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Hey guys.
We finally got 4G here in Sacramento, CA!
So I switched back to a Sense Rom for tethering, but damn, does that kill the battery quick!
I couldn't get Wireless Tether to work with 4G speeds properly, so I tried PDANet, and the USB tether option had no problems at all and I was getting full 4G speeds on my computer.
Only problem is after 1-2 hours, the battery would overheat (flashing amber and flashing green), and then shut off due to it overheating lol.
So I was wondering if anyone had (or is planning) on developing a ROM and/or Kernel that is optimized for tethering with the 4G radio on.
I think for right now you're out of luck, buddy. But there is a thread in the EVO development forum which has been discussing 4G on Cyonagen. Hopefully it won't be too long before it's worked out, and then we'll have 4G Wireless Tethering!
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I tether my 4g wirelessly nightly at work. I have no problems. No overheating plus I use extended batteries so battery life is not a concern for me most times. Stock rooted rom and king cfs11.
Shauli20 said:
I think for right now you're out of luck, buddy. But there is a thread in the EVO development forum which has been discussing 4G on Cyonagen. Hopefully it won't be too long before it's worked out, and then we'll have 4G Wireless Tethering!
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Haha true, yeah I switched to Sense for now just for tethering.
lovethyEVO said:
I tether my 4g wirelessly nightly at work. I have no problems. No overheating plus I use extended batteries so battery life is not a concern for me most times. Stock rooted rom and king cfs11.
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When I tried Wireless Tether over 4G, I only got about half the speed maxed out @ 350kb/s. If I USB Tether (PDANet), then I got full speeds @ around 650-750kb/s. And after 2 hours on PDANet the battery overheats haha.
I have one of the first set of Incredibles that went out. When I go to hardware, I only see wirless b/g listed. Is there something I have to do to enable wireless N? (This is the case no matter what ROM I use)
I dont think the incredible got N support until the latest gingerbread ota (or at least thats what i've been told). However even with the new ota there is a mistake where it still only says b/g, even though it supports n too. You can easily change this if you want by editing your build.prop file in /system.
I am running 2.3.4. I have wireless n at home and I don't see the n network listed on my phone.
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Kid.Wonderbread said:
I am running 2.3.4. I have wireless n at home and I don't see the n network listed on my phone.
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Its there and working, do a speed test. It is just a mistake made by htc that makes it say its only b/g when it supports n also.
cmlusco said:
Its there and working, do a speed test. It is just a mistake made by htc that makes it say its only b/g when it supports n also.
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How's a speed test going to tell you anything when very few have a broadband connection that outstrips what .11G will provide?
But my wireless n network doesn't show up on the network list on my phone. I only see my b/g network.
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Kid.Wonderbread said:
But my wireless n network doesn't show up on the network list on my phone. I only see my b/g network.
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Ah i see what your saying now you have a dual band router and it only sees the b/g and not the n. Not sure i really dont know much about it just that i was told in another thread that our phones got n with the new gb ota, ive never actually cared to test it, its fast enough for me what ever it is b g or n.
Maybe we need a 802.11n driver?
http://www.magicandroidapps.com/wiki//index.php?title=HTC_Incredible_with_802.11n
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Maybe we need a 802.11n driver?
http://www.magicandroidapps.com/wiki//index.php?title=HTC_Incredible_with_802.11n
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Interesting i would like to try this but sounds over my head.
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Interesting i would like to try this but sounds over my head.
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Over mine as well
I always wondered if our phone ever could use wireless n.
Ok our phones or more our kernels dont have n support built it. However tiny has just implemented the fix from above into one of his kernels. It is not full N but it supports the 2.4ghz N band with the speed capped at 72mbps (by our hardware I believe), but thats better than the 54mbps I use to get.
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Ok our phones or more our kernels dont have n support built it. However tiny has just implemented the fix from above into one of his kernels. It is not full N but it supports the 2.4ghz N band with the speed capped at 72mbps (by our hardware I believe), but thats better than the 54mbps I use to get.
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I think it's due to only having one wifi radio according to that link provided so that is hardware, nothing that I can do about that.
loonatik78 said:
How's a speed test going to tell you anything when very few have a broadband connection that outstrips what .11G will provide?
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very few? my cable company has the lowest tier at 30/5 how many people out there have fios and there are other benifits to 802.11n such as lower power usage higher bandwidth longer range and signal encryption...
the 4 tiers i have are
limited 1/1 Mbps
xtreme 1.0(this is what i got)
30/5 Mbps
xtreme 2.0
50/10 Mbps
xtreme 3.0
100/15 Mbps
all on a small midwestern isp
mirrin said:
very few? my cable company has the lowest tier at 30/5 how many people out there have fios and there are other benifits to 802.11n such as lower power usage higher bandwidth longer range and signal encryption...
the 4 tiers i have are
limited 1/1 Mbps
xtreme 1.0(this is what i got)
30/5 Mbps
xtreme 2.0
50/10 Mbps
xtreme 3.0
100/15 Mbps
all on a small midwestern isp
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I have what Comcast I think calls extreem blast 50 (50/10) and they are planning on getting their 100/15 service up by next fall, or so I was told.
loonatik78 said:
How's a speed test going to tell you anything when very few have a broadband connection that outstrips what .11G will provide?
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Even if your internet dosen't provide N speeds your network still can wich means faster phone to pc transfers or viceversa over wifi. Network link speed can be tested with many different aps, and can also be seen when clicking on a wifi network you are connected to in the settings menu.
Hi,
I've been using JB since the version from io12 was out. Currently I use Bigxie's deodexed 4.1.1 and all is wonderful. Except one thing that is. The wifi signal is weaker than I'm used to from ICS. Especially the wifi range seems worse. Connections that I've used with ICS are now out of range. Some of my friend or family's connections are now very weak and I drop out of range very often. This goes for any JB rom/kernel I've tried.
I've tried several roms, trinity and franco kernels, dirty flashing, full wipe. I've even tried a couple of different basebands, even though I don't think they affect wifi.
So I'm wondering if other GSM GNex users are experiencing the same thing? I've seen a thread with a flashable "poor wifi fix" for the Verizon GNex, but nothing for the GSM version.
Verizon GNex wifi/gps fix:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1739097
Any suggestions? Coukd a similar solution like the Verizon fix help?
Best regards,
P
Ok, allow me to explain whats going on with the "fix".
There were some folks who ported the GSM version to Verizon (myself included). However, they failed to use the correct wifi/BT firmware (I did but thats besides the point). They left in the GSM version. So that above fix is merely the bcm4330.hcd firmware and bcmhd.cal calibration file for wifi/BT from 4.0.4 for Verizon. It is not meant to be used for GSM and only applies to those who ported GSM to CDMA. Even with the fix, wifi is weak.
Verizon users currently have a newer version now, specifically for them from Google. However, the weak wifi issue still exists even for us. There are some who have strong wifi routers or are always close to them that do not see the issue, but it does exist for every JB user. Wifi is simply weaker, and BT is fairly janky.
It is a Jellybean specific problem, and I am assuming it will be fixed in time. You could try a 4.0.4 bcm4330.hcd, bcmhd.cal on Jellybean, but I doubt it will help, and it could end up hurting. I am thinking that broadcomm needs to fix these files.
Thanks for the reply and the precise info about the problem and the background for the Verizon fix. Very much appreciated.
I guess I'll have to wait and hope for an update.
volapyk said:
Thanks for the reply and the precise info about the problem and the background for the Verizon fix. Very much appreciated.
I guess I'll have to wait and hope for an update.
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I am right there with you.
Wifi is horrible!
WiFi does kind of blow chunks. WTF.
burhanistan said:
WiFi does kind of blow chunks. WTF.
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The more I think about it, the more I think it can probably be resolved by tweaking the calibration file. However that is a bit beyond my abilities as I don't understand whats contained in it to know what it needs tweaking to.
wifi weakness
I'm not sure why it does this but when I am in my house about 15 feet away from my router I would notice my wifi signal dropping down to 2 bars where my other phone would stay at full strength until I got around 15 yards away.. I decided to see how far I could get away from my router before completely losing signal. I walked a total of about of 30 yards from my router to the edge of my street and stopped every time the signal decreased down to one bar(which was between every 5 or 10 yards)... every time I thought the signal was about to drop out it would return back up to 3 bars after a moment of adjusting. Once I got to my furthest point it dropped out completely and then came back to 1 bar. When I came back inside where I previously had 2 bars I then had full signal throughout the house. I tested this a couple times and it seems that it only uses what it needs. If someone could do a similar experiment to confirm this isn't specific to my router set up I would appreciate it. I also did not notice any drop off in performance in speed from 1 bar to full signal while I was within 20 yards of my router, however, I didn't run a speed test, I just used my youtube app to load a video... I will run some speed test when I get home this evening to get a solid figure on the speed difference. This may not be a bug but a feature to conserve energy to increase battery life.
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I'm not sure why it does this but when I am in my house about 15 feet away from my router I would notice my wifi signal dropping down to 2 bars where my other phone would stay at full strength until I got around 15 yards away.. I decided to see how far I could get away from my router before completely losing signal. I walked a total of about of 30 yards from my router to the edge of my street and stopped every time the signal decreased down to one bar(which was between every 5 or 10 yards)... every time I thought the signal was about to drop out it would return back up to 3 bars after a moment of adjusting. Once I got to my furthest point it dropped out completely and then came back to 1 bar. When I came back inside where I previously had 2 bars I then had full signal throughout the house. I tested this a couple times and it seems that it only uses what it needs. If someone could do a similar experiment to confirm this isn't specific to my router set up I would appreciate it. I also did not notice any drop off in performance in speed from 1 bar to full signal while I was within 20 yards of my router, however, I didn't run a speed test, I just used my youtube app to load a video... I will run some speed test when I get home this evening to get a solid figure on the speed difference. This may not be a bug but a feature to conserve energy to increase battery life.
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A good theory, but I am dropping wifi in some of my rooms. Switching to and fro like that doesn't save power
didnt people have poor performance with their wifi signal on ics? did broadcom leave everything the same of did they change/update drivers for our phones with jb.
adrynalyne said:
A good theory, but I am dropping wifi in some of my rooms. Switching to and fro like that doesn't save power
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Me too, I only need to move to the next room or so sometimes. The main problem for me is range. The range for me was better with 4.0.x.
slimb9 said:
didnt people have poor performance with their wifi signal on ics? did broadcom leave everything the same of did they change/update drivers for our phones with jb.
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ICS wifi performance on the GNex wasn't exactly perfect for me, but it was better than what I get with JB. My router at home is giving me an okay performance and range, but the routers I normally connect to at family and friends are giving me problems since I moved on to JB.
I believe JB does come with new drivers. At least I've read that it does, in other threads.
slimb9 said:
didnt people have poor performance with their wifi signal on ics? did broadcom leave everything the same of did they change/update drivers for our phones with jb.
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I had better performance on ICS with WiFi.
adrynalyne said:
I had better performance on ICS with WiFi.
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Same
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Wi-Fi has been fine for me, but only when using 2.4GHz—5GHz, on the other hand, is horribly broken. If you are using 5GHz, I recommend trying 2.4GHz instead—hopefully Google will have this sorted before the Galaxy Nexus II ships.
you may want to revert back to ICS to verify if the phone hardware is not a problem? otherwise for me I have used both... ICS and JB, and I don't find any difference..
ibraheeemz said:
you may want to revert back to ICS to verify if the phone hardware is not a problem? otherwise for me I have used both... ICS and JB, and I don't find any difference..
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I’ve found 5GHz to be broken on both ICS and JB and this is with more than one phone.
BinkXDA said:
Wi-Fi has been fine for me, but only when using 2.4GHz—5GHz, on the other hand, is horribly broken. If you are using 5GHz, I recommend trying 2.4GHz instead—hopefully Google will have this sorted before the Galaxy Nexus II ships.
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I'll try 2.4.
BinkXDA said:
I’ve found 5GHz to be broken on both ICS and JB and this is with more than one phone.
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5 Ghz was fine for me on ICS. It works on JB too, but the range...ugh.
I'm pretty sure it's not hardware related. It's definitely related to JB. It's not a 5 GHz problem either, that's what I use at home on my d-link. Family and friends have both 5 and 2.4 GHz. I'm sure it depends on the quality of the routers also but I didn't have any real range problems with any of them before JB.
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5 Ghz was fine for me on ICS. It works on JB too, but the range...ugh.
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Same here, except my d-link at home, which is kinda okay at 5 GHz.
volapyk said:
I'm pretty sure it's not hardware related. It's definitely related to JB. It's not a 5 GHz problem either, that's what I use at home on my d-link. Family and friends have both 5 and 2.4 GHz. I'm sure it depends on the quality of the routers also but I didn't have any real range problems with any of them before JB.
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2.4 is pretty weak for me too.
I looked at the calibration file from ICS to JB. I don't think the difference warrants the problems seen.
From ICS to JB, these are the changes:
# 2.4G ACR
rxgaintbl100=1
# 5GHz Starting Tx Gain Index
initxidx5g=96
I just replaced my RT-N66U with the RT-AC66U and am thrilled with the speed on the 5 GHz band. The problem is that I'm getting worse speeds on the 2.4 band than I got with the RT-N66U on my other devices. I set up a separate SSID for each band and have used inSSIDer to find the best channels, but haven't tried tweaking the professional settings. I flashed Merlin's latest beta. Anyone know what I may be able to do to improve the 2.4 speed?
I think you stumbled into the wrong section. This is tmobile note 2 forum
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PhilipTD said:
I just replaced my RT-N66U with the RT-AC66U and am thrilled with the speed on the 5 GHz band. The problem is that I'm getting worse speeds on the 2.4 band than I got with the RT-N66U on my other devices. I set up a separate SSID for each band and have used inSSIDer to find the best channels, but haven't tried tweaking the professional settings. I flashed Merlin's latest beta. Anyone know what I may be able to do to improve the 2.4 speed?
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It will always be that way. 2.4 is what everybody uses. 5ghz is kind of no so not really clogged up. Not that many devices using 5
BACARDILIMON said:
It will always be that way. 2.4 is what everybody uses. 5ghz is kind of no so not really clogged up. Not that many devices using 5
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Thanks for your response.
I did have better speeds with the RT-N66U, though. Something is wrong.
PhilipTD said:
Thanks for your response.
I did have better speeds with the RT-N66U, though. Something is wrong.
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I get that. My new router does the same either way I gave up trying to figure it out cause you have no control what the cable provider does as far as internet service goes.
BACARDILIMON said:
I get that. My new router does the same either way I gave up trying to figure it out cause you have no control what the cable provider does as far as internet service goes.
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I know. You'd think that paying extra for Roadrunner Ultimate would buy better service.
How do you like that Jedi rom by the way? Did you ever run CM?
PhilipTD said:
How do you like that Jedi rom by the way? Did you ever run CM?
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I use to pay extra for the boost package and then I deleted it cause I could not notice the speed difference.
I have been using Jedi rom for a long time. The cm roms had to many issues last time I tried it.I just stick with what works
Or I'm an idiot! Hadn't had my coffee yet
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PhilipTD said:
I just replaced my RT-N66U with the RT-AC66U and am thrilled with the speed on the 5 GHz band. The problem is that I'm getting worse speeds on the 2.4 band than I got with the RT-N66U on my other devices. I set up a separate SSID for each band and have used inSSIDer to find the best channels, but haven't tried tweaking the professional settings. I flashed Merlin's latest beta. Anyone know what I may be able to do to improve the 2.4 speed?
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I have the n66u, great little router. As far as tweaking speeds from the router side, first I'd make sure the mtu is set to 1500. (It should be by default, or 1492 by default, which is also fine. I've seen a few that had it set in the 1200 range, and that's too low). Plus, i've noticed this phone is VERY picky on which wifi channels it uses (especially on the 5ghz side, but the same would probably hold true for the 2.4 as well.) It doesn't seem to like it very much when it's set to auto, i'd hard set a channel (and of course, stay away from channel 6 if you own a microwave, since channel 6 is the same frequency as the rfi that a microwave will put out. So if your router is near your microwave, you'll loose signal when you turn it on )
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...this phone is VERY picky on which wifi channels it uses (especially on the 5ghz side, but the same would probably hold true for the 2.4 as well...
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Wow, you nailed it. What a difference between channels.
Asus RT-AC66U and this PCI_e card is wast of money. Same speed like Asus N66U and PCI-e card. I now, I had both.
Wire is best. 500 Mbit/s to Nas with wire. 150 Mb/s with RT-AC66U. In Asus case, the AC standard is a swindle. Save your money and go for N-router and card.
I've been running resurrection rom for the last month and change. Flawless performance except the wifi issue. It'd the only rom I've used that has it. I'm forced to use my 2.4 wifi signal. My 5ghz shows up but it's stupid slow and has less signal strength? Even though it's coming from the same router. I've changed channels. Idk what to do. This is the only rom it happens on. As you can see in the picture it's weaker yet coming from the same router.
5ghz by nature of it being a higher energy wavelength doesn't penetrate through walls nearly as well as 2.4ghz so to have a lower signal strength with an equal amplifier power is to be expected. Diagnosing a slower speed is basically impossible to do based on the info you provided though.
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5ghz by nature of it being a higher energy wavelength doesn't penetrate through walls nearly as well as 2.4ghz so to have a lower signal strength with an equal amplifier power is to be expected. Diagnosing a slower speed is basically impossible to do based on the info you provided though.
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Sorry should have also posted a speed test. I'm getting my full speeds. Actually a bit better. I'm getting from 25-30 mbps. Same with 5 and 2.4...its just when I actually go to use the internet for anything it's slow on the 5. YouTube videos barely play in 480.and the router is in a room 15 feet from me. It's no slouch either it's an ac1600. I know it's something with the rom just not sure what.
cameron1292 said:
Sorry should have also posted a speed test. I'm getting my full speeds. Actually a bit better. I'm getting from 25-30 mbps. Same with 5 and 2.4...its just when I actually go to use the internet for anything it's slow on the 5. YouTube videos barely play in 480.and the router is in a room 15 feet from me. It's no slouch either it's an ac1600. I know it's something with the rom just not sure what.
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do some searching around for how to disable IPV6 on wifi. IPV6 has historically made response times bad for android for various reasons.
StykerB said:
do some searching around for how to disable IPV6 on wifi. IPV6 has historically made response times bad for android for various reasons.
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Disable it from the router or phone? I'm familiar with ipv6 but not with Android. I'm guessing it's rom based because of the drivers because 5ghz worked flawless on OSS before I rooted
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Disable it from the router or phone? I'm familiar with ipv6 but not with Android. I'm guessing it's rom based because of the drivers because 5ghz worked flawless on OSS before I rooted
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yea android's default behavior with ipv6 is bad most manufacturers make tweaks with their official software to fix it but some roms don't incorporate those changes because they may or may not be open source.
StykerB said:
yea android's default behavior with ipv6 is bad most manufacturers make tweaks with their official software to fix it but some roms don't incorporate those changes because they may or may not be open source.
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I actually just ran a test and it said I don't have ipv6 enabled.
Even I was facing this issue. Here you go, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=68230166
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niraj30518 said:
Even I was facing this issue. Here you go, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=68230166
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Doesn't work, wifi signal strength still weak ????
8monochrome said:
Doesn't work, wifi signal strength still weak ????
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It worked for me. Make sure you are giving right permission.
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niraj30518 said:
It worked for me. Make sure you are giving right permission.
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Yep I did.. Only 5ghz has weak strength, 2.4ghz is OK. 5ghz I'd strong on my other phone..
niraj30518 said:
Even I was facing this issue. Here you go, try this:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=68230166
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I'll try this tonight.. what is it a flashable zip?.an odd thing ive noticed as well is Google play downloads take forever.again this never happened.and this happens I believe on 2.4 as well.like a 7mb app takes a full minute lol in reality it should be done in 15 seconds .one time it even took a 70mb app 15 minutes.yet at the same time my speed test is reading 25mbps lol