Got the GS2 yesterday and I've been traveling all around the country(USA) today and no matter where I am my data connection keeps going back and forth from 3G to H to H+ every few seconds.
Is this normal? It seems to be working data wise, I have the network set to Auto in setting.
Anyone having this issue?
Thanks
ps , new to the site so sorry if this has been discussed
This is normal for the Galaxy S2. It should be H or H+ when it is either downloading or uploading data. It should revert to 3G when not consuming data.
Ok good info thanks.
Also what's the latest FW for it, I have XWKE7.
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You have the latest.
Sorry if this is off topic, but what download/upload speeds are you guys getting when on ATT H+?
Edited for carrier clarification.
The fastest I had was 6.3dl. I never get above 2 on the up. Usually I stay around 3.5-4 up =, and 1.2-1.5 down.
Thanks. I have an Atrix now, and it stays about the same on the dl, but never gets above 1.2 on the up here in Orlando.
Been considering an SGS2...just doing some research on it.
Again, much appreciated on the response.
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You have the latest.
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Nah, there are several newer versions out when you consider the states do not have any official firmware release or csc. I would go KF2 as most of those roms do a little better on battery than the KE7 versions did.
krabman said:
Nah, there are several newer versions out when you consider the states do not have any official firmware release or csc. I would go KF2 as most of those roms do a little better on battery than the KE7 versions did.
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Thanks krabman. Just got mine today and trying to figure out which one to download. That being said, the SGS2 on KE7 is far better than any other Android device I've owned.
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Since "upgrading" my phone to ke2 my phone now gets the force close problem amdtajpm my battery life seems horrendous
Any help gratefully received
Dan
As far as I'm aware you can download the stock KE1 firmware and then flash back to it via Odin, though you may want to wait for a second opinion on this before you go ahead and do it in case anything nasty happens
Thanks, also my battery has had 61% used up by the cell standby over the last 12 hours
Eh?
101matt101 said:
As far as I'm aware you can download the stock KE1 firmware and then flash back to it via Odin, though you may want to wait for a second opinion on this before you go ahead and do it in case anything nasty happens
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Exactly that.....it works fine
KE2 isn't even available now when you connect to Kies....Lol
Must be a cracker if they've removed it lol
Any links for ke1 download chaps?
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Must be a cracker if they've removed it lol
Any links for ke1 download chaps?
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
I can't be arsed with the phone at all.....
Roll on the release of the HTC Sensation......
The 3g on the SGS2 is the worst ever, my Desire HD actually pissed all over it
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1075278
I can't be arsed with the phone at all.....
Roll on the release of the HTC Sensation......
The 3g on the SGS2 is the worst ever, my Desire HD actually pissed all over it
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LoL, I can tell you were an Orange user before looking at your profile.
Lol.....
My Desire HD had solid 3g signal all the time, I kept it in WDCMA mode and it was so fast.....
I sold it and bought an iPhone 4.....sold that the day after as it was the biggest pile of **** I have ever owned.....
Then I bought the SGS2.....
Phone's fast - Signal isn't!
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Lol.....
My Desire HD had solid 3g signal all the time, I kept it in WDCMA mode and it was so fast.....
I sold it and bought an iPhone 4.....sold that the day after as it was the biggest pile of **** I have ever owned.....
Then I bought the SGS2.....
Phone's fast - Signal isn't!
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From what I can gather it seems as if the phone has some issue with Orange network. It's weird, works perfectly fine on the other networks.
i have a feeling that ke3 will come out in the next week or so, so just wait and update then.
If you can i updated to ke1 through odin and ke2 through kies, but im over updating every 2 days lol so ill wait.
P.S if using kies please turn of your anti virus programs, they will delete a file in the middle of the update and it will give you and error. handy tip
Title says it all, can't download faster than 2 MB/s, has anyone else got this problem?
Before installing the new baseband I could get speeds of 7 Meg quite easily, I going to try installing an old baseband on the new firmware to see if that fixes anything.
I tried searching but found no mention of this. (Found lots of helpful "use the search function" posts, do people realise that people using the search have to go though so many of these to find anything relevant.)
Update: Flashed .61 baseband and no probs, need somewhere with better signal to test the speed.
interesting....let everyone know your results
I have been having issue's were the device will not go into 3G i get Edge and the H but no 3G.
no probs here
OmegaRED^ said:
I have been having issue's were the device will not go into 3G i get Edge and the H but no 3G.
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Well under any circumstances HSDPA is better than 3G.
So don't see the problem.
arkedk said:
Well under any circumstances HSDPA is better than 3G.
So don't see the problem.
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Plus, the phone tends to use the best connection available.
If H is available, why would it connect to 3G?
I can only get 3G and H ... It's drains pretty fast battery -.-
7mb/s over HSDPA/3G or WiFi? That is amazing if your down speed is that much, even in Percival from Highrule's guide to 3.5g, people were not getting anything close to 7mb/s down.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=951765
That is amazing if your phone can handle those speeds over HSDPA/3G. Can you provide us with some screen shots and any mods that you did?
Thanks!
It might not if been quite 7, but was def over 6. The signal is so bad here I only get 56k modem speeds. Hopefully flashing the older baseband fixed the prob and I'll post screens next time I go into town.
I read a post from Z, if my mind don't fail, saying that baseband restrict for country.. is there any specific baseband for South Africa?
kenneth.johannie said:
I read a post from Z, if my mind don't fail, saying that baseband restrict for country.. is there any specific baseband for South Africa?
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so far.. 61 & 67 work well in S.A.
Okay, since the X10 supports HSDPA 7.2 Mbps, I have no idea what Megs you are talking about.
Under perfect circumstances your max is 7.2/8 = 0.9MB/s, so I'm confused.
Obviously mega bits.
So no 1 else with this prob?
Tried in manchester (big uk city) center in 3 places and can't even get 2 meg now, but not far off.
Might try another baseband, prob go back to the 1 before I upgraded to .67 wish I hadn't bothered, caused loads of probs and the battery life and performance hasn't improved like many said.
It's your signal, no baseband restriction, maybe and just a would guess.....have you tried wiping your caches in recovery??
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Not installed X recovery, is it just dalvik catch I should wipe? Theres not much on the catch partition anyway.
I'll try that and re-test. Cheers
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It's your signal, no baseband restriction, maybe and just a would guess.....have you tried wiping your caches in recovery??
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wiping caches would do nothing......
It's probably just that baseband in your particular area.
Try others.
I've read up on this and understand it is supposed to be normal, but man does it make my phone so much worse. Every single time a page loads it has to switch from 3G to H. My reception seems like it sucks so bad because of this. Sometimes it doesn't switch. I get good bars everywhere I go, but it feels like I have terrible reception.
I've never understood radios and such. I'm rooted with the stock rom. Would this be better if I tried cyanogenmod with a different radio? There has to be a fix for this issue.
If you solve this for me, I'll kiss you through the internet.
I don't think kissing anyone over the internet would make them want to help you any more
Its how the phone works, its supposed to switch to 3G to H. H comes on when data is more active.
What radio are you using?
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I've read up on this and understand it is supposed to be normal, but man does it make my phone so much worse. Every single time a page loads it has to switch from 3G to H. My reception seems like it sucks so bad because of this. Sometimes it doesn't switch. I get good bars everywhere I go, but it feels like I have terrible reception.
I've never understood radios and such. I'm rooted with the stock rom. Would this be better if I tried cyanogenmod with a different radio? There has to be a fix for this issue.
If you solve this for me, I'll kiss you through the internet.
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the bars are for your gsm radio, telephone calls. they dont give you an idea on data speeds. do a speed test to see how good of a data connection you have.
simms22 said:
the bars are for your gsm radio, telephone calls. they dont give you an idea on data speeds. do a speed test to see how good of a data connection you have.
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I knew the bars are for phone calls, but I'm in the city of Chicago and have a hard time believing my data is as bad as it seems. I'll have plenty of times where it shows 3G connection and doesn't switch to H, therefore no data comes through. I've had plenty of times where I didn't believe I wasn't getting data, so I reset my phone and sure enough - data!
I do believe something could be wrong with my specific phone. I might need to try a full reset or flash cyanogenmod. I just didn't want to do that. Especially without checking with you genius's beforehand!
zephiK said:
I don't think kissing anyone over the internet would make them want to help you any more
Its how the phone works, its supposed to switch to 3G to H. H comes on when data is more active.
What radio are you using?
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How can I check radio version?
I'm running 4.2.2. Baseband version M9615A-CEFWMAZM-2.0.1700.48 Kernel version 3.4.0-perf-g7ce11cd [email protected] #1
Build number JDQ39
Sorry for the delayed response. It is making me wait 5 minutes between posts, even though I'm not a new user and this is MY post. I haven't posted much, but I'm not new Maybe the mods will see this and lift my restriction
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How can I check radio version?
I'm running 4.2.2. Baseband version M9615A-CEFWMAZM-2.0.1700.48 Kernel version 3.4.0-perf-g7ce11cd [email protected] #1
Build number JDQ39
Sorry for the delayed response. It is making me wait 5 minutes between posts, even though I'm not a new user and this is MY post. I haven't posted much, but I'm not new Maybe the mods will see this and lift my restriction
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The radio is .48.. Baseband is Radio. You can go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087227 and try out other radio to see if you get better reception.
If you're in a TMO 4G LTE area you can try activating LTE to see if you'd like it any more.
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The radio is .48.. Baseband is Radio. You can go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087227 and try out other radio to see if you get better reception.
If you're in a TMO 4G LTE area you can try activating LTE to see if you'd like it any more.
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I can do that, but I'll first have to figure out how to do it. For some reason my drivers say they don't work and it won't let me flash clockwork mod. I was going to make another post about it after I figured this out. Do you think radio could be the issue?
Also, I am on Tmobile, but I thought LTE didn't really work since it was ATT band 4 or something and only very specific areas had it?
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The radio is .48.. Baseband is Radio. You can go to http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2087227 and try out other radio to see if you get better reception.
If you're in a TMO 4G LTE area you can try activating LTE to see if you'd like it any more.
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Well, I just found out my APN was the one used when you are on LTE. I changed it to the non LTE version and will test over the next few days. If that was my problem, I'm going to be upset at the Tmobile lady who put in that info.
Please do let us know if it's any better after using the epc APN.
If you flash to the .33 radio, the LTE will turn on and it's very good at holding a data connection. It's just when it's not available and my phone connects to hspa+. I have similar problems as you. My signal indicator works great and its blue but no internet. I'm wondering if i'll need to keep switching apns. I hope not.
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Please do let us know if it's any better after using the epc APN.
If you flash to the .33 radio, the LTE will turn on and it's very good at holding a data connection. It's just when it's not available and my phone connects to hspa+. I have similar problems as you. My signal indicator works great and its blue but no internet. I'm wondering if i'll need to keep switching apns. I hope not.
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Hmm. Some good points. I'll let you know in a few days. If it works better, then I might just leave it. It is interesting that you are in Chicago and LTE works. Makes me want to try it. I'll see how this goes first.
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Please do let us know if it's any better after using the epc APN.
If you flash to the .33 radio, the LTE will turn on and it's very good at holding a data connection. It's just when it's not available and my phone connects to hspa+. I have similar problems as you. My signal indicator works great and its blue but no internet. I'm wondering if i'll need to keep switching apns. I hope not.
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Well, I did my commute this morning and there really was no change. It could be a combination of poor data reception areas and slow switching. I'd like to try to flash a new radio, but I don't know how. I can start a new thread about this, but I'll at least mention my problem here. I installed the Nexus 4 Toolkit and went through all the steps to make sure the drivers were installed correctly and such. I did this a long time ago when I rooted the phone. But something is wrong and it doesn't let me flash clockworkmod. It tells me to go through the steps again, which I have tried.
Is there a way to flash a new radio without clockwordmod?
IPxSynergy said:
Hmm. Some good points. I'll let you know in a few days. If it works better, then I might just leave it. It is interesting that you are in Chicago and LTE works. Makes me want to try it. I'll see how this goes first.
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I've been tempted to try messing with lte on my nex 4 as well...live in chicagoland...just worried about how good the coverage is and how well the phone would perform outside lte coverage since I drive all over the tri state area and need my phone to be stable for work.
g0rge said:
I've been tempted to try messing with lte on my nex 4 as well...live in chicagoland...just worried about how good the coverage is and how well the phone would perform outside lte coverage since I drive all over the tri state area and need my phone to be stable for work.
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Lte is amazing in Chicago but not as strong in Chicagoland. However, hspa+ is garbage in Chicago but better in Chicago land.
As for cwm, I prefer twrp. You can just download goo manager from the app store and it will install twrp for you. As far as I know you need to use a custom Rom that supports the older radios or else your calling might mess up. I use aokp.
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Lte is amazing in Chicago but not as strong in Chicagoland. However, hspa+ is garbage in Chicago but better in Chicago land.
As for cwm, I prefer twrp. You can just download goo manager from the app store and it will install twrp for you. As far as I know you need to use a custom Rom that supports the older radios or else your calling might mess up. I use aokp.
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Well, I tried to use goo manager to install aokp. It seemed like it would work, but nothing happened when I flashed it. It reset and seemed like it was installing something, then I rebooted with no change. Strange.
g0rge said:
I've been tempted to try messing with lte on my nex 4 as well...live in chicagoland...just worried about how good the coverage is and how well the phone would perform outside lte coverage since I drive all over the tri state area and need my phone to be stable for work.
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Just wanted to let you know... I flashed Cyanogenmod and the 33 radio. Everything is so much better. Connection is quicker when switching, but also the 4G is fast! I should have done this a while ago. Been testing for 2 days. I'm in the city, so not sure about the burbs.
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Just wanted to let you know... I flashed Cyanogenmod and the 33 radio. Everything is so much better. Connection is quicker when switching, but also the 4G is fast! I should have done this a while ago. Been testing for 2 days. I'm in the city, so not sure about the burbs.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2358931&page=10 you might find this thread interesting, might throw this on this morning before work and give it a shot...
g0rge said:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2358931&page=10 you might find this thread interesting, might throw this on this morning before work and give it a shot...
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I actually tried that a few weeks ago, before I knew what I was doing. I wasn't able to flash it because I didn't have a custom recovery. I'm glad I went to CyanogenMod though. It seems to be faster and there are little things that make it better than stock.
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I actually tried that a few weeks ago, before I knew what I was doing. I wasn't able to flash it because I didn't have a custom recovery. I'm glad I went to CyanogenMod though. It seems to be faster and there are little things that make it better than stock.
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Yeah I was running paranoid android for awhile, currently running stock for the 4.3 update, contemplating cm 10.2 when that gets solid or PA again once they get everything sorted out from the 4.3 hijinks.
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Yeah I was running paranoid android for awhile, currently running stock for the 4.3 update, contemplating cm 10.2 when that gets solid or PA again once they get everything sorted out from the 4.3 hijinks.
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I didn't think it would be worth it to switch, but it is. Stock is great, but CM is better. I haven't used paranoid android.
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I didn't think it would be worth it to switch, but it is. Stock is great, but CM is better. I haven't used panandroid
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Yeah CM has a lot of nice additions, Paranoid is pretty slick...been a fan of that one on multiple devices. It's built around swapping ui dpi...so you can set your phone to act like a phablet or tablet per app...ie...make gmail look like it does on your tablet on your phone. Let's you drop out the soft keys and replace them with a pop up slide wheel/etc and has a lot of the AOSP and CM features like the quick notification toggles etc.
Hello all I have had this phone since launch date and love it.However when flashing international roms like i9505 or tmobile roms etc... there roms seem to loose signal in and out every so often like maybe once every 15 mins or so.. it only happens to international roms.I am on the latest base running Battery king @ the moment BGA base flashing different kernels made no difference in fixing this issue.Wondering if you guys have any input on this problem ? APN is on ATT LTE
What baseband are you on at the moment?
I have found my dl speeds are 25-40% lower on i9505 roms than US ones. But, they are still very high so not an issue for me. ATT/PTA. LTE didn't get me anything.
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Hello all I have had this phone since launch date and love it.However when flashing international roms like i9505 or tmobile roms etc... there roms seem to loose signal in and out every so often like maybe once every 15 mins or so.. it only happens to international roms.I am on the latest base running Battery king @ the moment BGA base flashing different kernels made no difference in fixing this issue.Wondering if you guys have any input on this problem ? APN is on ATT LTE
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Yes I have noticed that with the GE 4.2.2 ROM and the GE 4.3 leak that is out.
My phone sometimes would randomly just lose signal and then come back in maybe 30 seconds. Also I would get a new voice mail and the phone didn't even ring.
So I didn't lose signal as much as you are saying, I just lost it every once in awhile, but I still can relate to your problem.
Currently this afternoon I am working on putting on my phone the latest MF3, pre-rooted and I debloated by myself, so as I don't lock myself out of flashing in the future. I'm just putting in the finishing touches and flashing the MF3 baseband as well.
My take on all this, is the GE ROM is great and has none of the crap that the carrier ROMs have, but the problem is I think that the GE roms aren't optimized for specific carriers, that may be where the performance issues are. Plus I think Samsung is more capable of optimized the OS for their own phone's hardware than Google is.
Pfft that's an at&t thing I flash all roms that are compatible and I never lose any kind of signal and my dl speeds are the same too. Poor guys on at&t keep getting that pole rammed up a little bit further!!!
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AMDL
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AMDL
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Did you try ATT/PTA not LTE
rugmankc said:
Did you try ATT/PTA not LTE
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No I have not but I suppose it's worth a shot.
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No I have not but I suppose it's worth a shot.
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OK, when I changed to LTE I had no data. Now maybe I could have re-registered on network or rebooted. But, didn't get that far. Just went back to PTA and got LTE back--don't know why
OK, so in my area of work, LTE speeds have been way down for the last couple weeks or so. I'm talking around 500k/s download speeds, and that is on a good day. Around home I get 20mb/s which I feel is good for the area, and around 30-35mb/s at my girlfriends house
I'm still on MF9 baseband and firmware. Would going thru the steps to update to MJA have any affect on my data speeds? I've already kinda deducted that it's the area I'm at that is the cause of the slow network speeds, even though its not out in the boondocks, (northside Indianapolis, IN).
So yeah, pretty much just curious about any data speed improvements from updating to MJA baseband/modem/firmware yadda yadda.
If you flash the MJA modem you will lose sound, unless you're talking about the OTA?
Well I was considering flashing the MJA modem via Odin. I saw the post about how to flash just the modem in another thread, but I don't recall seeing anything about losing sound. Time to start researching whats going on with that.
Have people had that issue when doing upgrading to full MJA (rom/firmware) then going back to a 4.3 aosp rom? Seems like im gonna have fun borking my device tonight!
Thanks!
Your phone is obviously LTE capable. Your actual network speeds are a function of Sprint and flashing an updated modem isn't going to make Sprint any faster, just as switching to a different brand of gas isn't going to give you any more horsepower.
That's not true. I'm not saying it will change it in his case.... and while it wont change what sprint is putting out itself, different modems often affect data speed. And it's often different for every phone and area.
In the year and a half I owed a e4gt, there must have been more than a dozen modem releases. Everyone had their favorites. I had fav one for GB, one for ICS, and another for JB that gave significantly improved speeds and service over the other options.
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That's not true. I'm not saying it will change it in his case.... and while it wont change what sprint is putting out itself, different modems often affect data speed. And it's often different for every phone and area.
In the year and a half I owed a e4gt, there must have been more than a dozen modem releases. Everyone had their favorites. I had fav one for GB, one for ICS, and another for JB that gave significantly improved speeds and service over the other options.
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I had the e4gt myself and I have never noticed a significant difference with any modem that was not attributable to the quality of my connection to sprint. I found that most claims of better performance with a different modem turned out to be more of an anomaly or wishful thinking, at least for me. Likewise with my s3 and s4. I maintain that an updated modem is not going to give you significant improvement by itself, unless the previous version was particularly bad. I have never seen one that was.
You are in the minority in your opinion.
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I had the e4gt myself and I have never noticed a significant difference with any modem that was not attributable to the quality of my connection to sprint. I found that most claims of better performance with a different modem turned out to be more of an anomaly or wishful thinking, at least for me. Likewise with my s3 and s4. I maintain that an updated modem is not going to give you significant improvement by itself, unless the previous version was particularly bad. I have never seen one that was.
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to the OP:
I like to listen to a radio station while i shower in the morning before work. In this part of my house only certain modems on the e4gt would get wifi coverage. There are bars that i would like to eat at where only certain modems would get data access to. I would keep a bunch of flashable modems on my sdcard for when ever I got stuck.
The radio in the S4 seems to be very much better than the e4gt. They may not be able to improve it much with new modem upgrades. I know i will test them out myself though....
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You are in the minority in your opinion.
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That doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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That doesn't mean I'm wrong.
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true... but you clearly are
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true... but you clearly are
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ok buddy, whatever helps you sleep at night.
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ok buddy, whatever helps you sleep at night.
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Lol. If I let know it alls cause me to lose sleep, I wouldn't sleep a wink ; )
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I myself have seen an increase in speeds, not sure why but, I went from 8Mb to 18Mb since MJA.