I moved out in the country in TN. My SGS2 with sprint gets horrible reception, and almost no 3g unless i sit on the porch. I'm going to switch to Verizon who i know gets better service in my area. Looking at DRM or SGS3, moto has always had better antennas in my opinion. Any personal experience or advice would be appreciated.
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I used anycut and flashed a new prl with roam control set to roam only I have unlimited service on sprint in areas where I know service is good.. but it's all a precursor to flashing over to straight talk
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I just switched from Tmobile vibrant after being burned twice with the withholding off software updates. I have noticed that sprints coverage is not as thick as tmo's and I was wondering if changing the modem would help. The modems on the galaxy S's were definitely regional. Any suggestions on which to use for northeast us, NYC in particular. Thanks
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soi switched to verizon four months ago because att service has gotten crappy. now i ordered my verizon s3 and find out that the bootload is locked.... should i switch back to att or stay on verizon? what would yall do?
Is it worth an etf?
i'm on at&t and i'm pleased with my service. i don't live in a major city and i consistently get 6-8mbps down and 1-1.5mbps up. for normal browsing it is more than adequate. no issues with call quality.
i'm also pleased with my phone. with my current configuration (see sig) i'm getting 5000-5100 in quadrant. benchmarks aren't a perfect indicator of how good the phone is, but the number is still impressive.
go back to AT&T
AT&T LTE is faster and Verizon new Share Data isn't all that. Too little data for so much money. AT&T!
We only have 3g where I live for at&t and lte on Verizon. I would keep my Verizon line for home Wi-Fi.
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Go to ATT!
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Att is faster and eventually get to the point where verizon is at with lte locations.
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At&t is very good to us, and the service here is amazing. Then again, Baltimore being so close to D.C. is probably the reason. LTE has been deployed here for awhile and the speeds are insane. We've always had issues with Verizon at my house
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Just afraid that I'll start having all those dropped calls again, I don't have any with Verizon
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I have the att version I got 24.8mbps dl and 8 ul. No dropped calls either. Pretty amazing device so far
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I always prefer gsm carriers to cdma ones. It feels weird having a phone that you cannot use if you travel abroad, especially europe where most carriets are gsm.
do you want locked bootloaders or better coverage?
Wonder if the locked bootloader is going to be a trend for Verizon?
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Just afraid that I'll start having all those dropped calls again, I don't have any with Verizon
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Every lock have a key, I'm moving from ATT to Verizon (700$ etf) just because of the dropped calls. Can't stand it any more.
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Okay guys, on the day I got my Infuse I thought I give it a try and put it on the Simple Mobile 3G network. So what ticks me is that I'm always stuck on a 2G network with a big "E" on my status bar. I even called Simple Mobile customer service and they said they can't fix that. Dammit, there has got to be some way to bypass AT&T. Help me out guys. Thanks.
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Okay guys, on the day I got my Infuse I thought I give it a try and put it on the Simple Mobile 3G network. So what ticks me is that I'm always stuck on a 2G network with a big "E" on my status bar. I even called Simple Mobile customer service and they said they can't fix that. Dammit, there has got to be some way to bypass AT&T. Help me out guys. Thanks.
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that's just a prepay plan on t-mobile. the infuse will need an att or similar sim card. t-mobile has unique frequencies and features on there network. it is not att's fault. edge only is typical with att phones. try strait talk, they sell sims now and you can specify att compatible.
Yeah...nothing you can do except switch carriers...go to straight talk, its $45 a month for unlimited everything, just go to there website and order an att compatible sim.
Your pretty much guaranteed to get edge when using an att phone on t mobile, simply because they run in differnt cell frequencies or whatever you wanna call it
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Yeah...nothing you can do except switch carriers...go to straight talk, its $45 a month for unlimited everything, just go to there website and order an att compatible sim.
Your pretty much guaranteed to get edge when using an att phone on t mobile, simply because they run in differnt cell frequencies or whatever you wanna call it
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Hey thanks guys, I appreciate the info. Now that I know, yeah I guess that sounds like a best solution is to just switch carriers. Then again I feel that I made a mistake by buying an Infuse. Dammit, should of gotten the Galax Epic 4G and flashed it to Cricket. But yup thanks guys.
I've been told you cant get 3g because the Infuse is a 4g phone. That could also be an issue as well. I ran into that problem when att had to replace my captivate with my infuse. This is what they told me.
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I've been told you cant get 3g because the Infuse is a 4g phone. That could also be an issue as well.
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That's not the issue at all...for one thing, the infuse isn't even real 4g...it runs on hspa+, hspa is 3g...so when you have "H+" you have 4g...when you have "H" you have 3g...when you have "E" you have edge/2g
These phones are backwards compatible...if they wernt then you would constantly lose data signal
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I don't get it. Can anyone explain as to why it's saying that?
Look on the first screen shot beside the date.
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Because that's the extended part of Verizon's coverage. I'm guessing it just means a crappier service but still Verizon. Google "verizon coverage map" and click the first link, that will explain a little.
I'm in extended coverage in my area all the time but I get better LTE speeds on extended than I do when I travel to Frederick and baltimore because there are more people on the network. I get between 30 and 40 down at my house in extended
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I am due for an upgrade from my RAZR M. Alot of good phones have came out in the recent past.. When I bought the RAZR M I did not do my homework about the antenna strength on the RAZR M. Motorola supposedly is known for some of the strongest antennas. I know this wasn't a problem with my service provider because others with same service did not have any issues with 4G dropping off with their phone.
Does anyone have insight or experience in this area of phone hardware and have an educated opinion on which newest phone has the strongest antennas?
I am not partial to any specific brand and am even open to getting an iPhone (I know it's blasphemy on XDA) if the antenna is consistent. Wife has iPhone and will be standing next to me with 4G and my phone will show 3g.
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Motorola and Nokia in general. Samsung usually doesn't have the greatest reception but I do have to say the galaxy note 2 is the exception. WiFi, Bluetooth and cellular antennas are beastly in this particular phone.
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Motorola definitely.
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most of ZTE and the oldest Samsung phones have antenna connector and there is a lot of great small antenna or you can create one.
I think it all depends on the band that your phone can receive from the carrier.
You may want to try wcdma only. I heard it work for some people. It's a option on the phone network settings.
Always get a phone from your carrier to get the best band. 4g is not 4glte. Although sometimes they advertise 4g, your only getting hspa.
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