RoM Manager download speeds - EVO 4G Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting

are they slow for anyone else ?

Well the ROMs are the same 140 MB files you are downloading off of here, and since you are probably on a 1Mb/s connection on you phone (a generous average, I think) they should be taking around 20 minutes.
edit: this is a preemptive "I am not a mathematician" in case I did bad math

Do it while on Wifi

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Can Sprint blackball your bandwidth?

I have no idea what is going on, but my 3G speeds have gone to ****. I've tried everything to get them back... I just don't get it...
This is with 2 'coverage' bars on CM6...
fldash said:
I have no idea what is going on, but my 3G speeds have gone to ****. I've tried everything to get them back... I just don't get it...
This is with 2 'coverage' bars on CM6...
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How long ago were you getting good speeds? Because it could just be the Sprint network, because they have gotten a lot of new people because of the new phones to come out, and that could be the cause.
I've had my phone since Aug 11th... So almost a month and a half... My speeds have just got worse and worse as time has gone on... Maybe the network is overloaded, I don't know... but man it sucks.
fldash said:
I have no idea what is going on, but my 3G speeds have gone to ****. I've tried everything to get them back... I just don't get it...
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This is with 2 'coverage' bars on CM6...
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Try rebooting. I was having that same issue some weeks back. I was hitting > 14.4kbps on 3g and 3.2mbps on 4g. I did a quick restart and 3g shot back up to 600ish kbps.
LordKyleOfEarth said:
Try rebooting. I was having that same issue some weeks back. I was hitting > 14.4kbps on 3g and 3.2mbps on 4g. I did a quick restart and 3g shot back up to 600ish kbps.
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sometimes this is the case, not just the evo, but having to reboot the wife's hero also.
I notice that at night my speeds drop dramatically. I can play youtube vids in the day time without any stutter but once it's about 8pm the numbers on speedtest drop and I have constant buffering. I don't know if it's because everyone is home and bandwith is being used a little heavier or if sprint automatically drops the bandwith at night.
I've tried rebooting multiple times with no luck... looks like I'm either being capped or in high usage area...
fldash said:
I've tried rebooting multiple times with no luck... looks like I'm either being capped or in high usage area...
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your ping is pretty terrible too - did you try other servers?
My 3G got really bad right before the unofficial launch of 4G here. Not quite as low as what you show, but BAD compared to what it was.
Jjday7 said:
I notice that at night my speeds drop dramatically. I can play youtube vids in the day time without any stutter but once it's about 8pm the numbers on speedtest drop and I have constant buffering. I don't know if it's because everyone is home and bandwith is being used a little heavier or if sprint automatically drops the bandwith at night.
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Welcome to Sprint, mine is exactly the same. I can rarely get over 500 kbps at night but can usually get 1 mbps or better during the day. The weird one is that at night my upload speed is almost always higher then my download speeds.
Night before last I noticed my browser was unusually sluggish so I did a speed test. Download was 39 kbps upload was 150 kbps, did a test the following morning and it was 1101 kbps down and 550 kbps up.
This is in a very rural area, so I seriously doubt if the tower I am connecting to is getting overwhelmed with bandwidth usage.
uniquenameevo said:
My 3G got really bad right before the unofficial launch of 4G here. Not quite as low as what you show, but BAD compared to what it was.
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Haha, I can hope my man...
Wow, yeah that's pretty bad. I am getting 960Kbps (1040 max) down and 88Kbps (158 max) up speed on one bar (-89dBm)... ran Speedtest right now to check what I'm getting.
Stuff might very well be congested over there, although one way to for-sure rule out bandwidth capping is are you doing anything to cause them to cap your bandwidth?
I'm consistently hitting right around 400 kbs down and 800 kbs up, the only time I hit higher is when I'm roaming then it's 1 mb down.
mrmylanman said:
Wow, yeah that's pretty bad. I am getting 960Kbps (1040 max) down and 88Kbps (158 max) up speed on one bar (-89dBm)... ran Speedtest right now to check what I'm getting.
Stuff might very well be congested over there, although one way to for-sure rule out bandwidth capping is are you doing anything to cause them to cap your bandwidth?
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Not that I can think of.. I use my phone a lot, but it's not like I'm browsing torrents or anything... Most of my bandwidth is probably youtube and ROM downloads...
Does the rom you run have any affect on 3G speeds? I've been running CM6 forever though basically...
fldash said:
Does the rom you run have any affect on 3G speeds? I've been running CM6 forever though basically...
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I'm on CM6, the 9/19 nightly I think (or 9/20 I can't remember). I don't think it has any affect on 3G speeds. I flashed the latest radio and PRI if that makes a difference (didn't notice one).

[Q] Problem with connectivity speed

I apologise if this has come up before. However, and I don't understand why, my HTC DEsire was running perfectly about 2 weeks ago. But for some reason after I installed the iNSertCoin ROM my internet speed and market download speed is INSANELY slow. My phone says that I've got a 4 bar HSDPA connection so this really shouldn't be occuring. I've reverted back to the GingerVillain ROM (the rom I used before iNsertCoin) and it's still a problem.
I've tried many different Radios with the correct RIL's and nothing seems to work. It works fine with wifi (don't know why that would help but meh )
Help would be much appreciated guys. THanks.
Is anybody there?!
Come on guys. Someone help lol
You do realise that using something like HSDPA or 3G connects maybe miles away. It also depends on how much connection your carrier is giving out. Just use Wi-Fi or something but using something like HSDPA isn't always guaranteed to be 100% fast at ALL times.
Check at your carrier if you have any kind of maximum bandwith use. Maybe after like 200MB data transfer your account gets limited speeds. Fair use policy or something. Maybe that's why your speeds are so slow.
My plan is Unlimited Internet and I'm 100% sure I don't use so much that I exceed the fair-use policy. And my point is that 2 weeks ago it was perfectly fine. The speed was fine and I haven't moved house or anything. Just seems very odd that it would drop so much. For example, it takes me A VERY LONG time to download an app now. Before, this wasn't the case.

<Q> Data Speeds/Reliability?

Hi!So just some background info, I have had the Samsung Fascinate prior to this phone and had 2 replacemnts through verizon. I was having data issues and the phones had hardware issues so they gave me the Droid Incredible 2.
Anyways, I have been getting extremely slow verizon downloads lately. Sometimes apps will take 10 minutes or even more to download when I remember that they used to download in about 5 seconds one or two months ago. I am NOT a heavy data user (as in i'm not in the top 5%), and I have the Unlimited data. Browsing speeds, market download speeds and everything is slow and getting really frustrating. (download speeds around 10-200 kbps!!) [tested with speedtest.net]
Does anyone have any ideas? I have called verizon and they said their was some kind of market (non android) block on my phone since last march, but disabling that didn't really change much.
Let me know if anyone has experienced similar issues within the past month or two or has a fix! Thankss
(i was going to try to root and flash roms/new radio to see if that would help? but idk :/)
My apps seem to download about the same on this phone, as my Original Dinc.
I flashed the 722 radio and that helped me alot.
My speeds were slow also. Everywhere I went.
Now when I am at home they are halfway decent (700-1200 kbps) (I am normally on wifi anyways)
And at work they are better. (1700-2200 kbps)

best way to view which app is using X amount X MB?

so i got the nexus couple days ago and i have been previously on at&t with galaxy s2 of course the internet was slower there so it was kind of harder to reach that 2gb limit.
Now i wanted to ask do you guys know any good software that will show me exactly how much each program is eating the bandwidth?
i know the built in ics meter usage but i dont really trust it.
So far i checked that the go weather widget was using 0.01 kb of data each few minutes so i turned off the auto update ( i did 300 megs somehow in 2days)
i know speedtests really take a lot so i dont do them anymore
i also listened to sirius xm for like 20 minutes but even on at&t it wouldnt eat as much data.
Thanks guys
Why don't you trust the built in data usage app? It's not perfect, but even if its within 50mb of the actual, that's an acceptable measure.
martonikaj said:
Why don't you trust the built in data usage app? It's not perfect, but even if its within 50mb of the actual, that's an acceptable measure.
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It's not within 50MB lol. Last month I went through around 3GB and it said I used like 2.7GB. A difference of 10% is pretty big when you have a data limit...it could mean spending an extra $30 that month.
OP, check out 3G Watch Dog. Best data-monitoring solution on the market. Set how much data you get per month and when your billing period starts (just like the ICS built-in one) and it'll keep you updated with what you're doing. It's not perfect for monitoring specific apps either, but the overall total is usually exact (since it monitors at the last possible point before exiting/entering the phone).
I find Network Counter to be pretty effective...

Skynote (4.3) LTE super slow speeds..anyone else?

Hi guys!
I am having a BIG issue with this ROM with LTE connection.
I thought at first it was a matter of issues where I live or maybe I was being capped by ATT (I should not be over the limit yet) but yesterday I decided to test at home which usually is about 20Mb download and got the same result as I get at work, not even 1Mb down! Really just about .55 and 1.18 upload!
I checked the APN and it looks like the normal ATT settings I use but even tried some other "alternative" ones I have used before and same thing. Changed the modem to the one on the OP and same issue.
Tested a different ROM and back I was at the 20Mb download at home.
No idea what is going on but this is a killer for m :/
Anyone else seeing this?
It almost looks like it was been capped since it speeds up to 1.5 and then starts kicking down to that .55 or so level. But as my test showed, it works fine with other Roms
I am more surprised not seeing more reports about this. This is testing right after flashing so no other apps could be causing this etc.
Unfortunately i was getting all-around sluggish performance from Skynote 4.3 and was essentially forced away from it to get better performance out of my device. On my t0ltecan(TELUS) i was getting about 1/2 speeds compared to my typical on other ROMs
Well now I am totally confused. Flashed CM11 again today and my speed is still slow. So it looks like throttling but that does not explain how I got normal speeds yesterday...gosh I hate mysteries like this! :/

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