Seems some Photons are finding a 3G Speed increase by a simple adjustment of settings...
I have tested this, and found it to work for me...however, NOT everyone is reporting a similar experience. So, give it a shot...and report your findings here for analysis. (My guess for the reasoning in different experiences would relate to tower proximity, etc)
The "Fix" is simple...
1. Head to "Wireless & Networks" in Settings Menu.
2. Go to "Mobile Networks"
3. Change "Network Mode" from "Any CDMA" to "Automatic"
4. Reboot
5. Test!!
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interesting. Might have to give this a shot.
Mine was already on automatic.
Mine wasn't on automatic so i switched it and boom 3g where i couldn't get 3g and i work in a airport thanks.
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Went from 401 to 697! Thanks for the tip.
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I changed mine to Automatic but I didn't really notice very much difference.
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Went from ~.9 Mb/s to ~1.7 Mb/s down and ~.3 Mb/s to ~.7 Mb/s up. What I'm wondering is if it's using GSM networks now instead of CDMA and if it'll cause excessive roaming issues.
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No, I don't believe it's using GSM...or roaming. I'm not positive, but I plan on calling Sprint come Monday and asking what the feature does. There is NO warning prompt indicating that you will be roaming...so I doubt they could force roaming charges on anyone.
Just gave it a try. 1.84Mbps for 3G before and after but 4G dropped fro, 4.53 down to just 0.55 in Automatic. Returning to "Any CDMA" brought it back up.
I did this fix and it did work, but I have found that in my area, due to population, that my speeds can barely break 600k, but when I ran out to a few other remote locals I was pulling 1.6m+. So this clearly works and I love the speeds in the remote area, but the area I live and work in really suck.
newalker91 said:
Went from ~.9 Mb/s to ~1.7 Mb/s down and ~.3 Mb/s to ~.7 Mb/s up. What I'm wondering is if it's using GSM networks now instead of CDMA and if it'll cause excessive roaming issues.
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nope its still cdma, just grabbing the strongest signal instead of focusing on a Sprint signal. Should not effect you roaming charges at all
I noticed another positive side effect of this. Way faster connecting speed. It would take forever to even start loading a page on any cdma and now it starts instantly.
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You Guys Might want to Try Removing the Sprint Proxys. My coworker was unable to stream pandora, and had a general overall slowness of web browsing. We did the following.
1. Get MSL Code
2. Dial ##data# in the phone
3. Go into mulitmedia
4. We upped the buffer to 10
5. Set the ports to 0
6. Set the addresses to 0.0.0.0
Rebooted and all his streaming issues were resolved adn market and web seemed to load faster (he has been struggling with streaming issues for over a week)
ok so could this be too good to be true?
seems like there must be some downside.. are we more likely to drop connections if we're constantly hopping networks?
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Hmmm... didnt work for me. First two download passes were 1.1m them 900k. Changed the setting to automatic and got 172k and 200k. I'll set back to any CDMA and try again in the morning at work.
Thx
The first method doubled my speeds and gave me 25% of the ping.
removing proxys solved my shoutcast radio streaming problem
Thanks for the tip. Increased from 1.3mbps/384kbps to 1.8-1.9mbps/600-800kbps
Will try the MLS trick next
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Thanks for the tip. Increased from 1.3mbps/384kbps to 1.8-1.9mbps/600-800kbps
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Dang dude. Share some of that love. I wish i got 1.3 over wifi. LOL.
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You Guys Might want to Try Removing the Sprint Proxys. My coworker was unable to stream pandora, and had a general overall slowness of web browsing. We did the following.
1. Get MSL Code
2. Dial ##data# in the phone
3. Go into mulitmedia
4. We upped the buffer to 10
5. Set the ports to 0
6. Set the addresses to 0.0.0.0
Rebooted and all his streaming issues were resolved adn market and web seemed to load faster (he has been struggling with streaming issues for over a week)
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If im not mistaken i think this breaks the sprint apps from working ie. sprint tv and sprint music.
No it doesn't mine all work fine never better
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Before root, my dwnld speeds averaged 18mb to 30mb. I'm lucky, and have LTE everywhere I go and those numbers were consistent. Since root, I can not get above 10mb. I've tried several roms and radio combinations to no avail. I would love to get back to those speeds. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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Crooke356 said:
Before root, my dwnld speeds averaged 18mb to 30mb. I'm lucky, and have LTE everywhere I go and those numbers were consistent. Since root, I can not get above 10mb. I've tried several roms and radio combinations to no avail. I would love to get back to those speeds. Any help would be greatly appreciated!
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They're probably not really slower, just dont use the speedtest.net application. Use http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ instead.
Everyone keeps recommending the speakeasy site over the speedtest.net app. Not sure why it shows different numbers for some but they both show almost identical speeds for me (speakeasy is even a little slower at times). Maybe it depends on your location and coverage but no difference here. *shrug*
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Everyone keeps recommending the speakeasy site over the speedtest.net app. Not sure why it shows different numbers for some but they both show almost identical speeds for me (speakeasy is even a little slower at times). Maybe it depends on your location and coverage but no difference here. *shrug*
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If you try it on CM7 or any aosp rom it makes a world of difference for me at least. Download speeds are 1-5mbps on speedtest for it and 15-20 on speakeasy or just by testing through more scientific means (like using wget on a known file size, timing it and dividing out the size/time).
You realize the difference between 10mbps and 30mbps on a cell phone is completely intangible. There are no websites that even deliver content at 30mbps in the first place, aside from the speakeasy servers for testing purposes, and even if they did, you wouldnt notice the difference because the entire page layout would have already been loaded in 1 second anyway.
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You realize the difference between 10mbps and 30mbps on a cell phone is completely intangible. There are no websites that even deliver content at 30mbps in the first place, aside from the speakeasy servers for testing purposes, and even if they did, you wouldnt notice the difference because the entire page layout would have already been loaded in 1 second anyway.
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You assume we're talking about web pages. I was generally referring to large binary files handled over http. I download plenty of those from my own servers.
However, a webserver can deliver content at any speed it can handle (limited by load balancing or the max speed of a server). If you have a webpage with 100 large images on it, it's sure going to load a lot faster on LTE @ 2-4 MB/s than it would on CMDA at 300KB/s.
There are plenty of crappy wordpress and other crappy CMS sites out there that arent exactly very efficient in loading stuff either because they make too many http requests or they dont know what compression is. Either way, it'll make a difference.
another thing to keep in mind also, is the more people that sign up & get 4G the slower the network will gradually get.
even 3G used to be faster at first....
If I am getting 3 mb/s speeds on speedtest and 19 mb/s speed on speakeasy which should i believe?
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If you try it on CM7 or any aosp rom it makes a world of difference for me at least. Download speeds are 1-5mbps on speedtest for it and 15-20 on speakeasy or just by testing through more scientific means (like using wget on a known file size, timing it and dividing out the size/time).
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Yup, no difference here whatsoever. Speakeasy is actually slower than the speedtest app. Tested them back to back while sitting in the same location.
Always been this way from CM7 RC0.6 through 1.3 now on MR1, MR2, OTA MR2. That's why it always made me wonder when lots of people suggested using speakeasy.
Oh well...
Absolute_Zero said:
Yup, no difference here whatsoever. Speakeasy is actually slower than the speedtest app. Tested them back to back while sitting in the same location.
Always been this way from CM7 RC0.6 through 1.3 now on MR1, MR2, OTA MR2. That's why it always made me wonder when lots of people suggested using speakeasy.
Oh well...
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I guess speedtest just hates me
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That's speakeasy.
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I got about the same running Cyanogenmod 7 RC1.3 27.83 Mb/s down and 3.82 Mb/s up, using the most recent Radio Leak
Think the app's are a bit misleading anyway. I ran the speedtest app on my phone and get 30mb down, then I tether to my laptop and run the same test from their website and get 7mb down.
I hate to bring back an old thread but has anyone discovered a solution to this?
I just got my S3 today and it has been great so far save for one issue. I seem to be experiencing really bad WiFi performance. I ran a speed test using the speedtest.net app on my iPhone 4 and got around 8 megabits per second down. However, when I ran the same test on my S3, I got about 1 megabit per second down consistently between numerous tests.
I don't have this issue while using LTE, which makes me think that it is a problem with the WiFi antenna. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
Thanks
Mine runs perfect on both 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands through wifi.
Getting 30Mbits down and 22Mbits up.
does this happen on when connected to any wifi? or just particular one?
Make sure your phone is not on Power Save mode.
caveman999 said:
I just got my S3 today and it has been great so far save for one issue. I seem to be experiencing really bad WiFi performance. I ran a speed test using the speedtest.net app on my iPhone 4 and got around 8 megabits per second down. However, when I ran the same test on my S3, I got about 1 megabit per second down consistently between numerous tests.
I don't have this issue while using LTE, which makes me think that it is a problem with the WiFi antenna. Is anyone else experiencing this issue?
Thanks
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Try forcing the WIFI to 2.4GHZ and see if that improves things
TranceMission18 said:
Mine runs perfect on both 2.4ghz and 5ghz bands through wifi.
Getting 30Mbits down and 22Mbits up.
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Well, I have tested and yes you can get great speeds via the wifi, however something is quite wrong with it too, see my bug post in this subforum.
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I have my wifi forced to 5GHz and just now at work I got 49ms ping 33449kbps down and 38990kbps up to a server that is ~200 miles away. Seems to be working fine to me
I have the same issue. It's not as fast as my s2 on WiFi.also sometimes it loses signal and the WiFi turns off by itself and then on. It's really weird
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Thanks for all the suggestions. It might have just been a temporary thing because I wiped the cache on my phone using the default recovery, rebooted the phone a few times and now its fine.
I'll keep testing it to check if this issue comes back, but ad of now I'm just glad that it is working now.
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Make sure your phone is not on Power Save mode.
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That made a HUGE difference for me. From 5mbit/s to 50mbit/s downstream. THANK YOU.
I've had issues also with it "re-initiating wifi" after waking, even though set to keep wifi always... feel like this is truly a bug. Dropping wifi frequently...
Same issue with wifi. I also notice a difference every time as well if I single handly hold the phone back case mid section or higher. Bars go from 4 to 2 or 1. Then back to 4 if I move my hand and palm below the buttons.
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That made a HUGE difference for me. From 5mbit/s to 50mbit/s downstream. THANK YOU.
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I take that back, now I'm getting 10mbit/s down when my laptop does 50mbit/s down shortly after. Tried a few more times, same results. Something is not right with WiFi on this device. It lost 5gHz signal when i stepped outside, not more than 10m from the base station.
ormandj said:
I take that back, now I'm getting 10mbit/s down when my laptop does 50mbit/s down shortly after. Tried a few more times, same results. Something is not right with WiFi on this device. It lost 5gHz signal when i stepped outside, not more than 10m from the base station.
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Yeah, I have continued to test the wifi on the phone and I am getting inconsistent performance. I hope this can be fixed in a software update and isn't a hardware defect.
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we had a few galaxy nexus phones in our office that had horrible wifi performance/signal. i believe that device used the BCM4330 chipset.. which is odd, because my 4s has that same chip (i believe) and the wifi performance/range is great - can anyone confirm what the S3 uses?
Mines keep disconnecting and reconnecting
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I posted this in another wifi complaint thread. I don't know if anyone has tried.
I had this problem on my Captivate. It was not very obvious, because the disconnects were so brief. I discovered while working with some Tasker WiFi settings.
The fix was to set my phone to use static addresses. You can use WiFi Static in order to achieve static addresses only where you want. I am using this on my S3, so I don't know if I would have problems without it.
I'd be curious to know if this helps anyone.
My wifi keeps disconnecting and it's driving me crazy anyone have a solution?
Not at all. In fact, when I ran tests against my iPhone 4S my Galaxy S3 on WiFi got faster data speeds every time.
Wifi problem went away for me. Although I know for a fact it's not as fast as it should be.. I'm going to double check my router to make sure
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Ok so I did this and it helped streaming a little bit.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1632687
Then I tried something else that doubled my internet speed it may not work on non sense Roms, but you can try it.
Open your dial pad, type in *#*#4636#*#*
Edit:tap on phone information,
then go towards the bottom of the page. Tap on "set preferred network type" then select CDMA/EvDo/GSM/WCDMA/LTE auto, then your 3g should turn off then back on. Next go towards the very bottom of the screen and there is a button that says toggle dns I believe. (Sorry, I'm on my phone so I can't check) hit that so it says 0.0.0.0 allowed. Then all you have to do is tap your home key and it'll save by itself. I have noticed that this won't stay there if you restart your phone, but once you get used to it it's pretty quick to set. I don't reboot every five minutes so it doesn't bother me. It's a small price to pay for fast internet!. My internet speed used to be about 200-300 download, now I see up to 2200Kb download.
IF THIS HELPS YOU OUT PLEASE HIT THE THANKS BUTTON!! THANKS!
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Have you tried making call, receiving calls, send text or mms? I believe there was a thread like this when the Evo 1st came out but it turned out that the trick killed some things that made a phone a phone.
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BrianBaker said:
Have you tried making call, receiving calls, send text or mms? I believe there was a thread like this when the Evo 1st came out but it turned out that the trick killed some things that made a phone a phone.
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It kills some if you pick the wrong one. figured that out right away. Pick specifically the one I listed and you should be fine. I've been running like this for about 2-3 weeks. By the way I'm on ota, dev unlocked, rooted, on viper Rom, and awesome sauce kernel.
Sorry, to answer your question...I do send and receive text and picture mail, send and receive calls (regular number and Google voice number). Now I just have really fast internet.
have you also checked if you're not roaming without knowing?
nonetheless, thanks for posting!
Like I posted in the other thread.....
One test is not definitive.
Do 3-4 with it off, 3-4 with it on, and a couple with it off
Results page from speedtest will report multiple scores.
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have you also checked if you're not roaming without knowing?
nonetheless, thanks for posting!
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No roaming, I actually just looked yesterday on Sprint.com and nothing like that. I've been running like this for at least two weeks
This is in response to Rxprt. I have. Every day all day, truthfully, it's fast until I reboot my phone then gets slow again. then I change the setting and it doubles as soon as 3g connects.
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Ok the pics don't look like they're showing when I upload from the app. :-\
mykeyvee said:
Ok the pics don't look like they're showing when I upload from the app. :-\
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Nope, I'm nandroiding back to a sense ROM to try it out. Mr ED from AndroidForums had a method very similar to this one and it didn't work for me.
Rxpert said:
Nope, I'm nandroiding back to a sense ROM to try it out. Mr ED from AndroidForums had a method very similar to this one and it didn't work for me.
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Hope this works for you like it does for me!
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Hope this works for you like it does for me!
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Top 3 with the hack bottom 3 without it
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That sounds like that menu that you go to to mess up your phone from roaming on the 850 band.
It's all a myth to me. If I can get 2500 on a rural tower but go to another and get poor speeds then nothing I do to my phone is going to change that except for roaming of course or maybe toggling in hopes to get on another carrier if the tower has more than one active and it's the air interface congested not the backhaul.
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Though changing this could in theory improve speeds in specific scenarios, its unlikely (and proven when I did a similar test on androidforums.com) that the masses will gain little if anything from these changes.
What we have confirmed is that if you are experiencing slow speeds, the cdma only setting can drastically improve them. The LTE cdma evdo setting is trying to (in some areas) connect to the enhanced cdma technology that is not yet available in most areas, thus the phone ends up on evdo or 1x speeds.
Problem is, the average user has no way of accessing the tower information to even know what areas are complete, in progress, or not effected. Thus results will vary for literally everyone.
And as mentioned, some changes there will result in loss of voice, data, text and or mms
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Okay, sorry didn't reply for little bit I had to power wash the parking. :-\ Anyways, the first four were done after the MOD and the bottom four were done before the mod (holding down the power button for 10 seconds and letting the phone restart at factory settings). It definitely works for me, but like it was posted earlier it may not work for everybody.
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Okay, sorry didn't reply for little bit I had to power wash the parking. :-\ Anyways, the first four were done after the MOD and the bottom four were done before the mod (holding down the power button for 10 seconds and letting the phone restart at factory settings). It definitely works for me, but like it was posted earlier it may not work for everybody.
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ok, i finally got the pic to upload!
Just download "Network" app from the play store and much easier to enter those settings.
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Wow! Thanks for the info!
My stats: 4 runs before a change, 3 runs after, phone placed in same general area on desk for each run.
Before change average:
646.25 down
565 up
After change average:
737 down
632.33 up
Improvement:
%14 down
%11 up
wow!!! check this your boss!! goodandevo did a rite up on this http://www.pocketables.com/2012/08/temporarily-increase-your-3g-speeds-on-the-htc-evo-4g-lte.html
Ping - Down - Up
Before
120ms - 1993 - 596
128ms - 1951 - 856
112ms - 2052 - 850
After
132ms - 2118 - 680
130ms - 2246 - 580
135ms - 2267 - 586
I'm running the 2/3 build of CM nightlies and, ever since the 2/2 build, my network seems to constantly be on Digital Roaming even when I know I'm in an area with service. I also have roaming off and set to "Home only" in my settings. Anyone know how to fix this problem?
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In the same boat as OP. Already tried updating the PRL and profile, disabling roaming data, changing to Home Only, disabling LTE, setting the PRL to LTE/CDMA auto, and forcing it onto the PCS 1900MHz band, but it's staying on roaming.
The odd thing is, it's only roaming on data and not voice/SMS service, according to the info in the Testing menu, and it's only roaming on CM11 (it was fine when I restored my backup of stock to update the PRL and profile). Haven't been able to come up with a solution, anyone find something that works? I'm hesitant to call Sprint considering it's fine on stock.
I'm having the same issue. I saw this on an alpha build of Pacrom. After an extensive night of testing and testing, the conclusion is the phone SAYS it's roaming but in actuality it is not. You are on Sprint's network. You can test the same way I did. Open your sprint data summary and record your used data. Now download an app, say maybe 5 mb on the "roaming." Wait half an hour and then refresh your data summary page. You will see am increase in used data, not in roaming data. So there's simply something wrong with the phone which is causing it to believe it roams when it is not.
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My service is notably different though: less reliable, slower, occasionally giving false positives about data connectivity, unable to tether. I've confirmed this by flashing a Sense-based backup, it's definitely the ROM, not my service or phone. The 2/5 build hasn't fixed it, either. I'm going to try and flash it back to the 2/1 build, but is there any reason why this could be?
This came to mind when I saw this thread.. Apparently it's known and only cosmetic.
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My service is notably different though: less reliable, slower, occasionally giving false positives about data connectivity, unable to tether. I've confirmed this by flashing a Sense-based backup, it's definitely the ROM, not my service or phone. The 2/5 build hasn't fixed it, either. I'm going to try and flash it back to the 2/1 build, but is there any reason why this could be?
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Service(data) has always been shaky/rocky on non-sense based roms... Battery life as well....
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Service(data) has always been shaky/rocky on non-sense based roms... Battery life as well....
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Sure, I've been doing the custom ROM thing for a couple years, jumped off Sense as soon as I got this phone on release, I'm well aware of differences in service. But there's a difference between "shaky/rocky service" and "basically non-existent service", even compared to the CM11 nightly a couple days ago. I have to wait a couple minutes to just load google.com in the browser, it's ridiculous.
I see.. that one is a problem. I hope you get it resolved.
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It might be an issue with that specific build
Took the red pill. HTC evo 4G LTE evilution red pill.
I confirm this issue as well
I am in a known roaming area right now and I am showing 3g now. So maybe things are just switched up idk......
ELTE on Vanir Inverted ftw!
At least when I compare it to my Galaxy S4. I had noticed it didn't have as many wifi bars when I was in the same room a ways away from my router so at first I decided to go right into the room where my router is and test it literally a foot away from the router.
Looked promising.
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GS4 left, LG G3 right
But then I went back to the room where I'm usually at in my house when using the phone and it was very disappointing for the G3.
I really want to keep this phone but I keep finding things that are talking me out of it. Don't be surprised if I post up a huge list of cons later... despite all the pros.
Don't be too sure that Samsung hasn't just tweaked the way the bars are displayed. Test with some tool that will give you the true signal strength Like WifiAnalyzer by farproc ti eliminate that possibility.
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Don't be too sure that Samsung hasn't just tweaked the way the bars are displayed. Test with some tool that will give you the true signal strength Like WifiAnalyzer by farproc ti eliminate that possibility.
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I'll do a WiFi analyzer comparison. But the fact that the speed indicated between the GS4 and G3 are so drastically different between the phones makes me think I'm not going to be too pleased.
My max speed at home is 25 megabit so an internet speed test on the phones won't help me much since the G3 is still over 25.
Is your access point configured to run both 2.4ghz and 5ghz on the same access point name? If so is one phone managing to grab the 5ghz and the other for some reason is preferring 2.4?
I typically separate these two frequencies and run them as separate networks because of problems I have had running an access point in "shared dual mode". Specifically with certain soc's seeming to prefer 2.4ghz (which often runs slower) for some reason. The problem doesn't occur when I specifically tell it to use the 5ghz access point name instead.
I'm having this issue as well
In Wi-Fi settings, do you have "Battery saving for Wi-Fi" checked? This may tell the radio to lower its power output based on how much network throughout is needed. Try checking the link speed while transferring a large file. Also, you want this feature turned on; it will increase the life span of the radio.
I checked this afternoon with WiFi Analyzer from farproc, the G3 compared to my lady's G2.
Against my Netgear R7000 Nighthawk router, the results at different locations within my plaster-walled home were very similar, with maybe a few dB less at distance on the G2 at 2.4 ghz.
At 5 ghz, as I got further from the router, the G2 started to drop signal strength much earlier, up to 10dB worse at the far corner of the house.
Both phones were held in hand and measured by the same software at the same time. The orientation of each phone was varied during the testing as well.
I did have WiFi power saving enabled, but that was on the G3.
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b0bj0e said:
In Wi-Fi settings, do you have "Battery saving for Wi-Fi" checked? This may tell the radio to lower its power output based on how much network throughout is needed. Try checking the link speed while transferring a large file. Also, you want this feature turned on; it will increase the life span of the radio.
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Yes, that is on. (it took me awhile to find it as it's in the overflow menu).
I'll do some more tests without it just to see what happens but ultimately leave it on.
Thanks!
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Is your access point configured to run both 2.4ghz and 5ghz on the same access point name? If so is one phone managing to grab the 5ghz and the other for some reason is preferring 2.4?
I typically separate these two frequencies and run them as separate networks because of problems I have had running an access point in "shared dual mode". Specifically with certain soc's seeming to prefer 2.4ghz (which often runs slower) for some reason. The problem doesn't occur when I specifically tell it to use the 5ghz access point name instead.
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Yeah both 2.4 and 5ghz but I have different SSID's for each one.
I've been told that your devices should connect to whichever one is the strongest if you name them the same but I've often found that not to be the case so I always set them up as different names.
speed is all the really matters,