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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] varaonaid:
Hello,

Recently bought S3 and am in the process of switching to Sprint from Vzw. Currently both phones are active (although my Rezound still has Gingerbread as the ICS upgrade still hasn't dropped and I don't yet want to register my phone as rooted through HTC). I've been comparing the radio signals via settings (ie NOT using bars as the measure) in different location and I'm completely confused at some of the results.

At home, I have good reception on both. The Rezound is pulling around -56 and the S3 -65. Not bad from all that I heard about potentially bad radio. But yesterday, I was in my drs office, and the Rez was pulling -65 and the S3 -104 and was freakin' roaming on data when I'm in a full, strongest area Sprint cell area. I also checked them at the hospital when I was there and had similar results although the S3 wasn't roaming at that point but the radio was still at -104...I had one bar and made a trial call to my DH and it was crystal clear...better than Vzw has ever been.

So what the heck is going on? I understand that GB and ICS have some difference in measuring the radio strength but for the radio to nearly match at home, and drop by half only 1 mile from where I live and be roaming at 2 miles from where I live is craziness. What do you think is going on? Is this an S3 problem and Sprint problem or what? My DH's S3 is acting the same way so I'm confused and at a loss.

Problem is, after only having it two days, we're both so in love with it that we can't imagine not having the S3!

Any info, guidance, etc would be uber helpful. I have to decide in the next week whether to go with Sprint or stay with Vzw which I DON'T want to do and also do an AOL on my Vzw account.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] varaonaid:
I also checked the area where it started roaming on data and there was FULL service for data in the area and no roaming area for miles around.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ThatJawn:
Personally for me. Sprint. Hated every second of that carrier.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] varaonaid:
But this isn't about Sprint as much as it is about the S3 radio. Why the variance? is that normal? Should the radio numbers be dropping by half? Is it one of the problems that I've heard some of the S3's have with weak radios?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] farwek:
I have the vzw s3 and never had any such things happen to me. When I was with t-mobile on my s2 it would do tg is sort of thing all the time. Just randomly go from 4 bars to AT&T service then back to t-mobile at 1 bar.

Dunno what ur problem is though.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lost+found:
I have had the same issue since I got my first, so Sprint exchanged it. The new phone is the same.

Stock I was showing a steady signal at about -103 a lot of the time, holding the phone at lower left made it worse.

With CM10 and AOKP (JB):

It's not just that the signal shows week but it jumps around too. At home I range from -90 to -220, yet I can always make a call.

Data often shows x1 then roaming then 3g (no LTE here). And as soon as it roams I show 4 bars, but it never stays long enough to measure DB.

I tried most of the other modems and didn't see any great improvement in signal.

With Team Sonic V0.0.7 and LG8 modem (ICS):

Signal is steady holding at -97 at work, which is about 2 miles from tower.

In any configuration if I get close to the tower I can see -75 but it falls of very rapidly.

No lower left effect using the LG8 modem

I looked at my old EVO 4G, it's off Sprint but still reads signal strength at -97 on CM7.2 GB).
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] boomerbubba:
It is possible that these anomalies involve Sprint's network, which is under total reconstruction, not just the phones. It would be useful to test both devices with an app such as CDMA Field Test, to determine if they are connecting to the same tower transmitters.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ydoucare:
I notice odd things about the signal also. Sometimes it seems like the signal reporting gets "stuck" and the signal level doesn't change again for a while (both dbm reading and signal bars). When it's working normal, I can see the signal go up and down a little in real-time, but when it's "stuck" i can walk all around my house and it never changes. Going into the debug menu and the signal is stuck there too, both 1x and EVDO. Sometimes toggling airplane mode gets it "unstuck". Hopefully i'm not the only one seeing this. I'm updated to LG8.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lost+found:
I have messed with field testers, still learning what all this stuff means. It's always been good for me to have issues with computers, then I get to learn how to fix them, or at least report the errors to the right people.

I will look at towers to see how to identify them. Then compare the phones connections.

I need to learn more about asu; I think higher is better. Many times I have 1asu but now 8asu -97db.

I guess HwID is the tower name.

I show Cdma RSSI -96dBm and -15 Evdo Eclo 15 dB*10

I will play with other phones when I get home.

I don't think we are likely to be getting LTE now, we are more likely to get what ever comes next like we did with 4G. But that would be great so let's hope it clears up one day and I have LTE to boot!

Thanks!

No your not alone, I have been seeing the same strange stuff, I guess there aren't many of us though or it would be on the news. Still there have been very few times I have not been able to use the phone. But it acts like I am in the mountains when I am only miles from the tower, I don't expect it to work well then there really is low signal. But I am half convinced that it's a reporting problem.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
Sprint is currently using the 1900 mHz band, Verizon uses 700 and 800 mHz I think. In general, the higher the frequency the worse the building penetration. So, if you get deep into a building with lots of metal and concrete Sprint will definitely fade first. Over the long term their Network upgrades will use the re-purposed Nextel 800 mHz freqs to improve building penetration but for now things kind of suck in big office buildings.

Of course, they may be doing maintenance on the tower near your drs office.

Also, many large buildings will actually add cell phone repeaters but they don't always cover the Sprint 1900 band.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] boomerbubba:
No, I don't know what that is, but there actually not a "tower name" in CDMA. Rather there is a set of IDs mapped to each sector radio on a tower covering part of the angular pie around it.

Typically there are three sectors per tower, each with its own Base Station. There is a System ID (SID), a Network ID (NID), and a Base Station ID.

Under the Debug menu of the GS3, these IDs are listed on the 1X Engineering Protocol screen. EDIT: Or you can just install the third-party app CDMA Field Test to harvest that data. It also will produce a log of the BSIDs with signal strength, etc.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lost+found:
Sweet, I will play with this all later!

Thanks!
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] poit:
Two cool apps to figure out what tower and SID you are on are Antennas and OpenSignal, both in the Play store for free. Just don't leave them running or they will kill your battery.:(
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] boomerbubba:
I've never tried Antennas, but I know that Open Signal Maps methodology for plotting tower locations is very flaky. It is based on triangulating very rough crowdsourced data harvested by users with rough estimates of signal strength. Even the developer's website warns about inaccuracy. From the Google Play Store description of Antennas, it is trying something similar. So beware of this imputed mapping voodoo.

Trying to map tower sites from the coordinates that the tower transmitters broadcast is a whole different story, and has its own complexity. It is very accurate for some tower sites, but for some others the squawked coordinates are offset a large distance away per sector. I have always been able to discern my real tower sites precisley from this data, with some analysis and surveying, but only because I have a Rosetta Stone: A map of the actual Sprint towers available at S4GRU.com.

Note that none of these methods will map an LTE tower directly. These are CDMA tools.

Also, I wouldn't install Antennas myself (or some other apps such as Netmonitor) because I don't trust their intrusive permissions, but some folks don't care as much about protecting their privacy as I do.

Open Signal's on-screen reporting of the Base Station IDs themselves, which just come from the Android telephony API, is probably okay. But I can get that from CDMA Field Test, which also has better logging functionality and a safer permissions profile.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] ydoucare:
After playing around some, I can definitely confirm there is some sort of bug that's causing the signal reading to get "stuck" and stop updating. Just sat here with a -84 dbm signal for a couple hours, never budged. As soon as i toggled airplane mode, the signal dropped down and now I see it fluctuating a little as I move the phone around in my house. Prior to toggling airplane mode, the signal level didn't budge no matter what I did. Can anyone else confirm this exact behavior? I'm running stock LG8 rooted.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] lost+found:
I looked at the signal on my old EVO using CDMA Field Test and can confirm that both phones are using the same cell and reporting the same signal strength. If I am reading the EvDo signal data correctly the S3 is pulling a much stronger data signal.

Then I tried to setup my wife's old stock EVO to bring to work and it would FC when you tried to bring up the dialog on CDMA Field test, but the notification part was showing the same signal. Then I checked for updates and low and behold there was one. After the update that phone dropped to -102.

I hope I will still be able to root that EVO after the update, I have plans for it that don't include the stock ROM.

I also looked at information in the debug menu; I could see the same basic signal strength there but I could also observe the effect of holding the phone by it's lower left, a drop of of about 5 db, hold from the top and back up, very repeatable. I have to try one of those foolish stick on antenna boosters to see if it would help carry signal around my hand. In addition to building penetration I wonder is the switch to 800mhz might improve this.
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] trehouse:
Not to change subjects but so far I'm seeing a huge reduction in coverage from my old Evo 4G to my new SG3. I'm now testing a replacement SG3 and I'm done with Sprint if this reduction holds true.

I was with the Evo and I live in a fringe coverage area I guess and the loss of coverage with the SG3 puts me out of usable phone coverage at work or even on the road. Technical support offered a femtocell (free?) to resolve issues which I declined for now.

Many others finding a reduced coverage?
[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] joeyhdownsouth:
same problems on femto, seems to have hold solid 3g connection all day today though. Sprint doing massive network overhaul, prolly causing alot of connectivity issues. I have posted numerous threads thinking it was s3 radio, when in reality I believe it to be Sprint. Not 1 loss of connection to Airvana today. The problem for me has only plagued the data connection and not voice.

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[Sprint Samsung Galaxy S III] daniel4653:
feel sorry for you guys who suffer from bad speeds
[HTC Sensation] Jmrwbilly:
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[HTC Sensation] Jmrwbilly:
Ok, 15 downloads in the past hour... Anyone gonna let me know if it worked or not?
[HTC Sensation] fmedrano1977:
Didn't show up in my personalization list.

Swyped on HTC Sensation 4G
[HTC Sensation] Jmrwbilly:
What version OS you running?
[HTC Sensation] fmedrano1977:
Ics sense 3.6, Elegancia

Swyped on HTC Sensation 4G
[HTC Sensation] Jmrwbilly:
What version android?
[HTC Sensation] fmedrano1977:
4.0.3

Swyped on HTC Sensation 4G
[HTC Sensation] Jmrwbilly:
Thanks... Back to the drawing board I guess....
[HTC Sensation] fmedrano1977:
It was a nice one too. Why not try from scratch on a sensation released 3.6 skin?

Swyped on HTC Sensation 4G
[HTC Sensation] Jmrwbilly:
I'm working on figuring out how to get these to work across the board... If you want to use it, I've narrowed to compatibility issue down to the versions listed in its manifest... Edit that and it should work with no issues
[HTC Sensation] Jmrwbilly:
Updated OP
[HTC Sensation] jasminthoria:
Installed first 3 skin amazing, really nice, good job keep it up

Thanks:good:
[HTC Sensation] Jmrwbilly:
I did notice something with my new recent skins I'm working on... I did a batch image edit with the hue from blue to whatever color.... I noticed the lower white bar in the app drawer changed to a tinted of whatever color, And also the one in the sense desk clock, timer ect... I'd like to start incorporating that image in my skins.. But I'm having a hell of a time trying to find the file.. Anyone have any idea where to look?
[HTC Sensation] Doublej21:
Great Work!

These skins look great! I do have a request. Any way you could make a Minnesota Wild skin with green?

Thanks
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] sca_tay:
I like the current rom I currently using however there certain features in other roms that I like... apps that are already included in them (ones that i can't download) ... Is there a way to take certain things from 1 rom and add to another rom... It's so what's the best way to do this
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] studacris:
If it's simply apps you want...open the Rom zip with 7zip on your pc, go to /system/app and look for the apks in question, then open another that you want to add them to and just drag and drop from one to the other.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy Note I717] sca_tay:
Thanks...
[Motorola Droid 3] flemdroid:
So, as my backup GSM phone just crapped out (Unlocked Samsung 'Blackjack') I start pondering of D3 potential. Do people think theres a way to custom edit some files like the radio.img to enable the harnessing of US GSM bands while simultaneously preserving access to big reds 3g airwaves. I ask this because I have to use my overseas sim card once every couple months so it doesnt get deactivated. How much time could it require?

Thanks

Eric
[Motorola Droid 3] redsox985:
Check over in the dev area. They've been unlocked and used on T-Mobile/AT&T already! There's a guide as to how to do it. :)
[Motorola Droid 3] flemdroid:
yes but that requires the crippling of the cdma radio.
[Motorola Droid 3] flemdroid:
Anyone know if it's possible?
[Motorola Droid 3] 68rescue:
I'm running my d3 on at&t u.s. right now, I don't have a foreign SIM to test with or I would test that method.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] ikjadoon:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/...organic&utm_term=shadow+galaxy+live+wallpaper

No lag, beautiful, and great contrast to read white app titles! :-)
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] gtuansdiamm:
I prefer using the galaxy pack app
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] davwman:
Just bought all of them! Holy crap! Showing zero signs of negative effect on battery
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] ikjadoon:
Yeah, if you want all of his works and some pretty sick customizations, you can buy the pack. But the four free ones are pretty amazing.

I haven't done any formal battery tests, but the effect has not been noticeable at all. :-)

They look gorgeous on this 1280x720 AMOLED screen.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] Ranger666:
Nice find. I just downloaded all four of the free ones. I'll get the pack as soon as i can.
[Galaxy S III Themes and Apps  (US Carriers)] z0phi3l:
Been using this for a while, it's really good on the battery and shows off the screen nicely

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.popbox.flurry
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] eyeamfresh:
MY TWO FAVORITE THINGS HAVE MARRIED AND DONE THE NASTY, XBMC IS HERE!

Well after the recent leak that XBMC was intact about to release XBMC for Android I couldn't hardly sleep and was like a.dog in heat. I am pleased to say that earlier today I was able to confirm that XBMC is running on the EVO LTE. I have done minimal testing as I.don't store a whole lot of media on my phone but I was able to.confirm mp3 mp4 (videos recorded at 1080 on my phone have audio out of sync) and TED Talks streaming.

Here's a screenshot.

YouTube link; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56lzkBnCFqU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Xbmc apk download:

http://dl.miniand.com/miniand/xbmc-android/xbmcapp-armeabi-v7a-debug-20120714.apk

Xbmc source code: https://github.com/xbmc/android

sent from my EVO LTE runnin Stock With Goodies
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] fastmikey1969:
Do you have a link to a working build?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] eyeamfresh:
Links added above

sent from my EVO LTE runnin Stock With Goodies
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mexiking713:
Pretty cool thank you

Sent from my HTC Evo LTE
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] eyeamfresh:
No prob...just sharing what I find very useful and kewl.:D:thumbup:

sent from my EVO LTE runnin Stock With Goodies
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] demass430:
This is very cool thanks for the link. I'm loving the EVLTE scene right now. So much good stuff happening. Now if only we could get a AOSP 4.1 JB rom lol:D
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] ArcherMP:
Right on, great find!
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] Burkettacb:
Root required?
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] eyeamfresh:
Don't think so but ill tell you in a minute as I am going to try and run it on my Epic 4g touch.

sent from my EVO LTE runnin Stock With Goodies
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] eyeamfresh:
No root required successfuly launched on the stock Epic Touch 4G.

sent from my EVO LTE runnin Stock With Goodies
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] mprunty:
I'm loving this app. Thanks for the great find.

Sent from my EVO 4G LTE on the Now Network
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] lordcyrus:
UPNP is working just fine with my home server. This is fantastic and I can't wait for some of the bugs to get worked out.
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] eyeamfresh:
I too have upnp working but the one thing that is glitchy is the audio. It's very crackly.

:sly:

sent from my EVO LTE runnin Stock With Goodies
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] dawishmaker:
Does Icefilms work on this?...

Edit*

Nvm, I got it up and running along with other add-ons...
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] WisdomWolf:
This is technically pre-alpha. Now that it's been unveiled though, I suspect that development will happen at a record pace. Here's the link to the XBMC post announcing android support for more info: http://xbmc.org/theuni/2012/07/13/xbmc-for-android/
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] MRFERRARI23:
What's exactly needed to use this app?

Sent from My Ev0 0v3
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] luigi311:
Volume crackling might be due to trying to lower the volume while in the app it seems to do something else when lowering the volume while in the app try raiseing the volume till its bar is maxed for normal audio
[Sprint HTC EVO 4G LTE] arttd:
I built XBMC from source a couple days after the announcement from the XBMC team. Been running it on my hardware version 003 EVO 4g ever since with zero problems once I worked out the kinks. Something that will help with the crackling audio is to select the option to sync to the audio stream. It's under System > Video > Playback. For A/V Sync Method, select Audio Clock. Your video may play catchup for a frame or two here and there, but that's far less annoying than having your audio constantly resampling, and click and pop because of it. Oh, as a side note, XBMC didn't run worth a darn on any sense roms I tried. Even bare stock gingerbread was complete garbage for xbmc. However, on CM7 it runs smooth as silk. And you should deffinately run the "Touched" skin if you're using the handset screen to test, etc. Confluence is just too darn small on that size screen...

Now I just have to find a usable remote control solution, and I'll retire my EVO to the shelf between my DVR and Xbox. :)

Good luck!
[LG Optimus 2x] k3zo:
Hi, I've had this problem before and it was solved by flashing back to stock. But since I hate the stock ROM and how slow it is, I would like to know if anyone's got a fix for this?

I'm running NovaHD/CM9 on my Optimus 2x, it works like a charm for a few days, but then my messages can't be sent nor do I recieve any. I've noticed that I can do an "uppgrade" by installing the rom again with non-wipe and changing kernel, this do fix this problem but it comes back again. So it's getting quite annoying having to do so every other day.

If it has anything to do with BB/RIL I have 1035.21_20120521/2018b I think, not entirely sure about the RIL

Thanks in advance!
[LG Optimus 2x] guy6136206:
The nova hd do tend ti "broke" after few days, i have other pop problems.

Any way try Download getril from market, it will tell you if your ril is ok.

And if it wont fix this just reinstall the rom and make backup for any future problem.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] dduck87:
hello everyone and thanks for reading first of all i am very new to the forum world and i have been looking on here on how to reflash my galaxy skyrocket for AT&T my problem is that when i was trying to download ICS 4.0 to my s2 in the middle or at some point my mac went into sleep mode and interrupted the download process :( now it only displays the fallowing... on the upper left hand corner it says odin mode below that it had the product name sgh-i727 below that it has custom binary download: no and last current binary: samsung official than it had 3 icons a phone a yellow sign with an exclamation point on it and a computer than a message that reads firware upgrade encountered an issue. Please select recovery mode in kies and try again BUT that is the only screen i get when i try to do anything i have trying do hold the volume up and down key but it takes me to the screen saying warnign custom os can cause critical problems...and so on. no matter what button i push it takes me back to the previous mentioned screen with the icons idk what to do or how to fix it please help
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] creepyncrawly:
You found the wrong forum for your phone though. This is the I777 forum. There is a forum for you phone, the I727. Find that forum and go there to ask for help. And you should ask questions in the Q & A forum.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] thanitos:
Just go into download mode the whole warning are start Odin plug in your phone it should find it pick the firmware ans try again but this time set your Mac to never sleep...
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Tjsherod:
I never understood how so many people with skyrockets end up here.
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] Eternalty:
I'm sorry but if u don't even know the model number of your phone then u shouldn't be flashing stuff
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] moneyover:
Why did they even make the ****in i727 its a piece of **** with a piece of **** adreno 220 processor
[AT&T Samsung Galaxy S II SGH-I777] xhepera:
We're all entitled to our opinions, but it's rude and poor etiquette to dis someone's choice of device to their face out of sheer meanness.