So my phone lately has been bouncing between Band 26 and Band 25 over and over, anywhere from every 1 second up to a few minutes. I am running G930U PL2.
Band 26 has a signal of -104 or better. Band 25 has a signal of -120 or worse always. It is completely unusable on Band 25. I've contacted Sprint and they said it might be my phone and that there are no known issues in the area, but others phones are doing it too (though not all of them) and it doesn't seem to do it at other places. I've also set Band 25 as the lowest priority and still switches.
Any help or suggestions are greatly appreciated!
Edit: I found a spot that has good Band 25 signal... using the hotspot, consoles can connect to it just fine but my PC can't... It tries and fails and sometimes it will connect, attempt to load something then say no internet...
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I know its kind of against how cellular is designed to work but I am in a situation where a sprint signal is only barely(0 bars) available and it decides to roam (with the triangle) to a uscellular signal. The problem is that its constantly trying to stay on the sprint signal, realizing that the connection isn't good enough and goes back to the uscellular signal and is just killing performance and battery. Is there any prl update or fix I can make with the evo to just stay on the uscc signal and forget about the crappy sprint signal at this location instead of hopping between the two? Ideally I'd like something automatic but I would even settle for a toggle. The uscellular signal is a repeater that was installed at my workplace. For example, in battery status my evo; the cell standby is at 39%
I am having the EXACT same issue in my office. The repeater signal in my office (850 MHz so it only repeats Verizon / AT&T / T-Mobile) is -70 dBm (full bars on my phone). The Sprint signal from outside through the foot thick cement walls is -102 or worse dBm (aka 1-0 bars). Why the hell will the phone not consistently stay on the higher power signal??
The techknowfile trick is NOT the solution to this problem. This seems like a problem with the phone itself - the whole point of a multi-band phone with free roaming is it should always pick the best signal (in my opinion).
I tried the techknowfile trick as well with no luck. Maybe a different prl? I used the 40060.prl file suggested.
Okay so i've got an aria rooted and flashed with the Liberated 2.2 rom. I've been using it for the past 3 months and I've noticed that I will go from full service while a phone call is comming in and complete signal loss when I answer it. I have set the phone on a table and watched the network signal strength go from -113 dBm and 0asu to -81 dBm and 16asu and vise versa. I have also noticed that when I lose signal my "H" for the data goes with it and service comes back a few seconds later very strong but showing "G". From there it will go to "E" then back to "H".
Could anyone explain this or have a better reason as to why this is happening? Maybe its just based on the connection where I live but I've used the app Antennas and the tower is about 1/3 mile away.
Any info or help would be awesome
Thanks
i'm not sure why this would happen outside of a poor bit of service where you're living.
i used the various roms for the aria and never had any sort of service loss issue.
as far as the icons switching around, e = edge network (2g), h = hspa (3g). when your phone drops its connection, it tries to reconnect as fast as possible, usually with edge, then after its strong it looks for the 3g connection.
Hi
I am having a problem when my phone is between 2 towers.
The download/upload speed slows to a crawl on both 4g and lte.
This happens even if the signal strength from each towers is high (around -80dbm).
I use network cell info to confirm this. My Wife's V20 has the same issue.
As soon as I can achieve around a 10 or better dbm difference between the towers everything speeds up again.
There are 2 locations near me where this happens (with different towers).
My other phone (a note 3) does not have this problem.
I'm on T-Mobile.
EDIT. I have also discovered this only happens on band 12.
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance.
I have a Verizon HTC 10 that is unlocked. I'm using it on metro pcs.
It has the same T Mobile band for LTE that is throughout my neighborhood. I put the correct metro apn settings in. Calls and data both work. But I'm having two issues:
1: When I make a call data goes out. When it comes back in, LTE won't kick in. Typically have to restart my phone for LTE to kick in.
2: When it does kick in, it's either working great or not. Example. So I'll do a speed test and only get 1 MBPS. My wife's phone on the same band (band 2) will get 15 MBPS down. I'll test several times, and get the same speeds. Slow downloads. Kick on and off Mobile data with no fix. I'll drive around town and won't get 1 MBPS within 30 minute drive. Out the blue I'll do a speed test 12 hours later and I'll be getting 15 MBPS down in the same place I could only get 1. I'll drive all around town and be getting full speeds.
So in short: LTE when it's on will either get full speed in my area or under 1 MBPS. Or it will randomly get stuck on 2G.
Any ideas? With research it seems like some people with the unlocked version had some issues but not with the Verizon one.
I plan to switch to a Verizon prepaid or MNVO soon but seems like this could be a bigger issue.
Any ideas? I've heard of some people with the unlocked version having some of these type of issues. But it makes no sense. My speed tests are .5 .6 .5 .4 .5 .6 .7 .5 etc. all day. And randomly that night in the same spots, I could get 15 14 15 16 14 16. I can drive again throughout the neighborhood, and once it's good, it's good. And when it's bad, it's bad. My wife's phone will be consistently good throughout this process using the same band (using LTE discovery to figure out)
Sounds like an issue with Advanced Calling. Unless the feature has been activated by both the carrier and enabled on the phone, you're not going to have data during calls. Likely what's happening is that using the phone on Metro PCS doesn't know how to properly handle the fast network switching. You could always try to enable airplane mode and disable it to get back to LTE.
So in my area there is a very weak signal of LTE. On my old LG G2 I got .5 megabits on LTE but 6 on HSPA.
On the LG g6, I changed the apn to [email protected] but I just lose connection, however the phone toggles to UMTS. So when I swap back to any other apn (phone or nextgen) it stays on HSPA for a little while. I get 1 megabit dl/ .05 upload on LTE, but 6 megabits on HSPA with around 1.5 on upload.
AT&T is very obnoxious in their software and I see no way to disable LTE. When I try entering the code *#2683662# and going to diagnostic, it kicks me out saying it is not supported on this device.
I've also tried *#546368#*871# and I can go to Field Test > Modem Settings >
But there is no rat selection, just engienering mode and pdp settings, neither of which help me.
Anyone got any ideas? It seems unreasoanble that they are not allowing the option to disable LTE when it slows down my performance significantly.
For reference the dbm on HSPA is -91 while on LTE it's -121. I know they are not directly comparable, but when the absolute number in signal strength is that different there's a problem. At the very least the phone could be more aggressive to switch, but it isn't. I believe I am connected to 1900mhz on LTE, on HSPA I can't tell.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25319129/how-to-change-preferred-network-type-over-adb-android
I found this on Stack Overflow. It's been a couple months since your post, so this might be pointless - but if you're still looking, you could try this. It seems odd that that menu would be disabled on our phone.
Good luck