I have a question for you guys. My mate and I were sitting next to eachother comparing my S2 and his Note last night. We have the same provider obviously. While I had 1 to 0 lines of 3g signal, he had 4 out of 4. I'm running XWLPG with stock modem. Do you think that by changing modems I could improve my signal to be at "Note" level, or the two phones carry simply different hardware and the S2 will never catch as much signal as the Note does?
Thanks,
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Try other modem, they have great influence on signal. There is a thread about it on forums. KH3 modem is recommended by many users. Good luck !
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Look in the modem Thread its different where you live and which provider you have. Test all modems and look which is best for you
Galaxy S2`s are generally incapable of accurately reporting the signal strength (as you will read if you do a bit more Googling) so I wouldnt worry too much about comparing the two different machines.
SST
I know that I can't ask which modem is the best etc, but I have one question regarding which modems to flash. Are they somehow linked to a specific rom / kernel / android version? For example, are modems released in gb roms supposed to be flashed under ics roms?
Every modem can be flashed to your rom, thats no problem
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Hi. I am a pretty new user and I wanted to ask which modem is the best for battery life and performance in Asia. Example zsjpg for sgs.
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Varies mate, there is no "best". Generally I like to use a modem from a firmware that was released in my country. I'm on a modem thats been made specifically for 3 UK phones for example. In your case though I would just try each on until I found one I liked. I see a lot of people using ki3 & ki4 so you could start there
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Varies mate, there is no "best". Generally I like to use a modem from a firmware that was released in my country. I'm on a modem thats been made specifically for 3 UK phones for example. In your case though I would just try each on until I found one I liked. I see a lot of people using ki3 & ki4 so you could start there
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Hi there, can I ask which modem you find best for 3 uk? I'm on neki2 at the moment but I'm not the impressed. Other modems I've tried(ki3 and ki4) seem to struggle to switch to 2g(orange network)
neki2 seems to take forever to switch from 3g to h
I'm on checkrom v4
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Start with latest modem and work backwards .
jje
Thanks I've tried a few ki3 worked well on voda but I've move to 3 now. This modem works great till it needs to switch to 2g then it does work well with the 3 network so I've used 3 own one. I was just interested to see if anyone had a better option a this one seems a bit slow
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as per title, is it possible to port over modems that are currently being used by the galaxy note over for us SGSII users to flash?
reason being, friends using the note have reported higher speeds on their modems.
don't know it's cause they've a better modem or that their phone are so massive that the reception is better.
any help would be much appreciated!
bumps!!!!!
1) 3hour bump? srsly? Don't do that.
2) No, different hardware, different modem, you can try flashing other i9100 modems to see if a different one works better, but flashing modems meant for another phone is a path to a hardbrick.
3) You cant port modems, as its the firmware that drives the independent cpu/etc that the modem uses. They are also undocumented binary's, thus almost imposable to port.
Note from the modem is not suitable for SGSII
You can try different modems and find the one which suits you the best.
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Apologies, but I couldn't find a Modem's thread like we had in S2 forums...I've just got my S3, all rooted & unlocked...Omega ROM being downloaded, however as I'm on Three UK and do tend to get poor signal generally - can someone please recommend the best Modem I can use with this ROM for SIGNAL STRENGTH as I'm not too bothered about data speeds etc!
Thanks in advance...Ash
Try DXLF3, many people around the world (including me) are reporting it working very well.
I couldn't find a Modem's thread like we had in S2 forums
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Here you go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740061
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Try DXLF3, many people around the world (including me) are reporting it working very well.
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Here you go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740061
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I'm using that modem myself and everything seems to be grand. I'm on three as well. Data speeds are also quite good!
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Try DXLF3, many people around the world (including me) are reporting it working very well.
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Here you go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740061
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Does this modem work with the uk unbranded lfb firmware coz it says its for (Philippines, Thailand,...)??
Thanks
Baryyt said:
Does this modem work with the uk unbranded lfb firmware coz it says its for (Philippines, Thailand,...)??
Thanks
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Yes all around the world as posted .
jje
Also wondering this, can those that have tried confirm that signal strength is better on three network using the above radio than three's stock one, which in my case is FL6 I think.
Again not worried about speeds, just signal strength, especially being able to get better signal in poorer areas?
Am I correct in assuming that different modems will/can ramp up the power more than others when in poor signal areas? Thats basically what I'm after.
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Here you go: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1740061
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Guys!
I concur with this propoosal. Tested many, but this one DXLF3 is the best! Be free from care :laugh:
Cheers
M.:good:
mchu6am4 said:
Apologies, but I couldn't find a Modem's thread like we had in S2 forums...I've just got my S3, all rooted & unlocked...Omega ROM being downloaded, however as I'm on Three UK and do tend to get poor signal generally - can someone please recommend the best Modem I can use with this ROM for SIGNAL STRENGTH as I'm not too bothered about data speeds etc!
Thanks in advance...Ash
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Sorry to barge in on the thread. I still have i9100 on 3UK and not having much luck with NELP2, 3, 4 could anyone suggest a better option for 4.0.4.
NEDLI1 has been very good so far for me on S3 on 3uk in london. 6-7mbps down and 2-2.5mbps up in congested london. my s2 only made upto 5mbps with Nelp4/NELS1
Hello everyone. I got my SGS2 just a few days ago so I dont know much about it and I was wondering, what is the best modem for Europe? I got the phone with custom ROM already and the modem is XXLS6. Don't know if it's good for Europe or not.
I tried searching for answer in google, but with no luck.
Thanks in advance to everyone who at least tries to answer my foolish question.
the best thing is to try a few different modems and see which suits you. modems have different pros and cons depending on location.
The thing is I don't even know where to start. I see a list of 50+ modems. And it would take weeks to test them all.
Doesn't your current modem work properly? If not, maybe you can ask in the specific thread(s) about modems which one is the most used in your country.
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Well the thing is that with this phone I get no network while I'm at work. Network was ok when I was on my old SGS. And I was thinking that was caused by modem.
Try to found out something about a better modem in this thread:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1131950
I thought there was a comment on the first page about some modems that usually work quite well in Europe. Good luck.
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PBVLP7 gives me very good 2G signal (better than NELP3) but worse 3G. I'll be testing NELP4 soon
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in this post http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=16980217&postcount=5 you can see "RECOMMENDED MODEMS TO TRY:" - give them a try or just google: s2 modem and your location/carrier. In worst scenario you'll just be back to this thread
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I recently had najor problems with gps reception and locking.
I flashed many different roms in trying to solve it.
I searched the forums and saw many suggestions, all of them spoke about tweaking or using a different gps.conf files.
Tried many of them and nothing helped.
Then I flashed a rom that changed the modem also and what do you know, gps was working again. Good reception and fast locking time.
It also was a sammy based rom and not an aosp/aokp/cm rom.
The thing is that I think the modem was the main solution. Maybe the sammy rom helped too since I did get a response from someone saying that there is a piece of software in sammy roms that is needed by the gps and can not be integrated in the aosp aokp cm roms.
Since then I am kind of reluctant to try another rom, maybe an aosp one with this modem and see if the gps works good.
Maybe a group of people can check this, me included, and report thier results with different modems and roms.
Since I use my gps daily it realy was a difficult time for me when I experienced these problems.
So this topic may become a good guide to people with s2 gps problems.
My problematic modem was xms2 while good ones were xlq6, kh3 and xlph. Also on a friend s2 xls8 worked fine.
A good thing will be to include your location as results may vary according to it.
My location is Israel.
Thanks
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It's not the modem, GPS has nothing to do with which modem you use.
It's probably more with the fact you went back to a Sammy based rom instead of aosp/aokp/cm
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It's not the modem, GPS has nothing to do with which modem you use.
It's probably more with the fact you went back to a Sammy based rom instead of aosp/aokp/cm
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From my experience with embeded modems they usually contains the gps receiver as well, this is why I believe there is a connection but it can be also be related to the rom.
This is why I asked other users to try it out so we can get more statistics on the issue.
Thanks
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I did some testings today and here are my resuls.
It seems tat there ae two problems one is the modem used the other is the rom.
Changing the modem did help a lot on aosp/aokp/cm roms in terms of reception and locking time. It seems though that after dalvik wipe it will take much longer to lock the firsttime, then it is much faster took my device to lock about 17 to 30 seconds while on the first time it took as mch as 2 minutes.
But on these roms it seems that less satellites are viewed and used, they only managed to use 4 or 5 ay most when there where between 7 to 9 satellites visible.
Sammy roms used all or most of the satellites visible, which led to a more accurate locking.
Good modems where KH3, XLPH, XLQ6, XLS8. I believe that KH3 was the best followed by XLPH.
Bad modem XMS2.
ROMS Avatar rom for aosp/aokp/cm based, ROMs4 and vivik for sammy based.
Regards and hope it will be of use for someone.
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how can I know
hi guys,
I'm struggling with my weak GPS signal too.
and I was googling looking for something that could help me and here I am.
but, as a noob, I don't even know how to know my modem model, can you help me out?
Thx in advance!
marcosnanny said:
hi guys,
I'm struggling with my weak GPS signal too.
and I was googling looking for something that could help me and here I am.
but, as a noob, I don't even know how to know my modem model, can you help me out?
Thx in advance!
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Go to settings->About phone and look at the Baseband.
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E120LKLJMA2
This is my modem then.
Can I flash any modem, or it must be specific to my phone's model (S2 SHV E120L)?
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E120LKLJMA2
This is my modem then.
Can I flash any modem, or it must be specific to my phone's model (S2 SHV E120L)?
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I believe you have to flash a modem designed for your device specifically.
I suppose you will find it in your device forum.
Regards
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