I've looked around the site if anyone posted about it. But Since USCC put out there faster internet last December, I was wondering why my phone never seemed faster. After a brief walk in at one of the stores, they said i just needed to update.
They dialed *228 and after a minute or so that 1X turned into EV. After a download speed test on DSLReports, I'm at about 1M download and Latency at about 500ms
I'm still on the stock rom, I imagine that everyone else out there that's already updated theirs has been in the know.
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Now if i can only get my gps to work.
I wish they would update my area! MidCoast Maine is still rural for 6 months of the year.!
xRuiner said:
I've looked around the site if anyone posted about it. But Since USCC put out there faster internet last December, I was wondering why my phone never seemed faster. After a brief walk in at one of the stores, they said i just needed to update.
They dialed *228 and after a minute or so that 1X turned into EV. After a download speed test on DSLReports, I'm at about 1M download and Latency at about 500ms
I'm still on the stock rom, I imagine that everyone else out there that's already updated theirs has been in the know.
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Now if i can only get my gps to work.
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You won't get GPS working with the stock rom....
However, as an FYI, if you do upgrade to a custom rom, you will have to fix the HDR login and password in EPST in order to get EVDO working again.
Which EVDO area are you in?
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i know this has been a fairly well known issue but has anyone with much better comp skills than me been able to get an idea on what is causing the connection to time out?
I was looking through the registry and saw a few things but since I wouldn't have a clue for any commands I don't wanna try.
I have an extra Titan laying around but both were flashed to the new ROM and I can't get 2.17 downloaded again to load on to that one to compare the registry.
Any help at all? ? ?
Everyone seems to be focused on GPS which works just fine for me and no one cares to try the connection timeout problem.
Thanks
yea I realized that happens a lot
i havent had that issue suprisingly, but i use exchange throughout the day...
also does anyone have the 2.17 RUU they could email me (phillips.h @ gmail.com)....i can't get it from the htc site it won't complete a DL.
thanks
yea its a good thing, when im not by a power outlet all day but it sux bc at night i like to stay connected to aim, but it doesnt werk. I have a feeling that its not a bug just a way for sprint to limit the bandwidth that is used.
im having a connection problem as well, mine is a little different though. When i upgraded to the leaked rom, it put me back to prl 60610. i upgraded the prl back to 60611 and everything has been working good except one thing, at my home i get poor sprint evdo signal. I used to be able to roam on alltel's tower and get a full evdo signal. now for some reason on this rom i can only get 1x while roaming on alltel's towers, even with the same prl. I don't understand why that would happen. does anyone here know?
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im having a connection problem as well, mine is a little different though. When i upgraded to the leaked rom, it put me back to prl 60610. i upgraded the prl back to 60611 and everything has been working good except one thing, at my home i get poor sprint evdo signal. I used to be able to roam on alltel's tower and get a full evdo signal. now for some reason on this rom i can only get 1x while roaming on alltel's towers, even with the same prl. I don't understand why that would happen. does anyone here know?
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did the PRL update help with the dropped connection?? i just checked mine and i
am also back to 60610. time to do a update....
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did the PRL update help with the dropped connection?? i just checked mine and i
am also back to 60610. time to do a update....
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i had to manually update my prl and i havent had the dropped evdo that some people have been reporting. my brother has the same rom and prl but lives 3 hours away and has the evdo dropping problem, go figure. i think there are quite a few random problems with this rom. i really would like to get evdo roaming back...
News about the internet connection issues
So I don't know if this is the same as what you are experiencing, but I am able to connect to the network (it shows connected), but it won't load the pages. I went through a bunch of steps with Verizon support and got to the point where I could do what I just described. Initially, I kept getting either the error message saying that I couldnt connect for an unknown reason or username/password was wrong (even though I double checked those). I reverted back to the VZW ROM and everything works again. I'd really like to get the GPS and REV A action going, but I just can't seem to make it work. I followed the instructions everyone gave, too. If I make any progress I'll let you know.
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also does anyone have the 2.17 RUU they could email me (phillips.h @ gmail.com)....i can't get it from the htc site it won't complete a DL.
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Way to big to email.
60 megs
well then could some one put it on a host like rapidshare or the like
I was running Verizon stock ROM. My download speed was between 600 – 1200kbps. Flashed the MR1 update to get Rev A and GPS. Now my top download speed is 135kbps. Called Verizon support and they decided it was a hardware issue so they sent me a new (not refurbished) phone. First thing I did was update with the MR1. Again, very slow data connection. Called Verizon support. Since this is the second phone they decided something was wrong with the MR1 update. They are sending me another phone and request that I do not update with MR1 until someone can figure out the problem.
Skywing’s GPS fix does work very well with Google Maps, just kind of slow.
Has anyone else checked their speed after the MR1 update at www.mobilespeedtest.com?
Any ideas?
Not much help, but I have noticed that my connection speed has dropped by at least half. I've topped out at a hair over 1 meg, and average usually 5-600k. I just ran the test again and only got 350. I haven't had any time to deal with verizon for my personal phone though.
Have been talking to Verizon support. They think there is a glitch in the MR1 update. They’ve had 2 additional reports with the same issue and think there is others that just don’t know it.
*cough* custom rom *cough*
I second that.
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I was running Verizon stock ROM. My download speed was between 600 – 1200kbps. Flashed the MR1 update to get Rev A and GPS. Now my top download speed is 135kbps. Called Verizon support and they decided it was a hardware issue so they sent me a new (not refurbished) phone. First thing I did was update with the MR1. Again, very slow data connection. Called Verizon support. Since this is the second phone they decided something was wrong with the MR1 update. They are sending me another phone and request that I do not update with MR1 until someone can figure out the problem.
Skywing’s GPS fix does work very well with Google Maps, just kind of slow.
Has anyone else checked their speed after the MR1 update at www.mobilespeedtest.com?
Any ideas?
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Had your same problem. Used to get 600+ before MR1. Flashed MR1, and it felt slow, but I hadn't thought to check it because I wasn't using it too much. When I did check it, I topped out at 150. I called Verizon support. The guy said that after the MR1 update, the phone does not connect correctly sometimes until they reset the data. He had me power off the phone, he did his thing. Powered it back on, reprogrammed... reauthenticated w/ new A-key (they walk you thru this)... and I rechecked it. I'm currently getting it in the 300s and 400s (He claims it's just a "heavy" data usage time of day). It's not quite the 600+ we're looking for , but it's better than 130s. Hope this helps. I'll check again at a less "heavy" time of day
Edit: Did a reset and checked again... got 599kbps... close enough
We found the problem. It was the PRL 51054 that was causing the phone to go into a loop. Most folks were on PRL 51056 but I had an older calling plan so I got a different one. If you dial *228 option 2, you will now notice PRL 51101 or 51099.
Just curious if it is my area I live in or me screwing around with my phone. I live in Fresno, CA and we've had HSPA+ here for a couple of months. I was averaging around 3mbps down and 1.5 up from my house and 4-5k at my office. All of the sudden I am getting extremely poor 3g speeds. 200-300k at my house and 600-700k at my office. Just wondering if anyone is from the area here and if they are experiencing the same issues.
The only thing I did was flash the JPM froyo to mess around. I am now back running Bionix fusion 1.1 with stock kernel and ji6 modem.
Edit: Going to Odin back to official JI6, I'll post results in case anyone is curious.
Edit 2: Didnt work, still getting the same speeds. Just talked to a friend of mine down in southern CA and he is no longer getting HSPA+ speeds on his vibrant. Anyone else having an issues like this?
Anyone else in HSPA+ areas having this happen?
yes. very strange. and its ****ing pissing me off too.
i work in addison, tx (dallas suburb basically) and i used to get 4 to alllmost 6mbps down at work. up speeds have always sucked a nut but that's fine with me because you're only sending http requests most of the time so 300kbps is fine.
past few months it has become VERY spotty. some days my down speeds are under 200, the ping times out, and my up speeds are 1.2-2mpbs (WTF!?) this is with four full bars most of the time. its so bad that with the awesome ups, pages IMMEDIATELY time out, i cant even browse little mobile sites like m.facebook.com a lot of the time.
outside of this area, everything seems to go back to almost normal again. i no longer get 4+ down speeds anymore, but they're better, 1.5-2 i can live with.
it started happening before i rooted the phone and flashed any roms. and has never gone back to normal with the other roms i've tried, so im pretty sure it is a network issue.
the only other thing i could think of is maybe my sim card is crapping out, but i dont have another sim to test, as all of my friends dont have tmobile smartphones with a data plan and i'm way too lazy to go back to stock and go argue with a tmobile store rep to get a new sim card for free. mine is probably at least 6 years old at this point.
see what i mean? this could be better i guess since it wont let me select a server near me (this is renton, wa)
pings, in order as those are shown in the screencap are:
92ms
160ms
111ms
93ms
also, instead of UMTS like it used to say, now it just says "Network: Cell"
this makes no sense.
I'm running stock jfd firmware still and my 3g has been sucking ass as of late as well and I'm near Dallas. I was in Addison Saturday night with full bars and good signal and couldn't do anything. Tried espn mobile and it was so slow. Forced it back to edge and it was a lot better. Tmo 3g here in dfw is hit or miss.....mostly miss. I was in Grapevine a cpl wks ago and was getting 5mbps down...never seen that before around here. But I still say its hit or miss mostly.
I have noticed that the 3g speeds I've been getting here in beaumont, tx are way below what I used to get as well. Sometimes 3g is even slower than edge!
I wonder if maybe the T-Mobile network is simply getting overloaded?
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im in san antonio and im getting the same average of about 4.5/1.5 like i have since the network upgrade. no problems here so far...i did notice my friends G2 has the H instead of the 3G but isnt any faster than my Nexus or my Vibrant, i figured the g2 would blow away my phones but his g2 averages about 4.5/1....
ive asked this in several different threads and cant seem to get a straight answer. maybe im asking wrong, so I am trying to make my question as clear as possible:
I am trying to figure out if im getting tmobiles new network in my area; (4g/hspa+). before I get flammed, yes, i do realize that our phones wont get 21mps download speed on the new network and the best we should see is 7.2mps, but probably wont get that in real world experience.
So i have been getting better speeds in the past few weeks in my area (between 1.5 and 3mps download) but that alone does not tell me if i am getting a good 3g signal or poor 4g/what ever its called signal.
When you go into settings> about phone> status, it says mobile network type. I am assuming that the Mobile network type will change depending if on new network, 3g, or edge....? (hspa, hspa+, hsdpa) Can anyone confirm or deny that this should or will change depending on what area we are in and what type of data connection we are connected to?
The other way someone told me to check is by downloading mobile signal widget and it will display 3g or H. For me this does not seem very accurate but it does display 3g or H...
The reason I dont know if Im on their newest/fastest network is because they have a coverage map on their website for HSPA+. my city is not on it, but a city about 15-20 miles away is on it. I did not really think i would be getting it since its not my city, but like i said ive noticed somewhat faster speeds, nothing like 4-6 mbs download that would confirm it for me, but enough to make me unsure and question.
so sorry for the long post. basically just wondering if network type under about phone will change depending on if im getting normal 3g or their newer/faster network and if that mobile signal widget is an accurate way to tell
thanks
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Just curious if it is my area I live in or me screwing around with my phone. I live in Fresno, CA and we've had HSPA+
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If you have a vibrant you never got HSPA+, you just benefitted from its speed, the phone isn't capable of the +
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turbosix said:
yes. very strange. and its ****ing pissing me off too.
i work in addison, tx (dallas suburb basically) and i used to get 4 to alllmost 6mbps down at work. up speeds have always sucked a nut but that's fine with me because you're only sending http requests most of the time so 300kbps is fine.
past few months it has become VERY spotty. some days my down speeds are under 200, the ping times out, and my up speeds are 1.2-2mpbs (WTF!?) this is with four full bars most of the time. its so bad that with the awesome ups, pages IMMEDIATELY time out, i cant even browse little mobile sites like m.facebook.com a lot of the time.
outside of this area, everything seems to go back to almost normal again. i no longer get 4+ down speeds anymore, but they're better, 1.5-2 i can live with.
it started happening before i rooted the phone and flashed any roms. and has never gone back to normal with the other roms i've tried, so im pretty sure it is a network issue.
the only other thing i could think of is maybe my sim card is crapping out, but i dont have another sim to test, as all of my friends dont have tmobile smartphones with a data plan and i'm way too lazy to go back to stock and go argue with a tmobile store rep to get a new sim card for free. mine is probably at least 6 years old at this point.
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I got an extra sim from when I got my vibrant...I'm in arlington..plus my speeds have improved since I got rooted with the new updates and on fusion 1.1 with voodoo
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I got an extra sim from when I got my vibrant...I'm in arlington..plus my speeds have improved since I got rooted with the new updates and on fusion 1.1 with voodoo
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every single time ive bought a new phone from tmobile, the rep always takes the sim cards out of the box and uses my existing one.
a buddy of mine left tmobile because they wanted to charge him $20 for a sim card.
i actually brought that up with the tmobile twitter account and they just said "sim cards are usually not free"
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every single time ive bought a new phone from tmobile, the rep always takes the sim cards out of the box and uses my existing one.
a buddy of mine left tmobile because they wanted to charge him $20 for a sim card.
i actually brought that up with the tmobile twitter account and they just said "sim cards are usually not free"
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That's crazy I've always kept mind...
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every single time ive bought a new phone from tmobile, the rep always takes the sim cards out of the box and uses my existing one.
a buddy of mine left tmobile because they wanted to charge him $20 for a sim card.
i actually brought that up with the tmobile twitter account and they just said "sim cards are usually not free"
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That's strange. I've always gotten my sim cards free from t-mobile. Just tell them the existing one keeps giving you a sim card error and that when you purchased your vibrant they took the sim card that came with it (because they typically do). They will take your old one and replace it with a newer one.
I told the rep I would not buy the phone without a new sim. He immediately swapped it from my g1 to a new one.
doubt it will help, but have you switched to airplane mode, reboot and then turn airplane mode so it finds your network again? I didn't even have data this morning and that fixed it.
Remember t mo is in the process of a major upgrade to their network too...
Every time I buy a phone from a TMO retail store and they go to take the sim I tell them to keep their fingers off and leave it in the box because I paid for it already. What they will do is put it in their binder for when the next poor schmuck walks in having lost their sim so they can get charged for it.
They try to give you the same BS about it costing money and maybe that's true if you lose it, but not with a brand new phone purchase. Even my new Vibrant I ordered from loyalty came with a new SIM in the box. I just kept it as a spare. The things these stores do to double-dip a measily $20.
honestly i probably should have but i assumed it was normal since i have never had network connection issues when going to buy a new phone. i've never even batted an eyelash when they did this.
if i odin my phone back to stock and take it up to them i'll definitely bring it up if they try to charge me.
For the past couple days, I've been having very poor 3g speeds, less than 150kbps. I have tried calling Sprint and they just say it's not on their part. I've done a profile update, switched EVDO to automatic instead of CDMA, cleared the proxies, and a data restore. Am I missing something and is anyone else having this problem? Is there anything I can do to fix this?
join the club
i normally get slow speed as well
I was getting .5-1.5 mbps a week or two ago, what speeds are you looking at?
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I was getting .5-1.5 mbps a week or two ago, what speeds are you looking at?
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4G speeds are good though
Yeah, that's pretty good compared to what I get. Maybe it will work itself out in a few days
I never had a problem in my area up until recently. Absolutely awful 3G speeds. Once I start getting further out of the cities it will get better but yea they have been horrible. I use wi-fi at the house so it doesn't affect me too much at home. Use to always get 700+kbps no problem and now I get awful ping times 600+ and horrible speeds most the time. I think ever since the evo came out the network has been overcrowded. Now that Sprint is the only unlimited data provider left I'm sure we have all the bandwidth hogs on the network which isn't helping.
Nothing you can do about it, I have tried everything as well. Removed proxies, data profile updates, restores whatever. Nothing helps
OK guys, you are being pushed through Sprint Proxies when using their interbutts. It lets them watch all your internet usage and really slows it down
If you are rooted grab MSL Reader from the app store, or if not rooted call Sprint and tell them you want your MSL code for your records in case something happens.
go to the dialer and type in ##3282# which will bring up the EPST. Choose Edit Mode and enter your MSL. now go to Advanced and scroll to the bottom. The last four are where your data is routed through. Change them to either 0 or 0.0.0.0 depending if they are ports or IPs.
You will need to do this everytime you update your PRL, firmware, etc
Just got my phone and it worked fine for the first day. For the past two days however, I have been unable to make or receive calls/text messages. 3g and 1x work fine but everytime I dial out, I get: "we are unable to complete your call, please try again"
I am rooted via revolutionary and running the stock deodexed rom and latest radio. I tested cdma connectivity after rooting and everything worked fine. I've had sprint reset my profile, updated prl etc...
I've been told by CS that there is an outage affecting certain users, anyone else not able to use the phone part of your smartphone?
If you are getting an "Error 16" then you have to call Sprint and have them fix it, takes 5 minutes. They don't care.
However if you are on the East Coast you might be experiencing the same crap I am. Most Sprint towers are still down. I have had to use the Alltell PRL to get decent speed....I figure WTH not, I'm already roaming 100% of the time, I might as well get decent speed.
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If you are getting an "Error 16" then you have to call Sprint and have them fix it, takes 5 minutes. They don't care.
However if you are on the East Coast you might be experiencing the same crap I am. Most Sprint towers are still down. I have had to use the Alltell PRL to get decent speed....I figure WTH not, I'm already roaming 100% of the time, I might as well get decent speed.
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Where would I see this error 16? I've called sprint and had them reprovision my account twice and just about everything else I can think of. Im located in hawaii and my roommates og evo works fine.
Not an error 16 but even with my airave im roaming? yeah... outtage...
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