Call me stupid, noob...whatever...but there is one question I keep asking myself for quite a while.....
Why on earth are there so many modems (baseband) around at all?
I mean, isn't my cellphone to work around the planet, not only in my country? And furthermore, how on earth do I know which is the best modem/baseband for me?
If anyone can shed some light on this....I would find my peace
If you have special recommendations for me: I'm in Germany, using the "E"-Net(work) [dunno if this is a known term to non-germans...]
ROM: Omega (4.1.2 line.....)
Thanks in advance!
Different regions, different modems do to carrier specific variables, I assume this goes from hardware used to software, and both impacts the reception. Hence the different modems.
To find the best you have to try then, start with your original one and then test others.
Tips for modems do not help much anyway because you might be in a different region of your county or different cell towers etc.. It all impacts.
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Han-Droid said:
Why on earth are there so many modems (baseband) around at all?
>>>As said different networks .
And furthermore, how on earth do I know which is the best modem/baseband for me?
>>>Use the one that came with your phone or the one for the network you use .
Or try them all .
Any modem may work any location or it may not .
As no modems have been opened up we don't know what differences if any .
jje
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thanks for the answers .... although I don't understand samsung here...wouldn't it be useful to create a UNIVERSAL modem?
well at good old nokia times there was no such fuzz about basebands....
Still....I don't understand the reasons.....everything goes global nowadays...only the modems go local ???? BS!
There's nothing samsung are doing here that every other mobile manufacturer arent doing. They are all universal in a sense but they couldn't just release 1 because its impossible for 1 to have the best settings for every region / carrier / country. All android phone's are like this.
Dont forget, you're rooted. Normal users don't have this problem. They just get one baseband with the ocaisional upgrade.
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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
Thanks
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
Thanks
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.
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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 .
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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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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...
niiiro said:
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.
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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marcosnanny said:
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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