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iPhone Carrier hack patch, get better service/bars from your carrier.
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Seems the reason they don't have these settings by default is that the battery is draining much faster under these settings.. seems the transmit rate is much higher power, or much more frequent.
Has anyone gotten this to work with the iPhone 5 on Sprint?
I ran the terminal command and selected the ipcc file, a window pops up saying "updating carrier settings" for about 1 second and disappears. When I go to settings, it still says Sprint 18.0, not 20.x.x like others are saying it should. I have followed the directions exactly and tried it with my other backup iPhone 5 with the same results. What is going on?
I ran the terminal command and selected the ipcc file, a window pops up saying "updating carrier settings" for about 1 second and disappears. When I go to settings, it still says Sprint 18.0, not 20.x.x like others are saying it should. I have followed the directions exactly and tried it with my other backup iPhone 5 with the same results. What is going on?
I'm new to this forum. I've been a jaikbreaker, though, since the iPhone 4. Excuse my ignorance, but I thought the bars on the phone were for voice coverage and not LTE. I also use dbm, so I get it for wifi too. And, how can a hack increase LTE coverage? I thought it had to do with range proximity to the towers.
Carrier hack patch, get better service/bars from your carrier.
I just slept 8 hours and my phone only dropped from 79% to 75% and that's with Forecast updating every hour and plenty of other stuff syncing in the background.
I just slept 8 hours and my phone only dropped from 79% to 75% and that's with Forecast updating every hour and plenty of other stuff syncing in the background.
Yeah, that's when idle... the issue is when in use is when it's using a lot more battery. If you think 8 hours and 4% is when using it, you're delusional.
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It's not ignorance, people who claim their signal is better don't have the fundamental understanding of how their phone operates.
Let's say (random #s) that for the sake of argument, the parameters for the phone to display "4 Bars" is -96 dbm. What this hack (and many out there for Android) do, is change that threshold to say -86 dbm... so in other words the phone needs less signal from a tower to show you 4 bars...
And on the flipp-side, as we all know, when your phone has less reception, it requires more power to transmit\receive, due to packet loss....
The other threshold that these carrier hacks address is the LTE vs 4G cutover. By lowering the standard acceptable signal strength of when your phone gives up on LTE and drops to 4G, it gives the appearance of better LTE coverage, when in fact it's smoke and mirrors. The REASON they chose that point to cutover is because it's the point where the engineers at the Carriers and the GSM standards come to a sort of agreement of what the best experience derives from in terms of the cut over... each carrier is a little different though.
The bottom line, this phone doesn't give you service where there was none before (those who say they had no bars and now have 2-3 are lying, and those who said they had 1 if any and now have 3 are going to experience massive packet loss because their bars are smoke and mirrors).
The one SMALL bit of advantage the carrier hacks can sometimes give is opening up additional channels, or removing some of the carrier imposed limitations like the ability to select carrier manually, tether, speed limiter (read: not a carrier-side throttle override)... so yeah there are advantages.... but the carriers set the parameters for a reason... be it a balance of service quality, battery life, and maximum reception quality.
Carrier hack patch, get better service/bars from your carrier.
I know it's idle. Which is what I said.
As for the second half, all I know is that my speeds ARE faster on LTE and my signal strength is greater. Not making it up. Tested before and after the hack, but hey if you don't think it works then don't use it. It's not ignorance. I believe it's actually working. The first 8 are before the hack and the last ones after that are after it: The LTE isn't that great in my area but it did make a difference. After 1:35am I applied the hack, at 2:00am I tested as soon as it was applied. Yea we must be lying.
I know it's idle. Which is what I said.
As for the second half, all I know is that my speeds ARE faster on LTE and my signal strength is greater. Not making it up. Tested before and after the hack, but hey if you don't think it works then don't use it. It's not ignorance. I believe it's actually working. The first 8 are before the hack and the last ones after that are after it: The LTE isn't that great in my area but it did make a difference. After 1:35am I applied the hack, at 2:00am I tested as soon as it was applied. Yea we must be lying.
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Following the guide, which hack do I choose? It's in Chinese. I'm on AT&T.
I already have personal hotspots with my mobileshare plan. Will this affect it?
Haven't tried this yet but I might give it a go this weekend.
On a side note hope you're on a higher data plan every time you do 1 of them speedtests it eats up over 100mb so you just used 1.5gb of data testing this...
I followed the instructions exactly as in the guide, except used "option" "restore" om the Mac. My carrier setting now reads AT&T 20.1.5. Before it was AT&T 18.0. Now what do I do? Anything else? Do I have to install the CommCenter Hack in the order of the instructions? I had already installed it.
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Carrier hack patch, get better service/bars from your carrier.
Where did you get that info? Out of curiosity, I checked my cellular data usage (I'm on an unlimited business plan so it doesn't matter for me anyway). My cellular data usage for the speedtest app shows 168 MB while conducting 4 speed tests over cellular connection. Seems to be closer to about 40 MB. Still quite a bit of data he used, but it's probably closer to about 0.6 or 0.7 GB.
Where did you get that info? Out of curiosity, I checked my cellular data usage (I'm on an unlimited business plan so it doesn't matter for me anyway). My cellular data usage for the speedtest app shows 168 MB while conducting 4 speed tests over cellular connection. Seems to be closer to about 40 MB. Still quite a bit of data he used, but it's probably closer to about 0.6 or 0.7 GB.
You're right. I lost data when I restored... Wouldn't the amount of download and upload the app says determine your amount of data used then? So if my DL was 50 and UL was 15 I used close to 65? All depends on the persons speeds...
I came close to my limit of data very fast (5gb) and was totally unaware of this at the time.
Someone needs to make a video on how to do this step by step, that would be helpful a lot since everyone is confused on how to do this.
Carrier hack patch, get better service/bars from your carrier.
It's def. not 100mb every test.
It's def. not 100mb every test.
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I'm pretty that's just measured per second. Just because you get 65 mbps doesn't mean you used 65.
Carrier hack patch, get better service/bars from your carrier.
No you don't need to install it again you're all good.
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Speed tests use a very small amount of data just to see how long it takes to get to the server and back, like a ping. It probably multiplies the result by a larger data packet to get the ballpark of your speed as if you were downloading something larger.
No you don't need to install it again you're all good.
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Speed tests use a very small amount of data just to see how long it takes to get to the server and back, like a ping. It probably multiplies the result by a larger data packet to get the ballpark of your speed as if you were downloading something larger.
Okay, so I have the stock Verizon bundle, but unless I'm doing something wrong, simply removing CommCenter and replacing the bundle doesn't fix things. Would anyone be awesome enough as to have any idea what I'm doing wrong or would be able to supply a Verizon 18.0 ipcc?
EDIT: Jk. I think I copypasta'd it to the wrong place.
EDIT: Jk. I think I copypasta'd it to the wrong place.
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Carrier hack patch, get better service/bars from your carrier.
I'm just going to be real for a minute. This is not hard to do and if you can't do these simple steps then you probably shouldn't be messing with this. I say this bc if you mess something up you need to be capable and technical enough to know how to fix it. This may come off mean or rude, but this is honestly helping many people who see this and don't have the technical knowledge to be messing around with carrier bundles (no matter how simple this task may be to some of us)
Itweakios is the main site for this stuff and the directions are very clear and concise. Follow them and you cannot mess this up. Be smart when you are messing around with settings that can cause you to lose cellular service.
I'm just going to be real for a minute. This is not hard to do and if you can't do these simple steps then you probably shouldn't be messing with this. I say this bc if you mess something up you need to be capable and technical enough to know how to fix it. This may come off mean or rude, but this is honestly helping many people who see this and don't have the technical knowledge to be messing around with carrier bundles (no matter how simple this task may be to some of us)
Itweakios is the main site for this stuff and the directions are very clear and concise. Follow them and you cannot mess this up. Be smart when you are messing around with settings that can cause you to lose cellular service.
A lot of us are following the steps exactly as written, but the file is not writing to the phone for some reason. The general purpose of this forum is to troubleshoot these kinds of issues.
I have gone back and forth with just removing and pasting the stock file with iFile.
This is the only way to back to stock without a restore.
Deleting files and folders, rebooting twice and resetting network settings methods do not work.
You must save a copy of the stock file.
Glad you got it.
Okay, well I keep it, another user gave it to me, thankfully, I just don't know where exactly to put it and then what to do from there.
I think I may have royally screwed it up and am just going to use my day off to restore while Apple is still signing 8.1.
I think I got it to work! My problem l think was copy and pasting the .bundle, but this time I opened it and copied then replaced the files inside. Now it says I'm on 18.0, LTE works without having to roam, but the weird thing is, CommCenter is still installed and volte works, but there's no option for it.
I'm going to try uninstalling CommCenter and hopefully it won't mess things up.
O__o I wonder what part didn't work? I'm worrying it's going to backup and restore the edited Carrier Bundles folder.
EDIT1: Unintalled CommCenter, rebooted, "Network Unavailable," and no LTE. So I got it working, but with the patch. >_<
I'm going to try uninstalling CommCenter and hopefully it won't mess things up.
O__o I wonder what part didn't work? I'm worrying it's going to backup and restore the edited Carrier Bundles folder.
EDIT1: Unintalled CommCenter, rebooted, "Network Unavailable," and no LTE. So I got it working, but with the patch. >_<
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This is were it needs to placed
This where you should keep the back up.
Put ".bak" on the end of the original file.
Thank you! Though for some reason my file system only goes to /System/Library/Carrier Bundles and there's no "iPhone" folder in it.. I'm gonna try to make one and put the .bundle in there and we'll see what happens.