Hi There,
Not sure if anyone else has noticed but recently T-Mobile UK reception has become really poor, but on the plus side it looks like HSDPA has been rolled out.
So I've been trying a few different Radios trying to pick up the reception but making the most out of the new HSDPA.
I've tried 1.64.08.21 and 1.65.20.29 both of which get me around an average of 2 bars in Leeds. which is a bit poor, since I'll drop a bar or two which roaming, which means a loss of signal.
GPS is about the same.
What Radios do other T-Mobile'ers in the UK use?, how are you getting on?
Thanks in advance
I am using 1.65.24.36 and I am getting full reception in Brighton. I have got HSDPA as well.
This is the radio in l26 v10 rom.
I use 1.58.25.17 from the NEON (it works with any ROM which supports 1.65.* radios) and it works very well for me (Hertfordshire).
I have have tried the 1.64.* and 1.65.* radios, but the battery drain is too much for me
I reccomend the
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FishooK said:
I use 1.58.25.17 from the NEON (it works with any ROM which supports 1.65.* radios) and it works very well for me (Hertfordshire).
I have have tried the 1.64.* and 1.65.* radios, but the battery drain is too much for me
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Funny you should say that about the radios with L26s roms I have never had such good battery life. I am flashing other peoples kaisers on the strength of that alone.
Dutty is the main man for Tmobile Kaiser knowledge. He seems to have jumped ship to the Diamond though. Sure he will be really missed here if he has finished with the Kaiser
I second the vote on the NEON 1.58.25.17 radio. Using the Dutty v1 ROM, I'm getting between 4-5 bars in London on TMobile, and also noticing good battery life and GPS lockon speed.
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eat my balls, I have searched, and there's nothing on T-Mobile specific for the UK, only Germany, and the advice goes back to '06.
If you'd searched before you posted you'd know that.
Thanks for all the responses, I've not tried 1.58.25.17 yet, might be worth a backtrack to see how I get on. I used to live the Dutty Rom's, his dual V2 was excellent.
1.65.20.29 performs very well around Manchester. Battery is fine and I can pick up a GPS fix with GPS Test within seconds.
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I have the right RIL and the latest version of my rom, the only thing im missing is the proper radio. Every time I try to flash this radio it says installation aborted. I have checked the md5 and redownloaded the file twice. This is very frustrating and the I only thing stopping me from accessing hspa+
Im selecting the zip from the recovery menu and it starts and then just says installation aborted. Please help.
You don't flash radio in recovery. File needs too be named exactly PD98IMG.zip, placed on the root of your sd card and flashed from hboot.
you sure you have one that is flashable? Where did you get it?
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You don't flash radio in recovery. File needs too be named exactly PD98IMG.zip, placed on the root of your sd card and flashed from hboot.
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To clarify.
1. Dowbload radio.zip
2. Rename to PD98IMG.zip
3. Place on root of sd card.
4. Reboot into hboot.
5. Press accept when prompted
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To clarify.
1. Dowbload radio.zip
2. Rename to PD98IMG.zip
3. Place on root of sd card.
4. Reboot into hboot.
5. Press accept when prompted
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I enter hboot and in blue it shows its scanning the zip, it then shows in blue "parsing PD98IMG.zip" then goes back to the hboot main screen without prompting me for anything.
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I enter hboot and in blue it shows its scanning the zip, it then shows in blue "parsing PD98IMG.zip" then goes back to the hboot main screen without prompting me for anything.
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Maybe a stupid question, but are you rooted with S-OFF?
Definitely rooted with the leedroid Rom and it says s-off in the hboot menu, but how do I check that my radio is s-off
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Definitely rooted with the leedroid Rom and it says s-off in the hboot menu, but how do I check that my radio is s-off
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Maybe a bad download redownload it
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Maybe a bad download redownload it
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Downloaded and checked md5 3 times now. Getting the radio straight from the leedroid thread.
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Downloaded and checked md5 3 times now. Getting the radio straight from the leedroid thread.
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Thats the issue right there. download the radio from inspire radio thread in the dev section. leedroids is not setup to be flashed through hboot but through fastboot as is widely used in the Desire hd forums. not sure why they still do it this way.
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http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1106324
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Thats the issue right there. download the radio from inspire radio thread in the dev section. leedroids is not setup to be flashed through hboot but through fastboot as is widely used in the Desire hd forums. not sure why they still do it this way.
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There are no links in the radio thread. Only descriptions and md5's
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There are no links in the radio thread. Only descriptions and md5's
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some people cant see the links when using the free xda app. open the thread in a browser then you can download your radio
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There are no links in the radio thread. Only descriptions and md5's
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Links don't work right in the free XDA app. Use a web browser.
Gene Poole said:
Links don't work right in the free XDA app. Use a web browser.
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Yup. Either that or pop for XDA premium. If you spend a lot of time on XDA, quite worth it.
Nothing beats the full browser-based site in terms of functionality, but XDA app is considerably faster, obviously, for the basics, and links work in the premium version.
First of all I would like to thank each and every one of you for helping me with this, I was really starting to stress about it. I finally got the right radio flashed through hboot and then verified it in the settings. Finally! I'm so relieved.
It's too bad this killed my connection speeds.
I have the reccomended radio and matching RIL for my rom now, whereas before I didn't, and now my speeds are down to .13 download and 1.5 up. An hour ago when I had the old radio I was getting 3.5 down 2.5 up. The radio that was on my phone a bit ago was the very first radio released with the inspire. It was the radio that couldn't access HSPA+. The radio I just put on is the latest realeased radio for gingerbread. I rebooted 3 times and have the same results with each speed test. Also, when I check in about phone for network it still says HSPDA. I was under the impression that it should say HSPA when it is working properly and accessing full HSPA+.
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First of all I would like to thank each and every one of you for helping me with this, I was really starting to stress about it. I finally got the right radio flashed through hboot and then verified it in the settings. Finally! I'm so relieved.
It's too bad this killed my connection speeds.
I have the reccomended radio and matching RIL for my rom now, whereas before I didn't, and now my speeds are down to .13 download and 1.5 up. An hour ago when I had the old radio I was getting 3.5 down 2.5 up. The radio that was on my phone a bit ago was the very first radio released with the inspire. It was the radio that couldn't access HSPA+. The radio I just put on is the latest realeased radio for gingerbread. I rebooted 3 times and have the same results with each speed test. Also, when I check in about phone for network it still says HSPDA. I was under the impression that it should say HSPA when it is working properly and accessing full HSPA+.
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I don't think you can make an accurate judgment based on half-an-hour's use. Give it a few days of random tests to get an overall picture of how its doing.
Personally, based on what I know about: radio in general(1); radio firmware on embedded devices(2); and personal experience, I think the radio firmware has almost no bearing on the sort of things an android user would notice. Without sophisticated equipment like spectrum analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, etc. to determine the exact environment (i.e noise floor, electrostatic disturbances, etc) and a truly scientific approach to recording the results, there's no way to be certain that one anecdote is any more meaningful than another.
1. I'm a licensed Extra class radio amateur.
2. I've worked with proprietary radio firmware before and it mainly does things like calculating the spreading algorithms and handling authorization handshakes, etc. and nothing to do with increasing signal strength or quality.
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I don't think you can make an accurate judgment based on half-an-hour's use. Give it a few days of random tests to get an overall picture of how its doing.
Personally, based on what I know about: radio in general(1); radio firmware on embedded devices(2); and personal experience, I think the radio firmware has almost no bearing on the sort of things an android user would notice. Without sophisticated equipment like spectrum analyzers, signal generators, oscilloscopes, etc. to determine the exact environment (i.e noise floor, electrostatic disturbances, etc) and a truly scientific approach to recording the results, there's no way to be certain that one anecdote is any more meaningful than another.
1. I'm a licensed Extra class radio amateur.
2. I've worked with proprietary radio firmware before and it mainly does things like calculating the spreading algorithms and handling authorization handshakes, etc. and nothing to do with increasing signal strength or quality.
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I thought it was common knowledge that the Inspire was released without the ability to access hspa+ speeds. Then a few months later there was an OTA that enabled it. I thought this was the radio I just flashed.
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I thought it was common knowledge that the Inspire was released without the ability to access hspa+ speeds. Then a few months later there was an OTA that enabled it. I thought this was the radio I just flashed.
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Enabling maximum speeds / HSPA+ on the Inspire is accomplished via several things that must work together. Some people in some markets don't need every one of these things, but here is the list:
1. Radio version. I don't think you necessarily need one version of radio over another to enable HSPA+, but it doesn't hurt to have the latest stock radio 26.06.06.30. This radio should be your starting point regardless of what your ROM's recommended version is. If you want to flash to a new radio later that is perfectly fine, but you should start with 26.06.06.30 because it's known to work well on almost everything, and is the official radio that rolled out with the AT&T/HTC HSUPA update at the end of April.
2. APN config. Most ROMs do not contain the proper stock Inspire APN config and thus only have 1 APN when there should be 2. In many markets it is impossible to obtain HSPA+ speeds with this improper APN config. Check this thread for the APN speed fix.
3. Build.prop settings. Most custom ROMs already have sufficient build.prop settings to achieve fast speeds, but sometimes you can tweak out a little more speed by altering them. Check this thread for build.prop settings.
As mentioned previously, network variance can be huge. You have to test your network speed over a period of several days, at different times of the day to different locations. I cannot stress this enough. Don't just run a few tests, get an average 1.5 MB/s download speed and think to yourself, "Damn, my phone still isn't configured for HSPA+". It's quite possible that the exact same config that got you 1.5MB/s on one day will get you 7 MB/s the next day or the next week. You have to test over a sufficient period of time.
One last thing: the phone is theoretically capable of 14.4 MB/s but the AT&T network does not support anywhere near this speed yet in most locations. Fastest I've read on this forum is 7-8 down, 1.3 up.
henrybravo said:
Enabling maximum speeds / HSPA+ on the Inspire is accomplished via several things that must work together. Some people in some markets don't need every one of these things, but here is the list:
1. Radio version. I don't think you necessarily need one version of radio over another to enable HSPA+, but it doesn't hurt to have the latest stock radio 26.06.06.30. This radio should be your starting point regardless of what your ROM's recommended version is. If you want to flash to a new radio later that is perfectly fine, but you should start with 26.06.06.30 because it's known to work well on almost everything, and is the official radio that rolled out with the AT&T/HTC HSUPA update at the end of April.
2. APN config. Most ROMs do not contain the proper stock Inspire APN config and thus only have 1 APN when there should be 2. In many markets it is impossible to obtain HSPA+ speeds with this improper APN config. Check this thread for the APN speed fix.
3. Build.prop settings. Most custom ROMs already have sufficient build.prop settings to achieve fast speeds, but sometimes you can tweak out a little more speed by altering them. Check this thread for build.prop settings.
As mentioned previously, network variance can be huge. You have to test your network speed over a period of several days, at different times of the day to different locations. I cannot stress this enough. Don't just run a few tests, get an average 1.5 MB/s download speed and think to yourself, "Damn, my phone still isn't configured for HSPA+". It's quite possible that the exact same config that got you 1.5MB/s on one day will get you 7 MB/s the next day or the next week. You have to test over a sufficient period of time.
One last thing: the phone is theoretically capable of 14.4 MB/s but the AT&T network does not support anywhere near this speed yet in most locations. Fastest I've read on this forum is 7-8 down, 1.3 up.
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I just finished flashing the stock at&t rom you just recommended as well as reading both of those speed posts over the past few hours. I can say that my speeds are back to where they were before flashing the radio that was reccomended for my rom.
Im very grateful that you mentioned I should continue to test over the next few days because I was about to start flashing and changing stuff until it was right. I have implemented everything I read from those 2 speed tweak threads and I will do some more testing over the next couple of days and go from there. You have been more informative than I could ask for, thank you.
Still though, in a perfect world all of these settings should be bundled in the custom rom. This is very tedious.
You have to click the link that's next to the "Radio:"
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I read about all you guys downloading 2, 3, 4, and 5mbps. I average 1.5mbps
downloads (lets not even talk about upload speeds). The only way I see yall numbers if I am on wifi. I am in south La below New Orleans near the Gulf. I know I am not in the 4G area (yes we have 3G) but seems I should be getting better. Things I have tried and done. With all this changes and with stock phone/ROM my speeds have not changed. I am using the speedtest app for testing. I have tried different times and places etc...
Check with ATT and I am on the 4G plan
On the Gingerbeast ROM (have not tried any others)
Tried the Gingerbeast radio and ril
Tried the recommended ATT radio .06.06.30_M with recommended ril 2.2.0079HM
Tried the recommended ril for the ROSP ROM HTC-RIL 2.2.0018G with the ATT .06.06.30_M (currently running)
Also configure the APN for the recommended ATT phones (tweak the APN and added MediaNet
Well my speeds have not changes (if they did it is very minimal)
Just looking for any wisdom or suggestions as to what to try next. Maybe this is the best we can get down here also.....I dont know anyone that owns a Inspire to compare it to down here.
thanks
Call ATT and see if they're having tower issues in your area. They may be severely degraded.
Edit your build.prop
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I have no idea what that is.
Care to explain? In laymans words lol
Here you go
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=982082
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Thanks I do not think I want to mess around with that. It looks a little intimidating to me.
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Thanks I do not think I want to mess around with that. It looks a little intimidating to me.
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If you can flash a ROM, radio and edit APN setting you can edit your build.prop. It's really easy to do with RootExplorer
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Thanks I do not think I want to mess around with that. It looks a little intimidating to me.
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Don't be intimidated because it looks all codey. Just make a backup and go for it, it's the best/fastest/easiest way to learn.
Hi, I was running CM7 on my Nexus S (I9020T) with Baseband version I9020XXKD1. People always tell me they have a hard time understanding me (muffled). Anyways, I just updated to CM9-RC1 and the problem has persisted. I'm guessing it has to do with the radio.
I updated it to I9030XXKI1 and it's jumping back and forth from 3G to H but both only have one bar. The speeds I'm getting are:
ping 197ms/download 1407 kbps/upload 446kbps
What radio should I be using?
Test them all, results vary by service location.
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All of which ones? Not sure where to find the "master list"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1116884
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Thanks! Does it matter which one I choose or should I just start going down the list until I find one that gives me a solid connection?
That's all you can really do. I have used KB3, KD1, KF1, and the latest one from the ICS ota. I haven't really noticed a difference in my area between them though. Just make sure you stick to the i9020t radios!
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Well, I tried all of the ones on that page and they all seem to have a low signal. Any other suggestions?
You should run each one for at least a full day. That will let you collect some significant data that will help you decide
Hey fellow Canucks, I've tried at least five different modems for this badboy and haven't loved one yet. I had the most signal bars in general with UCLAC4 but found it was dropping data sometimes. Currently running UXKJ7 with AOKP R4ins Oct5, experiencing similar results. Anyone living in the GTA (Ontario) getting better results than this? Mind sharing your modem choice and maybe what build you are running? I feel like i am using extra juice that could be saved if the modem wasn't constantly struggling to achieve a connection. Any help is appreciated. HTG
Not in the GTA but on Rogers in KW. I did a comparison of UCLF6, UCLF5, UCLE2, and RUXLF3 and didn't find any statistically significant difference in ping, download or upload speed.
Mind you this was before LTE was brought to this area so I will have to retest, but my conclusion was to just go with the modem packaged in the official Rogers ICS release for the Skyrocket (RUXLF3).
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Hey fellow Canucks, I've tried at least five different modems for this badboy and haven't loved one yet. I had the most signal bars in general with UCLAC4 but found it was dropping data sometimes. Currently running UXKJ7 with AOKP R4ins Oct5, experiencing similar results. Anyone living in the GTA (Ontario) getting better results than this? Mind sharing your modem choice and maybe what build you are running? I feel like i am using extra juice that could be saved if the modem wasn't constantly struggling to achieve a connection. Any help is appreciated. HTG
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Im mostly in Mississauga-Brampton-Vaughan area and use RUXLF3 from Rogers ICS, now on Orthus 4 AOKP JB with the same radio and very happy.
Well, happy to the point that there is nothing else possible to do in order of getting better reception.
No big differences between other radios really. One thing I can confirm, same as you said UCLAC4 was the best but too good to be true (back in the day whe I tested all available radios).