HiBOOST Mini Series Cell Phone Booster Installation Guide

: June 9, 2024
: HiBOOST

Table of Contents

HiBOOST Mini Series Cell Phone Booster
Package Contents
Notes for LCD Display
Booster Light Patterns
Bands contained in the Gauges
Getting Started
Technical Specifications
For more information
References
Read User Manual Online (PDF format)
Download This Manual (PDF format)

HiBOOST Mini Series Cell Phone Booster

Package Contents

HiBOOST-Mini-Series-Cell-Phone-Booster-FIG
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Signal Booster
Outside Antenna
1X32.8ft SMAM-NM Outdoor Cable 1X16.4ft SMAF-SMAM Outdoor Cable
Indoor Whip Antenna
Power Supply
Accessories for main parts are all provided
waterproof tape to protect connections
Through-Window-Cable SMA-Male to SMA-Female No drilled hole

Notes for LCD Display

HiBOOST-Mini-Series-Cell-Phone-Booster-FIG
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Booster Light Patterns

LED Type	LED condition	Remark

Bluetooth

| On| Successfully connected to Bluetooth
OFF| Bluetooth is not connected

Wi-Fi

| On| Successfully connected to Wi-Fi
OFF| Wi-Fi is not connected

Power

| Solid Green| Normal operating condition
Solid Red| Booster is working abnormally
OFF| Booster is not receving power from DC power supply

Alarm

| OFF| Booster is working normally
Flashing| Booster is working abnormally

Bands contained in the Gauges

Gauge	Band	Uplink	Downlink

LTE700

| 12/17| 698-716MHz| 728-746MHz
13| 776-787MHz| 746-757MHz
CELL800| 5| 824-849MHz| 869-894MHz
PCS1900| 25/2| 1850-1915MHz| 1930-1995MHz
AWS2100| 4| 1710-1755MHz| 2110-2155MHz

Please focus on the gauge that contains the band you are using.

Getting Started

Step 1 Connect the Power Supply to the Booster

Step 2 Connect the Booster with the App

Register an ID First and log in.
Add the booster to the device list

Step 3 Find the cell tower & Determine the outdoor antenna’s position

Find the band you are using

For Android

Download NetWork Cell Info Lite in the Google store and open it.
It can be seen from the example picture that the frequency band is band 13.
(According to the form before, you need to pay attention to Gauge LTE700)
Then click MAP. You can see your phone connecting to a tower, and you can try aiming your outdoor antenna at it. But sometimes this is not accurate. You could also move to Step 3.2 to find the tower
Note: Please take screenshots at this stage. HiBOOST-Mini-Series-Cell-
Phone-Booster-FIG 6

For ios

Dial 3001#12345#
Follow the instructions, take the screenshots as required.

Find the cell tower

Enter cellmapper.net
Choose your own carrier and band here.
Then enter the coordinate of where you are trying to install the signal booster, and press Enter key.
(In fact when you open Cellmapper, the map on the right will automatically locate your area if you’ve given the site permission to access your location. If you found tower sites not even displayed on the map, it might because the app intercepts the locations for security reasons.)
After the map jumps to the location, you can scroll the mouse pulley and zoom it out, then you will see the tower near the location. It would be better to take a screenshot of this page to guide the following installing steps. Should you have any questions, please contact our tech support.
Note: If you need help finding the tower, please contact our tech support and provide your carrier, band and screenshots taken in the last steps .

Determine the outdoor antenna’ s position
The outdoor antenna is usually placed at one of the 4 ends of the roof.
Please choose the position according to the tower’ s location. Make sure there are no barriers between the antenna and the tower.

Step 4 Connect the outdoor antenna with the booster HiBOOST-Mini-Series-
Cell-Phone-Booster-FIG 12

Note： At this stage, don’ t connect the indoor antenna to the booster.

Step 5 Adjust and fix the Outdoor Antenna

Have your outdoor antenna pointed to the cell tower you found before and observe the reading on the app. Adjust the outdoor antenna accordingly.

Notes:

The output power should be the higher the better.
The full output power for Sidekick is 10dBm. And the full gain is 62dB.

Step 6 Connect the indoor antenna with the booster HiBOOST-Mini-Series-
Cell-Phone-Booster-FIG 15

Step 7 Adjust the indoor antenna

Place the signal booster on a table and make sure the booster is within the coverage area.

Make sure that the gain reaches about 60dB. If not, please increase the vertical and horizontal distance between the two antennas or add some barriers.

Step 8 Signal quality test

You could do the following:

First make sure the signal gauge value is unchanged from that during the outdoor antenna installation.
Do speed tests with the booster on and off, and make a comparison.
Check if the number of signal bars increases.
Make a phone call or send messages and check if the voice and streaming are better.

4 Regular Problems and 1 normal status
If the booster is working normally, no further adjustment is required

OVERLOAD

Alarm light flashing and Power light solid red

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Outdoor signal is too strong

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Have your outdoor antenna pointed slightly away from the cell tower

CELL800| <60dB| >=8dBm
PCS1900| <60dB| >=8dBm
AWS2100| <60dB| >=8dBm
LOOP BACK

Alarm light flashing and Power light solid red(strong loop back) or green(slight loop back)

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Inadequate separation of the indoor and outdoor antennas

| 1、Increase vertical and horizontal distance.

2、Add barriers(e.g. walls)

Please try these solutions until the gain reaches or is over 60dB.

CELL800| <60dB| <8dBm
PCS1900| <60dB| <8dBm
AWS2100| <60dB| <8dBm
POOR SIGNAL

LTE700

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–/NEGATIVE

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Alarm light OFF and power light solid green

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Input signal is too weak

| 1、Try adjusting the outdoor antenna to the best direction 2、Try adjusting the outdoor antenna to another cell tower

3、Try increasing the height of the outdoor antenna and make sure there are no barriers between the tower and the outdoor antenna Please try these solutions until the output power reaches or is over

-5dBm.

CELL800

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–/NEGATIVE

PCS1900

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–/NEGATIVE

AWS2100

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–/NEGATIVE

Normal but No Boosted Signal

LTE700

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Alarm light OFF and power light solid green

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1、The band is not supported

2、The Signal is from other Carriers

| Check the band you are using again. If it stays at band66, get into the ‘detail’/ ‘Setting’ of gagues on Signal Supervisor and switch off RF switch of AWS2100, then adjust the outdoor antenna again. It would be better if there are two persons and one can stay near the indoor antenna to check if the signal is boosted.

CELL800

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PCS1900

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AWS2100

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NORMAL

Alarm light OFF and power light solid green

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CELL800| >=60dB| >=-5dBm
PCS1900| >=60dB| >=-5dBm
AWS2100| >=60dB| >=-5dBm

Note:
Some customers have some misunderstandings about boosters, and we would like to clarify it here：
If you can’t even get a stable 1 bar outside the house or on the roof, then we suggest you return it as it won’t work in areas with very weak signal, the same is true of all boosters on the market.

Technical Specifications

Model No.	Sidekick	Hero
Working Band	Band 12-17 / Band 13 / Band 5 / Band 25-2 / Band 4
UL F requency R ange(MHz)	698-716 / 776 – 787 / 824-849 / 1850-1915 /

1710-1755
DL F requency R ange(MHz)| 728-746 / 746 – 757 / 869-894 / 1930-1995 / 2110-2155
Supported Standar ds| CDMA , WCDMA , GSM, EDGE, HSPA+, EVDO, LTE, 5G

and all cellular standards