Go to Google play store and download the app called Network signal speed booster by mcstealth and run it.....I been running it for a day and noticed a increase in signal strength and a definite decrecase in 4g dropouts......not a complete fix but it definitely helped a lot...hope it's not just coincidence cause its only been a day of using the app but I thought I'd share anything that seems to help....
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There are many different ones. Which one did you get?
Network Signal Speed booster by mcstealth...sorry..I'll edit the op
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Another thing is if your are in a 3G only area, go into phone info app and select GSM/CDMA Auto PRL. Then switch back in a 4G area for 4G signal.
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Data drops?
Never had such a thing on this phone...
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Anyone getting slow speeds like 0.15 mbps on hspa i can't get connect to hspa+.
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Well, give some details... I just switched over to Straight talk and I have had no problem.
Did you just barely switch to straight talk?
What have you done to fix it?
Do you have the right settings?
Do you have the 4G icon up to?
Share some deets and maybe someone might have an answer for ya.
4G doesnt always mean 4G on the skyrocket. It can as easily actually mean 3G. But still should be better than .15. Thats 2G speed.
This is a question and should be posted in Q&A. On a side note please provide more information when asking something and keep in mind network speeds are specific by modem/region/provider(if it applies) so I doubt (based on on the little info) you will get a helpful answer.
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Well my max speed is o.15mbps in Seattle area i haven't reach anything higher than 0.15 and im also on sky ics 42f ucle2 modem . Now it connected to 3g than h symbol but still slow speeds. My iphone 4s gets 8 to 13 mbps on straight talk.
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Well, give some details... I just switched over to Straight talk and I have had no problem.
Did you just barely switch to straight talk?
What have you done to fix it?
Do you have the right settings?
Do you have the 4G icon up to?
Share some deets and maybe someone might have an answer for ya.
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Yes 4g icon is up and i used att.mvno as my apn same as i use on my 4s.
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try a different radio/modem
How much data are you going through? Straight talk is starting to throttle. Some people speculate that the speeds are slowing down to a lot of traffic also.
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My slowest speed.
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How much data are you going through? Straight talk is starting to throttle. Some people speculate that the speeds are slowing down to a lot of traffic also.
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that would explain it. especially when his 4s gets 8+ right beside it
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How much data are you going through? Straight talk is starting to throttle. Some people speculate that the speeds are slowing down to a lot of traffic also.
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237mb i just started a new month 2 weeks ago , i even tried flashing different modems its the same maybe its Seattle that has the problem .
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just switch sims withyour 4s. If your skyrocket gets good speeds with the other sim then your throttled.
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just switch sims withyour 4s. If your skyrocket gets good speeds with the other sim then your throttled.
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My 4s is getting 6mbps right now i use my girlfriends sim card same thing happen in skyrocket and she on straight talk too she just started two days ago.
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Also i got my sim from Nokia e71.
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I'm in California with a sim out of the nokia. I'm using Sky ICE 4.2e-17 with the ucalc4 modem, getting 5.0mbps down 1.0 up.
I probable do about 200m a day with no issues. So far this modem has had the best signal and speeds for my phone.
Try the modem from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27673527&postcount=2
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I'm in California with a sim out of the nokia. I'm using Sky ICE 4.2e-17 with the ucalc4 modem, getting 5.0mbps down 1.0 up.
I probable do about 200m a day with no issues. So far this modem has had the best signal and speeds for my phone.
Try the modem from here.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=27673527&postcount=2
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Thanks i tried it but i get drop calls on it and signal drops from 3 bars to 1 and the same results .im using ucaulc4 and my signal is good but speed is no good yesterday i went as far as north Seattle same results .i only had straight talk for a month a half but before that i was on for 1 year straight with my iphone 4 .my speeds were not good with android i tried it before with my atrix 4g.
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Heres my set up.
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My speed been like this since day one fml i might be force to sell it my galaxy s3 is the same way oh well back to my 4s.
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Ok before you go off and sell it try a few things. First make sure your preferred network mode is set to GSM/HSPA and not Auto, i had some issues with data on auto.
next double check your APN Settings
they should look like this:
If you notice i do have PAP authentication turned on, it seems to help with me reciving MMS's in my area, and it only affects ICS roms, gingerbread i have to leave it off. My fiancee's captivate i had to turn it on to get the MMS to work as well.
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Ok before you go off and sell it try a few things. First make sure your preferred network mode is set to GSM/HSPA and not Auto, i had some issues with data on auto.
next double check your APN Settings
they should look like this:
If you notice i do have PAP authentication turned on, it seems to help with me reciving MMS's in my area, and it only affects ICS roms, gingerbread i have to leave it off. My fiancee's captivate i had to turn it on to get the MMS to work as well.
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I tried everything but i think my antenna for hspa+ is broken .
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Where I work, there is generally only edge network speeds (AT&T). In my building though, we have cell repeaters. While getting close to the repeaters, I can put my skyrocket into airplane mode and then re-enable the radios and suddenly, I'll get 4G (albeit slow 4G ~ 800kb/s-1.1 Mb/s) speeds.
1. Why wouldn't the phone auto-switch to the better network
2. Why can I get 4G through the repeater, when outside my building I can only get Edge? Seems more plausible that the repeater would cause even more loss on the network throughput...
just curious to see what others think about this.
The repeater is powered with a much better antenna than your cell. So it can pick up the 4g signal where your phone can't. It then sends that signal to you. So it doesn't surprise me that you get 4g service around it when you normally wouldn't without it. What does surprise me is why your phone doesn't automatically pick that up. Dunno
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The repeater is powered with a much better antenna than your cell. So it can pick up the 4g signal where your phone can't. It then sends that signal to you. So it doesn't surprise me that you get 4g service around it when you normally wouldn't without it. What does surprise me is why your phone doesn't automatically pick that up. Dunno
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even weirder was that until I updated to ICS recently, I couldn't even get the 4G, while everyone with Iphones could switch into airplane mode and back and get 3G at least. odd.
guess it's just the wonders of working 30 miles away from civilization...
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guess it's just the wonders of working 30 miles away from civilization...
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4G that far out? That would surprise anyone
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4G that far out? That would surprise anyone
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By 4G I'd assume we're thinking of HSPA+.
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By 4G I'd assume we're thinking of HSPA+.
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yeah, it's not "real" 4G for sure. I'm only getting a max of 1Mb/s down. Usually around 400-500kb/s. but definitely beats out 15kb/s that I WAS getting
The phone indicates it as 4G on the icon.
I rooted my T-mobile galaxy blaze 4g and installed ICS 2.3.6. A short time later I upgraded to CM10.0.0. It was there that I noticed that I lost my 4G capability. I only have 2G/3G service now. Where did it go and how can I get it back? Please help!
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I rooted my T-mobile galaxy blaze 4g and installed ICS 2.3.6. A short time later I upgraded to CM10.0.0. It was there that I noticed that I lost my 4G capability. I only have 2G/3G service now. Where did it go and how can I get it back? Please help!
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Go into settings/wireless/more/mobile networks/network mode and check mark the one with lte. This should solve your problem
Did that but still showing 2G/3G and an H+ for my network connectivity. Could it be because T Mobile does not recognize this particular ROM yet and therefore has not authorized it to carry 4g? Kind of at a loss as what to do anybody with other suggestions please.
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H+ is 4g
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OK cool. I hate to belabor this topic but it why is the 4g intermittent and 3g and 2g seem to be default? It only goes into H+ intermittently it's in very few circumstances. Primarily remains in 3g and menu allows me to go down to 2g. I'm pretty new, I've done a lot of reading, I'm just trying to understand. Thank you for all your help.
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OK cool. I hate to belabor this topic but it why is the 4g intermittent and 3g and 2g seem to be default? It only goes into H+ intermittently it's in very few circumstances. Primarily remains in 3g and menu allows me to go down to 2g. I'm pretty new, I've done a lot of reading, I'm just trying to understand. Thank you for all your help.
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Its just as frequent as your last ics , the difference is 4g from T-Mobile never leaves the screen but you were still alternating 3g/4g just the same. Another thing is T-Mobile has less 4g towers than say sprint or atnt sooo really nothings changed. Enjoy !!!
TMO ROMs show 4G full time to avoid panic.
TMO calls HSPA14 and up "4G".
H+ is HSPA+21 and higher.
Phone automatically ramps down to H or "3G" when data connection is more or less idle. Under use, it'll ramp up to H+. Potential battery saving...
Nothing has changed compared with before, except the dummy icon.
Anybody else having issues with LTE. On my phone it always wants to revert to H or H+ I have to cycle airplane mode to get LTE to come on pretty frequently. Anybody else seen issues with this?
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Anybody else having issues with LTE. On my phone it always wants to revert to H or H+ I have to cycle airplane mode to get LTE to come on pretty frequently. Anybody else seen issues with this?
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that would be because in your area there is a better hspa+ connection than a lte connection. if you try forcing lte in that kind of situation, it could lower your battery life due to bad signal.
Ok, its just weird because my wife has the n5 too and she seems to be on LTE more than I am. And usually gets better speeds too. Maybe I will just take her place on the couch! By the way Simms do you EVER stop helping!?
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Just got my Nexus 5, coming from a Samsung Galaxy S 3. With the S3 I used to see LTE speeds around 25mbps, as high as 50Mbps when right next to a tower. Now with the Nexus I barely get over 1Mbps, what's the deal. Do I have to change something in the settings? My device says LTE and my signal strength is about 88-89 dbm.
Thanks for any help.
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Just got my Nexus 5, coming from a Samsung Galaxy S 3. With the S3 I used to see LTE speeds around 25mbps, as high as 50Mbps when right next to a tower. Now with the Nexus I barely get over 1Mbps, what's the deal. Do I have to change something in the settings? My device says LTE and my signal strength is about 88-89 dbm.
Thanks for any help.
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sounds like its an apn or on att side.
Yes I think i saw something about APN setting on Nexus a while ago. I'll see what I can find. Or if you have a link that would be cool!
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Its an APN make sure its correct and your account is provisioned properly to that device
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Followed the APN settings here. http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1434995. It seems my APN settings are correct. I wonder if something is going on with the towers. I live in New Castle Delaware. I'll be going to Philadelphia later I'll check and see if I get the same results.
Problem solved! I didn't do anything special except put in a bunch of apn's that didn't do anything. Upon going back to original APN and doing a bunch of reboots and airplane mode it just started working. Speeds are very normal for my location.
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