Hello,
Hoping to get some advice here. Currently on Sogarth Base Vanilla Rom running radio 1.58 on Rogers with the new 6GB data plan. Couldn't get the 3g and H to show up until I configured the Band settings to Auto (another tip i got from these forums). This changes the provider name to "ROGERS UMTS". At this point, I could get 3g + H downloads, although it still felt a bit slow. Unfortunately, my 7500 will no longer hold any cell calls. All outgoing fails, and incoming only lasts 1-2 minutes. These are tests throughout the city(GTA).
Wife's phone (Tytn II) is working great at 3G + H using stock rom.
The only way I can get good cell reception again is if I manually tune the Band settings to GSM & GSM (1900+850)+UMTS(1900+850). Of course, I can never get any type of speed over Edge. The provider name changes to just ROGERS, which is the same provider name that the Tytn II gets.
Anyone have any words of advice or tips that I can try? Rogers won't help because it's an unsupported phone. Data reception is not an issue because the Tytn II gets full 3G/H. I'm hoping to finally unleash the power of this phone.
I'm wondering if it makes sense to downgrade to 1.57. I never tried this version with the data plan, because I only just recently got it. Hoping some people may have some telling experiences.
Thanks in advance,
achok.
Just as an update, reflashed to 1.57 radio with no improvement.
any other athena + rogers users here?
did you try the 3G hack?
download the nice utility from this forum
it was called something super mobile hack
it lets you customize sooooo much stuff of the phone inside and out
after i enabled it, mine always gets the best stuff 3G and HDPDA speed
which was awesome
if i didn't enable it, it was always on EDGE, and very few times on 3G
HOWEVER!!!!!!
i think i know why HTC did not turn that on by default
because whenever i keep 3G & HDPDA on all the time
it drains battery real fast
is worse than using WI FI all day long
so what i do now, is to keep it on EDGE for the automated downloads from programs Weather, TomTom, Stock, push email, etc
but when i SURF THE WEB, i enable 3G, and ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM like the commercial
is a quick ON OFF thing in the COMM Manager.
and when i'm done looking up stuff on the WEB, i turn it back to EDGE mode
to save battery
Don't know why you need to turn it off, I keep H on all the time and at the end of a low-useage day I'm still in the mid-80's on my battery. Yes, if I start surfing heavily the battery goes down much faster, but not from background push/pulls.
i do surf browse de web quite a bit
lots of download, some uploads
streaming videos
and i use VNC and remote deskop quite a lot for work / home stuff, meanwhile on the road.
this phone is the best thing every.
now i can literally work from any where, and people will still think i'm in the office
as long as i have good signal that is
Best thing with the Advantage is...... OUR BATTERY LAST SOOOOO LONNNNNNNNNG compare to a LAPTOP of any size, doing the same thing
Thanks for the replies and suggestion. I'll try the 3G hack and report back.
Anyway you can report which Radio ROM you are using? I'm still believing that certain Radio ROM's are better suited for the Rogers/Fido 3G network....
...or is the Rogers/3G network just than inconsistent?
Regards,
achok.
as you can see in my siggie it's the X7510 which means it has the stock 1.58 Radio that everyone is upgrading to with the Modded ROMs
and the other thing is, im on FIDO, not Rogers.
but LOL as if that matters anymore, they are both the same company now.
just one has better billing, and Cutomer Service, than the Get Lost actitude from Rogers CS people, and always screwed up and over billed invoices every month....
Folks, just as an update:
I recently upgraded to Michy 4.0 1.2 spl (16mb version) (fantastic ROM by the way...) and stayed with Radio 1.57.
So far all looks to be good, but still need to test over the next few days.
Hopefully, this is a sign that things are finally starting to work the way it's supposed to.
Regards,
Achok
I just upgraded to AP 4.0 Platinum..Everything works fine ( I think ) except when I go to m.youtube.com to watch videos, and streaming media starts, It says "Failed to find network."
Please help!!!
Coz this is the very reason why I upgraded the rom..thinking it would solve the problem..
I'm with Rogers..
I already installed the latest FP7 plugin thingy..
HELP ME!!!!
i cant get my 3G or my HSDPA to work at all. Im using The HTC TOUCH PRO, which i imported on the ROGERS network. Ive been reading these forums and i have no clue as to what radios and rom versions are nor how to even tell what im using. WHOSE THE GENIOUS HERE...HELP ME.. This phones wack unless i get the best out of it...
Htc touch pro
if anyone can email me directly also that would be cool...
[email protected]
Hi, I've only recently bought an HD2 and I'm absolutely loving it. The only real issue I'm having is with frequent network dropouts. This tends to happen when it's switching H to 3G and back, they're only brief but I've missed plenty of calls because of it. I don't mind mucking about with the phone and I've searched and found plenty of solutions to try and I'm currently trying different radio's.
To get to the point my question is this, does anybody know of anyway to get an audible notification when connected and disconnected from the network? I realise there's an icon change but as I'm not always looking at the screen then audio would be great while I'm testing.
Thanks
I was traveling overseas where there was no CDMA service but I brought my Fascinate and had it on airplane mode. However, I could not lock a GPS signal for the entire trip, even when standing in the middle of an empty field. I read on the dev forum something about GPS and NTP. DO you need a network connection to GPS lock on the Fascinate? Was running superclean 2.9.2 at the time.
I use mine off net fairly frequently. Typically with BackCountry Navigator. What app were you using?
I was using MapDroyd but even GPS Status couldnt lock it.
Airplane mode shuts everything off except for the phone. So the GPS chip was turned off and that is why you couldn't get a lock while over there.
drnihili said:
I use mine off net fairly frequently. Typically with BackCountry Navigator. What app were you using?
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Slight hijack. . .
How do you like BackCountry Navigator? I am planning a trip out west this summer with the family and thought this may be nice to have. It is worth the $10?
Hello everyone,
I own a Samsung Galaxy S2 and a HTC Desire HD. I am absolutely thrilled with so many things on the SGS2 but lately I've found that the wireless signal strength on my HTC Desire HD seems to be a lot stronger than my SGS2.
I've checked this holding both phones in the exact same spot connecting to the same router and found that the bars on the HTC always seem higher than the SGS2.
Thinking it just might have something to do with the way the phones were displaying the strength - I placed both phones in one location and found that the HTC was streaming music seamlessly but the SGS2 was losing signal strength and had to keep rebuffering and in some cases lost signal completely and I had to walk back to a strong spot and restart the wifi on the phone for it to pick up again.
Has anyone else been facing these issues?
Both phones are running Android 2.3.3 - is there any fix out there for it? I remember reading somewhere that this had to with Gingerbread on Samsung as this problem was faced earlier on the Samsung but after updating to Gingerbread the problem reappeared.
Anyone know if there's any fix for this to boost signal strength?
Much thanks in advance for any help offered.
-AndroidFreud.
Signal strength or inaccurate bars use tool to measure signal strength is the only measure of the wifi .
http://www.appbrain.com/app/wifi-analyzer/com.farproc.wifi.analyzer
jje
Thanks for the quick response - I will try that out.
But what I'm finding is the the current default wi-fi bars on both handsets seem accurate.
Holding the SGS2 and the HTC DHD in the exact same spot & streaming music from Winamp - the HTC plays the music uninterrupted whereas the SGS2 keeps losing the connection and has to buffer again.
I had seen some earlier threads that this was a problem on the SGS as well but it was fixed later. And then the Gingerbread update came out and the problem was back again.
Is this the case for anyone else. Seeing as they fixed it before is anyone aware of a fix for this to boost the wi-fi signal reception?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
-AndroidFreud.
I am getting really tired of hunting around for more troubleshooting options... has anyone else had no luck with 3G on AT&T pay as you go with streakdroid 1.9?
I see the 3g icon appear in the upper right hand corner (of launcherpro) for 1 second every now and then. streaming is an absolute no and internet is garbage most of the time. I can stand right next to someone else on at&t while they stream and i get nothing. lately the connection just drops for no reason and i have to reboot, even though i still have an H with blinking activity in the corner.
I have tried the recommended baseband 318 and 351 for kicks. I was originally using a t-mobile sim with no data, i ported my number to google voice and then forwarded into a new at&t pay as you go sim card (i only use 100 min, and voice gives you unlimited "texts" because they are data, so it is really cheap). everything works great except 3g and data in general. Additionally i can't get the wi-fi to connect automatically when i walk in range of a remembered wifi, whenever i walk in my house i have to manual connect.
I can't seem to find anyone else in particular having problems only with data/odd wi-fi in streakdroid 1.9.
Please help, thanks.
Do you care about your info on your streak?
You should consider reinstalling 351 and seeing if it's a software or hardware issue
I think maybe i spoke too soon. i think going from 318 to 351 has certainly helped my data greatly... web is alright now, video appears to be 5 seconds the phone's problem, 5 seconds wait longer... then i can play uninterrupted for 45 seconds or so... is that normal?
I still can't get it to connect to wireless automatically... that is something it is suppose to do right? or is there a 3rd party app i need to make it do it for me... i have tried wifi buddy and left my wi-fi on all the time, but it still won't actively connect to networks it knows.