I've recently upgraded to WM 6.5 on my Sprint TP2 and I really liked the home screen with the weather. The fact that it automagically updated the weather city as I drove to work is very cool.
Did you notice the past tense in the above paragraph? Now it tells me the weather Beverly Hills and I can't get it to report on my home location.
From the weather application I've deleted all but my home location and turned off location services. Although I've deleted all locations except my home location, it still shows 2 weather locations from the forecast screen, one of them being Beverly Hills.
Do you have sense 2.1? I had the same problem, didn't know what town I was it kept telling me that I was in Espoo Finland lol. When I upgraded to 2.5 it solved my problem.
Hope it helps
How do I check what 'sense' I have?
I'll search the site for an update.
I'm sure this is my problem, I have a Sprint Airave at my house. This is from another forum.
I can answer this one! I'm a Sprint employee and am extremely familiar with the Airave.
The Airave broadcasts signal allowing your phone to have signal in an area where Sprint signal is not normally available. It does this by receiving a request from your phone, connecting to the Airave, and then then sending the request via your broadband internet connection rather than through a Sprint tower.
The problem you are experiencing is because of settings with your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Your location, often refered to geolocation, is set by your IP address (provided to you automatically by your ISP). ISPs often base IP addresses in a city where the company is basing operations. For example, I live in Indianapolis, Indiana, and use Comcast as my ISP. My IP address however is based out of Rockford, Illinois.
If you go to http://whatismyipaddress.com, you will see the city to which your IP address is set. The city listed at this site, I would assume, is the city you see on your phone as your current location.
As far as a fix, I don't have much in the way of an answer. If the weather application is the issue, you could always set a city, rather than using the automatic location setting.
I hope this gives you some insight as to why the problem exists.
For someone that works for Sprint, you are giving out a lot of bad information on their products. The Airave Geolocation is obviously NOT ISP based! The geolocation on my computers are all correct, well the location on my phone is not correct. That shows that it is not an ISP issue.
FYI, that Airave descriptions wasn't mine it was from an entry "Sense 2.5 My Location and Airave Issue" by jhworley under another topic.
In running some tests on my phone I'm getting more confused.
First of all WhatIsMYIPAddress shows my home computer being in Lansing, Michigan. Im on DLS and live in Okemos, a suburb of Lansing.
I went through all the combinations of Airave on and off, and the TP2 WiFi on and off, and WhatIsMYIPAddress on the phone always showed Wichita, KS. I did reload the page every time but maybe I should have done a hard reset to make sure it cleared everything.
Also, now the weather location the home screen of the phone is showing Okemos, not the previous display of Beverly Hills. I think what's going on here is that my phone is actually connecting through the local cell tower (which is usually marginal, hence the Airave) and Geolocating "Okemos".
It would be interesting to know when the phone (Sprint TP2) connects through the cell tower, Airave, or home WiFi. Can anyone tell me if the phone only does data connections thru the home WiFi, or will it do VoIP over the WiFi if available?
Thnx
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FYI, that Airave descriptions wasn't mine it was from an entry "Sense 2.5 My Location and Airave Issue" by jhworley under another topic.
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I knew that, but only because I was familiar with that (incorrect) post from another forum. They way you post it, without quoting or attribution, makes it look as if you're saying you wrote it. It's best to avoid that, because either other people's blunders are going to make you look dumb, or you'll be stealing other people's work.
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Can anyone tell me if the phone only does data connections thru the home WiFi, or will it do VoIP over the WiFi if available?
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VOIP uses a data connection. It doesn't care whether that's cellular data or WiFi. The phone does not come set up with VOIP, though. You have to install a VOIP application such as Skype.
Airave & Wrong Weather Time/Location
Maybe just coincedental, but when I started using my Airave this morning, my Homescreen on my TP2 now has the wrong city, about 10 miles away, and is frozen at US 8:07CST.
Maybe a coincedence.
mine does it randomly too, i just havce to input the location manually
Yeah, I called Airave and they said that in some cases it is a known bug and they are going to do an update at some point to correct it.
The moment I unplug my Airave I instantly get my updated local weather. Oddly, all the other major cities I keep on my Airave, such as Chicago, IL, don't have any update issues.
But, since I've got more bars on my phone than the Hershey Chocolate factory cranks out, I'll gladly put up with it. Sure beats 1 bar and dropped calls.
So I work in midtown Manhattan, and in my particular building, ATT's service is very spotty, specifically where I sit. You'd think the 28th floor near Times Square would get great reception, but I don't. Oftentimes my network connectivity will go completely blank w/ absolutely no service, then turn back on. I've called ATT, switched to a 4G sim card, they pushed updates, rebooted my phone, etc. all to no avail. I still get very spotty service.
EXCEPT I just figured out if I have an app w/ streaming data running (run once there is an initial connection of course), it actually maintains the connection (currently using the streaming music app "di.fm" and "sky.fm", Pandora would prob work as well). I'm assuming this is because the phone locks onto a specific tower and doesn't let go as long as the app is accessing the data continuously.
Is there a way for my phone to stay connected to a specific tower and not jump around without running a streaming app? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I hate to say this but it's your area during peak times. I work downtown near the Brooklyn Bridge and experience the same thing. Until AT&T finishes the backhaul this is what we're stuck with. Build props and other mods are shots in the dark but won't help much.
Sent from Desire HD or Inspire 4G or whatever this thing is called via premium XDA app.
Unless they give him a microcell.
Since they know you've been having issues, they might give you one for free.
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But why am I able to maintain connection when running a streaming app? If traffic was the reason why my connection was dropping, wouldn't it still do so?
I think the tech guy said something about how my phone would try to connect to a tower 20 miles away when there are half a dozen right around me. When my phone does have reception, it's probably because it's hooked up to one of the close local towers, and running a streaming app forces it to stay locked onto that one...
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But why am I able to maintain connection when running a streaming app? If traffic was the reason why my connection was dropping, wouldn't it still do so?
I think the tech guy said something about how my phone would try to connect to a tower 20 miles away when there are half a dozen right around me. When my phone does have reception, it's probably because it's hooked up to one of the close local towers, and running a streaming app forces it to stay locked onto that one...
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When idle it's easier to drop connections as the phone switches frequencies. Here's a couple of things to do if you haven't done so already.
Make sure you're running the stock radio, if you haven't flashed another radio you're running the stock one.
Change to usa bands only. Open the dialer, press: *#*#4636#*#* Go to phone information. Press menu then press select radio band. Then select USA only. Give it a few seconds while it reconnects.
OK I'll let you know if it maintains network connection any better.
Also, what about the preferred network type? The options I have are:
- WCDMA preferred
- GSM only
- WCDMA only
- GSM auto (PRL)
- CDMA auto (PRL)
- CDMA only
- GSM/CDMA auto (PRL)
- Unknown
It was previously on WCDMA preferred, but should it be GSM/CDMA auto (PRL)?
Have discovered that the local towers around my area have had problems, when I left my area the network towers picked me right up. So it is very obvious that the problem lies with the network towers not my phone.
Hope someone can help with this request/question
I'm currently on a PAYG network in the UK (ASDA) but this company is a 'virtual' network using one of the bigger network companies (currently they are using the Vodaphone network)..quite soon they are moving to EE (Orange/T-Mobile) network which would NORMALLY not be a problem except.....
I work in a factory & mobile signals in plant is rather 'sketchy' the best of times... the Vodaphone network seems to have the best signal there & this is why I chose a provider that uses this network. When they (ASDA) move to EE I'm worried that I will start losing signal strength etc & so I'll may be forced to find another provider
Now onto my question/request..
I was thinking that IF I could scan the area I work (i.e the factory) & find what cell towers are around, & what strength they are THEN find out WHO those cells belong to (as in - whether it's O2/EE/Vodaphone that owns them) I should have a good idea If the EE network will still work in plant & I won't have to start looking for another provider..
...If they aren't any good - I could find out which company DOES have the best signal in plant & then have to move to that provider instead
I know I could just use my phones 'network scan' to see who's 'around' but this doesn't show how strong their signal is
I could also go out & get a free PAYG sim from each company & put it in my phone & see which give the best reception
and I know there are apps that will show 'Cell Info' (some show quite detailed info that completely 'gobble-gook' to me ) but none that I've found tells me WHO the cell belongs to
So - Is there such an App (preferably free) that anyone can suggest that will allow me to.....
> Scan the available cells in my area
> Find out their signal strength
> and MOST IMPORTANTLY which network company (O2/Vodaphone/EE etc) OWNS that cell
It also has to be 'simple' to understand.. all I want is an app that shows how many cells in the area, how strong the signal is for each cell & a name of the company that the cell belongs to
Many thanks in advance
When I'm at home my phone automatically connects to this crappy tower but a tower is up the street almost just as close that I get amazing speed on. Any way to lock on to the better tower?
Which version you on, i had the same issue as you changed it to 3G, almost no one uses that anymore so you get decent speeds. i remember on the lolipop you could open terminal en force the lock on tower you needed the ID of that tower but when you go out of the range of that cell tower, it lost connection and stopped connecting to other towers because you forced it on that one.