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[Q]how do i fix low signal TB stock radio with CM7

Good Afternoon all:
Im running a stock radio, CM7 on TB. My Signal is on 1 bar no matter what location I am at. I tested the signal using a signal app and it confirms that i have a low signal.
Is there a kernal that will fix this? I did some searches but could not find an answer to my issue.

No, CM7 is still a pre-alpha, and 1 bar doesn't mean anything, when I use it with 4G it shows no bars. What is your network signal strength in Dbm?

im running about -90 dbh. sorry, i should have put that in my first post. what do you think on the cell strength?
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i put cm7 on my phone with the stock radio, and had ZERO bars lol
until a call came in , then i'd have a few bars
no market access, no data connection...

i dont know if this has already been said or fixed but i am getting 4G with CM7. i have no idea what i did... but it seems to be working
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[Q] Can a ROM effect calls (that is - dropping them)?

Hi
Just wanted to know.... since I am dropping calls so often, can that be ROM-related? Or does that have nothing to do with that?
Because if there is even a slight chance that it is ROM-related, than I will go back to STOCK
Running WeaponG2x right now

I have had signal problems on every Rom I've tried.
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lotherius said:
I have had signal problems on every Rom I've tried.
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Doesn't this make you want to sell this phone and get a different one?

I found that cm7 based roms seemed to not switch towers as quickly as stock roms.might just be my device though. I get notably fewer dropped data connections on tsugi.
benyben123 said:
Hi
Just wanted to know.... since I am dropping calls so often, can that be ROM-related? Or does that have nothing to do with that?
Because if there is even a slight chance that it is ROM-related, than I will go back to STOCK
Running WeaponG2x right now
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In my area tmobiles signal sucked.The best rom I found is eagles blood 2.4.I noticed when I tried weapons my wifi and data were very slow.Now I've unlocked my phone and using at&t go phone my signal has been great.I get 2 g but its faster than the tmobiles that I had.No more dropped calls either.
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lotherius said:
I have had signal problems on every Rom I've tried.
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benyben123 said:
Doesn't this make you want to sell this phone and get a different one?
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TerryMathews said:
I found that cm7 based roms seemed to not switch towers as quickly as stock roms.might just be my device though. I get notably fewer dropped data connections on tsugi.
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Me too.
Yes, but I broke my screen and have been too poor to fix it to resell. LoL
I have had the same experience so far.

I've not had any dropped calls on any roms I've tried. Currently on Tsugi and even wifi calling is working.
My signal everywhere but home is at least 3/4 bars and I always have 4g speeds >3mbps down.
I live in central Florida, Polk County.

The G2X just seems to be a little bit less robust in low signal situations.... so you will only have a problem in marginal areas usually...
Now I just discovered something odd with mine... If I set to WCDMA only, and force 4G signal, I don't seem to lose signal at all in my apartment. When I had it on WCDMA preferred, it would constantly switch between 4G and 2G modes, and I'd lose signal frequently, even if I was on a call... so it seems to me the problem may actually be in the switching between GSM and WCDMA.... Or just with GSM... need to do further experimentation.

I live in the middle of Orlando, so I really don't think that's considered a marginal area for a signal. Tmo said there was a tower not that far from my house too. I'll have to try the forcing it to 4g next time I am out and about and see how that works... Thanks for the suggestion lotherius.

Galaxy S2 Skyrocket i727R crappy connection on mobilicity

hello
I set up my unlocked i727r to work with mobilicity, however, it has very crappy reception. I tried the t989 KID modem, the vk1, the telus kj3, and the blaze modems. They all give me weak signal (anywhere between 0-2 bars with mobilicity), whereas my galaxy nexus has 3 bars. It tends to lose connection when I go inside a supermarket, and sometimes disconnects from the network and doesnt want to reconnect. I have the gingerbread, and I want to keep it. So, is anyone using this phone with mobilicity and getting a good signal strength? Do you mind sharing with me what you did?
thanks

Bars aren't really a good indication of signal.
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xcrazydx said:
Bars aren't really a good indication of signal.
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yea what i meant to say is that its very unstable, it would take a long time to dial a number, it has crappy reception, etc. Right now my phone is connected to the mobilicity network, but under mobile network state in status, it says disconnected. What could be the cause of that?

madmajd said:
yea what i meant to say is that its very unstable, it would take a long time to dial a number, it has crappy reception, etc. Right now my phone is connected to the mobilicity network, but under mobile network state in status, it says disconnected. What could be the cause of that?
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Your carrier?
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Mobilicity Canada
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I was searching around and some people said that they do a combination of radios, how does that work?
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madmajd said:
Mobilicity Canada
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No, I'm saying your signal probably sux because of you carrier, not your phone. As for flashing radios read read read.
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madmajd said:
yea what i meant to say is that its very unstable, it would take a long time to dial a number, it has crappy reception, etc. Right now my phone is connected to the mobilicity network, but under mobile network state in status, it says disconnected. What could be the cause of that?
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Disconneted because data is disabled or you are connected to Wifi. Disable wifi and connect to network data, check again

Did u try the new t989 ule ics radio? Ive read good things.

Nope, I have surfed through ALL the posts with radios in them and never heard of that one, would u mind posting the link here? Thanks
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Oh ok, yeah it could be
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I'm more or less in the same boat... in particular upload rate is horrible ~40kbps.
OP: any progress in your experience with mobilicity and in your search of a suitable modem?

It's the network not the phone. I was with them & got the same results with a Lumia 710 & the 727r. I tried all the different modems & the best is the Blaze 4G IMO.

Did you guys also have to change your kernels to get it to work?
I have tried the usual 4 radios combined with SKYICS and also with the stock OS (latest Rogers version) without much success.
I get some signal but as soon as I try to call the phone would hang on me (it would dial out incidentally).
Thanks a lot

Nope didn't have to do anything other then flash the recovery, to allow me to flash the radios from zip files. The Rom and kernel were stock GB or ICS. I did go into *#2263# and set WCDMA option from all to 1700, & the mobile network option from automatic to manual selecting Mobilicity or its network ID #.

Actually a couple of weeks ago I flashed the t989 juggernaut rom, with the faux kernel and vkl1 radio and its somewhat better.

Bad service?

Alright, so currently I am on aokp milestone 5 and I've been getting very poor WiFi and 3g/4g signal.
Is anyone else having that issue?
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My service has been top notch, but I am on Paranoid rom.

Anyone of aokp who has bad signal?
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I also have ****ty signal since I have been on Liquid Smooth and am curious what's causing it.
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gerb45 said:
I also have ****ty signal since I have been on Liquid Smooth and am curious what's causing it.
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I'm going to do a clean install of cm10 stable and see if it fixes it.
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derik123derik123 said:
I'm going to do a clean install of cm10 stable and see if it fixes it.
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I flashed the stable version of CM10 last night from stock ICS 4.0.4 and my signal sucks. I tried flashing the new VRLJ1 Radio + RPM and still nothing. I used to get 3-4 bars at home now I barely get 2.
I am looking for a ROM that can fix this problem.
Let me know if you find a fix.
Thanks

You might want to check w/vzw to see if work is being done in your area (towers down, etc). My signal has been solid and improved on eclipse 4/new j1 radio. Was on liquid 7 prior with no issues signal wise. If anything signals are improving.

annoyingduck said:
You might want to check w/vzw to see if work is being done in your area (towers down, etc). My signal has been solid and improved on eclipse 4/new j1 radio. Was on liquid 7 prior with no issues signal wise. If anything signals are improving.
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Great advice to follow, sometimes its not always your radio but rather maintenance, if the problem arose switching to your said ROM, ask in that specific if anyone else has the same problem, or switch between radios and see what works for you. It is known that not all radios are great for everyone, sometimes an old one works better for specific people in different areas
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annoyingduck said:
You might want to check w/vzw to see if work is being done in your area (towers down, etc). My signal has been solid and improved on eclipse 4/new j1 radio. Was on liquid 7 prior with no issues signal wise. If anything signals are improving.
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HoudiniJr said:
Great advice to follow, sometimes its not always your radio but rather maintenance, if the problem arose switching to your said ROM, ask in that specific if anyone else has the same problem, or switch between radios and see what works for you. It is known that not all radios are great for everyone, sometimes an old one works better for specific people in different areas
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Thanks. Ill check both.
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Fwiw- aosp ROMs don't seem to have the signal strength compared to touch wiz ROMs. Until ril and kernel source is released there's going to be this issue. However, after flashing the latest jellybean radio I've had much better data and phone signal reception.
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So I should switch to a TW ROM in order for the service to improve?
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I to have bad signal. At my house my phone jumps from 4G to 3G. I do not have problems with the phone everything else work flawlessly.
My wife has an old 3G phone (first gen) it works great. My old 3G Driod X gets great signal. The wife got a LG Envy 4G phone a few weeks ago. Always has 4G she even gets 4G on the bottom floors of the hospital. My SIII get no service. I think it is a Samsung thing my self.

Samsung doesn't have the best radios, that's for sure.
That being said TW is definitely the way to go if you're in a fringe area. AOSP just can't do it right yet...which is really annoying...

Why are folks comparing signal bars? Its been said time after time that its meaningless. The only way to compare is go into settings/about device and look up the signal -db. I can gurantee aosp signal is no worse than touchwiz...now in fringe coverage areas i believe touchwiz is still slightly better.

T-Mobile weak LTE

Ever since Ive had my nexus 5 Ive noticed weaker lte signal on t-mobile. I have a nexus 4 that has the .33 radio that i flashed and i get lte in more places & better speeds. Both are using the same t-mobile APNs, for example on my nexus 5 half of my home I get HSPA+ and on the other half I do get LTE i guess I'm just in the middle of two towers that reach me. On the nexus 4 though, I always have LTE In my house and In more areas where the nexus 5 doesn't. I then later flashed the cataclysm rom and thought maybe it would help but nothing, I did find a setting within cataclysm to force lte always on and I get even more LTE service than on the nexus 4, but it takes up a lot of battery. My issue is Im back on stock KitKat and dont have that feature and T-Mobile LTE is just weak. Is it just my nexus 5 or have other people expirenced this too?
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Have you tried flashing different radios?

TMobile/Nexus 5
spazzynexus said:
My issue is Im back on stock KitKat and dont have that feature and T-Mobile LTE is just weak. Is it just my nexus 5 or have other people expirenced this too?
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I'm located in Forest HIlls, NY On KitKat 4.4, I usually get 3-4 bars, indoors/basement. After updating to 4.4.2, I still get 3-4 bars. Like real estate, it's location, location, location.

ipowyourface said:
Have you tried flashing different radios?
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Well what other radios are there for the nexus 5?
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spazzynexus said:
Well what other radios are there for the nexus 5?
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Do a search for EFS and Modems, there's a thread that has a link to all of them. Some have said earlier radios like from 4.4 get better signal. I'm on 4.4.2 stock radio and didn't see any change from one to another but that's just me. In Brooklyn and Manhattan NYC mostly btw.

spazzynexus said:
Well what other radios are there for the nexus 5?
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Radios are here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2514095
But there's sparse evidence any are better on LTE specifically. In theory, the latest should be the best. I get 4 bars LTE and 30Mbps d/l, yet get 5 bars H+ and 12Mbps d/l...so clearly despite a lower overall signal strength, my download performance remains perfectly acceptable.