3g speed on BlackBerry

[tazzy695]

Is there a secret to enabling my BlackBerry to pick up the 3g speed as I know it is available at my house as my friend with a g1 gets the speed when at my house but my BlackBerry will only get gprs or GPRS for net won't even go into edge mode

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[NorrisCell]

Originally Posted by tazzy695

Is there a secret to enabling my BlackBerry to pick up the 3g speed as I know it is available at my house as my friend with a g1 gets the speed when at my house but my BlackBerry will only get gprs or GPRS for net won't even go into edge mode

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3G is a hardware feature. If the phone lacks the hardware, there is no way to make it get 3G speeds

[tazzy695]

I am running a 9530 storm that shows 3g and I think it suppsed to have the 3g

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[redman12]

Originally Posted by tazzy695

I am running a 9530 storm that shows 3g and I think it suppsed to have the 3g

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Verizon and T-Mobile are not the same frequencies, it will only run on EDGE if you have T-Mobile as a carrier

[tazzy695]

So there aren't any hacks I can do to get the 3g or at least better and more stable EDGE signal

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[Dan54]

No... You along with the rest of us on T-mo must wait for the next upcoming device that will have the hardware for 3g speeds. Try Wifi for now if u got a connection at home.

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[tazzy695]

That is the big problem is I don't have net at home cable is to expensive so been tethering with tetherberry

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[mattglobal]

Originally Posted by tazzy695

Is there a secret to enabling my BlackBerry to pick up the 3g speed as I know it is available at my house as my friend with a g1 gets the speed when at my house but my BlackBerry will only get gprs or GPRS for net won't even go into edge mode

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Your Storm works on 3G Band I. In order to get 3G coverage on T-Mobile USA's network, a phone must operate on both Bands I and IV.

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[tazzy695]

Can you please explain how I make it do this or at least help me figure out how to activate both bands

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[jrodjrxbox]

The blackberry storm will not work with verizon 3g the phone is not capable of using those frequencies not even with a hack plain and simple and it does not have wifi but the new 9700 that's coming to T-Mobile has 3g and wifi

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[nzbmaster99]

no, there is no way to run a non 3G capable phone on 3G network. its a hardware modification which enables 3G speeds. an EDGE capable phone will only run on EDGE or GPRS which is slower. if ur phone has wifi capability, connecting to wifi can beat 3G any time.

[tazzy695]

ok once again the storm 9530 is a 3g capable phone I just need to figure out how to get it configured correctly to pick up the signal

[Hosehead13]

Go back and read some of these posts again...there is nothing you can do to reconfigure the Storm to work on the frequencies that T-Mo uses for their 3G. The phone is capable of 3G, but only on the VZ network.

[tazzy695]

ok then why when i tell it to use the gsm signal dose it ask me to select 2g or 3g if I select g3 then it searches for umts if I select g2 then it searches for gprs

I think you may be missing the point....
The Storm that you are using was specifically designed for use on Verizon. Verizon uses CDMA technology as it's native mode of cell transmission. However, with the Storm, you could travel, say to Europe, where the 3G hardware the Storm has can pick up 3G signal.

But, here in the U.S., if you use an unlocked Storm on T-Mobile or AT&T, the best signal you can get is 2G EDGE. That is because the frequencies these two carriers use for 3G cannot be picked up by the Storm's radio hardware. Europe yes, U.S. no.

I hope that clarifies things.