Lately my internet has been crappy. I have to wait forever for a vid to buffer. I was running an older Energy Rom. I updated to latest Energy 21885. Still no better. I tried changing Radios. I am now using 1.14.25.35
When I tether using a USB my Ping is 2,400 ms 540k down 20 k up.
When I Wifi the phone to laptop my ping is 915ms 550k down and 30k up.
The latency is better but speed is still much slower than it used to be.
What should I try now?
I have a thunderbolt and although when I run speedtests on the phone I get 10+ almost always. When i tether using wireless tether or barnacle I am lucky if I get 1.5. Is this the same issue on the charge? Are you able to run a speedtest on your laptop connected to wifi and get fast speeds?
Thanks
I get around 10 mb/s on speedtests app but I ALWAYS have a 1 bar at my house, it's probably just my low connection but who knows, 10mb/s is still insanely fast
I get about 15 down doing a speed test tethering from my laptop. Average download speeds on torrents, I can hit over 2 MB down. Cant complain.
I plugged my thunderbolt into my pc for the first time and tethered with pdanet and it went great. Averaged like 20mbps over 4g. When trying today I only get like 3mbps despite having the same signal strength. Whats even more odd is that when I perform the speed test on the phone itself im back up in the 20mbps range. Any suggestions? i'm running bamf 3.0
Dont use PDAnet. Cant you use the built in tethering option if you're running a cooked rom?
Forgive me if these questions are elementary or if they don't even make a lot of sense. I'm not claiming to be a hardware genius by any means, in fact I'm quite the opposite.
My first question is whether or not it is possible on an android device to RAID the internal partitions in any formtat? I think this would require two flash sources and my question then is whether or not, if the hardware was theoretically able to support it, the operating system would support a situation attempting to boost read/write speeds utilizing a RAID setup. Maybe there isn't even a benefit to doing this with flash? If there is, what would be some of the benefits, and conversely, drawbacks of this?
The next question I have is what the capabilities of bluetooth 3.0 are. Specifically, can BT 3.0 be used for 1080 video playback? And can BT be used in something like fastboot?
Thanks in advanced to anyone willing to field these.
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blacksparro said:
My first question is whether or not it is possible on an android device to RAID the internal partitions in any formtat? I think this would require two flash sources and my question then is whether or not, if the hardware was theoretically able to support it, the operating system would support a situation attempting to boost read/write speeds utilizing a RAID setup. Maybe there isn't even a benefit to doing this with flash? If there is, what would be some of the benefits, and conversely, drawbacks of this?
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To achieve higher performance we would probably go for a RAID0, the obvious drawback here is that if one of the memories fails, all data is lost.
With the hardware its not that much of a problem if it supports raid, but rather if the systembus has the bandwidth for it to be worth it.
There is 'MDADM' a software raid solution for linux.
You could try to compile an android kernel with the mdadm module loaded...
In the end though... why all the effort...
Why do you need this .
Hi,
Thanks for the response. Well what I'm getting at here is trying to think of ways to enhance a phone's performance without this arms race of faster and faster processors that ultimately consume more battery life with each successive increase in performance. Much like the SSD and SATA did for desktops, we should maybe focus on other areas in which phones get bottlenecked and let the chip engineers worry about smaller and more efficient instead of faster and faster.
There's a serious problem with smartphones and that problem is battery life. I'll be willing to bet that the overwhelmingly vast majority of consumers are willing to give up things that (albeit may seem necessary to us devs for our fun) are simply not very much used by the every-day consumer that doesn't even know the difference between Gingerbread and Honeycomb. I think HDMI is one of them and if BT3.0 can transfer 1080p then what's the point of having so many features in a phone that can be done by one and wasting valuable space for that additional few hundred mAh of battery power?
Most of the phones that are coming out right now do not need to get smaller, I think the market has a sweet spot for thickness and size of devices and these phones are in there--but the batteries are not. I don't know about you but just about everyone I know complains about battery life and I would kill for a phone that can go 2 or 3 days without a charge.
That is why I have advanced task killer as well as a sbc kernel. I enjoy all day fun with all the bells and whistles too.
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Stay away from task killers. They actually do more harm than good.
Check out an app on the market called tasker. Helps you to manage your battery more efficiently.
Stay away from task killers.
Bluetooth 3.0 allows a faster streaming of data when used to network information between Bluetooth devices.
Essencially yes. You can stream 1080p videos using it... but... the device your streaming it to/from needs to support the standard as well.
Ex. You decide to teather your tablet to your 4G phone via Bluetooth to watch 1080p YouTube videos.
Your phone supports 3.0 and you tablet is also 3.0. Streaming will be nice and fast.
But if one of the devices is a standard prior to 3.0, you 3.0 device will transmit at the fastest capable speed of the lesser network
I hope this helps.
And by the way,..
Stay away from task killers.
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Is there any reason that when using Wi-Fi tether the speeds on the laptop I'm tethering would be significantly lower than direct speeds from my phone?
Phone is in the same spot so reception isn't the issue.
Speeds are; on phone - around 600k-1MB per second down to 200k per second on my laptop so limitations of Wi-Fi shouldn't be the issue.
That's the basics and its got me stumped.
I've usually seen reports of WiFi tethering being about a third the speed of a phone's connection (just averaging what I recall, which is always suspect). Figured this was due to processing overhead - a phone isn't necessarily an optimum router/gateway/switch.
Those speeds seem kind of slow to begin with - are you on 3G only?
- ooofest