I know this might not be the correct section, but I don't have enough street cred yet to post in the "dev" forum under the appropriate thread. Anyhow, the CM forums are rather useless in terms of search capability and theres an seemingly very lacking sense of community based on the replies and general trolling I see.
So, I come to you xda-forum gurus.
I'm running decks latest ROM 1.2c CM7 w/Gingerbread. I've used a few of the customs and so far this one gives me nearly everything I've wanted in terms of features, stability, functionality, and speed....nearly.
A couple of things with this ROM (and CM7 in general):
1) Extremely slow USB storage transfer speeds to and from my PC.
When I'm using a CM7 ROM, my transfer speeds to my SDCARD are atrociously slow. I have a class 10 16GB card and I can barely top 1.0 MB/sec. Not such a big deal until I need to sync 10 GB of music. Basically, is there something I'm missing here in terms of patches, tips, tricks, hacks, etc?
2) Very slow signal strength on 3g and reduced signal strength on Wifi (not in a Wimax market).
I basically have gone from a consistent 4 bars to 1 bar of signal and have lost a lot of my signal strength from Wifi as well? I did see some things about this issue CM forums, but found answers.
Any help or direction is appreciated!
I think the data speeds have something to do with AOSP based roms, I have great non-4g speeds on a sense rom and I barely have any data connectivity with AOSP .
As far as usb transfer speeds, I read that could be a kernel issue. You can also try one of the SD Speed Boost like apps to increase the cache size. This may not help a lot, but it could make a difference.
AOSP roms show signal strength differently than Sense roms. It could be that you have the same signal but it's displayed lower, or your speeds could actually be lower. There's a fix for slow 3g speeds floating around, I'll see if I can find it for you. I'm not sure about wifi, though.
(from... Evo/MIUI/Tapatalk)
cttwarnock said:
I think the data speeds have something to do with AOSP based roms, I have great non-4g speeds on a sense rom and I barely have any data connectivity with AOSP .
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I see the same thing, any of the Sense ROMs I've used have resulted in "descent" 3G speeds (speed here in Memphis generally sucks regardless). But on CM7 (I've not used MIUI or any other ASOP variations), its bad enough that I can't use any streaming audio applications and browsing in general is really painfully slow. Frankly though I'm more concerned about the USB transfer speeds, as I frequently use my SCARD for file storage for work related file syncing.
Thanks for the validation that its just my phone.
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I see the same thing, any of the Sense ROMs I've used have resulted in "descent" 3G speeds (speed here in Memphis generally sucks regardless). But on CM7 (I've not used MIUI or any other ASOP variations), its bad enough that I can't use any streaming audio applications and browsing in general is really painfully slow. Frankly though I'm more concerned about the USB transfer speeds, as I frequently use my SCARD for file storage for work related file syncing.
Thanks for the validation that its just my phone.
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For 3G, I would recommend trying the fix on a sense rom > http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/0...aybe-boost-your-3g-speeds-with-a-simple-hack/ ; xda method, just with pictures.
And yes, AOSP show the data strength, not like sense, so you will see 1x, ect, unlike on sense. As for usb transfer speeds, they were shot in the .37 kernels, try using a .38 kernel, or one of the apps the plainjane suggested.
I think its something other than how the 2 types of roms are reporting the speeds.
For instance, I can leave my phone sitting on its dock on my desk and run speedtest in a sense rom, getting around 2Mb/s. When I flash an AOSP rom, while the phone is sitting in the exact same postion, speedtest will only run at 150-200Kb/s.
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As for usb transfer speeds, they were shot in the .37 kernels, try using a .38 kernel, or one of the apps the plainjane suggested.
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Awesome, upgraded to newest Titmat, and Im reading at 12-18 MB/sec now, writing is still a bit wonky, but that helps tremendously. So embarrassing having to wait so long at a customers site for my files to copy.
Samwards said:
Awesome, upgraded to newest Titmat, and Im reading at 12-18 MB/sec now, writing is still a bit wonky, but that helps tremendously. So embarrassing having to wait so long at a customers site for my files to copy.
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As always, they're still being fixed, but glad that it helped a bit.
cttwarnock said:
I think the data speeds have something to do with AOSP based roms, I have great -4g speeds on a sense rom and I barely have any data connectivity with AOSP .
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what radio are u using..? you should try using the latest radio and see if that helps, i get a steady 4-5mb/s dwm on fair coverage
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So here's the deal, I recently rooted my Evo and installed latest Cyanogen (stable). It is amazing and I get over twice as much memory available at an given time than the sprint lovers rom (htc sense). But I have one problem: the cellular/wifi radios are really buggy. First of all, I get significantly less service wherever I am, and I can't ever send a text message over 160 chars (that is, 2 or more txts simultaneously). Now I don't know that the txt issue is because of the crappy stock messaging app cyan comes with or what (if you know any good txt messaging apps let me know, something that resembles the functionality of the default htc sense app?) but here is my main question:
Is there a radio update for the EVO? Regardless that 4G isn't even supported in Cyan (shame since I have to pay 10$ a month for something that's not even an option on the rom) I downloaded 6.1 straight from the cyanogen site and the google apps as well. Flashed through clockwork recovery. Works great and much much faster don't get me wrong, but the cellular radio sucks. Let's sum it up:
1. Cellular radio update?
2. WiFi radio update? (turns on and off randomly, don't get as much range)
3. A rom similar to cyanogen in terms of functionality, but with these issues addressed? (that is, lots more free memory than stock rom, 4G capability, good signal, etc)
Sorry if this makes no sense or goes on too long, but Cyanogen is one hell of a mod, just sucks that it basically downgrades the actual PHONE part of my phone. Thanks for any replies
I'm also having similar issues... For your WiFi, turn the sleep policy to never and see if that helps.
Go to Settings->Wireless & networks-WiFi settings then press menu->Advanced then set your WiFi sleep to never.
As for the cell radio, I'm also having significantly less signal reception. My wife has Baked Snack 1.9 and in the same area where she'll be at full bars, i'll be at like 2 and my download speeds are ass..
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So here's the deal, I recently rooted my Evo and installed latest Cyanogen (stable). It is amazing and I get over twice as much memory available at an given time than the sprint lovers rom (htc sense). But I have one problem: the cellular/wifi radios are really buggy. First of all, I get significantly less service wherever I am, and I can't ever send a text message over 160 chars (that is, 2 or more txts simultaneously). Now I don't know that the txt issue is because of the crappy stock messaging app cyan comes with or what (if you know any good txt messaging apps let me know, something that resembles the functionality of the default htc sense app?) but here is my main question:
Is there a radio update for the EVO? Regardless that 4G isn't even supported in Cyan (shame since I have to pay 10$ a month for something that's not even an option on the rom) I downloaded 6.1 straight from the cyanogen site and the google apps as well. Flashed through clockwork recovery. Works great and much much faster don't get me wrong, but the cellular radio sucks. Let's sum it up:
1. Cellular radio update?
2. WiFi radio update? (turns on and off randomly, don't get as much range)
3. A rom similar to cyanogen in terms of functionality, but with these issues addressed? (that is, lots more free memory than stock rom, 4G capability, good signal, etc)
Sorry if this makes no sense or goes on too long, but Cyanogen is one hell of a mod, just sucks that it basically downgrades the actual PHONE part of my phone. Thanks for any replies
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1. Yes there are new radios, flash them.
2. What the guy above me said.
3. Look in the EVO 4G Android Development section for AOSP ROMs, those the issues are generally generalized across the board. For the mms issues, just use "handcent" from the market.
killer1one1 said:
So here's the deal, I recently rooted my Evo and installed latest Cyanogen (stable). It is amazing and I get over twice as much memory available at an given time than the sprint lovers rom (htc sense). But I have one problem: the cellular/wifi radios are really buggy. First of all, I get significantly less service wherever I am, and I can't ever send a text message over 160 chars (that is, 2 or more txts simultaneously). Now I don't know that the txt issue is because of the crappy stock messaging app cyan comes with or what (if you know any good txt messaging apps let me know, something that resembles the functionality of the default htc sense app?) but here is my main question:
Is there a radio update for the EVO? Regardless that 4G isn't even supported in Cyan (shame since I have to pay 10$ a month for something that's not even an option on the rom) I downloaded 6.1 straight from the cyanogen site and the google apps as well. Flashed through clockwork recovery. Works great and much much faster don't get me wrong, but the cellular radio sucks. Let's sum it up:
1. Cellular radio update?
2. WiFi radio update? (turns on and off randomly, don't get as much range)
3. A rom similar to cyanogen in terms of functionality, but with these issues addressed? (that is, lots more free memory than stock rom, 4G capability, good signal, etc)
Sorry if this makes no sense or goes on too long, but Cyanogen is one hell of a mod, just sucks that it basically downgrades the actual PHONE part of my phone. Thanks for any replies
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One thing to realize with the bars measuring signal strength...on sense roms they measure cellular signal, while on cyanogen they measure data signal. So most likely it will always look like you have a weaker connection on cyanogen.
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One thing to realize with the bars measuring signal strength...on sense roms they measure cellular signal, while on cyanogen they measure data signal. So most likely it will always look like you have a weaker connection on cyanogen.
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??? Who told you this? I'm not seeing the correlation on my and my wife's EVO's... My signal is low when hers is high then my speeds and voice is ass while both of hers is ok.
1) Signal isn't really any worse, just HTC's bars lied about it (it's a common thing with OEM's. Apple did it with AT&T until they got busted and reeled it in a bit). If you want to see your real signal, go into the CM settings, and under the UI section, enable the dB signal display, and disable the bars. THERE'S your real signal.
2) Texting: CDMA is limited to 160 characters. All that Handcent and the HTC Messaging app do is automatically split and join sequential messages, or you can do it yourself when you text, manually.
3) Wifi: CM will automatically stop using a network if it detects that it's going in and out of range so much that it's killing the battery, and right now, you have to manually re-enable the network.
4) Go to a Sense ROM, update PRL+Profile, make sure your PRI is up to date, etc. etc. etc.
5) If you really don't like CM, just search for AOSP ROM's, or you can always go back to a Sense-based ROM. Nobody's holding you hostage except yourself.
I get better everything on CM than I do on Sense.
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1) Signal isn't really any worse, just HTC's bars lied about it (it's a common thing with OEM's. Apple did it with AT&T until they got busted and reeled it in a bit). If you want to see your real signal, go into the CM settings, and under the UI section, enable the dB signal display, and disable the bars. THERE'S your real signal.
2) Texting: CDMA is limited to 160 characters. All that Handcent and the HTC Messaging app do is automatically split and join sequential messages, or you can do it yourself when you text, manually.
3) Wifi: CM will automatically stop using a network if it detects that it's going in and out of range so much that it's killing the battery, and right now, you have to manually re-enable the network.
4) Go to a Sense ROM, update PRL+Profile, make sure your PRI is up to date, etc. etc. etc.
5) If you really don't like CM, just search for AOSP ROM's, or you can always go back to a Sense-based ROM. Nobody's holding you hostage except yourself.
I get better everything on CM than I do on Sense.
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Yeah I know about the dbm, pretty neat, but ugly in the status bar CM is nice aside from the lack of 4g, which we will get soon. It's just that so far my 3g speeds are ass compared to when I use a sense ROM... nothing can be perfect I guess.
i have sense on my evo again because everywhere i went no matter my signal, the bars on cm6 showed 1-2 rarely 3 never 4 and the 3G was painfully slow. ran tests and i got .1 mbps on cm6, flashed sense to see if my phone was the problem and it got 1mbps, ten times faster? can anyone explain the potential problem here? its killing me cuz i love aosp but the 3G is killin me
Always had the same issue here. One of the reasons I stay on a sense based rom.
mic.mayorga said:
i have sense on my evo again because everywhere i went no matter my signal, the bars on cm6 showed 1-2 rarely 3 never 4 and the 3G was painfully slow. ran tests and i got .1 mbps on cm6, flashed sense to see if my phone was the problem and it got 1mbps, ten times faster? can anyone explain the potential problem here? its killing me cuz i love aosp but the 3G is killin me
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And just a suggestion, install a senseless ROM... Built off sense but has sense removed... Will be the closest thing to AOSP but will keep your speeds and 4g working.
The signle meter on CM6 only has 4 bars, the Sense one has like 8. You are getting the same coverage.
Secondly, wrong forum. This is development.
Third. I have slow 3G on CM6 roms too. I have no idea why, and everyone else will tell you it's Sprint. But I can be in the same place, and run speedtests and Sense based ROMs are always faster.
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Yup. Sense will always have better 3G signal. Sometimes when I am on CM the signal even drops down to 1x.
Thats irrelevant .. he also posted the speeds he was getting. OP, I don't know what's wrong; doesn't happen to me. Is it on all aosp roms? Try messing round with the settings
A drop of Chuck Norris's semen was placed on the IPhone. We now have the Htc Evo.
oops i thought i posted in q&a, my bad.
and i understand the whole bar ratio but on sense i get like 7 bars out of 8 rather than 1 out of 4. seriously it is almost ALWAYS 1 bar and it drops to 1x a lot! its never faster than about 125kb/s on a speedtest no matter where i am. its almost like theres a governor bogging it down
ALSO: ive flashed gingerbread roms galore, all the same issue.
On a AOSP rom the 4 bars are the 4 low bars outta the 6 in sense, so if u see only two bars then ur short 4 which gives u horrible battery. Also kernels play the biggest role in data if u want to believe it or not...
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oops i thought i posted in q&a, my bad.
and i understand the whole bar ratio but on sense i get like 7 bars out of 8 rather than 1 out of 4. seriously it is almost ALWAYS 1 bar and it drops to 1x a lot! its never faster than about 125kb/s on a speedtest no matter where i am. its almost like theres a governor bogging it down
ALSO: ive flashed gingerbread roms galore, all the same issue.
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I had the same problem until I flashed a Sense rom, re-flashed the newest radio after first boot. Updated the profile then restarted the phone. I then could flash any AOSP rom with no speed problems. But every time i go back to a sense rom I must do that again if I want to go back to AOSP...
I don't know if it will work for you, but it did for me...
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I had the same problem until I flashed a Sense rom, re-flashed the newest radio after first boot. Updated the profile then restarted the phone. I then could flash any AOSP rom with no speed problems. But every time i go back to a sense rom I must do that again if I want to go back to AOSP...
I don't know if it will work for you, but it did for me...
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thanks. i will try that right now actually.
Home>Menu>Settings>Wireless & networks>Mobile networks
Make sure "Data enabled", "International data roaming", and "National data roaming" are checked, and "System select" is on Automatic.
And before you freak out, all of the EVO plans on Sprint have unlimited roaming.
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Home>Menu>Settings>Wireless & networks>Mobile networks
Make sure "Data enabled", "International data roaming", and "National data roaming" are checked, and "System select" is on Automatic.
And before you freak out, all of the EVO plans on Sprint have unlimited roaming.
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hahahahaaha thanks i already know all that. and yes its all checked.
well it seems that the radio flash and updating the profile worked some magic. speeds are up above 700kbps
EDIT: nope. back to horrible speeds jk
can i get some feedback from more CM users please? this is so confusing
I had the same problem on cm6. Still don't understand why but I'm sticking with a sense rom. I get the best results on myns roms. Fresh was almost just as bad as cm6 as far as speeds go. Kinda weird imo. Maybe someone can explain?
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If I had to guess, its due to the fact most sense based roms have the carrier spyware built in. (ksoftiq I think is the process name)
But, thats just a guess, I'm probably wrong.
I have the same issue with cm6 and the latest gb asop roms. Not with the display of the bars, but on asop roms only at my work I will bounce between 1x and 3g. I will lose data, then go to 1x, then back to 3g constantly. When holding, the signal isnt too bad, but it is almost as if the phone cannot pick between towers or something. I have tried multiple radio/pri combos and such and have no solution. Also tired switching back to sense and updated profile and prl.
Edit: Could it also be location based? This only happens at work in Burbank, CA. Just about everywhere else I am around LA I do not have this problem.
I suffered from this on cm. On gb I get great speeds for a while then it will act crazy and get slow. I reboot and it goes back to being fast again.
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if u ever notice some of those extra processes running in the background of sense like IQRD or IQ agent for example... i believe some of those are qualcomm based programs that help ensure good data transfer speeds. And it's funny that we all hated sense because of those extra background processes that seem to slow the whole system down but some of them are actually helping to keep data speeds up in sense roms. Obviously in AOSP those processes are not present therefore speeds arent always as reliable and may drop in and out. Im just speculating on this and have no concrete proof but i did read up on one of the processes and it points to qualcomm's cdma based technology development so im assuming there is a correlation.
With all the excitement going on with the Wimax being alpha tested in the CM ROM it got me testing my data speeds the last few weeks.
From my understanding 3G speeds should be decent and range between 1 - 3 mbps down, and using Sprints 3G network I am not coming close to that.
I am using the SpeedTest.net app for my results, and I have read from some posts that the app might not be that accurate.
Here are the results that I have been seeing (displayed as Mbps) using the closest server to me (Random Lake, WI - even though other servers are giving me the same low scores):
1/6/11 - .18 down and .37 up
1/6/11 - .16 down and .30 up
1/2/11 - .30 down and .77 up
12/27/10 - .45 down and .27 up
12/27/10 - .34 down and .27 up
12/27/10 - .12 down and .20 up
12/24/10 - .45 down and .70 up
12/24/10 - .15 down and .62 up
As you can see, not close to the 1 - 3 range that I would expect. I am checking that the icon is showing 3G and 1X when doing the test as well. Here is some information to help deduct and (hopefully) solve my issue.
My EVO is from release day, not the 004 hardware
I'm running CM 6.1.1
CM stock kernal that comes with it - 2.6.35.9 [email protected] #1
Theme is Project_Bliss HD (modded by me to include some different emoticons and Batman themed notification shade)
I have flashed all of the latest
*Radio - 2.15.00.11.19
*Wimax - 27167_R01 (even though where I live has no 4G)
*PRI - 1.90_003
*NV - 1.90_003
I have flash a Sense ROM and update Profile and PRL
I live in Appleton, WI area if that matters at all.
So am I just looking at my results wrong? If I'm not, what are some solutions that I can look at to improve my 3G data speed? Any other test I should run or try?
Push come to shove I can always #blameshift!!
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With all the excitement going on with the Wimax being alpha tested in the CM ROM it got me testing my data speeds the last few weeks.
From my understanding 3G speeds should be decent and range between 1 - 3 mbps down, and using Sprints 3G network I am not coming close to that.
I am using the SpeedTest.net app for my results, and I have read from some posts that the app might not be that accurate.
Here are the results that I have been seeing (displayed as Mbps) using the closest server to me (Random Lake, WI - even though other servers are giving me the same low scores):
1/6/11 - .18 down and .37 up
1/6/11 - .16 down and .30 up
1/2/11 - .30 down and .77 up
12/27/10 - .45 down and .27 up
12/27/10 - .34 down and .27 up
12/27/10 - .12 down and .20 up
12/24/10 - .45 down and .70 up
12/24/10 - .15 down and .62 up
As you can see, not close to the 1 - 3 range that I would expect. I am checking that the icon is showing 3G and 1X when doing the test as well. Here is some information to help deduct and (hopefully) solve my issue.
My EVO is from release day, not the 004 hardware
I'm running CM 6.1.1
CM stock kernal that comes with it - 2.6.35.9 [email protected] #1
Theme is Project_Bliss HD (modded by me to include some different emoticons and Batman themed notification shade)
I have flashed all of the latest
*Radio - 2.15.00.11.19
*Wimax - 27167_R01 (even though where I live has no 4G)
*PRI - 1.90_003
*NV - 1.90_003
I have flash a Sense ROM and update Profile and PRL
I live in Appleton, WI area if that matters at all.
So am I just looking at my results wrong? If I'm not, what are some solutions that I can look at to improve my 3G data speed? Any other test I should run or try?
Push come to shove I can always #blameshift!!
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i noticed this with a lot of people lately. ive started to notify a lot of people including cyanogen himself
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i noticed this with a lot of people lately. ive started to notify a lot of people including cyanogen himself
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Thanks for letting Cyanogen know that. So it sounds like I'm not alone in this?
Are you having any issues?
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A lot of those results look like they could be from when you were connected at 1x speeds. Sometimes it seems like the status bar icon doesn't update quickly for the change in network type. Also, how strong of signal do you have. If you're at the edge of data coverage, the rate might be low because a lot of packets are getting lost in transmission. Have you seen what your speeds look like in other locations? In my home town I regularly get over 2mb, but when I was traveling a few weeks ago in some places I could barely pull 300k.
I have check all over town since my apartment is further away and gets lower strenght. Im getting the same results close or far away from a tower.
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i started noticing this with my evo aswell, actually about yesterday, my stats are about the same in the OP, i live less then a mile from the 4g tower, i've even been about 200 yards away and gotten crappy 4g signal, anywhere from only 3-4 dl, and barely 1 ul.
Hopefully this helps. I was also experiencing 1x speeds although the phone indicated 3G. I upgraded to an EVO after modding my Hero for the past year. Thus I was pretty comfortable with rooting, installing roms, etc. within 24 hours of getting my EVO I decided to root it and try out some of the roms available.
Almost immediately after rooting using unrEVOked I noticed signiffigantly slower data speeds. (I'm not pointing any fingers, only documenting what led up to this) I first tried out the latest CM6 rom. Upon booting it indicated 1x speeds though posts that I read stated that you are actually recieving data at 3G speeds. I think that CM6 may actually be reporting the data connection accurately while the sense rom is not. Using speedtest.net's app (I know it dosen't report speeds accurately) I was consistently recieving between 80-160 kbs download and 60-100 kbs upload. I then downloaded the same app to my wifes unrooted EVO and ran a side by side comparison. Using the same server and within seconds of testing each her EVO was downloading at 800-1600 kbs download and 600-1000 kbs upload while mine was still recieving at the afore mentioned speeds. I tried updating PRL, profile, running the stock rom to no avail. I then tried RUU and unrooting without any change.
I was convinced that either Sprint was throttling my connection or the transmitter in the phone was defective or damaged. I was ready to return the phone to Radio Shack where I purchased it last week but I decided to call Sprint and inquire about the throttling issue first. Sprint assured me I was not being throttled and they also thought I may have a defective phone but they asked if I would perform a ##DATA# before returning it. Amazingly enough this worked and my data speeds have returned to 3G speeds of around 1000-1400 kbs download.
I'll detail the procedure but I make no guarantees this will work for anyone else. Also you'll need your MSL, there are guides that detail how to obtain this or you can all Sprint and ask nicely. Also I did this while stock and unrooted and I haven't tried to reobtain root again yet so if this works for you while rooted let me know. Finally I believe you'll have to perform this using the stock dialer as I don't believe that the CM dialer will work for this.
Procedure is as follows:
Open dialer and type ##3282#. (##DATA#)
You should now be taken to the epst prompt. Choose "Edit Mode"
You will now be asked for your password. This is your MSL
Next you want to choose "Data Profile"
While in Data Profile hit the "Menu" button at the bottom of the phone.
Next choose "Restore" and allow the phone to reprovision.
Let me know if this works if you try it while rooted as I'd like to reroot again but I'm a little gun shy now that it's fixed again.
I'll give that I try and see what happens. I have to flash a stock ROM first and hope that any changes follow me along back to CM ROM. I am also going to try the Wimax kernal to see if that helps since that ks reporting to be a possibility.
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Hopefully this helps. I was also experiencing 1x speeds although the phone indicated 3G. I upgraded to an EVO after modding my Hero for the past year. Thus I was pretty comfortable with rooting, installing roms, etc. within 24 hours of getting my EVO I decided to root it and try out some of the roms available.
Almost immediately after rooting using unrEVOked I noticed signiffigantly slower data speeds. (I'm not pointing any fingers, only documenting what led up to this) I first tried out the latest CM6 rom. Upon booting it indicated 1x speeds though posts that I read stated that you are actually recieving data at 3G speeds. I think that CM6 may actually be reporting the data connection accurately while the sense rom is not. Using speedtest.net's app (I know it dosen't report speeds accurately) I was consistently recieving between 80-160 kbs download and 60-100 kbs upload. I then downloaded the same app to my wifes unrooted EVO and ran a side by side comparison. Using the same server and within seconds of testing each her EVO was downloading at 800-1600 kbs download and 600-1000 kbs upload while mine was still recieving at the afore mentioned speeds. I tried updating PRL, profile, running the stock rom to no avail. I then tried RUU and unrooting without any change.
I was convinced that either Sprint was throttling my connection or the transmitter in the phone was defective or damaged. I was ready to return the phone to Radio Shack where I purchased it last week but I decided to call Sprint and inquire about the throttling issue first. Sprint assured me I was not being throttled and they also thought I may have a defective phone but they asked if I would perform a ##DATA# before returning it. Amazingly enough this worked and my data speeds have returned to 3G speeds of around 1000-1400 kbs download.
I'll detail the procedure but I make no guarantees this will work for anyone else. Also you'll need your MSL, there are guides that detail how to obtain this or you can all Sprint and ask nicely. Also I did this while stock and unrooted and I haven't tried to reobtain root again yet so if this works for you while rooted let me know. Finally I believe you'll have to perform this using the stock dialer as I don't believe that the CM dialer will work for this.
Procedure is as follows:
Open dialer and type ##3282#. (##DATA#)
You should now be taken to the epst prompt. Choose "Edit Mode"
You will now be asked for your password. This is your MSL
Next you want to choose "Data Profile"
While in Data Profile hit the "Menu" button at the bottom of the phone.
Next choose "Restore" and allow the phone to reprovision.
Let me know if this works if you try it while rooted as I'd like to reroot again but I'm a little gun shy now that it's fixed again.
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this sorta helped me a bit, but i just also ended up flashing back to 1.77pri and nv, though i still have the latest wimax and radio and 60674prl on myn's rls5, however i'm still experiencing way below average data speeds as compared to what i used to, i have a release day evo with 0002 hardware, and .76 hboot, even my 4g's are slower then what they used to be.
FWIW, I experienced a drop in speed as well. I used to get 1-2 Mbps easy. Now all I get is around 500. Very strange.
detusueno said:
FWIW, I experienced a drop in speed as well. I used to get 1-2 Mbps easy. Now all I get is around 500. Very strange.
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humm, something is ary here, possible throttling, or over crowded network?
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humm, something is ary here, possible throttling, or over crowded network?
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I think with all the new phones sold over christmas the network is being hammered.
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baknblack said:
I think with all the new phones sold over christmas the network is being hammered.
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i really hope your right, i mean the other day with cmWimax i nailed a 7.61, now i'm lucky if im even in the 3 range for moar gee's, lol, even with reg sense rom's i'm barely in 3 range as well, i have a tower that is only about 200 yards away that is 4g and it still suxor's.
I haven't had a chance to test the above, I'm about to start to do that.
I did try out Sprints Network Speed Test and got results from it above 1.0 finally. Then I tried using the speed test app and it was giving me location in Europo to test? This morning it is back to normal and both the speed test app and Sprints website both were giving the same results - around .80.
I'm going to flash the Wimax for CM and see if that helps out. If not, then I'm going to flash a Sense ROM and do the #DATA# trick listed above.
Here is the website for Sprints speed test website. You'll need the latest Flash installed from the market for it to work.
http://www6.sprint.com/landings/speedtest/?ECID=vanity:speedtest
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I haven't had a chance to test the above, I'm about to start to do that.
I did try out Sprints Network Speed Test and got results from it above 1.0 finally. Then I tried using the speed test app and it was giving me location in Europo to test? This morning it is back to normal and both the speed test app and Sprints website both were giving the same results - around .80.
I'm going to flash the Wimax for CM and see if that helps out. If not, then I'm going to flash a Sense ROM and do the #DATA# trick listed above.
Here is the website for Sprints speed test website. You'll need the latest Flash installed from the market for it to work.
http://www6.sprint.com/landings/speedtest/?ECID=vanity:speedtest
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ok, so using the sprint site, i/m actually where i should be as before, back above 7 for 4g, not tested 3g yet, but working on it.
EDIT: wow, my 3g still blows, lol.
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ok, so using the sprint site, i/m actually where i should be as before, back above 7 for 4g, not tested 3g yet, but working on it.
EDIT: wow, my 3g still blows, lol.
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Glad to hear that 4G is back to where it should be. Are you on a Sense or AOSP ROM like Cyanogen?
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Glad to hear that 4G is back to where it should be. Are you on a Sense or AOSP ROM like Cyanogen?
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myn's rls5, so yeah back on sense right now, more stable to use for using both 3/4g.
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myn's rls5, so yeah back on sense right now, more stable to use for using both 3/4g.
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Nothing wrong with that. I'm going to start my tests this afternoon.
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Nothing wrong with that. I'm going to start my tests this afternoon.
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i have noticed though with this release of myn's that i do keep dropping 4g and reconnecting, something that i have never did before on other dev's rom's.
Well, both attempts to fix it didn't work. The new Wimax for CM didn't give me faster speed and the flashing to Sense ROM to do the ##DATA# didn't help either.
Anyone else have any ideas?
When running speedtest.net on my computer I get around 10 mbps download, and around 9.5 mbps on rooted stock rom.
but whenever i try a gingerbread ROM, i.e oxygen, CM7, redux 1.2, etc with ALL radios...i get around 6.5 mbps sometimes 1mbps with other radios.
I have tested this many times, and always get a consistent speed over 9mbps
this also affects HSDPA speed (slow ping, and sudden speed increase/rapid decrease)
Can anyone confirm this?
Or is it just my device?
i'm having the same issues. just flashed omfgb 1.2. download speeds are dramatically reduced, testing same server from same distance from router. 22mbps down on laptop, 3 down on Dinc. i was running virtuous 3.2.0 with his custom kernal and always duplicated my laptops speed results.
Sooooo, what can we do about it? Can someone please help? I'm having the same issue. By the way, just downloaded samba file share, it's pretty cool, fairly basic interface though, you can basically transfer stuff "drag & drop" style without having to connect USB and mount as disk drive. My only issue is, you can't tell it "only use this network".
Maybe someone else could give this app a go and let me know what they think?
I've run Wifi Tether, EasyTether Pro, and ClockworkMod Tether. All give me tethered speeds <= 1Mbps up and down.
This is a Galaxy Nexus LTE with unlocked bootloader and Root. Stock otherwise and no radio update.
Running on OSX 7.2.
I can run the speed test from the same location and get 25Mbps+ while running the test from my phone.
I can do this while running any of the tethering apps as well and I'll still get blazing speeds on my phone, but terrible on my computer.
It's definitely not a USB problem as the computer is USB 2.0 and there are no other devices plugged in.
It's also not a general computer issue as I've tested on other machines, both Mac and Windows.
Anyone have any ideas on how to hunt down the problem?
Looking for any suggestions at all...
I've only run Speed test once while tethering, but my speed was 1Mbps just like you. I should mention that I have a stock SGN and that I have the hotspots option in my plan. My download speed just a minute later using only the phone was 15Mbps.
I wonder if there is some internal throttle in ICS or Verizon's version of it.
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I do wired tethering via PDANet and average 3 - 5mbps with this phone. It was about the same before & after root. I think it could also be tied in to the radio(reception issues). With past 4G phones I had both better reception and much faster data speeds. I'd say we're probably going to have to sit tight and hope that Verizon releases a fix soon.
It may be related to the stock ROM. I'm running CM9 and get a cap of around 12mbps on wifi tether. Never tested on USB, but I have to assume the cap is due to Wi-Fi limitations.
When tethering via USB, your tether speeds will be limited to the same speed as the slowest USB device connected to your PC at the time. That means unplug all other USB peripherals (where possible) or upgrade them to faster models if you want improve your tether speeds. Koush posted this in his notes somewhere (either in the app description itself on the market, or on his Google+ page) - I remember reading his full disclosure about this issue.
TL;DR version = unplug all USB devices and see if your tether speeds increases. If so, plug them back in, one at a time, until your speeds slow, which can help you determine which device is the culprit. Replace said device with a faster model, or don't use it when tethering.
Edit: I found it! Here's my source for the Tether being limited by your slowest USB device. The quote is here: "Tether speeds slow?
Your USB speed is limited to the speed of the *slowest* peripheral you have connected. It is recommended you unplug any unnecessary/slow USB peripherals to get maximum Tether speeds." That quote is taken right from the app description itself, which can be found alongside the app here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.koushikdutta.tether
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I do wired tethering via PDANet and average 3 - 5mbps with this phone. It was about the same before & after root. I think it could also be tied in to the radio(reception issues). With past 4G phones I had both better reception and much faster data speeds. I'd say we're probably going to have to sit tight and hope that Verizon releases a fix soon.
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I don't think it's a radio issue. My data speeds to the phone are REALLY high. The only time I have a problem is when the data passes on to the computer. The speed I see on my phone is never an issue regardless of how the phone is configured (to tether). The speed issue is only on the computer side. It's also not a computer issue as I've stated above.
Last I heard, VZW is planning to "fix" signal issues by making the signal icon report a higher value than what it's getting. The DB reading won't change, so they're not lying but they're not telling an honest story either. Surprise!
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It may be related to the stock ROM. I'm running CM9 and get a cap of around 12mbps on wifi tether. Never tested on USB, but I have to assume the cap is due to Wi-Fi limitations.
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I have not tried a custom ROM yet. That is next in my plan.
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When tethering via USB, your tether speeds will be limited to the same speed as the slowest USB device connected to your PC at the time.
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Not an issue with my computer. Please refer to the original post.
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To clarify my response in this post, I'm not attacking anyone's response. I'm only trying to narrow everything down for anyone who may stumble upon this in the future.
Thanks for the input everyone!
I did a backup and wipe. Installed tether and ran before a restore. Same problems...
I will try a different ROM and get back to you all.
I usually get 20 mb/s down on 4bars of LTE, when tethering with wifi tether beta 3 Located Here and i got 6mb/s tethering to an iphone 4s and 2 ipod touches
I agree I have no problems pulling over 25Mbps using the WiFi Tether app that was linked above. I will say that I would recommend going to the site and go under downloads and use the 3.1 pre113 (experimental version). I have found this to be the most stable for me with the best connectivity.
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I usually get 20 mb/s down on 4bars of LTE, when tethering with wifi tether beta 3 Located Here and i got 6mb/s tethering to an iphone 4s and 2 ipod touches
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Understood.
My issue is not with the tethering software though... something deeper within the system configuration is awry.
I loaded the 'AOKP - Team Kang -Build 15' ROM and tethering is blazing. I guess I'll just bounce around on ROMs until I find the cleanest build that is close to stock.
I considered loading stock and wiping out everything, but I don't want to lose what's on /sdcard/ .
From what I understand, loading the stock ROM will completely wipe.
If anyone knows a way around this, please let me know.
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Understood.
My issue is not with the tethering software though... something deeper within the system configuration is awry.
I loaded the 'AOKP - Team Kang -Build 15' ROM and tethering is blazing. I guess I'll just bounce around on ROMs until I find the cleanest build that is close to stock.
I considered loading stock and wiping out everything, but I don't want to lose what's on /sdcard/ .
From what I understand, loading the stock ROM will completely wipe.
If anyone knows a way around this, please let me know.
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When you are flashing different roms you should always wipe data and cache to avoid any issues. I am using the stock rom and then I rooted with CF-Root through fastboot and have no issue with WiFi Tether. I stock with the 113 experimental as it seems to work the best for me on this set up. I would just copy you sd content and the paste it back over once flashed back to factory.
Right. I was trying to avoid copying the SD content again. I have quite a bit of data... :-/
I switched back over to my stock backup because the custom ROMs I tried all crash when I restore from Titanium. Seems as though they all won't run unless you keep the gapps that the dev includes in the ROM.
After some more consideration, it seems as though my tether is pulling data from the 3G side while the rest of the phone runs happily on 4G.
Any ideas?
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1440021&page=2
More info about my problem at the above thread.
Still struggling with this issue...
I have upgraded to 4.0.4 and I noticed speed improvements that lasted the period of the previous weekend. No clue why...
Some other details that might be helpful:
Android-Wifi-Tether is slower than the stock tether with both upload and download speeds slow.
Have tried third party ROMS and experience the same issue. (Slow download, fast upload)
EasyTether Pro now works as you'd expect 4G tether to! Speeds as fast as everything else that runs from my phone.
ClockworkMod Tether is slow like Android-Wifi-Tether. Up and Down speeds < 1M
One server in Columbia, SC on speedtest.net reports speeds > 6M down and 2M up.
Does anyone have any clues as to the difference in the way these two programs operate?
I'm on a Mac and when I first connect I get an error that there is no internet available. I have to turn wifi off and back on from the computer. I leave the phone alone for this.
I've run speed tests on Windows machines with same results
I know someone with a Mifi hotspot that has the same issues I've been describing here. Even with the Columbia, SC server on speedtest.net
Verizon has yet to make contact with him.
Any ideas?