When I'm at home my phone automatically connects to this crappy tower but a tower is up the street almost just as close that I get amazing speed on. Any way to lock on to the better tower?
Which version you on, i had the same issue as you changed it to 3G, almost no one uses that anymore so you get decent speeds. i remember on the lolipop you could open terminal en force the lock on tower you needed the ID of that tower but when you go out of the range of that cell tower, it lost connection and stopped connecting to other towers because you forced it on that one.
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I recently purchased the tilt. The phone wants to connect to a network that is over 10 miles away. There is a tower in my town. When looking a the online manuel for the phone, it shows the capability of placing the phone in the manual mode and locking to a specific tower. It appears that at&t has changed that setting.There is no automatic or manual setting on my phone. It has a "find network" button that will allow the phone to obtain the local tower, but in about a minute or two it changes back to the distant tower. Is there any way of changing this setting or configuration in the phone to allow access to the manual mode???
Looking for an app to build a map (using gps) of towers, their locations, strengths, numbers, etc., for CDMA (Verizon).
About a month ago, we started having an issue with our local Verizon tower. We kept locking onto a tower about five miles away when we have a local tower less than a mile away.
After talking to Verizon about the issue, they decided to send me a Hybrid PRL to force us to lock onto the local tower. The local tower is an Alltel => Verizon tower.
After receiving the PRL, I've noticed several oddities... First of all, in FieldTrial.exe, regarldless of where I go, I always show my local tower number for SID - it never changes.
Regardless, I would like to map out area towers, their signal strength, GPS coorids, etc.
I've found a few programs that do this, but most either are for GSM phones or don't work on WM6.
Suggestions?
Thanks
The number you see for SID is not for a specific tower, its for your entire market, and will not change unless you go out of your city/town. You will not be able to access specific tower ID information with most CDMA phones, like you can with a GSM device.
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The number you see for SID is not for a specific tower, its for your entire market, and will not change unless you go out of your city/town. You will not be able to access specific tower ID information with most CDMA phones, like you can with a GSM device.
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Oh! I didn't know this... Obviously, I was mistaken in understanding SID's meaning. Back to the drawing board then...
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Hi all
I am having some weird problem with Google Map
when i use data plan provided by Maxis (my telco) the location that it shows is a few kilometers away from my actual position.
when i turn off the data usage and use my Wifi to open the google maps, it shows that i am off by 40m from my actual position
anyone got any idea what is causing the problem?
Sounds like your telco's not very good at finding your precise location.
I think wifi would always be more accurate. Wifi hotspots don't have much range, and there are a lot more of them than cell towers, so it's easier to know that you're within 40m of Starbucks WiFi #3828 than a particular cell tower.
In my home, with WiFi off and GPS off, the cell towers here usually report me a few blocks away from my house. With WiFi on, it puts me in my own backyard. With GPS on, it puts me in the correct room of the house.
So I work in midtown Manhattan, and in my particular building, ATT's service is very spotty, specifically where I sit. You'd think the 28th floor near Times Square would get great reception, but I don't. Oftentimes my network connectivity will go completely blank w/ absolutely no service, then turn back on. I've called ATT, switched to a 4G sim card, they pushed updates, rebooted my phone, etc. all to no avail. I still get very spotty service.
EXCEPT I just figured out if I have an app w/ streaming data running (run once there is an initial connection of course), it actually maintains the connection (currently using the streaming music app "di.fm" and "sky.fm", Pandora would prob work as well). I'm assuming this is because the phone locks onto a specific tower and doesn't let go as long as the app is accessing the data continuously.
Is there a way for my phone to stay connected to a specific tower and not jump around without running a streaming app? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks!
I hate to say this but it's your area during peak times. I work downtown near the Brooklyn Bridge and experience the same thing. Until AT&T finishes the backhaul this is what we're stuck with. Build props and other mods are shots in the dark but won't help much.
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Unless they give him a microcell.
Since they know you've been having issues, they might give you one for free.
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But why am I able to maintain connection when running a streaming app? If traffic was the reason why my connection was dropping, wouldn't it still do so?
I think the tech guy said something about how my phone would try to connect to a tower 20 miles away when there are half a dozen right around me. When my phone does have reception, it's probably because it's hooked up to one of the close local towers, and running a streaming app forces it to stay locked onto that one...
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But why am I able to maintain connection when running a streaming app? If traffic was the reason why my connection was dropping, wouldn't it still do so?
I think the tech guy said something about how my phone would try to connect to a tower 20 miles away when there are half a dozen right around me. When my phone does have reception, it's probably because it's hooked up to one of the close local towers, and running a streaming app forces it to stay locked onto that one...
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When idle it's easier to drop connections as the phone switches frequencies. Here's a couple of things to do if you haven't done so already.
Make sure you're running the stock radio, if you haven't flashed another radio you're running the stock one.
Change to usa bands only. Open the dialer, press: *#*#4636#*#* Go to phone information. Press menu then press select radio band. Then select USA only. Give it a few seconds while it reconnects.
OK I'll let you know if it maintains network connection any better.
Also, what about the preferred network type? The options I have are:
- WCDMA preferred
- GSM only
- WCDMA only
- GSM auto (PRL)
- CDMA auto (PRL)
- CDMA only
- GSM/CDMA auto (PRL)
- Unknown
It was previously on WCDMA preferred, but should it be GSM/CDMA auto (PRL)?
I am with a carrier (U) that supports 3g in limited areas, outside the coverage, I will be switched to another carrier (C), but only with EDGE connectivity.
I am living in the 3g coverage area, but somehow the car park is not covered, so everytime I go to my office car park, it switches to C, and when I am back in the ground floor and up, I noticed that sometimes its very slow in switching back to the carrier U.
I have called U up and they asked me to use the "Select Network Automatically" settings, but that doesn't seems to help much as sometimes even after 30 minutes it didn't switch back, until I go into the network settings.
I have noticed this too.
I an on Sprint. If my phone switches to 1x cdma (slow), it may not switch back to 3G if I am actively using data. I have to uncheck and recheck "data enabled" to bump it back. It seems to switch back ok if data is idle.
hmm, wonder if I could do something with tasker about this.