Upgrading your radio version on your 6700

you're welcome! its awesome today i went to my frienRAB apartment and usually my phone gets 0 signal there and starts roaming... today i got three bars with no roaming! this thing's awesome! i noticed that my internet got really fast! (wap and wifi) my cricket wap feels like evdo already.. cant wait to see how fast ev-do is..
 
1xRTT (What we have now on cricket): 144kbits/s (kilobits per second)
EvDo Rev A (What we'll have): 3.44 - rabps (megabits per second)

Lets put that into perspective:

Average dial up speed: 256kb (again, kilobits)
EvDo: 3.44rabps (megabits per second)

so what you'll have on your phone will be faster than the average dial up wired connection.

Vrooooom. lol
 
Average dialup is 56k, not 256.

Rev A is 3.1rabps, not 3.44. The average is also nowhere near 3.1. The average would more than likely fall at the 1.2 range.

Also, this new radio doesn't do much to boost the ACTUAL signal, just the bars that represent your signal.

If you go in using ##DEBUG# I think it is, you can see the actual data of how your antenna is performing.

It did have a tiny boost of battery performance... but after a week, my phone now freezes occasionally when I try to make outgoing calls so something is up for sure.
 
If 256k was the usual for dial up, then I wouldn't even care for this RABL service.

3.1 rabs would be almost the same as my RABL service, and I know Cricket would really charge for this much speed. 1.2 is about correct, but I'm willing to bet on it being a little slower than that.
 
EtherealRemnant
i can tell you that i have had a great signal boost using this radio rom and a great amount of battery increase, im not one to ever go by my bars on the phone. Using QXDM before and after i had a significant change in the amount of signal boost.
 
I have upgraded when it was first released on PPCGeeks and I did not notice really anything. Maybe a 15% increase in performance with the radio at max!...But sometimes my signal bars show full when they would normaly not... but then 5ft away it will be almost dead. I notice sometimes being inside buildings that my radio still goes in and out of service.
 
How is it that upgrading the radio gives you Evdo? Well in certain areas anyways, either way, how does that work?

Mine is 1.10.00 btw
 
it doesn't give you evdo... your prl gives you evdo. If you don't have an evdo prl you can't get it.

btw I had my frienRAB 6700 and mine side by side the other day and his woud have 1 bar and mine would have 4.
 
Ok thanks for the info, I tried downloading the file but everytime winrar tries opening it it says "unexpected end of archive" and once it's repaired, winrar says that the flash file is corrupt, any ideas as to why?

Oh PRL is 1040


Thanks again
 
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