Ok, so Im a new T-mo convert and I picked the S5 and prepaid unlimited everything ($80) plan. Im in the San Juan area in PR.
Ive been getting horrible data speeds <1Mbps since day one on the phone. The curious thing is that from 2 am to 6 am for (6 days straight now) speeds jumps to 15Mbps or higher. As soon as 6am ticks I'm back to Edge speeds. What is even weirder is that I swapped the sim card to my Note and started hitting 17Mbps or higher at any time.
I tried the new modem and it didnt work either. I also tried changing APNs to different values and going wcdma mode only and none work. I contacted customer support a few days agoand they said they would fix it but they havent. Since I'm on the 14 day thing, I think I may just return it.
Anyone with similar experience or know what could be going on?
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Ok, so Im a new T-mo convert and I picked the S5 and prepaid unlimited everything ($80) plan. Im in the San Juan area in PR.
Ive been getting horrible data speeds <1Mbps since day one on the phone. The curious thing is that from 2 am to 6 am for (6 days straight now) speeds jumps to 15Mbps or higher. As soon as 6am ticks I'm back to Edge speeds. What is even weirder is that I swapped the sim card to my Note and started hitting 17Mbps or higher at any time.
I tried the new modem and it didnt work either. I also tried changing APNs to different values and going wcdma mode only and none work. I contacted customer support a few days agoand they said they would fix it but they havent. Since I'm on the 14 day thing, I think I may just return it.
Anyone with similar experience or know what could be going on?
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Are you using the SIM that came with your new phone?
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I am. With that sim on the S5 I get no data or edge speeds when I do get data,except from 2 am to 6 am which I get LTE speeds.
With that same simcard I get LTE speeds on my Note at all times.
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I am. With that sim on the S5 I get no data or edge speeds when I do get data,except from 2 am to 6 am which I get LTE speeds.
With that same simcard I get LTE speeds on my Note at all times.
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Return it and ask for a new one, I live in Caguas but I work on San Juan, and besides when I'm at the office, where all providers have the same signal issue, I have normal Data Speeds.
I must say that when I'm at home in Caguas, I get great LTE Speeds but in San Juan I have noticed that using 4G instead of LTE gives better download speeds, but from that to the issue you are describing is a great difference, that's why I'd suggest you get a new one during the 14 days.
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Return it and ask for a new one, I live in Caguas but I work on San Juan, and besides when I'm at the office, where all providers have the same signal issue, I have normal Data Speeds.
I must say that when I'm at home in Caguas, I get great LTE Speeds but in San Juan I have noticed that using 4G instead of LTE gives better download speeds, but from that to the issue you are describing is a great difference, that's why I'd suggest you get a new one during the 14 days.
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Thanks, I think I may do just that. Especially now that I know you are nearby and have no problems.
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Just curious if it is my area I live in or me screwing around with my phone. I live in Fresno, CA and we've had HSPA+ here for a couple of months. I was averaging around 3mbps down and 1.5 up from my house and 4-5k at my office. All of the sudden I am getting extremely poor 3g speeds. 200-300k at my house and 600-700k at my office. Just wondering if anyone is from the area here and if they are experiencing the same issues.
The only thing I did was flash the JPM froyo to mess around. I am now back running Bionix fusion 1.1 with stock kernel and ji6 modem.
Edit: Going to Odin back to official JI6, I'll post results in case anyone is curious.
Edit 2: Didnt work, still getting the same speeds. Just talked to a friend of mine down in southern CA and he is no longer getting HSPA+ speeds on his vibrant. Anyone else having an issues like this?
Anyone else in HSPA+ areas having this happen?
yes. very strange. and its ****ing pissing me off too.
i work in addison, tx (dallas suburb basically) and i used to get 4 to alllmost 6mbps down at work. up speeds have always sucked a nut but that's fine with me because you're only sending http requests most of the time so 300kbps is fine.
past few months it has become VERY spotty. some days my down speeds are under 200, the ping times out, and my up speeds are 1.2-2mpbs (WTF!?) this is with four full bars most of the time. its so bad that with the awesome ups, pages IMMEDIATELY time out, i cant even browse little mobile sites like m.facebook.com a lot of the time.
outside of this area, everything seems to go back to almost normal again. i no longer get 4+ down speeds anymore, but they're better, 1.5-2 i can live with.
it started happening before i rooted the phone and flashed any roms. and has never gone back to normal with the other roms i've tried, so im pretty sure it is a network issue.
the only other thing i could think of is maybe my sim card is crapping out, but i dont have another sim to test, as all of my friends dont have tmobile smartphones with a data plan and i'm way too lazy to go back to stock and go argue with a tmobile store rep to get a new sim card for free. mine is probably at least 6 years old at this point.
see what i mean? this could be better i guess since it wont let me select a server near me (this is renton, wa)
pings, in order as those are shown in the screencap are:
92ms
160ms
111ms
93ms
also, instead of UMTS like it used to say, now it just says "Network: Cell"
this makes no sense.
I'm running stock jfd firmware still and my 3g has been sucking ass as of late as well and I'm near Dallas. I was in Addison Saturday night with full bars and good signal and couldn't do anything. Tried espn mobile and it was so slow. Forced it back to edge and it was a lot better. Tmo 3g here in dfw is hit or miss.....mostly miss. I was in Grapevine a cpl wks ago and was getting 5mbps down...never seen that before around here. But I still say its hit or miss mostly.
I have noticed that the 3g speeds I've been getting here in beaumont, tx are way below what I used to get as well. Sometimes 3g is even slower than edge!
I wonder if maybe the T-Mobile network is simply getting overloaded?
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im in san antonio and im getting the same average of about 4.5/1.5 like i have since the network upgrade. no problems here so far...i did notice my friends G2 has the H instead of the 3G but isnt any faster than my Nexus or my Vibrant, i figured the g2 would blow away my phones but his g2 averages about 4.5/1....
ive asked this in several different threads and cant seem to get a straight answer. maybe im asking wrong, so I am trying to make my question as clear as possible:
I am trying to figure out if im getting tmobiles new network in my area; (4g/hspa+). before I get flammed, yes, i do realize that our phones wont get 21mps download speed on the new network and the best we should see is 7.2mps, but probably wont get that in real world experience.
So i have been getting better speeds in the past few weeks in my area (between 1.5 and 3mps download) but that alone does not tell me if i am getting a good 3g signal or poor 4g/what ever its called signal.
When you go into settings> about phone> status, it says mobile network type. I am assuming that the Mobile network type will change depending if on new network, 3g, or edge....? (hspa, hspa+, hsdpa) Can anyone confirm or deny that this should or will change depending on what area we are in and what type of data connection we are connected to?
The other way someone told me to check is by downloading mobile signal widget and it will display 3g or H. For me this does not seem very accurate but it does display 3g or H...
The reason I dont know if Im on their newest/fastest network is because they have a coverage map on their website for HSPA+. my city is not on it, but a city about 15-20 miles away is on it. I did not really think i would be getting it since its not my city, but like i said ive noticed somewhat faster speeds, nothing like 4-6 mbs download that would confirm it for me, but enough to make me unsure and question.
so sorry for the long post. basically just wondering if network type under about phone will change depending on if im getting normal 3g or their newer/faster network and if that mobile signal widget is an accurate way to tell
thanks
velocd said:
Just curious if it is my area I live in or me screwing around with my phone. I live in Fresno, CA and we've had HSPA+
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If you have a vibrant you never got HSPA+, you just benefitted from its speed, the phone isn't capable of the +
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turbosix said:
yes. very strange. and its ****ing pissing me off too.
i work in addison, tx (dallas suburb basically) and i used to get 4 to alllmost 6mbps down at work. up speeds have always sucked a nut but that's fine with me because you're only sending http requests most of the time so 300kbps is fine.
past few months it has become VERY spotty. some days my down speeds are under 200, the ping times out, and my up speeds are 1.2-2mpbs (WTF!?) this is with four full bars most of the time. its so bad that with the awesome ups, pages IMMEDIATELY time out, i cant even browse little mobile sites like m.facebook.com a lot of the time.
outside of this area, everything seems to go back to almost normal again. i no longer get 4+ down speeds anymore, but they're better, 1.5-2 i can live with.
it started happening before i rooted the phone and flashed any roms. and has never gone back to normal with the other roms i've tried, so im pretty sure it is a network issue.
the only other thing i could think of is maybe my sim card is crapping out, but i dont have another sim to test, as all of my friends dont have tmobile smartphones with a data plan and i'm way too lazy to go back to stock and go argue with a tmobile store rep to get a new sim card for free. mine is probably at least 6 years old at this point.
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I got an extra sim from when I got my vibrant...I'm in arlington..plus my speeds have improved since I got rooted with the new updates and on fusion 1.1 with voodoo
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I got an extra sim from when I got my vibrant...I'm in arlington..plus my speeds have improved since I got rooted with the new updates and on fusion 1.1 with voodoo
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every single time ive bought a new phone from tmobile, the rep always takes the sim cards out of the box and uses my existing one.
a buddy of mine left tmobile because they wanted to charge him $20 for a sim card.
i actually brought that up with the tmobile twitter account and they just said "sim cards are usually not free"
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every single time ive bought a new phone from tmobile, the rep always takes the sim cards out of the box and uses my existing one.
a buddy of mine left tmobile because they wanted to charge him $20 for a sim card.
i actually brought that up with the tmobile twitter account and they just said "sim cards are usually not free"
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That's crazy I've always kept mind...
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every single time ive bought a new phone from tmobile, the rep always takes the sim cards out of the box and uses my existing one.
a buddy of mine left tmobile because they wanted to charge him $20 for a sim card.
i actually brought that up with the tmobile twitter account and they just said "sim cards are usually not free"
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That's strange. I've always gotten my sim cards free from t-mobile. Just tell them the existing one keeps giving you a sim card error and that when you purchased your vibrant they took the sim card that came with it (because they typically do). They will take your old one and replace it with a newer one.
I told the rep I would not buy the phone without a new sim. He immediately swapped it from my g1 to a new one.
doubt it will help, but have you switched to airplane mode, reboot and then turn airplane mode so it finds your network again? I didn't even have data this morning and that fixed it.
Remember t mo is in the process of a major upgrade to their network too...
Every time I buy a phone from a TMO retail store and they go to take the sim I tell them to keep their fingers off and leave it in the box because I paid for it already. What they will do is put it in their binder for when the next poor schmuck walks in having lost their sim so they can get charged for it.
They try to give you the same BS about it costing money and maybe that's true if you lose it, but not with a brand new phone purchase. Even my new Vibrant I ordered from loyalty came with a new SIM in the box. I just kept it as a spare. The things these stores do to double-dip a measily $20.
honestly i probably should have but i assumed it was normal since i have never had network connection issues when going to buy a new phone. i've never even batted an eyelash when they did this.
if i odin my phone back to stock and take it up to them i'll definitely bring it up if they try to charge me.
Every once and a while I'll check my speed test app to see what im getting for 3G download speed. Lately ive been getting over 1000 ping and like .1 mbps download. I went in and did a data profile reset and that fixed the problem. This has happened to me multiple times over the past couple of weeks.
Has this happened to anyone else? And if so, are devs going to fix this in their roms when the bootloader is unlocked?
Well, it's Sprint, so that's normal 3G speeds...
Move along folks, nothing to see here.
my 3g used to be fire!!! now it seems as if everybody has joined sprint and the network is hella saturated!!!!!!!
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Every once and a while I'll check my speed test app to see what im getting for 3G download speed. Lately ive been getting over 1000 ping and like .1 mbps download. I went in and did a data profile reset and that fixed the problem. This has happened to me multiple times over the past couple of weeks.
Has this happened to anyone else? And if so, are devs going to fix this in their roms when the bootloader is unlocked?
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Depends on your location. If you check the Sprint forums, there are tons of people complaining about data speeds all over the country. There's certain areas in the Bronx where I have full 4G and only getting 0.50mbps down...it's crazy!
I would say do a ##3282# and make sure your EVDO is set to auto not CDMA. Menu>commit changes & reboot. Update PRL then profile. I guess you've done that?
i was told that for the last month and a half it was because of thunderstorms. i asked him since there are just a few towers between the 44 miles i drive to work, how did all those storms only hit sprint's antennae and not verizon's that are on the same towers?
i talked to a gm at the sprint store last night and he said they're having major data issues and there's no time frame of when they'll ever be fixed. just outside that sprint store i have full 5 bars on 3g and only get 100kb/s. i made sure i was outside of the sprint store's range just in case they had a 3g airave.
they did fix the slow data in my city and most of the areas where i drive to work. now min of 600Kb/s and up to 1.8Mb/s
I find Sprint's network getting worse and worse...they're loading it up with new customers enticed by high end smartphones, but they're not boosting the capacity to match their growth. What scares me is, how much lower is it going to go? :/
Around here I get about 75-200kbps down. It can go to less than 40kbps during lunchtime.
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I find Sprint's network getting worse and worse...they're loading it up with new customers enticed by high end smartphones, but they're not boosting the capacity to match their growth. What scares me is, how much lower is it going to go? :/
Around here I get about 75-200kbps down. It can go to less than 40kbps during lunchtime.
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they will let it go pretty far. currently the tower that services my house will be so overloaded during the evening hours that speeds are 0-5k. last night between 7-11pm 3g was unuseable and 4g was zooming at 20k.
ive had dates of april 30th, may 30th, june 30th, and now july 30th as dates when the towers were to be upgraded. i honestly think they just throw dates around so they can get you off the phone.
Same here. During peak hours data is unusable without a wifi connection. I called so many times to put service tickets on the local towers. It's so fustrating. Everytime I call I'm on the phone for like 40mins tell them it's not my phone, it's a network issue. They just don't get it. BTW does anyone have the number for advanced sprint tech support? I'm going to keep calling until they fix the issue.
This is what bugs me so much paying the $10 Premium data Fee. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind paying the fee if I actually get premium data, but 100kbs down is not premium data. Something has to be done. What the hell are theying doing with that fee? They certainly aren't putting it back into their network. I hope Sprint doesn't get the Iphone because it will only get worse.
You're not in 3G. Your in 1x when you get those speeds. The Display will always say 3G even when switch to 1x.
Once rooted, that can be fixed to reflect what you are really on.
Welcome to sprint. Where are you from?
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Welcome to sprint. Where are you from?
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This what I was going to say. LOL
Welcome to Sprint the Nation Wide slowest 3G available.
Welcome to Sprint-The (hope you dont need to download that)Now Network
First, try this:
http://bit.ly/qsq8Tn
[MOD] Data Latency (Slow Data) Fix
And second, it is not unusual. I have tried to play online games(BFBC2 etc.) via Wi-Fi hotspot. With poor success. Reasons for this is poor connection(long range to Cell-towers) network overcapacity etc. etc.
Shutting phone's Ciphering should raise U/D speed as above thread say, but I guess that there is not any mindblowing way to fix it. Updating radios would help but.
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I said it once and I'll say it again Location, Location, Location. I am Cali bay area(Currently in Lafayette, CA) and my Evo 4G just ran 962k down and 656k up 187 ping. Evo 3d same time test ran 164 ping 1038k down and 609k up. Now at my house in El Sobrante, CA about 15 minutes away I would not come close to touching that speed. Usually around 50k or worse. One thing is I never rely on 3g to do anything for me. I have wifi at home and work and at times 4g. If I am in 3g only location I do not expect to get anything important done.
Edit: Keep in mind I also did the speed fix on both phones. Have to have msl for that.
Here are a couple images for you one is my Verizon 3G Xoom and the other my EVO 3D. Lets face it Sprint speed sucks.
Those with poor eyes site the Xoom says:
Down:
1303.7
1331.6
Up
1455.7
1863.5
Im gonna guess the people that get these good speeds are in sparse areas or areas with few sprint customers. I've been complaining about Sprint speeds since October of last year and its only getting worse and worse. I can remember constant speeds of 1.2-1.8 megs down and now im doing good just to get 250kb/s. The 4G has fallen off quite a bit too.
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Im gonna guess the people that get these good speeds are in sparse areas or areas with few sprint customers. I've been complaining about Sprint speeds since October of last year and its only getting worse and worse. I can remember constant speeds of 1.2-1.8 megs down and now im doing good just to get 250kb/s. The 4G has fallen off quite a bit too.
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Same here and yes on the lack of sprint customers in some areas. I was on the very poor side of town earlier this week. I was getting 1.3-1.9mb down on 3g lol.
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mswlogo said:
You're not in 3G. Your in 1x when you get those speeds. The Display will always say 3G even when switch to 1x.
Once rooted, that can be fixed to reflect what you are really on.
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Actually I'm not 1x. I have a few programs to tell me what network I'm on and I'm definetly getting those speeds on EVDO Rev A. You can use Battery Monitor and go to "Tests" and it will tell you what network you are using or you can use Open Signal and go to maps and it will also tell you. I'm definetly getting these speeds on 3G (EVDO Rev A) Not 1x!
I have used so far 5GB of data of my unlimited plan...
And my note 2 can only get 3G. I meant, I never seen 4G LTE appearing in the past 48 hours . Days before that it was ok, granted the connection was not superior.
I live around NYC area. Home location is Elmhurst Queens and work location in Manhattan.
It can't be the case that both these two places have no 4G right?
I tried airplane mode, switching APNs, enable/disable data etc,
it just stuck at 3G.
Stock Note 2, not rooted
Please help me confirm such possibility... or it was fine before, up until 48 hours ago.
don't see how verizon could stop just YOUR phone from picking up a 4g signal in a 4g area. they might be able to throttle 4g speeds but not the phones detection of 4g.
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I have used so far 5GB of data of my unlimited plan...
And my note 2 can only get 3G. I meant, I never seen 4G LTE appearing in the past 48 hours . Days before that it was ok, granted the connection was not superior.
I live around NYC area. Home location is Elmhurst Queens and work location in Manhattan.
It can't be the case that both these two places have no 4G right?
I tried airplane mode, switching APNs, enable/disable data etc,
it just stuck at 3G.
Stock Note 2, not rooted
Please help me confirm such possibility... or it was fine before, up until 48 hours ago.
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They cannot throttle 4g speeds due to Block C regulations.
Most likely they are working in something in the area or something is wrong with your phone.
My note never had 4g either. I went to verizon and they put it a new sim and it was back to normal.
jiwengang said:
I have used so far 5GB of data of my unlimited plan...
And my note 2 can only get 3G. I meant, I never seen 4G LTE appearing in the past 48 hours . Days before that it was ok, granted the connection was not superior.
I live around NYC area. Home location is Elmhurst Queens and work location in Manhattan.
It can't be the case that both these two places have no 4G right?
I tried airplane mode, switching APNs, enable/disable data etc,
it just stuck at 3G.
Stock Note 2, not rooted
Please help me confirm such possibility... or it was fine before, up until 48 hours ago.
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Mine from time to time will drop 4g for some reason in a know good 4g area and a reboot fixs it
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Thanks for the comments. I took out my sim and put back again fixed it. Really hope it will not re occur. ..
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jiwengang said:
I have used so far 5GB of data of my unlimited plan...
And my note 2 can only get 3G. I meant, I never seen 4G LTE appearing in the past 48 hours . Days before that it was ok, granted the connection was not superior.
I live around NYC area. Home location is Elmhurst Queens and work location in Manhattan.
It can't be the case that both these two places have no 4G right?
I tried airplane mode, switching APNs, enable/disable data etc,
it just stuck at 3G.
Stock Note 2, not rooted
Please help me confirm such possibility... or it was fine before, up until 48 hours ago.
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I work in the downtown Manhattan area & I get 4G LTE all the time there. There's no problem of not getting a signal.
When you got your Note II, you would've gotten a instructional sheet of paper in the box which says "How To Activate your 4G LTE SIM". Maybe you have to do that?
I don't have much details on that as I did not have to do that.
There was an outage a few days ago
I Murder Murderers
If you never get 4G at all anywhere, you're probably provisioned wrong. Call Verizon customer service.
I used 11gb last month and was not throttled...probably an outage as other mentioned.
I hit 50gigs last month and never even had my account flagged. Verizon has a high usage dept and they the guy told me I was the highest he had personally seen. Told me the high usage dept would flag the account and maybe send an email if they saw it but I guess they were on break. Unlimited data so what can they do? I'll fight that till the death .
I use 70 to 80 gigs a month consistently. Never been throttled
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I hit 50gigs last month and never even had my account flagged. Verizon has a high usage dept and they the guy told me I was the highest he had personally seen. Told me the high usage dept would flag the account and maybe send an email if they saw it but I guess they were on break. Unlimited data so what can they do? I'll fight that till the death .
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I've always used over 50gb every month since I got the Thunderbolt back in March 2011. I haven't been warned, flagged, etc. If this department really does exist, they certainly don't seem to care about me. :cyclops:
Hello, I am asking if anyone could possibly give me any insight as to why my data speeds are very very slow for supposedly being 4g? Upon doing the speedtest I got a ping of 67, download score of 3.728 mps and upload score of 1.119 mps. This is the best I have been able to achieve and I am literally a couple hundred yards from a newly built att antenna. At my house about 1 mile and a half away I usually get download and upload scores well under 2.0 and .5.. I am running The Collective's AoCP version 5.7 with the I717UCMD3 modem. By the way on my network mode when I try to select LTE/WCDMA or LTE/GSM/WCDMA it does not stick and goes back to GSM/WCDMA preferred. I have about 5 different APN's and the ATT wap.cingular is the one that sticks and seems to work the best. I am on the straight talk 25$/ mo plan with the additional 1gb of data. Any help would be tremendous!
Are you sure your on at&t straight talk and not tmobile?
What color is your SIM card?
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Are you sure your on at&t straight talk and not tmobile?
What color is your SIM card?
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Yes I am sure.. I have the att white, orange, and blue sim card that I bought from the att store and I pay my bill on the att website.
Update!
After being on the phone with ATT for over an hour and a half I switched to the 60$ per month prepaid plan which gives unlimited calling, texting, and 2gb of data... Only to still have slow internet speeds (around 2mbps max). They tried to send me text messages that would install the internet settings, which did not make it to my phone. Then they scheduled me for an appointment tomorrow morning to get the ATT 4g LTE sim card. They said that it is better for my phone to use that sim instead of the standard sim card and that it is usually 30$ to upgrade but that they would give it to me for free! Then after the call it seems right as the clock stroke 9 pm LTE showed up on the top of my notification bar! The speed test showed as follows in the attachment. I am looking forward to seeing what this new sim card can do for me and I am very pleased at my new speeds!
It sounds like you are in an area that is receiving the LTE upgrade. We are without it still.
Yeah we installed a new tower here on campus last year and I think it really helped. Today I went in to get my new sim card and while I was there it was stuck back on HSDPA+ but when I got home it had gone back to LTE. They said that the custom ROM on my phone may not support LTE and that I may need to get it reset. I just made sure to write down the APN settings in case I lose them on a reboot I can just fix it again myself. So happy with the LTE though as my home internet is only 3mbps!
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HSPA+ = 4G LTE. Some roms have mixed up icons. Its your phone experience that matters, not the icon.
Yeah well with the H+ icon it was around 2mbps and with the LTE icon its around 10-16 Mbps hah and its the same rom. But I think when I turn my phone off it takes a while for my LTE to restore so I'll just try keeping it on at all times!
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In the old days we used to reboot every day, but I probably don't reboot this phone unless I'm swapping sim cards as I leave the USA. I think your reception will improve over time as the network improves. I wonder why it takes the phone a while to "warm up"?
I honestly have no idea. I would say maybe the rom aettings have it set to wmcda preferred and you can't manually change it but after the phone tries using the apn it changes to the lte/gsm/wdcma network mode and it sticks. Oh well no big deal hah I tried the speed test last night at work about 200 yards from the att tower and received 24.5 mbps. Very happy with that!
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I honestly have no idea. I would say maybe the rom aettings have it set to wmcda preferred and you can't manually change it but after the phone tries using the apn it changes to the lte/gsm/wdcma network mode and it sticks. Oh well no big deal hah I got these speeds last night when I was about 200 yards from our att tower.
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Hey! I have had a rough winter with money and Sprint kind of dumped me after 7yrs of service with no issues with me paying the bill! Anyway I just got this phone recently and hate for it to be a paper weight or media player only so I wanted to know if I have any options other than the Sprint network? I am not a complete rookie I have it rooted and running Barepop at the moment so any advice, help, or info would be greatly appreciated! I hope I don't make anyone angry by posting here. Thanks!
Well it depends if you are ok with like 3G-4G i use t-mobile prepaid some times I went to walmart and got a sim kit for $35 I got unlimted call text and like 5GB's of LTE. Sadly though you cannot get LTE because the phone does not support the LTE but I get like 15 mps 4G and like 10 mb 3G witch is still faster then sprint's LTE and 3G combined. You will have to flash a GSM rom from the android develoment thread right now there is no GSM unlock on for ZV8. You could also try simple mobile I just recomend you go to walmart and look around the celluar area they have a couple sim kits.
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Well it depends if you are ok with like 3G-4G i use t-mobile prepaid some times I went to walmart and got a sim kit for $35 I got unlimted call text and like 5GB's of LTE. Sadly though you cannot get LTE because the phone does not support the LTE but I get like 15 mps 4G and like 10 mb 3G witch is still faster then sprint's LTE and 3G combined. You will have to flash a GSM rom from the android develoment thread right now there is no GSM unlock on for ZV8. You could also try simple mobile I just recomend you go to walmart and look around the celluar area they have a couple sim kits.
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lol you have to be kidding right!!!
15Mbps is faster than Sprints LTE and 3G combined???
Check out the screenshot and mind you I am not too close to a lte tower. i had like 3 bars when i ran this test.
33Mbps your 15 dont even come close. And since sprint is one of the only carriers to pffer true unlimited date i easyly run over 20 gigs per month without slowing down.
Alls im saying is get your facts straight.
Wow guess your lucky most people complain about getting only like 10 mbps (sprintsucks facebook page)
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lol you have to be kidding right!!!
15Mbps is faster than Sprints LTE and 3G combined???
Check out the screenshot and mind you I am not too close to a lte tower. i had like 3 bars when i ran this test.
33Mbps your 15 dont even come close. And since sprint is one of the only carriers to pffer true unlimited date i easyly run over 20 gigs per month without slowing down.
Alls im saying is get your facts straight.
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that's the fastest I've ever seen a Sprint!! around here the fastest sprints I've seen are about 10mbps
Thanks for the info!
I am pretty sure I was getting about 25mbs DL speeds on Sprint here in Savannah but I can live with anything over 2-3mbs. I already have a Cricket account and Sim card but I am trying to figure out the best method to get it working on my G3. Cricket is now on the Att network so signal quality is decent and LTE speeds. Anyone who can give me a little guide to get it working on the Sprint G3 I would be VERY GRATEFUL!
my Galaxy Mega on T Mobile got near 40mbps here
ingoljosh said:
lol you have to be kidding right!!!
15Mbps is faster than Sprints LTE and 3G combined???
Check out the screenshot and mind you I am not too close to a lte tower. i had like 3 bars when i ran this test.
33Mbps your 15 dont even come close. And since sprint is one of the only carriers to pffer true unlimited date i easyly run over 20 gigs per month without slowing down.
Alls im saying is get your facts straight.
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He does have his facts straight what you are showing is Sprint's "Spark" LTE network. Their normal LTE network doesn't go above 12 Mbps even with full bars. You are lucky enough to be in an area where spark is enabled, most places don't have spark network enabled although sprint is rolling it out as fast as possible. Their overall speeds are very dismal (with exception of spark LTE).
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He does have his facts straight what you are showing is Sprint's "Spark" LTE network. Their normal LTE network doesn't go above 12 Mbps even with full bars. You are lucky enough to be in an area where spark is enabled, most places don't have spark network enabled although sprint is rolling it out as fast as possible. Their overall speeds are very dismal (with exception of spark LTE).
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Sorry I was unaware that there was a normal LTE. i thought Sprint LTE was all SPARK.
Guess i didn't have MY facts straight. :cyclops: