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Lol @ mytouch4g

So i passed by the tmobile kiosk in a mall in Wilmington, De where we have hspa+ and i did a speed test next to the mytouch4g and my slide came out faster, lol! The 4g was 2.2 mbps down and .76 up and my slide was 2.7 mbps down and .79 up. I wish i could get a pic. Ya'll try it out if youre able to.
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guitarist5122 said:
So i passed by the tmobile kiosk in a mall in Wilmington, De where we have hspa+ and i did a speed test next to the mytouch4g and my slide came out faster, lol! The 4g was 2.2 mbps down and .76 up and my slide was 2.7 mbps down and .79 up. I wish i could get a pic. Ya'll try it out if youre able to.
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I live in SLC, UT and we have HSPA+. I can barely get above .5 Mbps up/down :-(

slughappy1 said:
I live in SLC, UT and we have HSPA+. I can barely get above .5 Mbps up/down :-(
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Then i would venture to say you outside of hspa+ since that is what i get in tipical 3g areas
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guitarist5122 said:
So i passed by the tmobile kiosk in a mall in Wilmington, De where we have hspa+ and i did a speed test next to the mytouch4g and my slide came out faster, lol! The 4g was 2.2 mbps down and .76 up and my slide was 2.7 mbps down and .79 up. I wish i could get a pic. Ya'll try it out if youre able to.
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That's funny Wish you would have taken a pic.
I would venture to say though, that you (and the mytouch4G) were not inside a 4G area. Might get 3G where the phones were but since the hspa+ signal doesn't travel as far (keeps the data rates a bit more stable) the mall blocks out the 4G. It's all speculation though, maybe they will have a radio update pretty soon because the radio isn't locking on to the 4G signal very well.

Cm7

does cm7 support hspa+, just wondering cuz, I'm not really getting 4g speeds running cm7 and I'm wondering if it's my coverage or my ROM
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csdalporto said:
does cm7 support hspa+, just wondering cuz, I'm not really getting 4g speeds running cm7 and I'm wondering if it's my coverage or my ROM
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T-Mobile's MySense shows "H" for HSPA (3G) and HSPA+ ("4G") speeds.
CM7 does support HSAP+.
If you are not getting the HSPA+ speeds it's your coverage area, or you've been throttled back depending on your data usage.

I'm not getting throttled so I guess it is just bad coverage...just wondering, cuz I love cm7 would have hated it if it didn't play well with 4g. But it shows an H for me, will cm7 show 3g for 3g or an h for 4g and 3g
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csdalporto said:
I'm not getting throttled so I guess it is just bad coverage...just wondering, cuz I love cm7 would have hated it if it didn't play well with 4g. But it shows an H for me, will cm7 show 3g for 3g or an h for 4g and 3g
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CM7 will show
H = HSPA+
3G = HSPA
E = EDGE

K nice thanks
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HSDPA 3G or 4G?

Just checking but when your network status says HSDPA that is not considered "4G" right? More like enhanced 3G correct?
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you're right ! but if u have a 4g phone like the mt4g, g2, samsung vibrant4g, etc.
you will get the full hsdpa+ 4g network. so u don't have to worry if it says 4g or just H, or hsdpa in settingsettings info. I can tell the difference with my mt4g compared to mytouch3g. both says H on the notification bar & HSDPA but the speeds for the mt4g is way faster!

The terminology is branding more than anything else. hsdpa is t-mobile's high speed protocol for 3g, but they call it 4g because, well, pretty much everyone has jumped the gun on calling their networks 4g.

fastnsx21 said:
Just checking but when your network status says HSDPA that is not considered "4G" right? More like enhanced 3G correct?
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Someone chime in and correct me if i'm wrong
By definition 4G has to meet 100Mbps on download during peak times. HSPA+, LTE, Wi-Max do not meet these requirements as of currently. And every thing is enhanced 3G.
If you look at it from a "G" = Generation Standpoint we are in the 4th Generation of Mobile Broadband technology. 1: GRPS 2:EDGE 3:HSPA 4:HSPA+. So it really depends on which side of the coin you look. and to really get the idea of it
HSPA = High Speed Packet Access
HSDPA = High Speed Download Packet Access
HSUPA = High Speed Upload Packet Access
If i'm correct typically your phone is considered HSPA if you have HSDPA and HSUPA activated. But if you are on lets say AT&T with the Atrix, they consider that a HSDPA+ phone, because the upload end of things are still as slow as 3G or below.

Well hsdpa will have about 8-10 mbps theoretical download speed. Where later this year T-Mobile is releasing hspa + to have up to 42 mbps download and technically it can be upgraded in to the 100's of mbps.
So personally I would call it 3g
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neidlinger said:
Someone chime in and correct me if i'm wrong
By definition 4G has to meet 100Mbps on download during peak times.
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I thought it was 1gig
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I was checking because I was wondering if I was getting what I paid for or not.
I put quotes around the 4G because there is some debate about whether it is or not. I really believe its not. Whether it meets standards or not it doesn't bother me because I reallyyyy don't need 100mbps on a phone. Tethering on the other hand....
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TMobiles HSPA+ network is considered 4G by the ITU, which says what should be called 4G. It wasn't originally fast enought, but they changed their mind and said that WiMax, LTE, AND HSPA+ are technically 4G. http://www.intomobile.com/2010/12/18/itu-reverses-its-decision-lte-wimax-and-hspa-are-now-4g/

mark manning said:
I thought it was 1gig
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Network speed isn't really measured in gigs..
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Can I turn my nexus a 3g into a hspa (tmobile 4g) receiving device

I have a at&t nexus s 3g unlocked for
Tmobile running Android 2.3.4 smoothly but i'm wondering if I can unlock this to 4g? This was the case when I had a htc hd 2 I upgraded the kernel and rooted Android into it. It then would have an "H" on the top and ran alot faster. Could I do the same to the nexus s?
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Nexus S does not have the hardware radios needed for HSPA+ 4G. Sorry.
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Damn that sucks so what phone would you recommend for a gsm (Tmobile) user. Its actually for my gf she likes
Samsung brand
Super amoled screen
Front facing camera
4g speeds
Fast processor
I'm considering the Samsung galaxy S 4g but i just want to know all our options. Even a good at&t phone would suffice if it had the listed things
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nbochoa said:
Damn that sucks so what phone would you recommend for a gsm (Tmobile) user. Its actually for my gf she likes
Samsung brand
Super amoled screen
Front facing camera
4g speeds
Fast processor
I'm considering the Samsung galaxy S 4g but i just want to know all our options. Even a good at&t phone would suffice if it had the listed things
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samsung galaxy s II is about to hit tmobile. 1.5ghz dual core, up to 42mbps(42 mbps hpsa+) data speeds.

simms22 said:
samsung galaxy s II is about to hit tmobile. 1.5ghz dual core, up to 42mbps(42 mbps hpsa+) data speeds.
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yarp. oct 10th i think. just wait two weeks.

[Q] Help me with my HTC MyTouCh 4G

greetings Friends
As I can restore my HTC MyTouch 4G to the original? updated with GB but do not know if this has influenced the network! It really is 4G?

I think what your asking is, after upgrading to gingerbread mysense you are suspicious that the 4g is no longer 4g. I'm not sure why your suspicious but i can assure you that it is 4g... Well by T-mobile's standards because they use HSPA+ as opposed to LTE but never mind that's a different subject, the 4g is 4g

Just download a speed test from the Market and check for yourself if u have 4g coverage in your area and in your rate plan then it should show 4g speeds
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