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Is there any trick to make 3G work on the dopod official rom on the AT&T network? I'm in southern california and can not get my phone to connect at 3G at all, even in the center of an area that's covered in dark blue (indicating 3g service availability) on AT&T's 3g coverage map page. I've tried forcing the band to UMTS and I just get no service. Is there some registry tweak or hack I need to do to make it work? I'm on the AT&T $19.95 unlimited media max plan. I get EDGE pretty much everywhere I go but no 3G. HELP
I was running the official Dopod release on my 8525 and UMTS/HSDPA was working fine for me, just as it has with all the other unofficial WM6 releases.
Did it ever work before? or are you just going off Cingulars Coverage Maps?
Try checking you connection settings
http://www.wireless.att.com/support/deviceConfig.do?content=KB71396.html
New phone
To be honest I just got this phone last week and I really havent had a chance to fully try it out, I'm coming from an 8125. I am pretty much going based on coverage maps which AT&T say they cover almost all of southern orange county. I work all over orange county and have yet to see any 3g service? As long as there is nothing special to change or configure on the phone I geuss maybe I'm just not in the right service area. Is there any other troubleshooting I can try? Some sort of debug mode? I did reset and reconfigure all my connection settings per the above reply, same issue.
Thanks
Did you look in the Wiki? Try this....
http://wiki.xda-developers.com/index.php?pagename=Hermes_Registry
Enable/Disable GSM/UMTS Band Selection
Cingular kindly disables anything useful about the network on the 8525. To enable the Band Selection Tab on your Phone settings page, set the following:
[\HKLM\Software\OEM\PhoneSetting\]
"ShowUMTSBandPage"=dword:00000001
Get your phone to display an H when HSDPA is being used
HKLM\SOFTWARE\OEM\RIL and set EnableHSDPAIcon to 1
All:
I just got a Cingular 8525 and immediately upgraded it to WM6 (it had WM5 on it for about an hour). I am in a 3g covered area but I do not think I am getting a 3g connection on the phone. I have the big upper case U in a box, and then I have the signal indicator with an E over it. This makes me believe that I am connected to Cingular's edge network. Also, if I am on the phone and I try to run a sync with activesync the phone tells me that I have a voice call in progress. Any suggestions? AT&T support was clueless.
sk7575 said:
All:
I just got a Cingular 8525 and immediately upgraded it to WM6 (it had WM5 on it for about an hour). I am in a 3g covered area but I do not think I am getting a 3g connection on the phone. I have the big upper case U in a box, and then I have the signal indicator with an E over it. This makes me believe that I am connected to Cingular's edge network. Also, if I am on the phone and I try to run a sync with activesync the phone tells me that I have a voice call in progress. Any suggestions? AT&T support was clueless.
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The U indicator is UMTS - that is 3G. However, most of the newer ROMs replace it with a 3G icon. What ROM did you use? Anyway, also, you may try the reg tweak to enable the BAND tab in the Settings > Phone menu. You can find that tweak in the wiki.
todd_jg said:
The U indicator is UMTS - that is 3G. However, most of the newer ROMs replace it with a 3G icon. What ROM did you use? Anyway, also, you may try the reg tweak to enable the BAND tab in the Settings > Phone menu. You can find that tweak in the wiki.
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I have the same thing with my rogers phone, what I'm guessing is the phone is designed to pick whatever signal is strongest, (which is usually Edge) and not often-rescan for UTMS/3G.
If you google and download Band Switcher, you can force UTMS/3G at your leisure.
I wasnt aware the USA had 3G yet? I was always told that Edge was the best they had out there from a few mobile operators in the UK.
What Radio stack are you using?
Cingular, now known as "The New AT&T (AT&T)" has 3G up and running in some of it's markets.
No one seems to be answering this question.
Starfury said:
I wasnt aware the USA had 3G yet? I was always told that Edge was the best they had out there from a few mobile operators in the UK.
What Radio stack are you using?
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We have quite a bit of UMTS and HSDPA coverage here in Massachusetts on Cingular/AT&T.
Just setting my phone up after moving from a Nokia N95 8GB
I'm on 02 Pay as You Go Text & Web
£10.00 per month
300 Texts & Unlimited Web
Using the setting as supplied (02 bought phone) I get a 'H' in the status bar, but no 3G and no data throughput at all.
It does appear to be trying I get the up/down arrows but nothing else...
I can't view any web pages or access anything...
The nokia worked fine at 3G.
Any Ideas ?
Thanks
go to settings, choose wireless and networks.
after that choose mobile networks (not mobile network).
choose Access Point Names then choose O2 MOBILE WEB.
change APN into payandgo.o2.co.uk
DONE
Thanks for the reply.. but that hasn't worked.. I keep getting connection failed.
My Settings are:
Name: 02 Mobile Web
APN: payandgo.o2.co.uk
Proxy: Not Set
Port: Not Set
Username: mobileweb
Password: password
MCC: 234
MNC: 10
Nothing else is set. !!
The username needs to be "payandgo" for pay and go
On my Nokia it was mobileweb !!
I'll try that and post back !
The generic setting on the phone connect me with GRPS, but not 3G.
Just had a web chat with 02 - God help Me !
My sim works fine in my N95 8GB I get a solid 3G signal anywhere in my house.
In the Desire I only get 'H'.. no '3G'.
O2 have said their network my not support PAYG 3G on the Desire
Any suggestions what I can try ! ?
lol having your handset display a H rather than 3G is better trust me
I'm with O2, on 3G you only get 384KBit/s on H(HSUPA) you will receive 3-4MBit/s
The icons on O2 will change from H->3G->E->G depending on your signal.
Thank.. But U get no data throughput at all.
Making it useless.
How do I get internet access on this ? Without using Wireless !
Set up a new APN with:
Name: [whatever you like...]
APN: payandgo.o2.co.uk
and don't fill in the rest.
Also make sure Settings>Wireless & networks>Mobile networks>Network mode is set to GSM/WCDMA auto or WCDMA only. If that still doesn't work I'd be leaning towards a local network issue, etc.
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Using the setting as supplied (02 bought phone) I get a 'H' in the status bar, but no 3G and no data throughput at all.
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You refer to 2 "problems" but in reality you only have 1 and that is that you are not getting any data through!
H is faster than 3G as someone else mentioned. It is 3.5G so if you get that you should be happy!
Your data issue is an APN issue. I have had a similar problem with MMS. It was only after 7 calls to O2 and speaking with a number of phone monkeys that I managed to get it working.
I would suggest you persist!!
I've reset the phone.
and I'm back to square one !
G connects and works slowly. H connects but no data.
Any ideas ? before I give up and send it back !
dialling *#*#INFO#*#* Shows the phone has conencted, but it fails a ping test.
(on a strange not this also shows a mobile number that isn't mine !)
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I have/had some O2 PAYT sim cards which say '2G' on the packaging. These, as I recall, would not connect to the 3G network at all, or at least they would, then seconds later they'd drop back off the 2G, regardless of the phone, so once 3G coverage became widespread I'd have to lock the phone to 2G to get it to work properly.
That said, I've been on contract for a long time now, and the only PAYG sims I ever use are Orange ones (Orange Wednesdays ) so I've no idea if any of their SIMs will still do that, or if indeed that is your problem, but I thought I'd chuck it in as food for thought. Have you tried an O2 PAYG sim that originally came with a 3G phone?
update...
called in at my local O2 shop and they gave me a new sim card advising it would take 24/48 hours for my account to be moved to the new card.
1 hour later my new sim is working. Sat on the prom accessing web via 3G
Came home, connects to 3G no throughput
Just been out for a drive, 3G works 5 - 10 minutes away from my house, but not at home or in between !
I Will try a few other areas, may be my 'cell' is having issues.
When I had a working connection I checked the 'testing' menu and noted the LAC & CID, they are different from the one at home.
(not sure if this means anything as I don't know the area a cell covers)
Is there anyway to find out what cells are in my area ?
When it fails the testing menu shows:
Ping ipAddr: Fail: IP addr not reachable
Ping Hostname(www.google.com):Fail: Host unreachable
HTTP Client test: Fail: IOException
Anyone know what the IOException is about ?
Thanks
hmm, maybe your sim is not compatible with hsdpa, I think some sims can only go as fast as 3g
should have said, connected at H at on the prom !
Not to sure what's going on, but this is a new sim.
The cell tower in your area is probably having problems. Give it 24 hours and if the problem persists, call O2 again.
Yea even I have that issue on T-Mobile and O2, the cell tower can have problems and 3G will have no data throughput what-so-ever but 2G will.
O2 servers Down
I am was having a similar problem my o2 internet connection it was going off for hours then coming back on, it was fine before i had no problem.
So I gave o2 a call and they said that they were having problems with there server and it was temporarily down and should be fixed soon, I am on o2 sim only plan hope this helps.
Also do a o2 coverage check :
http://www.webmap.o2.co.uk/
Thanks
I'll see how things go over the next couple of days !
can i activate the "g" on my blue angel? its currently running on wm 6.1+manila by d-two..
G or gprs has nothing to do with wi-fi, your thread title is misleading.
you need to open the connection settings and set up your internet connection, according to the data, you receive from your carrier. usually, if you don't know, where to find those things, visit your carrier's website and search it for "gprs settings" or 3g settings or umts settings and you will find the information you need to set it up.
alternatively, have a look around the forum for the ADC.cab that is the program for Automatic Data Connection. it reads, what kind of sim card you have inserted and offers you corresponding carriers to choose from and configures the internet connection automatically, assuming that your carrier is listed.
but be aware of the fact, that because this has nothing to do with wi-fi, the internet is not free. you have to pay network fees to your provider, because you use a sim activated mobile internet connection, that is also pretty slow, because the blueangel only has GPRS and not edge, 3g or hsdpa.
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G or gprs has nothing to do with wi-fi, your thread title is misleading.
you need to open the connection settings and set up your internet connection, according to the data, you receive from your carrier. usually, if you don't know, where to find those things, visit your carrier's website and search it for "gprs settings" or 3g settings or umts settings and you will find the information you need to set it up.
alternatively, have a look around the forum for the ADC.cab that is the program for Automatic Data Connection. it reads, what kind of sim card you have inserted and offers you corresponding carriers to choose from and configures the internet connection automatically, assuming that your carrier is listed.
but be aware of the fact, that because this has nothing to do with wi-fi, the internet is not free. you have to pay network fees to your provider, because you use a sim activated mobile internet connection, that is also pretty slow, because the blueangel only has GPRS and not edge, 3g or hsdpa.
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hi chef tony thank you for your reply..and sorry for the confusion..im asking is about how to activate "g" on wifi because by default it only has 802.11b..is there any possibility?thanks again!
oh, i see. you were talking about wlan 802.11G. my answer was not very helpful then
unfortunately, it is impossible to unlock wlan G. just like sdhc cards, no one ever found a leak to create a driver. and even if there was a driver for that, you would only gain the ability to connect to wlan G networks, but there would be no speed improvement, the wi-fi on the BA is limited to 11Mbit
oh i see. thank you for your quick reply chef tony!
In Norway I live close to the border to Sweden. I have to roam in my area to a Norwegian Network, because my phone company only have their own network in the big cities here. Before I had an operator the had their own networks in my city.
So when I now roam with the other Norwegian network, I have to disable that "Disable network data when roaming". And sometimes I now get connected to the Swedish network and have to pay 20x times more pr MB.
Is there a way to disable 3G/2G on different networks of my choice?
Hope someone know of something that will help.
Sorry for my English.
Setting-wireless and network-mobile network-dataroming unchecked
Something like this cause mine is in dutch.
Like I said, I have to have it unched cous of my network today is not the default of my operator, so I'm romaing all the time when I use my phone. I want something that can read the operators name and then enable the 2G/3G data connection is it is one of the networks I've accepted. If it's not, then disable the connection.
Cant help you with your roamaing problem, Sorry. But maybe you should consider going back to your old network. If you have no signal at your home you may have the right to cancel your contract.
The clue is that I pay 20£(with use in Norway) until 1.1.2011 to use the phone(sms/mms, calls, MB) as much as I want for only 20£. After 1.1.2011 I'll pay 20£ for 500sms, 500 minutes and 500MB.
But that only works with the operator network and the one they rent(like I use). The one I rent belongs to Telenor, the biggest phone company, as they have the best signal too, I want to stick. But they suck at priceing, so I want to be with my new operator.
But why is it so hard to read the operator name with an app? Than then can enable/disable data connection?
My phone is Desire and it is rooted, running OpenDesire.
Sorry for misunderstanding the first time.
One option you could try is Tasker. I think it has the option to turn data off/on when connected to a certain cell tower. It's not the exact thing you asked for but i don't know any other options.
You have to program it yourself, but just download the app from there site (gives you a 7 day trial) and try it if you can make it work.
Cell Tower, is that the operators ID or the tower itselfe(a operator has many towers)?