Funny Thing

Ever since the HSDPA switch was flipped in my area of NYC/North Jersey and the backbone was improved, my Nexus One has no longer been fluctuating between 3G and EDGE. I also noticed a speed increase in general. Funny thing is now in the rural and indoor areas where it was happening, I sometimes lose signal altogether, instead of dropping to a slower mobile state. Now, in the past, whenever towers in my area have underwent an upgrade, I noticed my signal was less than stellar for a few weeks while the process was flushed out, so that may be what's happening or it may not. Has this happened to anyone else and their Nexus?

i always said it was a bug on tmo's end, i also said it was the phone itself but mainly tmobiles fault. anyways good to hear its working good for you now.

I don't blame T-mobile. I blame HTC. I haven't had any issues, ever since I changed the phone settings to use  "WCDMA-only"  option. Before that, it would drop from 3G to EDGE. That is annoying. I am not going to call CC because they will tell me the scripted line of "You are having that issue because you are using a BB data plan on an Android phone. You need to change to an Android data plan, and the issue will go away."

Sorry, not gonna happen. I am not leaving my $19.99 BB data plan, just to test if its the phone or the network.

I have not had that problem on my nexus's. I have not used the wcdma setting because my 3g coverage sucks.

I am in NYC where 3G is rock solid. It's the Nexus with its weak antenna, or problematic hardware. I wonder if the Desire will have the same issues, since they are fraternal twins.

I have had probably 15 phones and a of them had crap 3g coverage In my area.

I don't blame T-mobile. I blame HTC. I haven't had any issues, ever since I changed the phone settings to use  "WCDMA-only"  option. Before that, it would drop from 3G to EDGE. That is annoying. I am not going to call CC because they will tell me the scripted line of "You are having that issue because you are using a BB data plan on an Android phone. You need to change to an Android data plan, and the issue will go away."

Sorry, not gonna happen. I am not leaving my $19.99 BB data plan, just to test if its the phone or the network.

Previously, when I selected WCDMA only, in the areas where I would drop to EDGE, I would lose signal completely instead, because I was basically telling my phone all or nothing, and since I manually removed the option for the phone to choose, that's what I was inherently left with. With it not happening to me now, and with me obviously still using the same hardware, it can't be a hardware issue, at least not exclusively, and it's not like this is a problem exclusive to the Nexus One to begin with, so..

The reason I figured it was the phone, was because of all the complaints about 3G working fine, but when people got the Nexus One, all their 3G issues started.

Even people that had AT&T but were using the T-Mobile version initially swore that it was T-Mobile, but when they went back to AT&T for the AT&T version, the issues still persisted.

Ever since the HSDPA switch was flipped in my area of NYC/North Jersey...

You mean HSPA+, right?

No, I don't, since HSPA+ is not available yet When I said the switch was flipped, I meant from HSDPA to HSPA.

No, I don't, since HSPA+ is not available yet When I said the switch was flipped, I meant from HSDPA to HSPA.

HSPA+ is available in the NYC area.

http://www.phonescoop.com/news/item.php?n=5711

Not in rural areas and Jersey, which are the "problem" areas I was initially referring to

No, I don't, since HSPA+ is not available yet When I said the switch was flipped, I meant from HSDPA to HSPA.

HSDPA is a form of HSPA.

I'm talking about the HSPA 7.2. All of this is besides the issue regardless

  im living in south jersey , and on my nexus one in the phone status screen is showing im on HSDPA so im happy but not all jersey has 3G strong yet , so i bounce sometimes but dont mind couse i know its only going to get better , and what did we do b4 3G so...... a little wait is ok then we jump to the high speed switch ... i love t-mobile