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Sick of the GPS issues

I really needed the GPS to work the other night and it was so frustrating i about threw the phone out the window. What are some comparible phones to the captivate that are android based and can be unlocked to get the att 3g bands? Any ideas/suggestions on a phone would be appreciated.

I think HTC Desire HD is amazing...Im almost going to take it....And also, you know...HTC is much more trustble than Samsung KOREAN SUCKS company...I dont know why I got this ****...but, is to late for me...I dont wanna spend more money to get other phone now...

I love my captivate. Then again, I did come from a G1 lol. It is a great phone with great hardware.
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Change your gps settings to Network Provider instead of MS based it worked for me
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if your comfortable rooting and trying out custom roms.
i highly recommend the chronos rom that can be found in the development section.
Since installing it i have only been able to test about 18 miles of travel with 18-20 turns but to this point it has not missed a single turn or shown me off the road when going around curves as it did with the stock rom and most other custom roms i have tried. Most of the i9000 based roms seem to have better gps performance but Chronos so far has been outstanding with locks and tracking.
chronos rom:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=869860

Is it really a software issue or a hardware one?
I tested my captivate last night while I was watching meteor showers, and I thought perfect time to test my gps. I used gps yest and my captivate quickly saw 9 satellites, but didn't lock onto a signal for forever. Dunno wtf is wrong with this
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xetrev said:
I really needed the GPS to work the other night and it was so frustrating i about threw the phone out the window. What are some comparible phones to the captivate that are android based and can be unlocked to get the att 3g bands? Any ideas/suggestions on a phone would be appreciated.
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I was frustated with the GPS since a long time. But once i upgraded to assonance rom i am getting great GPS lock with 11 SATS. Try switching to that rom and see if it makes a diff

and i getting sick of fools keep saying "my gps is perfect!!"
samsung garbage is like a 10$ radio!
no matter what you do to it, it WILL NEVER sound like BOSE quality!

netnerd said:
and i getting sick of fools keep saying "my gps is perfect!!"
samsung garbage is like a 10$ radio!
no matter what you do to it, it WILL NEVER sound like BOSE quality!
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In one sense i get what you say because many of the times i see that post all people are talking about are their lock times and # of sats they see/lock with no regard to tracking and navigation.
Maybe it won't last but my GPS has been perfect with the chronos rom and i am talking about locks and more importantly tracking. (i have only limited testing but in 18-20 turns it has tracked me perfectly without so much as a hiccup.....on stock and other roms it was only able to track me through 30-40% of turns so even with limited testing this is a pretty marked difference).
One thing to keep in mind is there are different batch #'s and i don't know if they have switched chips for any of the batches. Since i got mine pre-release i am assuming i have the first batch produced but after using chronos rom i am becoming more convinced it is a firmware and not a hardware issue. I don't believe it will ever be as good as a dedicated gps like my garmin and i never expected that but so far with this rom it is working as well as the gps/mapquest combo on my wifes iphone.
also on locks i am generally getting 10-12 Sats with a lock rate of 90+ - 100% and average lock time of 13 seconds

I'm with you. I am tired of the GPS not working. I am going to the Blackberry Torch this week. Probably Thursday or Friday. Either way, I need a new phone.

maxjivi05 said:
Change your gps settings to Network Provider instead of MS based it worked for me
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This also has worked for me, but it is a band-aid option IMO. Leveraging a Wi-Fi GPS provider isn't going to help you when you're riding in your car on I-95.

I know it's a real big band-aid, but it works fine for the car and is easier than getting a new phone.
I spent 20 bucks and got a tom tom bluetooth GPS receiver, combined with a free up on the market called "Bluetooth GPS Provider" and I get 1M accuracy in Maps/Nav. Since I primarily only use the GPS in the car, it's not that big of a deal to leave an accessory in there.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000HZI2YY/ref=oss_product

Ok guys not another GPS thread. We all know that for whatever reason the GPS is spotty at best. No sense in beating a dead horse.

New to XDA

Downloaded a few ROMs and have been searching around here for a little while now, decided to join. Right now I'm using LeeDroid 3.3.1 (BFS) with Sense 3.0. GPS has been spotty on pretty much every other ROM so I just downloaded angeldeath's northeast USA zip file and I'm going to see how it works later. I still can't figure out why some places within a 15 mile radius I'll have 10 satellite fixes and other places my phone seems to be completely ineffective at locating even 1. I'm curious how the battery is going to last with this ROM.
Thanks for all of the posts and ROM's on here to get this phone operating 50x better than stock

Well, I have no gps signal still. I'm getting irritated. It found a max of 3 satellites but lost them just as soon as finding them. Signal switching between 3g and H constantly which is interesting. I love the format of this ROM but this GPS problem is not making me happy.
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Have you tried "Faster Fix" from the market? Also, this worked for me in Android Revolution, but I don't know if it'll work for you:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12764930&postcount=1
If you do decide to try it, I'd go with method 1...

Interestingly enough I downloaded that app from the market and set it at north America then noticed GPS Status and GPS Test both were recording between 3-5 sat fixes while Navigation (google) status was stuck at "searching for GPS". Seems like the problem is with Google not the phone, but I have no idea how to get it to recognize a signal.
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Could the "locations" or "car panel" apps cause a problem with Google nav? If so how the heck can you delete them?
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Try clearing the cache for maps. Then get a fix with gps status before opening maps.
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Caught a signal, had it lock on up to 8 sats on my drive home, opened Google maps and popped up navi through it and had everything working perfectly ... For 10 seconds. Then it lost everything. I'm less than 30 miles away from Detroit so its not like I'm in a rural area with no signal. I don't get it.
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Well, I just switched radio/ril from:
Radio: 26.09.04.11_M2
RIL: HTC-RIL 2.2.0160HM
To:
Radio: 26.06.06.30
RIL: HTC-RIL 2.2.0079HM
Already one thing I notice is that my signal is back to "H" instead of the 3G it was getting with the previous radio.

FX4 said:
Downloaded a few ROMs and have been searching around here for a little while now, decided to join. Right now I'm using LeeDroid 3.3.1 (BFS) with Sense 3.0. GPS has been spotty on pretty much every other ROM so I just downloaded angeldeath's northeast USA zip file and I'm going to see how it works later. I still can't figure out why some places within a 15 mile radius I'll have 10 satellite fixes and other places my phone seems to be completely ineffective at locating even 1. I'm curious how the battery is going to last with this ROM.
Thanks for all of the posts and ROM's on here to get this phone operating 50x better than stock
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Well I rolled with the Inspire stock for about a month after purchase, and GPS was the suck up to the last day. Not so since flashed my first custom ROM. GPS is back to what I expect from an HTC handset. That's just my experience. For me, really, stock vs. GPS = the suck.

FX4 said:
Well, I just switched radio/ril from:
Radio: 26.09.04.11_M2
RIL: HTC-RIL 2.2.0160HM
To:
Radio: 26.06.06.30
RIL: HTC-RIL 2.2.0079HM
Already one thing I notice is that my signal is back to "H" instead of the 3G it was getting with the previous radio.
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You're now using the updated stock radio/RIL matched combo. It seems to work well for many ROMs, particularly Sense based ones.

henrybravo said:
You're now using the updated stock radio/RIL matched combo. It seems to work well for many ROMs, particularly Sense based ones.
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2.1mbps download/1.5mbps upload and consistant service inside my house so far -- haven't been able to check the gps though. I accidentally downloaded and flashed the "GPS Libraries and AGPS support for HD2 Gingerbread" file last night at 2am when I was about to fall asleep, thought it was angeldeath's file and just didn't pay attention. I was hoping it wouldn't hurt anything and reinstalled the backed up ROM from 2 days previous just to be safe, still hoping it didn't hurt the phone at all :/

Driving right now. If I leave the phone on the dash it picks up 6-8 sats, navi starts workin, everything good....pick the phone up for a second and it all goes to hell. What the hell is goin on?
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I'm just a little bit outside Detroit too!
Using CM7 nightly 134 with inspiremod0.5 and I just get lock in about 30 seconds to 9 sattelites.

Jake33108 said:
I'm just a little bit outside Detroit too!
Using CM7 nightly 134 with inspiremod0.5 and I just get lock in about 30 seconds to 9 sattelites.
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My last lock was in 55 seconds, found 8 sats, then lost them as soon as I picked the damn phone up. I'm about to lose my mind with this crap, no idea what else to do considering it finds the GPS Satellites, fixes on them, then loses them for no reason. Changed ROMs, radios, RILs, wiped cache from MAPS, used GPS Status, GPS Test...

FX4 said:
My last lock was in 55 seconds, found 8 sats, then lost them as soon as I picked the damn phone up. I'm about to lose my mind with this crap, no idea what else to do considering it finds the GPS Satellites, fixes on them, then loses them for no reason. Changed ROMs, radios, RILs, wiped cache from MAPS, used GPS Status, GPS Test...
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I really reccomend trying this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=953630
My GPS travails with the Inspire are: Stock; sucks bad! Rooted and a few custom ROM's; pretty good no real issues. The aforementioned + the solution contained in the above post? Wow. I get locks...indoors now. Let me say that again. I get locks, indoors. If not locks it often picks up some satellites, indoors. I haven't tried it as a nav with the car though yet.

I guess I'm really lucky. The longest mine has ever gone before a lock indoors is two minutes.
Sent from my Inspire 4G using the power of the dark side.

Yeah, I think there's something seriously wrong with the phone, which I will spend the next few hours attempting to figure out. I finally got the nav to work relatively well and now it just shuts down whenever it feels like it (the entire phone). I tried unrooting and turning S-on. it unrooted but it's still set on S-off so I'm rooting again to see if I can't get it to set it back on. This is just pissing me off lol.

Followed ace-hack and had the software version 1.32 or something on the phone after I was done, back to s-off. Backing up that ROM right now. I pulled up the GPS with that old radio, RIL, and software package in my house and it fired up and got a lock within less than 30 seconds...no other apps necessary. I took the phone off the charger, didn't shut down on me so wish me luck! I'm going to flash ClearDroid and start from there I guess...with the newest software update for that phone and the newest radio from ATT...

Any way to improve wifi reception?

Is the problem the hardware? Or can the software be tweaked? Just wanna know because as everyone knows it is horrible on this phone.
Infuse running infused v2.0.2.

Obviously you have a crap router. I'm 30 feet from mine right now and I have full bars.

strychninetwitch said:
Obviously you have a crap router. I'm 30 feet from mine right now and I have full bars.
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Helpful....
and really, 30 feet? that's not exactly far.....
Its not the router, it is the phone. Mine, though it will remember the networks I use, will NEVER reconnect to one when its in range. Signal strength is also an issue. All previous phones I've had have been able to get at least 2 bars of wifi signal at the other end of our house, but the Infuse just can't do it. Drops to the very least signal indicator on the display and will not pull any data.
I've had a bit better luck with Infused 1.6, but it may just be in my head as I don't think that it actually changes anything in the software for wifi over the stock ROM.
There are a LOT of posts about this and there doesn't seem to be an answer (at least that I have been able to find) to it or any work-arounds. This is really my only complaint with the phone, the wifi is absolute garbage. Some have said that its because the phone only does b/g and not N, so if you have N and you can set it to B or G that may be better.

strychninetwitch said:
Obviously you have a crap router. I'm 30 feet from mine right now and I have full bars.
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Well from 30 feet away you should have full bars.
But at the op, I know what you mean about wifi signal. I learned though that even though it shows low bars, my speed was still good.
On the other hand, for some odd reason the miui rom made my wifi signal better. I went from about 16 mbs down to 23 down. Maybe a coincidence, I dunno.
Strychnine, try not to come across as such an ass.
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Try being more successful trolls. Even laptops rarely have perfect reception through 4 walls and a ceiling at 30 feet.

strychninetwitch said:
Try being more successful trolls. Even laptops rarely have perfect reception through 4 walls and a ceiling at 30 feet.
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Learn the definition of troll. Lol
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I think it's mostly a hardware problem. The consensus among those who own the phone seems to be that wifi reception is average to poor.
I don't have the knowledge to be able to speak authoritatively, but I think software *can* have an impact.
With my particular Infuse, I have better reception with the new MIUI rom posted by Mikey than anything else I've tried (almost all of them). I get full reception - "excellent" - in locations where on any other rom I would have "fair" or "poor"...
I don't know if this makes sense but that is my experience.

iruleyounow said:
Is the problem the hardware? Or can the software be tweaked? Just wanna know because as everyone knows it is horrible on this phone.
Infuse running infused v2.0.2.
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While Strych is being rude (normal from his other posts) I have to agree that it might just be your situation.
My router is on the ground floor and I can use my wifi from the third floor in my house.
Then again I've used Wifi Analyzer (from the market) to test the channels and see what wans were overlapping mine and select one that was empty with good strength.
I also tend not to flash beta roms and then wonder why things aren't working as expected.
If you want help with your issue, you may want to post in the Q&A forum and describe what you're running, what problem you're having (specifically), and what you've done to test/fix the problem. Otherwise, if you're just ranting, I can understand that as well.

Hmm well a lot of helpful tips. I will be purchasing a brand new router. The one I have is just a basic Linksys. So ill upgrade the next level up. Idk I've never been able to get great reception. But on the flipside Ive always used a basic router.
Infuse running infused v2.0.2.

TOA Duck said:
Well from 30 feet away you should have full bars.
But at the op, I know what you mean about wifi signal. I learned though that even though it shows low bars, my speed was still good.
On the other hand, for some odd reason the miui rom made my wifi signal better. I went from about 16 mbs down to 23 down. Maybe a coincidence, I dunno.
Strychnine, try not to come across as such an ass.
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What were you on before? AT&T Froyo or Rogers Gingerbread?
One of the problems with Rogers Gingerbread were crappy TCP buffer settings - CM7 had the "better" AT&T settings for a long time until it was updated to the new UCKI3/I4 settings. This would explain faster WiFi performance regardless of signal quality.
Signal quality has always been fine for me. Froyo has some annoying power management issues where the wifi chipset basically dies and needs to be disabled/reenabled to reconnect (This is actually common across many devices with the BCM4330 - happens a lot on the Tab 10.1 too, and in that case it's sometimes so bad that it hoses up the lockscreen.), Gingerbread seems to have fixed the wifi-death issues on our devices.

Wifi Connection
iruleyounow said:
Hmm well a lot of helpful tips. I will be purchasing a brand new router. The one I have is just a basic Linksys. So ill upgrade the next level up. Idk I've never been able to get great reception. But on the flipside Ive always used a basic router.
Infuse running infused v2.0.2.
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I am pretty sure this wifi problem is def not your router. I use wifi here at work and home while both receptions are TERRIBLE. I think its hardware related because I have still yet to find anyone with a fix.
thanks

I agree...both the thrill and my new phone have better reception and speeds than my infuse did.. same conditions/same router
bbayless said:
I am pretty sure this wifi problem is def not your router. I use wifi here at work and home while both receptions are TERRIBLE. I think its hardware related because I have still yet to find anyone with a fix.
thanks
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Flash the latest modem.
Cranky...

apallohadas said:
While Strych is being rude (normal from his other posts) I have to agree that it might just be your situation.
My router is on the ground floor and I can use my wifi from the third floor in my house.
Then again I've used Wifi Analyzer (from the market) to test the channels and see what wans were overlapping mine and select one that was empty with good strength.
I also tend not to flash beta roms and then wonder why things aren't working as expected.
If you want help with your issue, you may want to post in the Q&A forum and describe what you're running, what problem you're having (specifically), and what you've done to test/fix the problem. Otherwise, if you're just ranting, I can understand that as well.
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I also have the same exact issue. I went thru 3 diff routers and no change. I also have an inspire and a iphone and they connect perfectly when mine cant. I live in a apartment and my router is in the same room. My wifes inspire works and mine dont. I know one of you are gonna say something like maybe you have too many things connected. Well that would be false. Both inspires had no problems but when i got my infuse it was just still 2 phones connected. Im calling samsung tomorrow to see what they have to say. I had alot of calls about the infuse and wifi problems also
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Oh and i was on stock with these issues and now rooted with the same issues
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3G/HSPA Connectivity Issue

Hi,
My One S seems to occasionally have a few connectivity issues with 3G, I am not sure they are related to the signal issues already discussed in other threads in this forum. I have an international handset, MAO black version (has two tiny chips too, but not worth complaining about), running stock firmware, haven't done the dev unlock yet.
1) Sometimes the phone shows 'No Service', but I still have a working data connection and can make calls. Sending/receiving SMS appears not to work for some reason though. Can work around by switching into and out of airplane mode. Until I do that any SMS I compose under these conditions just pends, after the workaround they do get sent after a few minutes.
2) Sometimes something seems to go wrong with the 3G data connection, all the internet apps suddenly say they have no connection, alogcat says that DNS lookup is repeatedly failing even though I have a strong signal and 3G/HSPA connection (also tried connecting to IP addresses directly, doesn't work either). Tried getting online via Wi-Fi and it works, but all the Internet connectivity fails if I turn Wi-Fi off. If I reboot the phone it is able to get online again.
I brought this problem up in a live chat with HTC customer support and they have advised me to arrange for them to collect the phone for repair, the shop from whom I bought the phone advised the same. Just thought I would share it here and find out if it is common, or it is likely, as HTC think, there's something wrong with my phone's antennae. (My thought is that both could also be software problems)
Anyone else experience problems like this?

I get the no service thing all the time, I pull it out of my pocket and press the power button, it says no service. I am going to call t-mobile in the next few days, I am trying to collect more data. It does it on my same spot on the couch where I used to get good coverage on my old phone. It does it on the same desk at work that I used to get good reception at. It kinda sucks.

jacewt said:
I get the no service thing all the time, I pull it out of my pocket and press the power button, it says no service. I am going to call t-mobile in the next few days, I am trying to collect more data. It does it on my same spot on the couch where I used to get good coverage on my old phone. It does it on the same desk at work that I used to get good reception at. It kinda sucks.
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Yup, I get that and trying to get more data before sending it back to HTC. I'm not really certain but it's as if there is something wrong antennae? Seems to be quite a few with similar mobile network issues though.
I still have my old Motorola and with sim out of One S in the reception is good where the One S struggles to get a signal - if at all

I have the same issue as Kenyw:
No connection for a while although within covered area.
Strong connection bars but no internet
Usually I switch to airplane mode and back then it works...until the next time!
Very frustrating! I don't think changing the phone would solve the problem!

I have the same exact issue as the OP. Another example would be the streaming of music using Pandora and Slacker. I can listen to 1 song and skip 2 or 3 songs at best before I start having issues where it just keeps loading and I am in 4G range and 3G which shouldn't be a problem still.

Same issue here.

jipi said:
I have the same issue as Kenyw:
No connection for a while although within covered area.
Strong connection bars but no internet
Usually I switch to airplane mode and back then it works...until the next time!
Very frustrating! I don't think changing the phone would solve the problem!
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I did exchange my One S for another and it is just the same
It's a bit of a queer issue. I know where I live I have a good Three UK signal as per experience with the Motorola phone. I can be anywhere between 2 bars (approx 104dBm) and no signal in the house and around the yard. Yet I can walk 20 yards towards mast approx 1 mile away and as soon as I get LOS (no buildings, trees) on the mast I get full signal???

I buy my One-S a week ago in Germany and facing the same issue in Israel with Orange 3.5G network. I really don't know what to do now.

alondror said:
I buy my One-S a week ago in Germany and facing the same issue in Israel with Orange 3.5G network. I really don't know what to do now.
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Alon,
As mentioned in many different threads opened here in XDA, the issue is related to the phone and its current software version and not to the operator/SIM/area in the world.
Stay tuned and hopefully shortly HTC will provide OTA update or root your device and install one of the custom ROMs based on the new RUU 1.70 which might be solving this issue.
Oren

Thanks,
I will keep waching the threads around waiting for solution.

I tried TrickDroid v1.0 base 1.70 but still same problem

silord said:
I tried TrickDroid v1.0 base 1.70 but still same problem
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Thanks for that Info.
You saved me the thoughts about rooting...
I'm still trying to wait for a decent s-off not related to HTC...
Sent from my HTC One S using XDA

a new updated has been realesed, is there anyone who has seen any improovments?
I'm about to take a one s tomorrow but I'm a little worried regarding all those problems : no signal, overheating...

light_n_roses said:
a new updated has been realesed, is there anyone who has seen any improovments?
I'm about to take a one s tomorrow but I'm a little worried regarding all those problems : no signal, overheating...
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working already with the 1.78 firmware with no much of a different :'(
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http://www.mobilegeek.it/2012/05/htc-one-s-aggiornamento-1-78-401-2-in-arrivo/ from here it seems that the new updates also decrease benchmark results ..not that good...

light_n_roses said:
http://www.mobilegeek.it/2012/05/htc-one-s-aggiornamento-1-78-401-2-in-arrivo/ from here it seems that the new updates also decrease benchmark results ..not that good...
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Noticed decreased benchmark performance on quadrant but improved battery life and system UI seems to be more fluid.

mattionline said:
Noticed decreased benchmark performance on quadrant but improved battery life and system UI seems to be more fluid.
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ok but more fluidity shouldn't affect cpu and I/O results!! HTC isn't doing a great job here...

What BaseBand?

Found this link
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/34053-officialmodems-vrlk1-verizon-sgs3-sch-i535-odin-or-recovery-flashable/
Of those I'm trying to get a better baseband.. mostly for call quality but if it could help out 3g/4g.. Would be nice... I'm obviously on the one from plain stock(went straight to paranoid out of the box)... so wondering what i can flash that may help improve... any ideas or thoughts would be appreciated

You have to try them yourself. There is no single modem/radio that is best for everyone. Reception is relative to your location, proximity to tower, environment, weather, and a host of other factors.
For me, I noticed that upgrading to VRLK1 was an immediate downgrade in radio quality as my phone no longer held onto LTE with - 110 dbm in my home. It kept reverting to 3G and this rarely changed through my time at home . I live in an extended LTE coverage but fringe LTE > 3g lol Soon as I switched back to VRLJ1 my phone connected to LTE within seconds and held onto it without me even moving. I wouldn't recommend using VRLK1 but I'm one person of thousands who will be using it. Can't take anyone's experience as fact if you aren't in their environment with them. People fully covered by Verizon and who always see 5 bars and - 80 or better (closer to 0 is better) will not see much difference between radios.
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Trial and error my friend that's the only way to figure out what's best for you. Myself personally i find the latest jelly bean radio VRLK1 to be the best, but as you can see the guy above me doesn't have the same luck with it as i do, so while ill tell you its amazing, he tells you its not. You'll just have to try out the radios and see which one gives you the best results that you desire