I'm thinking to swiching to CM (again), but the last time i had a lost of signal losts. I think that the modem can help to improve the quality of the signal, is that true? and if it is, what modem should I use? (I'm from spain)
gabboman said:
I'm thinking to swiching to CM (again), but the last time i had a lost of signal losts. I think that the modem can help to improve the quality of the signal, is that true? and if it is, what modem should I use? (I'm from spain)
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Yes, that's true. The modem that works best for you isn't always the one that comes with the rom, so you can look for modem-threads for the S2 to find out which one is the most suitable for your region.
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Go to the link in my sig and try whatever one you want.
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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.
gspotr said:
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?
MistahBungle said:
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.
MistahBungle said:
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
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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.
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!
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Glad that's solved your problem. You're welcome
gspotr said:
Oh mate loving it.. I'm in a place where the reception is always dead. And its on fulls with 3G
Thanks heaps champ!
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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"
Is it normal that the SGS2 i9100G Model has a very weak signal reception, not only with WLAN but also with normal mobile phone connection (Talking etc.) ? On my previous Motorola Defy I didn't had these problems. Now everywhere the signal is weaker than before on the other phone.
Is there a good ROM & Kernel (too many to know which is best and which not) that could currently help fix that and make it a bit better again ?
Thanks in advance.
Wolfseye
try flashing diff modems ,one might help...
Unfortunately I am not so much the "flashing" kinda guy, only what I need to. I wouldn't know where to find these files or which to use for the G Version. I suppose I need the international versions for that, since I am from Germany, right ?
Hi there.
I got this problem which has been annoying me for quite a while, where the signal strenght given in dbm, is reported wrong. It can only show 4 values:
-89dBm
-95dBm
-101dBm
-107dBm
Even when i am close to a transmitter, it gives me -89dBm, where my previous GS would show -51dBm.
I assume this is only being shown as -89 but in fact i have better signal, but is there a way to fix this?
I found some posts on xda with others having the same problem but no solutions found yet.
ROM, Kernel & Modem changes have no effect, they all show me -89.
Thanks,
Ben
Whick firmware does the phone have now? Because i don't have this problem
I have ran Slim ICS, Hydrog3n ICS and now it is on Resurrection Remix.
All roms gave the same results, the current modem is NELP2, though i have tried like 7 which gave me the same result. Also, now i am running Siyah kernel, but i have ran Fluxi, CM standard kernels etc.
My neighbour's phone which is running WIUI seems to also have the same behaviour as mine.
I'm aware this thread is old as hell. But hey there's no answer to the question, I'm having the exact same problem. Even driving to the tower I still get exactly 89dBm when my other S2 goes around 60dBm
hbhorat said:
I'm aware this thread is old as hell. But hey there's no answer to the question, I'm having the exact same problem. Even driving to the tower I still get exactly 89dBm when my other S2 goes around 60dBm
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It will be down to your modem version which has been updated at some point by a rom. Go to the modems thread (use search) and try another.
TheATHEiST said:
It will be down to your modem version which has been updated at some point by a rom. Go to the modems thread (use search) and try another.
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Running the same modem on both my S2's (KH3)
I've read everywhere that you need to find a modem that works best for you, which I have... I9300XXBLFB modem covers my geographic region according to Samsung-updates... but does this mean I have to use the LFB RIL as well? Or should i download the latest RIL?
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I've read everywhere that you need to find a modem that works best for you, which I have... I9300XXBLFB modem covers my geographic region according to Samsung-updates... but does this mean I have to use the LFB RIL as well? Or should i download the latest RIL?
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You must be a previous HTC user. So am I. Over here in the Samsung world, you don't ever have to worry about RILs. They are never mentioned anywhere and I've never seen any downloads for them. One less variable to worry about.
Someone has started posting about RILS in the modem thread and supplied a RILS updater .
Must admit never heard of it before last week .
jje
Hi,
If you paid atention to the RIL you can try getril on the Play Store, compatible with our SIII, I use it.
After some tests, for me and it depends of the network operator / country, a matching / dismatching RIL affects the data speed and the quality reception for the same area.
But it needs some long tests for find a good RIL with a good radio (and not obiously the RIL according to the radio), or at least for me.
For example I use actualy the LG6 radio with the XLFB RIL and it works great for me, better than with the corespondant RIL.
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henrybravo said:
You must be a previous HTC user. So am I. Over here in the Samsung world, you don't ever have to worry about RILs. They are never mentioned anywhere and I've never seen any downloads for them. One less variable to worry about.
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Codeworkx posts RIL updates for SIII
viking37 said:
Hi,
If you paid atention to the RIL you can try getril on the Play Store, compatible with our SIII, I use it.
After some tests, for me and it depends of the network operator / country, a matching / dismatching RIL affects the data speed and the quality reception for the same area.
But it needs some long tests for find a good RIL with a good radio (and not obiously the RIL according to the radio), or at least for me.
For example I use actualy the LG6 radio with the XLFB RIL and it works great for me, better than with the corespondant RIL.
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Thanks, will give it a try
Interesting, the RIL flashing thing must be more relevant (and necessary at times) on AOSP ROMs. On my S2 and S3, running custom Sammy ROMs no one has ever mentioned anything about flashing RILs. I know in the early stages of CM10 they were having voice issues with some modems, which may have prompted codeworkx to start messing around with the Samsung RILs. This isn't nearly as much of a factor in Sammy ROMs because they usually include a matching modem, and therefore the matching RIL is automatically flashed as part of the ROM.
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