Hello,
I've recently been given a Sony Xperia Play R800i (?) for christmas and am having trouble with the internet, my problem is as follows:
I am on a Virgin Media plan whereas I get 1gb of data a month, which worked well on my previous Nokia music express, and also currently works well on my brothers Motorola Milestone and my sister's HTC (unsure of what model) however on my sony xperia play, I struggle to get a decent signal. All my signal is capable of is giving me my social networking updates on my timescape, however I noticed it was only updated once.
I have the same problem for my Wifi, I'm on a virgin media 30mb package, and the internet is at a decent speed on both the Motorola Milestone and the HTC, however once again I struggle to get a signal on my Xperia play. At all this time, It connects to the homehub however doesn't seem to want to give me internet. With the wifi, my phone is completely unable to access any form of internet, and on the 3G unable to get a strong signal worthy of loading google.
Any help would be appreciated!! Please!
Thanks!
It sounds to me like it could be a good idea to update the software (or repair if you already have the latest version). Do this with PC Companion. Start the program and click on Support Zone.
Also, if your SIM card is old it could be a good idea to ask the carrier for a new one.
-Markus
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Hi guys,
its time to renew my mobile contract and I would like to have the HTC Desire.
But before getting it, I would like to ask a question.
At home, at university and at my friends home I have internet connection via Wifi, so I figered out I don't need a data option in my contract.
Now the T-Mobile guy told me I absolutely need one, because the cell phone connects with it to download updates.
In a youtube video I saw someone switching to wifi only at the welcome wizard after first power-on.
So, now my question: I'm really most of the time connected with wifi, do I really need data option????
I don't use social networks, so friends steam has no updates, same with the weather!!
Thanks for answers
Technically you don't need a data contract - you can switch off mobile internet and just rely on WiFi.
However, IMHO, if you're going to do that you're probably better off with a dumbphone and an iPod Touch, because you're really not using the phone as it was intended and you're going to get infinitely superior battery life.
Just an opinion - I appreciate that there are plenty of reasons why you might want the Desire regardless!
Regards,
Dave
Ok, thanks...
And yes, there are plenty of reasons.
Whats with vacation? E.g. when I go for two weeks out of my Wifi area?
Will it go online then or wait until I'm in Wifi again?
Btw: In my area there is only Edge available, so even if I wanted I can not use it as it was intended to!
Dennis
If you switch off mobile internet, it won't go online via the a cellular network.
If you want to be really, really, sure that it will never go online via cellular, you can delete the APN (i.e. you are worried you or someone else will turn on mobile internet accidentally).
Regards,
Dave
OK, that is a good idea.
I made that with my very old phone i bought 2003. There you had the option to set more than one APN profile. So i made up an empty one and made it the default one.
So I could switch to the real on in case I really need it.
Maybe you can tell my how to do this in android if you have time?
But thanks so far for your help.
Dennis
You can add the APN in the Phone settings. Not that different from WM
But I only use the Internet connection switch on my desktop.
I can simply switch it off and the phone will never connect to internet via GSM.
Unless someone messes with your phone and turns it on again it is a 100% guarantee that it will never connect via GSM.
I don't bother with APN anymore.
Myself and a workmate have A HTC Desire and Wildfire.
We have a free browsing unprotected wifi network in our admin building and we are unable to find it on our 2 new Telstra branded phones.
We noth had different windows based phones previously which still connect fine. There is also users of iphones and nokia phones that are still using the network.
But neither of us are able to see it. a different security enabled network shows up (which has previously).
I dont think its the routers as the security enable network I can see is fed from the exact same style modem/router that i'm trying to connect to!
This is a super pain as we are to rely on this network to DL any Apps.
Cheers
Timmy
I have gotten some info from another forum that said that the Disire will not see any channels 12-14. Can any one confirm. Is there a way I get an app or something to get around it as I cant change the router channel
Hi
I have searched as best I can for a solution to this and cant find one ... so I figured I would share the issue here in the hope someone else has experienced something similar.
I have the Defy+ that was bought prepaid on Telstra. I used the phone for a few weeks in its standard "out of the box" configuration but experienced problems with corporate email via the motoblur service. (If I sent an email from my works email address, and lost signal part way through it being sent, the email would get stuck in my outbox and all recipients would continue to receive the message every few minutes until I removed the corporate email account and started over).
Anyway ... I have always been a HTC Desire user and used the brilliant MIUI_Au rom, so I decided to install a MIUI rom on my Defy+
All went well with the only downside being the 82% battery problem due to the ROM being meant for a Defy rather than a Defy+
The problem I have now discovered though is really strange. I work remotely and we get very little mobile signal. Due to this, the company invested in Telstra SatCOW units to give mobile coverage to the Camps where we live/work. Now the Satelite dishes are installed, I get no signal whatsoever. I have travelled around various sites, and as soon as I am in an area that uses satelite Telstra instead of terestrial Telstra I completely lose signal. To add to the confusion, every now and then I get a full signal with the satelite for a few hours, but as soon as I move out of the range of the satelite and then come back into range I am back to having no signal whatsever.
I have installed the Baseband selector and ensured it is on the correct setting 850/2100 for Telstra Australia.
Does this sound familiar to anyone?
WiFi connects to my router and stays connected at excellent signal strength without any trouble. Internet connection however, always disappears after a minute or so. Then my Dolphin Browser either keeps loading a website forever or gives me some error like "Webpage not available". Same story with stock or any other browser. I'm not sure since how long I have had this issue. It surely existed already when my phone came back from warranty service (and I had sent it there because of very short range of WiFi commonly known problem which they fixed by giving the phone new hardware). I think that upgrade to Android 4.2.2 might have caused my problem, but it was such a long time ago that I don't remember now (I don't use/need WiFi that much, mobile data internet is enough for me).
What I've tried so far:
-rebooting phone and router obviously
-factory formatting the phone
-WiFi analyzer app
-changing all the network parameters and re-setting it up
-WPS connecting
-playing with all the WiFi settings on my phone (proxy settings, ip settings, wifi optimization and other)
-finally, today I unlocked bootloader, rooted and installed custom ROM hoping it'd help (but it didn't and now I lost my warranty lol)
What I have:
HTC One X Endeavor
Android 4.2.2 HTC Sense 5.0
Android Revolution HD 33.1
3.1.10-g7f360be Kernel version
TP-LINK
N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router
Model No. TL-WDR4300
I'm thinking about installing other ROM, some that works on Android 4.0 or KitKat, could it help?
Oh, and I should add that two different notebooks, Galaxy S4, S3 mini, Xperia X10 and a tablet all work fine with this network :>
I can provide any screenshots, photos, names of devices etc., just tell me what is needed.
HELP!
You're in the wrong forum. You need the international one x forum.
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reported it a while ago.
I'm having a really strange problem that I'm struggling to solve with search, Google, etc. If I'm connected to 3G and try to either download an app or update from Play or stream or download from Google Music then I'll get a few MB in at it will grind to a virtual halt. I'm on the verge of switching networks to see if my supplier (Virgin UK) is throttling Google for some reason except I'd have expected that to have turned up in my searches.
Other services seem to be fine, e.g. Spotify, and if I connect to a VPN then after a couple of minutes the download will take off again. No problems at all on wi-fi.
I'm S-Off, SuperCID, running Skydragon 9 on 4.16.401.10 but had the same problem on ARHD. Have tried full wipes, checked APN settings, played with 'Download over wi-fi only' settings in Google Music, turned on/off various power saver settings. I'm stuck!
Long time lurker. Hello all.
I'm having the exact same issue with a rooted z1, ressurection remix lollipop ROM on Virgin Mobile. A VPN unthrottles the connection but this is not always practical.
A family member has also found his IPhone 5S on Virgin Mobile has the same issues connecting to the App Store and Google services.
Tried 2 different ROMs, multiple APN's to no avail. Virgin is a virtual network piggy backing on EE. Evidence online from the Virgin support forum suggests EE customers do not suffer the same throttling, pointing to a Virgin specific strategy/issue.
Any ideas as to reasons for or practical workarounds from the XDA community?
Thanks in advance.
Edit to add - as per OP, issue is only apparent on a mobile network connection I.e 3G, HSPA etc.