How to Increase Sprint Epic 4G Touch 3G & 4G Data Speeds

[folarino]

Tried it at work and at home with negligible improvements. I tried 4 speed tests at work and at home each with and without the fix and these are my resutls.

At Work:
4G Speeds (Stock Settings):
1. 10338 kbps down/ 1549 kbps up
2. 9486 kbps down/ 1534 kbps up
3. 10182 kbps down/ 1114 kbps up
4. 10904 kbps down/ 1106 kbpsup

4G Speeds (After Changing Settings)
1. 10695 kbps down/ 1105 kbps up
2. 11649 kbps down/ 1136 kbps up
3. 7998 kbps down/ 1095 kbps up
4. 12248 kbps down/ 1088kbps up

3G Speeds (Stock Settings):
1. 320 kbps down/ 383 kbps up
2. 745 kbps down/ 254 kbps up
3. 471 kbps down/ 115 kbps up
4. 271 kbps down/ 28 kbps up

3G Speeds (After Changing settings)
1. 459 kbps down/ 240 kbps up
2. 473 kbps down/ 368 kbps up
3. 328 kbps down/ 163 kbps up
4. 765 kbps down/ 360 kbps up

 

[HollyDolly]

Lol,

Every time I goto San Diego my Evo3d would roam off Tiajuana towers. It drove me nuts as my girlfriend's Evo4g would not.

Never got billed for it, just wouldnt have 3g while there till I reset my radios and temporarily latch onto a USA server.

This also happens a fair bit while driving down the I-8 between San Diego and Yuma

But I'm not near San Diego.

I'll change my server, as @EeZeEpEe suggested.

Btw, today the speeds are in the 1's and 2's, even with the fixes from this thread.

I also tried the 4G "fix" from a different site (involves changing the Wimex settings, etc.) but no idea if it did anything, because I don't get 4G indoors.:'(

This phone is a total brick without data reception. How come the indoor reception is SO poor? (everywhere, all over town)

 

[sincityk9]

no change for me. Good try..

 

[voidcomp]

Good news: almost 2x the speed as before.

Bad news: the new speed is under 400k dl

 

[milominderbinde]

Change your server. Click Tools, change servers, pick closer one of your choice.

Good point. I forgot that I do that. I added this to the Opening Post...
You may need to force Speedtest to use a closer server: Tap Tools > Change Server.

 

[dkotoric]

this dramatically slowed down my speed, I went from about 700kbps to between 60 and 100 kbps

 

[catcher2468]

Hi, New to the forums,

In short my data speeds E4GT when I can actully get a 4G signal which is not very often is down 5M to 11M and upload 900K to 1.3M. 98% of the time the numbers are in the 200K range.

3G speeds are consitantly up and down load are in the 100K to 400K range.

I live in the East Bay of the San Fransico, Ca.

I tried your fix and it made things worst so not sure what is going on with Sprint or the Phone.

My assumption at this point is if I am outside and near a tower every thing is fine. (yikes)


Great Phone but if I cannot get data the phone is going back. Bummer as I do really like the phone.

Note: I also tried the WiMax tweaks mentioned in another thread as sugested with no luck.

 

[HollyDolly]

Hi, New to the forums,

In short my data speeds E4GT when I can actully get a 4G signal which is not very often is down 5M to 11M and upload 900K to 1.3M. 98% of the time the numbers are in the 200K range.

3G speeds are consitantly up and down load are in the 100K to 400K range.

I live in the East Bay of the San Fransico, Ca.

I tried your fix and it made things worst so not sure what is going on with Sprint or the Phone.

My assumption at this point is if I am outside and near a tower every thing is fine. (yikes)


Great Phone but if I cannot get data the phone is going back. Bummer as I do really like the phone.

Note: I also tried the WiMax tweaks mentioned in another thread as sugested with no luck.

Having the same issues. I really love the phone, but hate that I have to dance around the room to get any indoor reception. Outdoor reception is really very good, but I don't live or work outdoors.

When I'm at home, I use my Wifi connection (not Sprint's) and it's fantastic. But it burns me that I'm paying $10/mo to Sprint for a "premium data" that doesn't lock on 9.9 times out of 10. Maybe the towers in CA just suck; then again, I'm reading people having similar issues all over the country.

I still think the phone is flawed and has a weak radio.

 

[Psychosaturn]

Well it has been 3 days using this fix. Before I was averaging 600kbps throughout the day. After fix I am now averaging about 1200 (highest I get in the morning is 2000kbps). So far this is working so awesome. Hope it stays like this!

 

[jfenton]

I finally did this yesterday morning after checking in on this thread daily.

At home, 3g speeds have always been in the 460-600 range. They are no consistently 960-1200

Also tried it driving around NE MA /SE NH and again, I would say the speeds have increased 60-100% everywhere.

I did try a 4G area in Lawrence, MA yesterday where I used to get about 2.6mpbs down and now various tests (speed test app and sprint.com/speedtest) and I am now getting 6mbps

So far, I haven't seen any adverse effect on battery but I will keep my eyes peeled on it.

 

[oskar1995]

milominderbinder

Let me thank you for the very detailed instructions you provided to perform this update. So far with some basic tests in the PA area (my office) I am seeing about 2x the speed I was seeing before (averging in the 250 area, now hitting closer to 500-600 more consistently. I find that Xtremelabs has a better speed testing app for those that like something else, I'm not a huge fan of Speedtest.net android app. I'm going to continuing running both to see how my speeds flucutuate and also have some real life thoughts on the change. Thanks again!!

 

[JDAustin]

Hi, New to the forums,

In short my data speeds E4GT when I can actully get a 4G signal which is not very often is down 5M to 11M and upload 900K to 1.3M. 98% of the time the numbers are in the 200K range.

3G speeds are consitantly up and down load are in the 100K to 400K range.

I live in the East Bay of the San Fransico, Ca.

I tried your fix and it made things worst so not sure what is going on with Sprint or the Phone.

My assumption at this point is if I am outside and near a tower every thing is fine. (yikes)


Great Phone but if I cannot get data the phone is going back. Bummer as I do really like the phone.

Note: I also tried the WiMax tweaks mentioned in another thread as sugested with no luck.

I was going to try this also, but since I'm in the same scenario as you (and I take BART for work), i decided to skip...

 

[Beercow]

This is a really hard one to judge since Sprint's 3G speeds seem to be all over the place. I'm going to go back and forth a few more times on different day/times to get a larger sample size. Here are my current results...

App: speedtest.net
Server: Corvallis, OR for all tests
Note: Tests all done back to back, and I kept the phone in a static location.

3G Stock		
             Ping	Download	Upload
             396	179	        301
             383	173	        41
             262	263	        121
             331	168	        414
             298	521	        292
Average: 334	260.8	233.8

3G Changed		
              Ping	Download	Upload
              348	277	        322
              305	509	        331
              504	417	        377
              460	273	        302
              375	181	        611
Average: 398.4	331.4	388.6

Edit: Got home and did some additional tests. I will personally be keeping these changes in place.

	3G Stock		
	Ping	Download	Upload
	273	227	278
	509	67	91
	382	459	213
	290	406	213
	275	365	330
	328	172	152
	347	329	142
	435	149	184
	367	238	161
	351	244	243
Average:	355.7	265.6	200.7

	3G Changed		
	Ping	Download	Upload
	279	596	228
	319	322	123
	436	279	257
	361	213	294
	497	216	229
	282	481	391
	302	295	72
	309	728	405
	257	524	339
	291	610	391
Average:	333.3	426.4	272.9

 

[jfenton]

How can you get pings that horrible?

I feel bad if I see one at 120???

 

[oskar1995]

On my device, it looks like ping times are going up, but throughput is going up as well. Taking a tad longer to connect, but when it does, its working faster.

 

[anymoose]

Fantastic - my new Epic 4G Touch was getting NO 3G signal - wifi and 4G were fine. Ran this fix, and I now have a good 3G signal!

 

[davidminor03]

Just got got my SGS2 yesterday from the 3vo figuring if I was going to have to buy a new phone I may as well try something else and was shocked that the data was so slow. Fix definitely worked speeds are back where the 3vo was . However the constant loss of 4G is still absurd it locks and drops constantly - never had a problem with my og evo or 3vo or my clearwire broadband modem - in my basement.

 

[wrceuro]

I am getting great speeds stock. What are you guys talking about?

 

[albjr86]

Milo..I am not trying to crash you post but none of these things will work with this phone. All you can basically do is call Sprint Tech and have them open a ticket for you for the support team to work on it for you. The initial tech help will be from the reps taking you through various steps. Then they will open up a ticket and have their mobile team make some changes based on the address you give them. This will help a little bit but the overall factor I have found is that the phone itself must have very subpar performing attenas/radios. The signal is weak both from a 3g and regualar network standpoint. Maybe Samsung spent too much time trying to uphold a "thin" trend rather than building a quality device for reception. Even wifi has some serious connectivity issues.

I disagree, I just tried it and it doubled my download speed.

 

[mrtito32]

I must say thanks!! This definitely made a difference for me.