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Galaxy S 4G/Vibrant Plus tops 4G speed tests

Guys,
Seems like Tmobile's advertised 4G network is really fast and Samsung hardware has proven better than the competition:
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http://phandroid.com/2011/02/10/4g-speed-tests-show-samsung-galaxy-s-4g-as-winner/
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original thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=948139

The link you posted is not related to the news link I posted...

anthonys2r said:
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try reading the title, and maybe even the post before saying random things
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Yea i guess tmobile has a good server... the Galaxy s 4G... hmm
can we take its radio and put it in ours?

xriderx66 said:
try reading the title, and maybe even the post before saying random things
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Yea i guess tmobile has a good server... the Galaxy s 4G... hmm
can we take its radio and put it in ours?
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maybe...but the radio wont account for the hardware difference between the two (new modem hardware in 4g)

Screw data - how's the GPS performance?
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xriderx66 said:
try reading the title, and maybe even the post before saying random things
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Yea i guess tmobile has a good server... the Galaxy s 4G... hmm
can we take its radio and put it in ours?
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That is what I'm going to find out when it comes out. I've heard rumors that all of 4G's hardware is all similar to the Vibe...
Cant wait to tinker that bad boy
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shehrammajid said:
maybe...but the radio wont account for the hardware difference between the two (new modem hardware in 4g)
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From what I gather, thats all what's needed, just that modem... Correct me if I'm wrong, though.
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This hardly matters given T-mobile's poor 3G coverage compared to practically every competing major carrier in the US.
It's sort of like the Evo/Epic 4G. Yea, 4G was nice but it's not like I'll have it anytime soon. I'm waiting for Verizon and/or AT&T to launch LTE, or maybe go back to AT&T and get an HSPA+ device. All I need is about 1.5 mbps consistent download speeds and I'm more than happy, TBQH. It's just a phone.

They should make their coverrage better.
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iynfynity said:
They should make their coverrage better.
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Genius.
I get 3g.
Barely

N8ter said:
This hardly matters given T-mobile's poor 3G coverage compared to practically every competing major carrier in the US.
It's sort of like the Evo/Epic 4G. Yea, 4G was nice but it's not like I'll have it anytime soon. I'm waiting for Verizon and/or AT&T to launch LTE, or maybe go back to AT&T and get an HSPA+ device. All I need is about 1.5 mbps consistent download speeds and I'm more than happy, TBQH. It's just a phone.
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Yawn.
Lookie who's back to threadcrapping.

OK I get the want for 4g. I dont see the point in buying a phone with close to the same specs when we have such decent phones around the corner.

Galaxy s 4g is not worth the upgrade for a 2-3 seconds faster page loads. I will hold onto my Vibrant and my soon to be HD2 until the tegra 3 arrives next year.

Disaster averted

I live about a 1/4 mile from this.
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Holly crap that's nuts anyone hurt?
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sultan.of.swing said:
I live about a 1/4 mile from this.
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It looks fake... but if its real I have sympathy
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deano0714 said:
It looks fake... but if its real I have sympathy
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There were reported tornadoes all across the South last night.
And how could you fake this? Who in the hell would fake this?

Its definitely not fake. I was in my garage at 3pm changing a engine and all of a sudden the wind went balistic. It lasted all of maybe 2 minutes.
Not sure of injuries or what not. We have no power and all of our neighborhood and surrounding neighborhoods are blocked off from traffic right now. I have more pictures but they do no justice.

Man how can u guys live out there that's scarry.
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Estewa_619 said:
Man how can u guys live out there that's scarry.
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There's weather everywhere. The Northeast can get crippling blizzards, Florida can get hurricanes, the South and Midwest can get tornadoes, California can get earthquakes...

Wow that's insane.hope every1s ok.
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Estewa_619 said:
Man how can u guys live out there that's scarry.
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This is something that does not happen very often. The pictures I posted are just a few, there is worse damage in other areas. I consider myself lucky on this one as I was in it but just on the outskirts of it.
Just 2 blocks over from me houses are ripped apart but all our house just got some small branches in the yard.
Fun day and during all this madness I was able to swap and engine in a jeep grand cherokee ;-)

I live in South Carolina in the Upstate, and man the WIND was ****ing CRAZY today. I could only imagine what was happening before it got here. Man, sorry to hear about your neighborhood. Hope people recover fast and things aren't down for too long for you guys.

I hope everyone is ok. That's crazy. I know my basement is flooding right now where I live from all the hard rain.
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heathmcabee said:
I live in South Carolina in the Upstate, and man the WIND was ****ing CRAZY today. I could only imagine what was happening before it got here. Man, sorry to hear about your neighborhood. Hope people recover fast and things aren't down for too long for you guys.
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Thanks for the condolences. Its going to take a few days I assume to get power restored, just about every power pole on yadkin rd which is about a mile long are down.
I can only follow what's posted on line to see about injuries and what not, hope not too many were hurt or anything.

k0nane said:
There's weather everywhere. The Northeast can get crippling blizzards, Florida can get hurricanes, the South and Midwest can get tornadoes, California can get earthquakes...
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Eastern Coastline gets Hurricanes as a whole.
We were on watch for tornado's all day today, we lucked out though.
It's amazing how everything can be fine one minute, and the next nature decides to unleash hell.

Did an epic cause this?
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I hope everyone's ok was thus a tornado that caused this or like Churro say an Epic lol
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wow
Glad everyone ok. Yeah, I'm right up the road from Yadkin too. We had power out for just an hour or two and I saw the wind and rain (freaked my puppy out) but then I heard about the devastation over there, it's crazy. I'm glad that we were spared that. Hope those affected by it are ok.

geez I am glad everything is ok. I was at a concert Friday night in Atlanta and it started hailing on us. I thought that was bad

Glad I live in Arizona all we have is monsoon and dust storms !
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Did you take those pics with the Epic 4g?

Sprint just got the towers back in check a few hours ago. We also got power back just a little bit ago.
I did take those pics with my epic.
So far I have heard of 10 people that didn't make it.

WTF sprint...

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Do you see this insanity? Took me about 45 minutes to download 29mb on 4G....
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Welcome to Sprint.

That is pretty terrible for 4G, on 3G I can understand that, but that is just terrible. Thankfully I'm still seeing 4-9+ mbs both ways where I live, but it sucks to be where you are.

That's horrible!! Where are you located?

Probably just working on the towers in your area. Give sprint a call and they will probably knock off a couple of bucks from your bill

I'm in San Antonio... Lol
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
Probably just working on the towers in your area. Give sprint a call and they will probably knock off a couple of bucks from your bill
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I have to go into a corporate store anyway so I'll do it all then
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thronnos said:
I'm in San Antonio... Lol
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No **** same here lol

YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
No **** same here lol
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I live near nw military and lockhill selma. How's your data? Lol
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You guys are better off using 3g you might get better data speeds lol

sparksco said:
You guys are better off using 3g you might get better data speeds lol
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That's what I tell my girl all the time
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thronnos said:
I live near nw military and lockhill selma. How's your data? Lol
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Okay I know where that is. I'm by 1604 and bandera. But 3g has been good but can't test out 4g cause I'm stuck on miui with no SD card until tomorrow
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c00ller said:
Welcome to Sprint.
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The NOW network.

Sprints service was always horrible like that in Columbus
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strapped365 said:
Sprints service was always horrible like that in Columbus
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I had better service with a worse connection in ny
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Wow those are pretty bad especially since Texas is one of the most if not THE most heavily covered areas for Wimax (and will be for LTE too according to the road map)
Living in dallas/irving TX I'm usually pulling 5-8 megs when im within a wimax signal
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Really now?
My speeds are so terrible its not even close to funny, Sprint sucks bad. I locked up with them thinking "how bad could it really be?"-
Btw, How the hell do you get them to take cash off your bill? My wife and I are 140$ a month... I never even bother using the 4G function, there is no such thing here (Montgomery AL)... "4G? Whats that some kinda fancy ari-o-plane?"

Dethader said:
My speeds are so terrible its not even close to funny, Sprint sucks bad. I locked up with them thinking "how bad could it really be?"-
Btw, How the hell do you get them to take cash off your bill? My wife and I are 140$ a month... I never even bother using the 4G function, there is no such thing here (Montgomery AL)... "4G? Whats that some kinda fancy ari-o-plane?"
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Call and Complain The goal for them is for you to say Yes they resolved your issue today. You can be Direct and ask for $$ off the Bill because of service. You may need to ask for Supervisor or even go as far as to ask for there Termination Department(even if you have no intention) You've paid them so make them work to make you happy.

Dethader said:
My speeds are so terrible its not even close to funny, Sprint sucks bad. I locked up with them thinking "how bad could it really be?"-
Btw, How the hell do you get them to take cash off your bill? My wife and I are 140$ a month... I never even bother using the 4G function, there is no such thing here (Montgomery AL)... "4G? Whats that some kinda fancy ari-o-plane?"
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I feel your pain man. I'm in the capital city also... Btw, if you stand on the Eastern blvd next to the Sprint store there's a small patch of 4G
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Funny I'm in nashville and never see lower than 6megs lucky me I guess

Evo update

So the evo update that came out a couple days ago, was updated to include sprints connection thingy. Very interested to know if this can be incorporated or ported to work for us. I use juice defender when not at home and this sounds like a sprint replacement of that app basically. Interested to see how it works out.

What "evo update"?
What is "sprint's connection thingy"?

http://m.androidcentral.com/htc-evo-4g-updated-sprint-connections-optimizer

This is the evo SHIFT forum. Not the evo 4g forum...

He knows that, he was asking if it would be able to be ported over to the SHIFT.

johnyardavid said:
He knows that, he was asking if it would be able to be ported over to the SHIFT.
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No, it won't.

VICODAN said:
No, it won't.
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Bull****... I bet it happens...
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VICODAN said:
No, it won't.
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Your just asking for it to be ported now. Anything is possible

YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
Your just asking for it to be ported now. Anything is possible
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The shift will never get ICS either.
/troll

VICODAN said:
The shift will never get ICS either.
/troll
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BULL****! I BET IT HAPPENS!
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drob311 said:
BULL****! I BET IT HAPPENS!
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I agree, although it'll probably be a late update compared to some of the other devices and is not official from HTC yet, does not mean they won't do it
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VICODAN said:
The shift will never get ICS either.
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Ics sense? Don't be so quick to call me a troll. You've been gone a long time so don't act like you know it all cause you don't.
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YoungCorruptionV2.0 said:
Ics sense? Don't be so quick to call me a troll. You've been gone a long time so don't act like you know it all cause you don't.
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I was calling myself a troll, troll.
/troll
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I'm fairly sure that both will happen. Just a matter of time.

hamagc said:
So the evo update that came out a couple days ago, was updated to include sprints connection thingy. Very interested to know if this can be incorporated or ported to work for us. I use juice defender when not at home and this sounds like a sprint replacement of that app basically. Interested to see how it works out.
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The old palm pre had a similar homebrew app that did this. It worked pretty well; however, it took a toll on the battery because GPS and other location services were on constantly.
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Looking at the womans epic which also got this in the last update, there aren't much for options, looks like everything is pretty much automatic. Its not a seperate app, its actually built into the system settings under mobile networks. Looks like this is being pushed to all/most devices so I wouldn't be supprised at this point if sprint comes out with another update for us to include this. I'm going to keep an eye on her connections and see if I can notice it working and how well.

lvpre said:
The old palm pre had a similar homebrew app that did this. It worked pretty well; however, it took a toll on the battery because GPS and other location services were on constantly.
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This polls your location every so often, not a constant update on location. Also uses cell location, not just gps. Sprint has included this as a battery saver as well as a connection optimizer. Controls 3g, 4g, and wifi.

Dropped my Nexus 4 at SXSW

I dropped my phone at SXSW this weekend in Austin because someone ran into me but luckily I have a case on it and I didn't sustain any damage, however, my data speeds have been terrible and before that they were really fast. At my house I don't get the same speeds that I have had before and I have to use my WiFi now. Could this be due to refarming or the radio is now going bad from the fall? I do get full bars on H and I never had speed issues at my home until after I dropped my phone. It just does not load sometimes. P.S. I have not tried a hard reset but I'm thinking I may have to do that and need to backup everything but I don't really want to go that route. I have so much on my phone and this is that one time an external sd slot would have been beneficial. Any ideas?
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Try with your wife's phone or friends phone with the same SIM.
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aleks_ said:
I dropped my phone at SXSW this weekend in Austin because someone ran into me but luckily I have a case on it and I didn't sustain any damage, however, my data speeds have been terrible and before that they were really fast. At my house I don't get the same speeds that I have had before and I have to use my WiFi now. Could this be due to refarming or the radio is now going bad from the fall? I do get full bars on H and I never had speed issues at my home until after I dropped my phone. It just does not load sometimes. P.S. I have not tried a hard reset but I'm thinking I may have to do that and need to backup everything but I don't really want to go that route. I have so much on my phone and this is that one time an external sd slot would have been beneficial. Any ideas?
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try taking off your case? or maybe your holding it wrong lol

placebo effect. you're looking for something to have happened, so you're thinking it did happen.

This are the times when being rooted is a life saver. Backup everything and wipe or factory reset to test. Or restore a nand backup to see if the drop had some effect.

Or maybe because of the place you are at your cell tower is maxed out. If there's thousands of people in a small area all using their phones on the same network your bandwidth will be affected. I noticed this whenever I would use any of my phones at disney. I would have full bars and hspa+ and yet it would be dling at half a megabit or less. Once outside the park area speeds were quick again.
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I'm jealous that you were there!
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plznote said:
Try with your wife's phone or friends phone with the same SIM.
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I tried it on my mom's phone and my friends phone and I realized their phone's don't get the speeds they used to either so I can definitely rule out any radio or hardware damage. PHEW!!!
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I'm jealous that you were there!
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It was a funfilled weekend indeed but the crowd is not usually phone friendly. haha. Other than this situation the event was pretty solid.
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Sweet that your phone wasn't damaged.
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Visa Declined said:
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Omg its the nexus 5! They are sure getting fancy with their designs!!!
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you're looking for something to have happened

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Oh my......now that's just a tragedy. Haha. Thank goodness for my case otherwise I'd be dealing with that kind of nightmare. Yikes!!!
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