Just wondering if anyone has tethered to a pc, ran a speedtest, and it shows you in another state?
I'm in San Francisco,CA and it's saying I'm in Wichita, KS...
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Im running the latest Clean Rom if that matters, and only google gps is on
Happens to me all the time too, I never get decent speedtest locations because of it, I'm guessing it's a 4G connection thing.
The fix I have to do to get a test from close to me is connect to a wifi source, let it find that location, then stay in the speed test app and turn wifi on back to 4G and keep it on the location wifi found.
I believe if you turn on the GPS and let it get a lock it will update to your nearest server. Whats up in Wichita? I seem to travel there all the time
Edit: Re-read OP. Not sure what you mean by "google" GPS but I was talking about insuring that the actual GPS receiver is activated. And, BTW, your boys better win those 3 games they have "in-hand".
are you sure you are not in Wichita,KS? ARE YOU!?!
Thanks everybody, nothing wrong with Kansas, kinda a Jayhawk fan.. Il mess around with gps locks and whatnot, just wanted to see if I was the only one
Droopie28 said:
Just wondering if anyone has tethered to a pc, ran a speedtest, and it shows you in another state?
I'm in San Francisco,CA and it's saying I'm in Wichita, KS...
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Im running the latest Clean Rom if that matters, and only google gps is on
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Where at? I'm in the east bay and all my LTE tests are out of the City and my wifi tests go through San Jose.
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Where at? I'm in the east bay and all my LTE tests are out of the City and my wifi tests go through San Jose.
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I'm in San Bruno, about 12 miles south of sf
You see my "edit". Just givin you a hard time about your Sharks.. What the H E Double Hockey Sticks has happened to them?
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While having wifi tether running, I ran maps and got a lock on my real location, refreshed speedtest.net on my pc,... still Kansas lol, It really wants me to be there
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You see my "edit". Just givin you a hard time about your Sharks.. What the H E Double Hockey Sticks has happened to them?
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lol, yeah, if they don't make the playoffs, they will be ripped apart and traded away... I dont mind either way
Location finding can take several routes...
via provider towers: this is the one that generally has you in your neighborhood, or part of town, but never the right street.
via gps: dead on.
via wifi: usually dead on if your routers mac address has been sniffed/mapped out by those google cars and other 3rd parties that pick up signals all over town and pinpoint their locations.
via ip: generally pretty good in getting your region, but if the ip isn't in the big database in the cloud accurately it'll just say 'USA' and puts you in Wichita, KS because that's pretty close to dead center of the US
I use the phone's GPS and I still get stuck out in Lexington, KY, or Wichita, so I do the fix I did on he first page and it fixes it.
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Any body from Jackson Michigan thats getting good 3g speeds? I'm asking because everywhere I go my data sucks and I was wondering if it was the area or my phone? Im only getting 75kbps and lower.
Sprint simply has ****ty 3G. For me it ranges between 100kbps and 500kbps. If I'm on a freeway next to a tower at non-peak I get 700kbps-900kbps. But thats because I live in a densely populated place so there are many many towers. It's not your phone. It's sprint..\
I just ran a speed test on 3G just south of Lansing and got 1436kb down and over 300kb up.
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Any body from Jackson Michigan thats getting good 3g speeds? I'm asking because everywhere I go my data sucks and I was wondering if it was the area or my phone? Im only getting 75kbps and lower.
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I don't know anything about Jackson, Michigan, but there is something VERY wrong if you're only getting 75kbps.... My first guess is that your location data is screwy, and the network is having a hard time 'locating' your phone... Open a locating app (like Google Maps) and see if your phone's location is EXACT... If it's not, then:
First, make sure your compass is calibrated: (easiest way is to download Compass app from the market for free.)
Second, clear the location data using the ##3282 (or whatever the code is-there's a bunch of threads on how to do this)... AND wiping data from Google Maps under settings/applications/manageapplications/allapplications AND in Titanium if you use it.
Third, update your profile and your PRL with Sprint.
If all that doesn't help, I'd take the phone back, if I were you. 75kbps = basically an unusable device, IMHO.
Good luck.. Let us know how it works out for you.
EDIT: UNLESS YOU LIVE RIGHT NEXT TO A TOWER???
If that's the case, no amount of 'tinkering' is gonna help you.. You'd have to switch carriers if you wanted a reliable data speed at home.
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Was actually just in Jackson Michigan, was at Prime Cuts. I was testing some Sweet Little Paws Cheesecake there because I'm most likely doing cheesecake for my wedding cake. Regardless though, I was hitting pretty decent speeds. I'd say a good 500kbps-900kbps. Just a little less that what I am used to, 1000+kbps.
I live in Jackson and yes the 3g speed sucks. Have you tried changing the CDMA to Automatic using EPST? It helped mine dramatically.
Sucks in Detroit too. I remember when I first got my Evo 4g on launch day I got 2200k down downtown on a Sunday morning. I watched speeds drop to almost nothing, now if I get 200k down on a Sunday morning it's a miracle.
The first thing i tries was switching my EPST to automatic. Seems it mad it worst before doing that i was only getting 125kbps. I called sprint multiple times and they had me update PRL and network, I even did the hands free activation again. Im thinking its just my phone. Im just trying to a least be able to get 600kbps-1.4mbps what sprint says the average 3g speeds are. I have a friend with att (iphone 4) and where ever we're at he's getting 2-3mbps. smh And i cant even get 100kbps on a good day. I love sprint been with them for years they just gotta get this data speed up, I use my phone for internet a lot.
There is something severely wrong in se lower michigan with the speeds for 3g. Its not bad in one spot.. It's bad everywhere. I update my prl and it's been ****. I barely get no bars and it struggles to load pages and kills my battery quick. I'm thinking of calling sprint cause I hear it's been a problem in the southeast lower michigan area.
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I am wondering is there a way I caj say extend my antenna, I'm working in camp in northern Alberta, I get service 3 ft out my room door, sometimes inside it... Just trying to figure a way to make it so I have service in my room apart from buying a booster lol going to go get a phone with telus on days off but that's not for 34 days
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Some phones have an antenna port under the battery cover. I don't see one on the 3d, however I just got mine a few weeks ago and never really looked too hard.
They also sell some signal boosters that will improve your service.
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I am wondering is there a way I caj say extend my antenna, I'm working in camp in northern Alberta, I get service 3 ft out my room door, sometimes inside it... Just trying to figure a way to make it so I have service in my room apart from buying a booster lol going to go get a phone with telus on days off but that's not for 34 days
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I got a solution for you that you will love!
Contact sprint you need to prove to them that you do not have service...
I'm assuming your on sprint if not im sure other providers offer similar options
In my house I get no service sprint sent me a device called a airwave. It uses GPS satelites and an internet connection to host your own personal network for your home and outside. When you make a call it beeps 3 times showing your connected to this network. I get 3mbps down from 3g inside my own house its like wifi but more importantly I can talk on the phone without daggon calls dropping.
PM me if you have any questions would love to help you plus I'd like to reach that 10 post bull**** that xda imposes on people.
Otherwise there are antennas you can mount on your roof with signal repeaters may also be helpful. Go with the airwave if available for you!
EDIT Sorry didn't read your entire post... Idk if your living situation is permanent or not but.
You may be able to trick sprint if you tell them you still live in the US you can set your airwave up anywhere assuming you have a decent internet connection. **** you could be at the northpole on a satelite isp provider. O wait xda is saying I have to wait 5 minutes between posts edits... so before i smash my monitor im going to grab a chocolate milk
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You may also be able to roam by flashing other PRLS check out your options brother
Check it out
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You may also be able to roam by flashing other PRLS check out your options brother
Check it out
DAVE THE BARBARIAN...
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I would not recommend using a different PRL to force roaming as Sprint will cancel you in a heartbeat.
You can try something like this:
http://blog.techiewarehouse.com/the-desktop-cell-phone-signal-booster-kit-for-your-htc-evo-3d/
Back on my skyrocket, my phone would think I was in Nashua NH, I thought it had something to do with the custom beta version of ICS I was using.
But I am seeing the same thing happening on my S3. A bit of info: I am on at&t in Dallas, TX. I get LTE at home in mesquite, and still pick it up while at work in Irving.
While at home it correctly puts me in mesquite, but at work it tries to tell me I'm all the way in New Hampshire. It's not just one app, any app that uses cell tower location info says the same thing. It's a minor annoyance, if I really need location based services I can just turn on gps, but I used to love my weather widget changing between home and work, without the need for gps.
I should also mention that if I drop down to regular 4G, location information works correctly again. And it's only in Irving I have this happen, the minute I'm back in Dallas, it's working once more.
Considering this phone is still stock, I'm thinking it has something more to do with the tower put here. Any advice would be awesome.
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Is there no one else around Irving Texas that can test this?
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Is there no one else around Irving Texas that can test this?
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Sounds like you're getting assigned an IP address from a DHCP pool that is defined in NH. I would assume that since LTE is still very much in the "beta" phase of rolling out, that things like this will be common until more of the LTE network is stood up and stable.
The funny thing is that there is no LTE coverage in Nashua, NH
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.
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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
So i got lost last night in the middle of no where down in south jersey, of all places. Wound up in an area without tmobile access and I was trying to find my way back home. Go to my trusty GOOGLE MAPS which has always worked above and beyond compared to my garmin or magellan GPS. Type in the address to get back home to plot the route, and wala! "No network connection available, try again later". What an absolutely amazing load of crap this is. I come to find out that google maps no longer supports offline use.... now im told that you can cache small areas of the map in your phone but what the hell good is that if i somehow find myself in an area i havent cached? Really google?
Has anyone come up with a viable alternative to google maps?
copilot offers offline maps.
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copilot offers offline maps.
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It looks good but its only a 14 day free trial, then you have to buy it to get turn by turn navigation.
Spawne32 said:
So i got lost last night in the middle of no where down in south jersey, of all places. Wound up in an area without tmobile access and I was trying to find my way back home. Go to my trusty GOOGLE MAPS which has always worked above and beyond compared to my garmin or magellan GPS. Type in the address to get back home to plot the route, and wala! "No network connection available, try again later". What an absolutely amazing load of crap this is. I come to find out that google maps no longer supports offline use.... now im told that you can cache small areas of the map in your phone but what the hell good is that if i somehow find myself in an area i havent cached? Really google?
Has anyone come up with a viable alternative to google maps?
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You must've been in SOME boonie area. I know South Jersey at least has EDGE. Knowing from experience, I got lost in around the same area at night. My MyTouch 4G had a strong EDGE signal. Hopefully you don't go through that again. It sucks being lost, especially in a part that barely anyone travels to. Have you tried Mapquest?
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You must've been in SOME boonie area. I know South Jersey at least has EDGE. Knowing from experience, I got lost in around the same area at night. My MyTouch 4G had a strong EDGE signal. Hopefully you don't go through that again. It sucks being lost, especially in a part that barely anyone travels to. Have you tried Mapquest?
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lol i was lost in harrison twp, had to go 6 miles in the wrong direction before i found a signal, even with data roaming enabled i didnt get anything. I just downloaded mapfactor navigator, and im in the process of downloading 2 gigs worth of offline maps lol
I've been many areas in kansas and missouri and my phones useless. Actually at my house which tmobile said is a high coverage area its useless without wifi 100percent of the time
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So i got lost last night in the middle of no where down in south jersey, of all places. Wound up in an area without tmobile access and I was trying to find my way back home. Go to my trusty GOOGLE MAPS which has always worked above and beyond compared to my garmin or magellan GPS. Type in the address to get back home to plot the route, and wala! "No network connection available, try again later". What an absolutely amazing load of crap this is. I come to find out that google maps no longer supports offline use.... now im told that you can cache small areas of the map in your phone but what the hell good is that if i somehow find myself in an area i havent cached? Really google?
Has anyone come up with a viable alternative to google maps?
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If you don't have a data signal, GPS is useless. Google Maps doesn't have pre-stored maps. The only functional offline mode it has is with predetermined grids that you set up when you have a connection. Do you have a pre paid plan? Post paid plan could have been helpful here since it allows roaming and there could have been another network in the area. Either way a regular GPS or a plain old map still should probably be in your as a backup
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If you don't have a data signal, GPS is useless. Google Maps doesn't have pre-stored maps. The only functional offline mode it has is with predetermined grids that you set up when you have a connection. Do you have a pre paid plan? Post paid plan could have been helpful here since it allows roaming and there could have been another network in the area. Either way a regular GPS or a plain old map still should probably be in your as a backup
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Nah just a regular month to month plan.
i use gaia gps sometimes
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