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Ever since lauch date, I have seem to be racking up data very quickly..
Already 5.4GB and counting..
At this rate, Im very worried about future capping or throttling..
How much have yall used?
I have used 500 Megs in three days but I have been playing around a lot and have good 4g coverage. On the down side, you can almost see the battery meter drop while downloading.
It's currently Unlimited for now right? asenduk, how long have you had it. That's quite a bit of data man!
Over 10GB so far. I use it as my home ISP and will continue to until they take away free tether. Then I will debate about root/tether.
Thanks to you folks, I will never be in the top 5% that get throttled.
since Thursday last week lol
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It's currently Unlimited for now right? asenduk, how long have you had it. That's quite a bit of data man!
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Amen, i dont know how the hell i could ever use 10gb lol, just got my tbolt in my hands today, this ***** is fast, smoke any other android ive ever had.
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asenduk said:
Ever since lauch date, I have seem to be racking up data very quickly..
Already 5.4GB and counting..
At this rate, Im very worried about future capping or throttling..
How much have yall used?
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Something is wrong with your **** man...
5.4GB in 4 days? What the devil are you doing...
Tethering and downloading porn?
I do tether, but mostly youtube and speedtest
SuperFly03 said:
Something is wrong with your **** man...
5.4GB in 4 days? What the devil are you doing...
Tethering and downloading porn?
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I am at around 2.5gb. Had the phone since late friday afternoon (5pm).
After using the iphone since te 3g.. this is a nice change. I am liking it alot. Just need more battery life and i am set.
I'm at just over 3GB.
300MB Most according to TrafficStats is from the HTC IME and Touch Input.... like wut?
4G speeds are addicting!
The LTE speeds in NYC are AMAZING!! Even downtown manhattan. I realize the airwaves are pretty clear rigt now... but i hope verizons network dont take such a big hit once it get saturated. ive gone as high as near 18mbps down
lets just hope that iPhone 5 is not LTE
we dont need them clogging up bandwidth lol
Something seems to be way off with the way the data is calculated on LTE.
If you look in the details of your usage on the Verizon website you will see that many of the entries have no actual usage details - only some do and if you sum up all the entries that do show the number of KB used - you will see that it is actually LESS than the number of KB showing on the main my account page.
My data usage patterns have not changed since i switch to VZW last week and yet it seems that i am using 5x more than what i used to use on at&t....it does not make sense at all. i don't tether and don't download anything.
2.4 GB for me
.07 GB for wifes iphone 4. she got hers before me lol.
I use the hotspot for my ipod pandora and usually use phone more than comp or laptop for playing on internet.
1.3 gigs since launch. I haven't really been able to use it much though. And lte here is iffy.
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Little over 4 gigs. When you tether and use LTE data goes pretty quick. If they ever do implent 2 gig caps like AT&T this phone will be damn near useless for me.
Cg006 said:
The LTE speeds in NYC are AMAZING!! Even downtown manhattan. I realize the airwaves are pretty clear rigt now... but i hope verizons network dont take such a big hit once it get saturated. ive gone as high as near 18mbps down
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Here in Cincinnati, I've hit 30mbps a few times. I was getting those speeds at work, so wednesday I was going to take a picture of speedtest if it comes back that high again.
But usually I see speeds of 20mbps down.
I have had the phone since Saturday night, and I am like 2.8GB of data. Helps that I downloaded all the files to root my phone, on my phone, since its like 6X faster than my home internet.
Anyone else try gaming while tethered yet on like an xbox 360 or ps3? My ping is usually low 50s at my house. Might try that out tomorrow, just because I can
I don't know if anybody know this but they updated the prl. Getting faster download.
Here is the 21079 prl for anyone that wants to go back.
Also 21080 is included
On how to change your prl
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Here is a Guide By gothir http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=1145111
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ditto i just did it 2 minutes ago....
Mine updated as well ..time to test out.
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Thanks for the heads up! Just updated.
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initial impression
So far, so good. I am now able to stream music where I was roaming just an hour ago. They fixed something with this unless I'm having a very lucky moment. This is the first time I have been able to access 3G from my desk since I got the 3D. Fingers crossed
Oh Joy...
Instead of horribly slow 3g speeds, all I get now is "Network Communication Error".
Me thinks that was the last straw.
I feel you..
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Oh Joy...
Instead of horribly slow 3g speeds, all I get now is "Network Communication Error".
Me thinks that was the last straw.
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Ohh ****, wonder if I'll be able to roam at work now like my epic and evo.
no difference for me
My speeds actually got WORSE afterwards.
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My speeds actually got WORSE afterwards.
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think mine may have too. haven't done any serious tests though.
Considering the PRL is your carriers "Preferred ROAMING List", unless you're actually roaming, this shouldn't have any affect on speeds at all.
I'm in a fringe area and roam pretty regularly. I tried it and it seemed worse until I did "update profile" and did a power off, battery pull, and reboot. Now it seems like it might be improved a little. Someone should do a compare and see how 21079 differs from 21080. I don't think 21079 offered 3G roaming. Does 21080?
Mike
I'm actually getting better downloading speeds I can actually watch a YouTube video using 3g so feels good
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Broke my 3g speed record 1.32 dl
Just updated my PRL and my 3G speeds have decreased from an average of 1Mbps down and .65Mbps up to .71Mbps down and .48Mbps. Weird thing is that on the tests before the update, I had 3 bars but on the tests after the update, I had 5-6 bars.
My speed increased quite a bit, this morning I was getting .49Mbps and after the PRL updated I am getting average of 1.22Mbps down, up is atill average of .50Mbps.
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Considering the PRL is your carriers "Preferred ROAMING List", unless you're actually roaming, this shouldn't have any affect on speeds at all.
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I believe this is correct.
I think what everyone else is seeing is known as the placebo effect.....
Def not a placebo effect..I've never achieved speeds this high..not even close..never saw anything higher than .7 mbs and that was if i had a good test ..usually was at .20 mbs ..and I've had speed increases in the past with prl changes so I dunno..and its the first thing a sprint store will do.if you complain about slow speeds
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Oh Joy...
Instead of horribly slow 3g speeds, all I get now is "Network Communication Error".
Me thinks that was the last straw.
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Sadly though sprint has us stuck here especially not that Verizon is no longer "all you can eat" data. Damn you sprint with your unlimited greatness and poor data speeds!
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I am just trying to figure out if it is my phones fault or just the general sprint's coverage that is lacking in speed in my area. Using a speedtest, I get speeds as low as 100kbps to as high as 800kbps, never past 1mb. I even tried performing the test not only at my house, but at other places where I work and I never had it perform faster than 1mbps.
Should I go to a sprint store and ask them about this situation?
my phone is rooted and has a custom rom so maybe it's not a good idea, unless I return it to stock?
Find someone else with a sprint phone and run a test side by side. That'll tell you if its your phone or not.
If I went to the sprint store, and they accidentally saw that I am rooted or flashed a custom rom would they do anything?
I would rather just go to a store and talk to the rep directly, maybe compare speeds with whoever works there.
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I am just trying to figure out if it is my phones fault or just the general sprint's coverage that is lacking in speed in my area. Using a speedtest, I get speeds as low as 100kbps to as high as 800kbps, never past 1mb. I even tried performing the test not only at my house, but at other places where I work and I never had it perform faster than 1mbps.
Should I go to a sprint store and ask them about this situation?
my phone is rooted and has a custom rom so maybe it's not a good idea, unless I return it to stock?
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Those speeds are normal for Sprint's lackluster 3G network; where I work I get full bars and my 3G speeds rarely exceed 600-700 KB/s, 4G on the other hand averages 6MB/s.
when I move back to college, I will have to test out 4g because it is covered in the location of my school.
Yea you should be happy with .8 mbs..u can do just about anything with that speed..I don't expect more more really..best I've gotten is about 1.6 mbs on 3g
My 3G speeds are garbage wherever I go. I can't use my phone unless im on Wi-Fi or 4G. Tired of this crap... -_-
fmedina2 said:
My 3G speeds are garbage wherever I go. I can't use my phone unless im on Wi-Fi or 4G. Tired of this crap... -_-
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Same here
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firmbiz94 said:
Yea you should be happy with .8 mbs..u can do just about anything with that speed..I don't expect more more really..best I've gotten is about 1.6 mbs on 3g
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well .8 is the best i can get. usually it's around 300kbps. it makes me jealous when my friends verizon or att data speeds exceed 1mb.
I have had just over 1 a few times when testing near my apartment. I am close to down town dallas and very close to a tower.
I am sure it has to do with location, loading that sort of thing. I am sure my tower has been suped up to handle the daily work load of all the people in and around down town dallas. But at night when the usage is a lot lower the speeds definately go up.
Dont get me wrong, i have also had speed tests on the same tower being 200k down and 75k up. Then 9 or 10 hours later its sky high.
Get an Airave,,never see less than 1600kbps on it since I got it,,turn it off,,I can't call or use data,,7 miles from tower
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customhdrider said:
Get an Airave,,never see less than 1600kbps on it since I got it,,turn it off,,I can't call or use data,,7 miles from tower
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You can't carry an airrave around with you everywhere you go. Plus you need WiFi for it to work, so why not just connect to WiFi if your at home? You'll get alot more than 1600kbps. Were talking about the extremely poor 3g speeds without the use of an airrave/wifi.
What i don't understand is how i can have like 4-5 bars and only get 20-80kpbs.
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What i don't understand is how i can have like 4-5 bars and only get 20-80kpbs.
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Cause your signal has hardly anything to do with your data speeds.
I was one of the lucky ones that got vastly improved 3g a week ago. Now, not so much. Speeds are back to the way it used to be... I hope it only means they're still working on things here south of Chicago. Except, 4g speeds are suffering now too. 1mbps for 3g has gone down to 200kbps and 10mbps 4g is now 1mbps.
I too was experiencing extremely too good to be true speeds of about 1500-1800kbps here in upstate NY, and as of late i hang around 150kbps the way its been for the last 9 months. I am also constantly jumping from 3g, 1x to no data what so ever. I hope that just means they are still fixing the issue...
My slight speed increase went away as soon as the evening came and they were back to normal which is unuseable
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Mine did too from 2.7mps to 1.5 mps grr
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U guys sure ur checking ur speeds at the same time of day as you did before? That makes all the difference btw
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Yeah, I've actually checked a few times throughout different times of the days. And I've also gotten 1x in areas i normally don't but with full bars of service. I really didn't notice the difference until today though with the exception of the random 1x service.
Still have improved speeds after the *mystery update* here.
Strange, i've been getting frequent 1x switchovers in houston texas.. I was peaking at 2.2 mbps on 3g
Here near Houston I am having wacky 3g speeds.. Blazing one moment and crawling the next.. Consistent 3g though.
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Maybe they rolled it out to test its work load capacity for data gathering, then reverted back for further analysis? Just a guess. I do envy you guys though. Still get 96 down in these woods.
Maybe someone unplugged their airrave lol
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david914 said:
I too was experiencing extremely too good to be true speeds of about 1500-1800kbps here in upstate NY, and as of late i hang around 150kbps the way its been for the last 9 months. I am also constantly jumping from 3g, 1x to no data what so ever. I hope that just means they are still fixing the issue...
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I'm in upstate too, it's absolutly insane how much it's been jumping around lately. In Johnstown/Amsterdam area it's not too bad, but out in Schenectady/Rotterdam area it's all over the place, one minute I'm getting almost 2mb's then BAM 2kb/sec(no joke I had a speedtest come up as that).
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I'm in upstate too, it's absolutly insane how much it's been jumping around lately. In Johnstown/Amsterdam area it's not too bad, but out in Schenectady/Rotterdam area it's all over the place, one minute I'm getting almost 2mb's then BAM 2kb/sec(no joke I had a speedtest come up as that).
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i am much further south than u r, but maybe there is some hope, about a week ago i thought things were "fixed" i cant take this any more.
How do we know if our phones have updated without us knowing it. Is it a software version or something we can check?
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Improved speeds went away for me too as far as I can tell. One thing I've noticed is 1x in areas I've never had issues in and its not just my phone either. My girlfriend's evo 4g shift (bone stock, still unrooted) is doing the same in the same areas.
4G perfect, standing still it drops to 1x then back to 3g and then eventually to 4g. The strange part is while this happens I have full signal.
So far this has happened in downtown Orlando, FL and over in Conway area (for you other Orlando XDA ppl)
It happens more indoors at my house (until the update, never hit 1x at my house) when signal goes down to 2-3 bars over the past 24hrs. It happened a lot Friday out in the open in an error that I've never dropped below 3G (and even then, very rarely).
Anyone else noticing this in the Orlando area? Sprint says there are no known network issues.
Just curious... My speeds aren't what they should be. I can't even get through a HD video on YouTube without massive buffering.
I think total me and my wife used about 15-20GBs of data last month.
3G or LTE? As far as I know, they aren't legally allowed to throttle LTE.
Run a speed test. It should be about 3-5 mbits/sec if your throttled on lte.
A good lte speed is about 15-50
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I'm on LTE
I'll have to run a test when I get home as the building doesn't allow for great service. But i ran one a few days ago and I got like 5 mbp/s
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I'm on LTE
I'll have to run a test when I get home as the building doesn't allow for great service. But i ran one a few days ago and I got like 5 mbp/s
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If you can, swap sim cards with someone who has lte and definitely hasn't been throttled.. Then run the test again
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Ok, so ran some tests, speeds are ok. But downloading from the market and watching HD in the YouTube are not good. Market downloads crawl along and YouTube constantly buffer. Any ideas?
Sense 3.6 ROM...
I wonder. What might your signal strength be at the time you are trying to use data? I'm not talking about what it says in the signal strength indicator in the status bar but in the settings rather.
Got four bars..
First number is teetering in the mid to high 90s, second number stays a steady 8. I'm on a global ROM.
Your sppeds can depend on your area. I know where I live I can have 4 bars and be from 3 to 10 Mbps. Now if I go in to town I can get 15 to 20. Then if I go to my uncles place in the middle of no where I get 20 to 35. Just because you have 4g doesn't mean you are going to download at those speeds with play store. It depends on their servers and how congested their servers are. I have been on WiFi that had killer speeds and it still downloaded at the same speeds. Verizon doesn't throttle by your sim card but by tower location. If a tower get a lot of congestion they will cut the speeds of everyone so everyone can use the data. Once the congestion goes away they put the speeds back.
With that said I have heard people talk about when they check their account there is something on their account that means they are the top 5 percent and are throttled. I use from 50 to 75 gigs a month and never seen this throttling.
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Absolutely what Jedi said. According to the signal strength I asked you to provide, everything seems in order. What I would do now if you are still concerned is just contact VZW about the issue and see if something may be going on in your area.
This happened to me before when I lived 30 miles out into the country, I had to contact VZW because my phone was getting slow speeds even though the signal seemed ok. They ran some tests and such and finally contacted me back informing me indeed a recent storm had caused the box on the nearest tower to be struck by lightning. They sent out crews and within a few hours my area was restored to full strength again. This may not be your case, but it might be worth it because VSW told me if I had not contacted them, they would not have known for a long time. Just a thought.
I'll have to call then. Just ran speed test, got 22mbp/s. Updated some apps. Download speed crawled. Turned ny home Wi-Fi on, speeds starting flying. Something is definitely wrong...
I don't know about you guys but I wouldn't use YouTube as a reliable test. YouTube has begun throttling video streaming especially during peak hours. I can't hardly stream an SD video around 6:00 anymore.
GrayTheWolf said:
I don't know about you guys but I wouldn't use YouTube as a reliable test. YouTube has begun throttling video streaming especially during peak hours. I can't hardly stream an SD video around 6:00 anymore.
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6pm eastern?
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6pm eastern?
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Yup.
Hmm... 6-8pm seems to be when I experience it haha