Hi. I recently got a brand new unlocked Atrix. Even tho I have full bars and 3G connection 90% of the time internet is terribly slow at best, sometimes there is none at all. When it is fast it is REALLY fast, but that happens almost never.
Any suggestions? This never happened with my previous Galaxy S or iPhone devices.
Some additional info:
After running SpeedTest app I got 999ms latency and under 10kbps d/l speed.
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Data speeds have been horribly inconsistent since I got it. I have had several AT&T 3G phones in the same locations I'm using the Atrix and I can say with confidence it's not just the network. In the same spot at the same time a speed test will tell me ~3Mbps down ~1Mbps up and yet it will be horribly slow surfing the web. I'll bench it again a few minutes later and the speed test page won't even load. Apps will complain of no data connectivity and then boom, all of a sudden it's back. The whole time I'll have a 4-5 bars of service and my wife's iPhone sitting right next to it has no problems. Many times I have to reboot the phone to get data service back. Sometimes the data speed is so good I think I left the wifi on. That rarely lasts however.
I have tried nearly every "ROM" and radio in the dev section. I'm currently running the latest AT&T radio and CherryBlur. Is the radio in this thing just a PoS? I was thinking of having it swapped anyway since the front facing camera is completely blocked with pocket lint.
I just got the Atrix as a company phone. I traded in my company iPhone 4 for it for a couple of reasons.
1.) I prefer android phones
2.) I have an upcoming trip to Europe and thought I would have an easier time using the Atrix over there than the iPhone.
3.) I have an android tablet that also has a Tegra 2 chip in it so I thought I could run of the of the games I got for my tablet on this phone.
4.) Both my personal and work cell phones were 3G phones.
After having it for only 2 days, I am not a fan. I noticed the crappy data speed and also have suffered the network not available errors.
I have a rooted Droid X as a personal phone and I absolutely LOVE it. I travel for business and pleasure and when I do I usually take both my work phone and personal phone and I consistently see I get a stronger and better signal from my Verizon Droid X phone. Even when I had the (AT&T) iPhone 4 (3G) I saw the weak signal and slow speeds.
Anyway, back to the topic of this thread. Yes, you're not alone. This Atrix is pretty disappointing being a "4G" phone and all. Last night while at home I tried watching videos from several sources on this Atrix. Fox Television, Hulu Plus, and Crackle all complained about "a network error" and would take forever to load a video if it didn't error out first and then it was really poor quality complared to what I experience on my old 3G Verizon Droid X. If that wasn't bad enough I even got the network errors popup when I would move around in the Market looking at apps and such.
I am planning on upgrading my personal phone to the Droid Bionic when it is released next month but alas that phone is not "global ready" so I will see what I can do with this Atrix once I get root on it just so I can have a "world phone" as a backup.
Atrix 4G HSDPA+ speeds
I'm glad I'm not the only one!
I'm currently just outside of Princeton, NJ... running the speedtest.net application:
H+ data, 4-5 bars connectivity
Ping: 99ms
Download: 53kbps (yes, k)
Upload: 90kpbs
I regularly measure in the 50-80kbps speeds.
When I got my Atrix, I figured HSDPA+ would be faster.....
(yes, I made sure nothing else was using CPU or the data connection - I run this test regularly).
Admittedly, in other areas I've seen as high as 1 Mbps, but it's consistently bad in this area, even given an apparently strong signal.
I do not share your frustrations. I am on Bell in Canada and average 2 mbps down / 1 mbps up. That's blazing fast for Canada in my books!
Maybe flashing up the latest radio by kenneth (in dev section) may be of some help.
djeuch said:
I'm glad I'm not the only one!
I'm currently just outside of Princeton, NJ... running the speedtest.net application:
H+ data, 4-5 bars connectivity
Ping: 99ms
Download: 53kbps (yes, k)
Upload: 90kpbs
I regularly measure in the 50-80kbps speeds.
When I got my Atrix, I figured HSDPA+ would be faster.....
(yes, I made sure nothing else was using CPU or the data connection - I run this test regularly).
Admittedly, in other areas I've seen as high as 1 Mbps, but it's consistently bad in this area, even given an apparently strong signal.
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Huh???
Look in your settings/about phone and post what network type and radio version you have on there. You should certainly be on HSPA+ now with the rest of the US and probably world.
Is it the phone or the network? Just asking since I have both an AT&T phone and a Verizon phone and have noticed network and download speed issues and am really disappointed with my Atrix.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03/06/the-four-gees-comparison-which-carrier-should-you-be-looking-to-for-your-4g-android-phone/
sjmoreno said:
Is it the phone or the network? Just asking since I have both an AT&T phone and a Verizon phone and have noticed network and download speed issues and am really disappointed with my Atrix.
http://www.androidpolice.com/2011/03/06/the-four-gees-comparison-which-carrier-should-you-be-looking-to-for-your-4g-android-phone/
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The network severely limits non-iphones. Same deal with HTC Inspire, Samsung Infuse, etc. I can usually hit 3-4 MB/s down, 1.5 MB/s up. That's not 4G. It's not the Atrix causing this.
I'm new to At&T (I've had my phones for a week) I've noticed I've been getting pretty bad data speeds on my GS2, I also have a captivate and a inspire 4g. I first noticed the Captivate was consistently getting faster speeds in every single test I performed. (speedtest app, fcc app, speedtest web site, speak easy web site). I'm currently on unnamed 2.1.1 but it's been happening on every rom. I have checked the APN settings and they are correct. So I started doing tests with the inspire and it too was getting faster speeds. When I went into about phone and status under network type on my GS2 it would show "UMTS" for the most part when idle and then "HSPA" when I was streaming music. But when I wasnt streaming it would go back to "UMTS". Now I noticed when I did the same thing on the inspire and the captivate it would show "HSDPA" when idle and when streaming data.
So does this mean my GS2 isnt getting the full HSPA+ signal but just the HSPA signal? I'm curious as to why my GS2 stays at UMTS when the other's stay at "HSDPA" and my GS2 never shows "HSDPA"
I tried swapping the sims in the phones as well and have the same results, the gs2 not performing as fast.
It goes to umts to save battery.
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You'll notice it's always on 3G unless you are using data. As kletiz said, it shifts back to the lower network when not using data to save battery.
I just purchased a sprint samsung galaxy S2. I'm not impressed with the web browsing speed everyone talks about on all the reviews. I recently downloaded speed test app on my wife's iphone 4 and my s2. Initially, my wife's iphone 4 blew mine out of the water. Her avg. speed was 9.0mbps whereas my avg. speed was a dismal, 0.50mbps. I then realized that her iphone 4 had the wifi on, where mine was turned off. I then turned my wifi on and recorded much higher results, avg. 9.0mbps. My quesion is, should I have to have the wifi on to gain these speeds? I thought the speeds the writers were refering to on the reviews were taken while working off the networkand not utilizing wifi. This is one of my main reasons I was considering returning the S2 for the iphone 4s but now that I can reach these download speeds, I'm considering keeping it. However, I'm still confused about the wifi having to be on. Can anyone please explain? Thank you in advance
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I just purchased a sprint samsung galaxy S2. I'm not impressed with the web browsing speed everyone talks about on all the reviews. I recently downloaded speed test app on my wife's iphone 4 and my s2. Initially, my wife's iphone 4 blew mine out of the water. Her avg. speed was 9.0mbps whereas my avg. speed was a dismal, 0.50mbps. I then realized that her iphone 4 had the wifi on, where mine was turned off. I then turned my wifi on and recorded much higher results, avg. 9.0mbps. My quesion is, should I have to have the wifi on to gain these speeds? I thought the speeds the writers were refering to on the reviews were taken while working off the networkand not utilizing wifi. This is one of my main reasons I was considering returning the S2 for the iphone 4s but now that I can reach these download speeds, I'm considering keeping it. However, I'm still confused about the wifi having to be on. Can anyone please explain? Thank you in advance
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Network coverage varies so much from place to place that no-one can ever promise you anything, regardless of provider or device. You'll get a better signal outside than inside, so take that as an indication of how unreliable data signals actually are. If you regularly have access to wifi then use that as much as possible. It's obviously faster and it's not part of your monthly usage so you won't get charged extra for using it. It obviously depends on where you live and how much wifi coverage you have. I know people that are nearly always within reach of wifi, both in and out, so they have good speeds all the time. I suffer from living in an area where the coverage isn't too good. I do occasionally get full HSPA+, but it's usually a couple of bars of 3G. No phone would change that though, so I have a phone I like, regardless of crappy coverage.
It will also depend on if they were connected to 4G as well. Being that it didn't say 3G or WiFi on the reports you saw it could have been 4G, 3G, or WiFi. I personally leave my phone WiFi all the time even though it is only connected when I'm at work or home. There is no 4G in my area so that isn't even a factor for me. The speeds do vary quite a bit when out and about being that it is only on 3G and the radio in the Epic Touch isn't the strongest and at times doesn't get signal where other Sprint phones do but that is the same with everything, you gotta take the good with the bad. For me it doesn't go so slow that it is unbearable but I do wish it would be quicker at times. That is deffinetly a downfall to having Sprint is the lack of coverage.
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the speed obviously depends on the speed of your wifi connection..
Since no one else noted it, the Sprint Galaxy S2 is not this phone (i9100), but the Epic 4g Touch. Which has a separate forum.
Also, if it isn't obvious, if wifi is on, then it will use your wifi connection. If not, it will use your phone carrier's mobile data network. If sprint is only giving you 0.5mbps on their "4g" network, then that's on sprint.
Issue started today. I got my phone a couple days ago and speeds were perfectly fine. When I turn off wifi and use my 4g lte, speeds are blazing fast. But to save on data bandwidth, I like to stay on wifi. When I'm downloading stuff from the playstore, my speeds are insanely slow. Browsing, youtube, streaming, everything else works at normal speeds on wifi. Speed tests are normal also.
Is this at work, or at home?
My wifi at home is actually faster than 4G.
If it's at work, it could be that your IT Department is doing traffic/packet shaping to the Google Play store. We don't even allow access to it on our internal network.
Might be the general WiFi disconnect/reconnect problem that a number of Galaxy S III owners are reporting on the boards, such as me.
- ooofest
ill have to wait to get off work to test the home wifi. but the problem is at work. no issues with throttling, cus i control the router settings at this place
worked fine yesterday, and today i noticed speeds are crippled. device connectivity isnt an issue.
Before you call me crazy, let me explain...
A couple of months ago I have bought a Redmi Note 4 (Snapdragon, 3/32 Global version, with official MIUI now updated to Global Stable 8.5.4.0). Before it, I was using a Samsung S3 with Lineage. I am quite an experienced user, and I have a degree in computer science... so I am not exactly a noob.
And yet, I have noticed a phenomenon that I haven't been able to pinpoint yet, or to reasonably explain.
The problem is this: I live in two homes in different places according to periods. In one place, my provider runs under 4G, but in the other place (remote place in the mountains) it is limited to 3G (good signal, though, usually H or H+). I have noticed over these two months, that my Note 4 seems to consume significantly more data when I am under 3G coverage than under 4G. If for example I browse the Facebook app heavily, when under 4G coverage the data usage is reasonable. If I am under 3G coverage, data usage rises up quite fast. I would be tempted to say (empirically) that for an equivalent time spent in the Facebook app (scrolling the home section, reading posts and watching photos), the Note 4 consumes around 50% more data when under 3G than under 4G.
Now, this makes no sense at all: I would simply expect the speed to be different, but the amount of downloaded data to be absolutely the same.
My wife has a Huawei P9 Lite, with the same phone network provider, and on her phone data consumption remains the same whether we are in the city with 4G or in our mountain home with 3G.
Am I going crazy or what?
Thanks to everyone who will join with similar experiences!