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3g on metro (for real)

Yawa

Yawa

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People on the Howard forums, as well as a few metro people I know are reporting that a 3g deal is coming to offset the stress all these droids are putting on metro's service. People in california, texas, and florida are already reporting seeing the evdo symbol on their phones. Check out the phandroid metro pcs forums for proof.

If anyone here happens to notice it please post when, speed, what market your in, and other details...

Thank you.
 
Well, he said California, Florida and Texas... So I'm not surprised about the Atlanta deal...
But I don't know why i can't confirm if indeed it's true, seeing as I am smack in the middle of Florida...
 
I got evdo at the airport in Romulus, MI, but this was two years ago, and, thusly, wasn't on this phone. It was on the black flip Samsung with the media buttons on the front. Forget the model name/number. I touched down, and loaded up facebook, and it loaded much faster than it ever had. I had a green EV rather than my usual 1x. I haven't been back there with this phone, but i'd assume that it would work.


Edit: I was back in Romulus yesterday, and had 4g turned off... never saw evdo. That's weird
 
Its only expected to be out in markets that have high 4G strain so if your areas 4G isn't under super heavy use then 3G won't be coming to your area. That's according to someone who gets info about metro over at xdaforums or Howard I forget which.
 
Yawa said:
People on the Howard forums, as well as a few metro people I know are reporting that a 3g deal is coming to offset the stress all these droids are putting on metro's service. People in california, texas, and florida are already reporting seeing the evdo symbol on their phones. Check out the phandroid metro pcs forums for proof.

If anyone here happens to notice it please post when, speed, what market your in, and other details...

Thank you.
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Hold on are we talking about Indulge phone or other Metro PCS phone? I would love to have 3g over 4g for battery life.
 
AndroidxGuy said:
Its only expected to be out in markets that have high 4G strain so if your areas 4G isn't under super heavy use then 3G won't be coming to your area. That's according to someone who gets info about metro over at xdaforums or Howard I forget which.
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it's for areas with high 1xrtt usage, androids in general, not the 4G. The 4G is fine.
 
i am in Pompano Beach Florida.. didn't see any 3g here yet.. but i feel that the 4g is improved in some areas that was not good at.. like inside an office or a building...
 
This is not a joke. People with the Optimus and Ascend (not all of them but enough that we should be interested) are reporting they are getting 3g in the 400k to 1.2 mb range.

So far it seems to be happening in California, Texas, and Florida.

People have also reported being able to update to prl 3020. So do me a favor and try all this I want to see if when we aren't using 4G we can fall back on 3G.

P.S. Turn off your 4G for this obviously.
 
It's probably wishful thinking, but if we have a way to force prl updates, the people from the Optimus forums were kind enough to link Prl 3020...

3020.prl


Anyone?
 
my girlfriend and i have had the 3g symbol all day, its really nice, hope it stays. not getting my hopes up.



Orlando, fl.

Lg Optimus m


ps, it must have updated? my prl is 3020 and i didnt do it.
 
You can force the update, check out the thread in the root forum. And thank n3m3515.
 
The 3g just showed up on my phone around 10am this morning (eastern time) and it's still there. I live in Lakeland, FL and have the LG Optimus M.
 
Just a heads up. I had 3g with prl 3020 and evdo for like 2 days, as well as my girlfriend. I updated roaming, it took it back to 1x with prl 3019. i waited awhile thinking it might re-update but it never did. i just had to flash it to 3020 to get 3g back.



Just an fyi.
 
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