Hey everyone. I'm a recent Fascinate convert coming from a Droid X and CM7.
I've got CM7 on my Fascinate and am using the Glitchv13 kernel. Absolutely love the performance and battery life, however my modem/baseband seems to be a bit sketchy at times.
I'm wondering what your opinions are on the best modem for the Fascinate at this time. I'm currently using the EH03 modem.
I need reliable phone, text and data connectivity. I don't care so much about speed so much as I just need my data connection to stay up as much as possible. I've had several data dropouts on the EH03 modem already, some fix themselves while other require the airplane mode toggle or a reboot in the extreme cases.
Thanks!
I have not had any such issues with EH03... It has been rock solid.
Each person can have different results with a different modem. But as for me, I have to say EH03 has been more stable than all the others I have tried.
ec09 is the most stable withthe least amount of 1x switching. The problem is no matter what modem you have, on mtd based roms data dropping is a known issue in low signal areas. Luckily for me it was never a issue, other than having to toggle airplane mode occasionally.
Thanks for the replies, everyone.
I ended up rolling back to EC09. It seems to be more stable for me (data being solid for almost a full day now where it was dropping every few hours before).
I'm generally not in low signal areas and just about never use Wi-Fi. We have 3G everywhere so I'm not sure why I was having such awful luck with EH03.
Hopefully it keeps running smoothly. *knock on wood*
ec09 has been the most stable for me. consistent speeds and stability.
eh03 gave me lower ping times but the speed was to slow.
ed05 seems to be all over the place.
I've never switched from EC01 since it dropped (yes, before original official Froyo).
Never got caught in the missed calls stuff or anything.
I had missed calls every day with every radio I flashed until EH03. On my phone, in my service area, EH03 has been the most reliable by far!
Yeah for me its EH03 but its also the slowest of the three, but it's easily the most reliable too so I stick with it
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In my expierences, Miui does not have any data drop out issues. It only seems to happen in CM7 and VGB.
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Here's a bit of an interesting one. Ever since official Froyo release, I've been getting GREAT reception in my house. Previously, "cell standby" was responsible for much of my battery drain. The odd thing is, I have changed NOTHING. I haven't flashed for weeks. I'm running Adry's EC01 Rom(and radio), with Jt's 4/15 kernel.
Has anyone else noticed a jump in reception? Do you think it's possible Verizon changed something on their end to go along with this update? Quite curious!
I'd also like to add that given the better reception, battery life has been stellar. This confirms great battery life for my aforementioned phone setup, (at least for my exact device).
Is 4g rolling out in your area? Some were speculating that it might take the traffic strain off the existing network.
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A local tower may have been repaired/ upgraded
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hey guys,
havent posted here in a long time, but i have been having some odd problems regarding my fascinate. I recently updated from superclean to the UKB 2.0, then installed the 2.1 patch immediately after. While on superclean i attempted to update my radio, odin'd to various different ones since the phone seemed to have sporadic service and the 1x/3g symbol had basically vanished. so i flashed UKB and noticed even worse radio service, and so i odin'd dl09 on to the phone which didnt seem to help at all and now im at ed04 through CWM. my phone works alright now, with better service but still a data connection that cant seem to hold. and now of all a sudden im constantly losing all bars and its saying i have no service in the same location i was receiving 2 bars.
so i was wondering if anyone has had this problem or can point out something that i did horribly wrong, since it seems the state of the phone's radio has just been decreasing since i started fiddling with it. any thoughts would be much appreciated!
thanks
oh and just noticed that gps is no longer functioning...lol
solved. seems that part of the problem was juice defender which was supposed to only disable data connection when the screen was off, but apparently was toggling full airplane mode almost randomly, even while awake and when trying to send a text.
other thing i did was flash back to stock rom with dl09 to wipe everything, rerooted and updated to UKB, and have done nothing with the radio. ive noticed radio still is functioning subpar to when i was in stock so im confused there but i got functionality back.
gps works now too although i added GPSaids, first few seconds is completely wrong but as it picks up more sats it homes in frighteningly fast to my precise location.
edit: data connection still seems to be dropping only when i start attempting to access data, but that seems to be a new problem
I'm having the same problem, fresh install of ukb 2.0 restart then 2.1.
I have the EC01 Modem,
Signal is all over the place constantly. 3g, 1x, phone only, mostly is 2 bars then 0, back and forth
Wifi is a little weird, so is bluetooth...
I think I'm just going to wait for JT's full CM7...
JTs distro comes with EB01, I know there's an EC modem and now a new ED modem, thoughts on which is best from a signal and - quite important to me - battery life standpoint?
shaels said:
JTs distro comes with EB01, I know there's an EC modem and now a new ED modem, thoughts on which is best from a signal and - quite important to me - battery life standpoint?
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I found the EC09 modem to be the best for me in terms of overall quality and signal strength. In addition, at one point, I was pulling two days of moderate usage out of a single charge with it. Plus, it *seems* to have the least problems of all the modems I tested and jt said a while back that even he recommends EC09 for cm7.
However, if you don't want that, ED04 is probably the second best.
Edit: Here's a list of all the radios with download links and instructions, in case you need it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12816670&postcount=39
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I found the EC09 modem to be the best for me in terms of overall quality and signal strength. In addition, at one point, I was pulling two days of moderate usage out of a single charge with it. Plus, it *seems* to have the least problems of all the modems I tested and jt said a while back that even he recommends EC09 for cm7.
However, if you don't want that, ED04 is probably the second best.
Edit: Here's a list of all the radios with download links and instructions, in case you need it: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=12816670&postcount=39
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I can tell you the EC09 really is all that it is hyped up to be. Zero problems with it and I was consistently getting 2 days per charge using it. I use my phone quite a lot but everyone has a different perspective on usage.
Some think that a few texts and 1 call a day is moderate while others see it as watching an entire movie + Facebook, twitter, news, weather, angry birds, and 10 calls + live wallpaper as moderate. This is a phone, not a desktop computer...keep that in mind.
Currently I am testing the new ED05 modem. I have not personally seen the increased battery drain but I did have a MMS problem today. Though it may not be the modems fault and it was quickly remedied.
Thanks guys, that sounds positive, I'll flash EC09 when I get home later and then calibrate the battery. I've been getting really poor performance with my current radio, so am looking forward to giving it a shot.
If you find wildly great performance, stability and battery life with ED, post back here, if you don't mind.
Thanks!
Forgive me if this is an ignorant question, but I'm wondering if the radio you have flashed can have a noticeable impact on the phones performance. I have not changed my kernel settings, but felt a bit more lag when using one radio over another. I was under the impression that the radio simply dealt with phone reception and had nothing to do with performance. Is this all in my head, or can it play a part? Thanks
Yeah, it's just dealing with the phone signal, no effect on performance. Are you completely stock?
Im actually running BAMF 1.8.6. I flashed the newest mr2 radio from the team BAMF site and found that I was having issues getting a gps lock (tried multiple times and locations). Read on a forum post that another user was having the same issue. He found that flashing the same radio off of xda solved his problem (baseband numbers were identical). I tried this and found that I was able to get gps lock instantly, but that my phone felt sluggish and would get hot (109 Fahrenheit) even when my data connection was turned off. I went back and flashed a slightly older leaked mr2 radio. Seems to have solved my problem of overheating as well as the sluggishness. Just kinda confused me because like I said I didn't make any changes to my kernel during all of this and was just using the phone in a day to day context. I thought that maybe if the second radio was struggling with maintaining a signal that could account for the heat and sluggishness, but all 3 radios have had good reception so I can't figure it out. Either way problem solved.
I don't remember exactly when it started, but the last month or so my WiFi signal strength had been a lot weaker on my phone. I want to say it started when I started using ASOP roms, but even back in a sense Rom now, I can't hold a signal even one room away. It's not my router because other phones/laptops still get a good signal.
Any ideas on potential fixes to improve signal strength? I'm s-off and on Ineff Deus 1.2 at the moment. Tried different kernels with the same results.
Not much I can say, I get better wifi reception on CM9. Holds out way more than it did on senseless ROMs.
Wipe and reflash?
Already clean flashed a couple roms. Doesn't help. Now I'm just on LTE all the time, so not a huge issue, but of course battery drain is much higher.
Did you recently replace the battery cover or have it off a lot ? The contacts could be funky for the antenna..
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