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Question about HSPA+

Ok, so I was wondering, you know how under the testing menu and going to phone settings you can see info about your network and what not. Should I be seeing HSPA+ or just HSPA under "Network Type?"
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It says HSPA under Network Type, but should it say HSPA+?

Don't worry HSPA is what I get as well on CM7 and I get 9MB download speeds so that's definitely HSPA +! Besides on stock Froyo its says UMTS but you still get 4G speeds so your good bro don't worry. Download speedtest app from market and test your speeds.

Vaddy23 said:
Don't worry HSPA is what I get as well on CM7 and I get 9MB download speeds so that's definitely HSPA +! Besides on stock Froyo its says UMTS but you still get 4G speeds so your good bro don't worry. Download speedtest app from market and test your speeds.
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Alright cool, I got that app, was just wondering. I thought the hspa+ speeds would be better out here by Boston, but top out at 4mbps.

McFroger3 said:
Alright cool, I got that app, was just wondering. I thought the hspa+ speeds would be better out here by Boston, but top out at 4mbps.
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I dont know man Boston is a pretty big city so getting 4mb down isn't all that bad, I've only reached 9mb down in the middle of the night lol, so maybe try it out then haha

Vaddy23 said:
I dont know man Boston is a pretty big city so getting 4mb down isn't all that bad, I've only reached 9mb down in the middle of the night lol, so maybe try it out then haha
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I guess your right. Tho I due wish that T-Mobile got better coverage at Logan Airport. It sucks over here lol.
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Man I don't have speeds anywhere near what you got, and I live in the heart of the city. Maybe I'm missing something. I've got the phone rooted, but is there something else that boosts speed? I mean, my UL speed is greater than my DL speed haha wtf.
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HSPA+ is running on the HSPA towers. So it says HSPA, but it is really HSPA+. I am in Denver and at work is always pull an average down of about 11-12mbps. But at home I only get about 3-4. It just depends on how many people are on connected on the same tower.

Why, Im only getting 1mbps in new york city? Lmao
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Got this the other day while in swampscott.
And this is what I get right now at my house at 2am.
Looks like I need to move to swampscott lol.

What kind of 4G support does the slide has?

One of the things that got me into getting this phone was the 4G speed. I though it would have the 21mbps download speeds as some websites claimed. However I go to the tmobile website and it says it only supports the 14mbps download speed. Isn't it ridiculous that it has the 14mbps speed instead of the new 21mbps speed! And according to qualcom processor specs the phone can support max of 28mbps download speed on mobile network
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Here is the specs of connectivity from htc GSM 850 900 1800 1900 MHz GPRS/EDGE Triple band UMTS 1700 1900 2100 MHz (4G: 21.1/5.76 Mbps), Wi-Fi (802.11 b/g/n), Bluetooth 3.0 + EDR + A2DP stereo
It says it supports 21mbps
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You are constrained by what speed the network provider will let you go, the limits set in the build.prop file, and how fast the device can actually go.
The slowest of those 3 things determines your top speed.
If I am missing anything, please someone correct me.

Blue6IX said:
You are constrained by what speed the network provider will let you go, the limits set in the build.prop file, and how fast the device can actually go.
The slowest of those 3 things determines your top speed.
If I am missing anything, please someone correct me.
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I understand but my point is that they should've made the device to top speeds of 21mbps. And even though it supports of max 14 mbps we never see anything close to 14, the max I've gotten is 8
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I am pretty sure it is 21mbps but the wierd thing is the sensation and this phone have the same cpu yet the sensation is listed as 14mbps on gsmarena.

I haven't really gotten around to speed testing yet, been pretty busy with other stuff.
How or what did you use to get an accurate speed reading, what was your procedure?
( I just wanted to throw that out there, to let people know who may not, and make sure I wasn't missing anything - i'm always looking for an opportunity to be educated )

I use Speed test. When I'm in El Paso, we are supposed to have 4g. Not very fast, usually stick to wifi. Son uses Verizon and it flies.
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Well.... Heres what I just got from my house, which is like 3 bars... Using one of ZombieDog's roms which has a HSPA+ hack to make speeds faster, which has worked well least for Web pages.
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Here's what I got when I had awesome service WITHOUT the HSPA+ hack..
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Blue6IX said:
I haven't really gotten around to speed testing yet, been pretty busy with other stuff.
How or what did you use to get an accurate speed reading, what was your procedure?
( I just wanted to throw that out there, to let people know who may not, and make sure I wasn't missing anything - i'm always looking for an opportunity to be educated )
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I use speedtest.net app I went to a tmo store and played with the amazed 4G and ran speedtest app on both the mytouch 4G slide and the amazed. My mytouch got 7mbps down and the amazed got 18mbps down. More than double of what I got.
And really the cpu is the same on both phone. One is underclocked (the mytouch slide) and one is clocked at 1.5 ghz (the amaze).
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lte speed not as fast with ICS leak?

Has anyone else noticed that it is not as fast and doesnt seem to connect in the same areas? Is there a different modem we should be using?

I seem to be exhibiting the same thing...no more LTE all together actually. It says 4G in the notification area and whwn I run speed test it says I'm 3G...althiugh speeds seem a bit more like 4G.
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I just got lte but def seems weird or different where I get it...

Mine works fine after the ICS update.
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Still getting good speeds.

I was getting 30+ before and now barely 20

I just got 23.6mbps down and 6.6 up at 2 bars in my office.
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I was getting 30+ before and now barely 20
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Well that could just be because of traffic at that time of the day.

I just tested and got 20 down and 14 up. The upload is about the same but the download is about 10 shy in my office. Same location as I tested before the upgrade

I think the signal is less consistent/good, but it's definitely still possible to get the great LTE speeds.
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While benchmarks are great, they don't necessarily reflect real world usage. I enjoy seeing 50 or 60Mbps on my phone just as much as everyone else, but at the end of the day in most cases, you'll never actually utilize that bandwidth under normal conditions.
The difference between 20Mbps or 30Mbps and streaming of videos is completely irrelevant, as you only need around 5-8Mbps for full HD quality.

I believe my speeds are just fine
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time of day is a big contributor to the fluctuation in speed we get on our phones. location and of course whatever the eff at&t does to the network also make a big difference. to be honest, the leak is great, but i feel as though the official OTA (whenever that may be) will be so much more crisp in all areas.

LTE speeds are about the same on CALC4 vs UCLA3 for me.
I'm on the north end of LTE coverage in KC, tower to the south is HSPA/LTE, tower to the north is HSPA only and a slightly stronger signal. I've noticed that the phone spends more time on HSPA on CALC4 where as on UCLA3 it bounced back and forth between LTE and HSPA. Seemed that UCLA3 favored LTE, even though it was the weaker signal.

Lost lte after ICS leak install
I've been looking for another thread about this issue but can't find one. I had a strong, fast but not measured lte signal with GB. My area is in the middle of lte running advertised speeds. Since I installed ics leak I get 4G (settings in Network shows HSPA+) with no lte indicator. Anyone have any idea why?

HSPA+ data speeds. WTF T-Mobile USA

I'm just going to post a bunch of screen shots of my data tests. All were outside in central Philadelphia from yesterday around the same time. There is just a ton of fluctuation in the speed and ping/lag times. Any ideas on what's causing the flux?
I'm running The CM7 nightly from 1/1/2013 with Mazout's Faux revival kernel.
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To many variants on this, how far from the tower, how much interference there is, how many are using the network.
Also on your last pic you are on the edge aka 2G network not HSPA+
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Looks like to me you were probably on the edge of HSPA+ network.
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That always happen to me when i Travel to Different Cities.
At home i usually get 5 mb/s and in different city i get 40kb/s
and i did make sure i was on HSPA+ and my signal bar was full.

Exactly, I travel all up and down Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and Washington D.C. for work and I think the Max I've ever gotten was 7mb per second.
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I'm having the same issue with Wind Mobile

luyi84 said:
I'm having the same issue with Wind Mobile
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I've always had this problem with Wind. Nothing that you could do about it.
I'm already lucky enough to have "unlimited" data included in my plan, so I'm not going to complain.

mbamg said:
I've always had this problem with Wind. Nothing that you could do about it.
I'm already lucky enough to have "unlimited" data included in my plan, so I'm not going to complain.
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lol wtf r u guys on? i get even 8/s ussually

well the fact that they were all taken within 100m of each other and outside and in Philadelphia, like I said, means most of the reasons don't make sense.
I did take a few with Edge, which were a lot slower, but often had less ping time. Thanks for the feedback. I find it hard to believe that the traffic flux within 3 minutes would cause a 500ms swing in lag times so I'm kind of thinking that it's really an issue with the hardware/ROM that gives me such fits.

I have the same problem around Salt Lake City, UT. My phone will show 4g service, with full bars, and yet my connection will constantly stall out or not work. Some days it works fine other days it's worthless, even though it says 4g. F'ing tmobile.

Are you usually located in NY NY like speed test says? Because when I was in NY near queens, I only got hspa+ speeds to. When ever I came back home (Texas) I'm on 4g networks now. And I'm on latest cyanogen mods stable for g2x
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Its the G2x, not T-Mobile. When I had my G2x I would get max 7 down, higher ping, and same upload. But honestly, you don't really need much more on the G2x.
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Accessing the network in Philly will lead to a lot of fluctuation, especially at 1:30 in the afternoon. A lot of people in the city use T-Mobile and peak hours suck here.
Also included in the issue is that while network is a major player, the speed at which the phone processes stuff hurts the speed. If your phone lagged up at any point during the test, you'll notice a huge fluctuation.

Question Updated to c63 broke sim.

Op9 global Verizon sim. Na version. As soon as I rebooted into c63 x was in signal bar. Anyone found a fix . I know OnePlus sent some bung build. Any help would be great I've already msm tool back to 11.2.4.4 and updated. signal.is just gone.

So are you saying even on 11.2.4.4 you don't have signal?

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So are you saying even on 11.2.4.4 you don't have signal?
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Correct. But I just found out an hour or so ago. It's a Verizon network outage in my direct area. Just happened to happen exactly as I was taking C-63 update. Then I spent hours using msm tool to find no data on anything even custom. Hopefully fixed soon.Funny. It's my carrier. Never even thought that once.

mattie_49 said:
Correct. But I just found out an hour or so ago. It's a Verizon network outage in my direct area. Just happened to happen exactly as I was taking C-63 update. Then I spent hours using msm tool to find no data on anything even custom. Hopefully fixed soon.Funny. It's my carrier. Never even thought that once.
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I always hear about verizion network outages. ive been on mint mobile for 3 years that is just an MVNO on T-Mobiles network and have never had an outage, just coverage issues in deep rural areas.
pay $15 a month (180$ annually) , 5 GB of data, unlimited talk/text and acceptable 5G speeds. Here is a speed text I just ran on my phone. Not bad for the node it ran against is on the other side of New York and on a lower prioritized MVNO of its network.
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i always hear about verizion network outages. ive been on mint mobile for 3 years that is just a MVNO on T-Mobiles network and have never had an outage, just coverage issues in deep rural areas.
pay 15$ a month (180$ annyally) , 5GB of data, unlimited talk/text and acceptable 5G speeds. Here is a speed text i just ran on my phone. not bad for the node it ran against is on the other side of New York
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Def was a Verizon outage. Fixed now.