I just started using 4G and everything is fast (downloading, apps, tethering, etc) but the phones native web browsing is really slow. 3G actually loads the page faster.
Has anyone experienced this before? Is there a setting or something?
This has been my experience with 4G as well. Probably because of the latency issues. Downloading large files is really fast, but downloading a lot of small files (e.g. web browsing) is typically slower than with 3G.
Everyone using 4G and browsing the internet via the phone's browser experiencing this lag/slowness?
If you don't experience this lag/slowness can you please provide what ROM/Kernel you're using? TIA
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Everyone using 4G and browsing the internet via the phone's browser experiencing this lag/slowness?
If you don't experience this lag/slowness can you please provide what ROM/Kernel you're using? TIA
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Bump- I am having this same issue. I flashed fresh 3.2 I never noticed 4g before in my area till recently. Downloading aps is wicked quick, surfing my favorite site (xda) it is way to slow.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I would suggest opening a terminal and running a few tracerts to see what latancy is like. Or tether to your pc and see what happens or run tracerts from a command prompt.
Latency on 4g is way better than 3g/cellular.
You have to remember unless you are moving in a car there is no handoff between towers. Although you could be in the outlying edges of a town but that is back
The same is not true for cellular where you can be transfered thru countless towers to get back to a POP.
I am, or rather the company i work for is, a distributor of microwave radios, both licensed and unlicensed, and 2.5Ghz and 3.65Ghz WiMax and I actually distribute the E-Band radios Clearwire uses for backhaul on their 4G networks (because they dropped Dragonwave like a psycho girlfriend) and i also help in the design and trouble shooting, and I can tell you with absolute certainty that latency is not an issue with clearwires networks unless it is oversold too heavily (which they are). Then the radio is working too hard and, well that's what happens.
But to say 4g is slower than 3g is telling me that the network is overloaded or the radios are not setup properly (you are getting a lower QOS priority)... or... you may need to make sure you have the latest radios installed or as you guys are eluding too, maybe a rom issue
One thing people don't realize is that these 2.5Ghz radios have very limited bandwidth. Clearwire and Sprint have greatly over exaggerated these radios capabilities for the most part.
But again I think its the network not the rom although a funky rom can scew up a lot of things
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i too am experiancing this same issue...I'm runing ava7 w/ king#9
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)
Hello, I I'm using the stable version that was just released and my phone keeps switching from H, H+, to 3G every 20 seconds or so?! What am I missing here? I have flashed all of the AT&T modems and the problem still exists and drains my better! I cleared everything before installing and everything else is working fine! Just not the data connection. Please help!
Sounds like a problem with AT&T. Some quick things to try when your connection is wonky like that is to toggle airplane mode on and off. I'm in Canada, so I'm not entirely familiar with AT&T, but I have read on a few other posts that they are a little sketchy right now as they roll out LTE to more areas. Also try running with just 3g for a bit, then try LTE and see if anything changes.
Tried doing that Still having issues.
I don't have LTE in my area, so that's not the issue. I do have the HSPDA+, so I get why I see the H+.
It seems to only be with the Cyanogenmod 10 Stable ROM that was just released 2 days ago. Doesn't seem very stable to me
I even just tried installing the nightly update that came out last night to see if there was a fix, and nothing.
Hmm, okay, well, then if it was me in your shoes, what I would try would be flashing back to stock with Odin and start over from scratch again. I find that's easier than messing around with radios and modems and everything. You can find a good stock image in the android development thread that already has root injected into it. Obviously make sure you grab the right image, yadda yadda, yadda.
If you're saying that its switching between 3G, H, and H+ in succession then its doing exactly what it should be doing. Think about it. If your devices data was constantly stuck on the highest speed (the most battery draining one) your phones battery life would be horrible. What aosp based ROMs do is show the true value of your data connection. What's happening is your device is switching to the lower level data (3G) when you're not using data services and then ramping up to the higher level (H+) when you're using data services. Touchwhiz based ROMs don't do this. They lie and always show the highest level data as always being used when in fact the data levels are actually switching back and forth like you're seeing right now.
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If you're saying that its switching between 3G, H, and H+ in succession then its doing exactly what it should be doing. Think about it. If your devices data was constantly stuck on the highest speed (the most battery draining one) your phones battery life would be horrible. What aosp based ROMs do is show the true value of your data connection. What's happening is your device is switching to the lower level data (3G) when you're not using data services and then ramping up to the higher level (H+) when you're using data services. Touchwhiz based ROMs don't do this. They lie and always show the highest level data as always being used when in fact the data levels are actually switching back and forth like you're seeing right now.
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Yeah, what Task said!
Thanks, dude. I looked at it as a problem that needed fixing - but I guess if that's what it's supposed to be doing then it's not a problem at all. For some reason, I never see my data type drop from 4G.
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Yeah, what Task said!
Thanks, dude. I looked at it as a problem that needed fixing - but I guess if that's what it's supposed to be doing then it's not a problem at all. For some reason, I never see my data type drop from 4G.
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If you're in an area with a really strong 4g signal it will stay on 4g. I've noticed that at work it stays on 4g the whole time but at home where my 4g isn't as strong it will switch back and forth.
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If you're saying that its switching between 3G, H, and H+ in succession then its doing exactly what it should be doing. Think about it. If your devices data was constantly stuck on the highest speed (the most battery draining one) your phones battery life would be horrible. What aosp based ROMs do is show the true value of your data connection. What's happening is your device is switching to the lower level data (3G) when you're not using data services and then ramping up to the higher level (H+) when you're using data services. Touchwhiz based ROMs don't do this. They lie and always show the highest level data as always being used when in fact the data levels are actually switching back and forth like you're seeing right now.
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yup, that makes sense
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task650 said:
If you're saying that its switching between 3G, H, and H+ in succession then its doing exactly what it should be doing. Think about it. If your devices data was constantly stuck on the highest speed (the most battery draining one) your phones battery life would be horrible. What aosp based ROMs do is show the true value of your data connection. What's happening is your device is switching to the lower level data (3G) when you're not using data services and then ramping up to the higher level (H+) when you're using data services. Touchwhiz based ROMs don't do this. They lie and always show the highest level data as always being used when in fact the data levels are actually switching back and forth like you're seeing right now.
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Are you ABSOLUTELY certain about this? I will just let my phone sit there (not doing anything) and the icons go 3G, H, H+, back down to H in literally 3 seconds.
This doesn't seem right. Especially with my battery draining about 20% in a matter of 20 minutes. I figured it was because the data connection was jumping all around.
Can everyone else confirm that their phone is doing this too (jumping between all sorts of connections) that is running Cyanogenmod 10 Stable?
Oh, and I'm in a really strong "4G" area downtown Minneapolis, etc.
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Are you ABSOLUTELY certain about this? I will just let my phone sit there (not doing anything) and the icons go 3G, H, H+, back down to H in literally 3 seconds.
This doesn't seem right. Especially with my battery draining about 20% in a matter of 20 minutes. I figured it was because the data connection was jumping all around.
Can everyone else confirm that their phone is doing this too that is running Cyanogenmod 10 Stable?
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not sure why you would think that i would give information like this without knowing. either way. thats how its supposed to be. its flipping back and forth like that when you're not doing anything because of email syncing and things like that in the background. whether you think youre in a "strong 4g" area or not. your device knows better than you. if its switching in an area the you think its strong in, it's probably not as strong as you think if your device is saying otherwise.
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not sure why you would think that i would give information like this without knowing. either way. thats how its supposed to be. its flipping back and forth like that when you're not doing anything because of email syncing and things like that in the background. whether you think youre in a "strong 4g" area or not. your device knows better than you. if its switching in an area the you think its strong in, it's probably not as strong as you think if your device is saying otherwise.
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Alright, thanks for the explanation. I might try it one more time tonight, but on the way to work today the data connection was flipping back and forth constantly, draining my battery as well too. I've been around the Twin Cities today (not just sitting in just 1 spot) and still happens. So I doubt the entire cities is not as strong 4G as I think :fingers-crossed:
Keep you posted.
WIFI Issues
Hi All:
I'm not sure if this the same issue as whats listed here but on CM10.0.0 Stable, wifi seems to fail to reconnect after the phone goes into sleep mode. In stock ROM, I could bring up the wifi menu by dialing *#0011# however on CM10 it doesnt work.
I know others have listed this issue on the web (not just xda) but wondering if any one has a fix? Thanks.
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not sure why you would think that i would give information like this without knowing. either way. thats how its supposed to be. its flipping back and forth like that when you're not doing anything because of email syncing and things like that in the background. whether you think youre in a "strong 4g" area or not. your device knows better than you. if its switching in an area the you think its strong in, it's probably not as strong as you think if your device is saying otherwise.
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Okay, I'll admit when I'm wrong. Had some patience tonight and my mind wasn't playing tricks on me now that I got an explanation. Battery life is fine, and Internet connection doesn't go out when I'm on the browser ^_^
Thanks for your explanation!
hey...i know this might be a bit late but I'm on a rogers sg3 running CM10 stable as well and i mine is doing the same thing. I can understand where you are coming from because it seems that mine started doing this after i lost IMEI and restored. i think it's purely a case of me noticing things a little bit more after that whole ordeal. can't really confirm if it was doing this before but it seems to be working fine right now. recently i was in a very strong 4G(LTE) area and phone didn't switch at all...just stayed on LTE constant. At home on the other hand(rural ontario) my phone jumps around like crazy. I've even seen it go right down to E lol! So I, like yourself was a little skeptical and decided to switch back to stock and sure enought it just stayed right on H+ makiing me think that i was getting "better" service on a stock rom lol. but when i went into phone settings/about phone/status the mobile network type kept swiching even though it showed H+.
anyway...just my 2 cents. hope this puts your mind at ease
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! :/
I've just picked up one of these fine handsets and so far am liking it a lot. One of my main bugs however is my data speed on stock/stock varient rom.
I'm on three uk. On my old phone, HTC One m7 i used to get up to 28mb on 3g. On this phone i only get just over 10mb on stock. I switched to cm12 to check it out today and got my old 28mb again.
The old build.prop tweaks seem to make no difference.
Anyone got any hints or ideas? Thanks.
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I've just picked up one of these fine handsets and so far am liking it a lot. One of my main bugs however is my data speed on stock/stock varient rom.
I'm on three uk. On my old phone, HTC One m7 i used to get up to 28mb on 3g. On this phone i only get just over 10mb on stock. I switched to cm12 to check it out today and got my old 28mb again.
The old build.prop tweaks seem to make no difference.
Anyone got any hints or ideas? Thanks.
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28 Megabytes per second?! I would be able to help if I averaged more than 1 Mbps...
The lack of competition and innovation in internet providers in the US is killing me. Sorry man, I just had to inquire about how fast that was.
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28 Megabytes per second?! I would be able to help if I averaged more than 1 Mbps...
The lack of competition and innovation in internet providers in the US is killing me. Sorry man, I just had to inquire about how fast that was.
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Hey yeh 28Mbps. The network I'm on offers a "Superfast" 3G connection. It's a DC-HSDPA, Advanced connection. Or something like that anyway. For some reason with the G3 though I'm only hitting maybe 15Mbps down maximum, which is good but not good enough lol.