mike28
Android Expert
you dont have to, you can be on any modem that you want. sometimes there is a noticable difference, sometimes there isnt its up to you to test
Well yes but he ask if he wanted to be be on the j3 if he had to flash it
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[SGS3-R530M] Modem Repository
- Thread starter Shabbypenguin
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Well yes but he ask if he wanted to be be on the j3 if he had to flash it
edgeez25
Android Enthusiast
you dont have to, you can be on any modem that you want. sometimes there is a noticable difference, sometimes there isnt its up to you to test
Yea for me lj1 seems a little mi better... I'm normally at about 6 down and up but on lj3 it will jump all the way to 10 and end up at like 3 or 3.5 down and up will start at about 1.5 and end up at 6.5 lol
Different results for different people doesn't hurt to try takes a couple of mins...
mannyfbaby
Newbie
it boosted my signal wow great work
mannyfbaby
Newbie
i went from no bars teh four bars lml
Pappy62
Android Expert
Tried all 5, with speed tests and noting signal strength on each one before finding the one my phone/area works best with... MAN what a huge difference! I had no idea how much difference a different modem would make on a given ROM. Should really help battery life too.
Shabby - once again, YOU DA MAN! After all the work you've done for us, you deserve a Kegger! (will Mom allow alcohol and loud music in her basement?)
Seriously - great work bro!
Shabby - once again, YOU DA MAN! After all the work you've done for us, you deserve a Kegger! (will Mom allow alcohol and loud music in her basement?)
Seriously - great work bro!
Shabbypenguin
Extreme Android User
glad to hear it man, and yea better signal means better battery, if you have a lower signal like -90 then your device will be searching for other towers hoping to get connected to a better connection, which means draining via teh radio and wasting cpu cycles.Tried all 5, with speed tests and noting signal strength on each one before finding the one my phone/area works best with... MAN what a huge difference! I had no idea how much difference a different modem would make on a given ROM. Should really help battery life too.
Shabby - once again, YOU DA MAN! After all the work you've done for us, you deserve a Kegger! (will Mom allow alcohol and loud music in her basement?)
Seriously - great work bro!
mannyfbaby
Newbie
do you have to be stock everytime for the new updated modems
n4zty
Android Expert
no has nothing to do with what rom your using this is seperate from what rom/firmware your using. that means u can be on any aosp rom and have this modem.
Shabbypenguin
Extreme Android User
yes, you dont include new modems in roms, its asking for trouble. imagine if you flashed an att rom with a gsm radio?
this way it allows you to flash whatever radio you wnat and whatever rom you want
Shabbypenguin
Extreme Android User
it varys. you may have had your LTE signal which is scaled differently. cdma signal however is -50 you are underneath the tower, and -110 you cant even make jokes about "can you hear me now"
6mbps is decent speed so i imagine you have decent signal just saw the LTE numbers instead, obviously its still negative so the "lower" number is better, but idk what is acceptable numbers for it yet
n4zty
Android Expert
i would also try a signal booster on the playmarket to go along with trying a new modem out. what that does is refresh your radio and searchers for the nearest tower possible giving you the best latency possible and in return more signal bars and perhaps faster lte speeds but i suppose everyone is testing from home keep in mind just beacause your signal might great at home wont mean it will be great everywhere ya know how metro is. also some areas might be better than home so ya just gotta play with modems and see which is best for you and it might not be the latest MB2 could be a previous version.
Pappy62
Android Expert
Ed Zachery... with mine (at home), LL1 worked best. Gotta try'em all and find the best one for a given area.
I'll keep all of them on my external... just in case I'm stuck out somewhere overnight with a crappy signal - that way I'll have some options to work with that may help.
These are very handy to have on the SD.
n4zty
Android Expert
yea i was gonna suggest that but to some that might be a bother haha i mean to boot into recovery and then flash the zip then reboot lol but hey most of us techies in here dont mind experimenting. im also thinking of flashing our original prl back on my phone with the new modem just to see how it functions.
My apologies if it is posted elsewhere but out of pure curiosity I'd like to know your results
n4zty
Android Expert
not much i will admit battery dont last as long but i havn't experimented to see if its the modem/raidio thats draining my battery or something else with the firmware itself. i have noticed a few more process running the back ground so debloating would be something ill look into. as far my 4g speeds ever since prl 2032 was pushed back im averaged at 4 mbps hasn't gone lower than maybe 3.5 so thats cool. highest? 7 mbps like 20 min from home.
