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Can anyone hook me up with all the different radios for the ns4g? Trying to achieve a more stable 4g or even 3g connection as far as my ping goes. I currently don't have access to cable or DSL so I have to rely on my connection for everything. The ping spikes and its making it really hard for me to enjoy battlefield 3
Also, I assume I'm supposed to flash the radio through Odin in the phone section under PDA?
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If u feel comfortable flashing them from recovery, in rom manager under peters section he has most of the radios.
I used them to update mine acouple of times
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1077168

RushAOZ said:
Can anyone hook me up with all the different radios for the ns4g? Trying to achieve a more stable 4g or even 3g connection as far as my ping goes. I currently don't have access to cable or DSL so I have to rely on my connection for everything. The ping spikes and its making it really hard for me to enjoy battlefield 3
Also, I assume I'm supposed to flash the radio through Odin in the phone section under PDA?
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Changing radios wont Chang your ping. There is a way to edit which data network your phone registers on lowering pings. Search lowering pings on sprint and you should find what you are liking for.
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Damn, does anyone know if this would be of any use to tweak 4g?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1346680
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Can anyone please tell me which is the latest radio i currently have KF1
Thanks,

irizwan said:
Can anyone please tell me which is the latest radio i currently have KF1
Thanks,
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KE1 is the latest
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How do I find out which radio I'm currently using?
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Settings, about phone. Baseband I believe.
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corythug said:
Settings, about phone. Baseband I believe.
Follow the leader @corythug
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correct...lol
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Am I looking at the last 3 characters of the baseband? If so I'm on ke5.
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RushAOZ said:
Am I looking at the last 3 characters of the baseband? If so I'm on ke5.
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yes...the last 3 characters
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ICS on Nexus S

What are the stages where this is at right now? Fully usable? Still Alpha? I currently have a Galaxy S2 and love it, but it is big and I really want ICS. Is ICS helping with battery life at all? What are people experiencing performance/battery wise? Things like data speeds? Is image quality any better on the device?
Thanks!

Another ICS thread? Ever thought about joining one of the other 10 threads on this subject and actually read what others have been already saying about it.
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Lol
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The ICS dev threads have hundreds, if not thousands of posts. Makes it hard to find information. I don't currently have the phone so it makes it hard for me.

Real simple is to jump to the end of a ics dev thread and read the posts backwards. You will see the most recent info. In short the rom I am running is very smooth, few things need tinkering with to get them working, no 4g but that is expected with a non nexus 4g source. I will also say that after using a ics rom as a daily driver since last weekend the rest of the world who are waiting on ics for their device will not be disappointed when it finally gets there. As far as the battery life goes I have had the best daily usage out of my nexus as ever, true story.
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My home screen for a taste. Taken with the built in screen shot per google.
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When everyone says 4G, they mean Sprint, right? I have T-Mo so would HSPA+ work?

well there are roms being developed for all variants of the nexus s. But yes I have the nexus s 4g on sprint.
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I'm not sure about hspa+, isn't that just t-mobiles way of saying 4g? Like lte and wimax? If so then I doubt the ability to connect to it works without the official sources being released by google yet.
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There are a few daily use status versions out now IMO
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Tmo 3g and 4g are really the same technology
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hboot_zig said:
My home screen for a taste. Taken with the built in screen shot per google.
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i noticed your wifi and mobile signals aren't full, like the rest of us 3G Nexus S users!

davewpy said:
i noticed your wifi and mobile signals aren't full, like the rest of us 3G Nexus S users!
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Sprint or T-Mo?

Sprints 4g? Idont think so
hah2110 said:
Tmo 3g and 4g are really the same technology
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Answer
Excuse all the thread police. Apparently some on here have OCD and treat the threads like their personal panty drawr (nice and neat). But to answer your question: ICS is pretty far along on the device, battery is better than ginger, performance has the potential to be better when source drops (right now it's faster sometimes and slower at others), data speeds are about the same, and image is great. In all, the ports we have are daily drivers for MANY, including myself. Although most of the bugs seem to have been ironed out, I can see there is still a lot of potential. Our DEVS are pretty gangster so we will surely see much more progression.

I agree but keep in mind that Ginger was developed fromour phones CPU. Hummingbird. In which why if runs so fluid. Ics is for the what's ever in the galaxy nexus. No other phone will run ics smoother than the gn as no other phone had ever beaten this on Ginger.
My point is that we need source code so we can make a ron with other elements intwined to the framework. Show me how to sign a Tom and I'll. Dev the crap out of it
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I'm using Brainmaster's V2 and it's a daily for sure. I haven't updated because I use A2DP a lot, and the newer versions built off of Koush's rom lose that.

davewpy said:
i noticed your wifi and mobile signals aren't full, like the rest of us 3G Nexus S users!
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So your signal bars are lying?
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Hi guys, any idea when we should receive official update?

hboot_zig said:
So your signal bars are lying?
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yes most of the roms on ICS for i9020/23 (3G) are lying.
seems like ALL of the 4G Nexus S is working. I found an updated radio image i9020xxki1, but i didn't have the guts to flash it to see if it works.

NS4G WiMax speeds

I just found a spot near my local Publix where I was getting 3 and 4 bars of signal with WiMax, which I rarely ever see in my city.
I speed tested and was consistently getting 16-18mbps down and around 3mbps up.
I'm curious to see how that compares with what everyone else is getting on Sprint's 4g network.
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Impossible. Must have been wifi.
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Or he was sitting on the tower. Jk bro. You have some screenies?
°•neXus S4G•°

Sprint's 4g is pretty good here in Cincinnati. I get about 6-7mbs down and 1 up at my apartment with one bar, but when I go outside I get about 10-12mbs down and 2 up with 3-4 bars.

Here is a screenshot. I wasn't on wifi, I was in the middle of a parking lot.
I wasn't getting 3mbps up here, but I have before.
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mine has definitely improved within about the last two weeks, as well! I'm getting about 15-20% stronger signal and speed

Not only that, even 3G improved in my area.

hp420 said:
mine has definitely improved within about the last two weeks, as well! I'm getting about 15-20% stronger signal and speed
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rasengan82 said:
Not only that, even 3G improved in my area.
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This is good to hear. Hopefully Sprint is staying good on their word and largely improving their 3G this year.
Especially looking forward to the Galaxy Nexus and LTE, even though I'm not in one of the cities getting it first.

madeincanon said:
Here is a screenshot. I wasn't on wifi, I was in the middle of a parking lot.
I wasn't getting 3mbps up here, but I have before.
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No you haven't. Wimax used to be capped at 1mb now it is capped at 1.5mbps. Clearly your screen shot would have shown the 3mbps upload had it really occurred.
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Rem3Dy said:
Wimax used to be capped at 1mb now it is capped at 1.5mbps.
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Thanks for the info.

Thats nice. wish i had some wimax in my city.

david279 said:
Thats nice. wish i had some wimax in my city.
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and we never will LTE ruins Wimaxers lives

I've gotten more than 1.5 many times here in Atlanta...idk who told you there was a cap....
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Maybe all the business users are moving over to versions lte mifis. In and around Philly I get 8-12 mbps. Don't forget that still have clear kiosks pretty sure well still connect to them as well
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Rem3Dy said:
No you haven't. Wimax used to be capped at 1mb now it is capped at 1.5mbps. Clearly your screen shot would have shown the 3mbps upload had it really occurred.
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for this were true I wouldn't be getting over 1.5MB/s on a regular basis..... that's right I said MB not mb.... Please check your info before posting it because what you stated is absolutely incorrect!!

This is what I get at my home using wimax
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hp420 said:
for this were true I wouldn't be getting over 1.5MB/s on a regular basis..... that's right I said MB not mb.... Please check your info before posting it because what you stated is absolutely incorrect!!
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Not necessarily, wimax upload speeds were capped. No official word that it's been removed though or made higher above 1.5. Any of you claiming higher have a screenshot?
http://m.techcrunch.com/2011/06/09/sprint-to-bump-upload-speeds-on-their-wimax-network-up-by-50/
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Acontreras86 said:
This is what I get at my home using wimax
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Wow, that's great, I wish I got that at my house. I max out at maybe 1MB/s at home.
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This is sitting on the middle exit in Conway Arkansas ....
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Sorry guys, wrong forum... I will post one from my ns4g
Way slower though...it's on vhGomez latest ICS with speedy 5 kernel

How to change data icon from H+ to 4G on CM10.1 Nightly's

Hey guys, I was just wondering if someone could help me out because I'm kinda ocd about seeing it as H+ instead of 4G for HSPA+. Thanks!
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HSPA+ isn't 4G.

MrLadoodle said:
HSPA+ isn't 4G.
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Coming from sprint it sure as hell is. 1mb is 4g to them. Anyway I get to 35mbps on hspa+ so I really don't get what your saying.
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Fataldesain said:
Coming from sprint it sure as hell is. 1mb is 4g to them. Anyway I get to 35mbps on hspa+ so I really don't get what your saying.
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I agree but the 3G/4G terminology is a bit screwed. The current "3G" release is 100x faster then the original 3G release. Yet the current 4G release is only 2.5x faster then the current 3G release.
Which is why Android refers to it as H. It should probably stay that way.
But I get 22Mbps on my N4 on DC-HSPA, which isn't as high as you, but I know how you feel. But I live on a continent that's completely GSM/HSPA/LTE, so I never really had the CDMA 3G problem.

Is there anyway to enable 3G/wcdma only after rebooting??
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Not understanding the nexus 4 and its 4g restrictions

So I read in most forums and it seems to me that you can get 4g but at the cost of Google now not working. I'm just a bit confused. I've had my nexus 4 for about 2 weeks now. 3g only. Currently on T-Mobile what I was wondering is that how come my box says 4g but I'm only getting 3g and I checked best buys website and they're selling nexus 4 and in the description it says it has 4g.
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FeintDoxx said:
So I read in most forums and it seems to me that you can get 4g but at the cost of Google now not working. I'm just a bit confused. I've had my nexus 4 for about 2 weeks now. 3g only. Currently on T-Mobile what I was wondering is that how come my box says 4g but I'm only getting 3g and I checked best buys website and they're selling nexus 4 and in the description it says it has 4g.
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they call hspa+ 4G. while its technically 3G(or 3.5G), it can be very fast too, so they call it 4G. ive gotten data speed as fast as 30mbps for download on hspa+ in my area. i think that you are thinking lte, which is also considered 4G. they are just different technology.

simms22 said:
they call hspa+ 4G. while its technically 3G(or 3.5G), it can be very fast too, so they call it 4G. ive gotten data speed as fast as 30mbps for download on hspa+ in my area. i think that you are thinking lte, which is also considered 4G. they are just different technology.
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Yup this ^^^
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Ahh okay thanks that makes sense. Thanked:thumbup:
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In fact it's got a LTE modem inside so it was possible to connect but no specific amplifiers for 4G signal, also the newest update from Google rendered it unusable.
HSPA+ 21/42 is fast enough, as said above, I guess.

What everyone above me said. For what it's worth, for most people, hspa+ is more than fast enough. There is nothing you'd do on a phone than warrants needing faster internet than your at home cable internet lol

panaut0lordv said:
In fact it's got a LTE modem inside so it was possible to connect but no specific amplifiers for 4G signal, also the newest update from Google rendered it unusable.
HSPA+ 21/42 is fast enough, as said above, I guess.
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False information.
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