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4G icon

I noticed that the roms and themes being built have 3G icon in there screenshots. If you have a T-Mobile HTC Sensation, will it say 4G or 3G? I'm assuming 3G. Is there away to change that?

Depends on rom. Mine says H (insertcoin).
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It depends on your ROM. Cyanogenmod differentiates between 3g, hspa and hspa+ (what tmobile calls 4g). I assume that when the ROM makers start really developing, there will be an easy way to tell.
As for the screenshots, maybe the dev only lives in a 3g area.
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i stiil have stock rom and it always show 4g

The sensation does not have a 3g logo. Even when its on hspa it says 4g which kinda sucks. I bet roms will be able to show all icons
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r3awak3n said:
The sensation does not have a 3g logo. Even when its on hspa it says 4g which kinda sucks. I bet roms will be able to show all icons
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I believe the European version does.

I'm wondering if it's as easy as swapping out the file that the icons are in, like it was on WM.

I actually like seeing 4G all the time. Helps my IPhone superiority complex a bit. LOL
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I would normally see H hahah. I don't get these devs making sense roms when the stock phone is sense...

I am in the same situation. Since I have a custom rom i have 3G icon. Before with my rom operator Bell Canada had H+ icon.Can someone explain to me??

yes most say "H" if you are in a 4g area
Luckily its really simple to change it to 4G if you wish, I as well as others have uploaded the modified file

destructionb : where? and how

Here's one grabbed from another thread.
adb push SystemUI.apk /system/app
Reboot and you will have the 4G icon back.

I'm using coredroid and mine say 4g.
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Im not rooted but the other day my 4 disappeared and it only said "G". I was like WTF, restarted the phone and it fixed it.

I'm used to the H from CyanogenMod since that's what the signal actually is...

I'm on Bell using CoreDroid and as far as I can tell it only goes up to H now instead of H+ like it did when it was stock.

bonebeatz1234 said:
I'm using coredroid and mine say 4g.
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Thanks. You just gave me my first ROM that I will try.
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GPRS not active

When I do the *#*#4636#*#* it says my GPRS isn't active. My signal is really bad and didn't know it it would help if it was switched on. But how do I switch it on?
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Settings>Wireless & Networks>Mobile Networks>Network Mode
Make sure it is set to GSM/HSPA Auto

It's all ready set as that, well it says gms/v something lol
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Did you flash a new ROM at any time?
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glynprice2803 said:
When I do the *#*#4636#*#* it says my GPRS isn't active. My signal is really bad and didn't know it it would help if it was switched on. But how do I switch it on?
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When you say signal, did you mean for normal phone use or data ?
http://blog.ruggedandmobile.com/2010/01/26/a-guide-on-the-difference-between-gprs-edge-3g-and-hsdpa/

I flashed to a new Rom which someone gave me on another post. The signal for normal phone use
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My inspire wont receive 3G?

My inspire is for AT&T which I have unlocked for t - mobile but I only get edge internet...
I saw there was a number to(call)/ dial to change settings but when I set it to 3g my signal would just stop and say no service. I also heard wasn't possible to have 3 but I doubt that, is it true?
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SdRasta said:
My inspire is for AT&T which I have unlocked for t - mobile but I only get edge internet...
I saw there was a number to(call)/ dial to change settings but when I set it to 3g my signal would just stop and say no service. I also heard wasn't possible to have 3 but I doubt that, is it true?
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only can get edge on that

My phone sometimes switches from H to 3g and sometimes to Edge.
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lay012 said:
My phone sometimes switches from H to 3g and sometimes to Edge.
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That depends on the area where you are....in the case you are using a different carrier from ATT you wont get 3g...just edge.

So "lay012" gets 3g because he has AT&T?
There's no way then?
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SdRasta said:
So "lay012" gets 3g because he has AT&T?
There's no way then?
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For 3G
Tmobile uses 1700/2100 MHz
HTC Inspire uses 850/1900 MHz
So to answer you, there is NO way. Have to get a phone that matches the network.

The stuff they teach you in school 'skimming and scanning' or whatever your teachers called it shouldn't be used in life after school. I didn't see the unlocked for T-Mobile part .-.
I'm on AT&T.
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SdRasta said:
So "lay012" gets 3g because he has AT&T?
There's no way then?
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No the bands are hardware dependent. This has been talked about it hundreds of times. A search would have shown this.
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[Q] [HELP] HTC sensation 4g went down to 3g?!

After i flashed android revolution yesterday, my phone went down to 3g speeds it even says so when it downloads, did i do somethign wrong? And im with virgin not tmobile

Does it ever show "H"? The Sensation 4G icons are misleading... When you run regular Sensation ROMs you actually see what you're really connected to.

yeah it shows "3g H" in a symbol form ...
i thought my speed went down to 3g since arhd never asked anything about htc sensation 4g for virgin...

Your on HTC sensation on sprint network ?????
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My stock 4G rom never showed 3G. It would throttle down to 2G and back to 4G...
Many of T-Mo's original "4G" phones actually showed "H" for HSPA+, but I think too many people didn't understand that.
Any time your new ROM shows "H" then you know it's running HSPA+ (4G).

my phone is from virgin.... i never noticed "H" and a 3g untill in flashed arhd yesterday

4g = h. Also, T-Mobile roms lied, and utms is also showed as 4g. There was no 3g step.
Even with h, you WILL get tmobile's 4g speed, provided the tower supports it, same as before just a different icon.
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What's your phone ??? And your running Virgin your going to be diffent speeds on sprint vir and vz
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Okay so my phone is from virgin and running from virgin its the htc sensation 4g i was just wooried because arhd never asked me anything about virgin 4g just tmob 4g

I didn't know sensation was on virgin
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OK I am going to guess here bro our rooms are for GSM your on cdma and they may work but our devs have not tested them so u may have to try a few best you can do I email the dev and ask them in there post but your coming here from virgin were running on tmoble
But hey do me a fav post specs of phone can it do GSM and cdma simcard? Still need to read up on it but good luck
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craven667 said:
I didn't know sensation was on virgin
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I would assume he's on Virgin Mobile Canada

Yeah I see that they just released them lol I want to know if mine will work on cdma I but a boost card in but card was bad
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craven667 said:
Yeah I see that they just released them lol I want to know if mine will work on cdma I but a boost card in but card was bad
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If you have a cdma phone, you CANNOT use it on GSM. This includes even if the phone has a sim for lte, it just won't work.
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Oh was kinda hopping it was able in hidden setting would be nice
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switching from 4g to 3g?

i have a t mo sensation running latest ver of ordroid. why does my icon in status bar switch from 4g to 3g all the time. i thought it only runs on 4g and 2g?

normal

No you might ever get h which is the samething as 4G.
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you can lock on ONE signal by
Pressing *#*#4636#*#* and you will see phone information, go their you will then be able to access another pull down menu by where you see your current network signal, lock on the one you want , then scroll down press refresh and your good to go!
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again, it's normal. The OP isn't talking about switching between gsm and wcdma

realsis said:
you can lock on ONE signal by
Pressing *#*#4636#*#* and you will see phone information, go their you will then be able to access another pull down menu by where you see your current network signal, lock on the one you want , then scroll down press refresh and your good to go!
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what do you mean what does that do?

it allows me to lock on one signal so it does not continue switching back and forth. Works for me.....
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realsis said:
it allows me to lock on one signal so it does not continue switching back and forth. Works for me.....
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what did you set it to ?

and for some odd reason i get full bars 2g and 1-2 bars 4g

WCDMA only which gives me H or 4G but its a personal preference. I got tired of my device switching to EDGE, try to surf the web on EDGE, not fun! After I learned how to lock the signal I've been on H ever since! Thanks to a friend showing me this trick! Just thought I'd pass it on to you. Works for me and my complaint was similar to yours. Let me know if it solved your problem please. I honestly think it will. Just trying to help
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thing is different areas get stronger and weaker signals i
Am not familiar with your area but its worth a try if the switching is a bother.sounds like one signal is stronger just as in my case however switching to wdcma or H I have 5 bars.
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ya i see what it does but for some reason signal is just spotty at my house it fluctuates between 1-2 bard then drops to none and repeat.. t mo just must be bad in my area

I'm sorry it didn't work! Seems tmobile is spotty everywhere! They really need to work on that!
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