ROGERS + 7500 3G/HSDPA problems

[achok]

Hello,

Hoping to get some advice here. Currently on Sogarth Base Vanilla Rom running radio 1.58 on Rogers with the new 6GB data plan. Couldn't get the 3g and H to show up until I configured the Band settings to Auto (another tip i got from these forums). This changes the provider name to "ROGERS UMTS". At this point, I could get 3g + H downloads, although it still felt a bit slow. Unfortunately, my 7500 will no longer hold any cell calls. All outgoing fails, and incoming only lasts 1-2 minutes. These are tests throughout the city(GTA).

Wife's phone (Tytn II) is working great at 3G + H using stock rom.

The only way I can get good cell reception again is if I manually tune the Band settings to GSM & GSM (1900+850)+UMTS(1900+850). Of course, I can never get any type of speed over Edge. The provider name changes to just ROGERS, which is the same provider name that the Tytn II gets.

Anyone have any words of advice or tips that I can try? Rogers won't help because it's an unsupported phone. Data reception is not an issue because the Tytn II gets full 3G/H. I'm hoping to finally unleash the power of this phone.

I'm wondering if it makes sense to downgrade to 1.57. I never tried this version with the data plan, because I only just recently got it. Hoping some people may have some telling experiences.

Thanks in advance,

achok.

[achok]

Just as an update, reflashed to 1.57 radio with no improvement.

any other athena + rogers users here?

[AllGamer]

did you try the 3G hack?

download the nice utility from this forum

it was called something super mobile hack

it lets you customize sooooo much stuff of the phone inside and out

after i enabled it, mine always gets the best stuff 3G and HDPDA speed

which was awesome

if i didn't enable it, it was always on EDGE, and very few times on 3G

HOWEVER!!!!!!

i think i know why HTC did not turn that on by default

because whenever i keep 3G & HDPDA on all the time

it drains battery real fast

is worse than using WI FI all day long

so what i do now, is to keep it on EDGE for the automated downloads from programs Weather, TomTom, Stock, push email, etc

but when i SURF THE WEB, i enable 3G, and ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM :D like the commercial

is a quick ON OFF thing in the COMM Manager.

and when i'm done looking up stuff on the WEB, i turn it back to EDGE mode
to save battery

[techntrek]

Don't know why you need to turn it off, I keep H on all the time and at the end of a low-useage day I'm still in the mid-80's on my battery. Yes, if I start surfing heavily the battery goes down much faster, but not from background push/pulls.

[AllGamer]

i do surf browse de web quite a bit :p

lots of download, some uploads

streaming videos

and i use VNC and remote deskop quite a lot for work / home stuff, meanwhile on the road.

this phone is the best thing every.

now i can literally work from any where, and people will still think i'm in the office :D

as long as i have good signal that is ;)

Best thing with the Advantage is...... OUR BATTERY LAST SOOOOO LONNNNNNNNNG compare to a LAPTOP of any size, doing the same thing :cool:

[achok]

Thanks for the replies and suggestion. I'll try the 3G hack and report back.

Anyway you can report which Radio ROM you are using? I'm still believing that certain Radio ROM's are better suited for the Rogers/Fido 3G network....

...or is the Rogers/3G network just than inconsistent?

Regards,
achok.

[AllGamer]

as you can see in my siggie it's the X7510 which means it has the stock 1.58 Radio that everyone is upgrading to with the Modded ROMs

and the other thing is, im on FIDO, not Rogers.

but LOL :D as if that matters anymore, they are both the same company now.

just one has better billing, and Cutomer Service, than the Get Lost actitude from Rogers CS people, and always screwed up and over billed invoices every month....

[achok]

Folks, just as an update:

I recently upgraded to Michy 4.0 1.2 spl (16mb version) (fantastic ROM by the way...) and stayed with Radio 1.57.

So far all looks to be good, but still need to test over the next few days.

Hopefully, this is a sign that things are finally starting to work the way it's supposed to.

Regards,
Achok

[jareth22]

I just upgraded to AP 4.0 Platinum..Everything works fine ( I think ) except when I go to m.youtube.com to watch videos, and streaming media starts, It says "Failed to find network."

Please help!!!

Coz this is the very reason why I upgraded the rom..thinking it would solve the problem..

I'm with Rogers..

I already installed the latest FP7 plugin thingy..

[speng]

i cant get my 3G or my HSDPA to work at all. Im using The HTC TOUCH PRO, which i imported on the ROGERS network. Ive been reading these forums and i have no clue as to what radios and rom versions are nor how to even tell what im using. WHOSE THE GENIOUS HERE...HELP ME.. This phones wack unless i get the best out of it...

[Speng2]

if anyone can email me directly also that would be cool...

pigglyspeng@hotmail.com