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For some unknown reason my WiFi started crawling. My other devices when connected to the same network are getting anywhere from 9 Mbps to 25 Mbps. My OGP is getting .01 Mbps to .04 Mbps (yes, the decimals are in the right place).
I've tried restarting the phone, the network, and all of the devices on the network, but the crawling speeds on the phone still stand.
The phone is running stock right now, and had been running OK up until yesterday...
I'm wondering though if maybe some program I installed yesterday (free app of the day, droid of the day, etc...
) might be the culprit. I installed a few apps from the Play Store yesterday morning, but the slow down didn't show up until later in the evening. If one of them is the cause, would uninstalling it/them typically undo the damage?....
Any thoughts as to what might be going on, or how to fix it? The only thing that comes to my mind is to reset the phone to factory stock. Is there some way to reset the WiFi portion of the phone or OS without having to reset to stock?
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I have been having some major problems with my EVO regarding the data. If I use anything that is on the heavy side of bandwidth, like downloading a file from android marketplace, surfing the web, watching sprint tv, using the GPS, etc...the data will just time out for about 3 min at a time. For instance if I am downloading a 5mb app from android marketplace, it will maybe download a megabyte, then it will just stop downloading. If you look at the 3G symbol at the top, it will be white, but only the upstream indicator will be on. I can then open any other internet application on the phone, and nothing will work. It usually lasts for about 3 minutes at a time and happens fairly regularly. It will end up taking me 15-20 min to download a 5mb file from the marketplace. Same thing if I browse a bandwidth heavy site like digg.com. It will just time out after a while and it will just show the upstream indicator as solid and not do anything in any program.
This problem is not location dependent. I have this issue at my apartment, at work, at my friend's house, at the Sprint store...anywhere.
In chronological order, this is what I have done to troubleshoot/fix the problem:
First noticed problem
Turned off phone/Turned back on
Rooted and installed custom version of 2.1 w/ Sense
Removed battery (power cycle)
Talk to Sprint cust care. They sent signal over that reactivated the phone (2x)
Did factory reset on phone and formatted SD card
Swapped phone at Sprint store with new one
So even after swapping my EVO with a new EVO from the Sprint store and not fooling with the phone at all, I am still having the same exact issue.
I am absolutely at wit's end with this and I have no idea what to do at this point.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Does this happen over wifi too, or only 3g?
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Thats a good question. I dont have a wifi connection to try it on at home because I keep my wifi on 5ghz N. I will take it to a friend's house and try.
yeah good luck testing it with WIFI. I'd say my WIFI is about 10 times less reliable than 3G.
I have not been able to test with Wifi yet, but I just had one of my coworkers that has the same phone to replicate the issue on his phone. He is having the same exact problem.
We set our phones next to each other and downloaded Space Buster 3D Lite off the Android Marketplace. Mine crapped out about 2mb in and so did his. He wasnt able to surf or do anything else on his phone for a few minutes just like mine.
I'm wondering if this a network problem in our area or if there is a problem with the phone.
Also, I downloaded a continuous ping program and did 3,000 pings with no packet loss, so it seems to only happen with heavy data usage ie. saturating your bandwidth.
Either way, it makes me feel a lot better to see this problem happening with other people lol
dude... i was just about to post a thread on this. im tearing my hair out with this horrible horrible problem. tmobile was better and more consistent its ridiculous...
i'm having the exact same problems, and not only just this, but i'm sending and receiving texts hours and hours off... its just not instant. wheerever i am. and sometimes i'm sending a text and this data "blackout" happens. also when i'm receiving texts i can't send texts out at the same time.. the phone gives me sms errors and then the data timeouts for minutes.. i have to wait minutes to resend the texts or use data..
Well it turns out that my friend that got this phone too is having the same exact problem......
WTF is going on here? Can people test this on their phones? Just try downloading a large file (5mb+) off android marketplace 2-3 times and watch the download. See if it stops or says download paused. Then try surfing the web when this happens.
Including myself, thats 3/3 people that are having this problem that I know personally.
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Well it turns out that my friend that got this phone too is having the same exact problem......
WTF is going on here? Can people test this on their phones? Just try downloading a large file (5mb+) off android marketplace 2-3 times and watch the download. See if it stops or says download paused. Then try surfing the web when this happens.
Including myself, thats 3/3 people that are having this problem that I know personally.
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I have no issues downloading large files, maybe it is location based?
It appears the OTA update that was released today fixed the problem. I've been running Sprint TV for about 4 hours with no issues. Thank god...I was about to cancel my service over this.
So last night I was listening to Slackers and all of a sudden it stopped working, I checked the 3G signal and it was stuck in upload, with no bandwidth on the download side. I tried rebooting but when I do that 3G is still stuck in upload arrow with no download activity, worse of all, it will go into reboot all by itself since gmail is trying to sync..I don't know what to do, could it be that Slackers killed my radio? I already forced stopped and clear all data, I also have Virtuous 3.1, did a Nandroid restore, pull the battery...etc and still stuck in 3G upload only...any suggestions? I am hoping I don't have to RMA the phone back since I have to restore back to stock, with S-ON..
Yep, same problem here. Started up about an hour ago, I was using remote desktop, it started getting slow and dropping the connection... Then it completely crapped out. No download activity, the upload arrow is stuck or flickering. Download arrow does nothing. Can't load webpages or use anything that requires data. Apps are trying to refresh constantly, but not receiving data. I use about 20-30 gigs of data a month sometimes... Maybe I wore out the antenna... I hope it starts working soon and turns out to be a network issue on Verizon's end... But I have a bad feeling about this one. I think it's dead.
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Yep, same problem here. Started up about an hour ago, I was using remote desktop, it started getting slow and dropping the connection... Then it completely crapped out. No download activity, the upload arrow is stuck or flickering. Download arrow does nothing. Can't load webpages or use anything that requires data. Apps are trying to refresh constantly, but not receiving data. I use about 20-30 gigs of data a month sometimes... Maybe I wore out the antenna... I hope it starts working soon and turns out to be a network issue on Verizon's end... But I have a bad feeling about this one. I think it's dead.
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Hmm...where are you located? I am in SoCal..I am starting to wonder if this could be a network issue...I really hope this isn't a hardware problem
FWIW, this might be causing the issue..let's wait and see, anyone else experienced something similar?
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1689989-DATA-outage-in-part-s-of-Birmingham/page2
It is DNS test by going to 74.125.224.18 on your web browser on your phone
FAAACK, I just reinstalled my rom and everything trying to figure out what was going on, then I was shopping for replacement antennas and looking up warranty information... I'm in Gig Harbor, WA quite a ways north of everyone else, but maybe it's out all over the west coast. It went out exactly when those howardsforum people said it did...
I'm glad to hear it's a networks glitch.
Now, for a new rom... I think I'm going to try CyanogenMod.
...aaand we're back! The 3g is working fine for me now.
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FWIW, this might be causing the issue..let's wait and see, anyone else experienced something similar?
http://www.howardforums.com/showthread.php/1689989-DATA-outage-in-part-s-of-Birmingham/page2
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Heh, here's another one to add to the pile of "OH NOS SERVICE DOWN"
Hey all, this isn't a major issue, but it's something that I'd like to work out. I've been using a custom ROMs on my phone for about 6 months now and I'm currently running the MikFroYo v4.4.
Recently I've been noticing my 4G connection isn't working as well as it used to (trouble connecting, disconnects shortly after connecting, etc) and my 3G is slower than it was 3-4 months ago as well. In the MikFroYo thread it was mentioned that these issues might be helped by doing a profile update in the system settings. So I tried that, and it doesn't work.
It doesn't error out, it doesn't update the profile, it just displays "The network is preparing your services..." nonstop. It did that for almost 20 minutes before I hit "cancel". I thought it might be due to a slow/weak data connection so I connected the phone over wifi and it did it again for 10-15min before I cancelled it.
Any thoughts or recommendations on how to get this to update and hopefully help out my 3G/4G issues?
(A few months ago I could get 6-7 Mbps out of wimax and now I'm getting like 0.7-1 Mbps at most when I can even get a signal; that's how much of a drop I'm seeing.)
Ok, I got it working. I don't know exactly what did it, but I rebooted the phone (had tried that before to no avail), downloaded the new BusyBox from Titanium Backup, and did a Wimax Key Check (all good), then did it again and it went through.
So, I don't know what was causing it, but it's good now.
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Ok, I got it working. I don't know exactly what did it, but I rebooted the phone (had tried that before to no avail), downloaded the new BusyBox from Titanium Backup, and did a Wimax Key Check (all good), then did it again and it went through.
So, I don't know what was causing it, but it's good now.
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You can't update your profile over wifi. You have to been on the sprint network. I don't know what causes it but, I had the same problem for a few days here in North Texas. It did update when I got a better connection.
My data works. I'm getting 3G speeds (approx 2 mbps). There are NO other errors on this phone except the random Error 104 and only sometimes Error 67. I've updated my PRL to the 11115 version. I can leave my phone on and not touch it, the data connection randomly kicks out, goes stale, the sending arrow is active, but nothing responds. I have to cycle my data connection off then back on, and that usually fixes it.
It does this A LOT. So much so, I put a Mobile Data on/off widget on my home screen. The internet works just great when it works, how can I get the connection from basically stalling out ALL the time?
If you've had this issue, or are having this issue, please respond.
The donor phone was a w385 (which is a 1x phone I know, but again, I'm getting 3G speeds, guaranteed - when it works right, I can stream HD Youtube videos with no problem at all). How can I get this connection to go up and STAY working??
I'm pulling my hair out over this one...
Mine is doing the exact same thing. Started this morning, has been perfect for the month or so I have had it on boost. Its been driving me crazy all day.
Mine's been doing it since I got it. I was primarily in a wifi area, now I'm strictly on 3G and I can't stand it. I'm so desperate for a fix, especially if it's something I'm doing wrong...
Out of curiosity... have you changed anything, like a kernel or ROM? If it's a kernel, what did you change it to? Trying to see if we have any similarities in our setup and work backwards from there...
I haven't changed anything at all. Im running stock rom with nothing but factory updates, have done nothing to this phone except root it before it was flashed. Just went to sleep with it working fine and woke up next morning to this. I haven't been getting the error code today as much but still having to turn data off then back on a lot. im about ready to throw this phone out the window and go sign a contact lol
I'm having the same problem. I just flashed my phone over to boost mobile a few days ago and I had a hard time getting 3g data to work. I was getting 1x data only. So I got the different passwords that I needed and 3g started working. But for some reason, after about 5 min or so, the data would just become stale and nothing would work (web pages, twitter, etc) even tho the data icon and arrows were still present. Its been happening ever since I flashed. I'm not sure what's causing it but if anyone has any ideas I would greatly appreciate a response.
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It's your location. I moved from Haslet, TX down to Austin, TX, and I haven't had a single problem in Austin. Just to confirm, I went back up to Haslet, BOOM instantly started happening.
It's an error with the towers in particular locations. I confirmed it by calling up Sprint, and asking them to check in Haslet's zipcode for any issues, and they did confirm there are issues in that area.
I was sooooo ready to dropkick this phone. Sorry for the unfortunate news, but with Sprint's little network upgrade, it's causing these issues.
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It's your location. I moved from Haslet, TX down to Austin, TX, and I haven't had a single problem in Austin. Just to confirm, I went back up to Haslet, BOOM instantly started happening.
It's an error with the towers in particular locations. I confirmed it by calling up Sprint, and asking them to check in Haslet's zipcode for any issues, and they did confirm there are issues in that area.
I was sooooo ready to dropkick this phone. Sorry for the unfortunate news, but with Sprint's little network upgrade, it's causing these issues.
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Thanks for the update man. I was about to go crazy!! Well hopefully they can get this issue worked out pretty soon here because this is getting ridiculous
Yeah I had to update this to let those with the issue know. I couldn't stand it!
Well I'm in Atlanta and mine quite giving error codes but internet is slow as hell right now. it does it at my house, job, our wherever I'm at. 40 miles away and still does it.
That's cause you're still in the same market.
Just got a used replacement M8 and Wifi download speeds won't break about 2Mbps most of the time!!! Upload speeds seem unaffected (but they are slow anyways here @ 4Mbps) All my other phones/pcs would run about 32-33Mbps/4 on wireless via my 35Mbps connection, *including my old M8.* Seller told me its never been rooted and is stock.
I noticed if I turn airplane mode on and then off, the wifi download speeds return to normal for a short while, then revert to the <2Mbps downloads. I have tried factory reset of both wifi router and phone. Clearing cache on phone, power settings, NFC/BT on/off, etc, etc, to no avail... I am running Android 6.0 (6.13.631.7)
I'd love to figure this out. This phone is mint that I got and this is the only issue, so would hate to get rid of it due to this.
Thanks if anyone has any ideas...
Anyone?
I could use some ideas.
Not sure if I want to keep the phone if it's gonna slow down so bad on wifi all the time...
I bought the phone on Swappa, and between them not responding what so ever to my concerns and zero replies here, I don't think I'll keep this phone. Don't know what else to do...