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[Q] Lousy Signal: Anyone Else?

Just checking to see if anyone else with an Inspire on AT&T has experienced a signal dropoff in the last two or three days. One day I'm pegged at 4 bars WCDMA, now I can't seem to get out of GPRS/Edge. Seems it coincides with the rollout of the update. Anyone else getting crappy reception in the last few days?

No good reception
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Reception is all right for could always be better, still waiting for AT&T to get the 4g ball rolling

Folks, I'm looking for those of you who have had LOSS of signal in the last week. Please no "mine sucks" or "mine is ok" kind of posts, i only want to hear from those of you who have had a change.

Does anyone know how to check the status of AT&T's cell towers? Is there a website that will show where they are and what their operational condition is?

You can call att and tell them where you are. They will give you information on the towers in your area.
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Signal is crappy, but hasn't changed in the last few days. You should call AT&T and check with them

Well, just as I was about to call AT&T to find out what the heck might be going on, I now see my signal is very strong again, but with UMTS as the network type, though I'm showing 3G in my notification bar.
So, is UMTS the new 4G network and they were just changing the tower over the past few days?

They have been updating towers all over...So to answer your original question, yes I have experienced some bad signal at times, but has returned to a good signal after they finished updating whatever they were working on....
WC

maybe this explains my many dropped calls in the last few days..

Wild Child said:
They have been updating towers all over...So to answer your original question, yes I have experienced some bad signal at times, but has returned to a good signal after they finished updating whatever they were working on....
WC
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What are you showing for network type?

Actually it depends on where Im at in my house...i can move 15 ft and itll pick up an Edge signal....then switch to H+,which is still just 3G for now until LTE network is up and running...Ive only seen 3G once or twice since Ive had the phone...Also just a side note...Im on an unrooted, untampered with 1.84 ROM...Based on your posts, your rooted and using a custom ROM, issue may not be the phone or the towers, may be the ROM your using,unfortunately with the way ATT provisioned this software...you may have issues with certain things using custom ROMS....
WC

Wild Child said:
Actually it depends on where Im at in my house...i can move 15 ft and itll pick up an Edge signal....then switch to H+,which is still just 3G for now until LTE network is up and running...Ive only seen 3G once or twice since Ive had the phone...Also just a side note...Im on an unrooted, untampered with 1.84 ROM...Based on your posts, your rooted and using a custom ROM, issue may not be the phone or the towers, may be the ROM your using,unfortunately with the way ATT provisioned this software...you may have issues with certain things using custom ROMS....
WC
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I doubt that using the Custom Roms are the main issue. Many of the custom roms are using Stock Kernals and Radios. <- those are the two main contributing factors to cell strength and battery life.
I run MIUI on stock kernal now, with the new ATT Radio .26.06.06.30_M and have no issues. Denver CO Area and run full bars or -70 to -87 dcb at almost all times. Great download speeds.

Incorrect to a point....if provisioning isnt correct in the rom then there will be issues, att is trying to be slick in a lot of ways these days...
xKrisx said:
I doubt that using the Custom Roms are the main issue. Many of the custom roms are using Stock Kernals and Radios. <- those are the two main contributing factors to cell strength and battery life.
I run MIUI on stock kernal now, with the new ATT Radio .26.06.06.30_M and have no issues. Denver CO Area and run full bars or -70 to -87 dcb at almost all times. Great download speeds.
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When i use Stock roms my signal is steady on H+ n a lil bit on Edge but mostly on H+.
On custom roms i stay on Edge.. H is rare or just dont stick
n yes im using the stock kernal n radio

Update: turns out they were working on the tower(s) in my area. Signal back to normal. Thanks for everyone's feedback.

this happened to me last month, and now today is happening again lol. seems like they are working on towers a lot recently in my area. if i go to another city i get full bar H constantly...oh wells hopefully they will finish all the tower work soon.

Skyrocket on T-mobile T-zone grandfathered data plan

I just got Skyrocket. I have never spent so much on a cellphone before.
Now I have 5.99 unlimited data plan from T-mobile. It is well known as T-zone or Web2Go. I was so eager to try this phone on T-mobile and see if it worked.
After unlocking the Skyrocket, I first rooted then tried flashing different modems from Rogers, Telus, T-mobile KID, VK1 and ect but none of them worked. I was only able to pick up voice signal on stock Radio.
Then I tried flashing the phone with Juggernaut and tried flashing modems. Now I started getting HSPA+ signals. For me KID and Telus modem worked the best. Average download speed was around 5-6mb/s. As the Juggernaut ROM was originally intended for 989, it seemed little unstable for me.
Then I tried Sky ICS stock and Telus combo. Wow, Now I was getting download speed of 10mb/s on T-zone. This combo was nicer because phone did not try to search for UMTS signal so frequently as much as it did with Juggernaut. However now my voice signal dropped down to 1 bar and call quality was horrible(at least it was audible).
Has anyone found any other good ROM/kernel/modem combo for Skyrocket that works best on T-mobile?

Flash tpc v3, and then flash faux sky-kernel 009m. Flash telus radio and make sure j have the right apn (access point names) for T-Mobile. This should clear u right up

sharpeyedman said:
I just got Skyrocket. I have never spent so much on a cellphone before.
Now I have 5.99 unlimited data plan from T-mobile. It is well known as T-zone or Web2Go. I was so eager to try this phone on T-mobile and see if it worked.
After unlocking the Skyrocket, I first rooted then tried flashing different modems from Rogers, Telus, T-mobile KID, VK1 and ect but none of them worked. I was only able to pick up voice signal on stock Radio.
Then I tried flashing the phone with Juggernaut and tried flashing modems. Now I started getting HSPA+ signals. For me KID and Telus modem worked the best. Average download speed was around 5-6mb/s. As the Juggernaut ROM was originally intended for 989, it seemed little unstable for me.
Then I tried Sky ICS stock and Telus combo. Wow, Now I was getting download speed of 10mb/s on T-zone. This combo was nicer because phone did not try to search for UMTS signal so frequently as much as it did with Juggernaut. However now my voice signal dropped down to 1 bar and call quality was horrible(at least it was audible).
Has anyone found any other good ROM/kernel/modem combo for Skyrocket that works best on T-mobile?
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Can you tell me what is your upload speed?! I have SkyRocket working with T-Mobile, using T-Mobile rom with flashed modem....the only problem is upload speed,it's around 100kbs while my download is around 7MBit...

ST4LKER said:
Can you tell me what is your upload speed?! I have SkyRocket working with T-Mobile, using T-Mobile rom with flashed modem....the only problem is upload speed,it's around 100kbs while my download is around 7MBit...
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I usually get 1mb/s - 1.5mb/s of upload speeds according to speed test.
When reception was good, then I got over 2.2mb/s of upload speed.

icenight89 said:
Flash tpc v3, and then flash faux sky-kernel 009m. Flash telus radio and make sure j have the right apn (access point names) for T-Mobile. This should clear u right up
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Thanks I will try as you have suggested later today.
I was surprised that battery drain is so significant when idle. My old HD2 uses only 2mA when idle, but my skyrocket uses over 100mA even when gps, data, bluetooth turned off. hope new combo fixes this battery drainage problem as well.

icenight89 said:
Flash tpc v3, and then flash faux sky-kernel 009m. Flash telus radio and make sure j have the right apn (access point names) for T-Mobile. This should clear u right up
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I ve only flashed through CWM. Is IMG flashing same method as Odin? I was trying to find a guide on IMG flash but I could not find any.

Here's locations of everything i told u about in versions that are flashable in cwm, i also added darkside, flash this first before u flash anything else. Flash in order and flash all at once before rebooting. After look into how to use fauxclock, it will help give u better battery
Darkside
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477955
TPC v3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357506
faux kernel
http://goo-inside.me/kernels/faux123/sky-kernel-009m.zip
Telus radio
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426001
Fauxclock
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/4550-app09-beta-snapdragon-dual-core-oc-control/

sky ics speed and vk1 seemed to work best for me.
download was faster with telsus but upload was crippled. (less than 0.1) hmm
i feel like vk1 does drain the battery like crazy tough and constantly sends those "high are you there type signals"
hm

sharpeyedman said:
I usually get 1mb/s - 1.5mb/s of upload speeds according to speed test.
When reception was good, then I got over 2.2mb/s of upload speed.
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So what is your combo to get that kind of upload speed?! As I said, can't get over 100kbs of upload, while download works just fine...

depending on coverage, area and carrier that may be why he's doing better than u. Speed tests are all relative, and should only be taken based in averages. If he's living right beside an LTE tower and he's the only one who has an LTE phone for a quarter mile, his speeds will certainly be faster than someone who lives half a mile away from one and has another 200 people using the tower at the same time

ST4LKER said:
So what is your combo to get that kind of upload speed?! As I said, can't get over 100kbs of upload, while download works just fine...
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upload spped has never been issue with me.
I think it was Juggernaut with Telus or KID Radio.
upload speed was also fine on sky ICS n TPC.

icenight89 said:
depending on coverage, area and carrier that may be why he's doing better than u. Speed tests are all relative, and should only be taken based in averages. If he's living right beside an LTE tower and he's the only one who has an LTE phone for a quarter mile, his speeds will certainly be faster than someone who lives half a mile away from one and has another 200 people using the tower at the same time
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Coverage in NYC is great. Have HTC Sensation and SkyRocket, both with T-Mobile. At the same spot Sensation gets 7Mbit/1.7MBit, while SkyRocket is 7MBit/0.1MBit, so the problem could be in modem, kernel or ROM. Modem is the suspect #1. It seems U/L freq. is the one causing slow upload speeds.

have u tried telus modem?

icenight89 said:
have u tried telus modem?
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Not yet, will give a try tonight. Actually that's the only one left to try. Have tried all others, with the same issue.

just wanted to bump this thread to make sure the att branded skyrocket works with tmobile tzones, stable and with respectable download and upload speeds. thanks!

icenight89 said:
Here's locations of everything i told u about in versions that are flashable in cwm, i also added darkside, flash this first before u flash anything else. Flash in order and flash all at once before rebooting. After look into how to use fauxclock, it will help give u better battery
Darkside
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477955
TPC v3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357506
faux kernel
http://goo-inside.me/kernels/faux123/sky-kernel-009m.zip
Telus radio
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426001
Fauxclock
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/4550-app09-beta-snapdragon-dual-core-oc-control/
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TPC rogers or TPC att? thanks

makes no difference really, just pick att

Does anyone have area dependent data connectivity issues like those seen with the Galaxy Note? Thinking of trading my note for a skyrocket since I cannot get any data at all at certain locations.

jeweladdict said:
Does anyone have area dependent data connectivity issues like those seen with the Galaxy Note? Thinking of trading my note for a skyrocket since I cannot get any data at all at certain locations.
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i have been using the skyrocket on tmobile for 2 days now. i get 2-3 mbps down at work until 4pm or so and then it degrades to 200-500 kbps. i don't know if it is the phone or the tmobile network, but i did not have this issue before with my nexus one.
as i drive away from work, i suppose when i switch towers, i get back to 2-3 mbps down.
this is the behavior that i have noticed the past 2 days.
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on another note, i wanted to ask if it is safer and more compatible to be running skyrocket roms and kernels or tmobile galaxy sii roms and kernels?
of course the common theme would be tmobile / telus radio. i'm currently running TPC rom with faux's kernel and tmobile vk1 radio and i am having issues with 8tracks app. it keeps pausing and won't play again until i skip track. i have so far determined it is not the radio, since this happens on both tmobile and telus radio.

icenight89 said:
Here's locations of everything i told u about in versions that are flashable in cwm, i also added darkside, flash this first before u flash anything else. Flash in order and flash all at once before rebooting. After look into how to use fauxclock, it will help give u better battery
Darkside
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1477955
TPC v3
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1357506
faux kernel
http://goo-inside.me/kernels/faux123/sky-kernel-009m.zip
Telus radio
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1426001
Fauxclock
http://rootzwiki.com/topic/4550-app09-beta-snapdragon-dual-core-oc-control/
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I know the information is old but few of the links don't work. faux kernel doesn't have the files anymore, is there an alternative? Also, Telus radio link does not work anymore. Is it necessary?

[Q] Horrible Internet Speeds, whats the deal?

No matter what RIL+Radio combination I try, no matter what APN trick I do, I can not get my Inspire to reach satisfactory speeds. My speedtest result are ~350kbps down and ~700 up. I see other people posting much higher speeds. When tethered to my laptop, It wont even stream youtube vids. It hardly loads them. I am using Android Revolution 7.0.3 with recommended radio. Any one have any advice? I am living in the barracks right now and I cant have internet installed and this is killing me!

A couple things. Location is a big factor in speed. You should only be comparing your speeds to others in your immediate area, on the same network of course. Also, when you flash a radio, you need to give it 24 to 48 hours to settle in. Make sure you're doing that. If you flash the recommended radio for ARHD, you don't need the RIL. It's already built into the ROM.

I flashed the att RIL with the att Radio.. just went back to the AR recommended radio where can I find the AR RIL? do i have to reflash the rom? I am in an area that should have fast HSDPA. I was at the att store about 5 minutes from my barracks and their devices were getting much faster speeds on the same network... Any recommended Radio+RILs for North Carolina?

So is there a reason why I am capped at 300 kbps download? anyone else having this issue? ive been trying to figure this out all night it didnt used to be this slow

onelesssblues said:
So is there a reason why I am capped at 300 kbps download? anyone else having this issue? ive been trying to figure this out all night it didnt used to be this slow
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are you being throttled maybe?

onelesssblues said:
I flashed the att RIL with the att Radio.. just went back to the AR recommended radio where can I find the AR RIL? do i have to reflash the rom? I am in an area that should have fast HSDPA. I was at the att store about 5 minutes from my barracks and their devices were getting much faster speeds on the same network... Any recommended Radio+RILs for North Carolina?
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Did you read my post? The RIL for the ARHD recommended radio is built into the ROM. You just need to flash the radio.

pazzo02 said:
Did you read my post? The RIL for the ARHD recommended radio is built into the ROM. You just need to flash the radio.
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I don't think you read his post. He stated he installed a new RIL and wants to go back to the ARHD RIL.
@onelesssblues.....You know the recommended Radio so just get the matching RIL from the Inspire Radio sticky in the Developmental section.

Do custom ROMs allow for 42mbps?

Do custom ROMs limit the HSPA speed of our phone? Is there some network check where if you're not running on T-Mobile's ROM, you won't be able to access the full speed HSPA+ 42mbps network?

rom won't affect that
have seen a lot of posts with folks getting plus 20mb in the 42mb areas--wish I lived in one--

Do you think the buil.prop settings have anything to do with it?
I remember getting 15mbps a few months back from my home, now the fastest I can get is around 5 :/

sounds like something changed, what do you get in other areas compared to before
some roms don't do as well as others with some folks. but, I never had a rom make that kind of difference.
don't know about buildprop--I doubt it
try the last rom you were on with good speeds. also, maybe the latest radio

I haven't been able to get high speeds like that anywhere really.
What I've noticed is that since switching from the stock ROM, my indicator switches frequently from "H" to "3G". It'll switch back and fourth every 5-10 seconds when I'm using data. This happens with CM9 and CM10 and the modified Sense ROM that I'm running now. I live in an area with excellent 4G coverage and I don't understand why this switching is occurring now when it wasn't back on the stock ROM (and I know the stock ROM had separate indicators for 4G/H and 3G). It doesn't make any sense to me.

the switching is common for a lot of people and is addressed on several threads
if your hboot is under .13 you can flash a newer radio
gotta call it a nite

I don't know if the following setting remains after rooting and installing a custom ROM but check it out and test the different settings:
Settings>Mobile network>Network mode>WCDMA only versus GSM/WCDMA auto

Are you in an HSPA+42 area? T-Mobile only has that in a few markets..
Sent from my SGH-T999

angr1112 said:
I don't know if the following setting remains after rooting and installing a custom ROM but check it out and test the different settings:
Settings>Mobile network>Network mode>WCDMA only versus GSM/WCDMA auto
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I like my phone switching to edge when HSPA signal is weak because then I still get service and it doesn't kill my battery life. I don't think this would matter because 3G and 4G are on the same bands :/ Which is why I don't understand why it switches....
joshnichols189 said:
Are you in an HSPA+42 area? T-Mobile only has that in a few markets..
Sent from my SGH-T999
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I am in the Salt Lake City area, which does have HSPA+42
I'll see what I can do with radio flashing. If I get something to work I'll post a guide on it.

I did some tweaks on my phone and saw positive results, I posted a guide for others here.

poor/dropped/no signal with 3g/4g on tmobile

hey guys,
info
rom: miui 2.3.5
kernel: 2.6.35.14 darkside
baseband: 12.62.27u_26.13.04.19_M
i have great or good signal when i switch my data to 2g only but when i switch it to 3g/4g i constantly have no signal or low signal. I'm currently on tmobile. i've tried to switch to different versions of miui and different kernels. anyone with any ideas where to go from here?
thanks

Try a different radio
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...Awesome... said:
Try a different radio
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noob q: do i have to use adb or can i do it from cwm?
fyi my brother's old phone. he did all the rooting and such.

No just follow the instructions
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=13380820
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i tried every radio and it all had the same result

dmo23 said:
hey guys,
info
rom: miui 2.3.5
kernel: 2.6.35.14 darkside
baseband: 12.62.27u_26.13.04.19_M
i have great or good signal when i switch my data to 2g only but when i switch it to 3g/4g i constantly have no signal or low signal. I'm currently on tmobile. i've tried to switch to different versions of miui and different kernels. anyone with any ideas where to go from here?
thanks
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Its definetly not a kernel or rom issue, that kernel/rom combo is one of the most stable that exists on our boards. Could it just be that Tmo has crappy reception where you live/work?

THEindian said:
Its definetly not a kernel or rom issue, that kernel/rom combo is one of the most stable that exists on our boards. Could it just be that Tmo has crappy reception where you live/work?
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this has happened in both the houston area and the miami area. unless tmobile has that bad of reception.....

dmo23 said:
this has happened in both the houston area and the miami area. unless tmobile has that bad of reception.....
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Would not surprise me in the least. I have been in a 1 year fight w/ Tmo concerning the piss-poor coverage in my area that happened after an "upgrade" to 3.5g
It states that I should have "good" HDSPA coverage. Apparently "good" equals "Only at 2 am in the morning, once a week- and only 1 bar"
For 2g, I get random dropping- and FYI: Tmo will *NOT* believe it's a tower issue, even if you pull the antenna logs
/Stock MT4g, 2.3.4- haven't had a good enough connection to download and root my phone.

sfender713 said:
Would not surprise me in the least. I have been in a 1 year fight w/ Tmo concerning the piss-poor coverage in my area that happened after an "upgrade" to 3.5g
It states that I should have "good" HDSPA coverage. Apparently "good" equals "Only at 2 am in the morning, once a week- and only 1 bar"
For 2g, I get random dropping- and FYI: Tmo will *NOT* believe it's a tower issue, even if you pull the antenna logs
/Stock MT4g, 2.3.4- haven't had a good enough connection to download and root my phone.
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Complain to the BBB. I wouldn't be suprised if it was TMO's fault

I had the same problem where I'd randomly lose signal and a member on here said it could be the phone thats the problem. Its supposedly a common issue with the HTC Panache, the Canadian MT4G.