Just wondering how much I should read into the Speedtest.net results? I'm on the French spf 2.1.1 and while sometimes my up/down speeds are alright (3.5-4Mbps down / 1.5 up) most of of the time they are terrible (1.0-1.5 down and .1 up). I've tried reflashing radios and while it works good for a few times afterwards..it always goes back to being slower than a red headed step child.
I'm not sure if its just the towers i'm running off..because i've done the tests at 2 or 3am and they seem great..and then later on in the day they seem terrible. Should I be concerned about this or is anyone else experiencing similiar results?
http://androidcommunity.com/att-upload-speeds-and-caps-who-is-to-blame-20110518/
If it cycles regularly through the day like that, seems like the towers or backhaul are getting saturated. Much less activity at 3am.
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I have flashed the new Radio that JCase posted for the GB RUU. Flash 3 different roms based off this including JCASE stock. But on all of them i am only getting a Download speed of 3mbs instead of my normal 18MB+...
Wiped/Factory Reset/Wiped Cache/Wipe Dalvik multiple times before flashing and still not work, even flashed the radio over just incase, but still seems throttle.
Is everyone seeing this? Is there a throttle in place on this ROM?
Any help would be appreciated.
computerguydd said:
I have flashed the new Radio that JCase posted for the GB RUU. Flash 3 different roms based off this including JCASE stock. But on all of them i am only getting a Download speed of 3mbs instead of my normal 18MB+...
Wiped/Factory Reset/Wiped Cache/Wipe Dalvik multiple times before flashing and still not work, even flashed the radio over just incase, but still seems throttle.
Is everyone seeing this? Is there a throttle in place on this ROM?
Any help would be appreciated.
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I think pretty much everyone is seeing this, its not you!
What are you using to test your speeds? The speedtest app will report around 3MB but the speakeasy website shows I'm getting 12MB down/2MB up.
I think the app isn't working well with the new O/S.
I think you should post in the correct section.
Speedtest DOES NOT EQUATE to real performance. It's a test.
Im getting 15-18 down on speakeasy
Have you tested speeds by going to speedtest.net on your phone's browser and doing it? That's usually more accurate.
My market apps are installing at the typical LTE speed as well. They are flying down the pipeline. Even ROM downloads on links from Tapatalk are typical 10-11 MB down LTE rates.
Again I think it's an app thing with the speedtest app.
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I think you should post in the correct section.
Speedtest DOES NOT EQUATE to real performance. It's a test.
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Sorry. wasnt sure on what section since this relates to the Roms here.
You are correct speedtest is just a test and does not show the real performance just like quadrant doesnt.
I didnt run speedtest until i noticed how long it was taking to download an app which normally it speeds through it Lightening Fast...
But i did run the speadeasy.net and got 18up/5down.
Thanks, Just didnt see anyone else make a comment or post about this any other threads.
I'm having the same issues. There is definitely a difference. I noticed my data alot running slower before I ever tested it.
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I didn't even think to test my 4g speeds - I was too excited about how fast the new ginger-sense roms are running in terms of performance.
I just ran speak easy - I am in Philadelphia and have full 4g most of the time
12.95 down - 4.95 up.
4G speeds are still there. Speedtest app isn't reporting correctly.
How is everyone's battery life doing?
Sorry, but the basic debloat only pulls about 3 megs where I would normally pull 20-28. Doesn't matter where/how I test it. Website, app, and tethered to test on my computer all report 2 to 3 megs.
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Try speakeasy.net/speedtest in the browser. I just pulled over 25 down and 8 up on it. The speedtest app just isn't giving accurate results.
speak easy is about the same, but performance is down for me. Market apps are a lot slower and i wasnt able to stream the nba game very well... so real time performance of LTE on the leaked GB radio is def slower for me flashed back to MR1 and streaming is good im sure in a week or 3 there will be a newer leaked GB radio tho. All these "issues" should be expected for new tech like LTE so just be happy with all these early leaks! Most phones go months waiting for what we have gotten in weeks! We def have some extra love from vzw and htc and ours devs!!! (IMO)
Downloads from dropbox and the browser max out at about 400 K which is about 3 Mbit. I noticed this before ever running the speed test app. I am basing my experiences on real world usage not just speed tests. My 4g is absolutely limited to approximately 3Mbit on this radio. As reported by others this is also noticeable in market downloads and in streaming video performance.
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I am also noticing Pandora is being painfully slow. It takes a long time for it to load the next song. Before it would be only a few moments between songs.
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Sorry, but the basic debloat only pulls about 3 megs where I would normally pull 20-28. Doesn't matter where/how I test it. Website, app, and tethered to test on my computer all report 2 to 3 megs.
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Also if you look at the provider speedtest and speakeasy both use OOKLA as the backbone broadband provider so they should produce the same results. If they don't then it is they app. Try doing the test from the Speakeasy website from your phone then from the Speedtest website from your phone. They should both be the same.
So I done my first.rom on this phone. I've loaded Roms on other fphones but not this one yet. Well I like how the launcher seems quick and camera is quicker. But. Quadrant scores ARE lower for me. And data speeds suck in a "4g" area I'm getting less than a Meg download speed and ping around 300. Its horrilbe. Usually I only top about 2mb which is still horrilbe but under a Meg just sucks. I have an xperia x10 beside it and it easolily always gets about 3mb down. So why does quadrant say its slower? And why would my data speeds be slow like that. I even noticed it took forever just to download the xda app. Service just seems worse. And I don't know why. I guess I'll just go back to stock. But I want the better battery life. Like right now I had to connect through wifi. Have no service at all and switching air plane mode on and off won't help
And yes I wiped it.
Being in wifi using hughesnet satilite is being quicker than the data I'm getting right now
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OK, I can definitely say I love my thunderbolt, but I hate the battery life. I find myself using 4g lte about 5% of the time I use my phone. It seems to be the major thing always killing my battery. I've tried everything from undervolting to never turning up my screen brightness and still turning off the 4g lte is the best way to go. Which brings me to a thread I stumbled upon in the Eris forums for a 3g uncapper. My curiosity got me wondering, so I asked CondemnedSoul if this would work for the t-bolt so we could get a boost in speed without our 4g lte. Needless to say he made a test to try out on liquid 3.0......and it worked better than I hoped! I went from 400 kbps to1400 kbps on average, with it peaking at 2200 kbps. That's a big jump to say the least. And on other phones it was causing a force close of network settings which didn't happen on my t-bolt, and no issues with 4g or adverse affects on battery life.
So my question to you is would this interest anyone else? I have a test for liquid 3.0 if anyone wants to try it out.
When I lived in OKC, I was able to pull around 2000kbps on 3G on my stock rooted t-bolt, and sometimes about 1500kbps in ATL, so I'm not sure how much help this would be...
needless to say, I'm willing to give it a shot.
I'd be interested in this since my area doesn't have LTE yet so I just turned it off
Wow....I only got maybe up to 600 on a constant before I tried this. I also live in a smaller city. Maybe I'll try it on a different ROM before this becomes a actual mod thread, just to make sure that it did make a difference. But that's why I posted this here first to make sure it was gonna work, and also make sure people were interested before I start making them.
the speeds you're getting with your 'uncapping' trick is about what I used to get here before 4G went live.
oddly though, I found the 3G speeds on my Incredible 2 to go a bit faster then on my Thunderbolt.
After reading your comments regarding the speeds you got, I retested both with and without the mod, and now i'm not getting a difference. Why I was getting so low of speeds when I initially tested this I don't know. It would have been better had I researched the average 3g speed before testing (sorry for the newb mistake). So back to square one, but this should work eventually as it works on a lot of devices. I'm really glad I opened this q and a post first instead of rolling out a mod that didn't work.
I was using xtremelabs ever since I flashed liquid ics jmod and noticed the dl speed drop substantially, I had just assumed it was the radios I was using. Then I got a wild hair and redownloaded speed net and low and behold my dl speed is still high. Which one should I trust or is it maybe just the servers its picking. Only tested on WiFi btw.
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Have you tried cell coverage map? Also, speeds will fluctuate a lot depending on the bandwidth being used on the line or the cell tower so its hard to say how accurate any of them are.
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I haven't tried that one but I did 7 tests on each in a random order and the results were consistent on each of the two I tried.
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Well here's my 4G test lmao why am I even using Wi-Fi lol.
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Good speeds. Why do you atk installed? That thing is just a battery drainer. In ics if you long press home and swipe the app it will close it completely.
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Just habit I guess. I been using atk for the past 6 yrs so I got used to it. I will try your method after next battery charge though and compare.
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I think you'll notice a difference. You'll also notice you get less force closes and odd app issues. Like apps just kind of not working completely right.
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Yeah the one I been getting is Facebook stays all white but when I drag down like im going to refresh everything shows until it goes flush with the blue UI bar
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Forgot to say that the holding the home key method did fix that thanks.
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I guess that depends on why you are using speed tests, if it is for your own personal information stick with whatever you are already using it may not be the most accurate but it is still a reference you can use.
I would like accuracy not, eh I been using this one so I'll stay with it. Hence my asking. If its not an accurate measurement how can you judge your radios performance or your networks. Naw I mean mane lol
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Edit: Updated my radios, still having issues. More info in a thread below.
Hey all,
I recently started running leNoob CM9 mod, and I've noticed that my connection has bottomed out a bit. I normally would have 4-5 bars with little issue, now I'm lucky to have 1 or 2. I dropped a call earlier today, and I haven't had that happen in literal years.
Poking around I noticed there were radio versions better than what I'm currently using: (1.22.10.0421r, 1.22.10.0424r) but I'm completely unsure whether that's the problem here, or how to update them if it is.
I'm S-OFF, if that helps the solutions any.
Thanks for your time!
See the firmware thread in the dev section, you can update just your firmware/radios/etc and not have to run a RUU since you're s-off.
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Hey all,
I recently started running leNoob CM9 mod, and I've noticed that my connection has bottomed out a bit. I normally would have 4-5 bars with little issue, now I'm lucky to have 1 or 2. I dropped a call earlier today, and I haven't had that happen in literal years.
Poking around I noticed there were radio versions better than what I'm currently using: (1.22.10.0421r, 1.22.10.0424r) but I'm completely unsure whether that's the problem here, or how to update them if it is.
I'm S-OFF, if that helps the solutions any.
Thanks for your time!
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Yes, you can flash the hboot/radio combo by superchilpil, then flash a hacked hboot. Apophis has a thread with hex edited hboots.
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wlmeng11 said:
Yes, you can flash the hboot/radio combo by superchilpil, then flash a hacked hboot. Apophis has a thread with hex edited hboots.
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I was going to make another thread for this, but hey, I saw this one I made a few days ago and it came in handy.
Since the last time I posted I did the firmware upgrade to the 2.xx radios, but that sadly did not help my issues any. My data connection will randomly drop in any situation; indoors, outdoors, whatever. I can flip my phone to airplane mode and back to restore the data connection, and it usually instantly hits 4-5 bar 4G. Unfortunately, not long after that it'll drop to 1 bar and sometimes stabilize back up to 4-5 and stay there for awhile.
Other times, it'll drop to 3G, 1x, or turn off altogether. 95% of the time it will then just stay off until I reboot the phone or hit airplane mode. The rest of the time it'll come back into 3G or more commonly 1x and stay there until it repeats the above drop process.
I've had this problem on all of the CM9 mods I've tried (currently running Rage 1.2). I've tried various network modes but I've had the greatest success of getting any signal on the LTE/CDMA/EvDo/GSM/WCDMA setting; the LTE or CDMA / LTE only ever gets 1 bar ever, and never improves.
Before CM9 on Stock ICS I had 4-5 bars anywhere in my house, and even at work (the center of a very large building) I'd still have 2-3 bars and rock solid data connection. I have not yet tried going back to Stock to see if that fixes my issues, but I'm leaning that way unless anyone has some better options here.
Thanks for your time!
Shadowalker97 said:
I was going to make another thread for this, but hey, I saw this one I made a few days ago and it came in handy.
Since the last time I posted I did the firmware upgrade to the 2.xx radios, but that sadly did not help my issues any. My data connection will randomly drop in any situation; indoors, outdoors, whatever. I can flip my phone to airplane mode and back to restore the data connection, and it usually instantly hits 4-5 bar 4G. Unfortunately, not long after that it'll drop to 1 bar and sometimes stabilize back up to 4-5 and stay there for awhile.
Other times, it'll drop to 3G, 1x, or turn off altogether. 95% of the time it will then just stay off until I reboot the phone or hit airplane mode. The rest of the time it'll come back into 3G or more commonly 1x and stay there until it repeats the above drop process.
I've had this problem on all of the CM9 mods I've tried (currently running Rage 1.2). I've tried various network modes but I've had the greatest success of getting any signal on the LTE/CDMA/EvDo/GSM/WCDMA setting; the LTE or CDMA / LTE only ever gets 1 bar ever, and never improves.
Before CM9 on Stock ICS I had 4-5 bars anywhere in my house, and even at work (the center of a very large building) I'd still have 2-3 bars and rock solid data connection. I have not yet tried going back to Stock to see if that fixes my issues, but I'm leaning that way unless anyone has some better options here.
Thanks for your time!
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I've also been seeing the exact same issue with my signal but since flashing the Global RUU and Rage. Previously I was on older radios and NeoMax and had high performance on the signals and battery life. Battery life has also dropped significantly since the Global RUU and Rage. :/
neowisdom1031 said:
I've also been seeing the exact same issue with my signal but since flashing the Global RUU and Rage. Previously I was on older radios and NeoMax and had high performance on the signals and battery life. Battery life has also dropped significantly since the Global RUU and Rage. :/
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In Rage 1.2 at least, my screen-off battery life is almost bulletproof. 8 hours not on the charger and it only lost 3%. Screen-on time though is almost exactly the same as Stock, and that includes going to the Wheatley governor, sio, underclocking the CPU and cranking the screen brightness way down.
As far as the radio issue goes, somewhere in the Rage thread Neo mentioned that radios on AOSP roms atm are hit and miss; some people have no problems, some people have constant problems. Currently there's really nothing they can do about it IIRC, and we'll basically just have to wait until someone can pin down the problem. Either that or go back to a Sense based rom, to which I say, phooey!
Try flashing a ruu then doing a factory reset in hboot after before restoring recovery. Worked for me
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EFF that that. Don't ever do anything that touches hboot.
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scottspa74 said:
EFF that that. Don't ever do anything that touches hboot.
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Factory reset only wipes data....
And an ruu likely won't flash if it is corrupted.
Just check md5 anyway, as always.
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