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ATT testing its 4G?

As mant of us know, recently ATT announced it would begin enabling HSUPA capabilities on the Atrix and Inspire.
Ive consistantly had the H+ icon on my phone, and tried many ROMs and radios until I found the one I used now which consistantly keeps my speeds at 2-3.5mb.
Well earlier I noted an icon that showed a G instead of H+
I tested my speeds and kept getting 5.5mb or more consistantly. The phone went back to H+ and back to normal speeds shortly after.
Safe to say its coming soon?
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They had better soon...
The average customer didn't really notice that data speeds were slower until they admitted it officially. Now that the cats out the bag, I've heard some pretty nasty phone calls from folks who want their IP4 back and most of them are within 30 days.
It's a retail cluster f**k.
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I forgot to add that under the settings, the connection type showed up as unknown. Normally it was HSDPA. Hmmm
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neurodave said:
I forgot to add that under the settings, the connection type showed up as unknown. Normally it was HSDPA. Hmmm
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Now that's very odd.
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I noticed that G but i didn't test my speed. I thought it was lower then 2G haha
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No "G" here, unless the G stands for Grief.

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No "G" here, unless the G stands for Grief.
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It was there for like 2-3 minutes then it left
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G stands for at&t being Greedy. LOL

G stands for Gotcha! Haha
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G stands for Gotcha! Haha
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Nice one! LOL

I've seen G on ATT here on socal, very briefly, on my nexus one. it happens in certain very weak dead spots where the phone is in the middle of latching on to edge or 3G. the G stands for GPRS, which is one technology below EDGE. so its super old and slow, like 20 Kbps maximum.

I dont know then. I wish I knew how to take screenshots. I also thought the G was the old technology, but I cant make sense of it. My phone said connection unknown as opposed to HSDPA and the speeds were toying with 6mbps. Im a mile and a half from manhattan and never had a dead spot in my home. Maybe ATT wanted to mess with my feelings?
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neurodave said:
As mant of us know, recently ATT announced it would begin enabling HSUPA capabilities on the Atrix and Inspire.
Ive consistantly had the H+ icon on my phone, and tried many ROMs and radios until I found the one I used now which consistantly keeps my speeds at 2-3.5mb.
Well earlier I noted an icon that showed a G instead of H+
I tested my speeds and kept getting 5.5mb or more consistantly. The phone went back to H+ and back to normal speeds shortly after.
Safe to say its coming soon?
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Wow thats such a weird coincidence. I was looking at this forum on my phone then I looked up and mine said G as well. Did a speedtest and got 7MBPS download. I have never seen anything past 3 in my area. Maybe they are testing it. I was promised that I would get 4G by the end of the month since I am covered by the map. Also I checked my connection type and the spot was just blank, Didn't say unknown like the op or hsdpa like it normally does. Also I was thinking maybe the phone shows G since the "new" network type is unknown so the phone dosn't know what icon to display and since G is the "first" network type thats why

Man if only i could get off of edge here (

They need to start 4G. This phone is fast, but, its much faster when its up. I bought it just because of 4G. I wonder if anyone made a big deal about false advertisement. Because no one mentioned to me that the towers or whatever wasnt up yet.
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and once its up everyone will complain about the battery life and blame att.

Lets hope it comes soon. My only worry is I read that the update for the Atrix (not a 4g update, but misc One) will ruin the root.
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i've been getting nothing but edge for some reason in the last day. i mean that march 31st date is coming.

I have been consistantly getting 5-6.9mbps consistant today. Anyone else?
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Teasing 4G LTE In SLC, UT...

They seem to be testing the LTE network here today for those of you that live here. 12MB download speeds for me.
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Maybe I'm immature but maybe you should change the title of this thread lol.
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Teasing LTE in SLUT? I'm just leaving it as that...

first thing i saw was SLUT. if i were you, i'd change the title.

Lol... Salt Lake, Utah... Ha. That's what we call ourselves here. I think it works out nicely lol.
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ajd88 said:
Maybe I'm immature but maybe you should change the title of this thread lol.
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HAHAHA I was just to say the same exact thing, I busted out laughing when I saw the title
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I hope they get it up in Provo soon.
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My mom's Charge is holding the 4G data connection just fine. My Thunderbolt is still dropping it... rather annoying.
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You will see periods of LTE in 4G areas that are scheduled to launch this year before it is fully turned on and announced i have seen this happen in Olympia WA as well which is the next scheduled area to launch this year for WA
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Breezer23 said:
My mom's Charge is holding the 4G data connection just fine. My Thunderbolt is still dropping it... rather annoying.
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switch your phone to LTE mode. mine rarely/never switches to LTE anywhere in my city, but when I set it to LTE mode it switches right away as long as there is coverage.

Weird weird! They must have only been testing a small area. Traveled (on Sunday) about 3 miles from my home and the 4G LTE connection was gone. By 10PM that same day it was gone altogether.

To JonKyu....nobody "gets it up" in Provo. The Mormons don't allow it.

vegasjones said:
To JonKyu....nobody "gets it up" in Provo. The Mormons don't allow it.
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That's why everyone gets married early here, and believe me from what I've heard, kids here are just as screwed up as everywhere else lmao. If they don't get it up here I'll at least have it in in a few months when I move to NYC.

To JonKyu....nobody "gets it up" in Provo. The Mormons don't allow it.
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Ha ha ha I believe it new to slc from Atlanta place is kinda weird, but on the subject 4G is at and around the slc airport full fledged and I'm getting minor glimpses of it in west Jordan as well
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Unfortunately Mormons get it up too often which is why we have the youngest average age in the country
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Breezer23 said:
Unfortunately Mormons get it up too often which is why we have the youngest average age in the country
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Maybe they don't make more babies, they just kill off old people...

kierandill said:
Maybe they don't make more babies, they just kill off old people...
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That's a good idea!
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Dangle that carrot...
Yeah, I got 2 diff. 4G connections near State and Main that lasted between 3-4 mins going North, then south, I guess they are doing the Pavlov shuffle... dB-)

4G LTE

So how long did your area (City/Town) take to fully turn on your 4G? Reason I'm asking is because today all day I had 4G which I was shocked to see because I'm not in a 4G area. Obviously this means that they are testing it I would assume?
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I had never noticed them testing in my area (Duluth, mn) until the day they said it was scheduled to be turned on.
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Yeah I didn't think they did but this is the second time in the last month that it's been switched on for a bit and then just randomly goes away. Speeds were amazing today though when It was on :thumbup:
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Mine in Pocatello Idaho turned on last Friday. As far as I know there weren't any tests.

smashedpumpkins said:
Mine in Pocatello Idaho turned on last Friday. As far as I know there weren't any tests.
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Pocatello idaho lol
iSheep... iSheep... Meowww that's Apple

I didn't have a 4G phone when they were turning it on. Blaine, Mn

In my town it has taken over a year yo get good 4g service from Verizon. A yr ago I had to put my phone in the Window to get one bar of 4g ad now today I get full service anywhere in my place. The best download speed I have gotten was 19mbps.. But that was at night and the network wasn't loaded down
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ModdedS3 said:
In my town it has taken over a year yo get good 4g service from Verizon. A yr ago I had to put my phone in the Window to get one bar of 4g ad now today I get full service anywhere in my place. The best download speed I have gotten was 19mbps.. But that was at night and the network wasn't loaded down
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I get anywhere from 40 - 50 mbps down

I'm over in Oregon and there is still no 4G i my area. From what I heard is that Verizon contracted a company to lay the cables and then they sub contracted it to Century Link. Well CL dropped the ball and now we have to wait even longer for 4G.

4G was on when I moved here. Awesome signal everywhere!! That's what I love about living near D.C.
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I hate to say it, but the iPhone helped with this issue. A lot of new towers were brought online for their 4G launch.
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guthrien said:
I hate to say it, but the iPhone helped with this issue. A lot of new towers were brought online for their 4G launch.
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This is true. I wish Apple would have implemented NFC in the iPhone 5. You know if they would have, it would soon be supported all over!! As much as we all don't like to believe it, Apple/iPhone influences a lot of technology in other fields.
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Haha. Can't answer these. Had full time 4G in Houston since Tbolt was released. Have to drive 50 miles to find 3G.

Well seems like my city is lit up I've held 4G all day and I love it! I'm in cali in the high desert so its super exciting to finally have it. Honestly don't even wanna turn wifi on :beer:
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bc760 said:
Well seems like my city is lit up I've held 4G all day and I love it! I'm in cali in the high desert so its super exciting to finally have it. Honestly don't even wanna turn wifi on :beer:
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Hear that. Have unlimited data. No reason to ever use wifi as long as 4G is hot. :laugh:

Weird Hidden Easter Egg - Do you get this?

Found this while playing around on my Galaxy S4, Found out that it does not matter which phone you have.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7u7RXMSfeao
I have mixed result, half and half. Some people get it others don't .also it don't matter what service or phone you have as others have had different results. I have the galaxy S4 on T-Mobile . Some say they don't get it while having the same set up as me.

Works on any Android phone, image varies per version. You just need to tap Android Version numerous times. (5-7).
Edit: Ah, the second half of the Video wouldn't load. Now it does. No, that I have not seen before.

T-mobile Nexus 4 here. Doesn't work for me. Wonder why.
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there has not been one person who can say that they seen this before? this is funny

works for me
perhaps you need to tap several times rapidly

Tap what several times? Did you watch the whole video?
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isador said:
works for me
perhaps you need to tap several times rapidly
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Dial 123456789 and see if you get the music to play.

Cute. My grandkids will play with that for hours.
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miniwarlord said:
Cute. My grandkids will play with that for hours.
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lol its one of those thing you just have to show someone.

Lol works for me. On straight talk network.
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"You are not registered for the use of this service" translated from Norwegian.
Unless my phone is a freak of nature this shows it has nothing to do with the phone, you're calling a carrier "service."
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Hr Kristian said:
"You are not registered for the use of this service" translated from Norwegian.
Unless my phone is a freak of nature this shows it has nothing to do with the phone, you're calling a carrier "service."
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I think its just a T-mobile service but the thing is that people on T-mobile outside of New York don't get this. Funny I think it only works if you have a T-Mobile phone in New York. I Also did it on a Galaxy S2 from T-Mobile running on Simple Mobile Plan.

Duplicate post, please refer to the original post: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2317087
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Simultaneous voice and data on 3g?

I know the s3 had it but it went away with the s4. I wonder if the s5 will have it. I know you can get simultaneous voice and data over LTE, but can it be done on 3g?
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I know the s3 had it but it went away with the s4. I wonder if the s5 will have it. I know you can get simultaneous voice and data over LTE, but can it be done on 3g?
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You will not be able to talk and surf over 3G or 4G LTE.
The GS5 is a Sprint Spark phone and only has one transmission path and therefore can only either connect to LTE or CDMA never both. Sorry, but it does help for battery life.
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This sucks.

Yep. What a downgrade!
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That stinks. I can use my 4G while on the phone now with my Evo3D and would like to be able to use it while on a call on my next phone and was really thinking about the S5 for my upgrade. What to do now...

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That stinks. I can use my 4G while on the phone now with my Evo3D and would like to be able to use it while on a call on my next phone and was really thinking about the S5 for my upgrade. What to do now...
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It seems all new phones are on this unfortunate track... You won't be able to avoid it.
Triband is supposed to be the future, but they are going backwards
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eyecon82 said:
It seems all new phones are on this unfortunate track... You won't be able to avoid it.
Triband is supposed to be the future, but they are going backwards
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I would imagine until we have voice over LTE that won't come back on spark devices.

Is VoLTE coming with HD voice this summer or does that just step up what it's currently using?
I'm on my phone a lot in the car and while using navigation and streaming music. So if I ever need to re-route or want to change to a playlist I don't have stored, it kind of sucks.

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Talk and LTE 2.5 (spark)
This is the most backwards idea ever. I noticed in the first 5 mins of buying my phone. Highly upset about this! Not that I talk on the phone and use data at the same time a lot, but I would like to have the choice. Something that was not talked about in the weeks after the unveiling of the S5.

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This is the most backwards idea ever. I noticed in the first 5 mins of buying my phone. Highly upset about this! Not that I talk on the phone and use data at the same time a lot, but I would like to have the choice. Something that was not talked about in the weeks after the unveiling of the S5.
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i dont do it either...but when im using bluetooth and on hold, i dont mind playing with the internet....so backwards!!

Most of us have unlimited data on sprint. Google voice integrates well with sprint. So an option would be to set up google voice, and then use a third party app such as phone for google voice. I don't have s5 yet, so can't try it. still on s3.
if anyone wants to try it, then you can report back on how well it works. I have used it overseases using a 3g connection with mixed results. Sometimes worked well, sometimes not.

Hmm with sprint I can't surf the Web at all no data when on a call I understand 3g no data but I was told on spark or lte I can is this true?
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mobgod said:
Hmm with sprint I can't surf the Web at all no data when on a call I understand 3g no data but I was told on spark or lte I can is this true?
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Lte can but spark can't in it's current state .
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Lte can but spark can't in it's current state .
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When on lte still drops connection why? ?
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We have a spark device ....so we are basically sol . Past devices worked with lte. I believe all of sprints new devices will work in this manner. Until spark is updated to to allow this feature.
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We have a spark device ....so we are basically sol . Past devices worked with lte. I believe all of sprints new devices will work in this manner. Until spark is updated to to allow this feature.
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That really sucks might have to go back to the s3
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