I have been having bad signal and sluggish data speeds after flashing a rom. On any rom I was choosing actually. And then I decided to give it a try after almost 6 months of being rooted to reflash my current radio and I noticed immediately the difference.
Is this a known problem or am I the only one? I know flash my radio after every rom.
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Your radio is not altered when flashing a new ROM. By reflashing your radio after every ROM flash, you're only increasing the possibilities of something going wrong and leaving you with a brick. The radio is the most dangerous thing to mess with and radio flashing/reflashing should never be taken lightly.
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But why is that I get signal drops and slow browser on every rom even on stock rooted
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Your ROM does not touch the radio. The radio resides in a partition not touched by recovery.
Flashing a radio is dangerous. Failure = a bricked device.
I'm not sure why you're having this result, or if it is a placebo effect. All I know is ROM does not affect Radio performance
But I do notice a big difference in the time it takes to load a web page after reflashing my radio as well as no more signal drops
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Did you flash the same radio version or a different one?
I just reflashed the same radio that was already on my phone
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Is there any explanation for me having random signal drops and slow data speeds
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mymeatb18 said:
Is there any explanation for me having random signal drops and slow data speeds
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Shaky service in your area? Is WiFi like this too because it might be the hardware
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Nope wifi is perfect, my wife has a sensation 4g which never has a call drop and we live in the Miami area and I would get call drops in the middle of the day in the city.
It happened on virtuous affinity (but I know sense 3.5 has kind of a problem with signal, correct me if I'm wrong), virtuous unity, lee Droid the latest one, everything. Until reflashing my radio I don't understand why.
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In Miami too... I just reflashed to the latest GB radio from Panache stock and it did feel like it was giving me better overall service. On Sense Roms though I do notice an occasional signal loss and then it comes back and a lot of times it's while sending SMS. After the last time going from Dark Unicorn back to ARHD I was not receiving some messages from my g/f and she wasn't getting some of mine, if I did they were late (that didn't make her happy, lol) but I think it is better now. Maybe it's T-Mobile, maybe my Android doesn't like her iPhone.
Actually I just flashed the latest version of miui.us v4 and I can say that it has the best signal on any rom I tried and didn't have to reflash my radio as compared to just changing from the last GB version of miui.us which needed a radio reflash
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Posted about this before, but issue was never resolved. Using a telstra Leo on vodafone nz, getting VERY bad service. Almost always using g instead of 3g, and dropping very often, that is, when it actually gets service, which is barely ever when I'm not right next to a tower. Please help.
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try changing your radio??
look under settings/about phone/software version/radio, try a diferent compatible one for your device.
this can also be related to the kernel so u can try different kernel
Using the latest 20.xx.15 radio, and tytungs latest kernel. Are there any radio Tom's specifically for vodafone nz?
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Problem found. Telegraph hd2 doesn't work on 900mhz Umts. ****. I dun goofed.
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I was trying to troubleshooting bad wifi calling. Three different routers and still bad quality when using the stock 2.2.1 rom. When I tried rc4 the quality jumped to acceptable quality. Anyone else noticing this?
I use cm nightlies and have great success with wifi calling. My wife uses stock and people can never gear her when she uses it. Sounds lime she's standing in a closet talking.
No idea what the difference is.
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I got an echo on stock. Still crappy with cm7 rc 4. Just no echo.
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I will say absolutely nothing. I am running CM7, my wife is running 100% stock. Neither of us have any issues at all with wi-fi calling. Sounds like a regular full bar phone call for both of us. (horrible service at house so we always have it on)
My wife's issue is fixed.. kid stuck something in mic hole. Removed with toothpick and both of us have crystal clear wifi calling.
Kids are awesome. Sometimes.
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Nothing, in fact I am pretty sure its the same app
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Nothing, in fact I am pretty sure its the same app
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But isn't the wifi driver different? Just a guess.
Anyone experiencing this? Sometimes ill be on the internet for an hour then randomly my signal will drop and after a minute or so it will come back. Also if I haven't used my phone for awhile and right when I'm about to Google something the internet cuts off then comes back a minute later.
Im trying to figure out if its my phone or T-Mobile fault. Its not roms or radios because Ive tried a few different ones.
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Anyone experiencing this? Sometimes ill be on the internet for an hour then randomly my signal will drop and after a minute or so it will come back. Also if I haven't used my phone for awhile and right when I'm about to Google something the internet cuts off then comes back a minute later.
Im trying to figure out if its my phone or T-Mobile fault. Its not roms or radios because Ive tried a few different ones.
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You answered your question.
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You answered your question.
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The op may not have answered his own question. I have similar issues with my phone. Found a few little glitches with how my phone reacts to firmware. I need to write up my findings in a new thread. Pretty interesting stuff. I had a big issue that I was able to fix and it may work for a bunch more people too.
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You answered your question.
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I domt think so, i have noticed, with stock, i get a strong 4g signal. BUt when i switch to different roms, the signal fluctuates.
I have tried: Darkside, creamed glacier, cm7, virtuous unity affinity quattro
Dclaw please share your findings!
Btw my gf also has a mytouch 4g but its stock unrooted and has the same problems as me.
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Happens to me quite often. I'm running the latest radio and I think that's the problem for me. It never happened with the previous radio it had. Reason I haven't messed with it is because it works great in the city and I'm always on wifi at home. It bugs me because I send a text and signal drops to 0, "message not sent, will resend when data services are available." back to 3 bars, then resends.
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I have the Panache here in Canada through Mobilicity, basically the same phone with a different name, and this is a known issue with the entire batch they sold. I'm pretty sure it's a phone issue on HTC's part that doesn't seem to have a fix for it. I can't remember what the reason was exactly but google Panache no signal or something like that and you should be able to find it.
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Hi erverybody,
"dclaw_fantum" said he found a suggestions for that, but what is it? I am with Mobilicity (Canada) too and I have the same issue with my phone (also the panache). My friend is also with mobilicity but has a different phone and not any problem like this. It is strange because I am having full reception and it just turns of... totally. At least there should be a GSM signal or WCDMA signal, but it just turns off. Sad that HTC is not trying to fix this, as it seems an issue for a lot of people. Greetings.
It has to do with your Rom that your using or Radio either or can be your problem.
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MyTouch 4G with Wind here. Same issue.
Tried 3 different radios and 2 stock and one custom rom and I have the same problems.
I've been leaning towards the problem being a combination of the radio and the rom and how they interact with each other rather than just one of them as it doesn't seem to make any difference what combination of the two you use.
I'm not a developer though, so I might be way off...
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Same issue here with a couple of stock MT4Gs on T-Mobile.
I have been flashing different roms for a long time. I never had a problem with my 4g connection. I'm now stuck on 3g. I have tried GB, ICS & JB ROMS. It doesn't matter which one I use u only get 3g. Sometimes I see the H for 4g but only for a few seconds or barely one minute. I have flashed different radios and some of them gave me 4g but only for a short time. I have formatted my sd card and did a full wipe before all the new roms. Nothing is helping me stay in 4g.
I'm not over on my data usage either.
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It might just be your phone trying to save battery so its switching to 3g instead of using 4G or it might just be telling you that its 3G. Have you done a speedtest when the 4g flashes on and off
When I have 4g I get 6mbps down and 2 mbps up. On 3g I get 3 down and less than 1 up. How do I the phone to stop trying to save the battery? Even though I didn't have this problem before. I go all over town and it just doesn't stay on 4g.
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Try a new ROM, or reflash the radio. but, if you're wanting to go back to 2.3.4 rooted, and want to get Gingerbread even better, check out myGinger ROM in the Dev section. I made it myself
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I really like the look of the sense 4 ROMs I was on glacier one for a while but just got tired of having slow data speeds and always having signal drops.
I have also tried the Hyperion ROM and viper touch and I don't know if its just me or is everyone else still experiencing signal drops. Data speeds are better than when I was on glacier one but the signal drops are a real deal breaker for me and its a shame cuz they are nice roms
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I think signal drops are pretty common. I get them all the time on my Glacier.
No but its like really bad on the glacier one Rom and since the Hyperion is the same base I believe its the same.
Viper touch seemed to be just once.
Btw I don't get signal drops
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No but its like really bad on the glacier one Rom and since the Hyperion is the same base I believe its the same.
Viper touch seemed to be just once.
Btw I don't get signal drops
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On any ROM I'm on I will randomly lose all signal for 30 seconds - 1 minute several times a day. Never figured out way, and I don't like flashing radios. Too much risk.
Yeah, i had the issue with sense roms as well, it happens a lot more on sense roms but its been a while since i have seen that. Does it drop on glacier one or hyperion? I have tried the latest editions of both and i didn't get any drops
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Yeah, i had the issue with sense roms as well, it happens a lot more on sense roms but its been a while since i have seen that. Does it drop on glacier one or hyperion? I have tried the latest editions of both and i didn't get any drops
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One of our myTouch 4Gs had Hyperion Yoshi on it for a while and the user frequently complained about it 'forgetting' it had signal and thus losing connectivity to things like Maps (which was a deal-breaker). Just flashed Dark Unicorn on that one, which seems to handle signal issues just fine (but of course, it's not a Sense ROM).
if u want something more stable...u can try glacier rom http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1852410 it is a older rom (ICS) but after trying a new rom almost every week I end up going back to this one for stability. I have Mobilicity (which is supposed to have poor signal quality) but rarely have I experienced signal drops....noticed it twice for less than a minute in over 3 months n both times weather was pretty bad...windy/almost storm like conditions!
I believe I was on the glacier one v1.3 as I can see its been revised in v2.0 which I guess what fixed it. I just remember that everyone was having signal drops and phone was really only staying 3g which is why I switched. I took a second look at Hyperion and saw that after the ROM had settled and after a few reboots all was good I was just experiencing signal drops almost 5 mins apart after flashing the first day.
Sabsa prime is pretty good almost perfect actually
Just find myself coming back to cm7.0.3 as I feel its the most stable of the cm7s
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For what it is worth I haven't had the same problems on ViperTouch and have been running for a few weeks - don't seem to have a problem with 4g either ...