signal strength in the Settings -> More -> About device -> Status and compare it.
If you notice anything different, you can show it to them right away.
TehZam said:
I checked the coverage map. You were right about that.
Why don't you go to a store around downtown toronto and try out a device. Compare yours and the display one.
Download Speedtest for comparison, make sure they are on the same server when you do check. Also check the signal strength in the Settings -> More -> About device -> Status and compare it.
If you notice anything different, you can show it to them right away.
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Thanks for the answer i will try that today.
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Your downtown t-dot...lte should be a given.is your device stock or modified? I get the best speeds downtown....i live in miss west and still have no issue with lte.
If its stock id be taking it back.
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