I just picked up the S4 a few weeks back to replace my S3. First thing I noticed was that my service isn't as good. I drop calls a lot and my calls almost always sound like I have poor signal. My s3 wasn't bad. I had no issues talking at home on the s3 but I can not make a call from my house with the s4. This thing has gotten me to hate to have to call anyone.
Is there anything I can do to get better signal?
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Which baseband are you currently on? A newer version may help.
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I would repair your device using kies 3. That should solve your issue
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KaosMaster said:
I would repair your device using kies 3. That should solve your issue
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Thank you. Will see if that works
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Redid firmware with kies and I just set it back up. Still dropped my call here at my house. My s3 never did. Oh well it was worth a shot
Well I ordered a Samsung S5 and that has taken care of my signal issues. I can now make calls from my house with no issues. Nice to have a working phone again
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Is anyone having problems tethering their UK S3 lte. Tried a ton of apps and just can't do it. I've only installed CWM and rooted. Nothing else. Anyone have a solution?
Thanks
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unibiggle said:
Is anyone having problems tethering their UK S3 lte. Tried a ton of apps and just can't do it. I've only installed CWM and rooted. Nothing else. Anyone have a solution?
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I use tethering all the time on mine but I'm on stock Rom.
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lyriquidperfection said:
I use tethering all the time on mine but I'm on stock Rom.
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As soon as I turn it on it switches back off. Are you completely stock. No mods at all?
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All ok here
unibiggle said:
Is anyone having problems tethering their UK S3 lte. Tried a ton of apps and just can't do it. I've only installed CWM and rooted. Nothing else. Anyone have a solution?
Thanks
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I have pre-rooted and deodexed rom found here (http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1935570) installed on my UK (bought from t-mobile) S3 LTE and tethering works a treat.
Ive got quite abit of different mods on mine practically like a new rom and tether also works great obviosly if we have that option then it should work and if it doesnt its either a software bug , network, or faulty phon. Or even the other device thats connecting to it.
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I get this using barnacle
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Contact your service provider | by calling 150, and perhaps option 4 for technical support, as EE may have this option disabled for you by default, I have yet to check if mine works because i just ordered this as an upgrade (Everythings Unlimited!) for only £41 a month LOL
i am tethering right now and i am shocked as it is very fast even tho i am near the ocean and bushland./Lake but i am on 3G , as there is no 4g coverage out here yet. You would spin out if you knew where i was . Its 12am I am in front of a MASSIVE lake in a tent near the bush and just to see if i could, i hooked up my mini netbook up to my i9305 and all i can say is AWESOME i have now been on a stable connection for 1 hr. who needs a hardwire connection when you have a S3
Hehe i better get off now and get back to the nature haha. cya
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Contact your service provider | by calling 150, and perhaps option 4 for technical support, as EE may have this option disabled for you by default, I have yet to check if mine works because i just ordered this as an upgrade (Everythings Unlimited!) for only £41 a month LOL
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Got the full Monty plan which doesn't include tethering but I thought the apps bypass this?
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cameronbailey said:
sadly not i thought the same im on the exact same plan as yourself. they stopped tethering as of august from what i've heard for new customers.
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What a bummer man. That's why it's not working I guess.
Any of you top developer peeps can bypass this I will donate to you
Thanks
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This y i hate plans i buy my phones straight and my credit straight. I love the freedom of prepaid, and each time u recharge u get to choose a diff type of prepaid plan
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I had an iPhone before and just downloaded a tether app from cydia and away I went. Just assumed it would be the same
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There is a way around it i saw in i9300 a dev made a work around. I just cant remeber what thread it was inn or wat dev it was.i think it was his own work around he didnt advertise it because it was an offtopic thread was about something else and it lead into tethering . Do a search if ios has something we must aswel lol
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Got the full Monty plan which doesn't include tethering but I thought the apps bypass this?
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I'm on t-mo UK full Monty and can tether fine? You got a logcat of when you try to use stock wifi tethering?
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Got the full Monty plan which doesn't include tethering but I thought the apps bypass this?
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I'm on full Monte plan too and have no issues with tethering. I'm on full stock Rom no mods just rooted.
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I'm on t-mo UK full Monty and can tether fine? You got a logcat of when you try to use stock wifi tethering?
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I can use Bluetooth tethering but not WiFi. All that happens is I switch it on and then it says switching off and shutdown it off
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Trying to figure out why my wife's note 2 running JB v16 has one bar of WIFI sitting right next to my vzw S3 with full bars of WIFI signal.
This has been an issue on every note 2 rom I have flashed.
Does anyone have any possible Idea of what the heck is going on?
Thanks in advance.
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bajasur said:
Trying to figure out why my wife's note 2 running JB v16 has one bar of WIFI sitting right next to my vzw S3 with full bars of WIFI signal.
This has been an issue on every note 2 rom I have flashed.
Does anyone have any possible Idea of what the heck is going on?
Thanks in advance.
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Check your broadband. This will tell you what your radio's are set to. If you have updated roms, but never updated radios, that may be your problem.
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Check your broadband. This will tell you what your radio's are set to. If you have updated roms, but never updated radios, that may be your problem.
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Running 4.1.2 mc3 broadband. This has been an issue for months with her phone on every Rom and radio.
Any other ideas?
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Running 4.1.2 mc3 broadband. This has been an issue for months with her phone on every Rom and radio.
Any other ideas?
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I find my wifi signal is usually really weak compared to other devices too but I really figure it may just be a problem with a few of the N2s.
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I find my wifi signal is usually really weak compared to other devices too but I really figure it may just be a problem with a few of the N2s.
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You could be right. Maybe I'll try and find another note 2 and test it I'm my house
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Still no answers for this. Been reading all over other forums and it appears this is a pretty significant issue as well outside the root community.
Sounds like it may be a defect in some phones
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I have no idea what the problem is, but the situation is exactly opposite in my house. S3 struggles to connect and stay connected, while Note almost always has full bars on wifi.
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I have no idea what the problem is, but the situation is exactly opposite in my house. S3 struggles to connect and stay connected, while Note almost always has full bars on wifi.
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Lol.. crazy phones!
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Just got this MDK S4 so I need a little help from the pros here..
I don't see anywhere where I can select my APN and I can't get 4G at all. I've flashed the mk2 modem and here is what my settings look like...
I'm on AOKP 4.4 and I've flashed a couple other roms like Beanstalk and Slim and it's the same thing.
I'm sure I'm just over looking something.
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Not sure if this is even rom related. I threw my sim card from my old s4 into this one. Everything seemed to work off the jump but maybe I have to call Verizon? I'm back on stock MDK now and still no 4g even after getting into apn settings and verifying everything. Not really sure.
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Not sure if this is even rom related. I threw my sim card from my old s4 into this one. Everything seemed to work off the jump but maybe I have to call Verizon? I'm back on stock MDK now and still no 4g even after getting into apn settings and verifying everything. Not really sure.
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ya, check with verizon. Call or use their online chat
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ya, check with verizon. Call or use their online chat
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Yea I just was jumping the gun cuz I thought I had it all going and working normally prior to flashing. But now that I think of it maybe I was wrong. My fault. I'll get another cup of coffee and get this brain thinking correctly.
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Sometimes the simplest things are the ones I over think and over look
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Sometimes the simplest things are the ones I over think and over look
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What did you realize after u had more coffee?
safestrap enabled, Hyperdrive driven
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What did you realize after u had more coffee?
safestrap enabled, Hyperdrive driven
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Well I forgot that this phone connected up to my wifi at the house and I wasnt on 4g/lte
I was pre occupied with fixing this thing. When I got it it had both TWRP and CWM installed and it was screwing things up big time. Phone was bootlooping etc.. Just not acting normal. Did a full wipe.. Then I wasc teaching myself how to root MDK and Loki and new throw TWRP back on. Anyways I didn't notice that itv actually never said connected to 4g. Dumb mistake on my part.
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Plus it all works perfectly except all I get is 3g so just an oversight on my part
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The lady I spoke with at Verizon said I should have good just to pop my sim into this one and go. . However sometimes it doesn't take all the way and you need to call. Figure going from one s4 to another would be easy but she said because they are the same exact phone pretty much that it may have screwed up the id numbers more easily. Hey you got me. Course now I have to wait until I'm home and have both phones powered off and on front of me. Suppose I was too eager to fire this one up and get my aosp on .
Hey thanks for checking in though. .. pretty silly mistake on my part but I'm human what can I do
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Well not that this really should have been a thread in the first place but...
A new sim card fixed the issue. They said that sometimes for no reason at all you'll need a new one when switching between phones.
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Just found out today that Tmobile has diagnostic software @ technical support and they can tell whether or not your device has been rooted. They can also see what software you have installed, settings, etc.
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Yeah but you can turn it off. I did that just so my phone isn't bogged down from it
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How do u turn it off.? U talking about carrier iq?
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beachbum40 said:
How do u turn it off.? U talking about carrier iq?
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That and in the tmobile my account you have to disable the "device check" feature.
Be sure to turn it off after visiting them. They turn it on sometimes. Happened to my cousin and buddy
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I work for t-mobile and we never use that thing it's for idiots
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seshaz said:
I work for t-mobile and we never use that thing it's for idiots
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Since you work for tmobile, it would be nice to get a definitive answer to this. Do they check knox when you trade the phone in for a jump upgrade?
aooga said:
Since you work for tmobile, it would be nice to get a definitive answer to this. Do they check knox when you trade the phone in for a jump upgrade?
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I did a jump upgrade no problems on 2 phones no problem here trade s4 and note 3 both running kit kat and no have to galaxy s5's ?
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Tmobile does not check knox
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So first, I got on sprint and did a 1 year contract with my grandma and she chose an iPhone 5c. And I obviously chose this phone. But my problem is I rooted my phone and flashed slimkat. 4.4.3 and basically any ROM I try I can't get 4G. But my grandmas iPhone get 4G 3bars and I can hardly get 4G no bars. My baseband ends in NAB. Any help?
I'm new to this sprint and note 3 stuff.
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I also have terrible reception whether I enable data or not. Always 1 bar. Is there a update for baseband or something to fix this like my galaxy nexus had?
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Alton (Halo 2) said:
I also have terrible reception whether I enable data or not. Always 1 bar. Is there a update for baseband or something to fix this like my galaxy nexus had?
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Flash the stock NC5 tar file in the development forum, then hunt for a TouchWiz based NC5 rom that seems fitting to your needs.
That should correct your issues.
If you'd like some specific guidance, just let us know.
Good luck!
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Yes, please give me a specific guide I'm a noon when it comes to thus phone
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Can you give me a link to where I can download Odin?
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