OK well I got it and it made all the difference in the world. I went from 1 bar that came and went to solid 4g with 3 too 5 bars always in my house.
Here's a speed test with the booster on.
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Here's a speed test with the booster off.
I'd say that's one hell of a difference. I always get great signal outside my house, but the minute I walk in the house I got almost no signal.
I was wondering what other peoples T-Mobile free signal booster.
Never heard of it. What is it and how does it work?
I got in on it back in beta. Definite difference.
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can it still be acquired for free?
As Far as I know. I got mine 3--4 months ago. All I can tell you is that it was free, no monthly charge but you do have to renew your contract, witch I just did when I bought my Sensation 2 months before so i didn't really care. So the criteria you have to meet is that. 1. must spend over 70 a month on your bill. 2. must have a 3-4G Phone. 3. Must be in a house that you or your parents own. or atleast be in a house you rent. Point is you can't live in a place that has any other units..apartments.. or duplex,, something to do with the signal ****ing up their phone. 4.Must have a land line for 911 purposes, something about the booster messes up your ability to call 911 from your cell when your in the range of your booster. I don't know why or how just that these are the things you have to meet in order to get one. I had a thread about it when I first heard about it. Some guy called 3 times and they said it didn't exist and me and a few other people told him that they most definitely do, call and if you get the runaround raise hell,, ask for a supervisor . whatever.. He did and a month later he got one.. I don't know if that thread is still up but search Free Tmobile signal boosters on xda and see if that thread is still up. Me and everyone else I talked to said it made a big difference. I mean. I was unable to make any calls or get anything above a slow edge data signal. now I get 3-5 bars and 4G at all times in my house. I posted the speed tests with and without the booster on my first post.. that speaks for itself...
How I found out about it was when I was at the Tmobile store paying my bill and looking around I was bullshitting with one of the reps and I was *****ing that I get great signal until the minute I walk in my house, He told me to get a signal booster. I asked if it was expensive. He said, no, they are free, just call Tmo customer service and I did and I got one. I really had no problem. I don't know why they don't advertise it but you can get one.
can someone post a pic of one?
@donsh00tmesanta , Sure man, here's how it works. It comes in 2 parts. Part #1 goes in the spot in your house where you get the best signal or at least 1 bar. (Most people put it on a window Ledge, that's where I keep mine. Part #2 goes anywhere in your house just must be 25 or more feet away from the part #1. Bye the way. All you need is a plug outlet to plug the boxes into. No need for wifi or any connection to your phone or computer internet, just electricity.
Part #1
Part #2
Thank you man!!!!
I am very interested into TMO when the GN arrives (LTE doesnt interest me, just a battery hog, 7-42mbps is good enough)
Hopefully I can score a booster
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@donsh00tmesanta , Sure man, here's how it works. It comes in 2 parts. Part #1 goes in the spot in your house where you get the best signal or at least 1 bar. (Most people put it on a window Ledge, that's where I keep mine. Part #2 goes anywhere in your house just must be 25 or more feet away from the part #1. Bye the way. All you need is a plug outlet to plug the boxes into. No need for wifi or any connection to your phone or computer internet, just electricity.
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Hey, anyone else have network issues with the N1 today? Seems like none of my calls or texts are going through, but I have signal and everything. I went outside to use 3g, worked for a little and then stopped.. So I did a airplane off/on and now the data wont connect. Went back inside it connected again but text and calls wouldnt work.
Anyone else having any issues?
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You need to provide more info like your general location. It might be a local issue or trouble with your phone.
I was on my phone all day in calls and data with no problems. I'm in the Chicago area.
Hi.. I have troubles with T-Mobile on 3G... but supposedly there is an issue with my mast in NR1.. I agree...where are you?
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Have you tried turning the phone off then back on? I run into this problem every once in a while. So have others:
http://code.google.com/p/android/is...on&colspec=ID Type Status Owner Summary Stars
In Orlando, Fl ever since Hsdpa rolled out here If been getting little to no 3g here, spoke to a tmob rep and he saying something about no longer connecting to at&t's frequencies so data loss is possible, idk but it needs to get resolved its been a couple of weeks.
i had the same problem yesterday. It only happened to me at home when i left running around town i was able to connect for data. Also it was raining here so maybe that contributed to it
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In Orlando, Fl ever since Hsdpa rolled out here If been getting little to no 3g here, spoke to a tmob rep and he saying something about no longer connecting to at&t's frequencies so data loss is possible, idk but it needs to get resolved its been a couple of weeks.
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tell me about it man, I was in Orlando this weekend and 3G connection su*ks, since I was using my phone as GPS it was very frustrating. I started messing around with build.prop like crazy but nothing worked.
Happens to me all the time. Especially around evening times. 3-6pm. This is in seattle btw.
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Happens to me all the time. Especially around evening times. 3-6pm. This is in seattle btw.
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Same in Eastern Washington
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I've only had issues in my house, but that's because my house is a service-killer. No bars anywhere downstairs, but almost full 3G bars in my room. lol
Have you tried the new 5.XX series radios yet? I'm running 5.08 and notice little to no data loss or other data issues. There are moments of weirdness, but a quick disable/enable of mobile data does the trick in the most severe of situations.
Gonna upgrade to 5.12 now and see what's different (apparently touchscreen ****ty-ness is fixed). Worth a shot. Use fastboot though, never flash a radio in recovery, leaves too much up to chance.
I feel ya.. I was in universal last night and I had 4-5 bars of 3g and no internet, or at least really slooooow internet when it did work. T mobile needs to ramp up Orlando's and others servers/towers. When too many people use the internet at the same time it kills the towers bandwidth. While at Universal's Horror nights I figure everyone in the 45min-2Hr lines for the houses are using it. So that is bad. But once I left Orlando it worked fine.
Had Froyo Radio... Flashed new 5.12 today one and seems better. At least Agps is working much better.
Glad to know it's not just me. I had been searching on the Internet for people with the same issues and decided to come here. I'm in stl and my data connection will either work or not. Ive tried turning off the phone and then back on, airplane, etc.
Right now it works but it's nowhere near the 4 megs i was pulling last night, its hovering around 500 Kbps when it decides to work. Im sure tmobile is just upgrading some stuff.
Looks like its just Orlando where problem exists.
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Its very frustrating, 3g used to fly here in orlando for, but now im surviving on edge...
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Looks like its just Orlando where problem exists.
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YEEEEEAAAH BOYEEE! I tried to get tickets for Thursday, but that didn't go well lol. Might just take my kayak out to the cove
Lol wayyyyyy off topic, sorry OP
ive just about had it with sprint latley for somereson my data is getting slower and slower after playing around with all the prls thx to oostah that helped for a little while but now its gotten so slow i cant stand it so i decided to give sprint a call today to see if there was something wrong with the local tower because weve had a line of bad weather, but ofcourse they said there was nothing wrong and she said she was going to do some trouble shooting with my phone. first she did a refresh witch just updated my profile and didint really do anything then she wanted to do some other trouble shooting witch would require me to hang up and have a call back phone witch i do not have so i told her i would hav another phone later this evening around 5:30-6:00 so if they dont pull a rabbit out of the hat and do something crazy im going to be pissed lol. does anyone know what they do during this process i did revert everything back to stock so nothing messes up.
its so dumb to i used to get over 1200kbs down without a problem three weeks ago but now i barely get over 400kbs and ive searched high and low on xda for every possible data tweaks almost getting obsessive about but nothing helps grrrrr im pissed......... end of rant
on another note i cant believe psn is still down what is this world comming to lol.
The world is ending in 3 weeks anyway. I'm pretty sure they won't do anything you haven't. Normally calling cell support equates to checking the box one you're doing as much as most of us here.
~maybe I set it too high...
I have had nothing but problems since updating the PRL to 60677. I drop a lot of calls now, but oh well i guess i will just have to wait for another update. the only thing that has helped with speed is kinfos mod. But i still drop calls a lot and get network fails.
theres already a new prl update lol
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theres already a new prl update lol
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Ya I noticed that right after I left this thread. I updated to the newest one so i will see if that helps. LOL
so..... sprint finally called me back and the guy was actually pretty nice i have to give them props for stepping up there customer service. but ofcourse he did the usuall pull battery and update profile after i did that i ran a couple speed tests and the highest i got to was ping 186 493kbs and around 390 upload and he even admited that was horrilbe for 3g and i agreed lol. so after that he told me to go to the dialer and dial ##3282# and i told him i already had the msl number and he was a little suprised, but he was cool about it i thought i was going to get a scolding lol. then he told me to go to data profile press menu and hit restore witch takes everything back to stock so then my phone rebooted and it did a hands free activation and i had to do a another profile update and i ran another couple speed tests and still my speed bareley got over 400 and he was kind of dumbfounded because i actually do have a decent signal at my house so then he gave me a long number and told me to go to my local sprint tech store to see if theres something wrong with the phone itself.
so overal i would give customer service a 8.5 out of 10 even though nothing really changed.
hmm very strange my data is working good all the sudden my ping could be a little lower but ill take it lol i wonder how long this will last though.
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test#2 for good measure
i like what i see lol.
good lord my mind was officially blown this morning lol. im now able to watch vimeo videos without having to pause and let it load first 480p yotutube loaded very fast and i was able to get through all of yip man 2 witch is the greatest matial arts movie ever on nova movie without it having to load once i havnt been able to test online pay yet because psn is still down but i am so happy right now yall have no idea lol. so i guess sprint did pull a rabbit out of the hat yesterday because this is unbalivable. i hope this will last lol
knock on wood knock on wood knock on wood!! lol
I hate you.......................but in a good way. I got to switch to a Verizon prl just to get decent speeds. So for the first half of the month I'm on blazing speeds, the other half I'm back on the sprint towers.
I hate it that I have to juggle it like that.
Have you tried updating your radio? I hear it helped about half the people who flashed it. I haven't tried becasue I don't have signal issues, but could be worth a shot. I'd post the link, but can't seem to find it on XDA.
Hi EPIC-lovers,
I've reversed-engineered some private APIs on the EPIC 4G to get access to the 4G technical information.
So if you want to know what your signal strength is and what tower your are connected to, check out our app "Sensorly", it's in the market. You can allow the app to upload coverage information and help build real coverage maps of all the carriers in the US... and yes, we have a wimax map.
I would have loved to add a screenshot here, but I haven't posted enough in this forum (you can get one at : wwwDOTsensorlyDOTcom/static/wimax.png)
We display
Network Access Provider Id
Network Service Provider Id
BSSID
CINR
RSSI
We're always looking for more users
PS: I've tried hard to get to the same information on the EVO and haven't come up with a solution yet ! Will post in that forum if I do.
Very cool - any plans on publishing source for the app?
Here's that screenshot:
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EDIT: This could be very useful to users of the Indulge on MetroPCS, with LTE... feel free to PM me if you'd like some inroads there.
EDIT2: You can allow the app to upload information. Folks, this dev gets it right - and if Sprint had the same intentions with Carrier IQ, they'd have done the same thing.
And other good news...the new version now works with the Epic to report EVDO areas. YAY! Kudos to the developer for letting me bug him for while on this
Only thing the Epic sometimes goes to zero signal for a bit even though you are in a good signal area. But that's the radios fault for reporting that.
Pretty cool. It is like Waze for cell coverage. What is the turn around time from sending data to seeing the coverage map updated?
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I think when I checked it was a couple of hours. Just make sure you have it set to send up while on cell.
Not a bad turn around time at all.
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Nice work!
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Just gave it a thorough try driving home from work on 4G with GPS running.. Thing collected and sent over 1400 messages in 12 miles. That's some good data collection and also good way to warm up the phone.. 40 degree battery when I got home.
Only bug I've found so far is I choose to send over wifi only and it still sent messages anyway while I was on 4G.. Other than that.. Ran smoothly
Cool, thanks!
They just installed a 4G tower less than a mile from my house so I've been sensorly-driving and updating, it appears I'm the only one though (my reports showed up about an hour later, no one else has added any). I'm hoping they up the power on the site; I can only connect in a few wide open areas, though sensorly is picking up the wimax data for several miles.
Good stuff, works great
Not sure if this thing actually works right. I sent a lot of messages from work yesterday while connected to 4G. 24hrs later, at work again, and it is still showing the same exact coverage and that my location is a no 4G forecast.
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Hi everyone, thanks for giving it a try...
The turn around time is at most within a couple hours. At maximum zoom level, it's probably within the hour and off-peak hours, within a couple minutes...
I don't see any backlog on the server handling that map so if data hasn't appeared, please email me the phone id (it's anonymous : created at install time) through the settings screen and explain the issue.
Thanks
Works good Thanks
awesome, thanks!!!
Amazing application.
No 4G in my area, but I'm glad I can find where it starts to show a signal!
So the big question is...when do we start see signal strength on 4g on the map instead of the just unavailable or available.
Very cool I saw the signal of the 4g and other data with it when I just passed through a 4g area. Excellent work!!!!
I swear I must have the worst 3G performance known to man..
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No matter the time of day, .40 Mbps is "typical" for download, .20Mbps for upload. That's on good days. I'm aware of all the factors that affect speeds, I just felt the need to vent about it for once.
I live on an island in the puget sound in washington state and 3G reception here is horrid. And that's after they've made some upgrades to our towers. I really don't understand why our service isn't better considering I live within miles of a major navy installation (Whidbey NAS).
Been on Sprint's Everything Data plan since August 2010 with my EVO 4G, which also requires the additional $10 charge for 4G capabilities (the nearest place I get 4G reception is over 30 miles away). I feel like I'm really having it stuck to me in the pocketbook.
If I don't have WiFi reception wherever I'm at, I typically wont even bother with 3G unless I have to. I'm more likely to just leave it off to save battery life.
Okay I'm done ranting, thanks for listening.
OK I have even worse speeds. Like .2 down at my house. Try this hack, it makes you phone use verizon 3g as roaming:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=696073
My speeds are now BLAZING fast. Try it and report back!
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I understand your frustration but i only get speeds like that when i get to work and everyone else shows up(2000+ people).
I am in a plant with a big project going on and it never fails at 6am the speed starts to plummit and stays that way all day. Until everyone leaves of course.
I feel for you putting up with that every waking moment though.
And please do respond on if you use the verizion hack, if it helps or not.
I beat you guys. 31kbps. That is .031mbps
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I had almost decided to move on to another carrier for the same reason. I looked at www.network.sprint.com and it showed a data speed upgrade withing 6 months. Didn't know if they would come through but they did 2 days ago. Now is decent.
Btw...check that site. For weeks my data was crippled worse than it use to. Maybe because they were working on it I guess....but now is good. I guess patience is key.
......or a booster.
via EVO.
Site doesn't work.
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Correct link:
https://network.sprint.com/
I was getting about 150kbps, did the hack mentioned for verizon roaming and I'm getting 1,400kbps now
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I was getting about 150kbps, did the hack mentioned for verizon roaming and I'm getting 1,400kbps now
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Same here.
I don't think you are the only one. I came to this forum today to see if anyone else was having this issue. I'm also in Washington (Bellevue) and I used to get about 1,000 kbps and decent reception. Lately I'm lucky if I have 1 bar of 1x speed. My speeds are just as bad as yours. How is your signal strength?
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I swear I must have the worst 3G performance known to man..
No matter the time of day, .40 Mbps is "typical" for download, .20Mbps for upload. That's on good days. I'm aware of all the factors that affect speeds, I just felt the need to vent about it for once.
I live on an island in the puget sound in washington state and 3G reception here is horrid. And that's after they've made some upgrades to our towers. I really don't understand why our service isn't better considering I live within miles of a major navy installation (Whidbey NAS).
Been on Sprint's Everything Data plan since August 2010 with my EVO 4G, which also requires the additional $10 charge for 4G capabilities (the nearest place I get 4G reception is over 30 miles away). I feel like I'm really having it stuck to me in the pocketbook.
If I don't have WiFi reception wherever I'm at, I typically wont even bother with 3G unless I have to. I'm more likely to just leave it off to save battery life.
Okay I'm done ranting, thanks for listening.
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Hey, I'm currently working with a HTC HD2 with a Froyo Android on it and having difficulties in the basement.
I've recently moved into a new rental house (am a University student) and was given a room in the basement (not much choice there since I signed up late for housing). Anyways I've noticed I get 1-2 bars in the basement which is fine (so I thought) but I'm not receiving any text or phone calls! Whenever I walk outside with my phone there's multiple texts waiting for me and whenever I meet my parents they question why I never pick up the phone (I dont even have missed calls showing).
Now with my closest friends I have whatsapp/fb chat/google talk which is fine but for employers who I give my resume to, or friends I occasionally meet up with they have no way to contact me :S so was wondering if there's any way to boost my signal in the basement?
I've read about a few signal boosters and repeaters but they are costing hundreds of dollars which is out of my price range but really do need to fix something or my social life is going down the drain next semester :S
Thanks in advance
forgot to mention, it wont even send texts as well at two bars... so sad T__T
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am a University student
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really do need to fix something or my social life is going down the drain next semester
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Says it all really
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Go outside. Solves both your social life problem and signal problem.
Maybe AT&T will have better signal and you can just switch to like Straight Talk.
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Hey just downloaded a signal booster app last nite (Fresh Network) and it doesn't fix the problem completely... but if i hold the phone exactly above my mini-fridge and send texts they usually go through after 3-4 attempts which is nice but sad to see there's no better solutions
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Hey just downloaded a signal booster app last nite (Fresh Network) and it doesn't fix the problem completely... but if i hold the phone exactly above my mini-fridge and send texts they usually go through after 3-4 attempts which is nice but sad to see there's no better solutions
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Signal booster apps are a scam. I hope you didn't pay for it.
You should connect it to a strong wifi network and use wifi calling.
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Signal booster apps are a scam. I hope you didn't pay for it.
You should connect it to a strong wifi network and use wifi calling.
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Hey, no didn't pay for it but I personally disagree. It feels like it does help (although the difference isn't very much)
And yea was debating on going pure WiFi but seems like a lot of hassle to have two different numbers, or is there a way to keep same number?? Sorry not very sure how WiFi networks work, if you could recommend a good one that'd be great
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Hey, no didn't pay for it but I personally disagree. It feels like it does help (although the difference isn't very much)
And yea was debating on going pure WiFi but seems like a lot of hassle to have two different numbers, or is there a way to keep same number?? Sorry not very sure how WiFi networks work, if you could recommend a good one that'd be great
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Most T-Mobile smartphones have built in wifi calling. No porting or different numbers. You just connect to a wifi network and enable it in the settings.
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checked under settings and no luck thanks anyways mite get roomies to chip in for a used network extender (cheapest i found was around $60 which isn't all that bad)
thanks again
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checked under settings and no luck thanks anyways mite get roomies to chip in for a used network extender (cheapest i found was around $60 which isn't all that bad)
thanks again
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The HTC HD2 is a Windows phone, right? I believe only T-Mobile Blackberry and Android phones support UMA.
Read: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=843433&page=6