I got the us version x727. Currently running lineage was on .21 I believe when I unlocked and flashed. ( flashing didn't make reception better or worse)
I seem to drop calls way more frequently compared to nexus 6 , nexus 5 and samsung note 3 all on at&t / cricket.
changing preferred network settings seem to not effect my dropping. I am using the stock case and screen protector.
Its very frustrating as I am a truck driver and rely on this device to be used as an actual phone.
I would have returned this but I bought on amazon and changed there cell phone policy to only exchange.
Thanks for everyone's help
I also have poor reception with AT&T in Mexico, currently running Android 7 AICP rom but I remember stock rom was better in the reception
TheDethEgineer said:
I also have poor reception with AT&T in Mexico, currently running Android 7 AICP rom but I remember stock rom was better in the reception
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Thanks for the reply I'm going to flash stock if that doesn't work I'll sell it
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Hello All,
I have 2 Verizon Wireless Galaxy S5s running on T-Mobile, but the performance is awful.
LTE is highly unstable
Overall radio signal in the same place can go from 4 bars to 0
Text messages don't send 1/2 the time, especially over Wi-Fi
Currently I'm running Rick'sRom V20 on 4.4.4 NK2.
I do not want to have to sell the S5 to buy a T-Mobile handset, as I have heard others having good experience taking other World-Devices from VZW to T-Mo without these sort of issues.
Is there anything I can do to improve this? Flash any newer ROM or radio?
Please let me know, thank you!
-Taxmaster
Taxmaster said:
Hello All,
I have 2 Verizon Wireless Galaxy S5s running on T-Mobile, but the performance is awful.
LTE is highly unstable
Overall radio signal in the same place can go from 4 bars to 0
Text messages don't send 1/2 the time, especially over Wi-Fi
Currently I'm running Rick'sRom V20 on 4.4.4 NK2.
I do not want to have to sell the S5 to buy a T-Mobile handset, as I have heard others having good experience taking other World-Devices from VZW to T-Mo without these sort of issues.
Is there anything I can do to improve this? Flash any newer ROM or radio?
Please let me know, thank you!
-Taxmaster
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Wouldn't hurt to try different modems to see if one works better than the next. Here is an article on how to see what band your phones are operating on. My understanding is you need to be on band 4. I checked to see if this works on the galaxy s5 and it does. Mine is running on band 4.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...enable-band-4-aws-sm-n900v-requires-root.html
Tulsadiver said:
Wouldn't hurt to try different modems to see if one works better than the next. Here is an article on how to see what band your phones are operating on. My understanding is you need to be on band 4. I checked to see if this works on the galaxy s5 and it does. Mine is running on band 4.
http://forums.androidcentral.com/ve...enable-band-4-aws-sm-n900v-requires-root.html
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Which ROM are you running by chance?
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Verizon Galaxy Note 2 (SCH-I605)
Unlocked, Overclocked, and Undervolted
Bean's ROM 22 w/SaberKernel 42.4
RicksRom v19
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RicksRom v19
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How would you say your performance has been? Do you ever experience the phantom changes in signal strength like I had indicated above?
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Never. I've been running different versions of RicksRom since back when we first got root and I was on NGC 4.4.2. Never any issues at all.
Hi! A friend of mine has a Jiayu G5. The phone is having poor cell (GSM) reception. It's got a custom ROM on it — an XPERIA port/clone called "vredniiy mod v31.3 (Xperia)" based on Android 4.2.2. She got the phone used from a friend, who in turn had ordered it from China. I'm thinking maybe a different ROM (stock or other) could fix this, or maybe it's just a matter of changing settings or something like that. Do you have any ideas?
Help much appreciated!
My S4 speaker broke and Tmobile sent me a replacement phone, low and behold an S5 arrives costing me just $20 for shipping lol
I was so used to using Deviants Jedi rom that didnt everything I wanted it to do, I tried a couple of roms from the Tmobile thread and I like some features but not others then I went in the general android development area and there seems to be alot more roms that are still being developed
My question is can I just download one if its noted T and flash it to my S5 as per normal? if so what would I be loosing as in wifi calling or some other features?
Currently on: G900T_OL1_Stock_Rooted_ROM.zip
Seems fairly smooth but battery life is terd compared to the previous rom I was using
t-mobile bloatware
Will the signal not be affected, I would like to retain the wifi hotspot not worried about wifi calling
Do I not need to worry about the baseband? Currently on FOL1, Do i literally just flash the phone as normal or will I need to change the baseband?
Anyone?
Right now (just started looking into this) this seems like a no-brainer. Performance is much better and it's rooted!!!! I know you lose wifi calling in theory (although mine hasn't worked since I purchased it despite hours of troubleshooting and tweaking (sucks bc no coverage at home (rural)), but that can potentially be addressed by a custom rom? Thoughts?
I did the switch. Battery life is better. Speed difference is unnoticeable. Signal/Calling quality is fine. I would most likely switch back if root was available for the t-mobile model (but wouldn't if advanced calling was available for international).
Getting wifi calling + VOLTE + video calling is no small task if that matters to you (the S6's wifi calling was never ported to international models even though they shared the same chipset). It would take porting a qualcomm written csc to a exynos chipset and either porting t-mobile's custom ims implimentation or making the standard ims implimentation work with t-mobile. That being said, it has been done. The Galaxy S5 saw advanced calling from the S6 ported back, HTC's flagships have had wifi calling ported.
I had an international Note5 on T-Mobile's network. I hated not having WiFi calling and advanced messaging features and such. I was able to flash a ROM that included some of the lost features luckily, but that would not be the case here since the chipsets are different (at least not possible now). Additionally, for some reason the signal was always worse than my girlfriend's Note5 even when side-by-side. Consistently worse... I wouldn't deal with the hassle again.
hi, I switched too and I'm glad I did, battery is definitely better and I didn't notice performance differences (nor reception). I believe wifi calling hasn't been/can't be ported but some roms support VOLTE. Just be advised that samsung doesn't honor the warranty of international variants in the US hence insurance companies such as Upsie won't insure your device.
How do you switch?
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You have no warranty though, and Samsung Pay can be tricky to get working.
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Just got an international variant yesterday. Loving it but been struggling to change my CSC to one that supports Samsung Pay. I know the LYS CSC supports it and I've flashed it in Odin which reported success and did fine but upon using my device it didn't change my CSC. So confused as to why...
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Buy a 935F from ebay/swappa. Pay off your 935t, sell it on swappa/ebay.
mackentosh said:
How do you switch?
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This is the first phone I've owned that I really haven't felt the need to root. I used to want to root to disable bloatware and to change the theme of the system which I can do on the S7 edge without root. Only thing I do miss is the ad blocking with root but that's a small annoyance that I can live it. Also with the T-Mobile version you get all the necessary bands for extended range LTE which is amazing here in the LA area. Everywhere I go I have solid LTE whether it's indoors or oudoors. I also just used Samsung pay yesterday for the first time at Sprouts grocery store and it worked so easily on the first try! This pay system is flawless. The old lady behind me had a surprised look on her face when I payed that way. Got a free $20 gift card from Samsung for using it for the first time. Just my personal opinion on why the carrier branded T-Mobile version is better.
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The international variant supports all the LTE bands supported by the tmobile one (and more) see http://www.phonemore.com/compare/ph...-samsung-galaxy-s7-edge-sm-g935f-64gb/3305854
And the G935F connects fine to band 12
srod562 said:
This is the first phone I've owned that I really haven't felt the need to root. I used to want to root to disable bloatware and to change the theme of the system which I can do on the S7 edge without root. Only thing I do miss is the ad blocking with root but that's a small annoyance that I can live it. Also with the T-Mobile version you get all the necessary bands for extended range LTE which is amazing here in the LA area. Everywhere I go I have solid LTE whether it's indoors or oudoors. I also just used Samsung pay yesterday for the first time at Sprouts grocery store and it worked so easily on the first try! This pay system is flawless. The old lady behind me had a surprised look on her face when I payed that way. Got a free $20 gift card from Samsung for using it for the first time. Just my personal opinion on why the carrier branded T-Mobile version is better.
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This is my SM-935T Model phone two sim cards active okay..?
i bought it on ebay dual sim for 620$ shipped. its way snappier and the battery life is significantly better. i havent rooted it yet
Remix22 said:
The international variant supports all the LTE bands supported by the tmobile one (and more) see http://www.phonemore.com/compare/ph...-samsung-galaxy-s7-edge-sm-g935f-64gb/3305854
And the G935F connects fine to band 12
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What CSC are you on?
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Nitemare3219 said:
I had an international Note5 on T-Mobile's network. I hated not having WiFi calling and advanced messaging features and such. I was able to flash a ROM that included some of the lost features luckily, but that would not be the case here since the chipsets are different (at least not possible now). Additionally, for some reason the signal was always worse than my girlfriend's Note5 even when side-by-side. Consistently worse... I wouldn't deal with the hassle again.
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My experience with my international S6 was very similar to yours. I moved back to the states with it and signed up with T-mobile. In my gym, which is underground, I could barely get a 4G signal (or nothing at all). Emails and notifications wouldn't come through even when I was connected to 4G. I got the s7e on tmobile and although signal still isn't strong, notifications come through reliably.
Not too scientific as they are different phone models and I've never paid this observation too much mind but now that I've heard your story, I'm inclined to think that carrier specific models might be better at picking up signal on that carrier.
Been using international version for a while, returned my t-mobile version on the 20th day, by that time it was apparent to me that the t-mobile version would not be getting rooted anytime soon. In my opinion this device is much better rooted, especially since i like a lot of color schemes on my status bar and the Ads were driving me crazy. would've preferred a rooted t-mobile version, but a rooted international version is light years better than a stock version of any kind imo.
I'm on MID (Iraq)
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What CSC are you on?
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Ok, I read that official support for the Axon 7 on Verizon's network is a no go. I've got one that I had active on VZW last year when I had to return my Note 7, but I just couldn't deal with the foibles (like constant roaming icon, and occasional LTE signal loss).
Question: if I want to use it again, what is recommended as far as rom, settings, tweaks, etc...to make it as trouble free as possible. My son is using it now on T-Mobile, but I want to move him over to our Verizon plan now that they offer unlimited again.
What are you using?
Any help is appreciated.
If you flash any custom room that is not based on stock miui, it will perfectly on Verizon, I myself use it on Verizon and as long as you change the room of the device it will run well on Verizon as it was a regular Verizon phone
tedkord said:
Ok, I read that official support for the Axon 7 on Verizon's network is a no go. I've got one that I had active on VZW last year when I had to return my Note 7, but I just couldn't deal with the foibles (like constant roaming icon, and occasional LTE signal loss).
Question: if I want to use it again, what is recommended as far as rom, settings, tweaks, etc...to make it as trouble free as possible. My son is using it now on T-Mobile, but I want to move him over to our Verizon plan now that they offer unlimited again.
What are you using?
Any help is appreciated.
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Nougat fixed many of the Verizon issues, and even included Verizon VoLTE support. I've had no issues with Verizon on LOS, seen others use stock fine as well.
Verizon fully working on stock? In call web browsing, VoLte and LTE+?
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Nougat fixed many of the Verizon issues, and even included Verizon VoLTE support. I've had no issues with Verizon on LOS, seen others use stock fine as well.
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hey there sorry to bother you and I know this is an old thread but I need some direction here. I'm currently using L.o.s RR on the A2017U 64gb cause I was under the impression that it was the only way to get Verizon fully working. Maybe I missed understood you but did you say any nougat stock rom will also allow me to use Verizon fully? And if so can you point me to a good one? My phone is sluggish as hell right now with RR I'm using and I think I rather go back to stock. Not to mention I'm missing the great audio I had lol. Not worth it in my opinion. Thanks in advance.