I have the N900PVPUCNC5
is this the latest?
likeminas said:
I have the N900PVPUCNC5
is this the latest?
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Yes it is. Why do you ask? Are you having trouble with your signal strength?
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Yes it is. Why do you ask? Are you having trouble with your signal strength?
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Yes I do. sprint's service is generally not good. And to be honest this doesn't help much
likeminas said:
Yes I do. sprint's service is generally not good. And to be honest this doesn't help much
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Ok, we need a place to start. You are correct sprint service is generally not good. I have only within the last couple of months had 4g LTE finally come on line trust me I feel your pain. Is your device rooted? Do you live in an area with 4g LTE? Have updated your PRL? If so, when and where? PRL sets the devices ability to prioritize the location and communication with cell towers, creating the best signal available. If you travel a lot, sometimes you have to update PRL manually, as it doesn't always recognize that you are going to be in an area for a great period of time. Go to settings/general/systemupdate/updatePRL.
If your device is rooted, You can downgrade KK 4.4.2 NAB here is the link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2655883 this will give you a NAB baseband/OS/bootloader just a suggestion if you had better signal on NAB before updated to NC5, as some people have experienced.
One last thought might be re-writing your PRL here is a link http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2474711 check out post #11.
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I have terrible reception on my phone.
I want to flash a new radio but I'm not sure which one to flash
I'm running CM7 and switch between that and MIUI roms.
I don't want to flash the wrong one. Can someone guide me in the right direction??
Thank you.
You can look here for radios. But you should read as much as possible before flashing a radio.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193101
Also try updating your profile and prl and see if that helps. Or try a data reset.
Hope this helps
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laie1472 said:
You can look here for radios. But you should read as much as possible before flashing a radio.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1193101
Also try updating your profile and prl and see if that helps. Or try a data reset.
Hope this helps
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So there's no way to flash a radio for the people who have hBoot 1.50?
arozer said:
So there's no way to flash a radio for the people who have hBoot 1.50?
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correct. I suppose it is possible, but no one has figured it out yet.
Agreed.. I don't think us HBOOT 1.5 guys can flash radios yet. Another thing to try, if you haven't already, would be to install the Open Signal app. It'll give you your radio signal strength in dbm and even plot your current tower's position on a map. Great app although it is a bit of a resource hog with all of its radio polling.
arozer said:
I have terrible reception on my phone.
I want to flash a new radio but I'm not sure which one to flash
I'm running CM7 and switch between that and MIUI roms.
I don't want to flash the wrong one. Can someone guide me in the right direction??
Thank you.
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You might do better to flash a PRL. Safer and can lead to better signal without even changing the radio. Lots of people on here think they know it all and will tell you the PRL only affects roaming signal, but dont listen to them as they probably havnt tried changing PRLs and have no idea what they are talking about. Flashing PRL 00001 fixed my signal at my apartment by connecting me to the Verizon towers without being on Roaming mode. And 01337 gave me a little bit better signal in my apartment over 00001, even though I dont appear to be connected to Verizon towers anymore. Lots of people really like 11115 and I am going to try that next as it should be the best for signal since it uses both Sprint and Verizon towers equally and gives full 3G on either company's towers.
To flash a PRL you will need to be on a Sense ROM that has the extended EPST.apk installed. Put a PRL you want on your SD card, dial ##775# and put in your MSL code. From there you just select which PRL you want, press menu and then commit changes. Reboot and your good to go.
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You might do better to flash a PRL. Safer and can lead to better signal without even changing the radio. Lots of people on here think they know it all and will tell you the PRL only affects roaming signal, but dont listen to them as they probably havnt tried changing PRLs and have no idea what they are talking about. Flashing PRL 00001 fixed my signal at my apartment by connecting me to the Verizon towers without being on Roaming mode. And 01337 gave me a little bit better signal in my apartment over 00001, even though I dont appear to be connected to Verizon towers anymore. Lots of people really like 11115 and I am going to try that next as it should be the best for signal since it uses both Sprint and Verizon towers equally and gives full 3G on either company's towers.
To flash a PRL you will need to be on a Sense ROM that has the extended EPST.apk installed. Put a PRL you want on your SD card, dial ##775# and put in your MSL code. From there you just select which PRL you want, press menu and then commit changes. Reboot and your good to go.
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Actually my friend, I appreciate you trying to help me but in this case I will help you out.
I did tho PRL trick a year ago on my regular Evo. About 4 months later, I received a letter from Sprint stating that "even thou roaming is free on sprint, due to the overage roaming that I have used, they will terminate my services if my habits don't change in a month." Well I tried my best to change them but i guess they weren't satisfied and terminated my services. I had to call and beg and go on a 90 probation period where if I went over the limit by even 1min/mb, they you disconnect me. So I'll never do prl again. Instead, I downloaded this app called Roam Control and only use it when i'm waiting for an important phone call.
Radio on the other hand is a signal from Sprint and will not put you into roaming.
Aren't the radios loaded in the RUU? Can't you just run that and then unlock again with htcdev?
KB112 said:
Aren't the radios loaded in the RUU? Can't you just run that and then unlock again with htcdev?
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Well, I am not entirely certain that the radio is loaded into an RUU. Someone recently told me that the RUU would not change the radio version of your phone.
The thing is,the Hboot 1.5 folks cant revert to a pre HBoot 1.5 via RUU anyhow, so no one can try it. And while there are two RUU's available to Hboot 1.5 people. (2.08.651.2 & 2.08.651.3) They both have the same radio. So I can't run one over the other to compare radio versions before and after the RUU. Once a new update gets pushed with a different radio version, I could run the RUU to see if the radio flashes with it.
The one way I would think it is possible to switch radios is to re-lock the device, run an RUU to unroot, then accept an OTA to get an updated radio. Once you take the new radio via OTA, you would use HTC unlock again to unlock, flash a custom recovery, flash the SU binary and voila.
This of course is contingent that HTC doesnt backtrack on their unlocking promise. If you took an OTA and the new update is unable to be unlocked via HTC, you would be screwed. So we would want to make sure that they dont push an update that they wont support with the HTCDev tool. And of course the other flaw to this is that you can only "upgrade" the radio and never revert to a prior radio that you may have liked better.
EniGmA1987 said:
You might do better to flash a PRL. Safer and can lead to better signal without even changing the radio. Lots of people on here think they know it all and will tell you the PRL only affects roaming signal, but dont listen to them as they probably havnt tried changing PRLs and have no idea what they are talking about. Flashing PRL 00001 fixed my signal at my apartment by connecting me to the Verizon towers without being on Roaming mode. And 01337 gave me a little bit better signal in my apartment over 00001, even though I dont appear to be connected to Verizon towers anymore. Lots of people really like 11115 and I am going to try that next as it should be the best for signal since it uses both Sprint and Verizon towers equally and gives full 3G on either company's towers.
To flash a PRL you will need to be on a Sense ROM that has the extended EPST.apk installed. Put a PRL you want on your SD card, dial ##775# and put in your MSL code. From there you just select which PRL you want, press menu and then commit changes. Reboot and your good to go.
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Enigma, Can you tell me if Sprint charged you a ETF when they initially cancelled your service? I'm kind of looking for a way out of my contract and was hoping this might actually do it.
snowmobiledog said:
Enigma, Can you tell me if Sprint charged you a ETF when they initially cancelled your service? I'm kind of looking for a way out of my contract and was hoping this might actually do it.
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What makes you think Sprint cancelled my service? Cause they didint.
EniGmA1987 said:
What makes you think Sprint cancelled my service? Cause they didint.
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Well I tried my best to change them but i guess they weren't satisfied and terminated my services.
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I guess it was this sentence which led me to believe that.
I didnt ever say that though, that was some other guy. I cancelled my service by myself about 7 months after this post because I moved to Verizon since I was using their network all the time anyway. Sprint service is just too ****ty in my area. And not just cell/data coverage either, but text problems on their network were the worst I have ever seen. But I never had any problems from Sprint about data usage or things like that. The person who said Sprint contacted them about roaming usage must have been using multiple gigabytes of data each month, I normally only use 500MB-1GB at most unless I am tethering something.
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I didnt ever say that though, that was some other guy. I cancelled my server by myself about 7 months after this post because I moved to Verizon since I was using their network all the time anyway. Sprint service is just too ****ty in my area. And not just cell/data coverage either, but text problems on their network were the worst I have ever seen. But I never had any problems from Sprint about data usage or things like that. The person who said Sprint contacted them about roaming usage must have been using multiple gigabytes of data each month, I normally only use 500MB-1GB at most unless I am tethering something.
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Ohhh, **it! Sorry about that, I grabbed the wrong user. My bad. Well, thanks for the followup anyhow! The information is still useful. Sounds like a similar situation to me...about to say goodbye to Sprint.
Thanks again.
If so what would be the difference? Thank you
Spring is a nice time of the year.
The Fall PRL's might be better, just sayin'.
ycats said:
The Fall PRL's might be better, just sayin'.
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my bad lol
I'm assuming you put Spring, instead of Sprint... I've had that problem. I fixed it, but now when I try and write Spring, I write Sprint. I had to backspace a couple times during the typing of this message.
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If so what would be the difference? Thank you
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Sprint corporate PRLs have not helped me get better data speeds or better reception while on the sprint network. However, I do get better speeds and reception when I roam... When roaming I can roam on Verizon's 3G network.
I don't know the exact differences, but I know the corporate prl helped me with better reception in some areas. Can't say the same for network speed however. I assume it all depends on where you live.
darkstar765 said:
If so what would be the difference? Thank you
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I think they allow 3g roaming, where regular consumer scum cannot.
Looked all over, still can't find it...
Where can I get the latest corporate PRL?
And how I do I install it?
yousefak said:
Looked all over, still can't find it...
Where can I get the latest corporate PRL?
And how I do I install it?
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Here you go chief
Corporate PRL's will not give you any better signal or speeds on Sprint's network. They will give you better signal and data speeds while roaming however.
Just a word of warning: Sprint can cancel you for using the wrong PRL apparently, so tread with caution.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1584851
I've been learning more and more about how to change your PRL but I wanted to ask you guys to see which PRL you guys are currently getting the best signal and speeds on. I know it really depends and the same PRL won't work for everyone the same way but I would like to give them all a shot.
Best Sprint PRL until now
60687
Best Verizon PRL until now
00001
Note using this PRL could possibly get your contract cancelled by Sprint with too much usage. It will not let you know that you are roaming but you are.
I'm also going to try to put a tutorial on how to change your PRL on the Evo 3D for those of you who are interested and not too familiar on how to do this and how it works. I just haven't been able to get around to it with work and school.
Let me know what you guys got!
Temporary PRL information
Until you get around to posting your own tutorial, this post in the MIUI thread will provide some information to users that are interested in learning more about PRL's, but it could definitely use some consolidation.
ramjet73
Best Sprint PRL until now
60687
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Sprint prl's will not affect signal or data speeds while on sprint's network. They only tell the phone what towers to roam on.
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00001
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Technically the 00002 prl is a newer version of the 'all Verizon' prl.
I'm also going to try to put a tutorial on how to change your PRL on the Evo 3D for those of you who are interested and not too familiar on how to do this and how it works. I just haven't been able to get around to it with work and school.
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There's already a thread for this. EPST by using ##775# on all Froyo and GB roms, and QPST with all ICS roms.
sitlet said:
Sprint prl's will not affect signal or data speeds while on sprint's network. They only tell the phone what towers to roam on.
Technically the 00002 prl is a newer version of the 'all Verizon' prl.
There's already a thread for this. EPST by using ##775# on all Froyo and GB roms, and QPST with all ICS roms.
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1. Therefor better signal and speed...
I use Speed test and the difference is there.
2. Yes sir but I still got better service from 00001. I tried them both.
3. I used QPST with a GB rom using ##3424# so I have no idea what you are talking about.
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1. Therefor better signal and speed...
I use Speed test and the difference is there.
2. Yes sir but I still got better service from 00001. I tried them both.
3. I used QPST with a GB rom using ##3424# so I have no idea what you are talking about.
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##775# is prl. 7=p 7=r 5=l it worked before ics
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1. Therefor better signal and speed...
I use Speed test and the difference is there.
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Well considering each prl update will maybe update 3-4 towers across the country, I highly doubt you are in that area to be affected.
3. I used QPST with a GB rom using ##3424# so I have no idea what you are talking about.
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Dial ##775#, hit update, choose prl, then hit menu-commit. A lot easier than hooking up to a computer with QPST, and you can do it anywhere, so you can change your prl if you are not at home or by a computer.
valdesr11 said:
I've been learning more and more about how to change your PRL but I wanted to ask you guys to see which PRL you guys are currently getting the best signal and speeds on. I know it really depends and the same PRL won't work for everyone the same way but I would like to give them all a shot.
Best Sprint PRL until now
60687
Best Verizon PRL until now
00001
Note using this PRL could possibly get your contract cancelled by Sprint with too much usage. It will not let you know that you are roaming but you are.
I'm also going to try to put a tutorial on how to change your PRL on the Evo 3D for those of you who are interested and not too familiar on how to do this and how it works. I just haven't been able to get around to it with work and school.
Let me know what you guys got!
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What do you intend to do differently than this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529274
and this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1145111
Not trying to bust your balls here. There is already ample information about PRLs and how to change them.
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What do you intend to do differently than this thread
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1529274
and this one?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1145111
Not trying to bust your balls here. There is already ample information about PRLs and how to change them.
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I was only trying to help as well as see which PRLs were working best for others to give them a try and see how they worked for me. The intention of this thread was to give everyone an updated overview of the PRL situation and as ramjet set, consolidate the best information but I have changed my mind. You are right, there are plenty of other references. If a moderator sees this, please close thread.
Thanks!
So if this does not belong as a new thread then I'm sorry, I'm fairly new here. Anyways, I think I stumbled on to something today with my Note 3. As with a lot of you, I have been having reception issues. The reason though is because it tries to connect to a LTE network before 3G. This sounds fine and dandy, but it would rather have 1 bar with LTE instead of 5 bars with 3G. This is why the reception is worse, it wants to hold onto the 4G tower.
I know this because when I turned off my 4G data and put it on CDMA only, my reception went up a lot!
Any thoughts?
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So if this does not belong as a new thread then I'm sorry, I'm fairly new here. Anyways, I think I stumbled on to something today with my Note 3. As with a lot of you, I have been having reception issues. The reason though is because it tries to connect to a LTE network before 3G. This sounds fine and dandy, but it would rather have 1 bar with LTE instead of 5 bars with 3G. This is why the reception is worse, it wants to hold onto the 4G tower.
I know this because when I turned off my 4G data and put it on CDMA only, my reception went up a lot!
Any thoughts?
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This is a valid fix shared on the Sprint forum. But, not really a fix fix.
toenail_flicker said:
This is a valid fix shared on the Sprint forum. But, not really a fix fix.
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But all we need now is a skilled dev who can program it to accept the best signal, not the fastest data. That or an update to do so.
Gus23J said:
But all we need now is a skilled dev who can program it to accept the best signal, not the fastest data. That or an update to do so.
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We need the fix fix. Sprint needs to get the job done.
So like allot of people in here, I sold off my AT&T S5 and scooped up a T-MO S5 for the obvious reasons. What i've noticed is that i get insanely awesome reception everywhere i go with this t-mo phone. At work i would pull down about 3-4 bars of LTE on my ATT S5 and now i get full LTE all day long without the thing fluctuating once. Not a huge difference but still nice to see. This also goes for just about everywhere i go, full bars galore. Anyone else noticing this? Either way it's just another perk along with root and my custom ROM!!:victory:
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So like allot of people in here, I sold off my AT&T S5 and scooped up a T-MO S5 for the obvious reasons. What i've noticed is that i get insanely awesome reception everywhere i go with this t-mo phone. At work i would pull down about 3-4 bars of LTE on my ATT S5 and now i get full LTE all day long without the thing fluctuating once. Not a huge difference but still nice to see. This also goes for just about everywhere i go, full bars galore. Anyone else noticing this? Either way it's just another perk along with root and my custom ROM!!:victory:
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Bars means nothing. Always check and compare using the dbm menu.:good:
The T-Mobile S5 will show five bars for a -99dbm signal. That in reality should be about 2-3 bars.
MattMJB0188 said:
The T-Mobile S5 will show five bars for a -99dbm signal. That in reality should be about 2-3 bars.
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I don't know about that ; however the TMobile modem has more bands like LTE 900Mhz, HSPDA/AWS 1700Mhz
cjk2010 said:
I don't know about that ; however the TMobile modem has more bands like LTE 900Mhz, HSPDA/AWS 1700Mhz
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It does. It's a fact. When I have a -99dbm signal, my phone shows 5 bars. Then 4 bars with anything below -110dbm. I am assuming T-Mobile did it this way because their LTE is extremely weak, and they want you to think you have a good signal, when you really don't.
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It does. It's a fact. When I have a -99dbm signal, my phone shows 5 bars. Then 4 bars with anything below -110dbm. I am assuming T-Mobile did it this way because their LTE is extremely weak, and they want you to think you have a good signal, when you really don't.
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dbm alone when talking about LTE is a somewhat artificial number without context . RSSI and RSRP will indicate something more meaningful to the signal quality. -99dbm RSRP would be closer to -79 dbm RSSI and is a strong signal .
I am currently at -95dbm RSRP and am pulling phenomenal results.
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My current signal
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My current signal
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Don't install the new modem. It causes a problem for ATT users.
rfb813 said:
Don't install the new modem. It causes a problem for ATT users.
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I'll wait until the new modem is thoroughly tested with AT&T. It can't be that bad.
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Don't install the new modem. It causes a problem for ATT users.
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Thanks for the heads up, I am on TMO not ATT , but I think I'll still hold off until I see more results. Seems a lot of ppl are having lower download speeds.
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I wonder if this new slow download modem issue on G900T tmobile devices on ATT networks has anything to do with ATT lighting band 29 LTE on 700 now?
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I'll wait until the new modem is thoroughly tested with AT&T. It can't be that bad.
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Download speeds went from 25+Mps to 1.5Mps.
Wow. I'm glad I still have my original modem. I wonder why they would do that. Unless they don't want people taking their devices over to AT&T?
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Wow. I'm glad I still have my original modem. I wonder why they would do that. Unless they don't want people taking their devices over to AT&T?
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We really don't know if this is really happening to everyone or it's an isolated case...so far it's only been the same couple people reporting it.
devoidx said:
We really don't know if this is really happening to everyone or it's an isolated case...so far it's only been the same couple people reporting it.
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I reflashed the ANCH stock Rom and rerooted and am back on the ANCH modem. Got my speeds back up
This is not an isolated case. There are problems with the new Modem. Go to the Development section. Beanstown has a new thread with all the Modems, firmware, and stock roms.. Try different modems, many times they function differently by location.