my phone's data is so weak indoor, so i want to install a different modem. I noticed that t959v and t959 cannot share the same rom, so i'm wondering if it's ok to install a t959 modem to my t959v, KB5, for instance...
p.s. English is not my first language, so it's a little difficult for me to find the answer among huge namber of posts, pls help me on this
I doubt it.
anybody knows?
Well I remember a thread in the Development section not too long ago about a guy who used Gt- I9000 modems since he lived in Europe. My say in this? I say why not? You can always use Odin to save yourself
You won't be able to use the modem. The t959V uses different hardware radios for gps, signal, and wifi
duboi97 said:
Well I remember a thread in the Development section not too long ago about a guy who used Gt- I9000 modems since he lived in Europe. My say in this? I say why not? You can always use Odin to save yourself
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thanks dude! i really need more advice since i live in china, the network is quite different (TOT)
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You won't be able to use the modem. The t959V uses different hardware radios for gps, signal, and wifi
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thanks! that's what i'm worrying about, seems i have to wait for better solutions
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Hi guys,
I recently noticed that the Vodafone reception has been very, very bad. I'm talking 1 - 2 bars MAX and the rest of the time absolutely no reception, anywhere.
Is anyone having this problem? What could be the cause of this? I have a brand new SIM card as well - and on 2.3.7 MIUI ROM. Any help will be appreciated and thanked
Try flashing a different RADIO/MODEM package... Different ones are meant for different regions and yield varying results as far as reception and call quality are concerned. And there's nothing like the "best radio"... That's like asking what's the best religion. It's all about experimentation.
Try KJ1 from here. This is the best modem I've tried/used over the past 2 and a half months. I'm in Geelong and this gives me the best signal strength/coverage & data speeds. KI2 from Cellcom Israel from here was also good.
It could also be a Vodafone lack of coverage/capacity issue as well.
If you find neither of these improves the situation, do what Prassad suggests & try every modem you can get your hands on.
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Hi guys,
I recently noticed that the Vodafone reception has been very, very bad. I'm talking 1 - 2 bars MAX and the rest of the time absolutely no reception, anywhere.
Is anyone having this problem? What could be the cause of this? I have a brand new SIM card as well - and on 2.3.7 MIUI ROM. Any help will be appreciated and thanked
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Prasad007 said:
Try flashing a different RADIO/MODEM package... Different ones are meant for different regions and yield varying results as far as reception and call quality are concerned. And there's nothing like the "best radio"... That's like asking what's the best religion. It's all about experimentation.
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Will that affect the way my current NDT MIUI ROM operates? and do I just flash it through Odin or CWM?
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Try KJ1 from here. This is the best modem I've tried/used over the past 2 and a half months. I'm in Geelong and this gives me the best signal strength/coverage & data speeds. KI2 from Cellcom Israel from here was also good.
It could also be a Vodafone lack of coverage/capacity issue as well.
If you find neither of these improves the situation, do what Prassad suggests & try every modem you can get your hands on.
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My mates on the same ROM and he has full bars I will give the flashing a new modem a go.. thanks bud.
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Try KJ1 from here. This is the best modem I've tried/used over the past 2 and a half months. I'm in Geelong and this gives me the best signal strength/coverage & data speeds. KI2 from Cellcom Israel from here was also good.
It could also be a Vodafone lack of coverage/capacity issue as well.
If you find neither of these improves the situation, do what Prassad suggests & try every modem you can get your hands on.
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Took ur advise and so far so good.. hopefully stays full bar
Sent from my GT-I9100
Very good Let us know how it goes over a few days. Also, this thread is a good resource for AU SGS2 users.
gspotr said:
Took ur advise and so far so good.. hopefully stays full bar
Sent from my GT-I9100
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Very good Let us know how it goes over a few days. Also, this thread is a good resource for AU SGS2 users.
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Oh mate loving it.. I'm in a place where the reception is always dead. And its on fulls with 3G
Thanks heaps champ!
Sent from my GT-I9100
Glad that's solved your problem. You're welcome
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Oh mate loving it.. I'm in a place where the reception is always dead. And its on fulls with 3G
Thanks heaps champ!
Sent from my GT-I9100
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Both vodafone and Telstra sell the T model i9100 galaxy which requires a T modem. Whenever I flash a new rom I reflash with a T modem to get decent reception back.
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And funnily enough, the thread which has a link to the modem I suggest he flash has a first line that reads "I9100T Modem from Vodafone Australia"
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1842207
just curious what is hanging up from working on my phone, I installed it but it lags/freezes my phone up. What could be doing that??
The phones do not have the same modem chip.
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The phones do not have the same modem chip.
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neither does the blaze and that is the modem I am using on my note now
The Blaze 4g has the same modem chip as the i717.
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The Blaze 4g has the same modem chip as the i717.
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I stand corrected.
What about the Tmo GSII, I can run that modem on my 717 and it can run the TMO note modem
There is an SII modem floating around -- its the VLK1.
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There is an SII modem floating around -- its the VLK1.
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Check my thread, lots of modem links..
GNote Super page
Sent from my SAMSUNG-SGH-I717 using Forum Runner
bigjoe2675 said:
Check my thread, lots of modem links..
GNote Super page
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Which thread?
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Found it. The image below your post wasn't showing last night for some reason. There now.
here is the link for others who may have had the same problem
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=28040353&postcount=1
but why cant the note run the tmo note radio? If I can run the T989 radio and the T989 can run the the Tmo Note........see where I am going
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but why cant the note run the tmo note radio? If I can run the T989 radio and the T989 can run the the Tmo Note........see where I am going
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We can and i am, and its running pretty good, just a lot of battery drainage :/
but here you go, it works very clean on mine, got almost double speeds.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1837907
Amigo, please try it. You might get a good result.
Since they are galaxy s phones you can flash the modems but not all will work. I was trying other modems Thursday, and even though I got bars and I could enter the APN and activate data, the phone was sooo laggy.
Many users tried the new modem and had the same lag problems. But exeriment and report back. If you get a bad result you only have to flash your old modem, not restore your system.
thats the one I tried, it totally lagged my phone out
Why can't it work? Maddening, I know. The US t-mobile frequencies and the two bands used is the issue. They went rogue with that two band scheme and now there's always issues using any hardware on their network.
Would it be possible to swap out the hardware, specifically the modem chip, or is it soldered on there?
Sent from the Jelly Way Galaxy
The mainboard contains the processors, video, modem, and sound. Not possible to swap chips.
It seems like trading hardware with other xda'ers would be easier and more sure. xda has a sale or trade section.
so do even know if it will be possible to generate a working, better modem from the tmo more at all, or is it just a really difficult task?
Sent from the Jelly Way Galaxy
the modem file is a binary file that seems like nobody is able to decompile or whatever.
Its always like this throughout the forums --people get a phone made for one network then struggle to make it work on the other.
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the modem file is a binary file that seems like nobody is able to decompile or whatever.
Its always like this throughout the forums --people get a phone made for one network then struggle to make it work on the other.
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the truth makes me sad
So when you say "seems" and "struggle" I take that as being very difficult but not necessarily impossible¿
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Nothing is impossible ...
But unless a serious interest is taken by developers who know and understand the coding, and how this code integrates into the chipset,
Then you probably won't see progress.
I'm guessing it would take development at the manufacturer level ....to pull it off.
And carrier/manufacturer relationships are often set in stone. It's amazing that our talented developers are able to glean so much for us, given the fact that often times, they have little or nothing to work with, yet they manage to give us some pretty awesome work ..g
I know this may be a bit of a noob question but can someone please explain to me what modems are and what affect they have as I have noticed there is a thread with a lot of different ones know it.
I am running the latest jellybean official Rom on my handset. I am in the UK and on the orange network.
I Havre had many occasions where my phone shows I have signal and that I am either showing 3g or h+ however when I try to load some pages or refresh pages on the xda app that it will just churn over and not actually load anything. The data arrows dk not show both moving (often just one) and it just seems like it has frozen. I the find myself having to leave the page/app and restart it.
Is this a modem problem? Which one should I use if it is?
Thanks for the help.
Sent from my GT-I9300 using xda premium
I don't have an answer for you, but I get the same thing on ATT in the US a lot.
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I know this may be a bit of a noob question but can someone please explain to me what modems are and what affect they have as I have noticed there is a thread with a lot of different ones know it.
Modems / radio/baseband is what communicates with your phone network .
I am running the latest jellybean official Rom on my handset. I am in the UK and on the orange network.
You are not using official JB its not released .
Is this a modem problem? Which one should I use if it is?
Network problems try different modems starting with the posted JB modems followed by the ICS modems from the modem posts .
jje
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Hello people,
For the past few months I'm having this issue which I find extremely [email protected]!!
Every few minutes, my phones just loses internet connectivity - the 3g signal appears to be normal during all the time, thing is, whenever I try to use any internet application - it just hangs. and then, after a minute or so, connectivity is back(again, for a few minutes).
I have tried flashing so many versions of modems - some improved it a little but most of them didn't help at all, or even made it worse.
Hopefully someone could help me with that as I'm that close to give up on this and buy a new phone.
Thanks in advanced.
Nir.
Which firmware are you running on your phone? What modem do you have right now and where do you live? Do you have problems with all apps that use internet-connection? Do the problems dissapear when you use wifi?
Just some information would be usefull
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Which firmware are you running on your phone? What modem do you have right now and where do you live? Do you have problems with all apps that use internet-connection? Do the problems dissapear when you use wifi?
Just some information would be usefull
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Yop.. forgot to mention a 'few' things...
Model: GT-I9100
Rom: RootBox V3.8
Kernel: 3.0.31-CM-g7ce58e6
Baseband: I9100DXLPB
Android version: 4.2.2
I live in Israel, bought the phone in Thailand.
I tried flashing all available Israeli modems(from various cell phone providers) - none helped.
Problem disappear when I move to WiFi - as 3g connectivity moves to background...
Thanks.
I assume you've read the Rootbox threads to see if other people experience signalproblems?
Did you compare the connectivity with other roms? Stock-based roms for example...
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I assume you've read the Rootbox threads to see if other people experience signalproblems?
Did you compare the connectivity with other roms? Stock-based roms for example...
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I've been hovering the internet for weeks in search for a solution..
That's not a RootBox issue in particular as I tried using various roms...
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I've been hovering the internet for weeks in search for a solution..
That's not a RootBox issue in particular as I tried using various roms...
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That seems quite weird.. The only thing I can come up with is 1) a hardware problem, or 2) you live in an area where the signal is crap
Hopefully someone else knows anything.. Good luck.
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That seems quite weird.. The only thing I can come up with is 1) a hardware problem, or 2) you live in an area where the signal is crap
Hopefully someone else knows anything.. Good luck.
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Neither of them thanks anyways.
Anyone else...?
If you've only tried flashing the modems bundled with stock roms from Israeli carriers, you haven't done nearly enough. There are literally dozens of modems available, you need to start flashing as many as you need to. This isn't going to fix itself magically.
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If you've only tried flashing the modems bundled with stock roms from Israeli carriers, you haven't done nearly enough. There are literally dozens of modems available, you need to start flashing as many as you need to. This isn't going to fix itself magically.
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I haven't flashed only Israeli modems but others as well. I've tried around 20 so far...
Question is, which direction should I choose? should I look for Thai modems or IL?
That depends. I know Israeli carriers sold (still sell ?) the I9100T, are you sure you don't have one of these ? If that's the case, I'd be trying modems bundled with roms released by the Australian & NZ carriers which sold the I9100T (I have one), and yes, the Thai ones as well.
If you do have an I9100, then keep trying any/every modem you can get your hands on. If it's not a carrier-side issue, this is really all you can try, unless you want to start messing around with RIL's as well. I've not found any difference in connectivity doing this personally (tho many people have) but if you get to the point of trying every single modem & you're sure it isn't a carrier issue, you might as well try. But I would leave this till last given many people find their connectivity messed up even worse by flashing an incompatible RIL.
HI everyone... I have a question:
I have an at&t sgh i717 with a virgin sim (Im outside of the us), and I need to choose a new modem (I think) because currently I have this t989 uvle1 for tmobile that I had to use to unlock my phone. I'm getting three bars in the signal so my question is or are: do I really need to change the modem? Does the signal have to show more bars so that one can be sure that the modem fits the phone? And, a modem has to be chosen depending on your phone and on your location (since I'm in southamerica)? does having a 2.6.3 kernel affect any of this, should I upgrade it?
I hope I'm not asking too much, sorry,
thanks
Wrong forum, belongs here. I've asked mods to move your post, sit tight.
Edit - You mean i777, right ? (I717 is the AT&T Note).
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Wrong forum, belongs here. I've asked mods to move your thread, sit tight.
Edit - You mean i777, right ? (I717 is the AT&T Note).
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Oops sorry, it's i717 AT&T note, so It must be either deleted or moved, I thought I could post my question here, sorry again
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malybru said:
Hi,
Just open a thread HERE
PM me ,and I will delete these posts.
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errr... oops, sorry mate, moved posts literally 20 secs after you posted this
Thanks for placing this in the proper section
Since you have an i717, normally you would probably want to flash back to an AT&T based modem. However, since you're probably not on AT&T's network, your best bet is to try several modems and see which one works best with the provider in your area. My recommendation is to at least base your tests on signal strength and speed tests.
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Since you have an i717, normally you would probably want to flash back to an AT&T based modem. However, since you're probably not on AT&T's network, your best bet is to try several modems and see which one works best with the provider in your area. My recommendation is to at least base your tests on signal strength and speed tests.
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OK, I'm going to try several because just yesterday I found out that my gps didn't work and I think that's related to not having a suitable modem.
Additionally, I performed a speed test and whereas I get 12 mbps for download in my laptop I got 10 mbps in my phone, not much of a deal though.
Regarding signal, I get from three to four bars which isn't that bad and I've made a couple of calls and everything seems to be fine.
Since the gps thing is a real setback I'll flash another modem but I'm also thinking on upgrading to ics because right know I'm on gingerbread 2.3.6 with 2.6.3 kernel so I wanted to know if It's better to flash the modem before or after upgrading.
Thank you for your answers
You will probably have better luck if you upgrade to an ICS or jelly bean based rom.
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The gps not working isn't always antenna issues. You can try to update the gps data file. Go to the market and get a gps fix app. You're looking for an app that will replace your gps configuration file with an updated file.
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The gps not working isn't always antenna issues. You can try to update the gps data file. Go to the market and get a gps fix app. You're looking for an app that will replace your gps configuration file with an updated file.
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Thanks, good to know that.. it's just that when I received the phone it was working and based on that and some comments on internet I attributed this error to the switch in modem/baseband/radio...
Anyways, I'm installing a rooted ics rom and I'll come back to comment, hopefully positive things