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t12b25

t12b25

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Hi everybody, for some reason I'm getting slow lte speeds (slower than the zmax, 2g speeds to be exact.) 4g seems to be faster on this phone. Is this a phone issue or a tower issue?.
Any help would be appreciated,
Thank you,
Anthony.
 
t12b25 said:
Hi everybody, for some reason I'm getting slow lte speeds (slower than the zmax, 2g speeds to be exact.) 4g seems to be faster on this phone. Is this a phone issue or a tower issue?.
Any help would be appreciated,
Thank you,
Anthony.
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I'm guessing you're experiencing some measure of "Network Access Prioritization".
If you're on MPCS,I'd put money on it.
Check again in a couple hours or so,after prime time,so to speak & see if speeds improve.
Getting back to the prioritization, what is your average monthly data use & how far are you into your current billing cycle.
Or,perhaps it's a tower issue.
Probably will be able to judge if it's a tower issue if it's still 2G later tonight & again in the morning.
 
My other phones have faster LTE than the Stylo by a significant amount and this is from the same location(home) on the same carrier. I think we need a new modem update from LG. That could be what they were trying to fix with the v10i update, but failed.

It seems divided with this phone. Some folks say lte and gps is great for them while others not so much.

I'm not saying LTE is bad, I'm just saying it's nowhere near as good as my other phones.
 
I'll test my Stylo on MPCS using Ookla Speedtest,or if anyone has suggestions for other apps to use,I'll compare.
Currently,my phone/SIM Card is locked to MPCS (40 days until SIM/phone freedom),otherwise,I'd try it out on my other (T-Mobile) phone.
BRB..........
 
I'm getting on average about 1Mbps down & up,not much better on T-Mobile on my other phone.
I have a booster in the house for T-Mobile,& I bet if I turned it off,I'd be on 2g.Not a good spot @ home,WI-FI is my friend here.
However,back to the Stylo:
We may not be comparing apples to apples,not sure,as I'm on the MS63110D update,not the latest.
I'll take the Stylo to work tomorrow,where T-Mobile's signal is off the charts @ 40-50Mbps,hoping MPCS is anywhere near that.
I'll post my results around noon tomorrow........
 
Ok so around 11:30 I had about 6 down earlier when I first posted I had 0.35 down (funny I got about 3-8 on 4g) . Across the street from the tower less than a mile from my house I get about 33. 6 is better it's not the 12-16 I got with the zmax. I have no idea what's going on. Thank you all for the help and replies I'm looking forward to more.
Anthony.
 
Alrighteee,here's my LTE Speedtest taken @ work just moments ago:
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GameTheory said:
You lucky devil lol. :p
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Yeah, @ work,where WI-FI is plentiful. :rolleyes:
Would like to bottle up a bit of that to take home for use.
I'm only 5 or so miles from work when @ home,right smack in the geographical center of town & both Sprint/Boost & T-Mobile/MetroPCS are quite weak,contrary to map representations.
With Sprint,I'm literally the same distance between two towers,phones want to bounce back & forth between the two thinking the grass is greener......
T-Mobile would be OK w/some lower frequency bandwidth,I believe,20 ft outside of my house is decent strength (15-20 down),but,nowhere near the 40 down/20 up @ work.
 
Here this its what i have been getting depending time, days and areas
I have notice that my Ping sometimes tale a bit longer
 

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Here we go 1.96 on lte 12.30 on 4g last night. Today across the street from the tower 32.83 that's 0.2 miles from my house. Any ideas as to what is going on?.
Thank you for all the help.
Anthony.
 

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@t12b25 lets start like this...
*Are you rooted?
*Have you done any tweaks to build.prop?
If not
1*Go to dialer and dial 277634#*#
2* Go to ANT setting make. Sure it says calibration ok
3* Go to RECEIVE DIVERSITY .. Click on both ant.radios
4* PHONE WILL REBOOT...
"""" Now for this to work make sure you have control over your apps if its apps running notifications background ... Just turn them off dont be so lazy to check them manualy... LoL... Having to many apps runing their notifications in background will slow down you... ,""" Hopefully works... For you... Noi you are rooted let me knw.
 

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Krlypumaa said:
@t12b25 lets start like this...
*Are you rooted?
*Have you done any tweaks to build.prop?
If not
1*Go to dialer and dial 277634#*#
2* Go to ANT setting make. Sure it says calibration ok
3* Go to RECEIVE DIVERSITY .. Click on both ant.radios
4* PHONE WILL REBOOT...
"""" Now for this to work make sure you have control over your apps if its apps running notifications background ... Just turn them off dont be so lazy to check them manualy... LoL... Having to many apps runing their notifications in background will slow down you... ,""" Hopefully works... For you... Noi you are rooted let me knw.
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No I'm not rooted and no tweaks. I'll give your instructions a try. What exactly does it do?. I'm by no means an expert especially not with lg phones. Thank you for your help.
Anthony.
 
Krlypumaa said:
@t12b25 Thank you for you honesty... that will set grounds...
Now what this does it to turn on radios...
http://www.researchgate.net/post/Wh..._the_Extended_DRX_defined_in_Release_12_or_13
Simple.. nothing to complicated...
Now I see you live in Miami... well to be quite honest signal down the sucks a little.. my Mom'nLaw lives in Hialeah
and evry time Im down the signal drops a lot ....
Do you have unlimited data?
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Yes I do have unlimited. I've noticed tmobile towers in Miami are very hit or miss. I'm in Miami Gardens. I agree about Hialeah. Thank you for the help and advice.
Anthony.
 
cool no problem.. Lets just give that a test.. lets take it from there....
I have been messing around with the shortcuts on the launcher to get field test up so far nothing ye.. but it soonest i get something going let y'all knw (this its for non rooted way for better signal n data connection)
I want to activate all bands and add some other other ones like band 7,17,29,30
 
It seems to have improved after following your instructions, you tell me. Thank you the phone seems to have new life thus far.
Anthony
 

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t12b25 said:
It seems to have improved after following your instructions, you tell me. Thank you the phone seems to have new life thus far.
Anthony
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Kool... Now you can dial the number agaig go to the hidden menu and click on apn.unlock
After that go to your normal settings
*go to more
*mobile networks
*apn settings (Access point name)
*go to yours IP change them to ipv4/ipv6 and on the 3dots setting on ur top right click and save... Now
Hit the airplane mode let it shut down reboot your device... And turn airplane mode off.
 
Krlypumaa said:
Kool... Now you can dial the number agaig go to the hidden menu and click on apn.unlock
After that go to your normal settings
*go to more
*mobile networks
*apn settings (Access point name)
*go to yours IP change them to ipv4/ipv6 and on the 3dots setting on ur top right click and save... Now
Hit the airplane mode let it shut down reboot your device... And turn airplane mode off.
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Alright done did this one too. Still good speeds 10.82 this time. Anything else I need to do?. Awesome. Thanks again for the help and advice.
Anthony.
 
I have a metro stylo and one thing that helped a little was to switch to T-mobile apn.

Here's the t-mobile apn I'm using in case anyone needs it...
Code: 
Name:
T-Mobile

APN:
fast.t-mobile.com

Port:
80

MMSC:
http://mms.msg.eng.t-mobile.com/mms/wapenc

APN type:
default,supl,mms

APN protocol:
IPv4/IPv6

APN roaming protocol:
IPv4
For the rest you leave the default. Then save and reboot your phone.
 
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Hi everybody just wanted to give y'all an update. I did the dial code, and I also changed my apn settings to tmobile as suggested. Only once or twice did it drop to 2g speeds turning off and on the data seemed to help a bit those might be tower traffic issues though. 2g speed slowest was 0.19. 3-18 at home and 22-34 near the tower. So just wanted to say thank you all for the help and advice.
Anthony.
 
I have notice that @ least band 12 within my area its not to good @ gsm/wcdma/lte or LTE only... I did some few tweaks but so far in Tampa area band 4 its more strong..
 

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O have check bands n permissions and they are all working good I even opened bands...1.3.25.26.40. And opens successfully... Now they will only work if the defaults drops.. I knw that we are in conjunction with att for extended network. (not Roaming) so im gonna open low frequency one to see how they come out.
 

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Well... After hrs of driving.. To keep y@ll updated... Tested other LTE bands..not good crappie signals... Band 12 for the central FL its still weak... @ least find out that we can open other bands (gsm,wcdma,lte) even internationals...explore more with the LTE bands from att we can make phone hook on those extended areas to catch some lte week but we can till connect data...
Well let keep testing and learning...
 
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