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In general browsing I notice a lot of people have dl/speeds in excess of 7-800Kb/s. I have only seen that speed once, and it was in an AT&T store. I am usually getting edge speeds (1-200Kb/s) even though I am for certain in a 3G area. Am I missing some magic bullet setting?
I have:
Hermes
Schap's 4.31 ROM WWE
Radio 1.10.x.x (gonna reflash that today to 1.54.x.x)
I have tried to use the isp.cingular connection; but, it appears that it has been disabled. Apparently, you have to have a tethering plan to use it.
Any help you can give would be most appreciated.
I have an 8525 from AT&T. I use the network configurator from CRC's 9.2 WM 6.1. I upgraded my radio to 1.54.30.10. I see very comporable speeds on 3G vs Wi-Fi on my cable internet connection. It uses the isp.cingular, I didn't notice a difference with wap.cingular. I do not use tethering, I don't even have the PDA plan, I use the MEdia Net unlimited for half the price. I had problems with the 3G on AT&T with WM 6.1 before upgrading the radio.
I don't know where I can speed test on my mobile, are you estimating speeds, or do you have a site that will test the speeds?
I test the speed using dslreports.com simple mobile speed test. Link to follow.
Just out of curiosity, would you post your connection settings for isp.cingular? I set it up the way I always have and it doesn't seem to work for me anymore. I have PDA personal express unlimited. So, I should be fine in the "what plan do you have dept."
AT&T Settings
Access Point Name (APN):
wap.cingular
or isp.cingular
User Name:
[email protected]
or [email protected]
(make sure if you use wap, use wap for both)
Make sure you caps the user name.
Password:
cingular1
You must set up a proxy server.
Check both boxes on proxy setup.
Server:
wireless.cingular.com
Click on advanced, make sure there is HTTP and socks have a server. They should do this automatically. HTTP server is wireless.cingular.com:80, socks is wireless.cingular.com:1080. The 80 and 1080 are the port numbers.
When I had problems with my connection whether I did auto or manual configs I still had issues until I upgraded my radio version. Once I did that I haven't had problems since.
Hope that helps.
ARGH THESE SETTINGS ARE WRONG.
I know people who work at AT&T, those settings are far outdated. Use the new ones!
wap.cingular, no username, no password, no domain, click advanced and enable IP Header compression.
The proxy server is OPTIONAL unless you want to use MEdiaNet features (like checking your minutes) in which case it is REQUIRED.
isp.cingular is being phased out. You will get the same speeds from wap.cingular.
arrghhh. The speeds okay now that I have flashed the new radio. But I still can't get youtube to work in HTC streaming media player. Just sits there connecting.
YouTube is AWESOME!
I just went to that speed test.
I got ~140 Kb/s with EDGE/GPRS
I got ~480 Kb/s with UMTS/HSDPA
I got ~1200 Kb/s with Wi-Fi via Cable internet.
I too could not figure out a way for YouTube to work. I tried everything I could find, TCMP, Falsh, not even the mobile youtube would work, when I was finally ready to give up I found this little gem.
It is a program that will querie YouTube for vidoes. You can download them to your phone (as .flv), or stream them. It doesn't go to YouTube, it just finds the videos. You can change the amout to bring you, and your buffer size. It gives you a description when you highlight the video, you can go to related videos. You can search by most watched/commented/rated, etc, or just type in a search and click the button, and away you go. I uploaded a video myself from my mobile phone, and searched for the video 10 minutes later, and was watching the video again on my mobile phone. This searches the real YouTube, not just the mobile version.
I have been struggling with this issue for weeks at a time since the beginning with AT&T here in Puerto Rico. I updated my phone to the new settings, (no username / password) something AT&T didn't notify me about, even in a text message , email, letter or anything (thanks to the XDA Developers!). I just did a dslreports.com test witht the HSDPA icon with 2-3 bars and got 64 kbps So lately I just been switching 3G OFF and using EDGE which I just tested at 187 kbps. I talked to an AT&T guy (yet again) on Saturday to open a ticket with their network guys, but we'll see what happens...
I'm too suing CRC's ROM and the new radio 1.54.30.10, but I had the issue with the offical 1.54.07.00 radio as well.
Streaming videos from mobile Youtube site no go!
So,, I only have WM6 not WM6.1,, and can't seem to get the videos playing on the streaming media player using 3G.. So is that a known thing? If so,, is that cab you just mentioned the best thing to use? I have Coreplayer which I think plays most files, but when I go to the Youtube mobile,,and click on video link, Streaming media player gets automatically associated,,tries to play video,,ends up saying"Failed to Find network".. I am sure that it should work if I am using Wifi,, but would like it to work on 3G..Thanks for anything else you might say about using that cab.
i'm based in ireland here on the 3 network,i have lost count of how many wm6 and wm6.1 roms i've flashed to my hermes ,yet every time the streaming and aspects of home page navigation are cripled or absent completely.
in the course of pulling out my hair/finding solutions i discovered that the user agent string is a vital if not THE vital component of PIE operation.
i used some cooked dll files and n95/spoof UA cabs with significant success.3 now support the kaiser so i'm using that ua on the hermes and find that mobile internet pretty much works as you'd expect with streaming etc.
i wonder if you guys have a similar issue.
point your browser at http://useragent.org and take note then google around or compare with stock rom to see if it is affecting you.
good luck and please report findings
Thanks for Youtube play cab.. it works on my 3G however,,,
was also looking at this UA (user agent thing), which I think I have seen in my Opera settings. Only now, I have to figure what I am actually supposed to do with that. Change it? My problem, of poor 3G speed using the internet (tried some speed tests). I compare to watching a friend bringing up an internet page on his iPhone (maybe I shouldn"t?) So ,one might ask,, if I can play youtube videos with this cab,, isn't that enough? Well yes, but mostly I would really like to use 3G for browsing,, and for some reason that is where everything seems to slow down. Any I can have anywhere from 2 to five bars on 3G, no difference. I would look into this UA thing, if only a setting change, but don't want to start screwing with dll's
I've just got hold of an HTC Mozart 7 for testing purposes at work before we consider dishing these our to users. (On the Orange Network)
Unlike the previous versions of Windows Mobile, I cannot find anywhere to specify the proxy server address so that browsing goes through our corporate proxy server.
Can anyone help/shed any light on this?
Cheers,
pno
Nope, I've not been able to find this either....
I can't connect to my hidden WiFi network at work, so can't really use the Proxy server anyways....
Hoping the WP7 SP1 has some of these simplistic fixes in there...
On some old Qtek devices we had we used to be able to force all web access to first go through the proxy, be it WiFi or mobile data.
Connect to your wifi network, where it shows the list of networks it should show yours and say connected.
Tap on the name and it will list the connection details and also allow you to add a proxy.
loomx said:
Connect to your wifi network, where it shows the list of networks it should show yours and say connected.
Tap on the name and it will list the connection details and also allow you to add a proxy.
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^ This. I use my wp7 through our proxy all the time.
Fine for Wifi traffic, but I also need to regulate the mobile data traffic
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Fine for Wifi traffic, but I also need to regulate the mobile data traffic
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That can be done legally?
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That can be done legally?
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Yes.
We provide and pay for the devices and service, we also set out the terms of use/company policy when using a company device, and in order to preserve the security and integrity of our network, there are certain network resources which we prohibit users to access, we control this by means of a proxy server.
It's no different to being in the office and getting your Internet access through a proxy server.
yeah I'm pretty dissapointed with WP7 so far - Its like they've 'dumbed' it down to the point of being useable only by my 3 year old and my grandma.
For businesses I see allot of problems - Not being able to deploy apps without marketplace is going to be a nightmare (I don't want to have to create multiple live.com accounts just to get downloads!).
PAP Authentication is not currently support - useless for private APN's.
Proxy not being supported is a biggie problem I have too mate
zoomee said:
yeah I'm pretty dissapointed with WP7 so far - Its like they've 'dumbed' it down to the point of being useable only by my 3 year old and my grandma.
For businesses I see allot of problems - Not being able to deploy apps without marketplace is going to be a nightmare (I don't want to have to create multiple live.com accounts just to get downloads!).
PAP Authentication is not currently support - useless for private APN's.
Proxy not being supported is a biggie problem I have too mate
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MS has said that at the start it will be consumer focus with business focus coming throughout 2011. As for no proxy, proxy is available through wifi. once connected, press and hold on the connected wifi spot and click edit. you can adjust proxy settings there.
it isn't available through 3G, but then again, i'm not sure if this is capable of any phone is it? or if the carriers like it either?
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MS has said that at the start it will be consumer focus with business focus coming throughout 2011. As for no proxy, proxy is available through wifi. once connected, press and hold on the connected wifi spot and click edit. you can adjust proxy settings there.
it isn't available through 3G, but then again, i'm not sure if this is capable of any phone is it? or if the carriers like it either?
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Do you have find a solution? I need a PAP auth for my APN.
Thanks
Tony
pnopine said:
Yes.
We provide and pay for the devices and service, we also set out the terms of use/company policy when using a company device, and in order to preserve the security and integrity of our network, there are certain network resources which we prohibit users to access, we control this by means of a proxy server.
It's no different to being in the office and getting your Internet access through a proxy server.
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and how do you keep the end users from editing that?
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and how do you keep the end users from editing that?
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That was going to be my question...even if you could force their network traffic through your proxy, what stops them just disabling it again?
Perhaps, your company policy requires it? But even if it is possible, is it enforceable?
This guide is solely at your own risk. In particular, in the DATA settings under ##3282#, if you go messing around and changing things willy-nilly there is a potential to majorly screw up your phone. However, even if you follow this guide perfectly, I am providing no guarantee this will not screw up your phone or your service, this is merely a documentation of how I did it for the community's benefit.
What are proxies?
A proxy is a server that acts as an intermediary for network traffic. This can be done for a variety of reasons, including to save on bandwidth. For example, Sprint's proxy rewrites all outbound requests from our phones to request the smaller, mobile version of pages, even if the browser user-agent is set to desktop, and does who knows what else.
Why would I want to disable Sprint's proxies?
Faster speeds: Removing the proxy removes a link in between you and the server you're trying to connect to. There may be more to it than that, but it has been widely reported (though without reliable statistics) that disabling the proxy speeds up your connection. In my case, I found that my 3G speeds went from 450/300 kbps right before disabling proxies to 800/300 kbps right after. 4G speeds did not seem affected.
Fix certain apps: Many apps, particularly streaming apps such as Rdio and Rhapsody don't play well with Sprint's proxies.
Access local websites: If you're trying to access a website hosted on your local network, for example, an intranet, Sprint's proxies will break this.
User agent: You can take back control of your browser user agent and view desktop versions of webpages if you want to.
Is it safe?
People have been doing this for years now, including on the Epic 4G and the Evo original, with no ill effects. Even with proxies disabled, historically you have been able to continue to receive all official Sprint updates.
Great, so how do I disable Sprint's proxies?
Install a terminal application, such as ConnectBot
Use it to open a local terminal window
On the command prompt, type (case-sensitive): getprop ril.MSL
The 6-digit number that is spit out is your phone's MSL, make a note of it
Open up your phone dialer, and type on the keypad ##3282#, which will open up the DATA settings
Choose: Edit
Enter your MSL
Choose: Others
Choose: Multimedia
Observe RTSP Proxy Address and HTTPPD Proxy Address, and confirm they are respectively the Sprint proxies rtsp.vog.sprintpcs.com and pd.vog.sprintpcs.com (If they are not that is interesting, and post it here, and also make a note of it in case you want to go back for some reason)
Replace RTSP Proxy Address and HTTPPD Proxy Address with: 0.0.0.0
Observe RTSP Proxy Port and HTTP PD Proxy Port, and confirm they are respectively 554 and 8085 (Same thing as above if they are not)
Replace RTSP Proxy Port and HTTP PD Proxy Port with 0
Back out of the DATA settings, reboot, and your proxies should now be disabled, try it out and post back any feedback on how it works for your now
Gave it a shot, no joy. Not sure what it was, but sending and receiving data was showing though no progress being made. As soon as I put the settings back, all pages were up and speedtest worked.
It may just be me because we still have a tower down in the area (from tornadoes back in April). Thanks for the writeup.
Speedtest.net app hasn't worked for me at all since I got the phone. But it works on other devices in my house (and theyeasily pull 2,000 kbps+ on 3G). I tried before removing proxies and it just says "Network Communicatoin issues" and it still says it after. I did do this on my Epic and it worked great, so I imagine it'd work great for us here, too! Thanks for posting this, regardless if this fixed my speedtest issue or not.
Does anyone else have a weird issue with Terminal Emulator where when you type in getprop ril.MSL it keeps capitalizing it to getprop rIl.MSL? I can't seem to get around this... so I just used ADB.
Maybe it's the Swype keyboard?
WhiteZero said:
Does anyone else have a weird issue with Terminal Emulator where when you type in getprop ril.MSL it keeps capitalizing it to getprop rIl.MSL? I can't seem to get around this... so I just used ADB.
Maybe it's the Swype keyboard?
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It's exactly that. I'd install the swype beta.
WhiteZero said:
Does anyone else have a weird issue with Terminal Emulator where when you type in getprop ril.MSL it keeps capitalizing it to getprop rIl.MSL? I can't seem to get around this... so I just used ADB.
Maybe it's the Swype keyboard?
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Try using a different keyboard instead of swype, it IS a swype issue. I would suggest gingerbread keyboard from the market.
Also speedtest 2.0.5 doesn't work well if it works at all. Try 2.0.3 (click here)
Overstew said:
It's exactly that. I'd install the swype beta.
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You have to uninstall normal swype before installing the beta correct?
In Terminal Emulator:
Menu-> More-> Preferences-> Input method-> Change from "Word-based" to "Character-based".
Problem should be fixed with no need to change Swype.
Edit: Also, click the swype preferences in the lower left of the soft-keyboard and uncheck auto-capitalization.
It's only your problem..... Don't use swype use samsung keyboard and it will work.... Swype is the problem
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Ran some speedtest benchmarks before and after.
No appreciable changes in speed for 4g up or down. IN FACT my best 4g run was prior to making any changes and was:
13893kbps down and 1517 kbps up and those 3 consecutive runs were all about the same so I just had an unusually good connection. Otherwise pre change and post change speeds are consistent for 4g
in 3G mode however my speeds prior to proxy change was about 800kbps down and 300kbps up. After proxy changes my 3G speeds are about 1200kbps down (with a high of 1500kbs) and 300kbps up. So no change in upload speeds and a fair change in 3g download speeds.
Working now. Needed a reboot to take hold. 3G seems slightly faster, 4G seems unaffected. No telling for sure, because I get horrid reception in my office.
Seems to work well. I have been getting better speeds since I did this. Thanks
I did this change in the middle of the night almost a week ago. Before I was getting average download speeds of about 500 kbps. After it shot up to 1.2mbps. It also improved the speed of my OGEvo. But, I realized that it only helped during offpeak hours. Once the world wakes up and start to jumble up my bandwidth, my average speeds lower to about 200kbps.
Will this affect ability to receive OTA updates from Sprint? Specifically, PRL, Profile, or firmware updates?
im going to do a few speed tests of before and after, ill post my results
I did this tweak and I saw a huge improvement on 3G speeds! I opened up my Miren browser and went to http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest (HIGHLY RECOMMEND THIS SITE) and I got 1.3mbps/300kbps speeds. HUGE improvement over my previous on average speeds of 300-500kbps/100kbps.
Thanks for this, OP!
mmmm ok i just got my results and it didnt help me any.
my speeds went way down actually...
here are the results
i went from an average of 1000 kbps dl before to 650 kbps dl after the proxy edit
and
an average of 300 kbps ul before to 50 kbps ul after the edit.
dowant work for me...
I went from 600k to 1400k dl 700k ul after edit!! Amazing thanks
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MoMatt said:
Will this affect ability to receive OTA updates from Sprint? Specifically, PRL, Profile, or firmware updates?
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That's a negatory.
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That's a negatory.
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Oh yeah... going to give it a shot then! 3G speeds have been the suck here for a couple months now.
I seem to not be getting the best signal strength as i was before is that a commen problem with this rom??? i use to have great signal when i was on stock all the time at my house
Restles said:
I seem to not be getting the best signal strength as i was before is that a commen problem with this rom??? i use to have great signal when i was on stock all the time at my house
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Keyword there is "seem". Every rom uses different algorithms to determine signal strength. One bar on one rom can be the same signal strength as 6 bars on another. So basically, don't trust the bars.
sitlet said:
Keyword there is "seem". Every rom uses different algorithms to determine signal strength. One bar on one rom can be the same signal strength as 6 bars on another. So basically, don't trust the bars.
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That definitely is a good point and needs to be taken into account, but that being said, I used a little tweak I found over at HTCevohacks.com to boost my connections. Basically just bypasses the Sprint proxy and speeds things up a little bit.
I will copy and paste the instructions below, all credit being given to HTC Evo 4G Hacks.
Before doing this though you'll need to flash a sprint sense rom or else this method doesn't work.
First, install MSL Reader app from the Market (yes, it’s free) and find the MSL of your HTC Evo 4G or 3D.
Then call ##3282#.
Choose “Edit Mode”.
Enter the MSL code you got earlier for password.
Then goto Advanced->RTSP/HTTP Setting.
Then set RTSP proxy IP to 0.0.0.0.
and set RTSP proxy port to 0.
and set HTTP proxy IP to 0.0.0.0.
and set HTTP proxy IP to 0.0.0.0.
Choose back button, menu button, and hit “Commit Modifications”.
This should get your Evo 4G or 3D rebooted.
I used a little tweak I found over at HTCevohacks.com to boost my connections.
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You aren't actually "boosting" your signal. You signal is the same as it was before the hack. That hack just bypasses sprint's proxy's when streaming media, which is the ONLY time you will see a difference with that hack
The signal bars on the stock ROM do not accurately represent your overall signal. It only shows call quality signal, not data. CM7, and many other ROMS, use a more true representation.
sitlet said:
You aren't actually "boosting" your signal. You signal is the same as it was before the hack. That hack just bypasses sprint's proxy's when streaming media, which is the ONLY time you will see a difference with that hack
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I understand that haha... I don't see why I can't call it a boost seeing as I explained in the post it bypasses sprint's proxy. All good though, thanks for helping people clarify.
Thanks for all the response guys i did some reading on it that day found most the crap out
I have a strange problem with my Galaxy Nexus. When I connect to the internet using the mobile network, the connection is extremely slow. (And by slow I mean around 2-3 minutes to fully load the google mobile search page). I tried the "Speed Test" app to test the network speed, but it simply fails after a while mentioning "Network communication issues" (maybe it times out?).
The weird thing is that other devices can access the internet fine when connected to the internet through the Nexus by enabling its WiFi hotspot feature. So the other devices can use the Nexus's internet connection with acceptable speeds while the Nexus itself can't. Anybody got any ideas as to why this happens? One thing I could think of was that the DNS given to the Nexus by the mobile network being slow (whereas the other devices connected to it use the DNS in their WiFi settings). I tried to verify this by using the "DNS Changer" app, but it didn't solve the problem, although I'm not sure that it actually changed the DNS used by the Nexus.
Any help is greatly appreciated.
Bump for a solution for this man!
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Problem solved!
Finally found the culprit! It wasn't DNS after all. My carrier's data settings include an IP and port for a proxy. When I configured the APN on the phone, I entered them simply because they were there. Turns out that keeping them empty solves the speed issues on the phone. So the bottleneck was the carrier's proxy server. I guess tethered clients don't use the proxy setting on the phone and therefore didn't experience the speed issue.
Inspiration fixed wifi hotspot not connecting to internet
I wanted to thank you because your solution helped me fix my problem. I couldn't connect my native wifi hotspot on my GSM Galaxy Nexus to my Nexus 7. The wifi indicator would come on to my N7 but it stayed gray (i.e. wasn't connected to the internet). Turns out that last month I set up an APN to connect to T-Mobile via IPv6. Well, apparently, this creates a problem with using the wifi hotspot. I switched back to regular T-Mo connection and...if works! My GNex/N7 combo is fully functional. Thanks again for the inspiration!
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Finally found the culprit! It wasn't DNS after all. My carrier's data settings include an IP and port for a proxy. When I configured the APN on the phone, I entered them simply because they were there. Turns out that keeping them empty solves the speed issues on the phone. So the bottleneck was the carrier's proxy server. I guess tethered clients don't use the proxy setting on the phone and therefore didn't experience the speed issue.
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thank you
wingman1234 said:
Finally found the culprit! It wasn't DNS after all. My carrier's data settings include an IP and port for a proxy. When I configured the APN on the phone, I entered them simply because they were there. Turns out that keeping them empty solves the speed issues on the phone. So the bottleneck was the carrier's proxy server. I guess tethered clients don't use the proxy setting on the phone and therefore didn't experience the speed issue.
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You are my hero man. Thank you