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camf3xu

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what do i do if my phone isnt showing up under the "active phones tab" in qpst configuration? i added COM4 to the ports tab and it shows up as COM4 > ENABLED > COM4 > NO PHONE > USB
 

TazExtreme3

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Stock rom or gingerbread?
Stock rom = turn off phone
Gingerbread = boot into recovery, plug in usb, open qpst.
 

Whyzor

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I'm using the 1115, it's not the latest, but apparently it has the most since it has extra agreements for corporate accounts only. It's only noticeable if you're actually roaming outside of your home area anyway.
 

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I'm using the 1115, it's not the latest, but apparently it has the most since it has extra agreements for corporate accounts only. It's only noticeable if you're actually roaming outside of your home area anyway.

Did you notice any differences? I'm still confused as to what these do exactly. I saw your post on XDA about PRLs basically not changing signal strength and mainly are just for packet routing...

The area I'm in has a lot of virgin users and I think the servers are very congested (I'll get 1mbps+ speed tests at 2am with an average of 150-250ms ping, but then my speeds drop to below dialup during peak usage with 1000+ms pings!). I'm mostly just trying to get my ping down/stable so grooveip is usable on 3g. Will updating my PRL help with this at all?
 
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Did you notice any differences? I'm still confused as to what these do exactly. I saw your post on XDA about PRLs basically not changing signal strength and mainly are just for packet routing...

The area I'm in has a lot of virgin users and I think the servers are very congested (I'll get 1mbps+ speed tests at 2am with an average of 150-250ms ping, but then my speeds drop to below dialup during peak usage with 1000+ms pings!). I'm mostly just trying to get my ping down/stable so grooveip is usable on 3g. Will updating my PRL help with this at all?

After more research, here's what the PRL does:

Understand how the Preferred Roaming List is used

VM's 3G is very flaky for me as well, and Groove IP over 3G not reliable (it works fine over wifi though). Hopefully their throttling should relieve some congestion from the heavy data users. Or request Google Voice to start using a more efficient codec (the current one and only takesa bout 64 kbps), and Groove IP has no choice but to use that.
 
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After more research, here's what the PRL does:

Understand how the Preferred Roaming List is used

VM's 3G is very flaky for me as well, and Groove IP over 3G not reliable (it works fine over wifi though). Hopefully their throttling should relieve some congestion from the heavy data users. Or request Google Voice to start using a more efficient codec (the current one and only takesa bout 64 kbps), and Groove IP has no choice but to use that.

Your link seems to be down... *edit* nevermind, guess it was just down earlier. Hmmm guess PRLs don't make the miracle difference most people seem to think. Damn, was really hoping there was something I could do to improve the 3g reliability. Is sprints network just as poor or do we just get lower priority cause were on virgin? I was always against throttling but on a network this saturated it needs it...not really though, they just need a better network.

Does virgin get regular network upgrades? I guess I got spoiled on tmobile's 4g...but their 3g was still great too, 3-5mbps day and night with pings solid enough to play call of duty on. Oh well...get what you pay for I suppose :-\
 
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