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)
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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.
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I have a Bell HTC Desire Z. It's unlocked (although I bought it that way so I'm not sure how exactly it was unlocked) and I use it on the Rogers network. I've only had it for about 2 months. My service was alright before, it was never as good as my Blackberry on rogers, but I'd usually have 4 bars in my building. Lately however, it will constantly be switching from 4 bars to 2 or 1 bars or nothing at all. It's started sitting at around 1 bar of service in my building, and at around 3 bars outside, rarely anything higher. It will also stop sending data on a regular basis, or I'll lose 3G completely and I'll have to reboot the phone to get it to come back.
My battery life is also terrible. If I use it to make a phone calls, I'll get maybe about 5 hours of it tops. This is with wifi and bluetooth turned off, and the screen brightness under half. HTC sense is also always freezing on me. Half the time when I try to go to my messages screen it takes it upwards of 3 minutes to load them, and then when I go back to the homescreen the HTC logo appears and then a loading screen comes up. It also lags a lot when I'm switching between screens.
Does anyone know what I could do to fix these problems? Should I root it and throw on a different rom? (I was thinking MIUI). Do I have to switch to a different radio? I'm a total noob with android phones and this whole rooting and modding process, so any help or ideas would be greatly appreciated! I really like this handset, but it has enough problems that I'm tempted to jump ship and go back to Blackberry.
ETA: I'm running Gingerbread 2.3.3, if that makes any difference.
I had fast battery drain too, I switched to the ROM in this thread, and battery life is now AMAZING
use SuperWipeG2(+) and Guhl's EFS GPS fix available here before flashing G-lite
PS - you need to be rooted via the wiki before attempting any new ROM installation, as detailed here: http://forum.xda-developers.com/wiki/index.php?title=HTC_Vision
also you will lose HTC Sense, but you will gain amazing speed of everything and the phone working better than any smartphone!
thank you for not telling the OP to try a new radio!! you are the first person I have pushed the thaks button for lol
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 believe im having some software/driver errors (using NJ5 Retail) I don't think these are hardware errors as we both got our phones as different places and different times and it would be strange to have the same issues. I believe its a Note 4 problem.
1. Both my wifes and my Note 4 phone's seem to be having WiFi dropouts (not at the same time) ... its not a issue with any of our other WiFi devices and my daughters S5. I did wonder if it was our router (Netgear R6300v2) but its rock solid. So I tested it at local wifi and ran some heavy data and surely enough intermittently it "locks" up. So far haven't seen any issues with 4G LTE, but then again we tend to avoid heavy data usage on that.
2. Also on both of our phones Intermittently the camera will lag really bad as well, its as if im running a million apps and have no memory. Yet I have over almost 900MB of free ram and 20gigs of free space. I also have confirmed I have no apps running and so far the only fix is to reboot the phone which is a rather inconvenience when im looking to get a picture at the time it happens.
I haven't yet tried another camera app to see if the same thing happens. Which I do enjoy Google's camera app and had that on my old Note II, however again I am wondering as to why this is taking place.
A few other things noted the phone this has happened while the phone is unplugged, heat doesn't seem to be a issue atleast for the battery which sits around 30c for wife's and 26c for my mine most of the time (according to cpuz)
So is this something to wait on Lollipop for to maybe be fixed or is this possibly a real hardware issue.
We used to get dropouts too, I recently switched my router to Wireless N only and now all phones and devices get a steady 90 Mbps up and down in our house on a Verizon FIOS 75/75 plan. I've always had dropouts on phones and am surprised that Wireless N made such a difference. Still using the same 2.4ghz frequency that we did on the G network, just zero interference to cause dropouts now.
Update after more issues .. I took it back to the store and we fiddled (the store had a tech who was geeky and it was great) and sure enough we discovered how to duplicate the problem. Also after testing a few other phones it seemed to only happen with ours .. so we wondered if it had to do with our failure of Sandisk cards but who knows (which we are doing a RMA on them).
What happens is under CPU-Z (play store) we noticed even under heavy use only 1-2 cores were being used. It would never use all 4. So we tried gaming and running hard games and background things and sure enough stuff would lag real bad which then would lock up the internet and camera. Then we tried Antutu and it locked up, and score was terrible. It was then we decided the phones had bad cores in it. So Wife exchanged her's and I refunded mine and ordered a developer one .. as ive been waiting over a month for and should have stayed waiting. As for what started it all. We had a batch of the Sandisk Ultras that kept failing however I dont see how that could have been the cause. The sandisk error I guess is very common as soon as I mentioned it they knew all about it and their forums are flooded with posts about it.
So if anyone has these issues test your cores.
Matttrix said:
Update after more issues .. I took it back to the store and we fiddled (the store had a tech who was geeky and it was great) and sure enough we discovered how to duplicate the problem. Also after testing a few other phones it seemed to only happen with ours .. so we wondered if it had to do with our failure of Sandisk cards but who knows (which we are doing a RMA on them).
What happens is under CPU-Z (play store) we noticed even under heavy use only 1-2 cores were being used. It would never use all 4. So we tried gaming and running hard games and background things and sure enough stuff would lag real bad which then would lock up the internet and camera. Then we tried Antutu and it locked up, and score was terrible. It was then we decided the phones had bad cores in it. So Wife exchanged her's and I refunded mine and ordered a developer one .. as ive been waiting over a month for and should have stayed waiting. As for what started it all. We had a batch of the Sandisk Ultras that kept failing however I dont see how that could have been the cause. The sandisk error I guess is very common as soon as I mentioned it they knew all about it and their forums are flooded with posts about it.
So if anyone has these issues test your cores.
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This is interesting o: How would one go about doing 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.
horsetastic said:
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.
ItsJacobee said:
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.