ALL Uploads drop off / fail while tethered!! >:( - Touch Pro2, Tilt 2 Windows Mobile General

GRRR!! This is really starting to bug me!! The problem began about 6 months ago when I still had the good ol' original Tilt. I'll begin uploading, let's say, a photo. A single photo. Any size, doesn't matter. It begins uploading fine but will ALWAYS, suddenly and for no apparent reason, stop uploading. I have no idea why!
Obviously it's not a rom issue since this problem has followed me from phone to phone. I've flashed 3 or 4 separate roms on the Tilt 2 and experienced the problem with every one of them. Even the stock rom!!!
I've tried installing the cabs for removing the hidden AT&t proxies and whatnot, but it's no help.
I can't even run a speed test!! On speedtest.net it flys through the download portion at about 1.9 Mbps, the upload hits 0.81 consistently, but once the progress gets to 99% it of course stops uploading. And the speed begins to fall as the test continues running without any upload traffic.
I've tried letting it sit overnight while I slept, hoping maybe it was just hiccups in the connection or some other kind of illogical nonsense. But sure enough, I wake up and it's at the same spot it was when I left it.
I also thought it may have been that my account was somehow flagged by AT&T for too much data use, since I don't actually pay for the tethering. But I've been told MOST WinMo users don't pay for their tethering and none have had this problem? Nonetheless, I even went so far as to CLOSE MY ACCOUNT AND OPEN A NEW ONE!! Still no luck.
Uploads work great phoneside... quick, reliable... but as soon as it's connected to the computer I can't do SH8T!!!
Not through Bluetooth
Not through WiFi sharing
Not through USB
So I pray to you, the infinitely wise Gods of XDA. Please! Hear my prayers and guide me to the answer I seek!

no one knows what might cause this problem?

I don't really know why it is causing that problem. I did a quick search and many people complain about the same thing. But also I read a lot of positive responses about a few programs that help you tether. You could always try it and see if it helps.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=459162

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Office Programs take more than 1 minute to load

Is anyone else having this issue yet? I have asked this on the rom development page and it seems that I may be the only one experincing this.
I have NRG's 10\28 rom loaded and I have removed many of my installed programs and I can not get the Office programs to load quickly. I have Nrg's rom 10\17 or so loaded on my wife's phone but hers doesnt seem to be doing this.
I am suspecting that it is something that I am installing that is doing this but I am not sure.
I have even downloaded the office 2010 beta today and it stil does it.
It does stop doing it for about a half a day if I reboot many times till it behaves, but then after about a half a day, it is back to taking more than 60 seconds to open word or excell, then about 20 ot 25 seconds to close it.
Any ideas??
Thank you all for looking at this.
Jeff
Takes no more than a few seconds max on my Tilt 2, I don't know man.
Same porb here, i dont think its a ROM issue as it did the same thing on most of the roms i flash. i just thought i was a WM thingi, and the worst part is it takes near 10 sec to open a NEW word doc..
ahmadashar said:
Same porb here, i dont think its a ROM issue as it did the same thing on most of the roms i flash. i just thought i was a WM thingi, and the worst part is it takes near 10 sec to open a NEW word doc..
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Finally, someone else is also having this issue.
I have a slightly older version of the Energy rom on my wife's phone and hers is always fast to open.
I have been uninstalling programs one by one to see if one of them is affecting it.
What I have found is that as I install a couple, it will start working good, then a a few hours later, it goes to 1 min to open again.
And I am not even opening a file, just click on the excell icon, so that eliminates the bad file thing.
I will let you know what I find.
So do you have many apps installed? I have a lot, to many to mention here at this time, but if you only have a few, please list them and I will see if there are any in common between us.
Thanks,
Jeff
I had this problem on my AT&T Tilt 1 a long time ago. I was able to isolate the cause of the problem to sending/receiving Email over mobile data (wouldn't happen if the update was via wifi). Unfortunately the only thing that solved my problem was a hard reset .
brad_wp said:
I had this problem on my AT&T Tilt 1 a long time ago. I was able to isolate the cause of the problem to sending/receiving Email over mobile data (wouldn't happen if the update was via wifi). Unfortunately the only thing that solved my problem was a hard reset .
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interesting you mentioned wifi, i just observed today that it does not take a long time to open when i am on wifi, then i switched to no wifi, and it was taking lont time to open excel.
turned wifi back on and sure enough, excell opened quickly.
i then turnrd off my wifi network plugin, (disabled my map network drive) and now it seems to be opening excell just fine reguardless of wifi or not.
i will continue to test this ane report back.
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interesting you mentioned wifi, i just observed today that it does not take a long time to open when i am on wifi, then i switched to no wifi, and it was taking lont time to open excel.
turned wifi back on and sure enough, excell opened quickly.
i then turnrd off my wifi network plugin, (disabled my map network drive) and now it seems to be opening excell just fine reguardless of wifi or not.
i will continue to test this ane report back.
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Office Mobile looks for any files of the appropriate type (e.g., *.doc files for Word) on your device to open prior to loading. Before reading this last comment I was going to suggest removing your storage card, but if you have network drives mapped it's probably attempting to reach those while loading but timing out if they're not available.
Toleraen said:
Office Mobile looks for any files of the appropriate type (e.g., *.doc files for Word) on your device to open prior to loading. Before reading this last comment I was going to suggest removing your storage card, but if you have network drives mapped it's probably attempting to reach those while loading but timing out if they're not available.
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So as long as I dont have my "enable Network Folder" clicked on the HTC's Network Plugin, it all works good. As soon as I click that, and enable the network folder, then it takes forever to open office unless I have the wifi turned on.
Man I have been fighting this for months, not sure if it was a rom thing or something that I was intalling.
I hope that others who have this issue can find this post and fix thier stuff too.
Here some searchable key words, pleae add if I am missing:
Office Microsoft Excell Word forever long time

Odds of getting a virus on smartphone?

Well I ask because for the past day or 2 now my phone is constantly freezing. Usually just sending texts. Can anyone help me fix this, or is it a virus? Or what?
What ROM are you using? A hard reset will probably fix it. I've heard viruses exist for smartphones but I've never seen or heard of anyone getting one. Most likely a virus/malware for a phone would be used for information collecting and not to cripple a device, since you could just hard reset or flash a ROM to make it go away. BB's, Androids, and WinMo, all have that feature, I'm sure palm and symbian do too although I've never used those OS's.
Im using the 3vo rom. Up untill a few days ago, it was perfect. I was running aim mobile (not oz) msn, core player, and texting. Now it freezes just reciving a text. I reset it constantly and it never helps. It will be fine again for a while, and then its frozen again. Its really pissing me off.
woah. it the same with meh. just until yesterday i got it bad enough that it froze my phone completely. No hard reset can fix...:C help any one?
Now my phone is going nutz. It starts everytime I start texting. I guess I'll have to try another rom or reformat it.
wait try clearing ur internet cache
Its too late for that. But why would the cache make the texts lag?
memory, n try to delete ur textes that could b one too. n oh wat u mean its too late
I already reformated my phone thinking it was a virus or something. It dawned on me afterwards that I had to have about 50 - 100 texts in thread mode. I think it was just too many texts vs cpu power. ._. i feel so silly.
I'd rule out Virus in the equation, there has only ever been a small amount of Virus's reported for WM and they tended to be like malware rather than to decapitate phone, software can easily cause problems over time things get corrupted etc, very much like your home PC's but far less tools to fix it "often a hard-reset best bet", or even a flash of the stock ROM as even when flashing things can be left the can cause problems in the future.
Regards texts: Should be able to store 1000's without a problem Only time had problems is restoring that amount of texts after a flash tends to make the phone slow.
ClearTemp is good to keep up to date with cleaning you'd be surprised the amount that builds up.
Also keeping as much space as you can on device so only installing programs needed to start up to device and installing other stuff to SD, exception for me is CorePlayer to take the lag off card read "since large data needs to be read at a time"
See you got it sorted Just wanted to leave 2c and may be useful for future
Did u, by any chance, completely drain ur battery and the phone autoswitch off while texting. that happened to me a while ago, and after i restarted texting was never the same, all the incidents ur describing where happening, so i figured out the database got corrupt cause of sudden off. a hard reset fixed it.
ya but wat about my fone? mines is frozen on the start up screen, n i reflashed it tons of times. and i did lots of hard resets but it wont leave that screen....can any one tell me wats going on?
Maybe a virus
I have seen virus infecting nokia phones, and all they do is try to replicate and copy themselves to other cellphones. And in smartphone maybe the same, why dont you try to get a AirScanner AV, for smartphone, maybe that could help. I have the cab, but i cant upload it right now cuz im at work but i can maybe later i will try to share it. take care pal!
Try installing Kaspersky mobile. It´s a 30 day trial, but if there is a virus, it might get detected and cleaned within this 30 day period.
Regards.
wow i nvr had to figure that i had to protect my phone against viruses
LoL this's kinda funny sumtimes windows mobile crashes thats all u had going on hard resets all u can do like you did i bet tho these phones data is all stolen for sure Wifi tho should be safest tho id think anyhows no virus's but im sure theres one two out there but wouldnt really count on it happening lol.
HTCS621Smartphone said:
LoL this's kinda funny sumtimes windows mobile crashes thats all u had going on hard resets all u can do like you did i bet tho these phones data is all stolen for sure Wifi tho should be safest tho id think anyhows no virus's but im sure theres one two out there but wouldnt really count on it happening lol.
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Exactly
As previously stated, wouldn't waiste resources RAM/Battery to run an extra program to find zilch, if really paranoid scan items on desktop before transfer.
In a couple of years time we'll all be running AV's on phones picking up false positives and being baught into the paranoid AV world
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wow i nvr had to figure that i had to protect my phone against viruses
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In fact, I don´t... I do as Stylez said... scan files BEFORE let them in the phone.
Regards.
suplex57 said:
wait try clearing ur internet cache
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1) Why would that help?
2) How is it accomplished?
Ghost of Jaco said:
1) Why would that help?
2) How is it accomplished?
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How to on last page ClearTemp
Also pretty sure IE has the choice in settings
The same as on computer a little bit of cleaning will help.

Need some suggestions for my Tilt 2

I'm 25, a business guy (though I use my phone for personal use only) and have been looking over the forums for the best way to get the most use out of my phone. Right now I've just got the stock rom with only a couple of cabs installed. I've got my e-mail set up on it (though I have some issues with the send/receive not occurring when it's supposed to) and installed a few games. What I really want to be able to do with my phone is web surfing. There's some website I like to frequent.. a lot.. but it seems with the stock settings the internet is pretty slow. I do a lot of texting and e-mail replies as well. A few free games here and there would be nice too. I'm in a pretty stable 3G area, don't have any bluetooth devices hooked up nor do I use the wi-fi (haven't found a reason to use this really yet)
Looking through the forums I've gotten somewhat overloaded as to what I should get for my phone in terms of performance enhancements. Any suggestions to help with the above would be great.
note: I've never messed with my phone's registry or have flashed a rom, but would be willing to do so if the information could be provided.
Thanks in advance!
Hi Demonic, welcome.
I'll break it down based on what you need and where you can find it.
E-mails:
I really really really like seven beta for e-mails. I've posted the CAB here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=634213
Internet:
TP2 has a feature called push internet, basically you can set websites to be automatically updated so the next load will be much faster. Browse to the internet tab in sense and set up the websites you frequent most often. I've heard it wastes battery life so I do not use it.
In terms of internet speed, I actually think we aren't full 3g on TP2 network. Here are the specs of the TP2 and a phone with full 3g. As you can see under data the tp2 is not the fastest available device:
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/HTC-Touch-Pro2-CDMA-phone-p_3710.html
http://www.phonearena.com/htmls/Palm-Pixi-Plus-phone-p_4308.html
its the same for all carriers btw.
Flashing rom/registry
Based on the overview you have given I would say registry tweaks and flashing a custom ROM isn't needed, although I love Mighty Mikes 6.5 much better than VZWs.
If you have more detailed questions feel free to PM me.
Thanks for the quick reply! I'm downloading seven now and will give that a shot!
forgot to give you all my fun links....check these out for games etc:
http://mobile.blorge.com/2009/04/25/top-40-best-free-windows-mobile-games/
http://mobile.blorge.com/2009/06/06/top-40-best-free-windows-mobile-games-to-download/
http://www.bestwindowsmobileapps.com/category/app-store/games
Thanks for those links. I installed Seven and love the push feature that it gives for my e-mail. It works like a charm, however there's an issue I'm running into. It seems that in order for Seven to work it needs to stay running constantly, and it won't let me close it. I'm also now having issues closing any other app that I run by holding down the "X". Between these two issues, and my phone not going into sleep mode as much as it should be my battery is already down to 30% (and it's not even 5pm yet =/)
Demonic240 said:
Thanks for those links. I installed Seven and love the push feature that it gives for my e-mail. It works like a charm, however there's an issue I'm running into. It seems that in order for Seven to work it needs to stay running constantly, and it won't let me close it. I'm also now having issues closing any other app that I run by holding down the "X". Between these two issues, and my phone not going into sleep mode as much as it should be my battery is already down to 30% (and it's not even 5pm yet =/)
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I've heard push internet can really tax on the phones battery life, not sure if you are using that feature though.
Seven works perfectly fine for me having it running all day...I went a full 24 hours and was at 30%, I have 4 e-mail accounts synced through Seven.
Do you know what your phone RAM idles at? Try downloading and installing SSK TP2 Dynamic Resource proxy, it may help out with some of your problems.
I'm not sure what the closing issue is...could just be that your phone is using too much RAM, which the SSK cab should fix.
SPB mobile shell 3.5 is the best program for nonROM Cookers. Here is the link. Download the trial and PM me.
I use it the backup and various other things I found on here.
The SMS notification is a major annoyance so download the cab to disable it.
After you use your phone for a while- trust me, XDA will become a favorite to find tweaks to make your phone seem new again.
Demonic, based on the fact that you like to use the internet a lot I would highly recommend moving to a cooked rom when you feel comfortable. At&t doesn't open up the phones true potential with their "stock" rom. It's locked to 3G and a cooked rom will activate HSDPA which will double or triple 3G speeds. I can sustain download speeds over 2000kbps. Also the whole phone will be much more responsive.
There's a bit of reading needed and a learning curve but I'm sure you can handle it. I'd never even knew what flashing was in the fall of 08' and a year later I had flash my Fuze at least a 500 times. I've had the Tilt2 since Nov and it's been flashed over 50 times already
Here's a link to get started.
Flashing your First GSM Rhodium Rom (For Noobs)
After reading that if you have any questions ask them here and if it's not me here 1st I'm sure you'll still find all the help you need. There's a lot on talented people here on xda.
BTW, SPB Mobile Shell:
http://www.spb.com/products/mobileshell/
Its a great product with many intuitive features...for me it required a restart everyday though....which wasn't acceptable.
So now I'm having some issues with Seven... I have a good 3G signal, have restarted the phone multiple times, but it will only stay connect for a short time. When I go into the Seven settings I'm seeing a yellow broken symbol for the connection. I have to manually refresh all the data for the e-mail account in order for it to update. Some times it works great, others.. not so much.
bojangle said:
SPB mobile shell 3.5 is the best program for nonROM Cookers. Here is the link. Download the trial and PM me.
I use it the backup and various other things I found on here.
The SMS notification is a major annoyance so download the cab to disable it.
After you use your phone for a while- trust me, XDA will become a favorite to find tweaks to make your phone seem new again.
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I had the spb mobile shell on my old phone (Epix) and loved it. But I don't think I could spend the money to put the newer version on my Tilt2. =/
anit77 said:
Demonic, based on the fact that you like to use the internet a lot I would highly recommend moving to a cooked rom when you feel comfortable. At&t doesn't open up the phones true potential with their "stock" rom. It's locked to 3G and a cooked rom will activate HSDPA which will double or triple 3G speeds. I can sustain download speeds over 2000kbps. Also the whole phone will be much more responsive.
There's a bit of reading needed and a learning curve but I'm sure you can handle it. I'd never even knew what flashing was in the fall of 08' and a year later I had flash my Fuze at least a 500 times. I've had the Tilt2 since Nov and it's been flashed over 50 times already
Here's a link to get started.
Flashing your First GSM Rhodium Rom (For Noobs)
After reading that if you have any questions ask them here and if it's not me here 1st I'm sure you'll still find all the help you need. There's a lot on talented people here on xda.
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What ROM's would you recommend for faster internet usage? Do they drastically change the appearance of the phone and/or do they inhibit some of the features?
Demonic240 said:
What ROM's would you recommend for faster internet usage? Do they drastically change the appearance of the phone and/or do they inhibit some of the features?
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No, most ROMs will be fairly similar, with minor visual changes, some feature changes, and different programs installed by default (usually the chefs favorite programs)
AT&T speed fix: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=584409
Nice Roms:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=553506
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=569507
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=571892
and the ROM forum sorted by most views:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/forumdisplay.php?f=490&daysprune=-1&order=desc&sort=views
With Seven, make sure you don't have quite time on. In seven, hit the Menu soft key (bottom right) and click general settings. Then click the quiet time option and set the hours you do not wish to receive messages.
I think if you paid for the old version of Mobile Shell you can get the new version as well, try e-mailing one of the devs over there to help you out.
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With Seven, make sure you don't have quite time on. In seven, hit the Menu soft key (bottom right) and click general settings. Then click the quiet time option and set the hours you do not wish to receive messages.
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I have all of the quiet times turned off except for when roaming or low battery. When I unplugged my phone from the charger this morning it updated my e-mails like it normally does. I checked my phone again around 9:30 and the Seven settings said that it was last connected at 8:30 this morning and showed the "not connected" symbol. I had to manually refresh all data in order for it to re-connect.
If your mailserver supports IMAP I would try Schedhandler made by Camro on these forums it does IMAP IDLE great and doesn't hardly use any battery.
So I noticed Seven losing the connection again today. I then went to my connection settings and attempted to disable Data Connection. When I attempt to do this it automatically connects again. When I then go back to Seven it shows that it's trying to re-establish a connection and MAY connect.
Does anyone know why my e-mail will sometimes stay connected and then drop off irregularly?
@dalavar
I've tried many different settings (POP3 and IMAP4) using the basic MMS functions with windows 6.5 but have had issues receiving e-mails on a regular update basis. I had the same isssue with 6.1. Some times e-mails will work properly, other times I have to reboot my phone, or pray for my e-mails to receive. Even after doing a Send/Receive I still won't get e-mails on my phone at times.
I'm using sbcglobal for my e-mail, but if this keeps up I'm thinking of switching back to hotmail or gmail =/
anit77 said:
Demonic, based on the fact that you like to use the internet a lot I would highly recommend moving to a cooked rom when you feel comfortable. At&t doesn't open up the phones true potential with their "stock" rom. It's locked to 3G and a cooked rom will activate HSDPA which will double or triple 3G speeds. I can sustain download speeds over 2000kbps. Also the whole phone will be much more responsive.
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Actually, I'm really surprised no one's been able to do a registry hack in terms of the HSDPA function.
And yeah, I agree...there's some really good chef's with cooked ROMs that blow the Death Star's crap and crippleware laden ROM to "Hades in a Longaberger". Unfortunately I've not had my phone 30 days yet, so I'm a little hesitant to flash yet. (even though I flashed my Kaiser/Tilt quite regularly once it was out of warranty)
As soon as the 30 days expire though...you bet it's gonna get flashed.
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Actually, I'm really surprised no one's been able to do a registry hack in terms of the HSDPA function.
And yeah, I agree...there's some really good chef's with cooked ROMs that blow the Death Star's crap and crippleware laden ROM to "Hades in a Longaberger". Unfortunately I've not had my phone 30 days yet, so I'm a little hesitant to flash yet. (even though I flashed my Kaiser/Tilt quite regularly once it was out of warranty)
As soon as the 30 days expire though...you bet it's gonna get flashed.
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Go to your browser and type "about:config".
Find your connections and up them, the stock is like 4 connections and 6 max. I changed them both to 128 and change the page update delay to 0.
Demonic240 said:
I'm using sbcglobal for my e-mail, but if this keeps up I'm thinking of switching back to hotmail or gmail =/
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See if another email provider has this problem. I currently am connecting to the following and have experienced no errors since install:
Exchange Server
Y! Mail
gmail
POP3
Seems to be sbc related as both seven and your normal mail have issues connecting.
Sorry for the late response. SchedHandler seems to handle misconfigured or poorly configured IMAP servers very well you might want to give it a shot on your SBC account. And the author of the program is very active and makes changes sometimes daily.

xda-wifi-sharing & bittorrent...

Hey there. This is my first post but rest assured I'm not really a noob (been editing wm reg for at least 5 years...)
I am grandfathered in to an unlimited data plan with at&t (although I did have to go from $20 to $30 a month when I upgraded to the tilt2/rohdium) and I have a minor but seriously annoying problem with using xda-wifi-sharing & bittorrent under some pretty specific circumstances.
I have been using my service to download video for several years as I don't have a tv or internet any other way. I get much of my tv video from tvtorrents.com as you can download entire seasons of just about any tv worth watching.
When I am downloading a season torrent (multiple episodes, many peers etc...) my 3G/HSDPA connection times out or gets "stuck" and requires me to restart the data service on the phone. While this has happened before, rarely, it is happening very frequently now.
Using tvtorrents for these type of downloads affords many high speed seeds and I think that the number of seed/peer connections is somehow overwhelming the 3G/HSDPA data connection, causing it to time out. This never used to happen with this frequency and I'm not sure what to do.
Thanks for your help and thank Jebus for this site (and I don't even believe in Jebus...) as I would never have gotten this far without you all.
tilt2, wm 6.5 stock rom, bloat and crippleware removed
Have you tried a torrent software on the phone itself and downloaded to your Storage Card? My thought it to eliminate the tethering part to see if that has something to do with the lock out.
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Have you tried a torrent software on the phone itself and downloaded to your Storage Card? My thought it to eliminate the tethering part to see if that has something to do with the lock out.
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hmmm... wasn't aware of a bittorrent client for WM. I've been using uTorrent on my laptop for a few years now without any problems until recently. Right now my girlfriend also connects through the xda-wifi-router and this doesn't happen (at least nowhere near the frequency it happens to me). Physical tethering is a bit of a pain as I find that the orientation of the phone (in relation to laptop) and distance from my laptop significantly affects bandwidth.
I'm thinking about un/reinstalling utorrent, and maybe changing where the tilt2 is in the room... it's been working so well for so long, I'm sure I can get it to work again.
I've also had intermittent crash problems with device.exe on the tilt2, maybe this is related?
Thanks for your help
Ok, I guess that my problem was with at&t's network (damn iPhone users.. ..). Anywho, I have not made any substantial changes, yet all of the sudden, everything works fine.
I am reluctant to call at&t as they want to verify my network settings ( that have been working fine forever but might concern them as I am the network hog, not the iPhone users.. hehe). Every time I call I call from my phone and they have a hard time understanding that it is the only phone I have available.
Strangely, the very act of having one of their techs look at my account seems to fix my problem (most of the time it is that I am traveling).
Regardless, thanks for your help!

[Q] Facebook Check In - WTH?

Anybody have this working with a hoot?
Neither mine or my wifes works very well. Always seems to be about a town behind or can't find anything local. Both are stock rooted. Nothing fancy.
I thre in a 3rd party check in that does considerably better, but still doesn't always figure out where we are.
Thoughts? A search and Google search yields nothing.
Its probably finding your location either by towers or switchboards.
make sure your gps is on and do it from outside the location. even great gps units get whacky locations when you use them indoors
If it's not GPS and it's by cell towers, you may want to try the fix here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1448015
I'll never understand why people "check in" on Facebook.
Check in and 4square are sofa king stoopid. It's like saying, "hey! I'm not home. Go break into my house. Isn't it cool that you all know where I am at all times on FB?" Screw that noise, yo.
At all times? Are you checking in all day long? It's a useful tool if you're meeting up with people somewhere, especially for bar-hopping, and you can restrict who sees your checkins, so I don't see any issues with home security.
Mine always thought I was at work no matter where I went. I installed GPS status and reset the aGPS data. Then I had the app download the aGPS data. Since then it has been working great.
Worked perfect for me inside a club.
fonseca898 said:
At all times? Are you checking in all day long? It's a useful tool if you're meeting up with people somewhere, especially for bar-hopping, and you can restrict who sees your checkins, so I don't see any issues with home security.
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No. I don't check in at all. Some of my goofball friends use those apps and check in every damn place they go. It's annoying. As if everyone wants to know that they are at Starbucks, DSW, or every time they go to Lifetime Fitness. I met a buddy for breakfast this morning and he tagged me with his stoopid check in. It was super ghey-ish. I guess I just don't get it or that twitter crap.
If I want people to meet me someplace, I'll call, text or email them. I don't have to tell everybody on FB where I am, as if I'm fishing for someone random fool to hang out with or bragging about my exploits 24/7.
I probably sound like a pompous ass or a Debbie downer. My bad.
Glad this thread was here for you to vent your dislike of a feature.. Hope you feel better.
Anyway, glad I am not alone in seeing a huge lag in the GPS. If I am tagging the location of a picture, I'll be damned, but I get the same thing - last known location was the previous town or yep.. Work.
Looks like unless I keep GPS alive at all times, it never locks or gives me the correct ballpark to even search for my location by name.
Ok. So we're "ghey" and "stoopid" because we have different likes. Got it.
Thankfully, the world isn't entirely like you.
Yer a great help...
gpshemi said:
Ok. So we're "ghey" and "stoopid" because we have different likes. Got it.
Thankfully, the world isn't entirely like you.
Yer a great help...
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You missed my closing disclaimer. My apologies for hijacking the thread. Carry on.

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