hi all,
My Rezound is S-off and running Newts One XxX Rom. I went to the 3.2.1 release and ran that for a couple of months before going to the 6.0.3 release (most recent as far as I know). It works great but I've ran into one pesky problem: the wifi tether (whether through the wifi tether - yellow icon or the open garden app) seems to exhibit an extremely slow upload speed, to the point where I literally can't browse the net. Now, this is maybe 80 to 90% of the sessions. Once in a while, I would get a tether that works full speed, i.e. 10+ mbps upload. When I have a "good" session like this, the tethering online experience is just like going through my home cable connection.
I've searched for months now everywhere online for a possible cause/solution but so far no luck. Any ideas?
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I was wondering if there is any way to increase the wifi range for the vibrant? I think that wifi rang is horrible!!! My dads 2g Iphone has an infinite better wifi range than this device.
Also, I have very inconsistent data connection. For instance, I am trying to load a webpage and I can see that the phone is trying to upload but doesn't download for a while. My data speed is great so its really annoying that my connection just freezes.
This has been true for all the roms that I have tried from the stock one to the latest obsidian froyo one.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
I find the wifi range to be about average. It's much better than my iPod touch.
Try flashing a different modem like the ji6. You can find them at team whiskeys website.
Ok, so I do not have internet at my house so my phone is my primary internet source via Wired Tether 1.4. Normally I can stay connected to data(3G) for about 30 to 45 minutes and then it will just shut off. Then when it shuts off I just pull down the notification bar and put it in airplane mode for a second or two then data restarts fine. I use my data heavyish if you want to say. (Youtube, XDA, Facebook, email and everything else you normally do) My signal is a solid 2 bars. I have tried *228 opt 1&2 and also swapping radios. Did not seem to help. Could be signal but just not to sure considering I can DL around 1mb/s
If it makes a difference I'm using Shed's 2.0 GSB w/2.42.01.04.27 radio and conaps unreleased kernel which generaly I keep oc'd at 729
It isn't a giant issue, its just kinda annoying.
Also I've attached the speedtest.net results for proof of speed.
wildstang83 said:
Ok, so I do not have internet at my house so my phone is my primary internet source via Wired Tether 1.4. Normally I can stay connected to data(3G) for about 30 to 45 minutes and then it will just shut off. Then when it shuts off I just pull down the notification bar and put it in airplane mode for a second or two then data restarts fine. I use my data heavyish if you want to say. (Youtube, XDA, Facebook, email and everything else you normally do) My signal is a solid 2 bars. I have tried *228 opt 1&2 and also swapping radios. Did not seem to help. Could be signal but just not to sure considering I can DL around 1mb/s
If it makes a difference I'm using Shed's 2.0 GSB w/2.42.01.04.27 radio and conaps unreleased kernel which generaly I keep oc'd at 729
It isn't a giant issue, its just kinda annoying.
Also I've attached the speedtest.net results for proof of speed.
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I have a lot of experience with tethering as it was my only home internet for about six months until several weeks ago, finally (thank the lords of cobol - ugh, did I say that).
I have tried just about every snake oil imaginable to get tethering to work better, including switching back and forth from wifi to wired tethering. Sometimes it seemed for a while that one (usually WIFI) would work better than the other, but that would only last so long, too.
The longest I hardly ever had a problem with it continuously connected was actually about a week straight if I remember correctly. That was the best I ever had. The worse was disconnects every few minutes, or just as soon as I continued interrupted downloads after re-tethering.
My favorite and most common snake oil was using an app called APN OnOff to reset the APN to default. For practical purposes, it probably effectively did the same thing as you using Airplane mode, which I thought I had tried but I didn't think it worked as well for me, or even at all. Even after using APN OnOff, most of the time I had to reboot as well.
I had tried one without the other and it seemed like it required both for my tethering to work "reliably" again. I use that term loosely, of course.
I was using over 30GB per month data at my highest tethering use, and it was probably only that "low" because of the frustration and difficulty in depending on it.
I download A LOT so it really sucked at times, but it was better than dial up...sometimes.
I will say that one definite improvement was using Cyanogen Mod (v6.x and above) based ROMs which have support for built in WIFI tethering widget and using apps off the internet to use CM's built in wired tethering as well. These are implemented differently than the "old" Wired and Wireless tethering for root apps.
I highly recommend you explore them. One major difference, for me (and I tethered to two computers, my own and my girlfriends) was just how fast even the wired tethering would connect to the computer once I started it, versus wired tethering for root. Wireless tethering also turned on and off and actually connected much faster.
If you've never wireless tethered before, in my experience if you're going to depend on it at home constantly like I did, I kept it plugged in constantly anyway because it used a LOT of battery, and I also took the battery cover out (besides taking the Eris out of my body glove case I use) and kept a fan blowing on it to keep it's temperature down.
If you do decide to try this way, like I said, CM6.x+ includes "notification power widgets", which are widgets built into the pull down notification bar. They include a WIFI tethering widget but for some reason not a wired one. There is an app on the market called "Tethering Widget", though, which has both single widgets and widgets for both functions, in case you decide to try it's tethering ability.
Edit: I'm half asleep so forgive me for not paying attention that you're already on a CM7 ROM just like me, much less that I know you've been active in the GSB thread recently.
Lol sleep is a must for most if us. Idk, like I said its not that big a deal. Its just rather annoying. Expecially when trying to download junk. I'm familiar with wireless tether for root and my thoughts are that is a useful app when "out and about". But for home use I don't prefer it at all do to the heat and it seems that over a session of use it looses its speed. Almost as if its idling down. That is majorly why I prefer wired tether. Cool battery and it maintains speed. Idk. I guess it could also be some code somewhere that prevents extended periods of use OR it could be just the limitations of the phones hardware. Might have to run logcat and see if I can get anything to come up on the disconnect. Can wt and lg be ran at the same time? Guess we'll see.
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Lol sleep is a must for most if us. Idk, like I said its not that big a deal. Its just rather annoying. Expecially when trying to download junk. I'm familiar with wireless tether for root and my thoughts are that is a useful app when "out and about". But for home use I don't prefer it at all do to the heat and it seems that over a session of use it looses its speed. Almost as if its idling down. That is majorly why I prefer wired tether. Cool battery and it maintains speed. Idk. I guess it could also be some code somewhere that prevents extended periods of use OR it could be just the limitations of the phones hardware. Might have to run logcat and see if I can get anything to come up on the disconnect. Can wt and lg be ran at the same time? Guess we'll see.
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What's lg? If you're talking about two different methods of tethering, no. You can have as many ways of tethering installed at the same time, but you'll only be able to actually use one of the ways at a time. Let me know if you try Gingerbread/CM7's native tethering instead of the "for root" apps and if it treats you any better, as it did me in general.
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What's lg?
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Sorry I meant LC. Logcat. I'm gonna run Logcat and wired tether and see if I can get something when 3G drops.
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Sorry I meant LC. Logcat. I'm gonna run Logcat and wired tether and see if I can get something when 3G drops.
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I hope you have luck finding out something useful!
I just noticed that my wifi gets very slow after 12am I'm on MeanROM 1.6 anyone else's doin this
If your WIFI is slow you may want to check with your ISP.
There is no reason that a ROM would cause YOUR internet connection to slow down.
Especially after some specific time.
Im guessing you have a PC somewhere in your home network behind your wireless router/access point, yes?
Next time you are experiencing these slow downs with your phone, jump on the PC and goto www.speedtest.net and check your bandwith.
Myguess would be the problem is there and NOT with your ROM.
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I just noticed that my wifi gets very slow after 12am I'm on MeanROM 1.6 anyone else's doin this
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Have you tested this out on different access points or with different ROMs? I would first try a different access point at around the same time. Go to a friends house with WiFi and see if you have the same issue there. If you don't then it may be your wireless access point configuration.
Another thing to try, download WiFi analyzer from the Play Store and check your signal strength and see if it dips around midnight and another signal interferes with your signal.
Lots of variables here.
I'm running EclipticRez as my Rom currently. I can connect with WiFi tether but I'm constantly kicked off and having to close my WiFi tether and restart in order to connect again... Don't believe it's a Rom issue cause it has been happening with other roms for me too.... Anybody with any suggestions on how to fix this issue I'm having?
No solution, but you are not alone. My tether is flaky now on all ROMs also and haven't found any solution yet. Works fine if I stay in one location, by if I'm driving around I lose the connection after a few minutes.
How is your WiFi strength? My tether started acting up around the same time my WiFi became flaky...doesn't connect downstairs where it uses to connect perfectly before. I'm thinking the issues are related.
Same here. Tether has always been flaky.
I have flashed and tried all sense roms at one point or another and for me Nilsp sense 4 rom holds wifi tether the best
Using Micromod's Rom and have gotten a more stable connection again. Only 3 drops over 1 hour of driving.
I tether a lot on my phone, I’m not using foxfi or any third party, I’m using the stock built in one. While i was on ICS i was getting tethered speeds of around 3-6mb down and 2-4mb up and ping from 60-80.
i made the switch to the pulled OTA jelly bean two days ago and i was tethering yesterday and i noticed it was going extremely slow, so i thought, oh maybe I’m on 3g right now, checked the phone, i was on 4g. Restarted phone, and started to do speed test. I was getting high pings of around 120-150 down of .5-.8mb and up of about .2mb
Thought was due to high traffic, so i run speed test today on my computers and the results are the same. Ran speed test on phone I’m getting 50-70 ping 2-4 down 1-3 up.
I did read online that other phones (not razrz) had this issue when going to JB as well. But all the ones I was reading were from people on roms, so I don’t know if this is the same.
I’m going to continue to test speeds every day to see if there is any improvement just in case it is heavy traffic due to new Christmas phones and shenanigans.
I was wondering if anyone one else is experiencing this or can test it as well. Any suggestions and/or comments?
Interesting Can you tell me more?
ddfuji said:
I tether a lot on my phone, I’m not using foxfi or any third party, I’m using the stock built in one. While i was on ICS i was getting tethered speeds of around 3-6mb down and 2-4mb up and ping from 60-80.
i made the switch to the pulled OTA jelly bean two days ago and i was tethering yesterday and i noticed it was going extremely slow, so i thought, oh maybe I’m on 3g right now, checked the phone, i was on 4g. Restarted phone, and started to do speed test. I was getting high pings of around 120-150 down of .5-.8mb and up of about .2mb
Thought was due to high traffic, so i run speed test today on my computers and the results are the same. Ran speed test on phone I’m getting 50-70 ping 2-4 down 1-3 up.
I did read online that other phones (not razrz) had this issue when going to JB as well. But all the ones I was reading were from people on roms, so I don’t know if this is the same.
I’m going to continue to test speeds every day to see if there is any improvement just in case it is heavy traffic due to new Christmas phones and shenanigans.
I was wondering if anyone one else is experiencing this or can test it as well. Any suggestions and/or comments?
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Are you roooted on JB now, or not? If rooted...can you try Wifi Tether for Rooted Users and compare the performance you get? That is one suggestion. I am holding off on JB because of big questions on tethering performance and stability (compared to FoxFI/ICS)
Root checker says I'm not rooted. I'm still using rooted apps like titanium and SQL. Su is still granting permission to apps so I would say yes I'm rooted. I voodoo befor coming over. I'll try some third parties. I was gonna try foxfi but that's not working at this moment
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FoxFi wont work with JB
ddfuji said:
Root checker says I'm not rooted. I'm still using rooted apps like titanium and SQL. Su is still granting permission to apps so I would say yes I'm rooted. I voodoo befor coming over. I'll try some third parties. I was gonna try foxfi but that's not working at this moment
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I have read no reports that FoxFi works with JB (rooted or not). I pretty confident you will need to try the Wifi for rooted users app, not FoxFi.
agreed. well i ran some speed test today and im back to normal speeds again so it must ahve been holiday related for my crappy tethering speeds. i spoke with a verizon rep anyways and they are sending me a new phone anyways, but i ran several speed test today while tetherd and im around 70 ping 5-6mb down 1-2 up. so its all good