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.
tokoam said:
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!!!
TheAxman said:
What baseband are you on at the moment?
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AMDL
tokoam said:
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.
tokoam said:
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
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I flashed this to my Eris and it seems to have faster data speeds and better reception.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=657896
i definitely wouldn't go flashing any 'ole radio just because its available for other phones. proceed at your own risk everyone...his boost could easily be coincidence. youre not gonna get that much change.
gohamstergo said:
i definitely wouldn't go flashing any 'ole radio just because its available for other phones. proceed at your own risk everyone...his boost could easily be coincidence. youre not gonna get that much change.
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As long as its CDMA its good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=650121
This radio works fine on the Eris. Still, use caution when flashing it and if your phone explodes don't spam the dev forum asking for help.
No more not being able to make/receive calls as of yet. Also it seems my wifi tether works now but may have been the new ivan rom that came out.
I recommend against flashing non-Eris specific radios.
Do it at your own risk.
sickbox said:
This radio works fine on the Eris. Still, use caution when flashing it and if your phone explodes don't spam the dev forum asking for help.
No more not being able to make/receive calls as of yet. Also it seems my wifi tether works now but may have been the new ivan rom that came out.
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It COULD brick your phone... I told myself I would never flash radio images when I gained root. I'm fine with roms and themes thank you very much.
kyrumo71 said:
As long as its CDMA its good.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=650121
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Yeah, that's not true dude. Flashing an incorrect radio update CAN completely brick your phone. Flashing a radio update updates your SPL. If the SPL isn't compatible with your phone/kernel, it could very well completely ruin your phone beyond recoverable.
You're lucky, but for future reference, it's a really bad idea to go flashing any ol' radio update except one that's been tested and working with your phone and kernel.
gohamstergo said:
i definitely wouldn't go flashing any 'ole radio
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GrdLock said:
it's a really bad idea to go flashing any ol' radio
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so awesome
This is why I felt comfortable with flashing the radio...
The ONLY reason I flashed this radio is due to the fact that others did this with no bad side effects (so far). Also, toastcfh has tested other heroc radios on an Eris with no bad side effects (so far) as well as done some good research for us by flashing the radios and seems to be quite knowledgeable when it comes to them.
I'm not authorizing that you should go flashing "any 'ol radio" but heroc and desirec radios seem to be created with the intention of being used on Sprint and Verizon according to research by toastcfh.
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now for the question about why some radios say heroc instead of eris...
the heroc radio are just that... heroc radios from sprint. its a cdma radio so it works the same as verizon radio. dont believe me?! do a strings | grep on all the radios and u will see they are all using both sprint and verizon logins and such. also as right now im running the latest radio which is the heroc one. everything works fine and its the one ive had best results with on both my Sprint Hero and my wifes Verizon Eris. although others may find better results with other versions.
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Just make sure you know that just because it worked for someone else doesn't mean you won't find that underlying control signal some day.
sprint uses sim cards right? the reason im askin is cuz for the hell of it i tried this radio and kept gettin no sim card messege lol i just did a restore . my stupid quesion is , the radio went back to the way it was right? im not gettin the error any more so i guess that answers my question , or could it have did other damage ? thanx for any help
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sprint uses sim cards right? the reason im askin is cuz for the hell of it i tried this radio and kept gettin no sim card messege lol i just did a restore . my stupid quesion is , the radio went back to the way it was right? im not gettin the error any more so i guess that answers my question , or could it have did other damage ? thanx for any help
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No, only GSM carriers use SIM cards. Sprint is CDMA.
then thats wierd , i kept seeing that messege , i use the nexus lock and when it woke from sleep the error was there until i unlocked it
tazzpatriot said:
then thats wierd , i kept seeing that messege , i use the nexus lock and when it woke from sleep the error was there until i unlocked it
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I believe that was/is a bug with the nexus lock mod. I remember when lwp mod first came out I tried it and noticed the sim card message. I have not gone back to that since so I can't be 100% sure.
well whatever it was it went away after i did a restore so alls good
Is anyone experiencing any issues with this one, I have flashed this radio and my 3G signal is not as good as it used to be.
I have 2 Eris' one stock (baseband 2.32.40.11.09) and one rooted with 2.42.00.03.10. The stock gets 4 3G bars with -70dBm while the rooted Eris gets 2 or less bars with -52 dBm.
From what I'm seeing, 3G speed is also suffering on the Eris with the newer baseband. Can anyone make sense of this?
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Is anyone experiencing any issues with this one, I have flashed this radio and my 3G signal is not as good as it used to be.
I have 2 Eris' one stock (baseband 2.32.40.11.09) and one rooted with 2.42.00.03.10. The stock gets 4 3G bars with -70dBm while the rooted Eris gets 2 or less bars with -52 dBm.
From what I'm seeing, 3G speed is also suffering on the Eris with the newer baseband. Can anyone make sense of this?
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FWIW, -52dBm is much better than -70dBm.
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FWIW, -52dBm is much better than -70dBm.
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yeah that's what doesn't make sense to me. the rooted phone says it has a better signal strength, but I'm only getting 2 3G bars (at most!).
I would like to test it but I am unable to find the original 2.32.40.11.09 radio image.
@above
metering has changed in more recent radios. aka bars vs signal strength is different.
soooo is this a yes or no go for flashing?
I tried this out, no noticeable difference in signal strength or speed where I am. Flashed it back to the newest ERIS radio...
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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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!
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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?
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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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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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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...
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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...
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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.
For some reason, I intermittently lose signal on every rom beside a stock based rom such as TruPure. Any way to fix this? It'll drop down to 0 and come back up after a few moments.
I have exactly the same issue a few days ago. The only change is that since two days ago I have completely lost all signals. So prepare for the next phase.
Been on AT&T for years, and dozens of various ROMs, never seen this issue. Are you on the latest radios?
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Been on AT&T for years, and dozens of various ROMs, never seen this issue. Are you on the latest radios?
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Yes, I am on the latest May Security update. Do I need to flash Band 12 fix?
Everything seems to be okay now that I've went back to stock. Custom ROMs are not worth it lol
Now on stock with Xposed. Just waiting for a heavily optimized Frakenkernel.
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Yes, I am on the latest May Security update. Do I need to flash Band 12 fix?
Everything seems to be okay now that I've went back to stock. Custom ROMs are not worth it lol
Now on stock with Xposed. Just waiting for a heavily optimized Frakenkernel.
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No... The band 12 fix just a hybrid radio using old lte radio to get access to T-mobile's VoLTE. Guess I've used lots of different roms, Dirty Unicorns, RR, BrokenOS, and never had a problem with signal.
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No... The band 12 fix just a hybrid radio using old lte radio to get access to T-mobile's VoLTE. Guess I've used lots of different roms, Dirty Unicorns, RR, BrokenOS, and never had a problem with signal.
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I've used practically all of them and beside stock, I occasionally just lose out on signal for a couple seconds and it'll come back on. Not sure if it's a visual bug but it has always bugged me. Now I'm glad to be even back on stock with Xposed for modifications. Wish I could display the ATT carrier label for the status bar though as weird as that sounds for my statusbar space real estate.
Hey everyone! This is the first time I ever get an unlocked phone. I am moving from a samsung s5 and when I rooted it, I saw that with certain roms (cm 13) had issues with data not working on Boost Mobile. I would always have to stick with stock rom variants which was sometimes annoying. Now that I got this phone though, does anyone know if there are problems like this on certain roms? Been awhile since I've done this since there was a lot of issues on boost
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Hey everyone! This is the first time I ever get an unlocked phone. I am moving from a samsung s5 and when I rooted it, I saw that with certain roms (cm 13) had issues with data not working on Boost Mobile. I would always have to stick with stock rom variants which was sometimes annoying. Now that I got this phone though, does anyone know if there are problems like this on certain roms? Been awhile since I've done this since there was a lot of issues on boost
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I have cdma as well (Verizon towers through straight talk) and have no issues on any ROM. I'd say give it a try and I bet they work.
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I have cdma as well (Verizon towers through straight talk) and have no issues on any ROM. I'd say give it a try and I bet they work.
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Think I might as well do it and test it. Any ROM you'd recommend?
Lineage is a great basic rom, and RR is based on LOS, but has a TON of customization.
something i did notice, is that you lose a lot of the sprint specific things on LOS roms (Update PRL, Set to Global Mode, and some dial codes)
something to think about.
Either way, you can always just trwp backup the stock, and go bac if needed