Anyone noticed any trouble with the attached LTE handoff to HSPA+? I noticed last two days my LTE handoff to LTE to hspa, sticks there with full bar but no internet connections. Turning on airplane mode and off picks up LTE again.
I have not had any problem at all with hand offs on this phone. I am in and out of LTE, several memorized Wifi hotspots, HSPA+ and two different indoor microcells I have at home and work. This phone just handles it, I never have to reset anything. I have had a couple of other LTE phones that did not fair nearly as well with the hand offs, the HTC One X I had was almost unusable because of the hand off issues it had between towers.
Who knows, there may be issues with a specific tower or something. Is this geographically isolated to one area or is it spread out everywhere you go?
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My wife and I both received the mt4g today and enjoyed good reception at home (several bars with 'H' displayed). Out at dinner, we both fluctuated between no reception at all, and 2 bars with 'E' displayed...with these fluctuations occurring numerous times while the phone was just sitting on the table. I don't recall seeing 3G displayed at any time, including while leaving the area back to where we were getting more bars with 'H' again. Is it possible there's a default setting that's off (not allowing 3G or causing some other issue resulting in spotty/fluctuating reception), or is this just crappy t-mobile coverage?
Btw, we live in a metro area and were with AT&T prior to this, and had never experienced a complete lack of coverage like this anywhere near the areas we were in. T-mobile's coverage map (including data) also lists the area we were in as having very good coverage.
I haven't seen a reception issue. Mine gets just barely better reception than my Nexus One did.
I've I'm off of H, should I be seeing 3G more commonly than E?
netter123 said:
My wife and I both received the mt4g today and enjoyed good reception at home (several bars with 'H' displayed). Out at dinner, we both fluctuated between no reception at all, and 2 bars with 'E' displayed...with these fluctuations occurring numerous times while the phone was just sitting on the table. I don't recall seeing 3G displayed at any time, including while leaving the area back to where we were getting more bars with 'H' again. Is it possible there's a default setting that's off (not allowing 3G or causing some other issue resulting in spotty/fluctuating reception), or is this just crappy t-mobile coverage?
Btw, we live in a metro area and were with AT&T prior to this, and had never experienced a complete lack of coverage like this anywhere near the areas we were in. T-mobile's coverage map (including data) also lists the area we were in as having very good coverage.
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my internet acts slow at times as well and with my hd2 i didnt have the problem so im starting to think it has to do with the software for the mt4g. maybe they will update the software but idk
Hi all, I have noticed an odd issue on my G2x that is not a huge problem but I wanted to see if any one had any thoughts on this.
First, I have a very old sim card, it actually has the VoiceStream logo on it. And the lock screen actually lists Vstream sometimes, and sometimes it has T-Mobile/VStream.
I've noticed that I get either 4G or 2G, but never 3G. It's even shown G before. I usually get 4G in my 14th floor office in downtown Chicago outside and some parts of my house, 2G in other places. I've tried speed tests downtown, and I got as high as 12mbps, but usually 5-7mbps. I'm just wondering if there is anything that can be done so I get 3G instead of 2G in certain areas.
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the phone will never show a 3g logo. It will only show 4g and 2g. And for that mattery t-mobiles "4g" is actually HSPA+ which is the upgraded version of HSPA. they are both 3g technology.
I'm writing because, on my first road trip with the Thunderbolt, there were a lot of places I expected to have some kind of internet service and couldn't get anything. On AT&T I could always fall back on GPRS if I had any signal, yet there's a lot of places I'll have 5 bars, but no 4G, 3G, or 1X icon up top, and be totally unable to get any data at all.
Does the Thunderbolt lack some capability other Verizon phones have? Is CDMA itself unable to be used for data transport? Is EVDO the "slowest" data speed Verizon offers? What options are there for being in the boonies wanting the most minimal service possible?
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I've used data on 1x before so I know its possible. You might want to make sure you have data roaming turned on. You might have been on sprint's network.
I've been suprised a couple of times by lack of 3g/4g signal. It has been indoors both times, but really expected to have it. One time I was at the mall and only had 1x, turned on my time warner hotspot that runs on sprint's network and got 2 bars of 4g wimax which is supposed to have better building penetration.
Go figure.
I checked, and to the best of my knowledge, Im under LTE coverage. But for some reason, I have yet to see any LTE icon or speeds. Anyone else having a similar issue at all? Might this be an APN issue or something?
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I've noticed that this device really drops reception as hard as possible when in low reception areas, which seems to be done in order to save power.... because I put it in my pocket and reception is often E or no reception in my school (usually 0-2 bars of HSPA+ or EDGE), even though it is more than capable of staying at around 3 bars of reception of HSPA+ where my old device could maybe get 1-2. I know that's not a good comparison but it's clearly dropping down to 2G/no reception when not in use.
Verizon M8, live in Washington DC.
I am consistently getting stuck on 3G or single-bar LTE in or outdoors on my M8 in DC and in N. VA.
While on single-bar LTE (or sometimes 2 bar) I'm also getting poor network throughput. Like 2mbps down, .9 up. Sometimes I might actually get 3-6mbps down, and 1-2 up.
This is piss poor. My Moto X had LTE all day all over the place. Wasn't even sure the X had a 3G mode.
Curious if anyone is experiencing this.
I will say the phone walks circles around the X in speed, fluid UI, WiFi performance and reception, and the display is leaps and bounds better. I don't even mind the size of the M8. But if I can't sort this network thing out soon, I'm going to end up dropping it out of my car window some day!
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Verizon M8, live in Washington DC.
I am consistently getting stuck on 3G or single-bar LTE in or outdoors on my M8 in DC and in N. VA.
While on single-bar LTE (or sometimes 2 bar) I'm also getting poor network throughput. Like 2mbps down, .9 up. Sometimes I might actually get 3-6mbps down, and 1-2 up.
This is piss poor. My Moto X had LTE all day all over the place. Wasn't even sure the X had a 3G mode.
Curious if anyone is experiencing this.
I will say the phone walks circles around the X in speed, fluid UI, WiFi performance and reception, and the display is leaps and bounds better. I don't even mind the size of the M8. But if I can't sort this network thing out soon, I'm going to end up dropping it out of my car window some day!
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I started experiencing this too (Southern California). I got this phone at launch, and didn't start having the problem of 3G until maybe a couple weeks ago. I hadn't changed anything, so I assumed it was Verizon's network rather than the phone's radio. I know they're making some changes to their lte network, so I wonder if that could be to blame. As of now the only solution I have found is to toggle airplane mode. Definitely sucks
I agree it's the network, not the phone. I have seen speeds of 30 Mbs down, if I'm in a perfect reception area, but 99.9% of the time I'm getting less than 1 Mbs up and down. I wouldn't even mind this since I'm usually within reach of Wi-Fi. I just object to being charged for a data plan when it's useless to me.
yes, they're turning on AWS or "XLTE" - our phones can access that band, and it's supposed to be faster, and I think support VOLTE (voice over LTE). The idea was that it was just them turning it on, then our phones would just magically use it.
Maybe our phone is having issues accessing the AWS band, and are in some sort of network limbo?
I recall back in the day there was some sort of mode you could go into to have your phone re-connect to nearest tower, etc.. but I can't remember if that was GSM phones, or for older EDGE phones.
This happened to me too. Got the phone at launch and the lte has been this slow. I'm convinced I have a defective unit. Gonna call vzw when the red one comes out and get a replacement.
Glad to see I'm not the only one experiencing this issue. I'm going to wait it out one more week try flashing another ROM and then just call Verizon, its been happening for about two weeks now.
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