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Hi,
I have had the note 3 since release here in the UK. I have a unlocked version from car phone warehouse on the three network. However I have poor signal at my desk at work if I hold my phone in the right spot I have H+, but the right 'spot' moves around unfortunately. According to their coverage map I should have LTE signal indoors and out. I do have 4g signal if I leave the building. (I am in the center of London)
So as it appears my signal is close but not quite good enough, I was wondering if there is a good modem firmware out there that people have found helps? I am running the latest software updates (the last 1 I installed was the KitKat upgrade).
Thanks in advance
I am on Giffgaff, they use O2. Currently using the NC2 Modem with no issues and great data speed.
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celderic said:
I am on Giffgaff, they use O2. Currently using the NC2 Modem with no issues and great data speed.
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Short off topic, but i dont want to create a new thread: You can only upgrade modem in odin of you have "official status", is that correct? How about a TWRP backup of the modem partition? If s.o passes me TWRP backup of the modem partition, can i upgrade/downgrade modems?
celderic said:
I am on Giffgaff, they use O2. Currently using the NC2 Modem with no issues and great data speed.
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Thanks for the info
my current baseband version is N9005XXUENB1
so the NC2 is slightly newer isn't it? am I right in my understanding that the version number is the last 3 characters of the baseband version?
Is there a good resource where I can get the latest modem version from?
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Short off topic, but i dont want to create a new thread: You can only upgrade modem in odin of you have "official status", is that correct? How about a TWRP backup of the modem partition? If s.o passes me TWRP backup of the modem partition, can i upgrade/downgrade modems?
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My status is not official. I powered off the phone, waited a few seconds and did the button combo for download mode, and it flashed fine
I have a backup of my current rom/modem in TWRP, i havent had to restore it yet so i couldnt tell you.
Rbentley100 said:
Thanks for the info
my current baseband version is N9005XXUENB1
so the NC2 is slightly newer isn't it? am I right in my understanding that the version number is the last 3 characters of the baseband version?
Is there a good resource where I can get the latest modem version from?
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Yes it is slightly newer by about a month. If you go over to the alexndr Rom thread in the android development section, in the first post he has just the odin package, its about 50mb.
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Katkat modems don't seem to be any different btw, seems they've just rebundled and named the original one - Carrier modem *may* (I say may because I seen no difference) be tweaked slightly different but ultimately it's just a placeholder for APN settings really.
Indoors, always tricky.
It could be related to the frequency band your provider is using. The 800Mhz band penetrates solid concrete with ease, but the higher bands can't.
Any metal in the walls? Killer for any digital signal.
Does anyone else experience the same issues with other phones on the same provider in the same spot?
3G is always weaker than 2G, and 4G is even less powerful than 3G. (Because of the higher required frequency). Have you tried enforcing GSM mode? It'll kill your data speed, but at least you're more likely to get a signal.
Thanks for the help guys.
Yes other people have signal issues too, so I am just looking to get every ounce of signal strength I can.
I had a chat with my network last week and apparently before the end of the month they are rolling out a new spectrum but the support guy didn't know which frequency it was. he was confident it would fix my signal issues. (how true this is or not guess I will see!)
I have tried restricting to gsm and it is still unstable unfortunately
According to the coverage map, 4g signal in my post code is very strong, DC-HSPA i'm on the edge of a strong section. but right on the edge so I can understand dodgy signal. Ive just got my fingers crossed over the next few weeks
Silly suggestion, but... Have you tried opening a window? it could add just enough strength for the signal to stabilize.
Hi, I've only ever used the carrier-supplied phones on their networks. However, I'm thinking of getting the international version of the S7 Edge due to the Exynos processor. I'm wondering about the following though:
1. Will network performance be ideal? ie. Could some missing band support mean I don't get full speed?
2. How will updates pushed by T-Mobile work? I understand there will be an update for the new 4x range LTE band which has better building penetration. Would an international variant of the phone on T-Mobile receive such an update AND/OR be able to make use of the new band?
Thanks,
Steven
Network performance should be fine as long as the variant you pick up has proper bands.
Updates will be pushed by Samsung instead of Tmobile with an unlocked variant.
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smrxxx said:
Hi, I've only ever used the carrier-supplied phones on their networks. However, I'm thinking of getting the international version of the S7 Edge due to the Exynos processor. I'm wondering about the following though:
1. Will network performance be ideal? ie. Could some missing band support mean I don't get full speed?
2. How will updates pushed by T-Mobile work? I understand there will be an update for the new 4x range LTE band which has better building penetration. Would an international variant of the phone on T-Mobile receive such an update AND/OR be able to make use of the new band?
Thanks,
Steven
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Do you think the difference is really worth it if there is even a difference?
From what I've seen one is better with certain things and the other is better with other things but even then the difference is very small.
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I've been thinking of selling my tmobile s7 edge and get the international one. I switched from an iPhone 6 plus to the s7 edge, and my god... This thing is a beauty. The only thing I miss from ios is the emoji, and that is the sole reason why I desperately need to root my device haha
Edit: I'm still new to the Android scene but if samsung push the update instead of tmobile, does that mean the international variant will get the update much earlier than the tmobile version?
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No WiFi calling, no volz... I'll pass. I can't live without the wifi calling feature.
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Richieboy67 said:
No WiFi calling, no volz... I'll pass. I can't live without the wifi calling feature.
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What's so great about WiFi calling?
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What's so great about WiFi calling?
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You get better signal for people who have none where they live. It's very, very usefull. I don't need it but I still leave it on. FwYh
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What's so great about WiFi calling?
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If you travel to other countries you can use Wi-Fi calling. I'm in the Philippines now and I can use Wi-Fi calling here and it's just like I'm in the USA.
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I could answer your first question as I have the exynos variant and am on the T-Mobile network in usa, yes for some reason there are a lot of network performance issues, when I first for the phone my LTE speeds tested to be 60 mbps now it's only 20-30!
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What's so great about WiFi calling?
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Perhaps you work in a large warehouse with poor cell signal or a large complex building such as a hospital. Perhaps your house is at the edge of coverage where signal is unstable. Plenty of reasons why wifi calling is useful for many people.
Wifi calling is not great but if you're in an area with poor indoor coverage, that's the only option.
My office just happens to be in a dead spot. When I walk outside, I have full bars. Even the tmobile repeater only picks up 2 bars. We have stable wifi so wifi calling works best. Sometime package drop affects phone quality issue but that's the nature of VoIP.
T-mobile Wi-Fi calling is a must for my phone. Tmobile service is not existent in hospitals, office buildings and sometimes on the other side of a tree.
I keep watching tekhd thread in international to see if that is one of the "T-Mobile" rom parts he gets working.
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I have the euro version on tmobile, and my speeds are the same as with the U.S version, also I live in nyc where tmobile service is great so I never use wifi calling. I do miss volte though.
so you get LTE speed and everything else, except VOLTE and wifi calling and oh samsung pay ( but android pay will do) right? Because I ordered 1 from amazon so we'll see
Any reason why would wifi calling not work on Tmobile? I was able to enable and use it on my N6P so I don't see why it would be different. If I believe the international version forum, the most recent update enabled it and numerous users report using it on other carriers.
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Hello this might seem dumb but i can't find the answer anywhere. In the past i have owned phones that did not show lte on t-mobile and would instead show HSPA+ now on my s7 exynos it just shows 4g and when making a call it goes to the hspa+. Is that how the exynos versions show lte or is mine not picking up lte. Or how can i check to make sure it is running lte. Thanks in advance and from personal experience i enjoyed using my exynos s7 a lot more then my s7 edge from tmobile. The exynos runs a lot smoother.
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Hello this might seem dumb but i can't find the answer anywhere. In the past i have owned phones that did not show lte on t-mobile and would instead show HSPA+ now on my s7 exynos it just shows 4g and when making a call it goes to the hspa+. Is that how the exynos versions show lte or is mine not picking up lte. Or how can i check to make sure it is running lte. Thanks in advance and from personal experience i enjoyed using my exynos s7 a lot more then my s7 edge from tmobile. The exynos runs a lot smoother.
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Yes, it is LTE. You can check in the settings, phone info area or with an app to switch network data type (in which you can chooses LTE only, etc.)
Has anyone experienced bad or inconsistent LTE speeds on the International S7 Edge Duos while on AT&T? I was out walking the dog yesterday and my speeds were ranging anywhere from 0.3 megabits/second to 12 megabits/second depending on which block I am on. This morning, on my commute to work, I had anywhere from 2 megabits/second speeds or 32 megabits/second speeds depending on where I am on the road.
Is the International not nearly as good with using AT&T band LTE? Is there perhaps an APN setting I should be making? Or should I just learn to live with this?
Thanks in advance
No one has encountered this at all? Perhaps it's emblematic of a potential defect?
Im on att using g935fd, no issue with lte. Im ranging from 15-30 mbps depending on the area. im in boston,ma
in dallas with a 935FD and i've been getting average 29mb down/19mb up... check your APN and also consider testing with another sim card if you have one available.
I'm having the same issue. There is definitely something going on with the Duos. I'm on T-mobile and experience weaker signal (10-15 dBm) on Duos than I get on my 935T sitting next to it. I've flashed several modems, csc's and firmwares. Nothing has helped. Even lost signal last week at a clinic and had to tether of my wife's T-Mobile s7 edge.
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I'm having the same issue. There is definitely something going on with the Duos. I'm on T-mobile and experience weaker signal (10-15 dBm) on Duos than I get on my 935T sitting next to it. I've flashed several modems, csc's and firmwares. Nothing has helped. Even lost signal last week at a clinic and had to tether of my wife's T-Mobile s7 edge.
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It got so bad that I am returning the phone. The speeds I was getting was just too low to make it a useful device.
Maybe its the rom. What firmware you guys are using? I flashed the stock g935f PHN firmware, CSC, AP and then OntheedgeLite UX rom.
There was another posst with OP having similar issue. I have issue as well. But flashing BTU csc ap bl and cp helped me gain better 4g around my home, so I thought problem was fixed. but when I go to poor reception areas and phone is switching to 2g/3g bands, I lose 4g unless restart or messing with sim options switching 4g between sim1 and sim 2.
currently on stock samsung touchwiz rom. BTU cp, csc, ap, and bl
Is it missing the appropriate at&t bands ? I'm looking at note duos as an alternative to the ATT version a day it's meant to be the same chipset and that misses one of the LTE bands.
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Like the tittle says. I've owned a tmobile s7 edge for 7 months. Works greats till I intentially broke the screen with my Keychain(testing scratch) en pink line develop tmobile insurance is horrible couldn't get me a new phone. I've noticed the at&t s7 edge suffers from horrible battery life compared to tmobile s7 edge...has way more bloatware. And takes more time to charge while using phone on at&t. Not just my s7 edge. Whole family. I have 2 s7 edge on tmobile.
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I just switched from t-mobile to att and noticed the battery life being a major issue. Charging seems the same. The first one I got on Christmas eve lasted 10 days, updated all software to November update day one, crashed it after rooting 5 times in 10 days, then the touch screen went out in lower right hand side. Replaced it, didn't update software, rooted, no problems, other than shorter than normal battery life.
chernabog88008 said:
I just switched from t-mobile to att and noticed the battery life being a major issue. Charging seems the same. The first one I got on Christmas eve lasted 10 days, updated all software to November update day one, crashed it after rooting 5 times in 10 days, then the touch screen went out in lower right hand side. Replaced it, didn't update software, rooted, no problems, other than shorter than normal battery life.
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The android system is taking 29% while android OS taking another 19% unplugged my phone last night and even put it on power save while I went to sleep. At 95% woke up with 90% throughout the day I am getting bad battery life. Quite disappointed
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Now I have an issue where phone goes into 3G and stays there. Won't go back to LTE or even 4G. Have 15 days. Today is 12th taking it back tomorrow. Sticking with tmobile. Good luck. You guys going to need it
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I am on ATT with ATT variant but flashed with Tmobile firmware. Faster data speeds, doesn't overheat and lag, more control in debloating, and no ATT crapware. So I get the coverage I need with ATT but better performance with Tmobile firmware on ATT's own network. On another post it was speculated that ATT must have some kind of limiter in its firmware that Tmobil's does not. Must be true because the results are repeatable. ATT was averaging around 27mb/6mb vs 60mb/20mb on Tmobile firmware. This despite Tmobile firmware not having a couple of the radio bands ATT network uses. Same place. Same phone. Same towers. Different firmwares.
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Now I have an issue where phone goes into 3G and stays there. Won't go back to LTE or even 4G. Have 15 days. Today is 12th taking it back tomorrow. Sticking with tmobile. Good luck. You guys going to need it
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I am on ATT with ATT variant but flashed with Tmobile firmware. Faster data speeds, doesn't overheat and lag, more control in debloating, and no ATT crapware. So I get the coverage I need with ATT but better performance with Tmobile firmware on ATT's own network. On another post it was speculated that ATT must have some kind of limiter in its firmware that Tmobil's does not. Must be true because the results are repeatable. ATT was averaging around 27mb/6mb vs 60mb/20mb on Tmobile firmware. This despite Tmobile firmware not having a couple of the radio bands ATT network uses. Same place. Same phone. Same towers. Different firmwares.
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Sounds great man glad it worked out for ya! Today I will be taking back my s7 edge to AT&T
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I am on ATT with ATT variant but flashed with Tmobile firmware. Faster data speeds, doesn't overheat and lag, more control in debloating, and no ATT crapware. So I get the coverage I need with ATT but better performance with Tmobile firmware on ATT's own network. On another post it was speculated that ATT must have some kind of limiter in its firmware that Tmobil's does not. Must be true because the results are repeatable. ATT was averaging around 27mb/6mb vs 60mb/20mb on Tmobile firmware. This despite Tmobile firmware not having a couple of the radio bands ATT network uses. Same place. Same phone. Same towers. Different firmwares.
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Can you let me know what you're using and how you did it for AT&T with the T-Mobile firmware? I've been at work off and on my phone and down to 35% after 6 hours of just on time.
Go to the following link to get the Tmobile firmware-
https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-s7-edge/how-to/odin-apk1-tmobile-tmbg935ttmb4apk1-t3494724
If you get an SHA-256 error during flash with latest Odin, you will need the Princecomsy modified Odin to get past it. I got it from the following forum-
https://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s7/how-to/root-s7-att-g930a-g935a-t3410538
Direct link to the modified Odin below-
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You will loose wifi calling and video calling. Everything else works. I then disabled some of the bloatware. Phone is awesome now.
*On a humorous note, my wife complains about it not being fair that on those occasions I play Pokemon Go with her and the kids, everything shows up first on my phone before theirs. I keep telling her that when she is ready I would change her firmware to T-mobile's as well. That is the difference between our phones and it is consistent. My GPS locks are faster than hers on ATT firmware as well.
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Like the tittle says. I've owned a tmobile s7 edge for 7 months. Works greats till I intentially broke the screen with my Keychain(testing scratch) en pink line develop tmobile insurance is horrible couldn't get me a new phone. I've noticed the at&t s7 edge suffers from horrible battery life compared to tmobile s7 edge...has way more bloatware. And takes more time to charge while using phone on at&t. Not just my s7 edge. Whole family. I have 2 s7 edge on tmobile.
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If you use T-Mobile why not just flash their firmware? You would have all the features. You would only use WiFi calling if you actually use AT&T service.
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Which root method you used
I was tempted to flash the unlocked fw, but I don't want to lose HD voice/enhance LTE Services. I might back up and flash it anyway to compare the two. I hate having disable over 90 apps and services on my g935a just to feel more comfortable using it.
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drawn2magik said:
Go to the following link to get the Tmobile firmware-
https://forum.xda-developers.com/tmobile-s7-edge/how-to/odin-apk1-tmobile-tmbg935ttmb4apk1-t3494724
If you get an SHA-256 error during flash with latest Odin, you will need the Princecomsy modified Odin to get past it. I got it from the following forum-
https://forum.xda-developers.com/att-galaxy-s7/how-to/root-s7-att-g930a-g935a-t3410538
Direct link to the modified Odin below-
http://d-h.st/gsDA
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You will loose wifi calling and video calling. Everything else works. I then disabled some of the bloatware. Phone is awesome now.
*On a humorous note, my wife complains about it not being fair that on those occasions I play Pokemon Go with her and the kids, everything shows up first on my phone before theirs. I keep telling her that when she is ready I would change her firmware to T-mobile's as well. That is the difference between our phones and it is consistent. My GPS locks are faster than hers on ATT firmware as well.
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I am curious and maybe I am mistaken, did you only flash the modem file?
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Which root method you used
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Root is NOT needed to install the stock T-Mobile or 935U firmwares
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I was tempted to flash the unlocked fw, but I don't want to lose HD voice/enhance LTE Services. I might back up and flash it anyway to compare the two. I hate having disable over 90 apps and services on my g935a just to feel more comfortable using it.
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I am curious and maybe I am mistaken, did you only flash the modem file?
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I flashed the 4 files. AP, BL, CP, and CSC files.
Anyone know where I can get the att stock pk1 files can't unroot with out it
Going to place order. Would like fingerprint to work. Is it easy to enable it on US model? Any downside? Or should I just get international version?
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I have us version. I flash german firmware and i have working fingerprint.
So flashing other firmware doesn't lose any functionality and keeps warranty?
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Does German firmware supports (Volte) can i make call by using 4g network.
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So flashing other firmware doesn't lose any functionality and keeps warranty?
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There should not be any hardware specific function loss. Each region might have slightly different kind of bundled software though, for example US firmware doesn't have battery care. Regarding to warranty, I'm not really sure. X compact is not sold in my country (I imported it), so I might have hard time dealing with warranty regardless.
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Does German firmware supports (Volte) can i make call by using 4g network.
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Sorry, I don't know anything about this.
The German firmware supports VoLTE in Germany.
There are some slight differences. For example, Germany has a different set of frequencies for Wifi. In the 2.4Ghz range there are two additional channels (so no problems connecting in the U.S.). In the 5Ghz range there are broad differences in which channels may be used or not. I don't know if the firmware adapts to regulations of your current location when you use the phone in other places. If it doesn't, it might happen that you cannot use some 5Ghz APs.