HSDPA icon stuck!

[VidMan]

I turned on my Tilt this morning and where the 3G icon used to be it is now a H icon all the time even if I am not connected to the network or downloading data. I have tried disabling HSDPA and reenabling it, but that hasn't worked. Disabling and reenabling the icon itself also doesn't get rid of the problem. I haven't installed anything. Does anyone know how to fix this or is this some kind of newly discovered radio bug?

Running on AT&T network.

Thanks

[cuboosh]

dont complain.. ur not stuck in H u now have full blown H in the area.. my girls 85 has full H now and so does my tilt

[VidMan]

does this mean I have HSUPA too?

What exactly do you mean by full H? My download speeds didn't change at all

[Proto732]

I am currently faced with this same stuck H issue.

I am running the stock AT&T ROM ver ... 1.62.502.0, Radio version 1.37.14.09

Sometimes when I travel to a particular work office I use dutty's 10 button Comm Manager to turn 3G off. This particular office is built like a fortress and I barely get signal inside. If I leave 3G on my battery is dead in a matter of hours.

So I turned 3G off for the first time since upgrading to this ROM, and later when I turned it back on I find I have a constant H indicator rather than the 3G I normally see.

Yes I am in an HSDPA area, but normally I would only see the H when downloading.

Yes, I use direct push with a hosted exchange server.

I've tried disabling HSDPA in KaiserTweak, and I get back to the 3G indicator ... But as you would expect my download speeds are limited to 300 to 400 kbit/sec.

With HSDPA enabled I average twice that, with bursts over 1mbit/sec.

Can anyone speculate why I have the constant H indicator now instead of only when downloading?

Everything still works, I just wouldn't mind knowing why I am seeing this change in indicator.

[VidMan]

I have since found out that the the contant H icon is a result of AT&T upgrading their network. Since then, my download speeds have roughly doubled. Turns out the contant H is a good thing.

[tai4de2]

I went away on a business trip for a week and now upon returning I too am seeing the constant H, whereas previously I'd see 3G which would change to H and back when using data.

But that's not the part that is worrying me.

The problem I see is that the data connection is active all the time; it never drops. So besides the large H indicating HSDPA availability, once any data connection is made the 4 bars plus plus small triangle changes to 4 bars plus small H and *never* changes back. In the past I'm pretty sure the data connection would come and go as needed.

Is this bad at all? Seems like it would suck battery power to have the data connection active all the time. It's as if the KaiserTweak "always on: AT&T MediaNet" is stuck on (but I never actually did that tweak and it is actually disabled in KaiserTweak).

What's going on?

[Loftus]

Have you done an upload speed test?

Apparently a constant H icon can indicate HSUPA support.

[Proto732]

Little more info ... however finding a map of what was upgraded isn't that easy.

http://www.wirelessweek.com/article.aspx?id=158686

AT&T Nears HSPA
By Brad Smith
WirelessWeek - April 02, 2008

LAS VEGAS—AT&T will have all of its 3G markets enabled with the high speed uplink capabilities by the middle of the year, according to Hank Kafka, vice president of network architecture for the operator.

AT&T had 255 major metropolitan markets with W-CDMA/HSDPA at the end of 2007 and continues to add markets. Kafka said at a GSM Association roundtable on HSPA that AT&T expects to cover 350 markets with 3G by the end of 2008, including all of the top 100 markets.

The operator started installing HSUPA last year and now is in the process of rolling it out, he said. By mid-year, he said all of its 3G markets will have HSUPA. He says typical data rates on the downlink now are between 600-to-1400 Kbps with a peak of 3.6 Mbps, while the downlink typically is 500-to-800 Kbps.

There are upgrades for HSPA which take it as high as 14.4 Mbps and Kafka says AT&T is studying those. But he declined to say when or if AT&T will raise its data rates to those levels.
Kafka also said AT&T has seen significant data usage increases for customers using 3G.

[fb401]

Yea, I have the constant 'H' as well, but I think it's the same as having a constant 'E', meaning that you're connected to HSPA and everything's good.

[dyetheskin]

switched bands sometimes helps changing the icons from edge to 3g,to disable HSDPA you need to disable HSDPA through kaisertweak,schaps advancedconfig or hsdpa switch whether cooked into rom or manually installed to switch back to 3g