I updated to ICS. Now I am finding that the cell strength is lower than it was. I was getting 4/5 bars, now 3/4. Some areas now I loose connection. The conversations are not as clear as they were. The other Sensation in the house still has the 4/5 bars inside. Any ideas on how to fix?
Thanks
This happen to me with my stock rom. Funny thing is as soon as I flashed my custom rom my problem was over! I suddenly began receiving H! The true 4g! I was soon happy! No more low cell signal!
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If your a tmo customer, call and ask them about their signal booster. Its free and it goes in your home and boosts your signal!
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Maybe it's simply more accurate with ICS.
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Which ICS rom are you using?
I was using ARHD and it showed ~2 bars less than when I use InsertCoin. Useable reception was the same but voice calls under ARHD were being forwarded to voice mail when it was at 0 bars (but still able to make calls) and using data at the same time (yes, data was fine when it said 0).
ICS Version
I just installed the OTA version from T-mobile.
realsis said:
If your a tmo customer, call and ask them about their signal booster. Its free and it goes in your home and boosts your signal!
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That restart your contract
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Don't forget that GB had 4 bars and ICS has 5 bars...
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A couple days after flashing a new a new ROM on my Inspire I noticed that I was only getting a "H" in the top right corner of my screen. I should be getting an "H+" (obviously signifying HSPA+) . I did a speed test on the speed test . net application, and indeed, I am getting only 3G. Any help?
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A couple days after flashing a new a new ROM on my Inspire I noticed that I was only getting a "H" in the top right corner of my screen. I should be getting an "H+" (obviously signifying HSPA+) . I did a speed test on the speed test . net application, and indeed, I am getting only 3G. Any help?
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What ROM?
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One I had on my SD from a few months ago.... Android Revolution 3.3
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loganbeaupre said:
One I had on my SD from a few months ago.... Android Revolution 3.3
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It probably doest have the H+ icon in the actual ROM...
Don't worry dude, its not really 4G anyway. Just renamed 3G technology.
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I'm getting 2mb/s down. With the hspa+ I get 14. There's a huge difference
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I got it for the first few days after I flashed a new ROM , now I don't
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You got 14 down? Umm.....not on at&t.
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You got 14 down? Umm.....not on at&t.
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Word... not on AT&T.
I haven't even seen the Infuse get that speed in real world tests and it's specced at 21 mbps.
I highly doubt anyone has seen the full 14 mbps in the real world on the Inspire.
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Word... not on AT&T.
I haven't even seen the Infuse get that speed in real world tests and it's specced at 21 mbps.
I highly doubt anyone has seen the full 14 mbps in the real world on the Inspire.
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Sorry, mistaken with my thunderbolt on Verizon. I used to get 7
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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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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.
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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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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
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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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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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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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My signal jump between 1-3 bars constantly. It doesn't matter if I am inside or outside. I am orange county with LTE supported. Currently using 1.85 Cleanrom 2.1.
Any one know why? Thanks....
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I do know lte drops off pretty sharply with some distance between you and the tower. From what I understand its not quite as stable as hsdpa.
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I am even using the hspa Apn but signal still 1-3.
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I'm currently using viper Rom 1.2.0 I changed Rom from trickdroid T-Mobile. Right now I'm suffering extremely slow data speed and poor signal. please help is there something wrong with my radio or what?
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If you live on the East Coast it could just be a byproduct of Hurricane Sandy.
Let's try this : http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1884249
First thing I would do before changing anything is call T-Mobile and see if there is an outage or scheduled maintenance in your area. I know people don't like to call tech support but as that s what I do for work sometimes people can really mess things up when it wasn't even on their end.
Not saying you would in any way, but it's good to cancel out all possibilities that are easy first
Ps..questions go in the q&a section...questions and answers
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It's been like this for over a month. I live in Seattle so it won't be affected by the hurricane sandy.
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Snoof I'm on that setting right now and I'm still on edge :'(
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Have bothered to call your carrier? Maybe your provisioning is off etc etc. Were you ever throttled does it happen on every rom?
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all of the above
plus, pull your sim/check apn's/see if your network is set to wcdma preferred on phone