Hi folks,
I noticed last month on my Telus usage that my phone was showing data usage. I have set the APN type to supl,mms (removed default) so I didn't understand why there was data showing up. Telus was not helpful in identifying the packets.
I installed a tool called Network Log and added some filters. Based on the timestamps in my Telus usage and the logs, I have been able to identify the traffic as follows:
Application: (-1) Kernel
SRC: various, e.g. 100.123.71.10, 10.205.174.50, 10.206.97.89
DST: 255.255.255.255
Length: 306
Interface: UDP/rmnet_usb0
Protocol: BOOTP
Any ideas why the phone would be receiving this type of traffic?
I've checked my data usage from when I got the phone and it seems like it has been experiencing this all along.
After some Googling I found this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1342337
Which doesn't answer my question and also seems to be affecting a desktop. I used a traceroute tool on my phone to confirm that the IP is reachable over my 3G connection. Weird.
tyraen said:
I've checked my data usage from when I got the phone and it seems like it has been experiencing this all along.
After some Googling I found this thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=1342337
Which doesn't answer my question and also seems to be affecting a desktop. I used a traceroute tool on my phone to confirm that the IP is reachable over my 3G connection. Weird.
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10.x.x.x addresses are internal networks addresses. So it's coming from your provider. Where does it trace?
polobunny said:
10.x.x.x addresses are internal networks addresses. So it's coming from your provider. Where does it trace?
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Not very useful. For example, it goes:
1. 91.1.138.8
2. 10.233.166.225
So not very deep within the Telus network. I guess I need to reach out to them. I find it odd that my phone would be receiving the traffic but not others.
tyraen said:
Not very useful. For example, it goes:
1. 91.1.138.8
2. 10.233.166.225
So not very deep within the Telus network. I guess I need to reach out to them. I find it odd that my phone would be receiving the traffic but not others.
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It is a bit strange, but since you're technically still connected to their gateway, they can send you those packets.
It's mostly strange that they need to send you boostrap packets. If you enable data back, do you still get them?
Maybe for some reason they're not allowing you an address using dhcp because you removed default. Just a thought like that.
polobunny said:
It is a bit strange, but since you're technically still connected to their gateway, they can send you those packets.
It's mostly strange that they need to send you boostrap packets. If you enable data back, do you still get them?
Maybe for some reason they're not allowing you an address using dhcp because you removed default. Just a thought like that.
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Interesting thought, I enabled data earlier so I will see if the requests stop coming in.
They did not stop unfortunately. I have been in touch with Telus support and sent them some timestamps and the data that I have logged. Hopefully that will help.
tyraen said:
They did not stop unfortunately. I have been in touch with Telus support and sent them some timestamps and the data that I have logged. Hopefully that will help.
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Good luck with that. Do you know about the bootstrap packets though? I mean, they're not harmful, and I would find it surprising that Telus takes those into account.
polobunny said:
Good luck with that. Do you know about the bootstrap packets though? I mean, they're not harmful, and I would find it surprising that Telus takes those into account.
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Me too. I don't get it either. All I have to go on are the logs (which seem pretty comprehensive) giving me a timestamp that corresponds to the "Data Usage" entry in their account/billing screens.
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Whilst using the root for my xperia x10 I ran into a problem, I couldn't use data on apps other than my browser(couldn't download anything either) but the only way to fix this is to go to Settings>Wireless Controls> Mobile Networks>Access Point Names... from there delete GoRogers, then press you options button and select New APN, put in Name- Rogers, Apn- rogers-core-appl1.apn, then save and you 3g access will be once more. Hope I helped, have a cheeky day
EDIT: I forgot to mention that this is only on the rogers network, sorry..
Edit: if core-rogers-appl1.apn didnt work call rogers to refresh network.
http://www.xperiax10root.com/rogers-apn-settings
for full info
Well my way is much simpler and covers every thing you need to do you cheeky basterd lol I joke but it is faster n simpler
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egyptshun said:
Well my way is much simpler and covers every thing you need to do you cheeky basterd lol I joke but it is faster n simpler
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Sure it's faster, but without entering your MMS settings, I'm guessing you aren't able to send MMS messages (e.g. picture texts)?
egyptshun said:
Well my way is much simpler and covers every thing you need to do you cheeky basterd lol I joke but it is faster n simpler
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Faster, simpler and incomplete. You're missing the MMS settings.
Just in case someone looks in here and doesn't look anywhere else, these are the settings:
Code:
Rogers Internet
rogers-core-appl1.apn
not set
not set
not set
not set
not set
http://mms.gprs.rogers.com
10.128.1.69
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720
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my way.
After rooted to Build Number R2BA023, my 3G was not working.
So here is what i did ... by common sense (NO DISRESPECTED TO ANYONE).
Restart the x10i > goto into setting > Wirless controls > Network operators > Select automatically > then Auto internet settings > choose your operator (ie vodafone contract, PAYG etc).
Then my 3g is working .... easy, no fucing about with setting or inputting stuffs.
Oh yes, I am on vodafone contract with UK network. Dont know if this will work in different region.
Let us know.
viet2viet said:
After rooted to Build Number R2BA023, my 3G was not working.
So here is what i did ... by common sense (NO DISRESPECTED TO ANYONE).
Restart the x10i > goto into setting > Wirless controls > Network operators > Select automatically > then Auto internet settings > choose your operator (ie vodafone contract, PAYG etc).
Then my 3g is working .... easy, no fucing about with setting or inputting stuffs.
Oh yes, I am on vodafone contract with UK network. Dont know if this will work in different region.
Let us know.
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Glad to hear you got yours working Not sure if you noticed though, this post pertains to Rogers and the x10a in Canada. Sometimes the option to automatically get the settings fails due to the fact we're using a generic ROM.
im on 3 AUS. i went and did all those steps, but i still cannot get my 3g up..
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Glad to hear you got yours working Not sure if you noticed though, this post pertains to Rogers and the x10a in Canada. Sometimes the option to automatically get the settings fails due to the fact we're using a generic ROM.
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the last part is very true.
with the auto-settings my 3g was slow and either than browsing no other internet function would work. i used the settings for 3g for rogers i found on the internet and everything works, and fast and now the market works on 3g(couldn't get it to work on 3g with the auto-settings).
dam this is a good fix!
is there a difference between entering rogers-core-appl1.apn and internet.com for Rogers apn in Canada?
internet.com just allows data to work, while the core-appl1 apn allows both data and mms to work.
the auto select apn feature sets up rogers phones with the goam.com access point, not internet.com or appl1. not sure what the difference is but the goam.com only seems to allow the browser to work. might be for those plans that allow unlimited mobile web surfing for cheap price?
hondaguy said:
internet.com just allows data to work, while the core-appl1 apn allows both data and mms to work.
the auto select apn feature sets up rogers phones with the goam.com access point, not internet.com or appl1. not sure what the difference is but the goam.com only seems to allow the browser to work. might be for those plans that allow unlimited mobile web surfing for cheap price?
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Thanks for the clarification not a clue about goam.com, my phone is set up with internet.com and media.com separately, no problem so far, just my account not showing data anymore, that scares me a little hehe
SiL3nTKiLL said:
dam this is a good fix!
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Damnnn righttt! (Y)
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FRiKiNFRoG said:
Thanks for the clarification not a clue about goam.com, my phone is set up with internet.com and media.com separately, no problem so far, just my account not showing data anymore, that scares me a little hehe
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until last week i too was adding both the internet.com and media.com apn manually, but it is a lot less work just adding the combined apn, especially when flashing back and forth, and back and forth again, with different roms.
you definitely do not want to use an android device without a data account, so if you have access to data but no data plan you could be setting yourself up for a huge bill!!
I'm not sure if this is just me or what... but ever since I have rooted, rogers My Account app wont show my data usage. It says 0mb used, when clearly I've used it way more... even downloaded apps using 3g from the market. I used the internet.com apn. Also it doesn't display my data usage on the rogers site either.. it says 0mb again. I can see all my minutes that I've used for voice and my texts but data sais nothing used. Am I somehow spoofing my data usage to rogers? I'm confused.
gulpreet said:
I'm not sure if this is just me or what... but ever since I have rooted, rogers My Account app wont show my data usage. It says 0mb used, when clearly I've used it way more... even downloaded apps using 3g from the market. I used the internet.com apn. Also it doesn't display my data usage on the rogers site either.. it says 0mb again. I can see all my minutes that I've used for voice and my texts but data sais nothing used. Am I somehow spoofing my data usage to rogers? I'm confused.
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Good question. Will have to wait until my invoice is released in order to see how and if they are calculating my bandwidth as I am having the same issue. My invoice comes out tomorrow.
Edit: If it turns out it truly is this easy to game Rogers data usage... lets just keep it our little secret.
rynoon said:
Good question. Will have to wait until my invoice is released in order to see how and if they are calculating my bandwidth as I am having the same issue. My invoice comes out tomorrow.
Edit: If it turns out it truly is this easy to game Rogers data usage... lets just keep it our little secret.
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I'm hoping it is this easy my invoice wont be coming for some time so I couldn't check.
It seems my account data is being tracked... darn...
Android Variations: Check em out!
Wrong its the old .apn for rogers it doesn't allow data to work
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Hi Guys!
All we have crossed Battery Issue.... just like I faced. I managed to found a good message released by some one on Internet today.
Sorry for no able to post outside links, The site is http: //blog.walshie.me/2010/11/15/htc-mozart-telstrabattery-issues-solved/
Here we go, the Message are:
My Coding Adventures
Not just another blog
Updated: HTC Mozart & Telstra–Battery Issues. “SOLVED”!
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Since the Mozart was released in Australia about 3 or 4 weeks ago, there has been a public uproar about the battery performance. Sometimes I haven’t been able to get 6 hours out of a fully charged battery with push email on.
I’ve been working with a technician from Telstra for the last 2 weeks debugging the issues. The root of the cause has come down to the way the Phone is configured to operate on the Next G network. By default, the phone uses the telstra.wap APN (Access Point Name) to connect you to the interwebs. Now the telstra.wap APN allows you to access internal telstra services like Mobile Data Usage & MyBill etc.
The “issue” isn’t one that “we” fully understand at the moment, it could be a configuration issue on the Telstra network or a software configuration change on the device. But Telstra understand the issue and are actively working to get a fix.
A workaround is available for all those who can’t wait for a ROM upgrade. All you need to do is add an APN in the “mobile network” configuration settings. The APN is “telstra.iph”.
Now this APN is specific to devices that require PUSH email & use a fair amount of data. The APN transparently proxies all your HTTP & HTTPS traffic over the Telstra network and improves the battery life 300%! I went from 6 hours to over 24 hours battery life.
To set the APN, go to Settings > mobile network. Scroll right to the bottom and click “add apn”. In the APN box, type “telstra.iph” and click the tick icon in the Application Bar.
Now, this is by NO means a permanent fix. What this does is provide a temporary solution for us while Telstra & HTC work on a fix.
The only “issue” with hard setting this APN, you can no longer get to the “My Bill” part of the Telstra Portal, you can still see “my data usage” and everything else.
Update: While hard setting the APN fixes the battery issue. It appears it stops people from purchasing apps via your Telstra bill. This is because the default proxy inserts billing identifiers as headers when you click “buy” via the Marketplace app on your phone. Now you”re using a DIFFERENT http server (the iPhone specific ones), which don”t know about the Windows Phone marketplace headers. To get around this, click the “change payment method” link before you click the buy button. This will give you the option of registering a new credit card.
Best Regards
USA using Mozart
Ok, I'm using a Telstra Mozart with an AT&T SIM card. Will this work for me? Usually if I change the APN I lose my service.
I have flashed the TMob_AT ROM by Ansar
Thanks for posting a 4 month out of date fix for a SPECIFIC issue only on TELSTRA to do with their APN, which was fixed months ago.
This post is totally useless and in fact incorrect as was resolved in December.
If anyone changes their APN because of this post, they are idiots.
Wind Dancer said:
Ok, I'm using a Telstra Mozart with an AT&T SIM card. Will this work for me? Usually if I change the APN I lose my service.
I have flashed the TMob_AT ROM by Ansar
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No, don't change it, you are not using Telstras network, and if you are they fixed it months ago.
I really have no idea why the OP pasted it here, pure stupity.
It was regarding an issue with the TELSTRA NETWORK NOT THE PHONE.
Do not use these settings if you are not in australia and on telstra. It will not work anywhere else in the world, and it has been resolved locally. Does not help in Aus any more either.
@OP [original poster] does your phone work with that APN change? probably not! while your enthusiasm is valued, misinformation is not! Test before you post!
I have heard of people here switching APNs, but I never really understood why anyone would do this. To make a long story short, is there an APN that I can use that will give my phone an external routable IP address? It doesn't even have to be permanent--I can use a dynDNS client. Are there any side effects that I should be aware of when switching APNs?
If I can switch APNs, what are all the settings? I went to the Add APN screen, and there are a bunch of settings there, and I did not know what to put in there. My current APN is epc.tmobile.com
(Optional reading here for why I want to do this. May give important insight???)
I was testing a new (to me) program on my phone, "Growl for Android". It allows the phone to receive notifications from a PC, such as "Server is down", or in my case since I intend to connect it to my home automation system, things like "Alarm disarmed", or even "Alarm is sounding". So, my PC runs continuous tests, checks, whatever, and if it detects something noteworthy, it pushes the notification to my phone. Or said another way, my phone runs a small server to receive notifications from a PC running a Growl client. The problem is, my phone does not have a permanent IP address. When I am connected to my WiFi at home, it does have a permanent IP address, but when I am just on cellular, there is no telling what the IP address is. So, dynDNS to the rescue. Well, guess what? That won't work either because the phone apparently has non-routable IP addresses (we are behind a router). I had heard in a forum for the Growl application that a different APN may help. So I am asking here.
Hello fellows...
I'm just looking for an app to send files (something like p2p) between TWO android devices using a restricted GPRS service, I mean, no internet access....
I mean, send file to one IP to another one....
Just for send files, text, chat...or something like that....
any idea?
thanks in advance
BR,
chatfan
No ideas? no help please?
thanks
Well if your phones have no internet connection then they need to connect to each other somehow. Wifi can be used if you have a network you can connect to, otherwise bluetooth might help.
No, no one phone have internet connection, just a GPRS service for MMS sending and for open only ONE PAGE or WEBSITE to check them (mms).
Phone have a very distant from each to another one, but connects in the same GRPS network, same carrier / provider and same range of IPs...do you understand?
any idea? any help?
thanks
hedgepigdaniel said:
Well if your phones have no internet connection then they need to connect to each other somehow. Wifi can be used if you have a network you can connect to, otherwise bluetooth might help.
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it's not really possible. my best guess would be to hijack MMS and send a file that way, but then if the file were over the MMS size limit, you'd end up having to send multiple MMSs, racking up your texting charges. it would be very slow, and unless you've got an unlimited texting plan, potentially very expensive.
by the way, p2p (in the bittorrent/emule sense) doesn't play into this, it would be completely impossible.
No new ideas about all this? I need this ASAP, any App?
thanks
I noticed that I don't receive emails on gmail while connected to 3G. Works fine on wifi. 3G also works fine (for example if i open the browser i can browse fine and even if I manually sync gmail i receive the emails) I just never get the notifications. This also seems to be the case with other apps like facebook.
Is there some setting somewhere I could be missing?
I have sync on for both google account and facebook.
any ideas?
is it possible this is operator dependent? I have a friend with Galaxy S2 and has the same issue.
(also can a moderator please move this topic to Q&A)
Could be APN related. I had to remove proxy yo get tapatalk to work amongst other things.
Do your APN use a proxy? Try remove proxy and proxy port. Write em down first, in case it doesn't help.
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Daelyn said:
Could be APN related. I had to remove proxy yo get tapatalk to work amongst other things.
Do your APN use a proxy? Try remove proxy and proxy port. Write em down first, in case it doesn't help.
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I checked, no proxies set - so thats not the case.
I did a factory reset,went through the setup process adding only samsung and google accounts. I tested it by sending an email to myself, while connected to wifi i got the notification instantly, I disconnected wifi and checked that i can access the web through the browser, then sent another email to myself and got no notification.
I read somewhere that the connection bars should be blue if there is a connection to google services. is this true for the s3 stock rom ?
ok i fixed the problem. for anyone else who might have the same issue in the future (i guess on any android ICS based phone) the problem is caused by incorrect APN settings, the default ones the operator shows on the phone were wrong, i simply had to add a new APN with APN Name: internet and no other settings (I assume this is operator dependent)
The APN should be stored on your SIM-card and can usally be requested through USSD-code to have a configuration SMS sent by your provider.
Alternatively you can just call them and request a configuration SMS.
(I assume this is operator dependent)
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Yes. However note that some providers are so sneaky (and/or lazy) as to have multiple access points which are billed differently. So check with your operator if that is actually the correct one, not that you are billed per Kilobyte and get the shocker of your life with the next bill.