Here's my situation and I am hoping that the developers can help with it. At my home, if I leave the phone on automatic, it defaults to 850 and will not hit 1900 unless there is nothing else available. The problem with this is that in my area, there are literally 50 towers within a 20 mile radius and it is causing signal competition and interference.
On my Captivate, I have it locked to 1900 WCDMA ONLY. This is the only way that I can make and receive calls in my house without having them drop. The behavior on 850 is this: 4 bars of service, then no bars and no service. Make a call with service, phone drops immediately to EDGE, then within a minute, GPRS, and then the data icon disappears entirely, voice quality is terrible, then it eventually cuts out so bad that the call drops out. My Captivate, which has H, 3G, EDGE, and GPRS icons (the Inspire has H, EDGE, and GPRS only from what I've seen), does the exact same thing. If I lock it to 1900 WCDMA only, however, I get 2 bars stable in the house and 3 bars stable when I'm on the balcony and the phone alternates between H and 3G icons but it holds the call and the voice quality does not suffer.
Is there a solution for this problem on the Inspire? There has to be a way to feed commands to the radio to remove bands and lock on to a single one but I have yet to find it. I am sure that there is a solution and it could probably be embedded as an option in phone settings. I am not the only one who has issues holding an 850 signal on this forum so it may be beneficial to investigate it.
At your own risk - I would suggest looking in the build.prop file and changing a value there. Alternatively someone else may have a better suggestion.
there is a tag there specifically for WCDMA.
ro.telephony.default_network=0
comments in the file suggest that '0' means WCDMA is preferred. I dont know much about what frequencies are associated with WCDMA, but my assumption would be that this may be set differently for you.
I am not sure why you felt it was necessary to post the same exact thread that you have in general, in the development section.
For future reference please keep questions in general. This section is for android development ie. ROMS
Do not double post. thread closed.
i'm running ultimate droid and while the phone says 3G (UTMS)... when I run speed test, I'm getting 3.5M down 1M up... aka HSDPA speeds. what's going on here?
another question, when I drive through this one street where there is no hsdpa coverage my phone switches to utms but when I get back into the hsdpa coverage, it doesn't switch me back till hours later.
i'm using stock radio.
I recently bought an AT&T Pantech Flex P8010. Although the phone looks to be unlocked, however in Europe it seems to be frequency locked.
Near the signal band a circle with a line appears. The phone does not search for any networks either as these are all either 800 or 1800 Mhz.
Anyone come across such a problem and possible fix.
Hello,
I have been seeing horrible quality of network service in my area on Ting. I have a white 32GB Nexus 5. I work in a three story building that seems to turn my phone into Digital roaming/CDMA 1xRTT network only going outside I barely get 3G. I have mapped it out and see more service in the area where people on Sprint are getting 4G LTE in the area or WIMAX. I was wondering if anyone on Ting/Sprint has the same issue.
I do see 3G on my commute and downtown Sacramento, California where I should see 4G LTE I am barely getting 3G 2 to 3 bars. Most of my day at work in Folsom, California area is all 1xRTT 2G or Roaming when inside my office, and lower end 3G outside. I have two 3G/WIMAX towers next to my area at work in Folsom and I should be getting some 3G.
I went through the cell network code to enable band 26, and band 41 and changed priorities on the band from 1 to 0 and individually tested each band in my area. band 41 seems to be the best and the others are pretty bad. Band 41 gets me -100 dBm, 99asu, 950ms ping on CDMA 1xRTT.
I now have it back to all priority 1 (Bands: 25/26/41) Band 26 and 41 enabled. I have updated my Profile and PRL multiple times.
I am running 4.4.2 with Xposed Framework version 1.5, with Franco kernel r33. I did see Franco kernel r34 and will probably flash the update ASAP to see if it works any better. I am not using any power save settings for cell network quality. I am also using a Spiegen slim-armor case and tried to see if it was interfering with signal strength, it wasn't.
So my question comes down to has anybody known a fix for getting solid 3G in an area where I should be seeing some LTE and atleast full strength 3G. I am barely seeing 2G most of the time. I am just crossing my finger it isn't an antenna issue with the phone itself.
Any help, tips, or tricks would be greatly appreciated!!!
adramalech707 said:
Hello,
I have been seeing horrible quality of network service in my area on Ting. I have a white 32GB Nexus 5. I work in a three story building that seems to turn my phone into Digital roaming/CDMA 1xRTT network only going outside I barely get 3G. I have mapped it out and see more service in the area where people on Sprint are getting 4G LTE in the area or WIMAX. I was wondering if anyone on Ting/Sprint has the same issue.
I do see 3G on my commute and downtown Sacramento, California where I should see 4G LTE I am barely getting 3G 2 to 3 bars. Most of my day at work in Folsom, California area is all 1xRTT 2G or Roaming when inside my office, and lower end 3G outside. I have two 3G/WIMAX towers next to my area at work in Folsom and I should be getting some 3G.
I went through the cell network code to enable band 26, and band 41 and changed priorities on the band from 1 to 0 and individually tested each band in my area. band 41 seems to be the best and the others are pretty bad. Band 41 gets me -100 dBm, 99asu, 950ms ping on CDMA 1xRTT.
I now have it back to all priority 1 (Bands: 25/26/41) Band 26 and 41 enabled. I have updated my Profile and PRL multiple times.
I am running 4.4.2 with Xposed Framework version 1.5, with Franco kernel r33. I did see Franco kernel r34 and will probably flash the update ASAP to see if it works any better. I am not using any power save settings for cell network quality. I am also using a Spiegen slim-armor case and tried to see if it was interfering with signal strength, it wasn't.
So my question comes down to has anybody known a fix for getting solid 3G in an area where I should be seeing some LTE and atleast full strength 3G. I am barely seeing 2G most of the time. I am just crossing my finger it isn't an antenna issue with the phone itself.
Any help, tips, or tricks would be greatly appreciated!!!
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Go to about phone and check your Baseband version, if your modem driver is older you may want to upgrade it. Or if it is newer, potentially a downgrade has shown better performance as well. All depends.
Read this thread thoroughly and make sure you do a backup before doing anything and see if this helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2514095
adramalech707 said:
Hello,
I have been seeing horrible quality of network service in my area on Ting. I have a white 32GB Nexus 5. I work in a three story building that seems to turn my phone into Digital roaming/CDMA 1xRTT network only going outside I barely get 3G. I have mapped it out and see more service in the area where people on Sprint are getting 4G LTE in the area or WIMAX. I was wondering if anyone on Ting/Sprint has the same issue.
I do see 3G on my commute and downtown Sacramento, California where I should see 4G LTE I am barely getting 3G 2 to 3 bars. Most of my day at work in Folsom, California area is all 1xRTT 2G or Roaming when inside my office, and lower end 3G outside. I have two 3G/WIMAX towers next to my area at work in Folsom and I should be getting some 3G.
I went through the cell network code to enable band 26, and band 41 and changed priorities on the band from 1 to 0 and individually tested each band in my area. band 41 seems to be the best and the others are pretty bad. Band 41 gets me -100 dBm, 99asu, 950ms ping on CDMA 1xRTT.
I now have it back to all priority 1 (Bands: 25/26/41) Band 26 and 41 enabled. I have updated my Profile and PRL multiple times.
I am running 4.4.2 with Xposed Framework version 1.5, with Franco kernel r33. I did see Franco kernel r34 and will probably flash the update ASAP to see if it works any better. I am not using any power save settings for cell network quality. I am also using a Spiegen slim-armor case and tried to see if it was interfering with signal strength, it wasn't.
So my question comes down to has anybody known a fix for getting solid 3G in an area where I should be seeing some LTE and atleast full strength 3G. I am barely seeing 2G most of the time. I am just crossing my finger it isn't an antenna issue with the phone itself.
Any help, tips, or tricks would be greatly appreciated!!!
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Look for the modem thread (didn't see you post it so if you did, sorry), and try flashing the .15 radio. That seems to be the best. The stock 4.4.2 radio (.21 or .23 can't remember) sucks. I could be halfway between towers and drop to 3g and not get LTE at all. The .15 holds LTE as long as there is really an LTE signal just fine.
i just read that ting uses sprints network. that might be the issue there, as sprint isnt known to have great coverage nor great data speeds.
adramalech707 said:
Hello,
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Sacramento is entirely legacy lucent equipment. Basically **** sucks and won't get better anytime soon till they cluster launch the area. They won't fire up anything (3g / 800 mhz / 4G LTE) until they cluster launch. They can't cluster launch the area until all 200 or so sites are fully upgraded which is a ways off.
B41 is running of old Clearwire sites for now and should be mostly done by around may but you cannot connect to them unless you force LTE only mode and do the PRL update work around (i.e. PRL update every time you reboot the radio) and even then it leaves much to be desired.
So your option is to stick it out on the ****ty legacy network or find another provider that suits your needs. ATT is running 5 mhz on LTE 700 B, Tmobile has a 10x10 FDD-LTE network on AWS that is spotty as **** in around south sac area and drops to Edge when you go indoors which is probably a no go for you.
Probably the best option for you is an ATT MVNO considering your needs are inside a building.
-- Though if you do stick it out Sprint has quite an amazing portfolio in the Sacramento area with full access to eSMR 800 (5x5 mhz FDD-LTE band 26) + eSMR 800 1xAdvance, 20 mhz of PCS A-F + the 10mhz of PCS G (5x5mhz FDD-LTE Band 25) along with 55mhz of BRS (2500) + innumerable EBS (2600). Right now they're running B41 on EARFCN 40978 which is about 2630mhz or smack dab in the EBS block.
Tmobiles is here at 40mhz of AWS and ~30 mhz of PCS + the 700A later this year. They run 10x10 for FDD-LTE Band 4 and DC-HSPA+ on the other 20 mhz of AWS. They run a single PCS 5 mhz WCDMA 3G carrier and the rest of the PCS is GSM. Their 700A Band 12 will be limited to about 3x3mhz FDD-LTE when they deploy later.
ATT has quite a mishmash of spectrum. 12 mhz of 700B Band 17 (5x5 mhz FDD-LTE), 700D block Band 29 which is unpaired and unusable, the Cell 850 A block, 10mhz of AWS good for 5x5 FDD-LTE on Band 4, and 20 mhz of PCS A + D which is split for numerous WCDMA 3G + GSM carriers. So they're probably going to run AWS LTE and aggregate it with their 700B block LTE and then moving onto refarming PCS carriers later. IE -a nightmare.
Take your poison.
I'm not in your area, but Ting has been swell for me in Minnesota. Sprint's coverage map shows NO LTE in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis & St. Paul, though it exists well to the west in rural MN. Imagine my surprise to get it at my home in Hopkins, at least 75 miles away from Sprint's nearest report of coverage. Phone service is unchanged from when I was a Sprint customer.
SomeTing wong
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Yes som ting is wong
Firstly it looks like when you got your service you only provided them the ESN number which they can provide you 3G and 1X
however you need a sprint 4G lte sim to actually get LTE along with 3G and 1X ask ting about it.
Hello all,
i have a problem, in my area ther are two LTE 4g bands coverage- lte 3 and lte 40.
My phone always remains connected to lte 3 band because it has slightly good network strength, but i want to connect to lte band 40 because it has very high data speed. in my office it connects to band 40 but at my home it remains connected to band 3, i get 100kbps (band 3)speed instead of 5-7mbps (band 40).
So how can i make to connect my phone to band 40 and not band 3.
I am rooted have supersu, busybox, multirom, nethunter on cm 13.1.2
a3Co00 said:
Hello all,
i have a problem, in my area ther are two LTE 4g bands coverage- lte 3 and lte 40.
My phone always remains connected to lte 3 band because it has slightly good network strength, but i want to connect to lte band 40 because it has very high data speed. in my office it connects to band 40 but at my home it remains connected to band 3, i get 100kbps (band 3)speed instead of 5-7mbps (band 40).
So how can i make to connect my phone to band 40 and not band 3.
I am rooted have supersu, busybox, multirom, nethunter on cm 13.1.2
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even i want to lock my phone to band 40 but there no way possible because jio speeds are too low on band 3
Not possible as a phone will always connect to a strongest signal available within your area....in your case (at home) band 40 is not the strongest so it will connect to band 3 instead while in office its the other way around...