Root dropping/ stalling 4g?

[akikhia]

is anybody having issues with 4g? im in san francisco bay area 4g has dropped enough times to seem like a problem. it also lags once in a while where whatever your doing itll stop working stall and then you would need to go back retry a few times and itll run. like there isnt a ping going on. i know its not the speed.
so please mention if you've had any issues with 4g

 

[stiff106]

the same thing been happening here in New York City

 

[wilsonbx198st]

the same thing been happening here in New York City

not happening to me here in new york (bronx)

 

[akikhia]

lets get to the bottom of this. when did it start with u? do u have juice defender? are u rooted?

 

[wilsonbx198st]

lets get to the bottom of this. when did it start with u? do u have juice defender? are u rooted?

i dont think its juice defender cause that"s what i use and i dont have any problem with my 4g, try to reset your phone "taking out the battery"
and call 611 and update your roaming list.

 

[guaterican101]

I have the same issue. It just stalls and shuts of then it takes couple seconds to turn back on

 

[THE W]

this happens to me when im at work. fine when im at home.

seems to not work well when im close to downtown.

 

[akikhia]

this happens to me when im at work. fine when im at home.

seems to not work well when im close to downtown.

i realized its always happening in the same areas. is there a way to enable lte only like in the esteem or indulge? i wonder if 3g has to do with this

 

[cesarweezer]

i'm in dallas and the exact same thing happens to me, a bit spotty at work and perfect at home.

 

[carolcityboyz]

It's happening to me as well in Miami. Makes foursquare and google music hard to use sometimes. akikhia if you force lte only then there's no cdma for talking. I use anycut, make a shortcut for metro pcs hidden menu, then lte only option is under network select.

 

[akikhia]

It's happening to me as well in Miami. Makes foursquare and google music hard to use sometimes. akikhia if you force lte only then there's no cdma for talking. I use anycut, make a shortcut for metro pcs hidden menu, then lte only option is under network select.

i want to see if itll stay on 4g when cdma is disabled. if it does then im guna try loading an old prl with no 3g as i felt that started happening on my esteem after getting a prl with 3g

 

[kanaida]

Happened this morning (miami)

I put in in airplane mode, waited about 10 secs, then normal mode. waited about 20 secs and it came back. Maybe they're upgrading something etc..

 

[carolcityboyz]

To force lte only, download "any cut" from marketplace. Create a new shortcut, select activity. Scroll halfway down to find metropcs hidden menu. Add shortcut to homepage. Open hidden menu, select network select, network mode, network mode, lte only.

 

[akikhia]

im guna try the force lte tomorrow. it seems to be a random occurance. btw switching my jd to balanced seemed to make it stop. i switched back half way through the day and it did it again

 

[CoCowheats]

For one, turning off 3G shouldn't help as metro pcs barely has any 3G towers. The ones they have, they just recently bought from sprint to help with some of the southern gaps in data and help speeds....once again, metro pcs 3G is almost non-existent...maybe you guys mean, turning off 2g? If you don't get a 3G icon, then you aren't using 3G, ever. 1x=2G.

Forcing to LTE only is exactly that, your choosing LTE(4G) ONLY....3G ought to have NOTHING to do with this, UNLESS you see an actual 3G icon on your phone, then you might be having a 3G/4G issue.

Secondly, I have not had any issues in Lansing, MI....data rarely ever drops and if it does, it drops to 1x for half a min. And picks 4g back up on its own.

 

[Sniper1087]

For one, turning off 3G shouldn't help as metro pcs barely has any 3G towers. The ones they have, they just recently bought from sprint to help with some of the southern gaps in data and help speeds....once again, metro pcs 3G is almost non-existent...maybe you guys mean, turning off 2g? If you don't get a 3G icon, then you aren't using 3G, ever. 1x=2G.

Forcing to LTE only is exactly that, your choosing LTE(4G) ONLY....3G ought to have NOTHING to do with this, UNLESS you see an actual 3G icon on your phone, then you might be having a 3G/4G issue.

Secondly, I have not had any issues in Lansing, MI....data rarely ever drops and if it does, it drops to 1x for half a min. And picks 4g back up on its own.

I don't think you know the concept of 3G, regardless of speedso 1xrtt is indeed a 3rd generation technology and yeah 4G drops sometimes to 3G or even no connection, which it's odd tha the phone doesn't automatically pickup 3G if 4G isn't available.

 

[CoCowheats]

I completely understand the concept of 3G...maybe you don't realize 1xrtt is more like 2.5G even though it is technically "3G"....modern 3G vs 1xrtt is diff. thus the different icons. The majority of us in N. America know hspa and evdo to be 3G, and 1xrtt to be 2G or 2.5G.

It is widely known that metro skipped 3G for 4G and maintains a solid 2G/2.5G network...just google "metro pcs 3G" and you'll see the slew of posts about how they just recently started overlapping evdo rev. a on their 2g network for 1/5 of their network...translating to that only 1/5 of metro is what most know as 3G.

Metro will openly state that they are a 2G and LTE/4g network...with recent additions of evdo/3G to 1/5th of their market.

My point stands, unless you are dropping to a 3G icon, not the 1x, then you problem is with the 1xrtt, not what the majority of the world knows to be 3G.

Maybe we all here are confusing the terms?

Are you guys dropping to 3G icon or 1x? It would make a diff. in which signals you are disabling. For instance, if you get a 1x icon and disable hspa and/or evdo rev. a, you would have zero changes and still receive 1x signal. CDMA shoud be disabled to disable 1x, I do believe. If there is a "LTE only" option, than that would settle that.

 

[carolcityboyz]

The problem is not with 1x or EV but the 4g constantly dropping and re-connecting making it useless. If you force lte only the connection is stable. Wish make me believe the 3g power output is stronger than the 4g output from the tower.

 

[CoCowheats]

You are absolutely right about why you drop to 1x or even 3G consistently, it would be due to a stronger signal from the 3G or 1x signal....be it the tower or the phone.

Disabeling those signals would kinda fix it if you have a decent 4g connection where you are having difficulties. You would have to switch them back on when on long trips out of 4G range.

 

[THE W]

To force lte only, download "any cut" from marketplace. Create a new shortcut, select activity. Scroll halfway down to find metropcs hidden menu. Add shortcut to homepage. Open hidden menu, select network select, network mode, network mode, lte only.

tried this at work, didnt do anything to improve the 4g signal.

oh well.

 

[akikhia]

You are absolutely right about why you drop to 1x or even 3G consistently, it would be due to a stronger signal from the 3G or 1x signal....be it the tower or the phone.

Disabeling those signals would kinda fix it if you have a decent 4g connection where you are having difficulties. You would have to switch them back on when on long trips out of 4G range.

exactly my point. it seems theres a buffer range at which it switches to 3g if 4g signal is below a certain value. in my area theres full 3g coverage. its called evdo and yes its real 3g people are getting 1mbps down on that and at one point it was faster than 4g in some markets at first launch until it was capped but theres a way around that cap.

now if we can somehow modify that buffer zone it may help. i used 4g only today and in the locations im talking about it seems that the 4g didnt drop.

 

[carolcityboyz]

I modified my build properties and the changed the 3G and 4G radio to simple ip, and now my speeds ridiculously fast.

 

[airtioteclint]

I modified my build properties and the changed the 3G and 4G radio to simple ip, and now my speeds ridiculously fast.

How did you do this and does it require root?

 

[airtioteclint]

To force lte only, download "any cut" from marketplace. Create a new shortcut, select activity. Scroll halfway down to find metropcs hidden menu. Add shortcut to homepage. Open hidden menu, select network select, network mode, network mode, lte only.

I tried this and it turned off my phone signal (calls and text) . I kinda need that.

 

[cesarweezer]

I modified my build properties and the changed the 3G and 4G radio to simple ip, and now my speeds ridiculously fast.

Yeah how'd you do this? I tried the 3g boost tut but it wouldn't read my phone correctly